From the Desk of The Champ

2004-10-19T18:17:00.000-07:00

Ask not what No AIM can do for you, Ask what you can do for No AIM

Merely a day and a half into the birth of No AIM and already the reaction has been tremendous. I'd like to thank all of you for for support. I'll leave you with submissions from various people. Naturally, there are some who are against the movement, but they, there's always a few who just have to get stepped on in life.

Annie Yeager: i wanted to tell you how impressed I am by your "No Aim" movement. Honestly, I don't think I could do it...good luck...It's gotta be difficult!!

James Tran: This No AIM business is poppycock!

Mike Rasch: Hip me to this AIM ban...

Nick DresselHAUS: I think it's time I joined the movement

Mike Rasch: Sign me up for AIM NO MO! I am thru

And on a completely different subject. Tonight at 8pm on NBC...THE BIGGEST LOSER. Tune in! And Laguna Beach at 10:30...it's my L I F E

2004-10-19T01:53:00.000-07:00

No AIM -- Never Online, Avoiding Insignificant Muttering

Alright people here's the deal. TPC and La Roca have once again taken it upon themselves to make an executive decision for the rest of the world...and naturally we didn't feel the need to consult with any of you or listen to your opinions on the matter.

From this point on you will find neither myself of Bradford online. We have deemed AIM to be an obstruction to life, and see no reason why you should see things any different. Seriously, think to yourself how much time you waste on AIM on a daily basis. For myself this used to be hours. You know what I could do with a couple more free hours a day? Shit neither do I, but we fo damn sho bout to find out.

So pack a lunch, bring a ladder, and buckle up, cause we about to get real up in here. No more AIM.

"New" forms of contact are as follows:
Cell: 805-729-0370
Email: chrismiller522@gmail.com
Facebook Messages
Talking to me in class or on campus

If you have the same ill-will directed towards AIM as me and Curry do voice your opinion and join the movement. Post up that permanent away message with a No AIM squarely on top.

Current Participants:
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2004-09-16T01:19:00.000-07:00

I'm back in the Loma for a short while
What is the best part of having satellite tv at home instead of cable in my apartment you ask?
Toon Disney:
TailSpin at midnight
Quackpack at 12:30
DUCKTALES at 1:00am

thats all for now kids, back to the TALES

2004-09-13T14:25:00.000-07:00

The Weekend Breakdown

For all of you who live in a cave or under rocks Al-Queda style, football is officially back. So now that it's complete i'll give you a quick rundown of what you missed in ignoring America's new pastime.

FRIDAY

8:07 p.m. EDT -- Miami vs. Florida State:
Also known as the most exciting game of the year every year/the only game that matters every year/the best two teams in college football every year/if i could only watch three hours of tv each year this would be it. As usual, those little Nole hearts were put on a platter and crushed. FSU led the entire game, albeit while being dominated by the Cane defense. The Noles took a 10-0 lead into the fourth quarter -- which is where they choke every time when they actually have a lead on Miami. With about ten minutes to go the Canes went about 75 yards in four plays then got stood up at the goal line and settled for a field goal to get on the board at 10-3. With five minutes to go we were in our usual spot, FSU lining up for a seemingly game winning field goal. Now were this three years ago you could sit and just know that the ball was gonna sail wide right, you wouldnt even have to worry about it. But after the 2002 game and the Orange Bowl last year we've seen that FSU can miss wide left too. So now I actually have to watch the kick to see which way they miss it...wide right...wide left...hmmm which will it be. There's the snap, the kick it up -- BLOCKED -- Devin Hester comes flyin off the corner and adds a new chapter to the FSU kicking woes against Miami, I love it. And if you're an FSU fan this is the time where you start to realize that you are cursed and man NEVER beat Miami again. But wait, Brock Berlin is still the QB for Miami, so it's not a given any more that they can just move right down the field and score that game tying touchdown. He's throws a pick right away, and for the first time I'm actually thinking that the Canes may actually lose this game. The defense holds up again and UM has the ball with 80 seconds to play -- JUST enough time to end these shenangins and get the sixth victory in a row over FSU. Suddenly, Berlin turns into Dorsey and the Canes are down to the FSU 30 with 30 seconds to play. Berlin finally realizes that he's surrounded by weapons of mass destruction and throws a simple screen pass to Sinorice Moss -- which turns into a 30 yard TD run -- AND WE'RE TIED. We go to overtime, where I bank less on the skills of Miami, and more on the fact that Chris Rix is running FSU's offense. And sho nuff, holding on first down so it's 1st and 25...eight yard loss it's 2nd and 33... 15 yard completion shocks the world now it's 3rd and 18...Rix in the shot gun, and he cant handle a basic snap, MIAIMI recovers the fumble and now all we need is a field goal and this game is over, like Chris Rix's life if he decides to make the trip back to Tallahassee. Miami goes on offense. Frank Gore runs for eight on first down, 17 more on second down -- TOUCHDOWN....GAME OVER. At this point I am bouncing off the walls and dialing everyone in my cell phone. Honestly, if you didnt get a call from me on Friday night you might not consider yourself an actual friend of mine any more.

SATURDAY/SUNDAY

These two days blend together after the way that Miami/FSU game went down, so here's the high/lowlites

Notre Dame beats Michigan. This makes me completely ill, I had honest hopes that Notre Dame would go 0-11 this year. I can still hold out for 1-10. And after punching out a window during the FSU game, I'm glad to see Tony didnt hang himself with this loss.
Purdue looks real nice, Kyle Orton is a heisman candidate if they score 50+ every week.
Fresno State dominates another BCS conference team on the road.
Tech knocks off Clemson in miracle fashion, go pops.
Indiana ...yes INDIANA...beat Oregon on the road. Not even god saw this comin.
D 1-AA New Hampshire goes into Rutgers and wins...ugh
Daunte Culpepper throws 5 TDs, he's my horse and i'ma be ridin him to a fantasy league ring again this year
The Browns make the Ravens look like a college team. Wait, dont i have that backwards? Hold on, lemme check the tape
TO -- 3 TDs -- End of Story
Clinton Portis and Quentin Griffin both look like they can run up and down the field
Eli Manning got in the game just in time to get LIT UP -- thank you for that Jerome McDougle -- a CANE of course

Alright, thats all for now -- Nate NO ONE CARES about the Packers

2004-09-11T21:44:00.000-07:00

I'm back kids, I'm back

There's now less than three weeks remaining until the school kicks off for the final go 'round. With that in mind, i figure it's time to touch base with all you loyal readers and let you know that, as usual, blogging will be back in effect once school starts. As La Roca himself stressed today, only in the eyes of true work can we really blog in ernest. So with that in mind, get ready, for this shall be an epic trip -- and I may even throw in some Bug Juice rewinds, which I know is what keeps you sickos comin back.

You muthafuckas disgust me

2004-07-11T00:26:00.000-07:00

It's a Celebration, Enjoy Yo Self
The Lakers-Heat deal is finally a go apparently, congratulations to the Lakers, Kobe and their loser ass fans. Your roster sucks, your management sucks, your "team" sucks -- lottery bound for the next three years.

Fuck you Lakers, enjoy an 82 game season.

2004-07-06T23:08:00.000-07:00

Shuffle Up and Deal
FINALLY, the World Series of Poker, HAS COME BACK to ESPN. It’s been too long since there’s been fresh poker on ESPN, and I’m tired of watching the same old reruns of the main event from 2003 with Moneymaker giving horrible beats to Humberto Brenes and Phil Ivey. Phil Ivey played you like a fiddle in the pot, and your gay ass caught a miracle card on the river.

Anyway, we move onto the 2004 series, and this year we’re broadcasting multiple events – not just the main event. We tee off with event #2, $2,000 No-Limit Hold Em, and we’ve got 834 entrants, the second most ever for a series event.

First hand shown is an absolute shitter for Brian Haveson (my favorite player at the table). Haveson is dealt pocket Kings while James Vogl has pocket Aces. Before any of you try to critique how this was played by Haveson…stop. There is no way to get away from this hand. No one is folding Kings before the flop – and the flop came 10-high rainbow so the money was getting all in either way. It’s just a horrible setup for Haveson – and a tough way for the man coming in second in chips to exit first from the table.

Blah Blah Blah, we get down to Sean Rice and James Vogal heads up with Rice having about a 3-2 lead in chips. I have everything I own riding on Rice taking down this title (eventhough I knew before it aired that Vogl was the winner). Rice is by far the better player of the two. Vogl got a gift in the AA vs. KK with Haveson, and AK suited against QQ just a little later to give him all of his stack. After that he made horrible moves and calls against Chiu and Rice to give away his huge lead. If these two play heads up 10 times Rice takes it down 8 or 9 – but knowing that Vogl was the winner I just waited to see the hand over hand situation arise, cause that was the only way Vogl was gonna take the lead.

Sure enough Rice catches 4’s, which is a very good hand heads up – except when up against 7’s. As you would expect the money gets all in with Rice reraising all-in (not calling, that’s very important). Once he sees the 7’s he knows he’s a 4-1 dog to win the pot and suddenly at a HUGE disadvantage in chips. Next hand he catches KQ against AQ and has NO WAY to get away from this hand when he’s that far down in chips.

Game Over, James Vogal wins the first bracelet in an open event at the Series – and $400,000 dollars to go with it.

Next up we get event #3, $1,500 entry 7-Card Stud

This time we actually have a very good table to watch, unlike the first event which featured only Haveson for one hand and David Chiu for most of the time.

At this final table we’re got Men and Minh Nguyen, Ted Forrest and Chad Brown.

As expected Stud doesn’t play well on TV, and I’m willing to bet that they will get bad ratings on the Stud events they show. There’s too much going on for the basic player to follow, and the cameras cant follow all the hands that are out on the table at once. It’s much easier to televise hold ‘em because you can have the graphics of each person’s hand and then just have the camera focused on the community board in the middle. With Stud there is too much going on for the average joe to comfortably watch.

As you would expect the final three at the table was Men Nguyen, Ted Forrest and Chad Brown. Men was pretty drunk by the time he got knocked out, and simply didn’t have the chips to compete with Brown or Forrest. Men seemed to have it out for Brown for some reason, and Chad did very well to not sink to the shit talking that Men was doing and simply let the cards do the talking.

The heads up battle would have been fantastic to watch, but do to the televising of a final table of nine people in just 60 minutes, minus commercials, we only got two or three hands of Brown vs. Forrest. The final hand was Ted betting an open-ended straight draw the entire way, with Chad calling all the way down with Jacks. Forrest caught the Ace to complete his wheel on the River and Chad missed a flush draw that would have taken the pot. Tough break for Chad, but Ted was open-ended after the first four cards so odds were he was going to catch the six or Ace in one of his three cards. Both players played great and Ted wins his fourth bracelet along with $111,000.

If the shows follow the event order as they were played next week should be Limit Hold Em, with a fairly week table. Only Ceceilia Mortensen and Miami John Cernuto will be at the table. But it will be hold em, so the littles will understand and tune in…

2004-06-21T20:30:00.000-07:00

Bug Juice on My Mind

If I haven’t already hounded you to watch today (then first of all you haven’t heard from me today) but secondly I BEG you, tune in at 11pm local time to Disney Channel. BUG JUICE IS B-A-C-K. That’s right kids, The PG version of Real World is back in full effect. We’re runnin through the entire first season – ALL EIGHT WEEKS – every weeknight at 11. I couldn’t simply drop my normal review of the show, so I decided to come with a special minute-by-damn-minute review of how I saw it.

8:04
Jon and Andy (from Maryland) introduce themselves to the camera as they stop onto their flight headed for Camp. I can see these two will be the nerds of the group already. They have the Abercrombie hair before AnF was even in style.
8:05
Martha just declared that she’s 13, no 14 years old – how do you not know how old you are?
8:06
First commercial break and I am feeling great. It’s been six years since I watched season one of Bug Juice and I can’t remember all the details, so it feels like I’m watching a fresh new season of the show to end all kiddie reality shows. Next thing you know you’ll be watching Kiddie Survivor, where sixteen kids are released from Alta Loma High School and left alone to walk on foot to their homes – ABOVE LEMON – how did I survive?
8:08
The bus arrives at Camp Waziyatah and it’s check-in time. We are now live and direct from Maine, where we’ll be broadcasting to you nightly for the next eight weeks. Andrew’s mom is telling his counselor to make sure he wears his retainer every night. Could this be any worse of a beginning for his stay at camp? I think not.
8:11
12-year old Asa arrives at camp. Now this kid I remember, he’s like a sixth grade version of Rasch with blond hair. He makes a million mistakes over the next eight weeks and blames them on being the youngest person in the group. At the same time in the girls bunk 15-year old Caitlyn arrives, she is the elder statesmen of the group, which means she needs to get a real life. You’re 15 years old – get a job.
8:12
Racial tension is building up already as Sarai doesn’t seem to want to be here. She sees all the pasty white folk around here and looks like she’s taken the wrong bus and gotten off at the Nashville stop.
8:15
Nate just called TWICE – I will end his life.
8:17
Peanut – Head Counselor – is layin out the rules. No Cussing. No girls in the guy’s dorm (COME ON NOW) how else are we gonna get ratings without young teenage girls and boys getting it on?????? And now they’re doing the “we got spirit” chant back and forth between the boys and girls…I remember now why the show needed six years off to return to television.
8:21
Andrew won the Spirit Award last year? Is he gay? This is TBD.
8:23
The kids head back to their bunks for the night. I know what you’re thinking, all the girls are going to get into little lace teddies and start having pillow fights as it rains INSIDE of the bunk and their tops become see-through….no. They simply go to bed
8:25
The girls are declaring “rules” that they can all agree on and Sarai offers up the gem, “don’t be cliquey.” Does anyone else think she already regrets coming? Is she trying to stop the bloc from building against her? Don’t be cliquey? Get a friend.
8:28
The kids all reveal give their ideas on what they think camp is, and what they want to take away from their eight weeks at camp. Well I’ll tell you what I want.
Fights
Tears
Drama
Anger
Scandal
Injuries
Tears
Hormones
Tears

That’s’ all for tonight kids, tune in for more tomorrow (and by tomorrow I mean every weeknight for the next EIGHT WEEKS – PACK A LUNCH.

2004-06-21T02:33:00.000-07:00

I really have no excuses here, I’ve come up with every reason possible not to blog in the last ten days. It started with “I’ve got the last two finals to focus for” – which we know is BS cause I will blog before I write my will even if I have six minutes to live. Then I moved onto “I can’t blog tonight my brain is fried from school, gimme a day off.” Again, even the marky markiest of marks out there knew this was a rouse cause I will blog for LIFE even in the most dire situations. Finally I came with a real excuses “I’m in Vegas.” But really if I was a TRU blogger I would have brought the lappy and dropped live updates from the LUXO like my man B-Simmons. Even as I returned from Vegas I spit in the kid’s faces, “I just don’t have the energy to blog in Alta Loma.” Come on now, we all know I don’t do shit in Alta Loma – cause there’s not a damn thing to do. So anyway, on the third day I rose again – and here I am back on the sticks like Brad after a first round elimination in the UCI Smash Bros. Tournament. So as I like to say (since I often credit for myself for starting it), ‘Pack a lunch’ cause this blog is about to get outta control as I do my best to unleash the lengthiest entry in the history of the AL blog game.

We Start off in the Sports World
Teeing off with the U.S. Open which ended this afternoon. What a classic final round; Phil on the move, Tiger falling off the face of the Earth, and only a single player managing to drop an even par 70 on Sunday in a major. The USGA sure went out of their way to dick over the players this year. The course average was somewhere around 78.7 on Sunday, a mere stroke every two holes over par if you’re scoring at home. I was lovin Tiger’s ass getting bitch-slapped every which way all through the week at Shinnecock. The only way that could have gone better was if his ass missed the cut. But I don’t know what I would have done with myself then, I might have just spontaneously combusted out of pure excitement.

Anyway, everyone watching the golf thought Phillip was a lock to take the trophy as soon as he made that charge on the back nine. Johnny Miller was doing his best Brad Curry imitation however, jumping on that Mickelson bandwagon just in time to curse him into a three-putt from about six feet on 17. Like Lil’ Flip it was Game Over from there on out. But I gotta give credit to Retief takin the title, he made four or five huge 10-20 footers in a row on the back nine. He won that title with his putting, he deserved his second title. And I don’t want to hear a bad word about my man Duval – he is too gangsta to even care what he shot. He’ll win another major within two years. It may be an X-Games major – but it will be a major.

Next Up, Baseball
I just saw on ESPNews that Gagne saved his 81st straight game – who cares. MORE important by about 1000x the D-Rays just won their 11th game in a row. I need to get on hatworld.com yesterday and get that D-Rays hat sent to my doorstep.

In real news, the Angels fell off as predicted and the A’s were there to capitalize. My Oaktown boys have risen to the top like they always do and they currently rest behind only the Yanks and Red Sox in the race for best record in the AL. They will end there of course and face off with the Sox again in the first round of the playoffs. This time hopefully there will be no choke of the 2-0 lead they will take in the series.

As I was drudging through the rumors section of ESPN insider (big ups to B-Curry) I saw that Barry Zito was one of the “big names” on the list of possible trades as we approach the deadline. This is FANTASTIC news. I have been lobbying for them to move Barry ever since he won the Cy two years ago. He is clearly the third of the big three pitchers, and I wouldn’t mind going with Harden and Blanton – or even Redman if the A’s can get a real hitter for him. And you know they could cause his stock is huge in MLB for some reason. I say trade him while you can get a big name hitter in return. Eventhough I’m not a big Beltran fan, I would like to see the A’s pick him up right now. He would seem to be the best available player out there that the A’s could handle – unless they pick up Sweeney instead from the Royals.

On the fantasy front I just got turned down when I offered another owner Chipper Jones for Oliver Perez and Nate Robertson. I was shocked. Did anyone ever think Nate Robertson would be a deal breaker. She told me she wouldn’t make the trade because of Nate Robertson? I thought I was in an alternate galaxy. Anyway, it turned out much better as she counter-offered with Oliver Perez and Manny Ramirez for Andruw and Chipper Jones. I made that decision in about half a second and all of a sudden my hitting just got a huge bump. I really don’t need Perez but he can ride pine and develop while Manny gives me the hitting help I was seeking. Don’t bother asking me how my team is doing, I don’t even check the league enough to know what place I’m in. If any of you have been in fantasy baseball with me before you’ll recognize this trend. I am WAY too lazy to put up with a 162 game season of fantasy baseball.

Time to hit the Hardwood
I hardly even know where to start. The Lakers were abused in so many different ways I barely had time to absorb it all and fully enjoy it. I’ll readily admit that after game 2 I thought the Pistons were gonna be in trouble. I mean come on, Kobe hits a miracle three that ends up crushin Detroit’s heart in OT. I thought for sure Papa Stern was takin this to the Kings/Lakers game six level of only a few years ago – and the Flakes would take the series in 7. But Nay!

I grossly underestimated the strength of the one and only B-Curry. As most of you know Brad jumped on that Laker Bandwagon like every other fan they currently have – but about five years later than the rest of em. Anyway, just like the Clippers, Kings and Spurs before them the Lakers fell victim to being cheered on by Brad. As of now there is no documented proof of a team that Brad has actually rooted for winning a series. Some point to the Spurs beating the Lakers last year, but I cant quite give him credit for that as he was focusing most of his energy on a Kings victory over the Mavs – which of course led to Chris Webber tearing his knee and the Mavs in the Conference finals.

Anyway, it was great to see people like Kobe, Shaq and good ol’ Karl “I will do anything for a ring” Malone getting the short end of the stick in the NBA finals. I thank David Stern for not ruining my life and letting the Lakers take another ring to L.A. It was great to see my man Tay take home a title and remind the rest of the NBA in the process that they should have drafted him. However, not so fast my friend, you aren’t exactly Melo or Dwayne Wade. You make some good plays every once in a while and drop 20 points about once a month – but you aint headed to the hall yet. Keep your game tight and then run that lip. Secondly, is there anyone who you’d love to see win a title more than Sheed – of course not. My boy had been in need of a ring forever, and you know NO ONE in the NBA front offices or referee headquarters wanted him to win one. But Sheed did his damn well best to bring that title to D-Town and that he did. One love for the man Brad credits with the best Bum-beard in the NBA.

”The World’s Sport”
Most of you don’t care, but this is EURO 2004 damnit so we will touch on soccer for just a few words. We’re playin for the EURO title in Portugal this year, so it only seemed fitting that they played the opening goal against a week opponent like Greece to open the festivities. Portugal is a top 5 or 6 team in the world, so it wasn’t out of question that they could take a three or four goal victory over the Greeks to open play in Group A. But WOW I say. The Greeks SHOCK the home crowd and knocked off Portugal 2-1 to open EURO 2004. This is a tremendous upset. Unless Zeus was in net there was no way anyone won money on this matchup. Group play proceeded on with Greece ADVANCING no lessn after they managed to pull off a tie with Spain. Portugal recovered from the upset with two wins, the second of which sent Spain back home without even a trip to the quarterfinals. It was seen as a lock that Spain and Portugal would move on out of this group. Whoever gets to see Greece in the quarters gets a free pass into the semis -- enjoy it.

In Group B action England matches up with Croatia today in the final round of group play while Switzerland squares off with France. England is a point ahead of Croatia in the standings so if the Croats cant defeat England they’re headed home as well. France simply needs a tie to advance but will likely run over Switzerland anyway. The big game in this group took place on day two of the tourney as France stole a victory from England 2-1. England led 1-0 late as David Beckham stepped to the mic for a PK that would likely put the game out of reach. However, Beckham left the ball near the middle of the goal and French keeper Fabian Barthez made the save to keep the French within one. Zidane took over from there, scoring twice in stoppage time to give France a fantastic comeback win. It looks however like England and France will both still advance, with France seeing Greece in the quarters and England having to face home nation Portugal – so goodbye to the Brits in the quarters.

Group C is the site of controversy with only two games left to play. The Italians are bitching as usual, complaining that Sweden and Demark are going to play to a 2-2 tie on purpose, which would advance them both and leave Italy out in the cold no matter what they do to Bulgaria. But had Italy done better than tied Denmark or Sweden in the first place then they wouldn’t be in this little mess in the first place. Shut your mouths and go home. I hope Sweden and Denmark do screw you.

My boys seem to have dug themselves quite a hole in Group D. Germany has found themselves in some shit after only managing a tie with a weak Latvia squad. Now with only a one point lead over the Netherlands (who face Latvia next) it seems as if Germany will have to defeat the Czech Republic to advance to the quarters. On name alone this doesn’t sound too tough. But the Czechs are 2-0 so far, and defeating the Netherlands is quite a victory to have under their belt. This will be no easy task as Germany has looked horrible in recent weeks.

Here are my predictions for the rest of the tournament.
Quarterfinals:
Portugal over England
France over Greece
Germany over Sweden
Czech Republic over Denmark

Semifinals:
Portugal over Germany
France over Czech Republic

Finals:
Portugal over France

Now to the Ice
Please, you know we don’t do hockey in this blog. Next time we talk about Ice in the sports section it will be either snowing at a football game or Olympic curling.

Wilmbledon Time
One of only two tennis tournaments that I actually care to watch – along with the U.S. Open. However, I will not be giving you kids a full preview of the event. I will simply offer my pick of Roddick as the champ. I like Federer a lot, but Roddick’s serve has been completely out of control lately, as big servers often take the title at the All England Club.

And now, The Vegas
If you made it through the 2000+ plus words which preceded this section you deserve to read every word of the trip to Vegas that me, rasch, zack, touch and hardocore made. This could be done in little under a million words if donce correctly, but for the sake of time and energy I will trim this to only the finest of the highlights for you kids.

Tuesday, 11:40 a.m.
Tony touches down at the Las Vegas airport, already drunk after a few drinks on the plane. It takes us about a half hour just to get Touch’s bags and get rollin as his drunk ass stumbles around the baggage claim like a mouse lookin for cheese in a maze. Anyway, as we’re rollin out the airport we walk right past the master of the ankle lock himself – Ken Shamrock. The man, the myth, the legend was in town for his fight with Kemo coming up (well I guess yesterday) but it was coming up at the time. Shamrock is incredible to see in person. The man looks like he could break me in half with two or three of his fingerse. Tony’s drunk self steps right up and starts rappin wit him for a minute or two. I stand in awe wondering how often he makes the short flight from Vegas to San Francisco to hit up BALCO.

Tuesday, 7:30 p.m.
By now the Lakers are beyond done and the Rasch is hittin the bottle to pretend it isn’t happening.

Tuesday, 9:50 p.m.
The Rasch calls my cell phone asking where I am, we were sposed to meet at Bellagio. I had yet to leave Mandalay and told him to just meet me at Luxor in ten minutes, he says he’ll be there. About an hour later I call Mike back wondering where he is as I watch the roulette wheel bleed me away – needless to say his phone is off. After a few more hours of gambling and drinking I head up to bed at about 4 a.m. still not hearing a word from the Rasch. By now I’ve determined that he either:
A) Has been arrested
B) Managed to get kidnapped
C) Drown himself in the Bellagio fountains

At 5:30 we are woken up by a blacked out Rasch entering the hotel room as the rest of us have already passed out. All he can manage to say is “Oh I got stories!” Sadly, none of them end up with him being arrested. Apparently he managed to flush all his money down the drain on roulette while in a drunken rage post-Laker death. After losing every dollar he had he met Tony at Bellagio and managed to beg 25 dollars out of him. He heads straight back to roulette and places that 25 bucks on red – WHAM! It hits, and Rasch has 50 bucks. He takes this 50 dollars to the Bellagio Blackjack tables and emerges SEVEN HOURS later with 200 dollars – and is quite proud. This story will be part of his life for the rest of time.

Wednesday, 5 p.m.
The party begins at Caesar’s palace but before you know we it we have somehow made our way over to the Venetian. I don’t exactly remember transferring casino’s, but I definitely remember the craps table at the V. Me and T-Touch roll up into the Craps scene in all our loud ass splendor as usual. We quickly make friends with some 55 year old dude from Georgia – who might actually be as drunk as us. I am head to toe in Canes gear, and Touch is runnin’ on and on about his boys from BAMA, so the man goes off about his Dawgs – and within a half hour I’m pretty sure he wanted to adopt us. A short time later two other guys from Georgia come to pick up our homie for dinner, but he talks his wife into 10 more minutes at the table before they head to the buffet. At the same time this one cat rolls up with his girlfriend and starts spittin madness about FSU as soon as he sees my gear. I have no words for this man, just five fingers – one for each victory the canes have had over FSU in the last four years. This was easily the best night of the trip as the craps table was overrun by me, tony, and every other college football lovin man in the Vegas area. We had people reppin Bama, Miami, FSU, Ohio St., Georgia and Tennessee all within an hour. After the dice begin to run cold me and touch head back to the Luxo to pass out for two hours and rally again at midnight – this plan was fantastic.

Those are just a few of the stories collected from the first trip to Vegas since we’ve all been 21. But there will be many more trips to come, just pray to god that you get to join in on the next one.

Headin Back Down South
As early as tomorrow I may be headin back down to San Diego for a while. I have my new apartment on Friday at 9 a.m. which will be mine alone so that is nice. But I may start moving things down sooner into my old apartment so I can make the transition into the new one even faster. I don’t start summer school until late July, but I need to find a job now that I’m gonna be livin there. The plan is to deliver pizza for as many hours that they’ll give me, and then find another job to fill in whatever hours that I can. I need money like Tyrone needs crack, so let’s hop that I can lock up a job/jobs as soon as possible. And when school starts in late July – YICK – no one should have to take summer school.

But I am definitely ready to head back to San Diego for a bit. There is never anything to do in Alta Loma, so two weeks here is definitely enough for a single dose. Now that I’m 21 there’s a lot more to do in San Diego, and most of the people I know from school are staying in SD for the summer too, so it will be goin down in the D for the rest of the summer most likely.

Alright kiddies, this is the longest entry in the history of the AL blog game to date. I don’t want to hear any complaints about not enough blogging from you kids for a while now, cause I know most of you aren’t even gonna read trhough all of this in the first place.. And Tran, don’t try to tell me that the record is actually 10,000 cause we don’t count confessions as blogging around here – this is blog wordage ONLY. Step it up and try to knock me off the top of the mountain any time, I’m always here.

Brad, all I have to say is – 3,352

FLIP FLIP FLIP

Show em my ATO

2004-06-11T01:25:00.000-07:00

It's a Celebration, Enjoy yo Self
School is out, done, finished (like the Lakers). Today was a beast of a final day. After an all night session in the squared circle (till about 2am) I rose for the 8am genetics final. Pack a lunch, that was a bad boy. I emerged from the class about an hour and a half later with a rectum big enough for a beach ball to fit into. Then I headed for Jiffy Lube to prepare for my comm final. After gettin the oil changed i head to the brary for three hours of studying for comm. Me and brad had about a five minute chat and timestamps tell us that it ended at 11:38. Well I put my head down to rest for a minute and when i picked it back up it was 2:15. Brilliant. So I end up gettin about 30 mins of studying and still feel as if I did very well on that final. But onto more important matters.

The Comm final was from 3-6 in the afternoon. I finished in 85 mins, so as I'm walking out at 4:30 i see my boy Dave walkin in, lookin cool as a cucumber. The following discussion takes place:

Me: Dave, homie why you gettin here at 4:30? Shit started at 3:00?
Dave: Yah I know.
Me: So do i need to repeat the question?
Dave: I figure the test is only gonna take me 90 mins.
Me: So why not just show up at 3 and be done like me now...and out of school BEOTCH
Dave: Nah, I do my best work when the clock is tickin down on me. I need to be under the gun.
Me: ::shakes head and walks away::

Flake Show
Lemme just say to all you Laker fans out there, and especially you Brad, well damn done. Great effort, awesome teamwork, good movement on offense. How many times did they show a disgruntled Kobe "not getting the ball." I think 30-40 clips...how bout moving. In ANY of those clips did you see him doing anything other than holding his hand up? No. Bitch move off the ball if you want to be open. Go to the hall of fame and rent the tapes of Reggie, he will teach you shit you cant even imagine off the ball. Hell, watch Rip in the same game as you, he owns the tapes of Reggie.

Anyway, this series is one miracle minute from bein 3-0 Pistons and the world is in shock. Did anyone really think the Pistons had a chance in the series? I didnt. But now that they are controlling every game lemme just use a line i've been holding for about three months (in preparation for the Pacers winning the title).

I aint seen the JV beat up on the Varsity like this since Mighty Ducks 3.

Damn, you people have NO idea how much i enjoy that line. Sometimes I surprise even myself.

Vegas Countdown
In just four more days we head to THE VEGAS as Nathan Wayne Willborn loves to call it. So far it's still just Rasch, Tony and Me...wait, "just," shit who else is there that matters? If Hardcore ends up makin the trip Vegas and the Luxor will definately regret our stay. Believe that.

Interesting sidenote:
The list of flakes (mikey, nate, zack, john) actually outnumbers those attending. How can the rest of you come up with such useless excuses for not coming like summer school and "work" (mikey). Touch is flyin out from BAMA-TIME for the occasion. Nut up and make the trip, stop bein bitches.

World Poker Tour
That would be the second week in a row i've picked the winner of the final table, thank you. Yah I wasnt exactly going out on a limb taking Gordon, but still, the man took down the title. That last hand was fantastic. As soon as the Ace hit Phil was golden.

The most important part though was the hand where Masad raised with AJ suited to 50k, then Phil made it 300,000k right behind him with 99. Moneymaker, on the big blind moves all in with AQ suited. Now Phil claims to have thought Moneymakeer was making a move on him and would have called if Masad didn't. HOWEVER, I have no doubt that Moneymaker actually thought he had the best hand, and wasn't trying to put a move on Phil. Either way he lost the pot and the tournament to Gordon. Good win.

Next week is Cruisin Mexico, buckle up for a final table and a half. Lindgren, Nguyen, Neagreanu and more. Eventhough it's limit it should be exciting to watch. This is the only limit tourney you'll see on the WPT so get it while you can.

Sorry kids, that's all for today's update.

Show em my ATO!

2004-06-09T21:55:00.000-07:00

I Got that Itis

First of all, lemme just say, I KNOW that none of you littles understand this title -- me and Brad are residents of another level in this blog game. So study up and the first person to comment with what this title means will get mentioned in the next blog entry.

Anyway, the thing this actually has to do with is the end of school. Tomorrow I have a genetics final at 8am and a Comm final at 3pm. As soon as those classes end, it's a celebration cause school is OUT. So send me your well wishes cause tomorrow is gonna be a doosy.

Big Puse Dog

My man Jeff Pusey's life is being taken over by V-Unit. The kid wants to be involved with everything V-Unit related in this world. Today we're talkin about V-Unit as usual when he hits me with, "I wanna get jumped into that gang."

Jeff is a classic.

Raschmaker

Mike has phoned in to report that he was indeed in tears at that Laker game last night. Personally, I believe Stern is a puppetmaster and the entire NBA is just on strings. The guy puts on a production worthy of Broadway. And if you believe these games are legit you are an idiot. But anyway Mike tells me that
A) He wants to have Kobe's children
B) When Kobe hit that shot he picked up Casey and nearly threw him down the aisle.

As difficult as I see it for Mike to have children, Casey is a large child, and I think B is therefore more difficult.

World Poker Tour

Tonight's episode is the Bay 101 Shooting Star, Moneymaker and Phil Gordon at the final table. If you think anyone at the table has a chance to win other than these two you are officially an idiot. I'll take Philly over Moneymaker in the final two.

And how bout some love for my boy Laak last week. My man took down the title and was giving Rock like entertainment. I wasnt happy that Juanda went out third, since I wanted him vs. Laak heads up. But Laak vs. Humberto was a complete circus, and everyone loved that.

That is all for now, dont have time for a full update. Tune in for a real update on Friday -- mostly likely 2k or more...you hear that JAMES!

Show em my ATO!

2004-06-08T19:32:00.000-07:00

I do it for the Kids
I REALLY dont have time to be bloggin it up right now, seeing as I have my genetics and Comm finals on Thursday. But damnit, it's the begging from people like James that keeps me out here bloggin along. And the fact that I havent posted since Saturday, so you deserve one by now. Along the same lines i deserve a comment from Nick by now. How can you grace David and Brad but not me? KIng of all blogs, hook me up father. Let me read your immortal words so that I can blog toward more of your needs in the future!

One, Two, Three, Fo, FIF
The Philosophy Final aka LOTR pt. IV was an absolute epic. I think all of us left the room feeling like Katelyn Faber on that morning. I heard one kid on the phone as he walks out of the room saying, "well I dont think he can fail everyone in the class, so I should pass." But as usual the line of the day goes to myself.

My friend John and I are walkin out of class and he says, "so when exactly did you know you were screwed? What question were you on?"

"One, Two, Three, Fo, FIF....FIF"

If I have to explain that you are no longer welcome to read this blog.

The Lightning Won the Stanley Cup
That's your hockey mention of the month, tune in for more next month.

The Heel Turn of a Lifetime
If you thought Hulk Hogan scrapping the Red and Yellow for the Black and White of the NWO was shocking then pack a lunch, cause i've got a much more horrendous story to tell -- BROTHER!

Our very own B-Curry has gone from Laker hater to Laker lover right in front of our very eyes. I ever had him to declare to me yesterday that Kobe was the best player in the league, and that Shaq can pretty much own the Pistons all series if he wants to. But the highlight of the conversation had to be when La Roca told me, "man my placentia was purple and gold."

I nearly fell out of my chair.

NCAA College Baseball Playoffs
We are down to 16 in the NCAA baseball playoffs. It's time for best 2-of-3 super regionals to see who makes the CWS. My boys are matched up with Florida, playing the series in Coral Gables. Meanwhile, my boy Dreamweaver pitched his team past Stanford and into the Super Regionals as well, where they will host Arizona. Sadly, Witchita State lost back-to-back games at Arkansas to get eliminated...though that does leave six SEC teams in the final sixteen, that's pretty damn good.

Lacrosse
Tom, are you serious? I pray not.

LOTR Paper
If any of you caught the special prayer that Brad wrote for my LOTR paper, well that shit worked. I came out like a champion with a B+ on that bad boy -- which accounts for 50% of our grade. I'm very pleased with this.

School is out Thursday
I finish up with finals on Thursday at 6pm and then will pack and head for the AL. Expect a solid update on Friday to make up for the crappy ones you will get tomorrow and thursday.

Check the Time
That's right James, look at the post time. I always come through.

Remember kiddies, I do it for you!

Show em my ATO!

2004-06-05T23:53:00.000-07:00
The Hall of Fame Opens it's Doors
La Roca y yo have seen many fantastic posts on the various blogs lately and we feel obligated to create a pantheon for them to remain in for the rest of history. So kiddies, fasten your seatbelts, and pray that one day...ONE DAY...one of your many useless posts will be lucky enough to squeeze itself into the Hall of Fame...

The Hall of Fame

Finals Week
Finals begin on Monday, so dont expect many lengthy posts between now and Friday. But after that...you will see five digits in your futures.

I Got That Mud Butt
Thanks alot Ranchero Chicken Soft Taco at Taco Bell. But DAMNIT you tasted great. It is well worth it.

I Remember When it was Just 'Hey-Ho'
J-Lo is back in the news. I know what you're thinking, "what is she back with that fool Affleck again?" Well, as my boy C-Murphy would say, "Wrong...........Wrong." J-Lo has not reunited with Matt Damon's bitch, she's managed to marry Marc Anthony.

J-Lo and Marc Anthony Marry

Show em my ATO!

2004-06-04T22:57:00.000-07:00
You Just Got Juiced!
Lemme set the scene for ya...
Paul Pierce and Ricky Davis are chillin at the club after game four of the first round sweep from the Pacers. Ricky disappears to the bathroom for a second and comes back and tells P-squared that one of his boys was askin about him. Paul heads to the bathroom where three cats are waitin for him with steak knives (again). Apparently a playa has been set up.

One dude holds Paul down while the second explains to him, "yo jacket aint gonna save you this time playa"

Just as the biggest of the three pulls out the knife and is ready to stab Paulie all the way into the Euro leagues...

O.J. Simpson jumps out of one of the stalls -- "SUPRISE MUTHAFUCKA YOU BEEN JUICED"

Now of course your first thought is, whoa i'm in a room with O.J. and knives...where is the nearest exit! But secondly, who the hell would give O.J. a reality show? Who wants to get punked by OJ?

The Breakdown

Last Lectures
Today was Friday of tenth week for many of us quarter system folks, which means we're down to just finals now. Send us your best wishes please.

Championship Effort
Stay Tuned to J-Tran's blog tonight/tomorrow morning the man is attempting to set a modern day mark of 10,000 words composed in a single night. This is simply epic, and I apploud the effort whole heartedly.

On the other hand, B-Curry phoned in to report that he stayed at the Library until nine o'clock tonight only to read three pages (yes, 3, not 300) and he did no blogwork either. Terrible effort.

You are Not Fifty Cent
If any of you read Tom Tran's blog perhaps you were thinking this too. You dont build a rep by trying to call out other people the entire time. Carve out your own niche and show your own skills please. I feel like Ja Rule, stop talkin shit and try to rap son.

mini-update
That's all for now. I am exhausted after that LOTR paper from yesterday. Possibly will add more to this later, but I wanted to squeeze this much out at least right now while I had the energy.

Show em my ATO!

2004-06-04T11:12:00.000-07:00
Willis Reed . . . Who is Willis Reed?
(No that will never get old Pedro)
Anyway, that is the question people will be asking twenty years from now. In the future when someone is hurt and they nut up the strength to pull through and make it through the game we will no longer say “Damn he done pulled a Willis Reed,” from here on out you’ll hear all the kids sayin “Homie pulled a Akshay Buddiga!”

Who is Akshay Buddiga you ask? Only a thirteen year-old with the testicular fortitude of a Mick Foley taking a 20-foot drop off a steel cage and thru a cardboard table onto the concrete floor. I dare not even try to tell the story of Akshay’s greatness through my own words. I ask that you just follow the link and feel the greatness through the actual story. Pack a lunch, this is too real for me.

Big Poppa Akshay

There wont be no more beef, It’s all about Viet-na-Mees

Yah I know Brad beat me on this story, but that doesn’t mean his blog has fresher news than mine. I had simply posted yesterday’s stuff before I saw this video. Anyway, this video is HILARIOUS.

The whole concept is great
They ride in civics and neons
They roll like twenty deep like they Ruff Ryderz

Some of these lyrics are outta control:
“Drop you to the ground, like ducks from Nintendo”

This is too good to be true, peep if for yourself:
Viet Vid

Pacers makin moves
There’s an AP article today which talks about Rick Carlisle expecting the Pacers to make some moves with the roster in the offseason (shocking). BUT. The article is focused on Al Harrington, basically saying that they’ve got to move him because he wants to be a starter. Here’s a fantastic idea…MAKE HIM A STARTER. Trade Artest’s useless ass for McGrady – NOW. Artest and Bender for McGrady, the Magic could not turn this down. Tinsley, McGrady, Harrington, JO and Foster as the starting five – See ya in the finals bitches.

LOTRpaper.doc
I just finished my epic philosophy paper, worth a full 50% of my Philosophy grade. We’ll see how the grade comes out, but it definitely went better than I thought. Tune in for results to come…

Alright kids, just a mini-update today. I wasted 2,041 good words on that philosophy paper, so you cant expect much out of me today. I’ll be back up to par tomorrow. Here’s a quote from Tron to tide you over a little:

“Hey white boy, what’s the square root of this room?”

Show em my ATO!

2004-06-02T18:08:00.000-07:00

A Special Treat Today Kids

Easy Ways to Waste Time
Since none of us who are in the quarter system have a single moment to waste right now, I thought the best thing I could do for you all was try to provide you with some fine tips on wasting time.

I begin with some fascinating reading -- some would say begging – of a true Kobe hater asking Kobtich to join his squad next year…truly disgusting, I vomited three different times in just a few paragraphs.
www.ByGawd.com

Next, I offer up what proves to be hours of good fun. All of us love the sound of Uncle Chap’s voice, so I link up for you a sound board – sometimes I do to much for you kids, but it’s only because I truly care.
Chappy Sounds

Finally, if you’re up for some Stephen King style fiction check out Kyle’s blog and read today’s post. He’s managed to convince himself that he is solely in control of choosing the team what will win the world series (and he has past history to prove it).
www.KyleMiller.net

It’s Too Real For Ya
Okay, so I missed Real World last night and only caught about half of the rerun today – but I got the gist of it – FRANKIE IS GONE! Thank the good lord she has finally left the show. And Brad and Randy as Mario and Luigi for Halloween – could these two get any better? But the part I missed was next week’s preview, the Rasch informs me they got a letter about a new roommate? I am in SHOCK? Will this be WWE style – “your new roommate is….ANDREA” or “and here comes the new roommate….ADAM”…this could go so many ways. It cant just be a random person, that they are adding like they were the alternate in the Royal Rumble. Please believe I will be glued to the screen next week.

Chaptacular
Chappelle was amazing last night. Him and Greer Barnes were both high as shit and hilarious as can be. It was completely outta control and actually it was much better than the Chris Rock show I attended in February. Just to hear Dave’s voice is GREAT! Here is one of the better jokes paraphrased.
“…so I went to my high school and talked to the kids. You know the people wanted me to come and give back to the kids and show them that they can do what I did and make it out of the ghettho. So I went and gave my little speech and let em know what school will do for em. I told them kids straight up, ‘I told them kids straight up, you need to stop blaming everyone else for your poblems, you need to focus, and you better learn to rap or play basketball or something! Ya’ll muthafuckas are TRAPPED!! “

Another classic was Greer talking about his playing in an all Jewish bball league as a kid, and lemme just say his voice impressions are amazing.

Live from the set of LOTR
Today was the second to last lecture in Philosophy class and the last day before the term paper is due, so the hobbits were in fine form today. Since we’ve been “taught” everything that we are to learn so far it’s down to pretty much discussing what we think of it now. The hobbits show up just begging to get called on and spit their mind – get a life, take a shower, comb your damn hair.

Please Make a Trade
Not only do the A’s already have no hitting, but now Chavez is on the DL? If I could afford the postage I would go ahead and mail it in for the season. Luckily I am poor so I will have to ride it out. I’m thinking Carlos Beltran would look nice in center though…and I trust Billy to make a deal, he always makes a few.

Today’s Poker Update
Tonight’s episode of the WPT is the WPT Invitational at Commerce Casino. My favorite player, Phil Laak is at the final table. Just wait till you see my man in action, he is outta control. That is how I roll when I play poker, which is barely any lately since school is takin over my life. Tune in and root for my boy, hopefully he can take it down. It’s only like a $100,000 first prize, but when it’s an Invitational freeroll you cant beat that.

Scratch that, I just saw John Juanda is also at the table. My TWO favorite players…GOOD GOD. I will pull for Phil to beat John in the final two.

A Heel Turn Coming
I am working on something at the moment that is highly risky, but I am a champion and I will get it done. Do not ask questions, names will not be released so as to protect the innocent.

The Following is not Suitable
for Children Under the Age of 18
If you are the least bit queasy, do not read on kids.

Anyway, this story takes place on Tuesday afternoon, right after my 12:30-2:00pm class. After already having some foul things going on in my intestines I can’t shoot down the craving for a greasy chicken quesadilla – obviously this was a mistake. So I munch that right down and immediately the fiery lava starts flowin in my stomach.

At about 3:20 I’m faced with a decision, do I go to the library before my next class at 3:30, or do I try to hold it. Normally I would just head to the sixth floor, my favorite bathroom on campus, and do the damn thing – but today felt different. The senses were keen and told me that this was no ten minute job. I decide that I definitely am going to need the home court advantage and hold it thru the class.

Lemme tell you that was the longest eighty minutes OF MY LIFE. I was bustin some mad ass in class. We were showin a movie and it was dark, so I was like a stealth bomber dominating the Middle East. After class I jet to the Green Whorenet and we make like lightning down the 5, hit the 8 and I’m home in twenty minutes.

I get to the crib and find my way to the toilet in about half a second. This was like something out of the movie Twister. I had to put boards over the windows and tie down everything in the room.

I thought you all would enjoy that story.

That’s all for now, there may be an add to this later tonight.

Show em my ATO!

p.s. Brad -- 1088

2004-06-01T11:24:00.000-07:00
A Special Treat Today
Sometimes I think I spoil you kids too much with all these updates, but as long as the comments keep on comin, I’m glad to keep it rollin. Anyway, I just turned in my genetics paper and need to unwind, so you children luck out and I will spend my entire hour long break before my next class on this update – pack a lunch.

Do My Eyes Fail Me?
As I walked in the library no more than three minutes ago, what do I see walking out? None other than a kid wearing a Pacer hat! As I do a doubly, nay, triple take to make sure it was in fact the golden P I saw on his hat I ask myself, “have I ever seen another Pacer hat being worn, not just on a rack?” I believe not. This is the equivalent of seeing someone selling weed on the campus of BYU, you just don’t see this.

Chap Chap Chap
The countdown is finally at zero. I see Uncle Chap at 7 p.m. tonight right here on the campus of UCSD. He will be appearing with Greer Barnes, who Kyle assures me is quite funny himself. However, I would be much happier if I lucked out like Brad, who got special guest Nick Cannon when he saw Chappy a week ago in Ontario. I mean come on, we all know that “Nick Cannon is hilarious.”

It’s a Marathon, Not a Sprint
My man B Curry flew out the gate yesterday with an 880 word blog update. We have seen this before from Brad in blogging competitions. He comes out strong for about three days and then disappears like Elian Gonzalez’ raft in the Bermuda Triangle. But who am I to hate, I usually pull the same shit. Anyway, Brad, if you’re out there (and I know you are cause neither of us has anything better to do than read each other’s blogs) you can’t hang with me on the blog tip – tap out.

Sam Cassel is Hilarius
Did the rest of ya’ll hear SC Phone Home (Brad Curry, Alta Loma High School, 1998) yappin about how if he wasn’t hurt the T-Wolves would be playin for the title in the finals? Well if you didn’t here’s a quote for ya:

"It's difficult," Cassell said as he trudged to the team bus. "Because I know for a fact that if I [were] healthy, we'd be moving on to the next round. No doubt about it in my mind.

"That's easier said than done. But I know it, and I think if you're a true basketball fan, you know it would have been different."

The worst part is, I think Sam is serious. However, note here a tactic he tried to employ in the final sentence. This is often used by Rasch, and is a sign of a weak argument. He manages to tie together being a true basketball fan with the idea that the series would have been different. This is a form of reverse psychology. Rasch will say stuff like, “Mikey, you’re a smart guy, you know that …” So of course it must be right, or else you’re not a smart guy right? Wrong….Wrong. It’s a horrible way to try to win an argument, idiots. I move on now.

Secrest...err Serena, OUT
Serena Williams got dropped by J-Cap in three sets today in the quarterfinals of the French Open. Normally, I would settle for this and be happy…but wait! Predator goes down in straight sets as well! This is too much, I can’t take it, I don’t know what to do with this happiness.

It’s That Time Again
Week 10 is rockin’ and rollin’, and if you’re in the quarter system you’re feelin the brunt of it’s pain. Pusey, Brad, Rasch, and the millions – AND MILLIONS – of this blog’s fans are tryin to finish this week as best we can, send us your help.

I Can’t Watch
No seriously, I can’t, like I said before I’m going to Chappelle tonight. Hopefully Stern will be on the phone like he was last night but with a better result. If he can get the East Finals to a game seven I think the Pacers can pull it out. But can he do it? Of course not. At least I wont have to see my boys go down in flames. Jamaal is dyin with that torn hammy, JO is playin on a sprained knee, Artest might miss the game because of a migrane headache … that’s interesting I get migranes every time he takes the ball on the offensive end and creates these isolation plays for himself like he’s Michael Jordan. It’s not gonna be a pretty sight.

Here’s a side note, For all of you who watched the Spurs/Lakers series. After game two the NBA “people in the know” were just about ready to take Tony Parker’s jersey to the Hall of Fame and have his shoes bronzed as he had become the greatest point guard ever to touch the hardwood. Then this funny thing happened. He got beat the hell up. The Lakers got physical with him in game three and he evaporated for the rest of the series – Lakers win in six. Artest if you’re listening (to me not the voices in your head) take note. Rip Hamilton plays with a broken nose! Hit that bitch real hard the first time he comes in the lane and he’ll never do it again. He’s the ONLY offensive threat for the Pistons!

Quite a Twosome
As I walked from class to the library I noticed some sort of rally goin on with a politician of some sort talking about rising costs of tuition. Anyway, the important part was the five people behind him who had apparently all given mini-speeches in support of his ideas. Who do I see seated right next to each other, none other than Ariana Huffington and Randy Jackson. I wonder if they tried to talk to each other. I don’t know what language Ariana speaks, but it fo damn sho ain’t English. And Randy, well he is whiter than Simon Cowell but still tries to speak ebonics to all the contestants on American Idol. Just thought that was interesting.

Quote of the Day
On my way to school this morning Rome unleashes this classic take regarding Raul Mondesi signing with the Angels:
“This sets a horrible precedent. Now any major leaguer unhappy with his contract can just concoct some story about the Dominican Tom Emansky trying to squeeze them for a little cash, and get right out of their deal”

Dominican Tom Emansky! Classic!

Your Welcome
That was an epic update, you kids better appreciate it. And Brad, just so you know – 1132 words.

2004-05-31T16:56:00.000-07:00
RIP -- Rest In Peace
Pacers lost game five at home, aka the series. There will not be a return trip to Conseco for a game seven. Not with Jamal playin on a torn hammy and JO rockin a sprained knee. Anytime you need to lean on Ron Artest on the offensive end you know you're in trouble.

More importantly, at least there are injuries that i can semi-place the blame on instead of having to just say they got beat by Rip Hamilton. To quote my boy Pedro Martinez, "Rip Hamilton . . . who is Rip Hamilton?"

And this was my random thought of the day. I am trying to get Artest cut from the team for being such a nuisance on offense. But why just cut him when you can trade him. Picture this, Artest and Jonathan Bender for Tracy McGrady. Is it an even trade? Of course not. But Tracy's leavin anyway, so the Magic would die to get an all-star and a young skilled player like Bender. I gotta put in a phone call to Orlando.

Genetics Class
Paper is due at 9:30 a.m. tomorrow morning, I am about to commence actual typing of the paper. Reasearch is near finished, so it's time to get it on. I am taking a small break right now just to tide you kiddies over until i can squeeze in a real update.

Say word you seen Chap tomorrow son
I SEE THAT NIGGA CHAP TOMORROW! 7:00 p.m. at RIMAC (UCSD)....FINALLY.

Prom Date
I tried to tell you all to watch and I pray you did. That girl was drunk as shit in the Limo on the way to the prom. Way to go MTV, let the kids do the damn thang.

SoulPlane
Someone gimme a review so I can save the $8.50 if needed. I still gotta get out to Day After Tomorrow.

The Saga Continues
The Brad, aka La Roca, refuses to ever be shown up by myself. In a feeble attempt to step to my gangsta ass blog he has up-an-copped a fresh ass spot for his own blog. Give him some feedback so he can make it tight.
ByGawd.com

Quote/AIM Chat of the Day
This one may be the winner of the week, not just the day.

As usual, me and the Rasch.
(names were deleted to protect the innocent)

cmills522: and by the way, I be runnin game AIM style, dont try to fucken box out like Benny Wallace
Rasch4lif: now playa... i am up in seattle
Rasch4lif: i don tblock fo shit
cmills522: lol
Rasch4lif: now if i was back in the LA
Rasch4lif: i would be like daddy [shaq]
cmills522: LOL
Rasch4lif: throwing your weak ass game to fourth row
Rasch4lif: WWBND
Rasch4lif: what would buck nasty do
cmills522: LOL

That's all for now, stay tuned.

2004-05-30T11:07:00.000-07:00
What Luck
I woke up promptly at 11:00 this morning to find The Beach playing on Lifetime. Most people hate this movie, I am a fan. I will update post-Pacer game today, but now back to my movie.

2004-05-29T12:09:00.000-07:00
Commenting
Commenting has now been enabled on the site, you're welcome. Don't let me down.

A Rising Star
If you don't watch "Prom Date" on MTV you are missin some shit lemme tell ya. This is basically High School Bachelorette -- and good god it's great. You can't make up some of this stuff that happens.

The Series
Greg Raymer took down the $5,000,000 first prize last night in the world series of poker. He entered the table with the chip lead and quickly added to that with a couple of bad beats. Raymer called an all in with pocket 10s against Michael McCain's pocket Aces and caught a set to knock him out in 9th. Next up Raymer called Mattias Anderson's all in with A10 vs. AK. Raymer got lucky and caught a straight to knock out Mattias in 8th. All told Raymer knocked out seven of the eight players himself (only Dan Harrington fell victim to David Williams).

The final hand came out with a flop of 5-4-2. David Williams bet out 500,000, Raymer raised to 1,600,000 and Williams called. The turn came (5-4-2) 2 and Raymer bet out 2,500,000 which was called by Williams. The river was (5-4-2-2) 2 and Raymer moved all in and was called quickly by Williams holding A-4, for 2's full of 4's. Raymer turned over pocket 8's making 2's full of 8's. The Fossilman takes down a five million dollar first prize and David Williams, a college student at SMU will have to "settle" for just 3.5 million for his efforts.

You are Cold as Ice
What is with the shitty SoCal weather these days? I don't smell lit.

Two Weeks till Vegas
Word on the street is that the golden triangle may turn into a diamond as John Kurtz may be making the trip. Call the hotline for the latest info kids, but remember, always get your parents permission first!

Callin out Names
Please, did you honestly think I wouldn't rip into all the bitches who were tryin to hate on the Pacers? You know I wouldn't let that slide. Pusey, Rasch, Jay, J-City, Garner, Burke, Ricco, the lists goes on and damn on. Read the archives kids, I TOLD YOU the Pacers would lose game three, take game four, and win the series in six...have I missed yet? And by the way, was that game even close yesterday? Detroit is not a homecourt advantage, none, stop praying they will beat the Pacers.

Frankie, the Tribe has Spoken
The commercial for this weeks Real World is fandamntastic! Frankie, OUT, GONE, LEAVING, HOME, OUT, GONE!!! And let the celebration begin, we can get right back into drunken Brad and Randy romps.

2004-05-27T15:34:00.000-07:00
I got 99 problems, but the Pistons ain't one
Stop bothering me, I told you that I conceeded game three before it even started and the Pacers will stin win in six. MAYBE seven, now go away. None of you are Pistons fans anyway.

The resemblance is uncanny
For all of you who want to see a weird ass picture go to Ralph Wiley's column about "The Lakers aren't that good." (Page 2 of ESPN.com) Scroll down to the picture of Malone back in the day, he looks like Ron Artest's twin brother, it's amazing.

Retirement is meant to be broken
If you listen to the radio you've probably heard Mase's comeback song. That's enough about that.

Tick, Tick, Tick
It is thursday of week nine. Smell it my quarter system friends. We are almost done.

Top Five Movies
I was talkin movies with a friend from school yesterday and I gave as my all time top five:
1. Rounders
2. The Game
3. Friday
4. K-Pax
5. Contact

Is this really my top five favorite movies? It can't be, I must be forgetting something. Top two are a lock tho, get off them.

The Series
They play down to the FINAL TABLE today. THere will be a update tonight. Dan Harrington is looking real good as of now.

Comment of the Day will also be added later tonight...

2004-05-26T15:45:00.000-07:00
BREAKING NEWS
Due to high traffic on the blog, it is time to give back to the people. All of you seem to want to comment for some reason or another on what I wrote, so I will now add the comment of the day to my post each day. Submit your comments either to acesfull06@yahoo.com or IM me at cmills522. The comment of the day will be placed in the nightly entry and you will get credit for it as long as you include your name (if i dont already know you).

I ain't trippin, don't bother me
Like I said before, Detroit will win game three and the Pacers will take game four. It's not easy to win the first road game of a series, so I conceded it already. More Importantly, why is Larry Brown wearing all these hockey jerseys in post game press conferences? Steve Yzerman and Martin St. Louis? Oh and eventhough that doesn't directly talk about hockey, that's your hockey mention of the day for today.

What is this garbage?
These "ESPN Shorts"? What the hell is this shit?

The Series
WSOP gets down to 27 players tonight, Jesus and Dan Harrington are the only two World Champions remaining in the field. Doyle got bounced with pocket tens against AJ preflop. Marcel Luske has been up and down every half hour, gotta love that. And as I mentioned after day three, Abe Mosseri as chip leader didn't even survive the day. Neither did Benji Grimes tho, I wasn't pleased about that. Devilfish, after doubling up real early in the day, also made his exit. I will give the final 27 once it's finally decided by the end of tonight.

2004-05-25T22:24:00.000-07:00
Lotta spots goin on.

Stanley Cup Finals
The NHL is still going? When did the playoffs even start? And Gary Bettman needs to step down. Stern would NEVER allow his showcase series to be Tampa Bay vs. Calgary. That's why the NBA is expanding, not disbanding teams. Oh yah, and nobody cares about Hockey in the USA...except the Mighty Ducks (movie not the team).

It's Wally's World
I know they lost the game, but come on Wally was doin the damn thing in the 3rd/4th quarters. My boy was lookin like the Wally of NCAA tournaments of old. That was hot to def, hopefully they can actually turn it into a win next time.

Real World Notes
As usual, NOT ENOUGH Brad and Randy.

This has turned into Frankie's World -- no one cares about you, go home

Frankie's sister is even weirder than her, 1/2 frankie 1/2 down syndrome

Rasch, "I would eat Jamie's Kim-Chi"

Brad trying to encourage Frankie to go home, THAT'S MY BOY

WHOA WHOA WHOA FRANKIE IS ON THE PHONE WITH THE PRODUCER AS I TYPE AND READY TO GO HOME!!!!!!!!!! DO IT DO IT!!!! DON'T TEASE ME!!!!!!!!! GOD HEARS ME!!!!!!!!!!

DAMNIT, the commercial for next week makes it seem like she's staying! GAY!

Homework
I have to get back to the good ol realm of homework, take this mini-update and tide yourselves over until tomorrow. And Gus Hansen and today's beginning chip leader Abe Mosseri are both out of the series by now...along with Seidel, like i said, out before 2:00pm. GOOD NITE NOW!

2004-05-25T10:55:00.000-07:00
Block of the Century
I know it's pretty early, but I've got to think that Tay dropped the block of the century so far last night. I mean come on, the Pistons are going to choke away this six point lead with a minute left, as Daddy is absolutely taking over the game. Who fouls Reggie TWICE within the final minute of the game when you're ahead? Is there a dumber thing you could do. Not only does Pops knock down all four FTs (like he would ever miss) he then has about 13 steps on Tay to tie the game with 20 seconds left, when Tay turns into Batman and uses his 11-foot wingspan to not only block the ball (listen up here Shaq, this is what Bill Walton is always trying to explain to you) but kept it in play. Rip was there to recover the loose ball and that's the game.

But I am not worried of course. The Rancho rec center is a stronger home court advantage than the Palace. The Pacers will prolly grab game four in Detroit, since the team's first home game is a series is usually a win.

Pacers in six...now go away, none of you are actually Pistons fans anyway so I dont know why you're all gettin on my back all of a sudden. Talk to me after game one you did not.

The Series
If you've been following along the Series is outta control. 2,576 people nutted up the 10,200 to get in the Main Event, and after "two" days we are now down to 277 players. Most of the names you people would recognize are gone, but there are still some heavy hitters left in the field. I will attempt to handicap the remaining field now.

1. Abe Mosseri -- 335,300 in chips
A solid pro who has made a WPT final table before. But don't be surprised if he finds his way to the door by the end of Tuesday. Eventhough he's the chip leader 335K is not that big of a stack at this point. With only 277 people left the average stack is right around 94K. I'll go out on a limb and say he's over 500,000 by the end of the day though, because he's played well so far from what I've seen on the first two days.
13. Rose Richie -- 225,400 in chips
One of PrimaPoker's three online qualifiers this girl is rollin. But seriously, she is only being mentioned here because she is one heck of a beast. If she looked at me sideways I would give her all my chips. Find a photo, you'll know what I'm sayin.
20. Julian Gardner -- 202,500 in chips
The 2002 runner-up, which almost is more of a knock than a credit seeing as he got beat by Robert Varkoni heads up, is going really well at this point in the tournament. If he makes another final table he will be real tough to beat. He's young and wild, which probably means he'll be toast as the blinds rise on day three.
21. Marcel Luske -- 201,000
The craziest monkey I've seen since Mad Marty Wilson. If Binion's was the NCAA tournament committee they would put Julian Gardner, Luske and Gus Hansen all at the same table to start day three. Marcel is only the second known human to pull off "The Flying Dutchman" as a nickname (Rick Smits), and the only known person to look good with sunglasses on upside down. This is Europe's best chance to win it all.
50. Dan Harrington -- 142,000 in chips
Playing tight as shit has paid off for Harrington as he's risen steadily over the past two days. This is the kind of person who excels in the middle of a tournament as the blinds rise to large enough amounts to steal. He commands massive respect and can now abuse that to steal blinds and build his stack.
54. Lee Watkinson -- 138,100 in chips
No comment other than that he will make the final table.
58. Doyle Brunson -- 133,300
I'm farily surprised that Doyle is still in this tournament, but I've come up with a theory. I think most of the online people and first timers who show up to play at the tournament are there for the thrill of knocking someone out. Most of them just want to keep taking stabs at the top names like Hellmuth, Ivey, Lederer and Gus to say that they were the one that knocked them out of the big one. But do you want to be the person that knocked Doyle out of the series? I don't think you do. You'd be a heel in the city for the rest of your life. I think people avoid confrontation with Doyle because they don't want to be that person. For this reason I don't see why if he catches some cards he can't make the final table.
64. Chris Ferguson 127,000 in chips
Beware.
69. Gus Hansen 123,100 in chips
YES, my only remaining choice. I lost Chip Jett and Can Kim Hua on day 2 but Gus chipped up well. And come on, he's in 69th place? That's got to be an omen. Gus will see the final nine.
100. Benji Grimes -- 96,800 in chips
A complete amatuer, but I read a mini-story about him and like the guy. Hopefully he gets some TV pub.
120. Neil "Bad Beat" Channing -- 84,300 in chips
The man is a classic, and truly lived up to his nickname yesterday. Lemme paraphrase the interview after his epic hand.
"I hadn't seen a hand in about an hour and a half, and suddenly I look down on the button and see none other than Jack-Six. What luck catching a monster like that. Naturally I raised and for some reason the big blind decided to call with Aces. Well the flop came K66 and he bet and I called. The turn brought a third Diamond and for some reason he moved in on me, that was a mistake. It's not often you catch a monster like Jack-Six, the hand just played itself"
131. David Ulliot -- 77,900 in chips
Interviewer, "David, has it been tough today?"
Devilfish, "Like pickin up match sticks with your ass cheeks."
Need i say more?
149. Juha Helppi -- 68,900 in chips
Does anyone who plays this well look so bad doing it?
208. Robert Boyd -- 44,800
Dutch's little brother and last remaining member of The Crew. I am surprised The Crew outlasted The Hendon Mob, but stop jockin, you are not as tight as The Mob.
Erik Seidel -- 30,700 in chips
Too little chips to have a chance. He will be gone by 2:00pm

OK, now that I see all of this I realize how long it is. If you've made it this far I am proud of you. Stay tuned, more updates to come for the series.

They just put out the table assignments for day three and there are some interesting pairings. These table numbers are not representative of the actual number of tables left.

Table 89 -- Tommy Grimes and J.C. Tran
Table 92 -- Devilfish and James Hoeppner
Table 93 -- Marcel Luske and four other people with 125K plus...buckle up.
Table 94 -- Juha Helppi and Mike Matusow
Table 95 -- Doyle and Rob Boyd
Table 98 -- Abe Mosseri, Brad Pierce and one other guy with 125K. All other at 60k less.
Table 100 -- Neil Channing and three stacks over 200k, someone is catchin a bad beat for a lot of chips.
Table 101 -- Alex Brenes and my boy Benji Grimes.
Table 104 -- Chris Ferguson at a very shortstacked table.
Table 114 -- The stars NEARLY aligned. Julian Gardner and Gus Hansen. Also take note that Dewey Tomko is in the seat to the left of Julian. He may never get to see a hand.

2004-05-23T18:29:00.000-07:00
The crowd is chanting for more (Pusey) and as the true showman that I am -- I offer up another epic blog post...let's get it on!

Gee I've never seen this before
Come on, did any of you think Reggie would miss a shot in the clutch? Of course not. Great One NEVER misses a clutch three pointer. As soon as it left his fingertips that series was 1-0. And Rasheed is guaranteeing a victory next game? Did I miss something or is it still game two of the Eastern Conference finals? This isn't exactly Superbowl III with the Jets goin up against 17 point favorites in the Colts. Get a grip Sheed...and you're not allowed to make guarantees when you only made one shot in the previous game. Pacers in 5.

Lakers/Minny
Spreewell just hit a three to put the Wolves up 47-34. I thought this was a sweep? What is going on here?

And now what you all pay the good money to read about -- 21
The crew of Mikey, Nate, Zack, Me, Abbot, Foster, Ricco and Maren was assembled; and we took to the Mills (named after myself) to takeover Dave and Busters for the night. This proved to be a solid choice.

Like tru thugs we headed straight to swoop some power cards, cause you know gangstas collect tickets like crackheads collect random clothes they find on the street.

There were many epic battles at Pop-A-Shot. Even with drinks in hand I was dominant for nearly the entire night. Somehow -- NO ONE knows what happened -- Nate dropped an 84 on me in a later battle. I believe i witnessed this, but it could just be a clever rouse to play with a drunk man's mind. Either way, in the final battle I was beyond help (and against Mikey, which is as bad as me drunk with both arms behind my back) and we managed to break two glasses as basketballs were flying all around.

We also managed to nut up to skee-ball horseracing, where Nate again proved to be a cheat and a liar. After a close first race, won by a random eight year old, Nate ran away in the second race and beat everyone by "at least seven lengths bitch." Are we really talking lengths in skee-ball horseracing? Good lord. But anyway, a review by the gaming board found that Nate was using two balls -- the equivalent of takin his horse to BALCO for lunch. What a shady bitch.

But Nate's shenanagins don't stop there. With tickets fallin out of my pockets Nate decides to go in for the kill...cause we aint leavin without a major prize. Nate grabs me and tells me we goin for the big money. We head over to one of those stupid ass things where the light is going around in a circle and you have to stop it in the exact right spot to win. I step to the plate first and miss...but still get a nice consolation of six tickets. Nate pushes me aside, drunk as shit, and on his first try JACKPOT 768. At this point I'm tryin to think where I'm gonna buy a house at with all these tickets, and I'm gonna retire. I get down under the ticket dispenser and open my mouth like I'm gettin a golden shower. Needless to say all the women and children were disturbed, very disturbed.

After a ton of drinks (most of which we didn't even get charged for) we broke out at round 1:00. BUT FIRST, time to cash in them tickets. I roll up to the counter and throw em down "How many I got?"

Girlie checks, "1940."

"Lemme get one of those mini basketballs for 400..and then gimme as many chinese finger traps and mini-frisbees as you got!" I end up gettin a grocery bag full of finger traps and mini frisbees. They were only 10 tickets each..so we got a million of em.

That's pretty much what I remember, if you weren't there, you shoulda been. There was no excuse to miss it so I dont want to hear em.

Vegas June 11th-June 17th...oh it will be worse...MUCH worse...join the fun

2004-05-20T15:34:00.000-07:00
FINALLY, the blog HAS COME BACK tto normal posting...maybe

I ain't posted in a minute, but there's a lotta shit goin on, so i felt the need to get my post on.

Get Ready Bitches
Saturday I turn 21 -- next

School
School is deep into week eight and there are only like 13 actual school days remaining, thank god. I can't wait for good ol summer in socal.

Television
I still love you and couldn't live without you.

Vegas
After the all the flakes finally fell from the tree it looks like we're down to the golden triangle -- Me, Rasch and Touch. Special appearance could also be made by the one and only Hardcore. It will be epic children, tune into the blog for a full report after the trip.

The Note
I had a classic note passed to me today in class today, IM for details.

Word of the Day
Today in section my TA is talking about the reading for the week and says to the class, "It would be a good idea to orientate yourself with..."

At this point I am no more than half paying attention to her and somehow manage to think out loud and say "you mean orient."

She of course takes umbridge to me correcting her, but hey, use the English language correctly and I wont have to do this in the future.

That is all for now, odds are i wont post again for another month...but who knows

2004-04-25T14:05:00.000-07:00

It's too real for ya!
Like little cancer-ridden Billy playin PS2 street hoops, the Celtics folded like bitches and got swept outta the first round by the Pacers. Indiana looked dominant throughout the entire series -- not that this surprises me. The Hornets/Heat winner should pose about as much of a problem as the Celtics did for the Pacers. So as I see it, they're in the East finals already, we'll see if they get the Nets or Pistons.

Yankees
Swept today by Boston! The evil empire has lost 6 of 7 to the hated Sox already this season, and are sittin well below .500. Fire Joe Torre! Make some deals! Do something now! I can imagine Big Stein screamin all these things at Cashman, wondering how his 200 million team is chillin right with the 21 million dollar D-Rays in the standings. This is beautiful.

Brain is fried
This week of studyin hardcore is KILLIN ME. I am engulfed in all things genetics and still strugglin to get by for this midterm on Tuesday. I haven't even had a chance to get to Comm and Philosophy in depth yet, that wont be till Tuesday most likely.

NFL Draft
Eli gettin booed out the building was GREAT. He shit on the Manning name and looked like an ass in front of anyone. He looks even more like a loser for being afraid to talk for himself. Everytime he gets interviewed he's got to have Archie or Peyton talk for him and answer the questions. And this fool wants to play in New York? Ha.

Canes ran wild in the first round. Six from Miami in the top 21 picks was insanity. My favorite of them all went #5 to the Skins. I gotta cop a Sean Taylor jersey, him and CP on the same team is off the chains.

Other highlites:
-- Takeo Spikes rockin the Lime Green suit
-- Tommie Harris with the shimmering pink shirt and tie under the pinstriped blazer
-- Tommie Harris' dad dancin
-- Rasch shittin his pants when Reggie went #9 to the Jags
-- The Bills tradin up to get Lohsman, i love this move
-- The Broncos passing on Steven Jackson...huh?
-- The Cowboys passing on Steven Jackson...huh?
-- The Rams taking Steven Jackson...HUH?
-- Harrington, Charles Rogers, Roy Williams, Kevin Jones = Detroit now has an offense
-- Kenechi Udeze rockin the candy cane shirt with his suit, no wonder he dropped so far
-- Michael Irivin tellin Mel that Roy Williams doesn't have the heart to play in the NFL
-- "Did we just draft Webster?", the phone call from Nate when the pack took Ahmad Carrol (5'8")
-- "The Bills need to draft a Shaman", the text i got from Nate when the Bills were on the clock
-- "He's gonna be rockin a Barcelona Fire jersey in three years" Garner talkin bout Rasch who is trying to order a Reggie Williams jersey already
-- "Eli Storms Pennington's Neighborhood" -- the sign some clown held up when the Giants traded for Manning

so many good highlites

and i'm out

2004-04-23T13:09:00.000-07:00

Hide the Women and Children
Finally, I'm back gettin my blog on. It seems that everytime I post (and say that I'm back) I end up doing about two posts and then take a couple weeks off. This is not a difficult activity to do once a day, but I am a champion of laziness, I can do nothing for weeks on end and still be exhausted.

Real World
HIGHLY WACK. I was expecting big things from RW this week. The whole week I have been teased by commercials advertising a confrontation between strange-ass Dave and strange-Ass Adam -- fighting over strange-ass Frankie. But alas, Dave came out to SD and Adam tried to get his stalk on but they never came face to face. What a waste of a half hour. There was ZERO Randy in this episode and about 6 seconds in the beginning of Brad -- I TURN ON THE SHOW FOR RANDY AND BRAD, NO ONE CARES ABOUT ANYONE ELSE ON THE SHOW.

Midterms
The quarter system aint no joke. It feels like I'm just gettin the feel for school back after spring break which was just a month ago. However, it's fourth week up in the quarter system, which means middys are comin right down the alley next week. The schedule reads as such:
Tuesday: Genetics
Thursday: Comm
Friday: Philosophyy

Will I survive? Stay tuned.

StingyMania
In the eyes of the great success StudyMania, StingyMania has now been created as a spinoff to be tested for next season. The Brad and I are both strugglin in the funding area, and have decided to see who can spend the least amount of money between tonight at midnight and next Sunday. Be forewarned young Brad, I will fast for a week and not leave bed just to not be tempted to spend a penny. I will spend less money in the coming week than it would cost you wash a load of laundry.

That is all for now, I am tired...back to the great subject of X-inactivation in the female -- I wish i could post the picture -- WOLFBITCH

2004-03-31T22:08:00.000-08:00

Bustin Ass in Class
Normally, I'm a big fan when you can release a silent
bomb in a hallway or elevator or somewhere else where
it is undetecable as to where the beast came from.
HOWEVER, I am not a fan of bustin ass out loud and
being caught. So naturally I'm chillin in class when I
catch a whiff of some bitch wearin FAR too much
perfume...bam!

The sneeze of a lifetime comes out and at the same
time causes the simultaneous release of gas from my
ass -- classic. I'm sure many people caught it, but no
one looked or snickered, so I am off the hook. Now if
it smelt like shit then people coulda put two and two
together and confirmed the sound they had just heard.

Predictions
I'll take UConn and Okie State, Okie State in an
upset. Get off my back now and stop beggin for my
prediction, it's out there -- be gone.

Do the Damn Thang
I'm pouring through NFL mock drafts as usual and it
looks like anywhere between four and six Miami guys
are headin out in the first round -- NFL factory. It's
just like UNC basketball.

The End
Yah I know, it was a short post with no real news or
view -- but it's better than no post, this keeps
momentum going so I can manage another post tomorrow.

2004-03-31T20:42:00.000-08:00

Two Hours From Now
The Chapster will be on. I will be blazin down the 15 to catch my main man after work. I'm expecting a stellar episode tonight, because it always is.

Bustin Ass in Class
Normally, I'm a big fan when you can release a silent bomb in a hallway or elevator or somewhere else where it is undetecable as to where the beast came from. HOWEVER, I am not a fan of bustin ass out loud and being caught. So naturally I'm chillin in class when I catch a whiff of some bitch wearin FAR too much perfume...bam!

The sneeze of a lifetime comes out and at the same time causes the simultaneous release of gas from my ass -- classic. I'm sure many people caught it, but no one looked or snickered, so I am off the hook. Now if it smelt like shit then people coulda put two and two together and confirmed the sound they had just heard.

Predictions
I'll take UConn and Okie State, Okie State in an upset. Get off my back now and stop beggin for my prediction, it's out there -- be gone.

Do the Damn Thang
I'm pouring through NFL mock drafts as usual and it looks like anywhere between four and six Miami guys are headin out in the first round -- NFL factory. It's just like UNC basketball.

The End
Yah I know, it was a short post with no real news or view -- but it's better than no post, this keeps momentum going so I can manage another post tomorrow.

2004-03-31T20:19:00.000-08:00

2004-03-30T14:12:00.000-08:00

It's a Thick Ass Eight and You Know It
Real World is back tonight with new episodes! My heart nearly stopped when I turned it on last Tuesday and found a repeat...

Why the Long Face?
Seeing as the Deomocratic presidential candidate was on campus today campaigning for his cause, I thought I'd take a straw poll to see how the world feels about him as of now...

"oh and by the way, fuck john kerry" -- Mike Rasch, aka Ice Mike, Republican

"On the record: Fuck John "Elephant in a Donkey get-up" Kerry" -- Brad Curry, aka La Roca, Democrat

That's as far as I got, I figured it was enough.

Hit Me With the Digits!
So I have no officially touched base in all five classes, here is the rundown:

Two male profs, three female -- all five like girls. No this is not, like girls like they like them better than boys as students, I'm talking like girls like married to or have girlfriends. 5 out of 5, that's just awkward. Naturally none of the dikes are hot, I even spent the first 30 mins of my poli sci class trying to figure out if the prof was actually a guy or a girl -- lucky she called herself a "foul-mouthed dike" and the problem was solved.

Subway is the bomb
I love Subway like none other, I eat it at least four times a week. But this new honey-oat bread they got is just plain dangerous. I dont know what they pack in that yeast but I be leavin landmines in the library. Gotta send in a bomb sniffing dog to see if the area is clear for the people who dare to venture in after me.

SheBron
Go to ESPN.com if you dont know what this title refers to. Apparently some girl going to Tennessee next year won the dunk contest at the McDonald's game last night -- the men's dunk contest. I'm sure she just did some shitty dunks and got credit for being a girl, but I gotta see it when it's on anyway. You dont see a girl dunking everyday. I aint seen a girl dunk since Michelle Snow -- that Lisa Leslie shit was a sorry ass layup.

2004-03-29T19:28:00.000-08:00

Day One
Spring semester teed off today. I got off to a solid start when i looked at my alarm clock (which i set for 7) and saw 8:21. Class at 9am...not cool. I shoot to school, sans shower or caring how i look and make it to class at 9:05. As if the day didn't get off to a shitty enough start with that, the prof decides he needs to give an "overview of the course" lecture, filling the ENTIRE fifty minutes. I wanted to stab him.

Anyway, after that I rested my mind and went to my media class from 11:30-2:30. This class seems tight. The class consists of groups where we make our own movies all the way down to the filming, acting, writing, editing of the tape, everything...everything. Should be very cool. My group consists of Me, some girl Samansa (Half Brazilian/Half Chinese, strangest thing I've ever heard) and some white girl named Jaime who I already can't stand. Groups expand to five next week...stay tuned.

Three more classes get started tomorrow.

Why do working people get more respect?
As I was dropping my normal post-lunch deuce at school today I noticed that I was carefully stacking four seatcovers on the toilet seat before placing my presumably sparkly clean ass on the seat. Strange this may not seem...but take into account that I only use two -- two -- when at work. Do people with jobs become inherently cleaner than students? Questions that may never be answered.

Final Four
Like I said last time, I hit three out of four, not to damn bad. For Kyle and Dad a Duke/Tech final would be very cool. For everyone who watches ESPN regularly, pray that UConn goes down. I can't stand watching ESPN when UConn is good at anything because the station is a such a homer.

Speaking of ESPN, Mike Hall won DreamJob? This may not be Villanova over Georgetown in '85, but this certainly qualifies right up there with the Angels winning the world series. No one saw that coming. If he wasn't hittin Maggie on the side before, I'm sure he is now. And if she tried to say no, he could also pull a Rick James and remind her that "It's a celebratioin bitch!"

The New Me
Starting today, day one of winter quarter, the new me is born. Gonna get back onto the weights on "The Jay Rasch Get Swoll Plan," which I vacationed from over spring break. I'm also getting back into running, and am going to attempt -- please people be seated for this one -- to eat ::sigh:: healthy. YAH, I KNOW. No Way that I could actually eat healthy, it remains to be seen. All of this is to get me fit and up to 160 by mid summer. Gotta set goals people or you'll never accomplish anything.

Oh yah, I'm gonna start reading all of the stuff assigned for class to, and stay on top of it throughout the quarter.

"THAT IS ABSURD" -- Rick James (when Charlie Murphy slapped his head into the table)

Yah, that was a joke, but the paragraph before is true.

Blog Updates
Should be hittin you with updates basically daily now, so stay tuned for what's crackin in the D, at the UC, and everywhere else in my life.

Today I leave you all with this:

"Ahhh! you darkness, you black, midnight, evil mutherfucker, black magic, darkness, raw darkness, fuck, delirous motherfuckers...you are cold as ice" -- Chappity Chap Chap

2004-03-27T20:44:00.000-08:00

It's Been a While
Yah, I know, I haven't posted in quite a while -- get over it. I'm back now. Blogs can't be tended to daily over spring break.

Moving On
We are down to the spectacular six in the NCAA tournament. Let's take a look back at how I'm doing:

Oklahoma State....check
Connecticut....check
Duke....check (sorry Xavier)
Tech vs. Kansas....(UAB screwed me)

This now makes back to back years where I've hit three of the four final four -- and both misses have been Kentucky. I'm still proud. How many of you have hit 3 of 4 this year and last year? That's what I thought.

I'm on Spring Break Bitch!
If you weren't at LMU for spring break -- and by that I mean everyone but Me, Jay, Rasch, Tony, Mikey, and his roommates/neighbors -- it sucks for you. The trip was epic. It took us four hours from leaving Mike's house to get to Mikey's door. This included hour long stops to talk to big Bruce, Touch's mom, a stop at a ghetto Albertson's, and getting our security clearance to enter LMU/Nuclear reactor protection center.

And it was all worth it.

Classic night full of stories that most of you have likely heard already, or don't want to hear about. Inquire for details if needed.

Spring Quarter Tees Off
We are now t-minus two days until Spring Quarter...I don't smell it. Winter was a beast, but I pulled through like a champ with a 3.1 GPA. Spring will be tougher as I enter into the unknown domain of 20 units.

On the bright side, it's spring quarter. The ho's are walking around campus in short-shorts and bikini tops -- oh wait, that was Santa Barbara...we only have smart asian bitches at UCSD.

Less Than Two Months...
Until I'm 21

That's all for today, expect more tomorrow night

2004-03-11T12:39:00.000-08:00

They Suck, I Told You So
St. Joe's got RAPED by Xaiver today. If you weren't paying attention because the game started somewhere around dawn West Coast time, you missed out. The Joe's jumped out to a quick 22 point deficit at halftime, and it only got worse. Thank you Xaiver for shuttin these queers down, I'm sure the winner of the 8/9 game in the tournament will do the same to them. In other news, I firmly believe they should drop to at least a #3 seed. Come on,they just lost by 20 points to a bubble team on a neutral court -- and does anyone think they're actually any good anyway, before this? Submit your thoughts.

What in God's Name was That
Chappy came thru with perhaps the worst episode of all time last night. Yes, there were some funny parts, but overall it just wansn't on par with the show's amazing history. The best part of the show was the announcement that there will by a Chap Chap Chap marathon this Saturday night. Eight episodes starting at 9pm -- SMELL IT.

Coming to a Close
As I type this I have only two lectures left in this quarter, and three papers separating me from Spring Break. Yes it sounds easy, but it's a bitch and a half. I've got a five pager for my Comm final, and two different 10 pagers in my writing class -- all three due by this Tuesday. I am under the gun like never before, but that's when the true champs step it up.

City League Basketball
So many of you chimed in about yesterday's chat transcripts between me and rasch wondering about the City League bball anger that I feel the need to fill in everyone.

Back in sixth grade Rasch and me were bitter enemies on the Alta Loma HS gym floor. I was coming off a title with the Lakers the previous year, and I have no idea what Rasch did during fifth grade -- he obviously didn't get a ring like I did.

ANYWAY. My cap number was too high and I was released by the Lakers after the season, Trent Dilfer style. I mean come on, who the hell let's go of the starting point guard off a championship team?

Sorry, ANYWAY. So the next season I land with the Clips, and Rasch is runnin with the Blazers -- aka one big black guy who dominates and the rest of the team passes him the ball.

So in week 4 our teams are both 3-0 and the Blazers beat us by like 2 or 4, I dont remember. Rasch strips off his jersey and runs around the court, in all his Casey like glory after the win...not so fast my friend.

The playoffs roll around and Rasch's squad is 10-0, me and my boys are the #2 seed -- 9-1. In the first round we destroy Drew Nelson's Hornets 71-5. Yah, you read that right, 71-5. In the second round, we run up against you know who -- The Lakers. Lop, Scottie Shoemaker, Scott Kay -- sans me. I dont have an exact score, but we won by 20-30. To the title game we go.

Of course, who do we meet but the Blazers. Rasch's team lookin for the undefeated season and a title, while we just want redemption for the only loss we had all season. Naturally we beat em 32-28 to take the championship. Rasch -- life over.

I still maintain that we were the greatest city league bball team of all time. I mean come on, we won our first round game 71-5 -- 71 to fucken 5! And three of those points were in the fourth quarter cause Drew was hittin his free throws.

Holla Back

2004-03-10T18:51:00.000-08:00

McGrady is my McDaddy
T-Mac (no, not Todd McCullough) dropped 62 tonight against the Wiz. Good God the Wizards are horrrrrrrible. Gilberto though still holdin it down like a champ droppin 40 of his own in the losing effort. Anyone who flips a coin to decide what team he'll play for...and then goes against the winner of the coin flip is awesome. Keep smokin that shit Gilbert, it's workin for you.

School/Work/Life is draining
School is a bitch, but only because it's tenth week. The other nine weeks of the quarter are cake, and that makes tenth a bitch...all us quarter system folks know this.

Work is always boring when I'm in the office. It's gets real old to sit around and take scores on the phone. Don't tell my employers, but I'm in search of a new job as we speak. I thank em for the job and takin a chance on me -- but ya always gotta look for bigger and better. This is on my resume now, and I aint gonna be here for life, so I might as well move on to something better. Stay tuned for updates.

Bracket Banter
Do not attempt to hold an intelligent conversation about college basketball with anyone who attended an ACC school, they firmly believe that all nine teams should not only be invited to the NCAA's just for participating in ACC league play -- they believe that excluding Clemson, the ACC will make up the entire elite eight.

Don't bother submitting your final four picks to me, nut up and join the bracket group online with us. Email or IM me and I'll hook you up the info.

The only thing in life that matters
Chappy is on tonight...IT'S MY LIFE

Final -- and Most Important Note
Me and Rasch Holdin it down with a classic discussion of our lives in elementary school today...I was tempted to put the entire transcript into here but it's just too damn long, here's some highlites -- and feel free to hit me up for the transcript in its entirety if you want.

CMills522 (6:40:48 PM): i still hang my hat on third grade, the pinnacle of my life
CMills522 (6:41:08 PM): i owned the entire fucken class in times tables...and Amy Bouman wanted me
CMills522 (6:41:12 PM): i shoulda ended it on top
Rasch4lif (6:41:38 PM): 3rd grade..... i was like K2... a fucken soldier... i was raw
Rasch4lif (6:41:45 PM): you DIDNT OWN ME BTW
Rasch4lif (6:41:49 PM): i was right behind you
Rasch4lif (6:42:05 PM): but u did get me in the end.... fierce competition that was
CMills522 (6:42:06 PM): nigga please, I owned the world in third grade
CMills522 (6:42:10 PM): what the fuck happened
Rasch4lif (6:42:25 PM): nah.. 6th grade for me... COMPLETE domination of critchfield and centrofranchi
Rasch4lif (6:42:36 PM): i ran that fuckin class AND the school
CMills522 (6:42:38 PM): nobody was near me on the times tables, end of story
Rasch4lif (6:42:47 PM): u smokin pot
Rasch4lif (6:42:51 PM): i was right there
CMills522 (6:42:53 PM): (except for that brutal story of city league bball)
CMills522 (6:43:02 PM): i should be, i need to relax for finals
Rasch4lif (6:43:04 PM): FUCK YOU DONT EVER BRING THAT SHIT UP AGAIN
CMills522 (6:43:08 PM): lol
Rasch4lif (6:43:13 PM): CITY BALL IS FORBIDDEN
CMills522 (6:43:14 PM): "the salt in my wound"
CMills522 (6:43:24 PM): this is goin in the blog
Rasch4lif (6:43:47 PM): tigghest thing u ever did though... i brought in the 2nd place trophy.... you brought in the 1st place
CMills522 (6:43:57 PM): lol
CMills522 (6:44:02 PM): dickish to the max

CMills522 (6:46:51 PM): elementary was the shit
Rasch4lif (6:47:02 PM): i have bad bo right now... i gotta shower it up
Rasch4lif (6:47:07 PM): makin me nauseous
CMills522 (6:47:14 PM): i went from amy bouman to melinda to elissa in thee years...where did it all go
Rasch4lif (6:47:30 PM): i went from......
Rasch4lif (6:47:34 PM): ummmm.....
Rasch4lif (6:47:39 PM): ummmmm.....
Rasch4lif (6:47:45 PM): jennifer mcgraw in first grade
Rasch4lif (6:47:50 PM): other than that....
Rasch4lif (6:47:58 PM): umm...
CMills522 (6:48:06 PM): clownin
Rasch4lif (6:48:11 PM): oh
Rasch4lif (6:48:14 PM): ohhh
Rasch4lif (6:48:18 PM): Amanda Eddy, pre lop
CMills522 (6:48:29 PM): lop distroyed that shit
Rasch4lif (6:48:51 PM): umm... Diana moore, sophmore or junior year when she aksed me to the dance then i said my great grandma died aka went with tony to la costa
Rasch4lif (6:49:07 PM): BUT
Rasch4lif (6:49:08 PM): BUT
Rasch4lif (6:49:13 PM): the HALL OF FAME RASCH BONER:
Rasch4lif (6:49:42 PM): 8th grade, going into 9th, when chelsea was in love with me.. i said i didnt want to date her cuz i wanted to meet new chicks at st lucy's!
Rasch4lif (6:49:53 PM): story of my fucking life
Rasch4lif (6:50:03 PM): ponder on that while i cleanse my body

It only gets better, just hit me up

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2004-03-09T20:40:00.000-08:00

He's the baddest Muthafucka I've ever seen in my L I F E
Todd Bertuzzi -- what the fuck are you thinking. Homie went Tanya Harding on Steve Moore and ended up breaking his back...don't you feel like a complete ass and deserve to be suspended for the rest of the year and the playoffs. No place in life, or even hockey, for shit like that. Guy is a complete loser in my book

I love my SoCal Peeps
Last week weather was overcast and chillin the sixties -- people griped that it was freezing (like myself) and begged for the sun. The last few days the weather has moved to a perfectly sunny high 70s every day. Now it's "way too hot" and people are beggin for a cloud or two to cool off. We are greedy, we need it a comfortable room temp of 72 on the dot everyday to be happy, I love it.

I'm glad he's not Columbian
Last Saturday I covered the D1 title game in boys soccer for the paper. La Costa Canyon vs. Granite Hills (#3 in the country, and three time defending champs). LCC dominated the entire game, controlling the ball and outshooting Granite by about 10 shots. The game headed to OT tied 0-0, and they play sudden death OT of course. So anyway, the ball is loose in the LCC box and as a kid goes to clear it out he puts it into the back of a teammate and it pinballs right into his own net . . . game over, season over, and one kid's life over. Couldn't have written a better script if they asked me too.

It's a bitch -- it always is
10th week is in full effect, as usual. I have four papers to write and a large final to study for in Art History. There's no time to do shit but work and the weather is perfect so I should be at the beach but instead I'm in the library.

Also, people were on my back (RASCH) for a blog update, I give em three straight days and the masses are just beggin' for more. I control a crowd like Vince McMahon

Notes
expect another update tomorrow

holla at me if you want in the march madness pool -- online and free

2004-02-27T19:08:00.000-08:00

FIRST THINGS FIRST:
Elin is HOT

Me and the old man rolled to La Costa for the Accenture WGC event today. I spent the first half hour following Elin -- time well spent. Next I watched all of the third round matches tee off on their first hole, and then followed Tiger out on his match with Fredrik Jacobson.

Now I was on record on the first tee willing to give anyone listening Tiger plus-one hole, but naturally there were no takers. My man Freddy jumped out to a quick 2-down lead after three, but made a great halve on four after driving his ball in the creek, and proceeded to win the next two holes and pull even. After that he folded like a bitch -- end of story.

After nine holes of Tiger, we moved up a hole and to watch Phillip dismantle Chris Dimarco. Dimarco has one funky-ass pre-swing routine. He breaks his wrists a few times in a faux waggle, then proceeds to bounce on the balls of his feet as he takes the club back, highly unnerving to watch.

After about three holes of that we dropped back to what I believe is the feature match of the day -- anything involving MONTY. Colin battled Steven Leaney the entire match and they went to 18 all square. The 18th was a par-five, Monty was in the bunker in three and Leaney was off the green in three. Monty proceeds to leave his third in the bunker -- game over. I was very disappointed.

IN OTHER NEWS:
Trevor Immelman's girl was hangin with Elin during the morning match, it's a tossup, Immelman is doin VERY well.

There were no Amy Mickelson sightings on the day, a definate disappointment.

The moment of the day came when me and pops were walkin and talkin with who we presume to be Monty's parents. Leaney had Monty in deep trouble on a hole and proceeded to hit a horrible shot from the center of the fairway into the greenside bunker. Dad says, "come on Leaney, what is that." Monty's mom says back to him, with more humor than Monty has shown in his entire life, "What do you mean come on Leaney, I should strike you with my stool." ... Classic.

RANDOM BITS:
I'll be covering CIF Quarterinal boys action tomrrow, Rancho Bernardo at Fallbrook.

I got jewed outta winning my poker tournament on Thursday night, I was not happy. It was a 150 man tournament, and I got 8th. Here's my final hand. The guy in second position raises to 16,000 before the flop and I three-bet it to 24,000, he calls. Flop comes out 4-5-5 rainbow. He bets 8,000 and I make it 10,000 cause that's all I have left, he calls. I turn over pocket nines, and he shows pocket eights. I'm countin my winnings because the pot is around 85,000 and the person with the next most chips is about 35-40,000. Naturally the turn is a six, and the river a seven...he makes a straight, I finish eighth. Either way, I hold my own in tourneys. I've played in three tourneys at Sycuan, all 150 players, finished 2nd, 12th, and 8th.

TONIGHT'S TELEVISION RECOMMENDATION:
It's Friday night, I recommend you go out and do something instead of watch TV.

RULE OF THE DAY, FROM THE MAN CODE:
6. You may exaggerate any anecdote told in a bar by 50 percent without recrimination; beyond that, anyone within earshot is allowed to call BULLSHIT. (Exception: When trying to pick up a girl, the allowable exaggeration rate rises to 400 percent)

QUOTE OF THE DAY
"When you're as great as I am, it's hard to be humble." -- Muhammed Ali

2004-02-26T14:48:00.000-08:00

FIRST THINGS FIRST:
It’s day two of “back on the blogwagon” and I’m still goin strong. Rasch claims to be feelin it again as well. Also, my bro Kyle is gonna get back to bloggin’. Though he’s only been updating sporadically for the last month, he’s the only one who’s still goin from last year when we all started bloggin’. B-Curry has also thrown his name in the hat, claimin he can drop a blog entry a day – it will be about a week before we all stop again

Got my paper and midterm both back today in Comm Culture class – B+’s on both. I’m very happy with that, I’ve got the Turkish Terror, Fatima, as my TA again this quarter and she ain’t an easy grader. The laugh for today came in class when the professor was talking about how they found at least 10 papers (prolly 300 person class) that were plagiarized. This kid asks her “have the people been notified already?” Come on now, why don’t you just hold up a sign that you plagiarized your shit.

IN OTHER NEWS:
Looks like the rain has finally cleared out today, so La Costa will be back on tomorrow with the 2nd round and the sweet sixteen matches. Me and the pops should greatly enjoy this one. Thanks go out to Mike Harmon for hookin’ up the tix.

Last night’s Bachelorette ALMOST had it. The first guy got turned down and looked as if he was gonna get his cry on in the limo, but he pulled it together and managed to show his queerness anyway. “I put my heart on the table and she didn’t want it, this is really hard.” Playa, even if you mean it, you can’t say it on nation tv – there’s friends back home who are gonna use this for life against you.

RANDOM BITS:
B-Curry is engulfed in a mass of school work this week, send him your unused energy. He even rose at 5am this morning to work on a paper.

Kyle is getting snowed up again today – refer to his blog for the breakdown.

And Jay’s squad will be getting knocked out in the first round of their conference tourney today – refer to his blog for his breakdown as well.

Terrell, are you kidding me? Your agent didn't file for free agency?!? Oh this is too classic.

TONIGHT’S TELEVISION RECOMMENDATION:
Extreme Makeover (ABC 9:00pm, 60 mins.)
If you haven’t watched Extreme Makeover before, you gotta tune in at least once. Show is not for the squeamish. Tonight’s episode is the Battle of the Bulge. People who dropped a lot of weight are having their entire selves redone….EPIC.

RULE OF THE DAY, FROM THE MAN CODE:
46. If you accidentally touch or brush against any part of another man below the waist, it is an understood accident, and NO apologies or any reference to the occurrence is necessary.

QUOTE OF THE DAY:
"Yea this is Rick James, he’s a star...maybe I'm overreacting, maybe i shouldn't do nothing. My ghetto side was like 'yo stomp this muthafucka out right here. The fuck is wrong with him? Homie just rolled me off like I'm that nigga to steal on" – Charlie Murphy, Chappelle’s Show

Sometime over the weekend I will be moving to Kyle as my host. This will allow me to have a comment box so I can tell if people actually read this bitch. Tune in for the details.

2004-02-25T18:43:00.000-08:00

FIRST THINGS FIRST:
Don't be confused by the title, I'm not dippin into the suicidal thoughts like some of my friends (without naming names) have. It's simply a note of my laziness and a tribute to some of my favorite peeps. Chappelle, who always is shocked that there is a next week with his cutting edge racist comedy. And Tony Kornheiser, who always reminds the listeners that everyday could be his last. Combine them with the likely idea that I stop doing this in about a week because i will stop caring again -- and there ya go.

Next on the docket, gotta give credit to the Rasch family. Mike reignited his blog and talked Jay into starting one as well. I'm catchin the bandwagon before it leaves town.

Third, Pacers are still dominant -- see ya in the finals West.

IN OTHER NEWS:
Back to Business. This weekend I'll be covering Boys CIF soccer -- which is still undetermined as a step up or down from SDSU women's basketball. Anyway, eventhough it's preps, it's boys soccer, NOT girls basketball...no contest. One hot girl on a team does not make me want to cover it...and for those of you wondering, yah I called her, she's got the personality of a tree.
If you wanna peep my place of business it's the North County Times

Hittin up La Costa on Friday with the old man to go watch the Match Play. It'll be down to the Sweet Sixteen by then, hopefully someone good is left. Looks like almost all of the top people survived day one.

It's week eight in the good ol quarter system. The stress hasn't quite built up enough yet that I want to study for finals, but I know that when week nine hits I'll be light years behind. I step it up with or without Studymania -- no questions asked.

RANDOM BITS:
Chappelle DVD season 1, cop it if you didn't on Tuesday (and if you didn't you're a loser with no friends). Ask a black dude outtakes are stellar, especially the Stephen King one.

One Call Away by Chingy is officially hot. Who woulda thought the man who brought ya Right Thurre could slow it down and make a song I actually like.

I'm on the Jay Rasch "Get Swoll" Workout plan. It's been five days and I've put on 2.3 pounds. It's either workin so far, or I gotta take a shit. If you want the video for yourself hit up the Birdman with a check for $19.95.

TONIGHT'S TELEVISION RECOMMENDATION:
Chappelle's Show is a given. I shouldn't have to tell you to watch. You should be watching it, as well as taping it, in case there are any challenges which need to be reviewed tomorrow when a friend tries to be funny and ends up misquoting the show.

The Bachelorette finale (ABC 9:00pm, 120 mins.)
Meredith makes her final choice. Normally I only like to watch The Bachelor, because the girls always cry when "their true love" eliminates them. But in Bachelorette, you HAVE TO WATCH, just in case one of the guys pulls a bitch move and starts crying sayin he was in love with her...that's must see tv.

RULE OF THE DAY, FROM THE MAN CODE:
32. Never talk to another man in the bathroom unless you are on equal footing: both urinating, both waiting in line, etc. For all other situations an "I recognize you" nod will do just fine.

QUOTE OF THE DAY:
"Cory, nothing in my life has ever happened that I haven't already seen on TV." -- Shawn Hunter, Boy Meets World

Solid first post. I will pick up momentum tomorrow, I'm feelin it again.

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