missing one

i knew we would make this list the minute i saw the link for "Most Hated".

my commentary on why i hate (not too strong of a word for college football) them:

1. not much to say except, agree.

2. their fight song makes me actually empathize with the people who hate rocky top. i.e., their fight song makes me want to vomit everywhere.

3. they did something to Syracuse circa the 1800s that made my parents hate them, so i was never a big fan except for maybe the quinn/samardzija tag-team.

4. i could count the ways. how about the current espn headline: "Have you heard?" with the subtitle "Many predict a championship season for Percy Harvin and the Gators". so so easy to hate. And the fact that they will forever brag about their sandwich championships will forever ever kill me.

5. eh, they're ok.

6. who still lives in michigan, anyway?

7. you know, the UT thing. at least vince is playing for the right state now.

8. they're stupid AND they suck.

9. eh, we beat them the time i went to miami, so nothing to hate there except the Orange Bowl is a sucky venue.

10. well hell, i like that version of sweet child o mine.

11. WHERE is LSU???

a few

i have a few random comments (imagine that):

1. Has anyone else noticed that Sportscenter's bottom-screen scroll now has FAVRE as one of the main categories? earlier, i could have said, "as one of the main sports". But now... good old smokin hot Brett is apparently his own sport. Perhaps rightfully so.so yes, now along with AL, NL, NFL, NBA, NCAAF, TENNIS, & GOLF, there is also FAVRE. Awesome.


2. I wonder how hard it was for Mr. Movie Trailer Narrator to say, "Coming soon to a theater near you: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants . . . Part Two" with a straight face. Part 2? what the hell? who watches this? oh, america. sweet land of liberty.


3. The two most frightening moments of my summer thus far have nothing to do with skydiving. The first was walking to the bathroom while we were camping in West Vahginia, headlamp on, and involuntarily letting my mind wander to Blair Witch Project scenes. The second was walking to the PwC office here in Houston from my hotel . . . at 8 o'clock in the morning. My god, this city is a bit sordid. To minimize getting stared down by fetid homeless men and talked at randomly by crazy homeless women, do not ever stay in the Courtyard Marriott in downtown Houston if you are planning on walking outside farther than the valet stand.


4. Back to espn: I had a nice little respite from reading any college football news (except when Colquitt got arrested), but I finally got the unshakable urge to read some of the speculation. Here's my favorite by Mr. Forde. He's indisputably the best NCAAF writer espn's got. though hopefully we do not start 3 and 3. God help us if we don't beat auburn, florida, OR georgia.


5. Joe sent me this article a couple weeks ago. Love the cheap wine - my parents taught me well. Charles Shaw and Target boxed wine are all I need. (and uptown TJ's is coming soon)


6. Two fiscal policy films are being released this fall: I.O.U.S.A. was shown at the Sundance Film Festival in January and is being widely released in 400 theaters on August 21st (DNC is 8/25) (how can DNC stand for Democratic National Committee and Democratic National Convention at the same time? One should be DNCC. Stupid.). An Inconvenient Tax (no, i'm not kidding...) will be released in November . . . conveniently. (sorry.)

i can only speculate on what specific policies and ideas each movie will try to pummel into our thick, unenlightened heads. however, as someone who has been forced to pay attention to accounting-related news for years now, i can only imagine that these films will be extremely scintillating. So to spare you from feeling obligated to go see them (what? oh.. not even guilt gets people to care anymore?), let me just sum up for you what our fiscal policy should be: less tax, less government. No taxation with representation.? i just made that up.

frankly, i'm sick of having to pay people to tell me to vote once i turn 18 for people who will uphold laws that won't let me drink until i'm 21. If i was still 18 i'd be pissed. Do people even talk about politics sober?


7. Will you sign this please?
pw= MCPR


retired quarterbacks who come back, pants, survival, college football, cheap wine, taxes, and tennis. My favorite things.

none for none

this makes me want to seriously vomit...

hezbollah hands over 2 dead people, probably in pieces, and it gets this guy in return, alive:

from cnn:

"For its part, Hezbollah is most interested in the release of the convicted Kuntar, the longest-serving Lebanese prisoner in Israel.

The Shiite Muslim militia group hails him as a hero.

Kuntar, who had been a member of the Palestine Liberation Front, led a group of four men who entered Israel from Lebanon by boat in 1979. They killed a police officer who came across them. Then they took a 28-year-old man and his 4-year-old daughter hostage.

Kuntar shot the father dead at close range in front of his daughter and tossed his body in the sea. Then he smashed the girl's head, killing her.

A 2-year-old girl suffocated as her mother tried to stop her from crying as they hid from Kuntar.

He was sentenced to life and spent the last three decades in an Israeli jail -- until Wednesday, when he is expected to return home to a hero's welcome."

what??? sounds like they are just eager to take out enemy trash.

i hope this is not going on a cnn tshirt.

offering

went to glen phillips concert the other night at evening muse. was v.hot and had to stand the whole time and couldn't see v. well, but it was still all right.

in any case, my favorite part was that, before the concert, i glanced at his website and happened upon this hedgehog video in his blog.. he offered the hedgehog. now i offer it to you.

flip flop lip lock

people are v. concerned about flip-floppiness of politicians. i've never understood why. why, in the face of changing facts and circumstances, ideas and preferences, should one not be able to change their mind.

things i have changed my mind about:
tomatoes
escargot
ideal places to live
ideal dog size
barbie's ideal hair length
purple
religion
abortion
what i 'want to be'
laptop backpacks
my parents
acid-wash jeans
country music
feminism
taxes
who i love
friends
fish tacos
coffee
favorite Blizzard
whiskey
eggs
wristbands
my middle name
things worth doing
how much i am willing to pay for sunglasses
panic at the disco

things that, if asked about, i will still answer, "it depends":
affirmative action
death penalty
standardized tests
north or south
moe's or qdoba?
family guy or southpark?
are you asian?
are you a nice person?
can you do me a favor?

and i changed my mind about most of the things on the first list due to capricious preferences, not any kind of logic.

things i may believe:
- people only really respond to personal incentives
- everyone is insecure
- when the motor of your car window breaks, it really does sound like the whole window is being ground into millions of glass shards in the confines of your car door. it is not.
- chicago is a 'real' city. charlotte is a pinocchio city. i loved pinocchio as much as anyone else. i just hate that he had to find out the hard way that being human kind of sucks compared to doll life. well, maybe except for the sex.. and candy
- i have no original ideas. every time i think i think of something novel, i find MY thought written down somewhere else... published at least 100 years ago. i'm led to believe that there is just something wrong with the dissemination of ideas. again, an old thought. i am destined to continue thinking that i am the only one whose car window shatters.

raiuowre

i'm currently watching a commercial for Cialis. i have one of those green, environment-friendly reusable Teeter bags sitting by the door to my condo, full of newspapers, that has been waiting to go out for 3 days. i'm listening to ingrid betancourt speak about how she never thought happiness was possible again.

i was telling joe earlier -- i mean, this is news, kids. after months of "did obama win or did hillary lose?"-esque idiotic headlines (that one really annoyed me), this news story enthralls me! hostages for 5 years - a bona fide kick-ass undercover rescue mission. reunited families. hope floats. so cool.

and those first 2 sentences i wrote have nothing to do with anything, really. just looking around the room, getting fingers on keys.

why does green have to represent environmental goodness? going green. ocean is bigger. how long have we been going green now? what if terrorists decide to adopt green as their official color? will that derail our environmental efforts? will broccoli become the new threatened crop?

god i'm word vomiting like a pro tonight.

does anyone get the cnn t-shirt thing? why would you want a shirt that says, "Cuba sets example for urban farming"? well, i thought about getting (i'd approximate for about -.8 seconds) the t-shirt that said, "asian women seek white, groveling men". back to my previous point - that 'news story' was not a new story.

also, after seeing pictures of the american hostages, i am convinced that the one is the leader of the G.I. Joes. you thought so too.

i am v. happy with life right now. i only mention it because it's been a long time since i think i could have said that. there are many things i have been v. happy with lately, just not life itself. though it still eludes me.

have a safe 4th.
(why spell fourth with a 'u' but forty without? great mystery)

(raiuowre = variation of mine and stephanie's sametime code for vomit)