Thursday, November 30, 2006

they just for decoration

and i thought living behind the fire department was loud...



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if you live near me, you might want to pay attention to this next part:

this weekend should prove to be very eventful. weather permitting, i'll be hosting the eastern conference championships of the National Walk It Out Association. that's right, NWIOA will be here, on the pool deck, saturday afternoon. there'll be soul food, booty poppin tunes, and maybe a couple surprises. so get at me and i'll give you the time to be here. and remember, as always, it's BYO40.

Sunday, November 26, 2006

foosball is not the devil

i love the fall. it brings great weather. it makes the leaves change colors (and when they fall, there's nothing i love more than driving on winding mountain roads and seeing the leaves kick up behind as you zoom by). it makes the air smell fresh, except for the week of alergy hell. and, most importantly, it is football season.

i'm not the biggest fan of pro football. after all, growing up in florida only gave me two choices; the dolphins, who everyone outside of miami hate, and the bucs, who have historically sucked more than leaches in a muddy creek (i don't know, i was really reaching for that one). college football, on the other hand, is glorious. we've usually got great teams in florida, and fortunately i went to virginia tech during the reign of Mike Vick. college football has come to symbolize all the great parts of the fall. it brings great sports, great outdoor weather, stupid sunglasses tans, hot dogs, cold beer, and tossing the pig skin (HOT ROUTE).

you may not understand this love if your school didn't have such a great sporting experience. fortunately you are not without remedy. find all the nearest universities and check the dates for their homecoming game, or a longstanding rivalry match-up. go to the game a few hours early, and walk around the parking lots nearby. pic a team to support, preferably the home team, and meet your fellow fans. you won't believe the people that are you new best friends, long lost friends, or just plain educational drinking buddies.

this weekend i was in attendance with the largest florida rivalry, florida vs. florida state. truth be told, i didn't have a team to cheer on. my team is in the same conference as the home team, and thus was hard pressed to wish for their win, and the other team has long been one of my less favorites. so i did what anyone in my place would do; i wore the colors of MY team who happened to be playing at the same time (3 states away). i went with a bunch of friends to tailgate before the game with the law students, and was pleasantly surprised by the fun factor. oddly enough the vast majority of the tailgaters were actually fans of the visiting team (tailgatOrs, if you will), and didn't all sound like perry mason or ben matlock. they even had pre-sliced bagels for all of us slackers who didn't eat before arriving to drinker-ville. another party we stopped by was even better, and for one sole reason. they had natural light. call it what you will, bad taste, bad genes, or just being cheap, but i LOVE natty light. and when offered one at 10am, i begin to hear angels trumpeting and the trans-siberian railroad softly playing Canon in D. long story short, tailgating was a blast, and got me well-polluted for the game.

the game, even though i assumed it would be a blowout, and i'm ALWAYS right, was great. it was entertaining enough to make me forget that i was roasting in the sun. luckilly i had the foresight to take off my shirt in the 90 degree heat in a futile attempt to get some color on my sad excuse for a floridian body. yes, that object brighter than the sun coming from the student section was not a low-flying supernova, it was my sexy body. i was just making sure you got your money's worth in those sunglasses.

at any rate, there's still a couple great football games coming up. pick at least one from the list below, and i'll even throw in some predicitions for the bowl games:
BCS Championship: Ohio St. vs. USC (Ohio St.)
Sugar Bowl: Arkansas vs. Notre Dame (Arkansas)
Orange Bowl: Georgia Tech vs. Louisville (Louisville)
Capital One Bowl: Florida vs. Wisconsin (Florida)
Outback Bowl: Penn St. vs. LSU (LSU)
Peach Bowl: Virginia Tech vs. Georgia (Virginia Tech)

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random tidbits:

listen to this song:
fear by sarah mclachlan (lunsaol remix by rabbit in the moon)

check out my friend kelly, she's got some great songs too...


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p.s. if any of you know mother nature, you need to tell her that this "snow in florida" doesn't cut it. we all live in this state in order to avoid crap like that.

that is all.