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Here we are again in scenic Blog Land. You know you want to be here, because otherwise you wouldn’t be a computer junkie like myself. I’ve been getting some good comments in here lately, so that’s always good to see the variety. Keep them coming, it makes me want to continue putting up the life and times in big, bad Shinnston.



I was at yet another Pirates game last night in Pittsburgh. They did battle with the Rockies and messed them up good. This had to be the hottest I have ever been at a game in my life. It was brutal. Not to mention, we didn’t take the boat over on this trip. We walked over 2 bridges just out of boredom. It was a long walk, but I didn’t mind. Zach Duke has a chance to be a good pitcher in due time. The kid is off to a 3-0 start with the Bucs and has a great ERA. Will he keep it up? I’m not placing big expectations on him, but he has been fun to watch since they’ve brought him up.

Cork showed me this dandy from The Smoking Gun. For those who don’t know what this site is about, it has a bunch of mugshots of celebrities and other bums who have a nice story to go with it. Most have probably been there before, or at least I know my crew knows about it. Anyways, this one has me cracking up good. Check out the t-shirt on this guy’s mugshot. I guess you can’t plan what to wear before you get busted up by the law. I do find it hilarious though. Go here for that action: http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0714051dui1.html. It’s worth the look. Disturbing maybe, but you know it’s funny. Admit it.



Real World Austin was on Tuesday and this season has started out to be fairly uneventful. It’s not to the level as Real World Philly, but none were that bad. The storyline this week? Wes and Nehemiah have this thing called a Groupie Drawer. Pretty creative stuff I thought. What they have is a drawer in the house of girls’ phone numbers. They randomly picked one each and called those girls up. After calling a few girls, they find out two of the numbers in the drawer are the exact same. Hah, that’s genius. Come to find out, these guys don’t have any game at all. The other action in this one had Rachel meet a guy she thought she liked a lot. Come to find it, he already had a chick. That’s dirty. This stuff happens far too often to both guys and girls and it fires me up. Maybe I’m weird, but I’d feel awful if I ever cheated on someone, but I guess it’s the popular thing to do now. “Come on! You can do it! Everyone does it!” I guess that’d be better with a voice thing, but you get what I mean. Next week, Wes finds this girl who has friends that are college cheerleaders. Danny thinks he wants in on that instead of being with Melinda. Come on, give us some drama storylines instead of this junk. Either way, I still watch.

Good news in the world of wrestling. This fall on Saturday nights, either at 10:00 or 11:00, Spike TV is picking up NWA-TNA Wrestling. Yep, Total Nonstop Action. Sure, it’s not big money wrestling, but it’s 2nd to the WWE. Let’s face it, WWE is wrestling and they have the monopoly. TNA will give us a nice alternative to watch and they have some great wrestlers on that roster, not just a bunch of older guys in there for namesake only. I’ve been watching them on satellite for a good while now, but for those who haven’t seen TNA before, you just may like the product. They have some awesome cruiserweights here, or as they call it, the X-Division.



Any magazine subscribers out there? I’m only subscribed to two right now, but have been with them for a while. The first is SLAM, a basketball mag mainly devoted to the hip hop style. On the cover of the latest is the Spurs’ Manu Ginobili, Duncan, and Big Shot Bob Horry. This is real cheap, usually you can find it for $12 or less for a year. This issue is 150 pages long too, quality stuff. The other one I get is Game Informer, the best video game mag out there. You can pick up this at Babbage’s or GameStop, same deal. By getting a year of this, you also get 10% off old games, so you can’t go wrong with that action. On the cover of the latest is King Kong. I just got the newest ones in the mail a few days ago of both, so I haven’t had time to check these out.

Just one CD this time around? Say it ain’t so! The one I loaded up on is Me Being Me from Frayser Boy. He’s part of Hypnotize Mind Posse ran by the Three 6 Mafia. Other than that, I haven’t listened yet to give an opinion. One that comes strong is Mind Control from Canibus that I mentioned in the last Blog. A very good album here, pick it up if you’re into lyrical rappers that delivers.



WWE Great American Bash is this Sunday. It is a SmackDown production and I’ll give a quick prediction of the matches announced so far. 8 matches announced already and that could be it. First, we have The Undertaker beating Hassan. Hassan is either done with that character due to controversy or they’ll switch him to RAW after this. Then I look for Eddie to beat Rey Jr. in what should be an epic match. They know how to get it done. Benoit gets my pick to win the US Title over Orlando Jordan. Batista against JBL for the World Title? This is a toughie, but I’m going to take JBL here. Melina taking on Torrie in a Bra & Panties Match? The fans win here, but I’ll pick Torrie since she’s a veteran. Tag Title Match time as I’m taking the champs (MNM) to retain over Heidenreich and Animal. Christian will take down Booker T. And to end things, the bWo will smack The Mexicools around. The bWo is one awesome gimmick for those who never saw it in their heyday in ECW.

3 Quick Thangs:

1. Today’s birthdays? George Clinton of P-Funk fame turns 65, Alex Trebek is also 65, Danny Glover is 58, Don Henley is 58 too, Keith Sweat is 44, John Leguizamo 41, David Spade 41, and HBK is supposedly 40.

2. I just put on some Chap-Ice vanilla flavored chapstick, fear.

3. My blood type is Type O Positive.

Just Add Busey

Props go out to The_Freak for picking today’s title. It’s in reference to Gary Busey, who makes the new season of Celebrity Fit Club worth watching.



Welcome back my friends, to the show that never ends. Or however that old school song went. What’s on tap for this issue? We got TV action of course, the Hillybilly Horseshoes Tournament from Sunday, CD talk, and my meeting with a hedgehog. More on this stuff later. Nothing huge planned the rest of the week though. Thursday night I’m going to yet another Pirates game to see the Rockies again. There shouldn’t be anyone at this game since it’s two bums going at it and there is no promotional giveaways at the gate for this one. I’m pumped regardless though.

Not too long ago, I was saying how I wanted a hedgehog as a pet. Me and Cork went out to eat some Mexican yesterday in Fairmont. No, not a Mexican chick, Mexican food. Get your mind out of the gutters. We were at the scenic Middletown Mall which is a big hole in the wall that only has a purpose for old people to walk in and get exercise. There’s about 3 stores still open in it and a lot of hair cutting places. Anyways, they do have an awesome video game store in there, featuring lots of old school stuff that we load up on. After we did that, we went to the pet store in there and I was curious to if they had hedgehogs. I didn’t think so, but when we asked, they sure as well did. They have four of these bad boys and I’ve never touched one before, but have always been curious. The spikes don’t hurt you, they’re just a little prickly. The prices at this shop? Some were $109 and some were $150. I’ve heard I can get them for cheaper than that, so I may look into that one day. These little guys rule.



I can’t believe I just spent a paragraph on hedgehogs, but you never know what you’re going to get in The Madhouse of Bird33. So you’re wanting to know how the Hillbilly Horseshoes Tournament went on Sunday? I know you’re dying to know. I’ve talked about it before, but here’s a very quick recap. This is a game instead of using actual horseshoes, you use washers and instead of rings you have a 1x3 plank of wood with a little hole in the middle that you throw in. I won’t break down the point value for the game, but that gives an idea. Seems weird maybe, but it’s very competitive and gives some good trash talking battles. The setting was in the mean streets of Gypsy at the Barnes Boys’ house. We had 12 teams playing (2 on a team) and every dude pitched in $5 for the festivities. I was teamed up with Murphy (the Lobstah guys might know his name from the Pickup Ball thread in there as he plays ball with us a good bit), one of the brother-in-laws of the Barnes Boys. We had quite a few skunk games in there and made it to the Finals against Big Barney and Cork. Problem was, we had to beat them twice since they made it that far undefeated and it was a double elimination tourney. We smacked them around the first Best Of 5 Series and then it was on. We started out great, but they pulled the comeback and forced the second and deciding series to Game 5. Needless to say, me and Murph Dogg lost, but we had fun doing so. The entire tourney took 5 hours to complete. $5 for 5 hours of fun? You can’t beat that with a stick.

I could fill way too much space with the Sunday night TV shows in here, but I’ll spare you guys every now and then. Surreal Life this week had the crew bowling off against some disabled kids. Janice Dickinson was calling them retards in front of them and their parents heard as well. This got everyone fired up and was pretty dirty. 52 years old and looks good though. I know that sentence seems weird, but you’d agree too. She wants Canseco bad. Canseco didn’t do anything wild this time. He might be have the least amount of drama so far. He should be the one scared of them, not the other way around. Also, on Bam this week, it was a good one. Vito got initiated into a biker group and Gwar came for a concert. Phil and Ape babysitting Gwar was some good TV. These guys are a weird mess. Nothing major went down on Hogan Knows Best this week. Celebrity Fit Club is worth the price of admission just to watch Gary Busey. A total maniac, but he works perfect on this show. He lost something crazy like 12 pounds last week, probably due to all of that crack he uses.




We have a new addition to the Blog Family. This one is from one of the funniest guys that I’ve known. The #basketball guys already know him, but if not, check out the new Blog setup from none other than Corndog. Straight from Logan County and filled with hilarious stories, it’s going to be worth the look. Drop him some comments, he’d appreciate it. Go see The Original Husky Boy and his site at http://huskycorndog.blogspot.com. My other Blog buddies are slacking. June 24th for the latest post Walz? July 6th for Susie. Susie, I know you’re up there big pimpin’, but we’re do for a new post, hah.

RAW last night.. What? They started out with a match? Sweet! The rematch of Benjamin and Carlito. These guys can go, but Benjamin has been messing up a lot on some high risk maneuvers. I guess that’s why they call them high risk. Angle made the school teacher, Matt Striker tap out. For those who don’t know, Striker got fired from his teaching job because he used his sick days and went to go wrestle instead, hah. I love it. Hogan accepts HBK’s challenge for the SummerSlam extravaganza. I like that HBK brought back his old heel slogan, “The showstopper.. the main event.. the ICON!” The rest of the show isn’t worth talking about. No Triple H, no Flair, no RVD even though he’s hurt. Stretcher Match next week on RAW, Edge against Kane.



Only one CD added to the mix, but it’s one we’ve had trouble finding for a long long time. It is Pimpin’ On Wax, the 1999 production of JT Money. Download some JT Money if you don’t know him. No idea how he never made it big in the rap scene. And as I’m typing this out, Cork just brought over 3 more CDs to the collection. First we have And Then There Was X from DMX. The next one is Mind Control, the latest from Canibus. The third is I Got That Work from the Big Tymers. Considering I just got all of these, I haven’t listened to any yet to give a review.

3 Quick Thangs:

1. Today’s birthdays? Anthony Edwards of Top Gun fame turns 43, Stuart Scott of ESPN is 40 and needs to be fired as soon as possible, while baseballer Preston Wilson is 31.

2. I have a setup in my video game room now where I have 5 systems connected to each other: Nintendo, Super Nintendo, Nintendo 64, Nintendo GameCube, and PlayStation 2. I have others, but that’s all I’m going to attach together for now.

3. Who? Mike Jones.

"Drunken Stories Are The Berst"

Props go out to my girl Jenn Jenn who gave me this topic just now. She mangled the typing there and changed it in her message to me when I asked her to give me the topic, but I liked "berst" instead of best. Kind of gives it a neck/gangsta flow.

Ok, let me get this straight. Maybe I was kept out of this rumor or secret, but I’m baffled now. Crispy is 29 years old? What?! Yep, that Crispy, a.k.a. Andy Milonakis. Supposedly, unless all of these articles that I’m reading are messing with us, that is his real age. You guys know I love this show early on, but that’s just messed up. Kind of just makes ya think, but he’s still the man. I guess I just can’t call him a kid anymore, but for this Blog’s perspective, he’ll still be a kid. Make sense? Probably not.

I get behind in times with certain things. It took me a long time until I finally converted over from cassettes to CDs. I did that around 2001 or so and now I have CDs like mad. Well, I’ve been using floppy disks for years. I save all kinds of stupid things such as epic chats in #basketball, pictures over time, all of my fantasy league information, and who knows what else. Now I finally loaded up on a jump drive. Yeah, it took me a while and I wish I had done it sooner. I got a 256MB drive for $30. I’ve already gotten well worth the money I put into this. Now instead of having hundreds of floppies around, I can now store them on this tiny drive that slides into a USB slot. For those behind times like I was, you need one of these. They’re very handy and easy to use.



For the Hold Em Poker fans, there’s a new one out there that you need to check out. Or new to me at least. Cork hooked me up with this place and it’s one of few that still does regular Hold Em Tournaments for free. The place to go is http://www.PokerChamps.com. Every hour there are tourneys to get in on and the setup is nice. Big tourneys too. Most of them have over 1500 people playing, so it’s intense. You best check that out. And why did ESPN reveal the 2005 World Series of Poker Champion before they put the show on TV starting this Tuesday? Weird. But I’ll still watch.

What is new for me in the world of CDs? Well, I’m here to tell you the latest. First, we have Bow Wow giving us Wanted. This one is pretty good I think. Bow Wow is maturing quick. Only 11 songs on this beast, but give it a try. Everyone knows of the one released with Omarion called Let Me Hold You, but my favorites on this one is Caviar featuring Snoop and Like You with Ciara. I also got Back Like Cooked Crack from Juelz Santana. This is Part 1 which came out last year. Part 2 is out as well from 2005. I also get Slum Village’s creation, Prequel To A Classic.

Snoop goes old school by using a chorus that reminds you of the Snoop of old. He breaks out Evander Holyfield as they team up with this:

[Bow Wow]
On a mission, wishin’ upon a star
Young Bow Weezie getting Caviar

[Snoop]
In the back of a limo
A demo this is the real
Breakin’ niggas down like they Evander Holyfield

For those in a coma on the rap scene, the Evander Holyfield part reminds us all of the greatest song of all time. Not just the greatest rap song, but THE greatest song ever. I won’t even argue it. Here’s a piece of Snoop’s work from Nuthin’ But A G Thang off of Dr. Dre’s The Chronic. Yes, that’s THE greatest album of all time. Here ya go:

Now you know I ain't with that shit, Lieutenant
Ain't no pussy good enough to get burnt while I'm up in it
[Dre: Yeah!] And that's realer than Real Deal Holyfield
And now you hookers and hoes know how I feel
Well if it's good enough to get broke off a proper chunk
I'll take a small piece of some of that funky stuff

Today we have planned a big Hillbilly Horseshoes Tournament if it doesn’t rain a lot. Hopefully I can have some good stories from that and maybe even some pics if you’re lucky enough to get such a thing from the madness. Then we’ll mention Sunday’s crazy night of TV with MTV and VH1 having me flipping left and right. Monday is RAW. Dang, I don’t mess around up here.

I guess I’m back to the longer posts in this one. I tried something different in the last edition. You never know what you might get in here, so just hold on for the ride. You know you like it.

3 Quick Thangs:

1. I didn’t get NCAA 2006 this year. GameCube doesn’t get it for one, which is dirty. And I’m not big on PS2’s loading slowness, even though I’m still playing San Andreas like a machine. I’m holding off until August to get Madden 2006.

2. Any famous people with a birthday today? We have David Hasselhoff turning 52, Eric Moulds of the Bills turning 32, and Jason Jennings of the Rockies turning 27. Nothing special.

3. Rice Krispies Squares will be made today. Prepare for me to talk about wiping out an entire pan in just one day’s time. I’m pumped.

Entirely Too Much TV

I’ve been busy this week with a teaching conference that ends tomorrow. It was a lot of fun, but time consuming. I barely had time to come home, workout, and get on here for a bit before bed. I’m not used to waking up at 6:30 during the summer. Anyways, it’d take me about 10 pages to sum up just the main TV shows I’ve watched since Sunday. What I’m going to do is try something different for this post and I might bring it up again if it works for the fans. You know how we do the 3 Quick Thangs? Well, we’ll still end with the 3 Quick Thangs, but I’m going to call this section here the 7 Quick Thoughts. Not huge like a normal post, but I’m allowed to change things up.



7 Quick Thoughts:

RAW this week? Matt Hardy returns! HBK continues the great heel turn..

Real World was awful. No drama whatsoever. Yet, I’m still hooked. Danny is pissed that his slut Melinda kissed Wes. Whatever.

VH1 Surreal Life started on Sunday. How can you go wrong with not only Jose Canseco, but Balki from Perfect Strangers? The chicks were scared to death of Canseco at first, but now they all want him. I guess he’s a pimp like that. Must be the roids.

Bam this week was good. Vito and Mike Valley were on one team and Bam’s boys were on another as they pulled pranks on each other. Bam won when he literally tore a house down of one of Mike Valley’s buddies. That’ll do it.

You guys need to see Hogan Knows Best on VH1 on Sundays at 10:00. He’s crazy protective of his daughter. It’s some good entertainment.

Andy Milonakis Show this week. John Stamos was stuck in a tree and they got him out. Once they got him out, he had rabies and they had to shoot him. Yep.

I’m at this teaching conference this week with roughly 300 people. I’m one of few that hasn’t been married or has 37 kids running around. I’m in no hurry. It’s good times.



3 Quick Thangs:

1. I’ve been jumping rope a lot lately at the end of my workouts. Might not seem like much, but it’s one of the better cardio workouts if you ask me. I consider myself in shape, but it puts the pressure on ya.

2. I wrote about him last time, but download some C-Rayz Walz. Some straight hip hop here. No shooting people’s heads off, just spittin’ game. Very quality.

3. I see bits and pieces here and there because I flip through, but these Laguana Beach girls can’t actually exist in person can they? They need put in the Crossface Chickenwing.

Hee Seop!

Weekend time and nothing crazy went down these past few days. As usual though, I’ll be sure to figure out something to chat about in here, so don’t worry about that. This morning I went to bed at 7:30 and woke up at 2:30. For this week coming up, I have to wake up early for a class I have to take to keep my teaching certificate. A waste of time basically, but just as long as I get my credit. I’ll probably be in that class with a bunch of old women who won’t shut up, but hopefully it ends up halfway decent.



Thursday at midnight I went to see the premiere of Fantastic 4 with Cork in Fairmont. I liked this one. It’s not awesome, but it’s worth seeing I think. All of the main characters played their role well, but I think Michael Chiklis did it best with his acting of Ben Grimm/The Thing. Of course Alba looks hot as usual. I just wish she didn’t do weird stuff with her hair like she did in this movie. Just leave it down and get it back to the darker color, but I won’t complain. A chick I didn’t know, Kerry Washington was in this one playing a blind girl and she’s quality. After that, we hit up Denny’s and not a lot of action went down on this trip. We were there around 2:30 or 3:00 and usually that’s when the rowdy redneck drunks come in for entertainment, but it was just some old people there that night. Still, buffalo chicken is great. DQ has the best, but Denny’s does good.

Friday night was interesting. A normal night of watching TV and playing video games with Cork until late and then he goes home around 3:00 or so. He gets online and tells me I won’t believe what happened. I figured our bum cops in town pulled him over for no reason, but I was wrong. He had a flat tire and had to roll to Go-Mart to put air in it. Then I followed him to Clarksburg to drop the car off to the tire guys so they could fix it in the morning before he worked. I didn’t mind though, it got me out of the house at 3:30 in the morning. We did that and then hit up some late night Hardee’s. Hardee’s is dirty fast food I always thought, but it’s usually not bad. Their prices are high for fast food though I’ll say.



I watch too much TV. I can’t get enough of the new season of MTV Made. I’m disappointed I didn’t get anyone to post on the Made chick in the last Blog, but that’s ok. I was wondering what chicks thought of that. Guess it’s normal to them. I watched a replay of the whitey rapper too and that was good. He was awful for the first 45 minutes, but he really came around in the end. Who was his Made coach? A rapper by the name of C-Rayz Walz. Not the Walz the local guys know, but this guy is known for his freestyling. I’ve heard the name before, but never owned any of his CDs. I got two of his albums the other day. One is Limelight – The Outroduction and the other is Ravipops – The Substance. I haven’t listened to both, but from what I’ve heard, it’s a good listen.

For the basketball fans, I picked up a new book this week. I finished The Miracle of St. Anthony, an awesome tale of Bob Hurley and his team from Jersey City, St. Anthony High School. The latest I loaded up on is called Inside The Cage and it’s by Wight Martindale, Jr. This goes into a year’s look into the famed court on West 4th Street in Greenwich Village of NYC. It also highlights the past decades of the court and the legends who made it what it is today. It looks like it’ll be a quick read since it’s not an enormous book, so I’ll keep you posted.

I just picked up a college football magazine for this year. I ended up getting CBS Sportsline’s issue that was $7. Mags aren’t cheap anymore. This one has Chad Henne, Ted Ginn, Drew Tate, and Charlie Weis on the cover. My Irish getting represented there. Their Top 5 is USC, Iowa, Tennessee, Texas, and Ohio State. My boys are 33rd with this poll, so we’ll see. WVU is 55th.



Next Sunday, there is HUGE action in Gypsy. Yep, it’s a Hillbilly Horseshoes Tournament at the Barnes Brothers’ house. Supposedly, we already have at least 20 guys in and I’m sure we’ll have more. We’re throwing in some money to make it fun and it’ll be a quality time for all to be had. I might even take pictures of the madness.

3 Quick Thangs:

1. Cheese quesadillas are good times for everybody.

2. For those wondering, my good luck charm in my wallet is a 1987 Topps Don Mattingly All Star card and a 4-leaf clover.

3. Hee-Seop Choi in the Homerun Derby!

That Made Girl Did What?!?

This one isn’t huge, but I have a topic that I wanted to rant about, so you’ll get that for sure. I’ll start out by talking about RAW and then Real World. The main part of this piece deals with the latest episode of MTV Made. Ugh, how fired up I am over that. Maybe you girls can enlighten me on that. Hopefully I’m not the only one who sees it this way. Then I end with a few words of wisdom and we’ll see how I finish up this thing.



On RAW this week, there’s only one thing to talk about and it’s huge. Something I’ve been waiting on for a long time has finally happened. Again, at the end of the show, HBK and Hogan teamed up. They faced Angle and Carlito (who both had some hilarious cracks on Hogan’s daughter to open the show) and beat them of course. Afterwards, they celebrated and the fans were loving it. Then out of nowhere, BAM, Sweet Chin Music lands perfectly on Hogan! Hogan goes down like a ton of bricks and HBK is standing over top of him and walks out of the ring without saying anything. Yes! HBK is a bad guy again, let’s hope anyways and he brings back the cocky attitude. We’ll know the real deal next Monday, so you best tune in. As I was watching, my jaw dropped just like the fans at the arena did that night. Good stuff to see.

Real World this week? Very weak, but not as weak in the same sense as Real World Philly was. No huge drama this time though, but you’ll have that. Danny’s dad comes to be with him as he gets surgery on his eye. Also, Rachel wants Wes bad and he doesn’t want her. Wes wants Jo and he gets shot down. Doh, shot down! Hah. The love trianagle begins. Just pick Rachel, she’s less drama so far at least and looks good too. Next week, Wes kisses Mel (the slut that wants Danny) and Danny doesn’t know what to think. He gets fired up, so we’ll have to see that action on Tuesday.



Ok, time for me to go on a rant. Do you guys watch MTV Made? I love this show. Anyways, the latest one has this tom boy chick who wants to be a girlie girl. The first 45 minutes of the show is going great. The girl actually gets turned to looking fairly good and starts to have guys noticing her. This one guy asks her to the prom and of course she says yes. So a few days later, she finds out this baseball star wants her and she’s pumped for that because she wants him too. So what does she do? She goes to the baseball guy and asks him to the prom. He at first says he can’t do that to the guy who first asked her and the girl actually said it was ok with the other kid. You kidding me? So now that dirty girl calls the first kid and tells him that she’s not going to the prom with him. She feels bad and writes a letter and takes it to his house. She leaves it on the door and doesn’t give it to his face. That took some guts huh? Please. Anyways, she ends up going to prom with the baseball guy and we never even get an update on the dude who got dumped. The bad part about it all is that her girl friends and her Made coach told her to get rid of the first guy. I know I’m a dude and don’t know how girls think, but that’s some dirty stuff there. Go to prom with the first dude and afterwards if you want to get some off the baseball guy, you can do that. Don’t be a punk to the first dude. Ugh.. that episode fired me up till no end. I won’t even get as mad as I did last night. Oh yeah, she dumped the first prom kid, 2 days before prom! Time to get to something happy.

Only one CD this time? What is up with that? I end up getting Bizarre’s latest, Hanni Cap Circus. Yep, Bizarre from D12. Think of Eminem’s funny raps and you’re basically getting the same style here with Bizarre. There’s two Eminem characters in my opinion. First, you have Funny Eminem who I’m not big on that much. He’s creative with that, but not the kind of rap I’m after. Then you have Mean Eminem, who just tells it how it is without using the stupid jokes. I like that one better. I’ve only heard about 5 songs from Bizarre’s CD so far, maybe he’ll get meaner too. I like what I’ve heard though, but I just want it to be a little less on the comedy side.



I’m not a big pet guy. I’ve always had a few here and there. My cat now is 16 years old and kicking good. I’ve never had a weird pet though is what I meant. I saw a picture of a hedgehog the other day and that’d be good times to have one of those bad boys. What do those things eat though? Anybody have any weird pets?

3 Quick Thangs:

1. I just put on some Gillette Power Caps Surf scent deodorant. I’ll cap the rest of me off with Axe Voodoo. Pimp pimp hooray.

2. My boy DerekHood brought up a picture of a new pair of Oakley sunglasses that Manny Ramirez wears. I never did get the whole sunglasses deal. I’ve owned a few pairs in my life and I’d never ever pay a crazy amount for weird looking ones. Maybe I’m the weird one since I was never part of this craze. Check these out at: http://oakley.com/thump/

3. Going to see a midnight showing of Fantastic 4 tonight. I hope it delivers.

The Andy Milonakis Show

Happy 4th of July to everybody out there. I doubt I do anything too crazy for the day, but not a lot changes in my big town. On Friday night, we had our fireworks and those are usually quality. We get an insane amount of people to my dead town for this time each year. Watching fireworks always reminds me of The Sandlot scene to where the boys are playing under them. Somehow, my town spends all of their money each year on this stuff instead of things we actually need. All I’m asking for is a decent basketball court. It’s not like that would even cost much money, but you can’t tell anybody anything in this town. Oh well, I still love it here.



I got sunburnt good this weekend. My arms, legs, and neck are roasted. I did put sunscreen on me, but I guess I didn’t hit all of the spots. June 30th was my first time swimming all year, so that’s what I deserved. Also during the weekend, I went with my parents to stay at a place they have in the mean streets of Harman, West Virginia. I didn’t miss a thing in my town of course and liked that it just let me be a bum away from home. If you’re ever up in that area, make sure to hit up Serriani’s, an Italian joint in Thomas, West Virginia. You won’t be disappointed. These places are in the middle of nowhere, but still worth checking out if you’re into the scenery part of the state.

I also got in some tennis action over the weekend. While it was nice to get in the exercise, I pulled my chest muscle again. I get this injury every few months and I know I need to take time off every now and then, but I hate to miss my workouts, so I keep chugging along. So I have the sore right shoulder and chest going, but I’ll survive. In a stat I’m always proud of, in 11+ years of working out steady, I’ve never missed more than a week at a time and haven’t had any serious injuries. The few times I missed that amount of time was for a few ingrown toenail surgeries and things of the like. I might not look like a roid freak and there’s a lot more guys in the area that are jacked up, but I like my chances of being the steadiest guy in the gym in my town. Then again, with how my town is, that’s probably nothing too major to brag about with these bums.



Sunday Stew recap time. As usual, I’ll probably just normally talk about Bam and Milonakis. On Bam this week, it was Ape’s birthday and Phil was putting together a photo album of her life. Bam saw it and came up with some ideas he saw in the pics. He saw one of an old VW Bug she had and got the same paint job and everything and gave it to her. He also gave her a horse that was similar to what she had as a kid. The funny part of the show was when Ape was at some art class and Vito comes in naked with a sign on him. Bam found a pic of Vito naked on a motocycle in 1979 and wanted to recreate that. Of course Ape goes crazy and gets him out of there, ripping the sign off him, not knowing he was naked in front of the whole class. Then for her main present, Bam drives up to Atlantic City to pick up Billy Idol who is Ape’s favorite. They go to a show, hang out backstage with him, and they all end up in Ape’s hotel room partying like rock stars. The end.

On Milonakis this week, he’s over the top as usual. Nobody seems big on this show yet, but hopefully you all get on board soon. It’s a different kind of comedy, but one I find hilarious. One segment I liked was when he was with one of his thug buddies and they were freestyling. They were rapping about pancakes and Andy wondered what rhymed with syrup. The thug says hyrup and then they go and eat pancakes and put syrup (except it says hyrup on it) on it. I know, seems dumb, but it was good enough to have me laughing out loud. Not to mention, we had Snoop on TV looking for his body double until he discovers Andy and he fills in for him on an interview. Snoop doesn’t like how it goes and starts dishing out pimp slaps. Andy has a thing he does called Pancake Face and that’s what it is. It’s a pancake with eyes and a mouth cut out. Snoop put that on his face, good s tuff. Next week, John Stamos gets stuck in a tree. Worth checking out. I’m probably weird for liking this show a lot, but who knows. Who knew?



A couple of CDs to mention this time around. The first is Savage Life from Webbie. This one comes strong and I was surprised with this. The second one I got was Young Jeezy’s Let Get It – Thug Motivation 101. I haven’t listened to Young Jeezy’s yet, but I’m hoping it delivers.

3 Quick Thangs:

1. I never did get around to watching Assault on Precinct 13. I wish I knew how many times I’ve rented a few movies at once, only to not watch them all and having to take them back.

2. Today is George Steinbrenner’s 75th birthday for those keeping track at home.

3. I’m sure I’ve hyped it up before, but for the big Real World fans out there, hit this one up: http://realworldroadrules.blogspot.com.