Off to ‘Sconi…my blue heaven….
Friday, June 30th, 2006Cheese curds, booyah and beer,That’s what I like to hear.I may be kinda pokey,But I say “okey-dokey!”To cheese curds, booyah and beer.
Archive for June, 2006
“To Go Saddam” Def.
Tuesday, June 27th, 2006Some people have been asking what it means to “Go Saddam”, as I noted a couple posts ago in reference to a world cup referee. Well, I can tell you exactly what it means because I just made it up. A lot of normal people Go Saddam quite often, but only in very very short spurts, so it’s not so noticable and easily apologized for. Like when you always stand in the same spot on the train and you get mad one day because someone is there ahead of you. You could get mad and huff and puff, and even mutter under your breath something unintelligable. That’s a mild case of Saddam. Now, if you actually asked that person to move because it’s your spot, that’s a more acute case of Saddam. If you go to work and you always tell stories about yourself and never listen to anyone else, that’s not Saddam, you’re just annoying.
So, to clarify and define for all further references to Go Saddam ™ type behavior (see, I’m being Saddam right now).
Definition:
Idiom > Slang
To suddenly and inexplicably suffer from an inflated sense of self worth and grandiosity. This condition is sometimes followed by prolonged periods of incarceration or violence. Mustaches are not required but briefs are recommended.
A recent case in the news today:
The beach wedding…
Saturday, June 24th, 2006
I’m so incredibly far behind on this blog. In fact, the only reason I’m able to update is because I just dropped Dawn and Oscar at the airport for their flight to KC. Oscar’s 3rd flight in the last 5 weeks. Oy! The kid has wheels man.
Anyhow, Jim and Lindsey had a great wedding on the VERY WARM beach in Puerto Vallarta. We stayed at the Riu Jalisco which was a very nice hotel that did a good job with everything. The wedding went off without a hitch, and as the preacher noted, “jeem and lisey had a very nice san ceremony.”
Awesome time, who’s next for a destination wedding??
What else have we been doing? We went to Minneapolis for a short weekend. The flight in there was considerably easier than international travel with a baby. We tooled around town and hung out with old friends. I’ll post some pictures when I find the camera. Oscar had a little excitement with his stomach the last night, but we made it back no worse for the wear.
Here we are this weekend and Oscar is off to the home of the Royals and South midwestern Jazz, Kansas City. It’s nice here today and I haven’t seen the sun in 6 months, so I’m off to play some golf.
See Ya!
US team
Thursday, June 22nd, 2006OK, so I admit, not a very impressive showing on paper by the US soccer team. What really killed everyone, me included, was a blase effort in the first game. That truly was their only very poor game, in my opinion. The Czechs are good, but not THAT good. Cmon. So, then we follow that with one of the best results in the history of US World Cup soccer, a tie with Italy while being down 9 men to 10 for most of the second half. We absolutely dominated the game until the referees went Saddam on us. Lastly, a good effort against Ghana, but honestly, there wasn’t enough gas in the tank after the game before. To the casual fan, let me tell you Ghana is for REAL. I’m not kidding you. I don’t think they’re deep enough, but they are talented and precocious enough to do some damage. I think Arena’s biggest mistake was bringing Claudio Renya, the most overhyped player ever in the US, along for the ride. He, at this point, is completely worthless. I didn’t see him make a single standout play the entire time. He roams the midfield at half speed and doesn’t play aggressively enough at this level. Kudos to Brian McBride though, on a great effort, especially for an old man. (yes, i’ll plug it again, we played against him back in the day).
Anyhow. I get frustrated with the media, especially in chicago. Definitely a dissapointing result, but not the failure that MLBSPN and the rest of the soccer hating american public wants to make it out to be. Don’t worry, you can now go back to your regularly scheduled steriod-rape-shooting-bling-bling NBANFLMLB trial brought to you nightly on American TV.
Exhibit A:
United States crashes out of World Cup with loss to Ghana - World Soccer - Yahoo! Sports
OH, and did anyone else happen to catch the absolute ballsiest and most hilarious guest appearance ever at a Cubs game when Jeremy Piven said to the crowd during the 7th inning, “Let’s hug it out you bitches”. Apparently a line from his HBO series. HILARIOUS. I tell you what, if I don’t off myself first, this will be the longest and worst stretch of Cubs baseball I have ever witnessed. Don’t get me started. We need more HUMOR people. I’m first in line;)