Google Meme

I stole this meme from Avitable (http://www.avitable.com/). If you haven't checked out his blog you are missing some interesting humor. Google the eight phrases substituting your name. For the sake of this meme I used my real last name but sustituted my alter ego here.

1. "mcmanimal needs"
a. no nipping or tucking
b. to take an intelligence class
c. to stop screwing people
d. to and should stop this power trip now before someone gets seriously hurt or maybe even killed.

2. "mcmanimal is"
a. a hypocrite
b. having the time of his life
c. up for challenge
d. quite a package

3. "mcmanimal likes"
a. cock
b. 'em young. Really young.
c. the pro prospects of former Illini tailback Pierre Thomas
d. to talk about his days as the second captain of the Andrea Gale

4. "mcmanimal wants"
a. more officers pounding the streets
b. to make money
c. necrophilia angle to continue
d. to follow in the footsteps of 'perfect role-model'

5. "mcmanimal gets"
a. Drunk
b. his head shaved
c. another idea for a show
d. His Groove On!!

6. "mcmanimal says"
a. “We're tripping over ourselves”.
b. I love the old beer advertisements.
c. "not tonight"
d. "I had always wanted to play with Tom"

7. "mcmanimal does"
a. not collect your personal information while you browse our site
b. not have the answer to happiness
c. a nice job of combining theory, data, and feminist analysis
d. the solo thing with aplomb

8. "mcmanimal eats"
a. pieces of shit for breakfast?
b. a doughnut
c. a pickle with a monkey after going roller skating with a turnip
d. babyback ribs

Have we gone too far?

Nappy headed hos
Unfortunate comedy
Black hypocrisy

A double standard
When language is not equal
We are all doomed

Interview Me Meme

This piqued my interest the other day.

The Rules: Leave me a comment saying, "Interview me."I respond by asking you five personal questions so I can get to know you better. If I already know you well, expect the questions may be a little more intimate! You WILL update your journal/bloggy thing/whatever with the answers to the questions.You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the post.When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.

Questions courtesy of:
http://charlesdawson.blogspot.com/index.html

1. What was the happiest time of your life so far and why?
Very hard to answer. I find myself actually wondering sometimes if I've ever been truelly happy. What is happiness? Is it the elation of winning a sporting event? The satisfaction from passing a test? The pride in seeing one's child succeed? Is it completely not worrying about anything? Can I get off the couch now? Seriously, I'm most content sitting in my backyard enjoying the company of my wife, a bottle of red wine and a good cigar. This would be because I think I am basically a good person who tries to make the lives of the ones I love and even a few strangers better. Does this count?

2. What is your honest opinion of your parents?
Back on the couch. This is a very provocative question, which I'm sure would garner different answers at different points in my life. Right now, I feel lucky to still have both parents. I've grown to understand the issues of parent hood thanks to my own offspring and can now appreciate all that was done for me and all they put up with. Was it perfect? Hell no! But in my family dynamic you learned to take what was available and deal with it. A lesson the current generation certainly could stand to learn.

3. Do you think we are in for global warming or not?
Funny (not as funny as much as coincidence) we were just discussing this at work. I think the planet has been on a warming trend since the end of the ice age. I think there are things we can and should do to minimize what we do to this planet. I think man is just arrogant enough to think that we caused it and we can fix it. I think (unfortunatley) in the future we are doomed to a nulcear winter which would put a halt to the warming trend.

4. What are your favourite films (stop at fifty, for God's sake)?
I'll not bore anymore with a long list, here's a few in no particular order.
Jaws
Raging Bull
Young Frankenstein
Gangs of New York
Good Fellas
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
5. Do you have any special talents or aptitudes (honesty not modesty required here)? Unfortunately not, I seem to be burdened with more potential than actual talent. Maybe I just haven't found the right outlet or motivation. In the words of the immortal Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull) "I'm geared towards the average rather than the exceptional"

Will interview for food.

Casual Observations

Being somewhat new to the practice of blogging, I spent sometime surfing through blogdom and come to the following conclusions:

1.) There's a shitload of blogs out there.
2.) I've got a lot to learn about blogging
3.) A lot of moms and Canadians are blogging
4.) You can make money blogging
5.) Strangley, the blogs I've been drawn to reading most frequently are written by people with a connection to MA. (strange cause that's where I spent my youth).
6.) A lot of blog entries are memes (which I think is french for here's something about ME ME)

Here are a couple of blogs I've found interesting/entertaining:
http://pointless-drivel.com/ (Mr. Fabulaous)
http://avitable.blogspot.com/ (Avitable)
http://certifiableprincess.blogspot.com/ (CertifiablePrincess)
http://trustmeimablonde.blogspot.com (Blonde)

Happy St.Patrick's Day!

Back from NYC (great show last night), all dug out from the storm and enjoying some Irish music and a few pints. All is right with the world except this bitch on the train home and this story of the child molester/killer and his parents down in GA.
First the bitch on the train. Why is it that some people feel entitled to take up more space than they should and then give attitude when asked politely to make room. I say FU move the F over.
Secondly, this thing in GA is F'd up. All these bastards should offed. That would solve the problem. Forget about rehabilitation.

Anyway I'm going to have few more pints and some soda bread.

Am I paranoid?

You know the old saying. (It's really not that old, it's from a Nirvana song. Kurt Cobain was a genius.) Just because you are paranoid, doesn't mean they are not after you! But come on what's up with this weather. Here in the NE we're getting pounded with snow just when it looked like I could get out there and go golfing. It seems any time my wife and I plan some trip (not that it's a big trip, we're spending tonight in NYC after taking in the Pete Yorn show at the Roseland Ballroom) we get the worst f'ing weather imaginable. And don't go blaming global warming either, the planet has been warming up since the ice age.

Ready! Fire! Aim!

Well here goes nothing! My first blog entry. You'd think I'd have something profound to write about. Guess what, I'm really not that deep. What you'll find here from time to time are opinions on the issues affecting my life. Agree, disagree frankly I couldn't care less.