The Post with my Modus Operandi
I came to a realization this weekend. All this depression and complaining I've been doing is completely out of character for me. It fully hit me that I was on the track to trouble when I had a dream this week that I lost it at work one day and went nuts on people. That just wouldn't be me, and it upsets me to see myself on that path. I've gotten away from my mode of operation.

I'm one kind of person. I love life. I joke, I laugh, I get by despite things going wrong at every turn. And lately I've been letting heavy things get in the way of me having a good time coasting through life.

Well starting now I'm back to what has made me tick for years. The free-wheeling, good-timing Brian is officially back. Begin celebrating now.
- posted by Brian @ 5/16/2005 06:57:00 PM

 
The Post with My Summer Movie Slate
This summer will see me hitting the theaters every week trying to do a better job of keeping up with the hot summer flicks than I have the past 2 years. I'll also rank them as I see them with some notes--(I will probably see Star Wars at some point but probably not right away since I'm not a huge fan but I'll speak of it when I see it)


1. Kicking & Screaming--Will Ferrell continues his roll of strong performances and gets some great help from the legendary Robert Duvall. The kids are hilarious, the relationships between the parents and Will is funny and his geeky interaction with the kids is gold.

2. House of Wax--The first 40 minutes is boring, and just generally crappy. It is mind numbing and they make way to many references to Paris Hilton's sex video. Then Elisha Cuthbert and her boyfriend enter the House of Wax and that's where the movie picks up. It becomes a gory, intense thriller from that point on and the ending sequence is amazing in its spectre. But the first 40 minutes really drag it down and prevent it from being a great horror film.
- posted by Brian @ 5/16/2005 06:49:00 PM

 
The Post with the story stolen from a Live Journal
I read this story in The Barbaric Berzerker Jimmy Jacobs journal and it made me laugh hard....

Before you ask or wonder yes Jimmy Jacobs is a wrestler, but a wrestler I've met who is a really cool guy and is younger than I am----


Man... there's too much to tell from this week. So apparently while I was gone for the weekend, our trampoline got stolen out of our backyard. That's right. A 15 foot trampoline, or however big, got stolen... IN BROAD DAY LIGHT, nonetheless. Who does that? So by that Monday, I'm home for a bit and my neighbor comes to my door and informs me that he saw a trampoline about a half a block away that I may wanna check out to see if it's ours. So, I walk half way around the block to see these little ghetto heads appearing and disappearing, bouncing up and down over a wooden fence. And sure enough, I walk around the fence and there's 6 ghetto kids jumping on our trampoline. (It was clearly ours because we have a rather distinct hole in it.) So I'm perplexed as to what kind of person steals a trampoline in broad day light, then sets it up a half a block away from where they stole it from. I dont know what to do. Do I wanna get involved with criminals over a stupid trampoline? They could slash my tires, break my car windows, etc etc. I decided not to do anything about it... that is, until I came home to my roommates all enraged. "Fuck that. That's your trampoline. You gotta do something about it." So that was just the encouragement I needed. We formed a posse to steal our trampoline back at 5 in the afternoon. The posse consisted of me (wearing a tight collared shirt, nail polish, and eye liner), my roommate Keith (wearing a tight sleeveless shirt), my roommate Bob (looking semi normal and semi big), Keith's girlfriend Amber, and my friend Sarah. Keith and I held hands walking down the street ready to steal back what was ours. GAYEST POSSE EVER. So we walk over there, to the more ghetto side of our block (keep in mind our neighbor's house caught on fire a couple months earlier because their upstairs meth lab exploded) to reclaim our trampoline. I walk in their yard to see 3 older, probably in their 40-60s, women who are waaaaaay trashy, who seriously are missing a lot of teeth, and a 35 year old Hispanic dude. I look at the trampoline and the man goes, "Oh... is that yours?" to which I say, "Yeeeaaaaaaa, we're just gunna take this back." Then he gives me this story about how the neighborhood little kids found the trampoline "in an alley" and thought it was abandoned. The hoodlems in training then spent the better part of the day, he said, trying to squeeze the trampoline thru fence cracks and roll it down streets. I just laughed. If he was telling the truth, which he may have been... who knows... that's hillarious. Either way, we were getting our trampoline back. So the 5 of us in the GAYEST POSSE EVER, fumble for a while to carry this full sized trampoline back to our property. In the midst of the fumbling, one of the older white trash ladies heckles us with, "Why dont you put your college education to use? We had 10 year-olds that could move that trampoline better than you." Sorry ma'am. I failed How to Steal Trampolines 101. Keep encouraging your future convict kids to steal; I dare you. The 5 of us then carry the trampoline down this ghetto alley where all the locals came out to stare and the dogs charged for us, barking, only being held back by ghetto chains. I felt like we were Jesus, carrying the cross, minus the whole divinity and dying for our sins, and well... we were nothing like Jesus except that we were carrying something big while people heckled us. We finally carried the trampoline thru the alley, lifted it over two fences, and returned it back to its spot in our backyard. RE. DICK. YOU. LUSS.
- posted by Brian @ 5/12/2005 06:32:00 PM

 
The Post with me sharing my love of capitalism
We should all be thankful we live in America. Sure we have our problems but there are so many things that make this country great. For instance Capitalism which is an economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of capital goods by investments that are determined by private decision rather than by state-control, and by prices, production, and the distribution of goods that are determined mainly by competition in a free market.

My love was furthered two nights ago when I couldn't sleep and found myself watching television at 3:30 in the morning. It was an infomercial for the new "hot" product they were selling---The Perfect Pancake....Someone built a device, and got it patented where you pour pancake mix into a circular pan that is attached to another circular pan on the bottom. After pouring the mix you close the device up and in minutes you have the perfect round pancake.

Is this really a problem for people? Are people clamoring in the streets for perfectly round pancakes? Does it really matter if they are round or maybe nubbed off in the corner a little bit? So why does this further my love of capitalism? See in other countries they might tell you how to spend your money or insist you buy stuff only made by certain companies. In America, you make your money but are given no guidelines as to how you spend it. One may argue taxes but those fall under my cost of living expenses. I'm talking about extraneous expenses, of which this falls under. See because I know at the same time I was watching this commercial somewhere someone else was, and I know someone was buying this idiotic product. And that is the beauty of capitalism. You have your own money, you're free to spend it however you want, and if you choose to spend it on stupid stuff like this--you deserve to have it taken from you. GOD BLESS AMERICA
- posted by Brian @ 5/12/2005 05:53:00 PM

 
The Post with me Clearing up the Previous PoST
I feel I need to make statements from yesterday clearer. It's not that I will hate my summer splitting time between the two activities. It's just that I like to be able to devote 100% of my attention to things and I won't be able to do that since I'll be jetting back and forth between the two.

And I blame it mostly on the hockey thing since they've drug their feet in the past year in startign leagues and getting them finished on time. At this rate the summer league next year will start in December.

I will have fun however though since I'll be doing all these things with friends.

Ok I feel better now
- posted by Brian @ 5/02/2005 06:41:00 PM

 
The Post with Life Being Unfair
So in the past year joy has come to me rarely. Two things that brought me a sense of regular joy were:

1. Coaching baseball with my buddy

2. PLaying hockey on a team in Phoenixville with some other friends


So hockey season is upcoming--starting about a month or so later than it did at this time last year. Then I get the schedule for baseball and there appears to be a great deal of overlap. So basically I'll spend the next 3 months splitting time between two things I love that together will probbaly turn into something I loathe because I won't be able to give full attention to both.

Actually---well I don't know


Somewhere someone is laughing at me
- posted by Brian @ 5/01/2005 05:24:00 PM