this is a hundred million dollar movie, son
Hey internet! How ya doin'? It's been awhile. I was in California for the last eight days and apparently the neighbors read PBdotC's annual chicken soup column and secured their wireless networks, cuz I couldn't get online the whole time. Thanks Pete.
It was a fun trip anyway. I will gladly accept a lifetime of Christmas vacations in Southern California. It's pretty much the same as NYC except in every single imaginable way. I could never illustrate this point any better than the salesgirl who helped me at the mall the other day did.
I was doing a little last-minute holiday shopping for Ma Bungle at a pricey chain store, and I had to fill out my address on the charge slip.
"You're from New York?" the salesgirl said after taking a look at the slip. "What part?"
"Um, Manhattan...sort of near the East Village...there's a huge apartment complex called Stuyvesant Town..."
"I went to New York once," she said. "You have to pay for refills there."
That you do, my dear.
I kinda lost track of the universe while I was there, but here is some shit I noticed/heard/did/thought about since I last posted like three years ago:
-2006 was mostly a shit year for me. Outside of the continuing excellence of Baby Bungle, I haven't taken much joy out of these last 350 + days. Here's some 2006 crud that I didn't like:
-worked about 60 hours a week
-failed to hang out with my friends
-only played basketball about 6 times
-blogged less often and less well
-pop got very very sick and had to be hospitalized twice
-saw one movie all year (Invincible); it sucked and the projector went out like 19 times
-my teams all lost as usual
-Steve Kemp left off all Hall of Fame ballots once again
OK, that first part of the post was from like two weeks ago. Here is the new part containing more shit that I noticed/heard/did/thought about since then:
-Went out for beers with cW, PBdotC, cW's friend Darren and his bro just before Xmas.
Location: Tom & Jerry's
Beer: Unironic PBR
Subjects discussed: the fabulous-looking clientele in the bar that night (outside of our less fabulous, more workmanlike group); Wade Boggs' 64 cross-country beers; the "century club" and how hard it would be to do it (I say not hard, especially if it was PBR, which can be consumed indefinitely and at any pace; cW says he's done it and it is plenty hard); Stuytown rents (Darren's bro says we should challenge our rent increase); Dick in a Box (which cW insists would be funnier as "Cock in a Box," I disagree); the middle-aged bartender's fauxhawk; stock tips; and PBdotC's screenplay idea:
Oh, and I came back from the bathroom and told everybody that I tried to take a photograph of my dick but my camera didn't have enough megapixels.
-I played basketball in California about 6 times. Mostly one on one with the brother-in-law. One successful day in Laguna Beach. By the end of the trip Bro-in-law was getting the upper hand on me. We took a bunch of low-grade video. Some of it will be on YouTube in the next week or so. You will see just how old and slow I am. But don't crowd me or I will spin and make an awkward lefthanded layup. Or toss in one of these.
It was a fun trip anyway. I will gladly accept a lifetime of Christmas vacations in Southern California. It's pretty much the same as NYC except in every single imaginable way. I could never illustrate this point any better than the salesgirl who helped me at the mall the other day did.
I was doing a little last-minute holiday shopping for Ma Bungle at a pricey chain store, and I had to fill out my address on the charge slip.
"You're from New York?" the salesgirl said after taking a look at the slip. "What part?"
"Um, Manhattan...sort of near the East Village...there's a huge apartment complex called Stuyvesant Town..."
"I went to New York once," she said. "You have to pay for refills there."
That you do, my dear.
I kinda lost track of the universe while I was there, but here is some shit I noticed/heard/did/thought about since I last posted like three years ago:
-2006 was mostly a shit year for me. Outside of the continuing excellence of Baby Bungle, I haven't taken much joy out of these last 350 + days. Here's some 2006 crud that I didn't like:
-worked about 60 hours a week
-failed to hang out with my friends
-only played basketball about 6 times
-blogged less often and less well
-pop got very very sick and had to be hospitalized twice
-saw one movie all year (Invincible); it sucked and the projector went out like 19 times
-my teams all lost as usual
-Steve Kemp left off all Hall of Fame ballots once again
OK, that first part of the post was from like two weeks ago. Here is the new part containing more shit that I noticed/heard/did/thought about since then:
-Went out for beers with cW, PBdotC, cW's friend Darren and his bro just before Xmas.
Location: Tom & Jerry'sBeer: Unironic PBR
Subjects discussed: the fabulous-looking clientele in the bar that night (outside of our less fabulous, more workmanlike group); Wade Boggs' 64 cross-country beers; the "century club" and how hard it would be to do it (I say not hard, especially if it was PBR, which can be consumed indefinitely and at any pace; cW says he's done it and it is plenty hard); Stuytown rents (Darren's bro says we should challenge our rent increase); Dick in a Box (which cW insists would be funnier as "Cock in a Box," I disagree); the middle-aged bartender's fauxhawk; stock tips; and PBdotC's screenplay idea:
Oh, and I came back from the bathroom and told everybody that I tried to take a photograph of my dick but my camera didn't have enough megapixels.
-I played basketball in California about 6 times. Mostly one on one with the brother-in-law. One successful day in Laguna Beach. By the end of the trip Bro-in-law was getting the upper hand on me. We took a bunch of low-grade video. Some of it will be on YouTube in the next week or so. You will see just how old and slow I am. But don't crowd me or I will spin and make an awkward lefthanded layup. Or toss in one of these.
posted by hans q. bungle at 02:31
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