October-December 2005

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  • I went to Broad Ripple Tavern last night. They played "Mixtape" by Brand New on the bar sound system. Blew me away. That's on their first album Your Favorite Weapon that wasn't commercially popular at all. It is officially my favorite bar in Broad Ripple.
  • Today I saw a fully uniformed police officer driving in his police car with bulk toilet paper in the back seat. I'm pretty sure it was innocent.
  • I just watched The Interpreter with Nicole Kidman and Sean Penn and I highly recommend it. Stellar plot, full of suspense, and great acting. To top it off, Nicole Kidman is breathtakingly gorgeous in it and I'm not even a blonde kind of guy.
  • The best part of seeing Fall Out Boy tonight was when they played "Yule Shoot Your Eye Out" (since it was a Christmas concert). There were only about 30 of us out of the 4000 people there still singing. Not only is it a great song, but it was nice to have those teenage girls shut the hell up and you could identify the real fans.
  • I'm getting extremely tired of the mid-teenage girls coming to concerts that I go to. I'm almost praying for a new Backstreet Boys style revolution to get them to stop listening to what I do.
  • People keep calling me after the Colts game to offer their condolances or something. STOP. That game meant nothing in the grand scheme of things. It probably will even help with the media burden being lifted. Sure, 16-0 would have been pretty sweet. Commentators keep saying that teams win the Super Bowl every year and no one remembers but if the Colts went 16-0, everyone would remember that. I'll tell you who would remember the Colts winning the Super Bowl 11 years from now...true Colts fans. And that's all that matters.
  • I'm starting to give in and become a pretty big fan of Jack's Mannequin. Drew and Corey will be happy. I will have to put the album up on the music page this week.
  • I'm sure the feeling will wear off over the years, but one of the cool things about being off on your own is getting Christmas cards. It's almost like I'm an adult or something.
  • Great news to report. It looks like Arrested Development might have a future. I have been periodically checking the DVD rankings on Amazon and they are both usually in the top 40 which was a good sign. Now there are reports that it might be picked up by Showtime. ABC is even in the rumor talk. It's a good day.
  • Speaking of work, I just helped give the final presentation on my current project, so we will be trying to do some behind the scenes work the next couple weeks so hopefully a new project will start at the same company I'm working at now. Sorry if that sounded kind of cryptic.
  • I've been working from home since the week before Thanksgiving (except for 12/13-14) and it looks like it will continue until January. It has been everything I've ever dreamed of and more. I LOVE my job.
  • Snow in the city is crazy. It is now around 8 inches by my estimate and still coming down. I always thought that people complaining about snow in the city were being wimps. That was until this evening when I had to go to Church (Immaculate Conception, all you Catholics should have gone...) and had to parallel park in a half foot of snow. Not fun.
  • Alright, I have done some research. I was nervous because a couple people told me they had never heard of the grocery bag wrapping on textbooks and I was all ready to strike the last comment and call myself crazy. But...VALIDATION! I talked with a guy that was in my grade at OLMC (Ed Banta) and asked him if he wrapped his textbooks in anything in gradeschool. He said yes, "usually a grocery bag." I told Ed that some people thought I was crazy and he replied, "whatever, everyone at OLMC did that." He even went so far as to say, "it was required for a few years." So...my call for revolt stands! Naked textbooks should be allowed!
  • How come when we were younger we wrapped our textbooks in paper grocery bags? At what point did this stop? I contend our textbooks probably took more abuse in high school, yet we never wrapped them then. Why did our parents insist we wrap them as children when the furthest they traveled was in and out of our desks? And what exactly are the protective qualities of recycled paper grocery bags? Puzzling. I call on all school aged children to revolt against paper grocery bag protective wrapping on textbooks!!
  • On another note...why do NFL announcers always call a breakaway touchdown like this: "He's at the 40...the 30...the 20...the 10...the 5...TOUCHDOWN!!" Why must they include "the 5" in their call? Did the player all of the sudden start running at exactly half the speed they had been previously running at once they reached the 10 yard line? Listen to announcers, they almost always do this and I can't figure out why. These are the questions that plague me.
  • The Colts game on Monday night was one of the most fun games I've ever been to. The Dome was as loud as it's ever been and the crowd stood the entire game. I'm not exaggerating. The ENITRE game. That doesn't happen in the NFL. It was awesome.
  • I'm heading home for the holiday and the game on Monday night so I probably won't be updating for a while. I hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving and I hope to see some of you while I'm home.
  • You know you are either at a college tailgate or a redneck wedding when you are standing next to a pickup truck that has been spraypainted camoflauge, there are thousands of kids standing around, and when you ask for a beer the response comes, "is PBR okay?"
  • I had a great weekend at the concert in Indy and the Bucket game at IU. Thanks to Drew and Talmage for the hosplitality. See you both over Thanksgiving where I will kick both your asses up and down the basketball court. PS - They call me Longaberger...all I do is make baskets.
  • It was announced last week that "Arrested Development" has been cancelled and they will only tape 13 of 22 episodes this year. This is sad news indeed. How is it that a crappy show like "According to Jim" can be on the air for 5 years, but Fox can't seem to keep the best comedy on television on the air for even 3 seasons? This show has won 6 Emmys in 2 years! Not to mention all the other awards it's won! I swear...the only people that know how to run a network are the people at Fox News. Wether you agree with the content or not, it's the only network out there consistantly beating ratings estimates. All Fox execs had to do was put "Arrested Development" on directly before or after "American Idol" instead of burying it on Monday evenings directly opposite Monday Night Football. Trained monkeys could do a better job.
  • I really like getting messages from all of my friends overseas. I hope that you are all doing great and I can't wait to see you when you get back!
  • So I was pretty excited for this past weekend...and then I got to Purdue and I lost my voice. But it was a lot of fun and I was glad to see everybody. Thanks for going Ben, I hope you had a "proportionally" good time. And thanks to everyone who sent me a birthday message or told me when I saw them. I appreciate it. P.S. - Mr. Parry can rock the piano bar like none other.
  • Created a layout and content for the "Music" page. Check it out and let me know what you think. Leave "Your Point of View".
  • Can't wait for this weekend: last Breakfast Club of the fall, get to bring some Chicago friends to the friendly confines of West Lafayette, going to the Colts game the week after they beat the Patriots in Foxborough. This is going to be fun.
  • I am living in a new city where I only have a handful of friends. I am sitting in an apartment all by myself. It is a Monday night and I have to wake up at 6am tomorrow to go to work. Yet, this is one of the happiest nights I've had in the past 4 years. Without sports, I might be a rational, well-adjusted human being. Go Colts!
  • I know Drew isn't the only person with something to say. Granted he is smarter than most of you (you're welcome Drew), but I want you all to speak your mind. Visit "Your Point of View".
  • The best costume I saw this weekend was a Ghostbuster (wait...) and he had the tank on his back filled with Jack and Coke. This guy didn't have to buy one drink all night. He just kept filling up his cup and offering other people drinks. Hats off to him.
  • I've added the "Your Point of View" page. Feel free to add any random thoughts you might have. I'm still working out some Style Sheet bugs (Microsoft IE sucks, use Firefox). That's purely cosmetic though, so post at will. There is some delay in a redirect after posting if you are using IE. Just roll with it.
  • I am busy creating a section of the site that will let you (and other visitor's to my site) add your own "Point of View". It will basically be a place for you to add comments and whatever random thought you have. I'm actually pretty excited about it. Not just because I get to hear all of your random thoughts (which is sweet), but also because I'm coding it myself and it gives me a strange sense of self-worth (albeit a dorky sense of self-worth). While that occupies my time, I have added a very small bit to the Music page.
  • This commercial is absolutely hilarious: Injured Bad
  • Best part of the World Series: Ozzie Guillen calling for the White Sox closers in the bullpen by either putting his hand high in the air and out to his sides (tall and fat) for Bobby Jenks and low in front of him and close together (short and skinny) for Dustin Hermanson. High comedy.
  • Gwen Stefani's music is garbage. G-A-R-B-A-G-E.
  • I'm looking for a Detroit Pistons jersey to borrow. No, I don't like the Pistons, but if anyone has one or knows someone that does, please let me know.
  • A couple weekends ago I was talking to a girl at a bar (Brother's) for a while when she said "You are a lot like Napoleon Dynamite." When you hear that, you quickly realize you have absolutely no chance.
  • The best non-sports shows on TV today are:
    1. Arrested Development (Monday 8 Eastern on Fox) - Funniest and most original show on television. Buy Season 1 and Season 2 on DVD. You won't regret it.
    2. The Office (Tuesday 9:30 Eastern on NBC) - Steve Carell at his best. And I don't want to hear from you comedy snobs about how the British version is better. I was born and jb in America. If there is anything I have learned growing up, it is that the French are pansies that can't fight and the British can't cook and aren't funny. Buy Season 1 on DVD.
  • I told my buddy (Eric Wack) last year to draft Cato June (outside linebacker for the Colts) for his fantasy football team. This was a player who in 2003 only played special teams and recorded 9 tackles for the season. Well, in 2004 he went on to lead the Colts with 128 tackles and finish 18th in the NFL. This year he is leading the entire NFL in interceptions with 5 and is 13th in tackles with 44. Moral of the story: Jeffrey Brice knows the Colts better than anyone you know.