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In the next 12 months, almost everyone reading these words, will celebrate birthday number

What does that signify? The end of youth? The beginning of true adulthood? Will I wake on March 18, 2011 and feel instantenously older, less exuberant, a tad more crotchety and slightly less able-bodied?

I like to think not. But, as aging has happened, I've found myself adjusting my rules for defining "old". Twenty five was old when I was 21. Twenty nine was old was I was 25. Thirty four was old when I was 28. And this year, I've moved it up to 40. I'm going to try to hold it there.

Twenty nine has significantly altered my mindset. The 25 year old and 26 year old at work are simply too naive to understand most things, I salivate a little more than I used to for acquiring greenbacks, career urgency is amplified and going out to a bar (except when you all are around) almost repulses me.

I wonder what 30 will bring?

I think Butz and Lubahn are the first to go. Then Brown. Then Me. Then Faust. Then Portillo. Then Kevin. Then Mazur. (correct order?) Miller, Weiss and Chambers all escape for another year.

Cheers to the dwindling days of our third decade on Earth, amigos.

progress.

Here is one Williams and I have been kicking around for awhile.... what kind of superhero would you be?I am going to take old Clint Brown.

Name: The Nesquik Kid
Good or Evil: Good
Powers: Shoots chocolate milk from his Hair, electromagnetic LA Looks ray-gun, Toxic green poop
Weakness: Anne Rice Novels, Fake Leather Jackets
Sidekick: Bevo
Arch Nemesis: Jack Lubahn 
 
If you want to take the 10 question super hero quiz click here.

I was Professor X.

NBC Preseason Top 25 (yup, its that time of year again...)

1. Alabama

2. Ohio State

3. TCU!

4-25. - whocares

GO FROGS!

I used to dream that I was Re-Ro



"On the monkey bars!"

Costa Rican Butz

Come Visit!

Faust works at Pottery Barn

Double Rainbow....all the way!

anyone ever get a certain word stuck in their head?

micturate.

i confess.

OK, so obviously no one wants to follow up the most epic post in IC history, but I do like attention so I figure I will take a stab at it.  Here is my confession: I had this poster hanging up in my room.  I f' love Alanis Morisette.  I welcome criticism or support, and offer this question, "What questionable posters did you have as a kid?"

Jewel

This is a confession. I heard this song this morning and it reminded me of being 14 and staying up to watch VH1 hour upon hour for this video to play, I even had the cd. This morning, I almost downloaded it on iTunes.






I know you'll watch it all the way through, and if you're alone, you will turn up the speakers. Just click play, I dare you.

What's in a Name?

The other night, I got into a conversation about people's names. Here are some of the observations by the group of five.

* No one had ever met a guy named Conrad who wasn't chubby

* A Tiffany or several Tiffany-ies had wronged everyone sometime in life

* Girls named Dana aren't usually pretty (their name is actually just Dan with an A)

* Almost all Brad's are arrogant, even mildly so

* Goth Kids are never named Matt

On a personal level, I've also never met a guy named Austin that I liked very much and generally have never been a big fan of people named after cities.

I'd like to hear other people's name beef.

Here were some of George Carlin's.

Sorry for the shot Carlin takes at you, Brent.

I highly recommend for everyone in the IC to watch the new 30 for 30 documentary "The Two Escobars". It is about the 1994 Columbian soccer team. It is a lot of subtitles (sorry Chambers), but within the first 5 minutes of watching you will be glued to your television for the full two hours. Even Katie loved it, and she is not a soccer fan what so ever. It makes you appreciate where we live, it makes you think just how strong the ties are between real life shit and sports (pay attention Williams), and it is a great history lesson on Columbia as a country and how fucked up shit really was over there. It's fucking awesome, you can download it from YouTube if you dont have a TV (Williams). They also replay all the time, so set your DVR.

After you watch this, I also recommend a lot of the other 30 for 30 series:

June 17, 1994 (OJ Simpson chase)

The 16th Man (this is another sports tie in with real world shit (pay attention Williams) - regarding S. Africa)

Reggie Miller vs. The New York Knicks

Small Potatoes - Who Killed the USFL

Without Bias

Fuck, they're all good. Even the hockey one on Wayne Gretzky. If you arent watching 30 for 30, then start now.

http://30for30.espn.com/

It wouldnt let me embed... JaMarcus sippin on some sizzurp (sp?)

http://www.sportingnews.com/blog/the_sporting_blog/entry/view/70638/offsides_forget_the_sunny_d,_jamarcus_russell_likes_the_purple_stuff

If you don't watch this in its entirety you'll turn into a meth-ed out Bob Costas.

MOTHERFUCKIN'
THREE POSTS
IN A ROW
BITCH

If you are not familiar with this show, get familiar. It was just cancelled this week after its second season on Starz, which is beyond ridiculous (both that it was cancelled and that it was on Starz). You can stream both seasons on Netflix and I encourage you to do so.

Is there an IC fantasy football league? If yes, how do I get invited and can we make it a keeper league?

courtesy darpa:

Have yall seen the previews for this yet? I recommend watching the preview in its entirety, looks pretty cool:

Something Great to Reveal

WILLIAMS ROLLS THROUGH TEXAS
Adam Williams tours Texas looking for food, fun and friends. He is in high spirits and excited to be in his homeland.

I saw this old Lambda last night at the Quarry in San Antonio. He played cover songs for 5 hours straight. I kid you not. I was also thinking that maybe he should be the 12 in our Big 12...thoughts?

MOVING ON BABY!!

It wasnt a guess, it is a fact: REASON FOR 2-3-2 FORMAT IN THE NBA

it's not a puppy, but it's still sweet.

http://www.dlr.de/en/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-1/117_read-25089/

yes. it was tweeted.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/us_and_canada/10348685.stm

Happy Birthday Friend. You're a kindred soul.

The United States' Bogus Journey

After a gimme goal against England, karma strikes back. There was no offsides and the only foul that should have been called was on those filthy Slovenians. A country I once knew nothing about, but for whom now I have a strong distaste. This call sickened me. 


I think the World Cup is the best sporting event in the world.

Faust is a modest man but this is his latest work. Valuable stuff for you Dad's out there...

Boom! Father Of The Year?

Does anyone else think it is odd that a man who was stabbed 11 times in the face, neck, and back and had a bottle broken on his face while patronizing a place called the Buzz Club could be such an enormous pussy on the basketball court? I do.

Madelyn Rose Mazur 
Congratulations, Ashley and Michael. She's balling out of control.

Chambers: Tanzania: Hunter of precious animals, untamed, rugged, open to unprotected sex

Lubahn: Turkey - sneaky, seemingly silent and suddenly a nuclear threat, accustomed to cold, eat lots of soup. Turkish-born Hedo Turkoglu is one of Lubahn's favorite NBAers.

Portillo: Nicaragua - Cheap, disorganized, dirty, fun, run by a dictator with fun-loving, well-traveled wife


Brown: Brazil - Sweaty, likes women and a good time, expected to be wealthy soon, has hidden things lurking in its jungle



Faust: France - Aggressive and sometimes rude, well dressed, smokes, wears scarves, on a quest to out hipster everyone else



Miller: North Korea: Intriguing, threatening, bullying, improving, and run by a zany miltant cat with a taste for women


Weiss: Thailand: Great to visit, fun, capital is Bangkok (like penis), sometimes troubled by in-fighting



Bear: USA: Lovers of capitalism, TV sport packages, Whataburger and the only country you can get a BWI.


Mazur: Israel: Wealthy, calculated, will bomb you if you come on their property and/or steal your fucking aid boat without remorse


Butz: Russia: Biggest country in world, gritty, efficient, cold, run by a man who appointed himself Prime Minister after his Presidency just so he could still run shit


Williams: Greece: Lots of beach time, darkish complexion, loves eating, looking for large financial bailout package

Be Afraid

Has anyone else seen this? We get movies late here and reporters get free tickets for "screenings" of movies that were out 4 months ago in the U.S. I go to just about all of them and, to date, this might be the worst one I've seen yet.

Tracy Morgan, Sean William Stifler and Bruce Willis in a movie directed by Kevin Smith - Gotta be half-decent, right? Wrong.

Or maybe it's me. In one scene, Willis makes a goofy yelping sound and then kills a man. Costa Rican audience = riotous laughter. Me = stunned.

this will happen in our lifetime. it's safe to skip to the ten minute mark.

-soothsayer

So, we only have a couple days until the World Cup. Is every one still interested in throwing in $5 to make the cup a little more interesting.

Please let me know.

The link is below.

Don't eat yellow snow.

http://us.wc.fantasysports.yahoo.com/world-cup/register/join-private-group-assign-team?GID=10509&P=booya7

More Simpsons? Last one, yo lo promise. Couldn't stand looking at a link that I couldn't view any longer. Where is Butz when we need you most? Don't say Peru. That's just a cop out.

World Cup...7 days and counting...

commentary please.

if you're too busy you don't have control of your life, or, you're not really interested. ish.

Choice ish. Thank me later...

Simpsons baseball classic.

Miller. Up for Rangers game part Deux? (minus post-game arrest)

Williams get slammed

There are a lot of crazy gringos in Costa Rica. Most are old or retired or came here to run away from something. Nonetheless, they speak English and I happen to write for the only English speaking publication in the country.

Often, these crazy people write me. About two weeks ago, I wrote about the comparisons of attending both the US inauguration and the Costa Rican one.

Yesterday, I received the following, adressed to AW:

"Do you wear a dress? I'd think by the gushy simpering girlishness piece you wrote about the Transfer of Powers that you probably wear a plaid jumper with a white blouse and white socks...and a Mickey Mouse wristwatch.

Maybe you spend too much time with your mom and sis?

Grow some balls.

Heart.

All the touchy-feely shit is just that: It's shit.

And you're brushing your teeth with it.

(At this point, I was like "oh snap" cuzin, but then he went all crazy anti-semite with some of the following excerpts)

"The Jewish controlled media controls your country"

"An FBI contact told me that Rahm Emmanuel sends Obama out for Kosher Pizza"

"Brent Lubahn quiefs like a guppy"

"Obama wears penny loafers with white socks and or khaki trousers. That punk is as down as Doris Day"

"Obama wears a yamuakha"

"Nick Butz raped an ab-roller"
"Take 20 years off Chinchilla (Costa Rica's female Prez) and give her some acid and she might be a good-looking middle aged woman"

"Lee Portillo won a Newberry award for Fiction"

He then closed with:

"Boy, you need to lay off the Michael Jackson videos"

(A la a Highlights magazine, some of the aformentioned quotes may be altered from their original state. Can you find them?)

Name This City

Faust, here is my entry fee to your World Cup Pool

KFC didnt give me a receipt for some reason, so here is the final 1/6 of the sandwich as proof that I consumed it in my garage on Sunday afternoon. I hope it satisfies the deal the same way it satisfied my stomach. It was fucking delicious, but never again!

Mitch Albom's real ears have never been photographed in their entirety. First one to find a full picture of these wings wins free q-tips for a year. I've never noticed this before, and I give the guy credit for keeping them shrouded from the world.

I think the guy seems like a dick.

good movie

Those who do not like Jimmy Buffett concerts are those who have never been. Last night was #5 for me and their will be plenty of more to come.

Write the Future

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Best Commercial Ever?

Thoughts on this flick? When I first heard about it, I wrote it off as a surefire piece of shit. The SNL skit isnt even funny to me, but it is getting some serious pub. I assume it will either be a heaping helping of donkey shit or a classic. Is anyone partial?

Side note: this blog has improved the quality of my life considerably.
Side note 2: going to a bachelor party in Tampa this afternoon and we have 10 moustached men playing a TPC course tomorrow morning. Hat tip to Faust for the bachelor party moustache phenomenon.

For anyone with buyers remorse this proves that Nick belongs.

i feel like our t-shirt chair is neglecting his duties.

This is the best hip hop album I have heard in a long time. Well, it's also one of the only albums I have really listened to since the Hot Boys.  Regardless, it was good enough for me to post it so think about giving it a try.

Wale, a big Seinfeld fan, mixes classic lines from the show that flow well with his lyrics. He also has a newer album based on Back to the Future. If nothing else, the guy is doing something different, and his music is inspired.

I am not going to be the guy who simply posts a humerous YouTube video everyday, I promise. The stars have aligned and I have seen a couple vidoes the last few days that I feel are worthy. I have done this to my girlfriend several times since viewing this and it continues to make me happy.

I bet they are.......yes they will.

we the fuk isn't, and soon... but what i do know? i'm just a dumb alarmist that pays no attention to the world around me.

williams: cr should be safe.

i carry loaded weapons everywhere i go. this is just the tempest. welcome butz!

Wow, it is good to be back and I am humbled by the votes of confidence you have all bestowed upon me. I have been fretting over this first post since yesterday, as I feel a great deal of pressure to come hard out of the gate. After a fifth of whiskey and a sleepless night, I made the decision to let the game come to me, so to speak. I am not going to force this first post, but instead play within the offense and look for my shot (at which point Bear will foul the fuck out of me). So, this is it. My first post. I feel.........at peace.

Butz

King Lames

Did anyone else truly enjoy watching "King" Lames shoot 3/14 in a 32-point Game 5 loss at home? Me too.

I think "King" Lames is the most over-hyped athlete in sports. He wasn't even close to hitting his shots Tuesday. They were off-the-side-of-the-rim bricks. It was ugly. Lubahn-esque, if I dare. And I do.

I don't know what commercials look like these days in the Untied (intentional) States, but I assume LeBrenda is everyone: Vitamin water, Powerbars, Tonka Trucks, Noxema. Why? In his career, he has had one important game in the playoffs, when he scored like 27 points in a row against the Pistons in the Eastern Conference Finals 2007. He was then swept in the finals.

That's a pretty weak resume for a King.

Oh, and as for his 32-point drubbing at home on Tuesday, I indeed was "A Witness".

I hung out with Nick Butz this weekend.... Butz is great... blah blah blah.

Anyway, he wants in. He thinks he can bring something special to the blog. I can't argue with him. So, there is a poll to your right. Please vote him in or out.  It take 100% of the voters to allow him in.  His major concern was Chambers vote.  Please only vote once.

Have you seen this man?

Name: Lee Portillo
DOB: 6/20/1968
Last Seen: Windows down on the Santa Ana freeway in a 1984 Acura

Good News in SA

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From today's NYTimes: (I am transcribing this as well...I don't like links, but we can't paste text?? Poop on thee, Blogger)

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In early December, Julián Castro, the newly elected mayor of San Antonio, visited the White House to attend President Obama's national jobs-and-economic-growth forum. Castro was one of only five mayors in attendance and, at age 35, the youngest. When his turn came to speak - the subject was the creation of green jobs - the president looked at him, midway down the long conference table, and said: "I though he was on our staff. I thought he was an intern. This guys's a mayor?" The other participants - world-famous economists, environmentalists and politicians - burst into laughter.

"Of San Antonio, Texas," Castro said evenly.

Obama grinned. "I'm messing with you," he said. "I know who you are."

(The rest of the article goes on the french kiss your new mayor's culo. It's a little too complimentary if you ask me, but, seems like SA's got a pretty solid hombre in the mayor's office)

Yeah for Politics!

Enjoy a Cold One Fellas

being the subversive prickface that i am, i'll instigate the religion and politics conversation. blogs are forums of sorts. how many people really pay attention to us anyway? having imposed some of the "sword" side of the american religio/politico no-separation-of-church-and-state-bane-of-my-existence-bullshit on a culture resembling marx brothers' films, i feel suited to discuss these topics. i'll talk sex too, and even belches. i think it's good to get things out among friends, what are friends for... by no means am i trying to get a conversation going about war, muslims, or anything like that, just figured we like south park, and generally have a disdain for o'reilly.

we'll see where it goes? o'reilly is prophetic in this country, which is scary.

"they're courageous"-o'reilly(fundamentalist/extremist muslims)... and distorted-me.

Hey Gents. I'm at the local gin joint watching my Spurs and the fiery francophile Tony Parker and I wanted to share this gem with you all. This is Ginger shakin' her tush with her sistas...see?!