da art...

all these lebron/kobe puppet commercials got me reminiscing about the greatest puppet collaboration of all time. enjoy.

my quotes

very simply. i don't NEED you.
i need food.
i need water.
i need air.
i need shelter.
i want you. i desire you. i CHOSE you.
and that is so much better than needing you could ever possibly be.

in the event you care...

cuz i sure as shit don't...

i do believe i'm beginning to develop a man crush on lebron james

when asked tuesday if lebron's the only player who can stop lebron, he responded humbly.

at first.

"uhhh, i don't want to say that," he answered, before pausing and searching for an explanation that just wasn't there.

then, realizing that the politically correct answer might just sound absurd, he said, "yeah, i will say that."

-as written by espn's chris broussard (well he used capital letters where correct grammar dictated. but cool people don't adhere to such silly rules.)

nba basketball is fun again

my quotes

"life is best enjoyed by simply enjoying it"

pun intended

espn breaking news

always amusing when a guy named blount gets arrested for marijuana possession. my favorite part is the judge's response to corie blount's claim that 29lbs. of pot was for personal use - "Cheech and Chong would have had a hard time smoking that much." judge craig hedric, you are a funny man.

lyrics of the day (loud music makes me feel better edition)

one light, one mind
flashing in the dark
blinded by the silence
of a thousand broken hearts
"for cryin' out loud" she
screamed unto me
"A free-for-all,
fuck 'em all,
you are your own sight"

-greenday(minority)

lyrics of the day

there's so many times i've let you down
so many times i've played around
i tell you now, they don't mean a thing
every place i go, i'll think of you
every song i sing, i'll sing for you
when i come back, i'll bring your wedding ring

- john denver (leaving on a jet plane)

dilbert syndrome

via videosift.com

dude seriously, working in a cubicle sucks. less than 5 months ago, i worked in a nice office where i sat at a desk in a room with huge windows. It was slightly overcrowded, with 5 desks jammed into a space meant only for 2, maybe 3 desks at most. then the recession hit. and layoffs came. and cost-cutting became a priority. and i was moved to cubicleland. no windows. noface-to-face interaction. no life as i knew it.

i do the same job. the exact same job. and yet, i hate it so much more now. i'm prone to be more tired, irritable, unmotivated, easily distracted, etc... i'm not sure why. but i'm blaming it on the cubcile. i hate it. i want to set it on fire. i won't, obviously, but it's an urge that takes all of the self-control i have left to suppress. i thought i had a point in all this. i'm actually pretty sure i did, but i can't remember what it was.

blame it on the cubicle.

lyrics of the day

there's a picture opposite me
of my primitive ancestry
which stood on rocky shores and kept the beaches shipwreck free
though i respect that a lot
i'd be fired if that were my job
after killing jason off and countless screaming argonauts

- they might be giants (birdhouse in your soul)

lyrics of the day

it's something unpredictable
but in the end it's right.
i hope you had the time of your life.

-green day (time of your life)

gotta love bill simmons

great article on manny ramirez and the steroid era...right here

this is why the man is my favorite sports writer of all time

in the event you care...

there are a fair bit of things in this world you care about that don't even register as a blip on my radar. but that doesn't make them any less important (at least to you). so here is the first of my many attempts to share a tidbit of information with you, in the event that you care...

cuz i sure as shit don't

song of the day

lyrics of the day

every sunday dressing up catching gossip at its worst
couldn't see the difference in the baptist and the catholic church
caught up in the rapture of the first chapter and second verse
if we all god's children then what's the word of the reverend worth
taught early that faith is blind like justice when you facing time
if we all made in god's image then that means his face is mine
wait or is that blasphemy it's logical it has to be
if i don't look like my father then the way i live is bastardly
naturally that's confusion to a young'n trying to follow christ
taught that if you don't know jesus then you lead a hollow life
never question the fact that jesus was jewish not a christian
Or that christianity was law according to politicians
who was king james?
and why did he think it was so vital to remove chapters and make his own version of the bible
they say hell is underground and heaven is in the sky
and they say that's where you go when you die but how they know

-talib kweli (give 'em hell)

compromise

self-important much? lol

friend: new topic...
so why'd u get off fb?
me: got tired of the false interaction
though
friend: ahh
me: as i was leaving
i found alot more people paid attention to things i wrote
but
that turned me off even more
like
damn, ya'll all read this shit but never comment
or reach out to hang or nuthin
so maybe ultimately im really just punishing everyone
lol
friend: lol

my quotes

okay so i got sick of reading all of these quotes of the day and inspirational quotes and love quotes and shit. they're cool and all, but someone else's words can't speak for me or my experience. or at least i'd like to think they can't. so i'm writing my own from now.

"when your heart breaks everyone will tell you you just need to forget when in reality all you really need is for the one who broke your heart to remember."

that's all i have for now, but stay tuned for more pearls from yours truly...

i've got cousins, country cousins

they rock. nate and kate. album available on itunes.(did i just plug itunes again? fml)

facebook withdrawals

with much difficulty and remorse, i recently ended a long-standing relationship with a dear friend. it was tough, very tough. and it's all i can do to not go back, but i know in the end that this is better for me. i need some "me" time. and i'm sure facebook understands.
i met facebook way back in 2005, after enough nerds from my college petitioned mark zuckerberg and associates long enough to give us access to the small, burgeoning social network. timid, insecure, and much more modest than the current incarnation you see, facebook and i hit it off from the very beginning. sure, there weren't any pictures or apps or notes or direct messaging or advertisements or tagging or surveys, but i saw the potential for a true friendship and knew i had to stick it out. so as facebook grew, i grew as well. facebook left college with me and , much like myself, branched out into the real world, no longer limiting ourselves to a college state of mind. the world was our oyster and as long as we had each other, we had it all spinning right in our hands. rain or shine, all the time. we had each other, sharing the laughter and love (sharing the laughter and love).
i was so proud of facebook. every day brought more friends, newer innovations. facebook was bringing the world together and was bringing my world together. through facebook, i've come into contact with old friends, maintained relationships with new ones, strengthened bonds that would have otherwise fallen apart. it is rare that a friendship would fit so seamlessly into my life and weave its way so deeply into the existing fabric, but facebook is different. i have not, nor will i ever find a friend quite like facebook.
but alas, all that glitters is not gold. facebook was starting to change. too busy evolving, facebook never had time for just the two of us. at first i didn't notice, distracted by facebook's insistence that i detail 25 things about me, or find out what sex and the city character i was, or contact the new friends it had found for me. and i went for it, hook line and sinker, falling deeper than i should have allowed myself to. and then, one day i wiped the crust from my eyes and realized i just didn't know facebook anymore. it seemed that facebook had become and anti-social network, a system who's sole purpose was to distract humanity from actual interaction. to make it appear that our friendships were real, but when the had in fact become digitized version of the bonds we once knew.
i stood aghast, not believing that i had let this happen, let my life become nothing more than the next release of the sims. i tried to unplug myself from the matrix, but you know they say that breaking up is hard to do, and breaking up is hard to do. several attempts fell short, but i persisted. facebook really was a great friend, but we just aren't in the same place in our lives right now. it had to be done.
and so, as midnight struck and may 1st turned into may 2nd, i officially deactivated my facebook account. it seemed like such an easy thing to do. and yet i find myself returning to the homepage, no longer able to access the network. on the outside unable to look in, i find my self scratching at the opaque glass, hoping to create an opening that would allow me to see my old friend again. my dear old friend.

i miss you facebook. but this is for the best.

lyrics of the day

head home lil darlin, nothings the same
cuz you can see me but you can't feel me from your gold elysian place
i'll be rockin this train cuz i aint got no place to stay
but what's keeping me sane is wanting to see your face
i'm always coming back to you

-solomon cortes (at least tonight)

pigs fly!

they said pigs would fly before there was a black president. 'lo and behold 100 days into obama's presidency...a swine flu



haha

hey...ya

scrubs is a great show. this a great song.

download the original cover by obadiah parker. available on itunes. (did i just plug itunes? shoot me)