License To Boast

Saw this plate on a car outside of a Mexican restaurant I went to the other day:

Surprisingly there wasn't one sexy person eating, let alone two of them.

Sunday Brunch. Now With Feathers!

Here's a gross story for you.

I wound up working this past Sunday. Not my usual, but I'm a nice guy and I agreed to fill in for someone. Anyway, I ride my bike in and pull up to our quiet building. I roll up to the bike rack and look over to see a seagull looking at me. You know how they are. Always giving the evil eye. Head tilted, beak at the ready ... it makes me nervous.

I go about the business of locking up my bike and look up to see the seagull has something in it's mouth. I can't figure it out at first but then I see. It's a dead bird. There's this one in the seagull's mouth and two more on the ground. Apparently a bunch of little birds from the neighborhood had a run-into-the-building-windows party. It surprisingly resulted in a bunch of broken necks. Idiots. Anyway, this seagull had a sparrow in its mouth. Then the seagull tilts its head back and swallows the thing down. Pretty much one big gulp and it was gone. It may as well have been a piece of bread or a crab or a french fry. But it was a bird. A small bird, but a bird nonetheless. Pretty much cannibalism. Nasty!

The seagull gives me another stare and hops to another dead bird, scoops him up and gulps him down. At this point I decided enough was enough and I walked over that way and the seagull flew off with his two bird lunch. I'm sure it came back for the last bird but at least I didn't have to see it.

Upon looking through photos on Google, I see that it could have been worse. Still, something about that gulping those little birds down whole is creepy to me.

It's All About Form

Speaking of rowing ... I hate rowing machines aka ergs. Always have. BUT if I could be on one next to this I might feel more tolerant and motivated.

photo from CrossFit

Sunday Boozy Sunday

Last night I went to a party with my fellow rowers at the house of one of the coaches. It was actually pretty cool. Good food, decent music, air hockey, pool and of course much of the drinky drink. I got pretty banged up. Then I walked home via the train tracks. It's really quite perfect. Plenty of places to pee, no drunk drivers or drunk walkers, and plenty of rocks to throw and/or trip over. Plus who doesn't like the thrill of possibly having a train rocket by you at 2am.

I woke up early because these same rowers were having a workout session in the park by my apartment at 9:15am. Always the early morning shit with this sport. So annoying. Anyway, I walk over and there is only one person from my boat there. She's curled up in a ball on the grass, all pale as hell and praying for death. First class hangover. Four others showed up too, all feeling rather crappy. We worked out, but it was pretty half-assed. We then went to breakfast. This seemed to go better than the exercise part.

We're going to be a dream team for sure.

Track Baby

I love this photo:

Watch out, Big Brown! Baby on the track!!

You'd think it was some wacky news parody site or something, but no. It's from 1010WINS. This photo that was whipped up to go along with this story: http://www.1010wins.com/ABANDONED-FOR-THE-DERBY/2122386 and quite honestly I think it's the best use of a Photoshopped baby I have ever seen.

Another Week Gone By

Again with the lack of consistent updates. I know, I know.

Anyway, this past week was pretty fun. Monday I went to see my boys from my old stomping ground, the New York Yankees play my new stomping ground's Cleveland Indians. Tickets were a birthday present making it even better. Despite it was pretty chilly out and there was some sloppy playing by both sides, the Yankees pulled out a win which was pretty sweet. Making all this even sweeter was the fact that some random guy comes up to me at the bar before the game and asked if I wanted to upgrade my ticket. I, of course, am suspicious of anything that seems too good to be true. I told the guy that the tickets I had were pretty good (not a lie) but he said, "Look, these are right behind homeplate. Here, take 'em." So I did. And he wasn't lying. Five rows back, right behind the plate. Pretty sick. I bought the guy a beer, but other than that it really was a totally free upgrade. WTF? That kind of thing never happens to me. So, thanks for the tickets mystery guy. It was appreciated.

The day after the game I went to see spaz rockers (did I just make up a new genre?), Mindless Self Indulgence at The Agora. Pretty cool venue. Sold out too, so it was full to the brim with the odd mix of punks, goths, rockers and ravers that MSI seems to attract. A good time was had by all. I even picked myself up a poster that I plan on getting framed (someday).

Last night I went to a dos de mayo party at a co-workers apartment. Also pretty fun. Drinks, snacks, drinking games, music, stories about whitewater rafting and high school football douchebags, etc.

Tonight I have another cinco de mayoish party with my newly established rowing peeps. I'm bringing some mac and cheese and people better fucking like it because it's the shit.

At Least Someone Is Using Their Brain

Mike Bloomberg is slightly nuts, but I really like his long-term thinking (a thing that most people just don't seem to have). Fuck that patching up problems and then have them come back to haunt us all worse than ever a few years down the road. Fix shit now, bitches.

Granted having assloads of money makes his style of thought a bit easier than for the average Joe, but maybe we need to start solving problems ourselves instead of depending on the douches running for President (who you know aren't going to get jackshit done). Kudos, Mike.

From 1010WINS:

Bloomberg praised Sen. Barack Obama for opposing the plan floated by Republican John McCain and supported by Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton to suspend the 18.4 cent federal gas tax and 24.2 cent diesel tax during the peak driving months of the summer.

"It's about the dumbest thing I've heard in an awful long time, from an economic point of view," Bloomberg told reporters at City Hall. "We're trying to discourage people from driving and we're trying to end our energy dependence ... and we're trying to have more money to build infrastructure."

Full story here: http://www.1010wins.com/Bloomberg--Gas-Tax-Holiday-an--Idiotic--Idea/2108707