Bigger Bullshit?: Band Breakups or Celeb Marriages

there are at least two deadly  or "til death" rites that groups put themselves though which aren't necessary and probably won't last: marriages, especially celebrity marriages, and famous band breakups. why the hell  are these two events such major  news? how often do celebs marry then divorce in  an average of what, 2 years tops? how many times do bands "break up" only to reunite for that "one last tour"? 


of course it's a lot of  economics. power celebs get together to make power couples to increase their income, gain more notoriety, enhance their careers etc. eventually  they realize how ridiculous marriage is for them: their schedules, traveling, possibilities with infidelities etc, they move one.


 bands break up to again increase their notoriety, increase their sales.   they  reunite several times to give that tour and increase the price that concert goers somehow want to pay, long after the band has reached their peak live. they stay apart until it's lucrative enough to re form. would you be surprised if the whole deal is planned? 


 what the state should do is legalize betting on every detail of  these breaks   like Vegas does for the Super Bowl. you can bet about anything relating to the break ups and band reunites.


 from when,  where the next tour will open,  will they make a lame inconsequential album, how long will they stay together before the "next break up". 


for celebs: will they  "marry" again (usually to other people). did the couple cheat on each other (Hopefully with other celebs), ,who will be their next hook ups, (again hopefully other celebs).


now if we're talking fictional bullshit, again related to death: there's the death of a comic book character. see how long that one lasts (Superman, Captain America, Electra, Green Arrow etc.) again again notoriety, sales, and you know they're not really going to kill off a character that sells. 

Empty Sky: World Trade Center tribute

for better or worse, I didn't personally know anyone who died in the World Trade Center towers. I was living in NYC at the time of the collapse and a lot of us had "friends of friends" that did unfortunately perish. But again personally I didn't know anyone who died there. I did however mourn their loss a good deal, especially around the time of the tragedy: the 6 month anniversary, 1 year later  etc. 


However I did personally know and love the Trade Center itself. SInce I was young it was a center of interest for a kid like me. it was the location of the  ultimate scene of a King Kong flick back then. also it was a theatre for the famous "HUman Fly": George Willig, who scaled the side of a tower and was fined $1.10, a penny for every floor.


 Whenever my family made a trip near NYC, I loved to see the skyline from wherever you could see it, no matter the distance. I  loved to visit the towers, see the views, learn about them. 


Years later I was to become an actual  tour guide in NYC, where I  passed by and noted the towers regularly to everyone I could. Over the years and mainly because of the job, I learned more about them, and the great achievements that they went through:  human achievement, technological, architectural etc:

• the Center was a city within itself, where up to around 50,000 people would be employed on weekdays. . How many cities around the world don't have nearly that many people living within them? And the greatest fear that I and many had on the infamous Sept 11 was that so many more would be dead since the Center could hold so many. Not to belittle those that were killed, but it seems like a great miracle to me that the toll was relatively low. 
• an incredible 200,000 visitors per day on average. 
• It was literally on top of the one of the greatest financial centers in the world. A soaring symbol of capitalism, architecture, achievement and more. 
• It was possibly  the location of the  site of  furthest viewing in the world: on a very clear day, one could see around 55 miles away. Possibly 2 states away to Penn. An incredible view: I don't think even mountains like Everest boast that far a look. 
• the most stories of any building for decades: 110
• tallest building in the world when it was first built: over 1300 feet tall. 
• from what I read, highest inhabitable floors of any building for decades, higher than Sears
• one of the most beautiful restaurants in a city with some of the most beautiful restaurants on Earth: Windows on hte World. highest grossing restaurant in U.S. 
• one of, if not the largest office complex on Earth
• quarter mile height, 1 acre of space per floor, in the 70s.  had it' own zip code. 
• huge amount of construction, excavation, material which was used to actually build a whole new neighborhood: Battery Park City
• housing some of the great architectural influence of Le Courbusier and Yamasaki. 

When someone or something passes from me that was close to me, I like to note a lot of the positive  aspects that it had when alive. To me, the Center was very much alive from when I was a child up through its death, and that's why I have written about it. Please do not assume that because I am writing about steel and frame, that I elevate it above the souls of those that died then. If I had a choice, I would have the lives of all of those who perished saved, with  the towers falling down. But I think that we could mourn the loss of both. 

Moving On?

not as much time. full time job. blog paying pennies. 


move on: more possible projects, films, broadcast? tv?


 if had more time would write more. if it paid more also.


 need to express myself more to more. move on? 

Death and Destruction with Dignity

i don't think that any death should be met with cheers. 


same goes for war, "victory", "glory". 


the existence of the evil is what should be mourned, and one should learn from it, avoid it. the fact that it exists is a tragedy. getting past it, by military "victory", death of your "enemy" etc should it seems be met with relief, but cheers seem inappropriate. 


war is not a football game. our nations aren't teams that are meeting to win on the field. death wins. tragedy and evil win. we need to get past it all, to peace, thru negotiation, diplomatic adjustments, cooperation etc. our energies, monies etc should be saved more for that instead of military industrial complex, empire, world police etc. 


everyone talks big about peace. peace is tougher in many ways than dropping bombs. peace is active and to work towards it takes labor. it's not all doves, kids, fields, holding hands. 

SLow Month?

April's been "cruel", been busy with other priorities: a new job (full time), a big wedding which i was involved in, i almost had to move. so haven't been writing as much.

 ironic since  usually april's "my month", where i get a lot down, ideas, writings, music etc, since i like to get it done "before I'm (whatever age I'm turning, my birthday's at the end of the month)", for posterity etc, so i usually get a lot done but again this has been a tumultuous month.

Parallel Subway Lines

what if that train running parallel to yours was a parallel world?

Transition

in bloom

transition


change 

April cruel 


occupation 


 less time


rite of passage, marriage

trip


happiness 


what should you do with your life man


love

the Spirit of a Wedding

i think i see the sign

o.k i'll admit im getting into it. still believe it's  overpriced, overrated, leads to marriage etc, but may as well enjoy it since i'm obligated, and it's for a loved one: 

• listening to a lot of love songs (hey how many great love songs are there, right?)
• looking fine in the tux (wink) 
• going to Asbury park
• looking forward to drugs i like: champagne, open bar, hash brownies? 
• eating a lot of good food
• some friends
• near full moon 
• effort to a loved one 
• my kick ass dance moves (wink wink)
• spring 
• love 

Weddings and Marriage: YOur Loved Ones

as much as i've written against weddings and marriage, ultimately, when  a loved one is going thru with it, i suppose your views don't matter for that time, person etc. 


if ur a good one for them, you put your effort out towards them to make it a special day, the best possible. that's what you're supposed to do.


 and, expect the same in return someday. even if marriage is a light year a way, eh? .


 and enjoy the party too i guess.


 maybe i'm going back on my words but again the day is theirs, not mine, this time.


 though i guess i keep the details to a minimum to keep myself from being too annoyed: e.g. looking at the registries, all the gifts, so many bought already, is a labor. 

My Name Preferences

why is it that when someone has a name with more than 2 syllables, i have to shorten it to 1? and then  some uptight folks  get upset with it:  "it's not Geen, it's Gina!" yikes 


then when someone is commonly referred to in a single syllable name, i have to lengthen it? Gabe --Gabriel, Chris--Chris ol Boy etc


i hate when celebrities have 3 names that we're supposed to say, many times  all first names: Sarah Jessica Parker, Seans Wiliams Scotts, Neil Patrick Harris. 


yet we all know a lot of women who've been married and now go by 3 names, and I kind of like what those have become. my personal favorite (I won't say her name specifically) sounds like Danielle Greeko Apollo. 

Disappearing Act

i've said for a while that a man alone at a bar is maybe as  close to a human gets to  being invisible.

•  seemingly no friends, 
• people see him as a lonesome loser 
• women want to follow, go with the trends, go with a "proven winner", so they avoid him 
• groups will literally push him around., out of his seat etc
• less talking, more drinking, more likely to move to a problem drinker? 

 the only ones who care are  the ones who wants his money: the bartenders/waiters. and this is compounded more at a strip joint. lots of men alone there. 


but,  the older one gets, , the more one disappears? 

•  not as many will hire, entry level etc? 
• less attractive,  less relationships? 
• hence less likely to have kids.
•  less people care: friends and family have moved on with their individual families, parents are getting older and can't care  as much.
•  mid life crises are not as appealing as coming of age stories? 

Poison April, the Cruellest Foolish month

i should get a 9-5 job, something steady, like civil service. plan on becoming married. have 2 kids.  become a Christian. get a house in the suburbs. golf. with my male friends.  drive a car. mow my lawn. 

Bobby "2 Note" Deniro

as Dorothy Parker said about Katherine Hepburn one night, all he goes all the way from A to B 

Charlie's not buying his sell out 

Risky Business

how's it hangin'

so one has lived for how long, just surviving, hanging on, tightrope walking. 


one hits a rough slide that even he can't get out of.


but should he build on what was before? 


risk, take off, in maybe even riskier behavior since the "easier" way didn't go thru? 


the "easier" route didn't pan out, so go back to the "risky" route? since it's panned out more in the past? 


even if that means going back to a life he really doesn't want
which will be very hard in some ways. 
but seemingly necessary. 


letting go not much from now.


steps forward, steps backward.  

Ridi, Pagliaccio

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you're "successful", have "means", read: have  money, you make people laugh, you're witty, urbane, a ladies' man


you're poor, without "means', 'unsucessful', you make people laugh, you're a clown, a joke, a loser 

Living Large in the Village

one lives here? 

used to be that it was an affordable place for up and coming, unknown artists to live, in a starving artist lifestyle,  where they could  express their art. now it's completely non affordable   for all but only the most famous and/or wealthy artists to live an extravagant  lifestyle and sell out more of their celebrity cache  so they can afford it all.   

Old/New Egypt/America

non violent action 

ancient world/new techniques/good results: Egypt  changes their regime in less than a month thru peaceful means, advanced communications and stealth and action


new world/old techniques/awful results: the U.S. bombs the shit out of  the Arab world/Libya etc, how many innocents killed? weaponized  Arab insurgencies against us, much popular discontent, years of war, humongous costs in lives and funds


yet we're supposedly the "greater" nation, right (wing)? 

Where to FInd Good Astronomy Info

Mars magnified

DO NOT listen to your friends, rumors, internet rumours saying that the Mars will look as big as the moon etc. that's all living example of how, even though we have the World wide web on our phones now, so much misunderstanding, rumour, word of mouth can still travel amongst us. misinformation. 


good sources: Wikipedia's good for explaining phenomenon like the Equinoxes, and listing ones like the phases of the Moon. the World Almanac is good for listing most of the highlights of the year. e.g. they list the several eclipses (around 6) per year around the world. so next time you hear a religious nut saying there are a freakish 6 eclipses that year, you know it's bs. 


 my favorite astronomy website is http://earthsky.org/, an excellent one for telling you what's going on in the skies. note the far right, TONIGHT, where they tell you what's going on every night of the year. so next time you hear or even read that rumour (the Mars one is maybe the biggest, rumour that is), check the site. 

Saint Patrick's day = Mardi Gras?

Irish genius 

walking in midtown Manhattan today observing the observers, the 2 holidays seem to becoming more similar in practice: 

• practitioners  dressed in beads and other idiotic apparel (beads seem to becoming more popular for St Pats)
• holiday for amateurs, phonies, drinking, yelling, fighting etc
•  carousing along a main street (5th ave in NYC) 
• loud music 
• some good food (even though corn beef/cabbage used to be white trash Irish food)

Dead Wood

me and my friends  used to have a saying at parties, which i think i got partially from my brother and his friends: the dead wood floats down the river fastest. in other words let the phonies, pretenders etc leave first, those that matter often stay with you, spend the real time etc.


 this can be applied to a lot of friends, relationships etc. 

Daylight Savings Negatives, Positives

not sure how much i like daylight savings because as we know I'm a bit of an astronomical purist, and messing with the clock messes with the system. for instance high noon isn't at 12 during DST, half the year: it's 1:00 since we move the clock ahead. that's even on the highest noon day, the SUmmer solstice.

but i have to admit it is kind of cool on nights (yes, "those Summer Nights") where the sun lasts til after 8 during times like the Solstice. kicks ass.

the Charlie (Sheen) Limbo

art of darkness

i think there's a theory  called  the Peter principle that says that even the most accomplished can fall to their level of inadequacy. for instance, Hitler was brilliant as a politician, but when he tried to take on military leadership, he ultimately failed in a huge way. 


me and a friend noticed that  as far as names go, the phenomenon may be even truer amongst Charlies. it seems  to pop up a lot: 'Charlie in the box' from Rudolph the red nosed reindeer, Charlie x from Star trek, Charlie Chaplin at times (marrying teenagers, trials, expulsion from the US), Charles Barkley at times (spitting on fans, never winning title, saying he'd play for the Klan etc), Charlie Batch (failed NFL qb.) and of course, the once, present and probably future Charles the Infamous, Sheen. 


like i said, they seem to limbo on down to a spectacular  level of infamy. Chaplin was maybe one of the greatest artists of all time. Sheen was the highest paid actor on tv.  but they just tend to do poorly decided  actions that make you say, "what a Charlie!" 

Mardi Gras=Halloween?

Carnival

i think a lot of us remember when Halloween was a kid holiday, adults didn't do much for it even when it fell on the weekends. eventually it "blossomed"  into a holiday of an adult nite equivalent to Vegas in psychological terms, where "what happens that night, stays in the past",  you go as you aren't, you could dress sluttier as a woman etc. 


i figure that Mardi gras/Fat tu/ Carnival could develop into something like that as well. days, or a night, for adults  to let loose, party like hell,  wear masks, beads whatever. kind of another "amateur night' in mid week like New years.  it's still more local in New Orleans, Rio, but seems to be growing. i remember a few years ago there didn't seem to be anything going on for it in NYC. now there's a list of events. 


also it's several days. you can party on fri, sat, fat tues. again i'm surprised that bars, beer companies etc haven't taken advantage of this more. or neighborhoods like Little Brazils. 

Hangover Cures

the sacred

believe it or not i don't drink much at all. but certain situations "force' me into taking action. one was when i was bumped up to first class on a flight from L.A. to NY and even the stewardess (yeah i still call them that) was blown away by how much i drank. then last nite was another: open bar. just seeing those bottles of Jameson and Johnny walker were irresistible. 


so since i'm not used to it and my stomach was pretty empty (there was food there, but believe it or not i didn't touch it: lots of friends, chicks, had much to do--people come first believe it or not). so this a.m i woke up feeling rough. but as usual i've done my research, and know some good cures. 


first 2 aspirin for the siren piercing my head. i don't like pills much but this pain was rough. aspirin's usually as hard as i go. at least over the counter (wink). 


next lots of water of course. have to re hydrate. 


next: lots of B complex and protein. a good multi vitamin is great: and i mean a good one, with at least 100 percent rda of  B1, 2, 6, 12. Trader Joe's has good ones, and believe it or not K mart, and they're not really expensive. 


then go with protein for food: eggs, yogurt, cheese etc. plenty of them.  the dairy usually has B or brings it out, like yogurt. and it's like the protein and Bs build you back up again. to be a man of men like me haha. 


again as you know i wouldn't tell you this if i didn't try it out, several times, myself. 

FUndamentalist Hypocrisy (redundant?)

good but not the only book

i love how fundamentalists can use the strictest Biblical beliefs in being against homosexuality,  evolution, and in favor of proselytizing,  yet can use the loosest Biblical interpretations in "proving" that the Bible predicted numerous scientific advances, that a people can slaughter another,  that the "end times" are here

End of Winter?

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this is  another "contrary to popular belief. "


on average the coldest days are in Dec, Jan, Feb. in the North hemisphere. starting at the begin. of March they gradually raise up. the coldest days  of the year are  usually around mid Jan. so you can say that Winter ends at the end of Feb, about 6 weeks after the shortest day (Solstice), March is  little by little the  begin. of Spring. 


yes i know there are usually cold days in March, snow can happen in April etc. but again we're talking averages and slow change. and remember there can be very warm days in Jan, etc. 


seems everyone, including most of the media,  thinks that  Spring suddenly begins on the Equinox. but again it's just that: the time that the Equator lines up directly with the Sun. it's not all the sudden a time of flowers, warm weather, animals etc. again it's all a gradual, average  process. 

What's Wrong with the Oscars?

American idol

i know i've said some of these before but they deserve to be thrown out there in a gasp of breath against the big wind of the Oscars: 

• many yearly  awards (this goes for many different awards) go to lifetime achievements: they;ll ignore an actor, director etc for their entire achievement filled career (Scorsese, Paul Newman) and finally give her/him a consolation prize some day, for something not nearly on their  level of achievement from years ago
• segregation now, today, forever: there are no differences in skills between actors, actresses etc. notice there's not best female director, best male costumer etc? 
• hype rules: rarely does the less hyped person, film etc lose much. they'll win other awards first, have their "Oscar buzz", win again.. i couldn't believe when Brokeback Mountain lost, one of the few examples to go against the usual rule
• impressionists have won recently a lot. you do a good impression, you get an award. ask Jamie Fox. past trends: whores for women, retarded folk for men, sick folk for women. Holocaust films used to score well too. 
• how many of these 'artists' looking forward to these awards ignore these obvious points which shoot down so much of their (them, the awards, art's)  integrity? 

February

leaves of winter frost

since i was young i always kind of liked Feb. 


it's a time that we're past the coldest days on average, contrary to many beliefs. 


as an adult i learned that a Celtic Pagan holiday, Imbolc,  is  around half way between Solstice and Equinox, signifying that the darkest days were over, we're moving towards more Sun light. 


but a nice frosty month which i like, believe it or not. of some cold, snow. 


I have to admit, when i was younger, Valentine's was part of it. the possibility of romance i suppose (which i was into back then believe it or not), also shows like Be My Valentine Charlie Brown etc. candy. flores (para los muertos haha). queer but kind of fun i guess. 


a short but sweet month i suppose. 


Dar Williams made a good song about it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yy-v-UgNhuI.

The Weakness of Violence

stand up for peace

a government shows weakness by doing violence. this shows that it cannot stand up to  words, rhetoric, arguments, and acts.  instead it acts as a bully with a bigger rock to throw at the more intelligent. we can see this in Libya now. Iran in past. many dictatorships that crack down with the military. freedoms of speech, assembly, media etc are threatening to those in power and brings out  simple, mindless, blind force. 


though i still believe that it is similar with the death penalty. that rehabilitation or the possibility  of innocence  is out of the question so we simply kill the offender. again a government overstepping its rights. 

Peaceful Action in the Mid East

non violent street fighting men

notice that these  actions are  being done by Middle Easterners themselves, people stereotyped to be setting bombs off left and right. 


a lot of that stereotype comes from Americans, the people who usually overwhelmingly support military force upon innocent people like so many that were killed in Iraq. 


but in Egypt for example,  instead of using overwhelming force to push change in their home, they are using peaceful means: communicating, protest, the non violent action of people. not bombs, assassinations, diplomacy with dictators. 


. they do not have to be invaded by a larger more armed power to do it. 


how many innocents were killed to remove Saddam Hussein from power? how much money did it cost, how many Americans were killed, how much damage was done etc? now compare those numbers to the Egyptian removal of Mubarak. 

Biggest Bullshit Holiday

not to seem super bitter (wink), but Valentine's wins. at least Mother and Father's day are based on real people, deeds etc. Valentine's ain't. there were a couple of St Valentines but neither had anything to do with romance, love etc. that story about one of them getting the first Valentine's card is just that. 


astronomically same deal: nothing. some bs that birds start courting is just that. 


where it's real? as usual with holidays, commercialism, like greeting cards, gifts etc. guilt. chicks expecting more rings things blings etc. the capitalism of love (redundant). 

Calendar Revision, February 13, 14

fertility symbol maimed 

since calendars are very much man made (31/30 days, the "new year" starting in Jan), i think that we should alter the calendar so that every Feb, there's a fri the 13th, so that Valentine's then falls the day after. it's the way it should be: the unluckiest day falling right after what's ostensibly  the unluckiest day (haha). you can even add in there Lincoln's birthday Feb 12, our first president  to be killed in office unfortunately. 


not that im bitter about a fabricated holiday (wink). 

Democracy and Egypt

yes we should all be pressing for regime change in Egypt from that dictator. however regime change at the hands of crowds is actually mob rule. 


now if elections were to happen soon, fair ones that are approved internationally, great. democracy. 


and whoever is elected, including a Muslim, should be welcomed internationally.  s/he shouldn't   have flags of caution thrown in her/his  face from nations like the US. we were thrilled with the Tunisian uprising. very cautious in Egypt. couldn't be because there are so many Muslims in Egypt, could it? 

Half way Between Solstice and Equinox

great light and heat

is around this time now. so holidays have popped up thru human history, starting with Pagan ones of course like Imbolc, a time of the Sun returning more and purification. again we're half way between the Solstice, longest night oaf the year, and Equinox, equal light and dark. 


of course the Christians had to have a holiday to "replace"  the Pagan one, hence Candlemass. don't know where Groundhog day came from, don't care really. 


but obviously it's a time of strengthening of the SUn and light, coming back, warming, lightening the world etc. Northern hemisphere of course.

Super Bowl Predictions

half time music: "Let's get it started" "Tonight's gonna be a good night", 'The time" "Boom boom pow" "Yeah" (Usher), "Welcome to the Jungle".  i always predict half time songs, usually right about at least some of them 


Pitt will cover the spread


my friend's friend Gwen will yap the most about her Super bowl pool (always lots of competition with  that one)


a Bud lite  commercial will elicit the most forced/bad taste  laughter of the nite


i will eat a humongous amount of food (easy pick) 

The Older Pot Calling the YOung Kettle Black

Hugh Gass

older folk are known to complain about "those crazy kids", with their pants hanging low, driving around their crazy cars, listening to that loud rock and roll music. yet: 

• how many of them will pull their pants down in front of anyone just to tuck in their shirts
• how many of them drive the biggest, most powerful old time gas guzzling cars in the world
• when they watch tv how friggin loud is it most of the time (even with those that don't have hearing loss)
• when you go to a casino, how high a percentage of people there are elderly? 

Real Deal: Coldest Month

ice ice baby

a lot of folks think that Feb is the coldest. for the most part this is bullshit in the Northern hemisphere. on average, most years, Jan is the coldest. 


what happens is the shortest days (least Sun light) are in Dec (like the Winter Solstice). it takes some time for the Earth to cool down. about a month. so a month after the shortest days are the coldest days. the real dead of winter. of course it's  opposite in the southern hemisphere. 


as far as snow goes that's a different ball game, changes year to year with La Nina etc. not sure of that phenomenon. 

Day Labor

or laborer... exhausted....avalanche... blizzard...guy on the side o the road...men at work...conditions, spartan..money necessary...weekend nor..early to bed etc

Wednesday the 26th

one looked like her 

i've mentioned before that i have had some strange occurrences on certain neurologically conspicuous days, like bad luck on Fri the 13, and at times double bad luck on  Fri the 26th. 


I've mentioned before that i've in the past had some good lady luck on this day, wed the 26th, especially in S Cal. it was a day of reuniting with me and a couple of Italian  chicks (not simultaneously, alas). strange. 

Trendy Exercise Bullshit

doin it right

i love it  because  it's one of those cases where something old is repackaged and marketed, becomes trendy and "everyone has to do it" and spend their money on it. 

• folks danced alone and it  became "aerobics".  a chick dances alone she's called an "interpretive dancer". a man does it he's called  a lonesome loser. 
• stretching is taken over by yoga since it's 'eastern' so it must be better than anything that the West can provide.  ( i think Penn and Teller did a whole show on it). add a probably self proclaimed "guru" and it becomes 'pilots' or  whatever. . 
• combine another "guru", aerobics and some punching and it becomes "tae box bo bovine" whatever. 
• xercise biking somehow became "spinning" and again everyone had to do it. . 

what's next, basketball becomes "hoop throw"? weight training becomes "metal handling"? swimming becomes "aquatic dynamics"? 


even "going to the gym" itself is trendy bs to me. not enough to "xercise", or even "work out".  even though there's plenty of room out- doors to exercise, and all  of these folks "going to the gym" have living spaces a lot bigger than mine do do push ups and crunches in (which often is all they need), but they have to "go to the gym." 


again come out one of my Harlem parks some night in the winter, and we'll do some working out for free:  strength, endurance, stretching. get some fresh air, health, save money. 

Nfl picks, Jan 21 2011

old rivals

still like GB though im a bit surprised they're favored. not sure if they'll beat the spread. though they've been good to me so far. 


still like the Jets to beat the spread. 


each spread's about 3.5. 

Names and Syllables

why is it that when someone's name has just one syllable, i always want to make it longer. like i had a friend Gabe, and I had to call him Gabriel. 


then when someone's name has more than one syllable, I have to shorten it. I even called a girlfriend i had, who's name was Jacqueline (pronounced Jackleen), i had to call her Jaq (Jack). 


don't know why i do it. pretty much every time 

Play-off PIck OUtcome this Week

J.E.T.S

did o.k this week. right on for GB and the Jets. 


a little off for  Seattle  and Balt.  remember i said take all the underdogs, and I think Seattle and Balt missed the spread by a bit, though i said Pitt may cover (they did). so let's say i scored a bit more than 50 percent (though wouldn't come out in betting like that of course). 

Nfl picks, Jan 14 2011

shud  b some decide. games

i would bet every underdog to beat the spread. seems like pretty safe bets. 


 I think that the Patriots and Chicago will be given tougher games by the other  teams, especially the Jets.


 i don't think Atlanta is too strong and i like GB..


 Pitt may beat the spread but I kind of like Balt. 


for the record, was about 75 percent accurate last week. i make picks because i usually have a good knack for them most years. if i had the money i'd maybe bet. 


for those who don't know, bettors shoot for around  55 percent or above  to come out ahead, profit etc. 

Close as I Want to Be to a Prisoner

"that's the sight of the men,..."

working as an emergency snow laborer, the NYC  dept of Sanitation really puts you right in league it seems with chain gangs: 

• we have to wear orange vests while working with tools,  outdoors
• we take buses as trans, to and from labor sites
• we're all local upper Manhattan guys, so ethnically mixed: black, Hispanic, not much white (i have to write another blog post, "places where i've been one of the only 'whites' there"). we separate at times, probably not in a bigoted motivation, into groups:  Latin guys, black guys etc. but again it reminds you of every prison show u'v ever seen:  Latin gangs, black gangs etc. 
• every attractive chick going by seems like the greatest we've ever seen
• sanitation cops (yeah they seem to have them) are in supervision

Gun Control in the USA

when the bullets pierce even the wall

i would almost be comfortable with double the amount of guns in our country, as long as the psychos and criminals and kids  can't get their hands on them. 


the guns used in crimes, do they come  from areas (states) that have weak gun laws? NYC has strict ones,  where do the used weapons  come from? 

Exhaustion

amazing how much of it you get, psychologically then physically, when you can't find a job

My NFl Predictions this Weekend

pick: GB over Phil, narrowly

was correct about Jet win, thought it would have been bigger. again, nice lack of game winning drive by P Manning

way off about Seahawks (everybody was probably)

right about KC losing: the typical paper tigers that they've been since  the 90s: strong regular season, playoff chokers.

Can't Write Much Now

still looking for jobs. still tough. "Will this recession last for long?"--paraphrase Ray Davies. big tough NY city. no one hiring. can't pay. wish i could write more. city services. 

Jackoff HOusemates Continued

yeah there's nothing like one that's sick and clears his throat constantly all over the living space, and then i have to suck in his shit. living with stupid, cheap  folks is great.  so i'm feeling crappy and can't write much. 

Some New Years' Pasts Shenanigans

"shud auld ...be forgot?"

in 10th grade, bringing booze to a pot luck girls party and being kicked out by the parents


hooking up with this big girl (kick ass) and fooling around on the floor where everyone walked in from NYC (and the dirty early 90s), with a curtain for a blanket


making an invitation saying "Open party!" several times,  at  the NY Hilton and getting kicked out  right near midnight


a friend of ours who went into the military later getting drunk out of his mind and passing out around 10


another friend getting so drunk at his own house, in our early evening "cocktail party" (my idea), then  going into the city and threatening several people  again in the rough and tough early 90s of NYC


another friend spotting a Woody Allen look alike down in the 50s and Broadway, and pouring champagne on him after midnight 


these are just a sampling, more where that came from