Monday, December 31, 2012
Taking on the much needed haircut
while also not giving a crap what I look like. That night be a bit
too strong as it isn't like I don't care but I just can't be bothered
to put too much energy into it. I have not spent more than $25 on any
single piece of clothing in a decade (other than running shoes which
aren't really identified as clothing per se). I often go three or four
months between haircuts going from a Dan Rather look to a Jim from the
Office look throughout the months
So here I am with another bad hair day and no desire whatsoever to change it
Happy New Year
Sunday, December 30, 2012
Take on the void if scratched portion of the scratch-off
the bottom of the scratch offs? I am not sure what the rationale is
although I'd guess that officially it has something to do with
merchants not being able to cull out the winners. although the cynic
in me figures that it is just another way to scam would be winners out
of their money because they got a little eager with the scratching and
accidentally went over the line and are this marked a Zero.
Saturday, December 29, 2012
Take on the homeless psycho problem
working immigrant in front of a subway track barreling into the
station. I know this isn't popular amongst both the cost cutters, the
civil liberty types or the liberal weenies but it is time to do
something about these crazed psychos. I said a long time ago that
homelessness is not a financial situation but a psychological one,
there are plenty of options for the unemployed and/or poor but what
the vast majority of homeless people are, is a person with serious
psychological and emotional issues. I am not particularly referring
to your shelter living types or the ones who turn to churches for help
but rather the ones who make a conscious decision to live in the
streets. The types with three shopping carts full of garbage who
smell like rotting fleshes. There is no reason that these people
should not be institutionalized civil liberties aside becauase they
are a clear danger to society as they prove over and over again
Now any veteran New Yorker knows to stay away from the subway track
especially if there is one of these homeless people in the station.
This becomes second nature for anybody who rides the trains regularly
and is similar to keeping money out of plain view or why women turn
their engagement rings around when walking down a dark street but
that's not enough.
Time to get some protection for the average Joe looking to make a living
Friday, December 28, 2012
Take on the new/old Pepsi
red, white and blue (and yellow) labels as it embarks on yet another
chapter in the great cola wars. Obviously Coca Cola has sort of tried
moving back and forth between the original and the new recipes with
only moderate success but what really gets me is that in a day and age
when they are all trying to outdo each other on one front when it
comes to Limited Calorie options (diet coke, pepsi one, coke zero,
pepsi light etc) that Pepsi is seemingly attacking Coke on another
front at the same time with openly embracing the sugar thing on
another front.
I realize that real sugar might be better than high fructose corn
syrup but with a country with a combination of a gigantic obesity
issue and a dwindling education system wouldn't it be smarter to hide
the "real sugar" thing as opposed to marketing it?
Plus it only makes this new/old Pepsi sound sweeter which is odd
because it's already a banana cream pie to Coke's turnip. Then again
they probably did their research and know their audience. Although
all those Pepsi stakeholders better hope this customer base doesn't
keep over on the way down the grocery store aisle
Thursday, December 27, 2012
Take on the food choices at Port Authority
Between the homeless people passed out with vomit on their shirts, the
miserable commuters coughing on one another and the transit workers
pissing all over the seats the place just screams filth. So if the
Port Authority is the place you'd least like to have lunch than the
Cafe Motor on the 2nd floor has to be the least appetizing restaurant
in the least appetizing place on the world
I swear they are still serving the same meat patties I used to buy
after boxing 15 years ago. Mind you I am not saying the same type of
beef patties but literally the same ones are still sitting in the
display case from 1998.
I cannot for the life of me think of a good reason this place is still
in business other than it is laundering money cause for you to spend
your hard earned money at this place must mean you had a particular
type of death wish...death by voluminous ass diarrhea which funny
enough I almost died from myself this week
So instead of buying a ten year old beef patty from Cafe Motor I opted
for a $5.49 slice of cheesesteak pizza from some other joint called
Villa and sadly I don't think I am better off
Wednesday, December 26, 2012
Take on the Christmas stomach bug
undercooked sausage, maybe it was that my aunt didn't wash her hands
before making Cheescake, maybe drinking egg- nog with an expiration
date of 2010 was a bad idea, maybe it is the fact my house looks like
a tornado ran through it or maybe I just hate December 25th
They are all viable options to why I have been pissing out of my ass
all day, why I feel like I did 10 shots of rail gin but one thing is
for sure, I feel like death and my kid does too.
So screw santa and screw the Christmas spirit cause all signs of
holiday goodness flusher down with a roll of Charmin today
Tuesday, December 25, 2012
Take on the car antlers
many things I hate more than those stupid reindeer antlers that people
put on their cars. Dude it's 2013, you are in your forties and you
drive a $40k car, might be time to not drive around looking like a
douche.
These are the same idiots that show up wearing a Santa hat and an ugly
Christmas sweater which is a good thing because if the apocalypse does
come I know who I am taking out first
Monday, December 24, 2012
Take on Christmas gifts
happily listened to Christmas music, was excited to buy friends and
family gifts and really took in the spirit of the season. Then I one
day I stopped loving it and started to despise it. Maybe it was the
fact that we would routinely spend $1000 on gifts, maybe it was that
I'd leave the season with a garage full of crap I didn't ask for and
certainly didn't want or maybe it was because at some point it just
stopped being about Christmas and was only about who could spoil which
kid the most.
Long gone are the days when the Holidays were about thoughtful
presents, long gone are the genuine hugs after a gift exchange and
long gone is the magic of Christmas. Now my kid gets a bag full of
clothes, boxes of plastic toys and more stocking stuffers than I got
regular presents as a kid. She doesn't appreciate them anymore
because there are so many of them that by the time she rips open her
15th box she is numb to it.
I just wish people could realize that kids can be spoiled by a
thoughtful gift or gasp spending time with them not just trying to
outdo everybody else with quantity of gift
Sunday, December 23, 2012
Take on indigestion
amount of booze I consumed, promising myself I'd never get that
hammered again. Obviously I hardly ever heeded my own advice and
would put myself right back in the same spot at the next event which
I'd follow up with the same promise to myself
Too much alcohol is hardly ever the problem anymore but that doesn't
mean I leave happy. Last night I must have been up for two hours
tossing and turning because of terrible indigestion because as opposed
to too much whiskey this year I overdosed on fried food
I think I'd rather be hungover
Saturday, December 22, 2012
Take on the speaker phone option
is why people, mostly old ones, feel the need to use a speaker phone
option while walking down the aisles in the supermarket. You have a
phone with an earpiece which works perfectly well, if you don't want
to feel restricted you can opt for a Bluetooth or corded headset but
instead these seniors all feel the need to broadcast their wife's
Christmas grocery list to the entire A&P store.
So as I am trying to choose between two types of organic tomatoes, I
am forced to hear Big Joe describe the merits of one cantaloupe
against another with his wife sitting in her living room on the other
side of town
Friday, December 21, 2012
take on the NRA
if this is the America they envision they have to realize that this is very different than what the rest of us are looking for. A classroom is no place for a gun regardless if it's being wielded by a good-guy or bad-guy and the concept of the National School Shield Emergency Response Program is sickening especially since it was proposed three hours after a moment of silence for the victims in that terrible tragedy.. I don't have any interest in my daughters going to a school where the lunch lady is packing heat even if she's doing it to protect the kids she is feeding.
Thursday, December 20, 2012
Take on the germaphobe
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Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Take on the whitehouse petitions
unreal. I logged onto the WeThePeople website where citizens can
petition the federal government directly. If they ca get 25,000
online signatures the White House responds Out of the 20 or so
petitions on the first page there must be 14 of them threatening the
government from taking their guns away.
I particularly loved the one titled "we petition the Obama
administration to ensure the 2nd amendment cant (sic) be infringed
upon in anyway limiting citizens ability to defend against tyrannical
governments".
My first thought is that before you get on your soap box you may want
to make sure you are grammatically correct but the more important one
is that this one is about a third of the way from having to be
acknowledged by the White House
I am sure that these are the same people who will rally against the
federal government inefficiency which is obviously pretty ironic
considering this is exactly the type of action that causes
inefficiency.
But more importantly can somebody explain in what world outside of
Mark Levin's mind there is this tyrannical governmental threat. I
get that there are decisions and directions that go counter to the
beliefs of a large group of Americans but I do not believe anybody in
their right mind really see it as true tyranny
But then again I don't wear tin-foil on my head
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Take on the door hold
Monday, December 17, 2012
take on mental illness
Last week's tragedy was so heartbreaking because like all of these mass murders it was an attack against innocents but this time it was also an attack against innocence. As a father of two I cannot imagine the pain and suffering I would go through and quite honestly I don't know how I would have the strength to go on. For four days the eyes of a nation and the world have been on this small town and the chatter from everywhere is how to make sure this is the last time this will ever happened. Everybody will want to make this a gun-law issue but at its heart it's not. Gun laws are too lax and there is no reason any civilian should be carrying around intended for the theater of war and it's our responsibility to make sure that we keep this kind of weapon out of the hands of all citizens. There is no justifiable reason for anybody to be allowed to carry this type of weapon of mass destruction just like there is no reason to allow somebody to drive a tank or carry an anti-aircraft missile. An assault weapon bill should be signed into law before we toast the New Year.
But this at its core is not a gun issue, it's one of mental illness and untreated mental illness plays out in many ways, most of it destructive and some of it catastrophic. What is obvious is that limiting the access to these types of weapons will limit the destruction but nobody should be under the impression it will eliminate them.
What our energy should be focused on is finding the type of person who could act be prone to this type of behavior. For four days (or for 15 years) we have tried to figure out what caused this, we have seen interviews with friends and family, we have tried to find reason, we have poured over high-school transcripts and we have tried to profile the killer. What is clear is that there is no reason for the behavior but there is a profile. They are almost always white males from somewhat affluent backgrounds who believe they are being bullied/treated unfairly. But the most important trait is that people like Adam Lanza, Seung-Hui Cho, Dylan Klebold, Eric Harris, James Holmes and Jared Loughner each suffered from mental-illness which in no ways is an excuse but might shine a light on what we should be looking for.
Mental illness will find ways to boil-over and Adam Lanza would have found a way to bring destruction, limiting his ability to get an automatic weapon would have limited the casualties but nobody should believe it would have eliminated them. I'm not excusing his (or any of his predecessors) behavior and I do NOT think that this kind of mental illness deserves our sympathy but we should know that just like we as a country failed in our job to protect our citizens by allowing these types of weapons to be available; we also failed in our job to properly assess and treat (and institutionalize) mental illness.
This is an issue that comes down to freedom because as a free country we believe it's every person's right to free will but this is exactly where we fail. A person who shows major psychological problems should NEVER be allowed to walk the streets let alone buy/handle/borrow/carry an Uzi. We need to find a way to identify, treat and watch people with these levels of psychosis and we can't be afraid to spend money to make sure we are providing them the "care" they (and we) need for their protection and ours.
Sunday, December 16, 2012
Take on the Barclays Center
that I don't miss the place. What I don't miss is the traffic and the
subway and what I am glad I never got to experience is the Barclays
Center. I get that it's good for business and that it allows the
borough to have it's own sports identity but they really could not
have chosen and uglier design.
Whenever I drive down Atlantic avenue and get my first glimpse of it
again, I am floored. It looks like a gigantic space-ship landed in
downtown Brooklyn and brought JayZ with them. I always heard about
how quaint Ebbets Field was but quaint is the last description you
would give this monstrosity. Not only is it am eye-sore, it also
dominates the entire area although granted that corner was filled with
the crappiest collection on electronic stores, outlet furniture joints
and terrible tile stores so it's not like it replaced a memorable part
of Brooklyn. It is just that it doesn't feel natural. Unlike other
cities with Arenas, the area is too crowded, too congested and too
busy and this building only makes you feel more claustrophobic
Saturday, December 15, 2012
Take in smokers
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Friday, December 14, 2012
Take on the odd Christmas gift
how everything has to become a Christmas spirit. Between the 24 hour
Christmas carols, Christmas cards from every supplier of boxes, paper,
packing supplies know to man and all the half assed "happy holidays"
that are thrown around it can't be worse. but the thing i cannot
stand is have all the normal standard items which are now decked out
in red and white like the cups at McDonalds, the packaging all over
the supermarket and all the shirts in the stores
Just look at this thong I got as a stocking stuffer from the waiter
from my favorite Irish pub on 45th street. I don't know if I should
thank him, bend him over or puke
Thursday, December 13, 2012
Take on SnapChat
about some new craze called snapchat which as far as I can tell is a
new iOS app which allows you to talk with people while sending
pictures of yourself. I'm not 100% sure why this is cool or necessary
considering you could stream yourself using FaceTime or Skype but if
this is what the hipsters in Billyburgh think is cool then who am I to
say otherwise. I don't know hip but i do know weird looking chicks
so when
I clicked on the snapchat.com website, I was just frightened at the
look of the two broads on the front page.
I guess the theory is that because they ate blond and kind of young we
are supposed to believe they are hot but a closer look tells you
otherwise. First of all they both have crazy in their eyes which for a
wild night with too much JD sounds like fun but for a website they
look like they are possessed
Secondly when you zoom in the one chick becomes so not hot. Between
her thirteen chins, a weird mark on her chin and some kind of weird
growth in her mouth she looks like a castoff from Aliens
Keep your mouth open honey cause the way your career is going you
might be doing a lot more of that...while on your knees
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
take on the TOR comment section
I realize we can change the settings to only allow people who are registered to comment but that seems a bit Germany in the late 30's.. We believe in freedom of speech and are willing to accept some junk.. but it would be nice if these 100,000 google servers powered by horse meat and gerbil spin wheels could get to this problem because it's seriously starting to cramp our style
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Take on the lines at Port Authority
the experience but if I could somehow get back to those days now I'd
kiss the Port Authority floor. That is because 15 years ago it was
an awful experience but at least you could get onto a bus within 15
minutes. Today the waits are absolutely endless with lines often
stretching 200 or more people. Please realize that the average bus
holds less than 80 people so when there are 200 people in front of you
it takes three full buses to pass you before you can get onto one.
This is the cruelest of ironies because you wait on line in one of the
most miserable places on line to take one of the most miserable modes
of transportation to get to the armpit of America
No wonder I take the ferry almost every day
Monday, December 10, 2012
Take on those Aussie Shock jocks
Australia whose prank phone call to some hospital inquiring about Kate
Middleton's pregnancy lead to suicide for some nurse or orderly. I
hate to see stupid people die as much as anybody but the fact that
these guys are being unfairly thrown to the wolves
I get that when somebody dies, people want to lay blame but come on
this is insulting.
It's insulting for two reasons
- calling these guys shock-jocks is a total insult to real
shock-jocks. These guys are like the Melrose version of Elvis Duran.
- the fact that this call even got through is ludicrous. They kept
yelling "throw another shrimp on the barby" and this broad believed it
Sunday, December 9, 2012
Take on new tolls
the tolls again. It's not THAT long ago when they went from $2 to $4
and I remember them saying that it wouldn't raise again but like
anything the government touches, it just becomes a complete money pit.
I don't know where all of if goes but I'm sure that wages haven't
increased by more then 600% since it was $2 in the 80's to $13 today.
I get trying to limit the amount of people during peak hours and
granted the rates are SLIGHTLY lower on the weekends. Don't we want
to incentivize people to try to spend money, go to Broadway, eat at
restaurants but it you are banging them for $13 that may limit the
amount of people coming into the city.
What is even more ludicrous is that you are still banged for almost
fifteen bucks if you need to go to CT. You aren't even making it into
NYC. You would think the Cross Bronx is punishment enough
Saturday, December 8, 2012
Take on the Santa picture
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Friday, December 7, 2012
Take on the city Christmas Tree racket
has become the NYC Christmas tree business. The entire concept is
based on preying on the desperation of sleep deprived parents trying
to bring some holiday cheer to the otherwise miserable lives of their
snot nosed Ritalin abusing kids. I walked past a bodega today on 23rd
and 3rd and was appealed at the for feet of lifeless branches they
were charging $40 for. I am keenly aware of this ripoff having
spent $100 for a city 'tree' two years ago which looked like it had
gone through Chernobyl. Honestly the moss covered, covered in dog
piss, fungus riddled bushes they get away with calling trees is
criminal but then again the city is full of suckers hoping to become
one with nature
Thursday, December 6, 2012
Take on new porn
A buddy noted the other day that we grew up in the real renaissance of porn Not so much for the quality but more by the way it's delivered. He said that years ago a guy like me would have had to resort to the indignity of buying pornography at the gas station as opposed to being able to stream it for free online at any number of tube sites
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Wednesday, December 5, 2012
Take on the rickshaw biker (again)
others and today is one of those days. Walking on 6th avenue I caught
a rickshaw bike thing get pulled over and honestly I couldn't have
been happier. Not because I like to see some working stuff get
ticketed but because those guys are complete menaces on the road. I
didn't see exactly what he did but I am sure it involved riding up on
the sidewalk and neatly killing a young mother
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Take on Big Disney Brother
having to go to Disney World twice in the same period. One of the
reasons i hate the Happiest Place on Earth is because the entire place
just reeks of faux happiness. They greet you with a smile all while
banging you for $250 per night for a room no better than the Holiday
Inn Express. The Magic Mickey Express that brings you from The
Orlando to the resorts is like riding on a school bus to hell with 80
kids screaming "it's a small world after-all" at the top of their
little lungs all while I try to poke an ice pick into my ear-drum
But what really gets me is the fact that they prevent you from
accessing any porn. I am a grown man, living in a supposedly free
country where I am supposed to be able to exert free will yet when I
am under the great eye of Walt I cannot log onto redtube or XNXX or
youporn and it's completely ridiculous. Why do we send young men and
women to fight tyranny and evil across the globe if I can't even get
15 minutes of MILF lesbian action
Monday, December 3, 2012
Take on the TSA Pre line
but aren't actually letting people who are signed up for the program
use it? I am a card carrying member of the Global Entry program,
have been interviewed for pre-screening by TSA officials, have had all
my travels over the last five years poured over by some super computer
and have used the Global Entry kiosks five times already yet when I
show up to LGA they tell me the TSA Pre line is randomly selected.
The funny thing is that there is nothing in the TSA literature that
says anything about randomly selected, all it says is that when
available you can use it which in this case it was but I wasn't
Just another way for the man keeping the other man down
Sunday, December 2, 2012
Take on the Sam Seasonal
drink once every few weeks. I go to dinner last night and as there
was a wait (welcome to the burbs), I decided to belly up against the
bar to watch a couple of college football highlights and put down a
few brewha's. The bartender showed me his draught menu and of course
I gravitated towards the Sam Winter Ale with all the Christmas lights
out and the chill in the air.
The problem is that all these Sam seasonals are decent going down but
the next morning i always feel like somebody is reenacting the
Revolutionary War in my stomach although I am happy to report the
little engine that could from Massachusets is taking down the big fat
European slob
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Saturday, December 1, 2012
Take on the Republican Psychos
face looking to get it removed after realizing that it may not have
been such a great idea after all. One of the complaints the guy had
was that he was annoyed the campaign never reached out to him after
getting it done.
You can't blame the Romney campaign for running as far away from this
psycho even though you would hope they would have taken that same
approach with the wackos in the Tea party and the born-agains
How the hell is the Republican Party ever going to be taken seriously
if they are so influenced by a bunch of guys who believe that Fred
Flintstone really slid down that brontosauruses back.