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Birthday Countdown Flashback – 2007
Fresh off the heels of an epic wedding and even more epic honeymoon all over Italy, it was time to celebrate my birthday in 2007. This was the year of the “Birthday Flip Flop.” This was a unique year because I actually spent my birthday celebrating someone else’s birthday. Turns out my then wife’s cousin decided to throw her party on the week after her actual birthday which, of course, had to coincide with mine. Luckily, my family was nice enough to celebrate with me the week prior to my birthday. Actually, my parents were even nicer and included Jeff Gorfman in the celebration. Here are some shots from this: So celebrating my birthday was all set at this point.Read More
Reminder
I just wanted to check in once this weekend to let you all know that tomorrow is the cut off for the Twitch picture submissions. Like I mentioned earlier in the week, I have a lot of great stuff that some of you sent in, and those of you who who haven’t are going to kick yourselves in the ass when you see how epic this post will be. You’re gonna want to be a part of this. Don’t say I didn’t say so…
Knee Jerk
So I decided to use 75 points that I accumulated on my trusty Subway Card today for a steak and cheese sub. I really like Subway’s steak and cheese sub, especially with lots of Chipotle Southwest sauce. Since I frequent this Subway establishment often, I noticed that there were two new employees on the line. Both were female, no older than 20. One was a sandwich artist, and the other was working the register. This caused the line to be a little longer than usual. The other staff on the line were doing what they needed to ensure proper training of new staff and adequate advancement of the customer line. There were three people ahead of me. In order, thereRead More
Birthday Countdown Flashback – 2006
Here’s where things get a little personal (but not too much). I hit a low point in early 2006. Circumstances aligned, and I ended up leaving graduate school for one reason or another. I also took a job commuting almost 2.5 hours (round trip) per day. Because of this stuff, I started disconnecting myself from my social circles. I went back to basics. That year, my birthday was a lot more simple. My buddies Jeff and Darth came up and hung out with me, Dom, and a few people who aren’t in the picture anymore. Schlubwurks, we called it. After we sat around, talked trash, watched Darth eat BLTs, and played Guitar Hero, we went to Muddy’s to watch karaoke.Read More
Birthday Countdown Flashback – 2005
In preparation for my birthday festivities at the end of this month, I’m running this feature in which I recap my last 5 birthdays. 2005 was a big year for Myspace. I actually used myspace to promote a fairly large party for myself at Bombers. The people I remember being there were Dom, his lady at the time, my lady at the time, Brian G., Kristina M., Claire, Leann, Stacy, and possibly a few others. It’s honestly a little difficult to remember who else may have been there because of (a) drinking the birthday margarita and (b) some drama regarding being late to my own party, which conveniently set the stage for everything I went through earlier this year. ItRead More
Ba Ha Dugginich
This story may have been told on my original Blogger blog, but I’m not sure. It’s just been prominent in my head for some reason in the past few days, so I’m gonna re-tell it for the millionth time. I was huge into Mortal Kombat II when it was in the arcades. I used to go constantly to the mall and to Burt’s Sportsplex in middlegare to play it. The difficulty dip settings on the machines in the mall were set much lower than at Burt’s, so, if there were very few people playing at the mall, I could easily get to Kintaro. There were some other regulars too. There was BEV Lowes, a heavy set guy who worked atRead More
Plugging Manville
It’s taken me a while, but I’m pushing my way through catching up on the podcast, but here is one you’ll want to catch. Manville or, you can subscribe via iTunes Johnny Hustle talks many topics, and I’m sure that you’ll be able to relate to something over the course of the shows. Right now there are only 7 episodes, and it looks like it’s growing every week, so get in and caught up while it’s early, because it looks like this is gonna be one for the books. If you do decide to subscribe, leave a comment on this post, please.
I NEED YOU!!! (A must read)
So something big is brewing for this blog. I’m working on a major post that involves “The Twitch.” Don’t know what that is? Look here or here. My avatar pictures in both cases is the twitch. What I need you to do is email me with your favorite picture of the twitch. Ideally, it’s a picture of you doing the twitch, but it could be anything. Just make sure you provide a link for photo credit, if applicable. So email me if you want to be included in one of the most epic blog posts ever known to man. The deadline is This Sunday, July 18 at midnight