"I don't want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career. I don't want to sell anything bought or processed, or buy anything sold or processed, or process anything sold, bought, or processed, or repair anything sold, bought, or processed. You know, as a career, I don't want to do that"

- Lloyd Dobbler from Say Anything

Here you go Lubahn:

http://www.slate.com/id/2230818/?GT1=38001

Could you imagine Bob Dylan giving you directions from Fort Worth to Minnesota? I smell an early Secret Santa gift....

Quote of the Week

This is George Carlin. I like this picture and prefer it to the common bald and zany Carlin images from his later years. I included 11 quotes because Carlin was big on the rule of 10 (which he talks about in his 10 commandments stand-up). He thought that the use of the number 10 satisfied people, such as Top 10 lists, 1-10 ranking scales, 10 fingers, 10 toes, etc.

For someone who wore black to work the day after he died (I really did), the 11 quotes are my shout-out to someone I respected for his willingness to comment, dissect and usually scathe, many of the "big issues" in American culture. He was rigid and too crass for many people's tastes, but, if some of the following quotes don't make you go "hmm, never of thought of it like that", then I apologize for wasting your time.

Hope you had merry weekends. I miss you and love you all. Also, I am home from Dec. 23 to Jan. 3. Can we please start talking New Years?? Please.

Carlinisms:

* The very existence of flamethrowers proves that sometime, somewhere, someone said to themselves, “You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I’m just not close enough to get the job done.”

* “No comment” is a comment.

* What was the best thing before sliced bread?

* If a man smiles all the time, he’s probably selling something that doesn’t work.

* Property is theft. Nobody “owns” anything. When you die, it all stays here.

* Isn’t it a bit unnerving that doctors call what they do “practice”?

* I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a man nailed to two pieces of wood.

* I put a dollar in a change machine. Nothing changed.

* Cloud nine gets all the publicity, but cloud eight actually is cheaper, less crowded, and has a better view

* Here’s a bumper sticker I’d like to see: “We are the proud parents of a child who’s self-esteem is sufficient that he doesn’t need us promoting his minor scholastic achievements on the back of our car.”

* Honesty may be the best policy, but it’s important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.

Quote of the Week

Guppies,

Here is the quote of the week. Hopefully this becomes a weekly thang. Also, if you have any quotes to add, put 'em up there. I hope to include a variety, everyone from Michelangelo to Michael Jordan to Michael Moore to Michael Mazur ("Mom?").

Here is week 1. I thought, "this would be better if heard". Then, I found the website (at the bottom of the quote), which plays the quote in a pretty hysterical fashion. If you can find audio of Dylan saying this, it is worth 28 seconds of your oh so precious time.

"Half of the people can be part right all of the time, Some of the people can be all right part of the time, But all the people can't be all right all the time. I think Abraham Lincoln said that. I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours. I said that."

- Bob Dylan, "Talkin' World War III Blues"

http://www.iwise.com/6CyHe

Speaking of Excellent TV Shows....this is certainly a top 3 for me and the new season starts tonight!


Give it a shot....on FX

Kyle Broflovski - Mazur

cheap, angry easily, firy outbursts, Cartman is his nemesis

Kenny McCormick - Chambers

- white trashy, wears a hat that says Scotch on it, mostly like to get blown up

Randy Marsh - Miller - geologist, radical

- crazy, outrageous, overzealous

Portillo - Mr. Hankey

- pleasant, but really just a piece a shit

Butters Scotch - Kevin

- kind but very nerdy, makes up songs in his room and sometimes thinks he is a superhero

Mr.Mackey, mmmkah- Clint
- reprimanding, hypocritical about drug use

Tweak - Weiss

- wound up, angst ridden, screams

Lubahn - Towlie. Obvious.

Eric Cartman - Williams
- fat, antagonistic, hates cats

Mr. Garrison - Faust

- gay, control freak, has a man-slave

There is no Chef - we have no stone cold pimp with musical talent and a smooth voice of reason

There is no Stan - Stan is the voice of reason, the wisest and rarely, rarely shows any loss of tempermant. I know no one like that amongst us...

If you are a fan of TCU football, then I encourage you to watch this youtube link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xe46HOHBYw

I would have embeded to the blog but unfortunately our blog is still formated in standard aspect ratio (4:3).

I know we typically do not get a lot of comments on videos, but I think this one deserves a little something, especially since the season starts Saturday. Spit Blood TCU.

Enjoy.

Hey folks,

How is everyone doing out there in your worlds? I had a nice Labor Day weekend. I had Chambers, Jess, baby Luke, Bear and Katie over on Saturday night for some fajitas and beer. Luke Chambers is a good baby.

I received a text message form Lubahn who was attending his 10 year high school reunion. I am not sure if he was drunk or not, here is a text I got from him at 1:29am- you be the judge, "Bats closr sat 3... drunk las a skunk... u r my freid" This is verbatim.

Lee is fastidiously shopping for a car. He will surely make a decision by 2011.

I talked to Williams last night. He is working a lot and actually does get paid in bananas. He is close tp booking a flight around homecoming so keep the pressure on to bring babaganoosh home.

Piper and I are pretty sure we will be coming up to Fort Worth for homecoming/halloween.

Hope all is well.

SUCK ON THIS DALLAS!

Team San Antonio rules.

Reviving the Classics




For whatever reason the last couple of books that I have read have been old school books...high school mandated..that I guess I really didn't get and to be honest still can't quite comprehend. This little fella is quite a doozy...great book and author, but certainly far from normal.

Side note, recently finished The Catcher in the Rye and still love that book...one of my all time favs.

With all of that being said, any suggestions on favorite books/authors? We all have different tastes but I'll give any book a shot.

STEP YO GAME UP!

For those of you who have not been keeping up with the Little League World Series, team Southwest... aka team Texas.... aka team San Antonio... aka team MCALLISTER PARK, is 3-0 and just beat the heavy weight (literally) favorites Chula Vista from California last night. McAllister Park is where us Churchill boys grew up playing tee-ball, machine pitch, soccer, kite flying, etc. They are down to the final 4 teams in the US and 3 games away from the World Championship (which will be Sunday). They play Staten Island, N.Y. tonight.

Here is the link in case you might be interested in reading further. -

http://www.mysanantonio.com/sports/McAllister_Park_stays_perfect_in_LLWS.html

NYE 2010 Costa Rica

It's mid August. In a little over four months, the, uh, 00s decade will come to a close. What better place to be than Costa Rica? Right? Yes, that seems right. Haha. Oh, yes, joyous times. Ha.

In my dreamiest of dreams, I would love for the first international IC NYE to take place right here in Central America. I think I could work out a deal on a hotel and, in the middle of the US winter, we could celebrate NYE 2010 with a bonfire on the Pacific. (It's legal here) I'm posting this now to get the reactions of the IC and check the feasibility of this actually going down. I know Miller is committed, it seems Portillo is leaning this direction and Chambone just flatout comes through in the clutch. What yall think? Flights are cheap and I know I could get us a cheap hotel rate (like $25/night) on the beach.

Who's in??????

Or at least considering...

(Videos and pictures courtesy of A-Chub Productions. "Dude, that was fucking sweet")

IC Crisis is better than a personality crisis

IC IDENTITY CRISIS

Hello Gentleman. This is Adam Williams. You might remember me from such instances as "The time I tried to jump over water onto Kevin's dock" or "The time a neighbor boy touched me in my sleep". Those of you that are Simpsons fans would recognize that as a Troy McClure (Phil Hartman's voice) opener. Which leads me to this question: How many of you were Simpsons lovers? Which leads me to this question, which is the general theme of this post:

How many of us do you really feel you know these days?

There it is.

I feel like having a Koom-By-Ya blog. A, this is me right now and this is who I am Blog.

I thought this stemmed from moving to a different country, but I realize these thoughts have been stirring in my head long before I left Chicago. For a quite a while over the past year, I feel the threads of the IC are loosening, like your baby blanket that your mom keeps in a closet and you see every few years and say "awww", even though it's all tattered and useless.

Truthfully, I know we know each other from our pasts, from college and a few years thereafter. Some of those friendships are still strong. Some have weakened.

It seems, as we get older and get wives and kids and careers, friendships we once considered a necessity, become a novelty. Friendship is now just that fun getaway 2-4 times a year, where you can revert to who you used to be and do what you used to do.

For some reason, that doesn't satisfy me like it used to.

I think I feel differently about it, because, aside from our 2-3 nights of getting drunk and taking pictures of how drunk we are and Faust pushing his "best man" into a trash can, part of me knows I don't know some of you at your core, or at least as well as I used to.

So...

I think it's profile time. All (10) members, if we still have 10, fucking write something about yourself. Funny, sappy, serious, or in Samuel L. Jackson mutha fuckin' SPeak!

I don't care. I just want to hear from my "10 best friends" and hear what is going on with their lives.

Somebody start.

That's it.

Oh, and Costa Rica for New Year's. My boss has a guy who owns a hotel on the beach. I stayed there last weekend for $30/night. Beers ran me a $1.25.

The Voting is In, Miller takes #1 spot, Lubahn close 2nd....

LAKE LBJ - After a long week of accumulating votes and 2 miscounts, Marc Miller was voted MVP of the 2009 July lake house trip. Just 1 vote shy of Miller was the defending MVP champ Brent Lubahn. Scott Benson finished third in the voting and some say that his foot injury on Saturday afternoon might have cost him the 1st place prize. Points were calculated based on arrival time, tube wars, # of beer bongs, time spent on Fun Island, last one to bed, and overall drunkenness. Both Benson and Miller received a huge boost in point by arriving three hours before even the host, Kevin Dalrymple, showed up. They also each earned bonus points by staying until a whopping 5:00 PM on Sunday afternoon. When asked about Miller's performance, Dalrymple was quoted "Well, besides briefly pissing off my wife, Marc had a tremendous performance. He was high in every single category, and blew everyone away in overall drunkenness (which is the only category that has no ceiling)." Miller was said to be drinking straight vodka on ice all weekend, but because he is who he is, no one would ever he know it. Not only that, but the man drank wine during Saturday night’s drinking game.

Lubahn stormed into the lake house around 4:30 PM on Friday, which was very impressive. He immediately made himself a drink and demanded a booze cruise. The moment he arrived back from the cruise, he was on the Fun Island in a matter of seconds. "Lubahn always shows up to plays," said Dalrymple, "He never shies away from anything, and that’s why he is always in the running." Brent Lubahn never disappoints, and 2009 was no exception.

Scott Benson was the drunkest human being from time he arrived all the way up to when he fainted on my driveway in a pool of blood. After slicing his foot open on what turned out to be an old metal flower bed, Benson’s lake house trip was all but over. He was well on his way to winning the overall drunkenness category and that might have very well put him ahead of both Lubahn and Miller. "He was giving a lot of high fives" said Kevin, "A LOT of high fives.” Not sure if the high fives were helping or not in his race, but Benson was out of commission after he returned home with 12 stitches in the bottom of his foot

Best of the rest. Everyone received a high grades and no one disappointed. Chambers actually won the tube wars votes by somehow never getting tired. Piel and Weiss both scored huge bonus points by being there when Kevin needed someone to take Scott to the hospital. Faust even went into the negative side of the votes on Friday night by yelling,... wait no,.. screaming at the host after he called called Adam a fag, and managed to pull himself back to receive a respectably score. "We were both a little drunk" said Adam. Mazur was right up there with Weiss in the ‘last one to go to bed’ category, and was drunker than 10 Indians late Saturday night when he passed out on the dock. "I think everyone performed well, if you do not see your name on the top 3 this year, then you just need to try a little harder next year. What matters most, is I just hope everyone had a good time."

AP

i guess this recent trip was kind of a downer?

I think it is about time to start thinking about possible teams for next weekend. I have never done team tube wars but it seems like fun and it certainly looks safe enough....