Posted: 3 weeks ago on October 12 2009
SkyMusings, AirThoughts From Last JetWeek
If you haven’t noticed, travel is the theme for this week’s edition of the musings. I was spending a lot of this past weekend in a car or plane, so I didn’t have time to get you your musings on Friday, so I’ll give them to you today. These are actual thoughts I had from the past week.
- Why does everything on an airplane have to have some “plane” word thrown into its name? “SkyMall” (we will get to that later), “Sky Magazine,” “JetWay,” “SkyChef,” etc. It really is ridiculous. Who do they think they are, Batman?
- One unforeseen product of the economic decline has been the price of soda’s drastic decline. Most convenience stores are now selling all sizes of fountain soda for around $.80. That’s 16-oz, 24-oz, 32-oz, or the (insert some title that means “if you drink all of this you will give yourself diabetes and pee yourself all at the same time”) 64-oz soda for less than a buck. Now everyone can afford to drink more ice cold sugar liquid than ever before in human history. I wonder if this is part of a government plan to make people forget about how lousy everything else has become. “Who cares if the stock market crashed and I don’t have any retirement left, DO YOU SEE HOW MUCH COKE I GOT FOR LESS THAN A BUCK? I’m going to drink a gallon of Coke and vote for whoever is in charge of this decision to be the next President!” This is what I call “Universal Soda-Care,” and that’s change I can believe in.
- The only people that haven’t figured out how dirt cheap soda is for all Americans are the airlines. Now on most planes, you don’t even get a full can with your drink. The old Jewish lady next to me bemoaned this fact to me literally the entire way from Atlanta to Denver. Who will hear her cries? She told me that, “Used to, you would get a whole can, but now they try to save money and stretch that can into three or four cups.” Tragic. So I told her about the convenience stores and their universal soda care plan and her eyes lit up like a Christmas tree. This was exactly what she needed to hear. Somewhere, someone “get’s it,” just give us soda and we will love you.
- Delta now has trivia games on their touch-screens that you can play for free. Great news for me, bad news for “OKIE” in seat 36A who felt the heat from my trivia fire. Between the 1000-point beatdown I handed my fellow passengers and showing the lady next to me the light from gas-station soda, I would say I had a productive flight.
Posted 1 month ago on October 6 2009
Getting Pumped for Sports and Stuff
I was watching the Auburn-Tennessee game Saturday night and this play caught my eye. And by caught my eye I mean it launched me out of my seat and made me yell out in some neanderthalian moment.
Two men hurtling towards one another only to meet in a clash of neo-gladiators. The runner, Auburn’s Ben Tate is establishing himself as one of the best runningbacks in the SEC. The defender, Eric Berry is the best safety in the country, and perhaps the best player in all of college football. None of that mattered when they collided Saturday night. Football is full of moments like these. These moments, tests of strength and chutzpah, happen a few times every game. It is these moments that define what football is. Maybe Eric Berry wins the Heisman this year, maybe he is drafted in the top ten in next year’s NFL draft, but at that moment none of that mattered. All that mattered was that right then Ben Tate was better.
Every sport has its share of exciting plays, whether is an alley-oop from half court or a base clearing triple, but football reaches my innermost being like none other. Seeing that play and my reaction that immediately followed made me realize that there is nothing else in this world that makes me feel that way. I can only imagine how Ben Tate must have felt.
Getting pumped, or crunk, or raw, or amped is part of the game. Maybe it is that release of emotion that draws people to football. Maybe it is seeing someone give everything they absolutely have that keeps me watching the game.
Maybe it is just watching men run faster and do things I never will be able to do.
Posted 1 month ago on October 2 2009
It's Friday and I've Been Musing
Well this week has been special to say the least. You guys have seen some videos from the Kivu Video Release Week, and Fall weather is moving in. Anyway, here comes some musings.
• I am 23 years-old and can be brought to my knees laughing when anyone does an impersonation of Pee Wee Herman. Stop what you’re doing and say “I’m trying to use the Phoooone” like Pee Wee.
• If someone told you Bon Jovi was doing the theme music for this year’s baseball postseason and you didn’t throw up in your mouth…stop reading this site. It’s not for you.
• I think the best thing ever would be to have, on my gravestone, “Avid adventurer and tamer of the wild.” they sid that about this guy on the National Parks documentary I’ve been watching on PBS. That seems like he had a decent life.
• Facebook quizzes are the worst idea ever. Yes even worse than giving free hot dogs to college students. Those animals will eat your hand while you try to give them their dog.
• Is it creepy that I want to start going to a local high school’s home football games painted up like the team’s number 1 fan. I want to memorize the players’ names and everything. Gosh I miss college.
Posted 1 month ago on October 1 2009
A word from some Zepplin pilots who are here to instruct you how to act when at camp.
Posted: 1 month ago on October 1 2009
Another set of advertisements from this summer that Jip and I were commissioned to do.
Posted 1 month ago on September 30 2009
The answer to the age old question: What did Jip and Drew DO all day this summer?
Posted: 1 month ago on September 30 2009
KIVU VIDEO RELEASE WEEK! This is another commercials video, which includes my favorite all-time commercial. 50 of the best air-horn songs ever! This is how Jip and I made money this summer.
Posted: 1 month ago on September 30 2009
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Posted 1 month ago on September 29 2009
Best Craigslist Post I Have Ever Seen
I was sitting in my class today, minding my own business, when I received a tweet that sent me reeling. My roommate Adam wrote:
” http://denver.craigslist.org/bar/1398158266.html This is for real. A guy trying to trade his pet koala bear in Denver. @natefriend @drewcrowson @lukeparrott read the info!”
Wow. This is one of the funniest things that I have ever read. Apparently Somewhere in Denver, there exists a man who is trying to get rid of a pet Koala bear. Why did he own a koala bear? Is that even legal? Is this post real?
The bear’s name is GumNut.
This animal uses a catbox and rapes cats. He also eats spiders and hates Desperate Housewives. What more do you want?
Read the listing for yourself and try not to burst out laughing. It really is hilarious.
Craigslist is one of the best ways to find great stuff for cheap. It is also a great way to find worthless stuff that no one wants. The best part about craigslist is the intentionally and unintentionally hilarious things you can find listed.
