im conversation of the week

john m: lowercase
john m: injested
sh4wn: cheese and cabbale
john m: spinach
john m: waffle
john m: lowercase elective
sh4wn: i just bit my tongue
sh4wn: thanks a heap
john m: lowercase uhh
john m: lowercase E coli
sh4wn: spinach collective
john m: lowercase Manhattan
john m: Upper East side-collective
sh4wn: the rice and bacon celery
john m: i have this new obsession
john m: i go and add myself to people’s high school alumni
john m: even though i didn’t go there
sh4wn: hehe
john m: in high school
john m: I was in Chess Club, Archery, 4H, and Speling Be Champian
sh4wn: hehe
john m: 2
sh4wn: math
john m: rollercoaster
sh4wn: harpies
john m: fish
sh4wn: motorbus
john m: Sam I Am
sh4wn: toadstools with rabies
john m: speaker
sh4wn: evil squid
john m: gringo
sh4wn: Gary Coleman
john m: GO Titans!
sh4wn: misshaped mint
john m: utah
sh4wn: ghosts
john m: calibrated joystick
sh4wn: F5
john m: Runstop Restore
sh4wn: a baker’s dozen
john m: Word Perfect
sh4wn: action figures
john m: national anthem
sh4wn: tomahawk
john m: Silver Spoon reruns

ra n domli st

a strand of hair from a sad ferret
crunchy shrimp sushi roll
the lochness monster
missing pieces from a mosaic
the funniest thing i’ve seen this week
North Carolina come on and raise up
chili lime pistachio from Harris Teeter
12 Monkey’s
violence
being attacked by cheese nips
the longest nap of the day
a festival (fun)
semi-warm cocoa
Liverpool

funny/amazing things from the internets

a. this is a commercial/mock commercial for a McDonald’s Fish-o-filet. brilliant.

b. this is a site for an ikea in a different country. wow. the use of video is spectacular.

c. MGM Grand. all i can say is dang.

The Family Learning Channel

i had been looking for this for a while, and my pal josh found it for me.

Don Hertzfeldt of Bitter Films made this insane animated movie.  It’s sick and dark and twisted and completely bizarrre.  you’ll probably like it.

Out of the Covers / Under the Covers

fatandy and i have been working together to come up with a covers mix. the format is easy: Song – Artist – Originial Artist. Out of the covers is a collection of songs to get you going in the morning, and Under the Covers is for when you’re ready to go to bed/chill/whatever.

download the mix here.

Out of the Covers

Easy – Faith No More – Commadores
Enjoy the Silence – Failure – Depeche Mode
God Only Knows – Mandy Moore & Michael Stipe – Beach Boys
The Boys Are Back in Town – Cardigans – Thin LIzzy
What a Fool Believes – Self – Michael McDonald
Microphone Fiend – Rage Against the Machine – Eric B and Rakeem
Purple rain – Leeroy Justice – Prince
Lithium – The Polyphonic Spree – Nirvana
The Energy Blues – Biz Markie – School House Rock

Under the Covers

Let Down – Pedro the Lion – Radiohead
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road – Faultline & Keane – Elton John
I Need Love – Luka Bloom – LL Cool J
Crazy – Ray LaMontagne – Gnarls Barkley
When Doves Cry – Damien Rice – Prince
Power of Love – The Early November – Huey Lewis and the News
Colorblind – Natalie Walker – Counting Crows
Across the Universe – Fiona Apple – The Beatles
Bizarre Love Triangle – Frente! – New Order
Where is My Mind? – Nada Surf – The Pixies

Eddie vs parking

There were many glorious segments of this past weekend, and i will now share with you some of these:

The Tennessee Volunteers beat the ever living pants off of the California Golden Bears (supposedly the 9th best team in the country). Although i’m a large fan of bears in general, this romping was more to my liking than any other bear related beating that i’ve personally experienced.  The drunk people in front of us got pulled out of the game by a few police officers, and a 9 year old girl vomited repeatedly at the end of the 3rd quarter.

Not long ago, Eddie had the brilliant idea for us to tailgate before the game. He organized a nice little gathering which included a grill, a tent, a generator, a tv, tasty food, and a laptop that recieved cable feeds. We hung out and talked and had a fun time.

Now, one of Eddie’s jobs before every home game is to pick up the officials (refs) from their hotel and take them to the stadium. After the game, he takes them back. They’ve armed Eddie with a UT 15 passengar van to assist him in this process.

For those who don’t know Eddie real well, he’s a planner. He gets a plan, and he generally thinks through things. One of the things he thought through was what he was going to do with his maroon UT van (why not orange? i personally have no idea) so he could have quick access to it between tailgating and picking up the officials.

Just as we get the burgers on the grill, we get a call from Eddie that he needs a few of us to try to help him move the corner of a vehicle. That’s really all we knew as 5 of us started towards the area where he had parked the van. We arrived to see the maroon van pinned into a spot by a row of illegally parked cars; particularly a cream colored Mercedes from the 1970’s. We attempted to move said car with no avail.

At this point, a couple of bicycle officers entered the scene, proving to be completely incapable of helping us. More officers showed up to the spot, everyone dishing insult upon injury at the trapped Eddie, who had at this point, missed his window to pick up the officials. Here is a list of suggestions given to help Eddie during this time:

1. We could pick it up and move it (tried this, and we were ineffective)
2. We could break the window, throw it in neutral and move the car.
3. Don’t you officers have means of opening cars?
4. One officer spoke of shooting the window out, which was my favorite suggestion of the day.
5. Towing was the original plan, but there were too many other illegally parked cars to get to this one.
6. Super strength, which no one had.
7. Gather many intoxicated fratboys to help us move said vehicle.
8. Continue poking fun at Edmond, which of course would only make it more fun while waiting for the real solution.

Apparently, the cops (as Eddie kept calling them) had a means of opening the cars.  It took 3 of them, with a few more standing around watching.  The car was opened, thrown in neutral, and moved about 10 feet so Eddie could free the trapped UT vehicle.

As Eddie attempted to traverse the narrow pathway that lead to the road, he veered a little to avoid some pedestrians and ended up clipping the mirror and maybe another section of a parked truck.  The old officer then turned to us and said “Don’t tell me that he just hit something” and of course we replied, “ok, we won’t.”

And later on that evening, after the Vols trounced the Golden Bears, the officials gave him a hard time as well.  “Are you the guy that was supposed to pick us up earlier today?”  At which point i would have responded “No.  We fired him, the idiot.”  For some reason, Eddie took this opportunity to shine as the village idiot and got the van stuck in a ditch on the way back to the hotel.  Just kidding.

Here are some things that Eddie learned through all of this.

always wash your hands. touch the bobcat.

the AC is jacked up in our office building today: 82 degrees. for those who are familiar with the furnace inside my chest that heats every part of my body, you can see why i’m miserable.

i have a bobcat that sits on my back porch that leslie desperately wants me to get rid of. there are flys that have been around it as of late, and although i don’t think they are doing anything to it, it is still somewhat creepy. anyway, i was moving the bobcat around as we were leaving for leslie’s grandparent’s house last night, knowing that i needed to wash my hands before we ate. when we arrived, several people started shaking my hand, and these words of wisdom popped in my head:

always wash your hands right before you eat because you never know who touched the bobcat.

going to see the vols play this weekend. i hope they win. if they don’t, i’ll blame Eddie.