Monday Moaning (10-16-23)

 

  Well, I came back for a second week in a row. A little late this week, but I'm trying to make myself go through this exercise. I was pondering what to write about, my LAST POST didn't get much traction. I was actually expected some backlash, but no such luck. Then again, I've been away for a while, and well, so have many of the bloggers I follow. It made me wonder, where have all the good bloggers gone?

 I first started blogging in 2007 on "The Sporting News." It was a great community of bloggers with great back and forth. Many of the bloggers were better writers than Sporting News staff. The website noticed our community and sneakily started to boost stuff from the blogging community. Shortly before they killed off the blogging community, some guys started their own site and invited some of us to join. I eventually bought into it and helped run it, as well as posting every day. Other groups started their own sites, and rivalries that began at "The Sporting News," continued at these different sites. I miss the blogging wars. All those places are gone now.

 They aren't the only ones. When I started this blogspot page I found a world of other blogs and bloggers. There were people posting poetry, creative writing, introspective pieces, politics, pop culture, photography blogs, people who used it like a journal. There was "A Frank Angle" and "The Daddy Files" which were never miss reads. There was something for everyone and there were things you didn't even know you would be interested in. They seem to have faded away.

  Our attention spans have gone to shit. The written word is dying. No one wants to read 8 paragraphs on my perfect Heisman trophy prediction, or Aaron's trials and tribulations of being a father of 3 uniquely different kids and trying to balance work and family obligations, or a nuanced argument on the days latest horrifying events. Everything got broken down to a quick tweet, or an Instagram pic with a couple hashtags written below it, or stupid short videos on TikTok or Instagram. The world has bought into "less is more." It's not.

  Some may say, I'm being over dramatic saying the written word is dying. Let me prove you wrong....English class is not called English class anymore. It's called "ELA." Phonics is not taught isn't schools anymore, neither is cursive. I have two high schoolers who work for me, both are in "Honors ELA." They both can barely write anything legible. They can't read or write cursive. They have horrible grammar and struggle to properly pronounce everyday words, and the admittedly don't read, nor are they assigned reading. I wasn't in honors English in high school, and I was required to read a book every week the first three years of school and was tested on them. These kids have no idea who Jack London is. 

  On top of that, we have communities, cities, school boards, lunatic governors, banning books throughout this country, and there is little push-back against it. There is little coverage from the media, and less coverage of the small push-back. Does the media/journalists not realize that they'll be next to be censored or banned. We are dumbing down our kids...We are dumbing down ourselves. 

 I'm going to keep writing, even if no one is reading...And I'm going to start searching again for whatever quirky blogs are out there, sharing their own little slice of madness.

Have a week.

Monday Moaning (10-9-23)

 

  Yep, it's 2023 and I'm still starting a blog off with some eye-candy! Why? Because clickbait works. Always has, always will. Doesn't matter if it's a bullshit headline, or an attention grabbing thumbnail. They get the job done. What, is someone going to cancel my blog? I haven't posted anything since March, the spastic, internet police have bigger fish to fry than me. But don't worry, I'm not the same guy that I used to be, way back in the early blogging wars day...Like when I created another page called "Cock Burger" just to troll some other bloggers from "The Sporting News" blogging community, after one of them accused me of having "no balls" and I posted pictures of my cock and balls as well as some shots of me polishing the bishop and yes, I snapped a pic busting...great shot of the load in flight. Ahhh, the glory days of the internet, when it was the Wild West.

  Enough reminiscing about the past, let's talk about the here and now. 

I haven't written squat about sports in a few years, but they're still something I truly enjoy. This weekend has inspired me to fire off a few hot takes for the sports world.

1. After getting shutout Sunday by the Saints, it's time. The New England Patriots need to fire Bill Belichick. Yeah, he had a great run, but it all started slipping away when he made it clear he wanted to move on from Tom Brady, and Brady wanted to get away from him and constantly taking pay cuts for "the good of the team." Brady clearly came out on top, winning a Super Bowl with Tampa Bay and padding his stats. Bill, just started slowly floundering, and no longer seems to have the mystique that made guys want to play for him...and good coaches wanting to be his assistants. The team is a shit-show. His hand-picked QB is an asshole and he's not that good. Mr. Kraft needs to kick Bill to the curb. Time for a full-scale rebuild.

2. If you ever followed me, you know I'm a longtime, Notre Dame fan. I've never been one to be the guy saying fire the coach a year or two in...But I am now. Marcus Freeman seems like a great guy. He's an excellent coordinator, and good coach. But good doesn't cut it. Everyone was talking non-stop about this being a playoff team and National Championship contender. Non-stop hype about transfer QB, Sam Hartman. Listen, let us never again fall head over heels in love with a guy based solely off the stats he put up at Wake Forest. It was Wake Forest. A good QB at Wake Forest doesn't mean he's the First round NFL pick, savior at a major football program. He's fucking average...But back to Freeman. 10 men on the field the last two plays against Ohio State. Piss poor play calling before that, helping to put the defense on the ropes. Piss poor and boring play calling against Duke, barley getting out of there with a win. Then getting completely pushed around all night by Louisville and losing in embarrassing fashion. His record is 14-7 and that isn't going to get you anywhere near the College Football Playoffs. Freeman needs to go.

One announcer talked about ND playing 4 prime-time games against ranked teams in row, looking ahead to USC this week, and talking how "taxing" it must be and "hard on these young men."  WHAT!?! Mother fucker, that's exactly why they signed up to go to Notre Dame. ND refuses to lock into a conference 100%, so they have to build a strong schedule. They're getting scholarships and now NIL deals, they knew what they signed up for. That whole Offensive line should be running laps all week long...They were fucking atrocious.

3. Hockey Season is about to get started and there has been a trend for too many years now that's only getting worse. Clean hits leading to having to fight. I'm never the guy trying to take fighting out of hockey. If a guy takes a cheap shot, dirty hit, keeps slashing you, yeah, drop the gloves, beat his ass. But if you take a clean, legal check, get up, get back in the play, don't be  a fucking child. And fuck anyone of your teammates who thinks he has to jump the guy that just put you into the boards with a perfectly clean hit. That happens, he should be suspended two games for being an asshole.

And fuck Mark Stone for bitching about a kid doing anything he can to make the roster...Kid blasted him with a good clean hit, Stone and his whole team jumped the kid and then after the game Stone talked shit about the kid and his career and bitched about the hit. I'm rooting for Stone to get his knee Nick Chubbed opening night!

That's it for now...

Have a week.

Sunday Morning Coffee : Remembering You Gab Sports & Sully

 In 2007 I started blogging at The Sport News, in the "blogging community"...It was a mix of people who wanted to be sports journalists, that thought The Sporting News would notice them and give them a job...Then there was the rest of us, who just liked writing and talking sports and talking shit...And it was from us regular guys where we who were still subscribers the magazine, that saw the magazine was stealing our ideas...

Eventually there was friction in the "blogging community" lead by a bunch political correct twats...A couple of guys I followed and that followed me started up their own site, YouGabSports.com...A friend who was now writing at both places told me I should jump over and check it out...Since I was spreading my social media seed and digital footprint, I joined...This was a collection of friends with a similar mindset, writing about sports and sometimes other shit as the fans we were...Just regular guys, writing as if they were taking over beers...We were all scattered all over the place blogging and playing fantasy sports together...Syracuse, Vermont, Illinois, South Carolina, California, Michigan, Texas, a few in Massachusetts, Thunder Bay, Cincy, I was in Cleveland and a Bostonian in Georgia...That last guy, in Georgia....That was Sully...We all communicated through email or just the blogs...Sully hated that...He wanted to talk to people...He was old school...So he got peoples phone numbers and he'd talk your ear off...Ranting about this and that and shooting the shit about our families...It gave a personal touch to whatever this thing was...

Shortly after joining they asked to exclusively feature my weekly Monday Moaning post...They saw the numbers it always picked up and I was their style...I was in...I posted it at YouGabSports and Sporting News I would post the title, with only the link to YouGabSports...That really pissed off the growing number of blogging enemies we were building up...

(side note)...We had some big time blogging wars between us and other Sporting News people who didn't like that we would swear in posts or that I often littered posts with a sexy, barely dressed women...One war so big, that a female blogger at The Sporting News said I had no balls...Now, on that site, I couldn't prove her wrong because their guidelines...It would have been blocked and I probably would have been deleted...So I created a blogspot page called Cock Burger and called her out and posted pictures from a few angles of my balls...Also of me jerking-off and a great shot of my jizz shooting...On Sporting News her name was the title and a link was the body of the post....That's the shit that gets mother fuckers cancelled these days...

Sully loved that one...He thrived off of confrontations in the blogosphere...clearly, so did I and that helped our friendship grow...We had each others backs but we had everyone on our site's backs...We felt like a online, Irish, Mob...There were times, late at night I'd be hammering out a fuck you blog about something and Sully was on the phone with me, fueling my fire, putting a line in my ear that I could plug into this next masterpiece...

Eventually I was offered to buy into ownership...Now this thing was profitable at all...It was a hobby...But a few of us felt like we could build it into a site that could make money, even if it was just a little pocket change...

Sully and I talked a couple times a week on the phone, kicking around ideas or sometimes just bullshitting about sports or life...He loved getting a conference call going with one of the other guys...Now there's three of us on the phone, but most of the time was it Sully talking...Always full of opinions and ball busting cracks...The fun calls would be when he was a having a few drinks...Normally I was too as I had just gotten home from a night at work and was winding down, just to get wound up by him and post a blog...There was one time with Sully, myself and B-Dub on a call and mid-sentence, Sully passed out...We were cracking up...Sully and I had built this great friendship and we had never spoken face to face or shook hands...The fucking Internet...

As time went on with YouGabSports things continued to change...Some guys left...A couple of the original guys left, some because there life was changing, they didn't have the time or desire to do this anymore...Some because of butting heads with me and Sully...A couple other guys moved into ownership, splitting costs...

But tensions grew...Like I said, we thrived off of confrontation...I was writing every day, some days 2-4 posts a day to keep fresh content up and keep getting traffic...Sully wasn't writing at all and things weren't getting done like trying to get advertising that could, if nothing else cover the costs we were putting into this thing...He said he wanted to make money off of it been fought against numerous ad vehicles...

Then my life had some major changes and I wasn't the only one on the site...I wasn't writing anymore...I did my Monday Moaning post and that was it...Sully was getting pissed at me about that, yet still wasn't writing.......

And then Fantasy Hockey season came along...He was the Commissioner for most of our site's fantasy leagues...He set the rules....He didn't realize he had no limit on goalies a team could carry...One guy noticed and was loaded up with elite goalies...So, of course a couple of us snatched up an extra goalie or two try to compete...And Sully lost his mind as he sat there with two (1 top tier, 1 average) goalies on his roster...It was stupid...He screwed up and then blew a gasket about it which just fueled a few of the guys (myself included) to throw it back in his face...It was just so fucking stupid...

Shortly after that myself and one of the other owners left...6-7 years I put into that thing and I said fuck it...Other guys left the fantasy leagues and stopped posting there....All of 2017 I didn't write...Like I said, my life had changed...Sully and I didn't talk anymore...I blocked his number...He unfriended me on Facebook...I blocked him on twitter...That relationship was gone...

 Then 2020 comes along with all of it's fucked up bullshit...In June, I started thinking about Sully...Wondering how he was...Feeling bad that this friendship had ended...I sent him a message...

I know things got shitty with us and ended...not how I wanted or expected...I’m sorry for my part in it. I hope you are well. I hope your family is well. The world is completely fucked up these days and I just wanted to let you know you crossed my mind...fuck I feel gay the way this is written.

He replied, saying he felt the same way and let's talk soon, but he was on his way out to an appointment...The next day we texted, trying to figure out a time to talk...I called him later that day...We caught up on things...How families were doing, all the crazy shit going on, Trump being an asshole...Oh, and he had Stage 4, really bad, inoperable cancer...He had been dealing with it for a awhile now...

I'm not a Karma guy...I'm not the most religious person...I don't know why, out of nowhere I started thinking about Sully and felt like I should reach out to him...But there we were talking on the phone just like we used to...He's talking about what's new with his wife and daughter, and bitching about how the Bruins are getting screwed by this round robin shit...and I'm telling him about the kids, and the pain in the ass of having my dementia riddled mother-in-law living with us in COVID times...

We talked on the phone a few more times...Mostly about Hockey or Football or family...He wanted me to get into a Fantasy Football league he was in...It was just like old times, except we didn't talk about blogging or our blogging enemies...Those days were over and neither of us cared about that shit anymore...He was hoping to get into a trial treatment program...He said, "why not? What's the worst thing it can do? Kill me...Cancer is already doing that."

I planned on calling him this weekend...It had been a couple weeks since we talked...With the kids back at school (at home) and dementia grandma, I lose track of the days sometimes...

Sully died earlier this week....Adding to the list of why 2020 sucks.

Farewell my friend

The Hypocrisy of Comedians

Yesterday I posted THIS....It got some good feedback and of course I got some backlash...It got me thinking about something that has bothered me for years...

I love standup comedy...I have since I was a little kid...I remember sneaking into a backyard in my neighborhood were my older brothers and their friends were listening to a new Eddie Murphy cassette without all the parents knowing...I loved it all growing up...I'd watch any comedy special that came on HBO...I watched MTV's "Half Hour, Comedy Hour" religiously, and "Evening at the Improve"...I love the craft or art...Yes, I put it up on that type of pedestal...

As the years have gone on, standup has had it's ups and downs...And my tastes changed...I got over the Andrew Dice Clay phase and got into more thought provoking comedy...Don't get me wrong, I'll always enjoy a shit or dick or pussy joke...

Then the 2000's came and with it, Social Media and Blogging came too...These gave celebrities, Comics included, another way to reach their audience and promote their shit...It also gave us regular fuckers a voice...An outlet for us to express our thoughts and opinions to our friends, who we don't work with or don't live right next door...But also to the masses...To anyone who may be interested....I started blogging about sports in 2007 at Sporting News...Over the years I started branching off into different directions, talking about whatever was in my head...

During that time and it as continued...Different points in time more surges in it...Comedians bitching about bloggers...and really, anyone on social media who doesn't have a "Blue Checkmark"...Many of them are comics I love...I often blow it off, because I'm a fan...Bill Burr is my favorite and he shits on bloggers religiously...Jim Norton who I've always been a fan of, bought both his books, saw him live, he shits on regular people tweeting and bloggers all the time...He's written what are in essence blogs, for major publications occasionally...But for him, it's not a blog, it's an "Article"...

Then there is the subject of my blog yesterday...Joe Rogan...Joe Rogan use to write blogs regularly on his website...But it doesn't count if I write a blog on my website...Comedians love to scream about the Freedom of Speech...And they will go to war with the whole fucking world  to say whatever they want...They will scream and fight, scratch and claw for their right to even tell a bad joke...a shitty joke...an offensive joke...a rape joke...And my meaningless voice has stood by them...





Now Comics are screaming everything that doesn't agree with them is "Cancel Culture"...My post yesterday was called "Cancel Culture"...It isn't...Joe Rogan can go on doing what he does...I'll probably watch his next standup special...I just want people to realize, he's often full of shit...and often on the wrong side of topics...

I'm sick of Comedians bitch, moaning and complaining about you and me saying what we want on Twitter and Blogs but screaming about their right to say whatever they want...Freedom of Speech is for everyone....EVERYONE! 

Not just arrogant assholes with "Blue Checkmarks"...EVERYONE!

Monday Moaning

Over my years over writing blogs, I have often shared very personal details...Pictures of kids, giving a restaurant a more positive review if my wife blew me on the way home...Angry rants of things that pissed me off...The old "Tales From the Fish House"...My personal political views...My favorite Christmas songs...My favorite movies...My Soap Opera or "Rom-Com" script under the pen-name of Seattle Flannel...My constant struggle with organized religion, and even bigger struggle with my personal religious beliefs...and yes...Especially on Monday...My love of eye candy...

And I think the best stuff written, is the personal stuff...

It all started with a Sporting News blog...But I knew I wasn't a stats guys who was going to break down film to write about sports...I always wrote about sports from my view...A fans views...My opinion...My feelings...Many times backed up by nothing more than, 'fuck you, that's how I feel!'

Right or wrong, I was telling you I was right...Because, I'm not some hot shot sports writer...I'm just a guy who likes to write, and likes sports...and eye candy, and food, and sex, and other stuff...And to be honest, most of the famous sports writers in this world, the guys who went to school for it...They're boring as hell to read...I find them often condescending towards fans...Some seem too be doing the bidding of who they cover...Some write want they think fans want to read...Some write things just to get people fired up...I find most of their writing to be fake...Unlike want my friends at  You Gab Sports do...They write from their own, honest, personal perspective...They don't care if no one agrees with them...They don't care if people are offended...They write what they want...And that is what makes our small little site better then most the crap out there these days...Thank You Gabbers!

Over the last couple weeks, I wrote about being done with the NFL...Well, I still am...One week of not reading about a NFL player being an awful person, isn't winning me back...Because it's not just about the few idiot players...It's the whole damn machine that I feel is broken...So I have no NFL talk for ya...And I won't all year...

This past week, I put in a bunch of hours at work, in 4 days...Come Friday, I started 10 days of vacation...And I fucking deserve it!  My wife deserves it...And my kids deserve it...They deserve to see me and spend some time with me...Little Beeze turns 10 this week, and I plan on spoiling him...Friday we called them out of school and went up to Erie PA to see her folks, and her siblings were coming in from Boston...Plus an Aunt, Uncle, and cousins from Philly...Boy they hate when bring up that great Bill Burr Philly rant!

It's great how thrilled kids can be over the simple luxuries of a nice hotel...(Home 2 Suites by Hilton was really fucking nice!)

Here's Molly looking at the fancy window blinds and shades....

Holy crap they open and close with a touch of a button!

Oh, and the joy of  a nice hotel swimming pool....

And what a nice Fall view we had when taking Finnegan for a walk...

There was a lot of catching up...A fair amount of drinking...Eating some good food...Lots of laughs...And Saturday, small birthday celebration for Little Beeze, myself, and my wife's Uncle....

Look at the fireball of a cake...Too many candles...And too many cameras as there isn't one picture of us all looking at the same one....

And late Saturday night, Molly and I squeezed in the 4th quarter of the Notre Dame game with some "Man Chips"...(That's what she calls Pringles, because of the man's face on the can.)

After the Irish's victory...And everyone else got to sleep, I watched some College Football highlights, and I have to tell you, Thank God I Already Hated Michigan! Because after the way Brady Hoke handled his injured QB Shan Morris, I'd be boycotting Michigan too...Holy fuck Brady Hoke needs to be fired! One, he's a bad coach...Two, he did this...




How blind are you!?!  It was clear a hell that kid was dazed and confused...In the one angle you can see he's struggling to keep his eyes open...He's in fucking la, la land!

Then this happened...




I just don't know how you let that kid go back in the game...And for the record...When the game ended...Morris didn't walk off...He was carted off the field...

Hoke shouldn't just be fired by the University...The NCAA should fine the fuck out of him, and ban him from coaching...For God's sake I had to take a class, and pass a test on concussion safety and awareness before I could coach Tee-Ball...Did anyone even give Hoke and his staff a fucking pamphlet!?!

Unreal...

I hope to squeeze in some time to study up for the Gab Fantasy Hockey draft...I'm looking to Knock Sully down, after the ESPN computers stole my title two days after the season ended...Probably all the blogs I write bashing them!

And, I'd like to congratulate myself on my two wire-to-wire fantasy baseball titles!  Sorry Jeff, who I took down in the Championship of both!

Now, I'm going to try to catch up on some sleep...Have a week...

The Beeze.

Freedom of Speech: Not Just For Radio Douchebags

That's right, Freedom of Speech is actually something we all have...But often I hear gasbags on the radio, and on TV who feel that right is only for the people who have a degree in communications...Well fuck all that!

Here's where I'm coming from...Today, after work, on my way to pick the kids up from school, I had the Scott Van Pelt Show on the Radio...SVP, and his co-host who gets screwed on the name recognition, Ryen Rusillo, were talking about a Scottie Pippen interview from the Mike & Mike Show...They were going on about some who is better, LeBron or Jordan...Blah, blah, blah...I fucking hate Basketball, but we all know Jordan was the shit...

Anyway, the topic seemed to go off track when Van Pelt started talking about how Jordan didn't have to deal with the same scrutiny as James, because "The world today is so cynical, and angry." And of course, most of the blame for this anger and cynicism was put on Twitter and Bloggers...My God, these talking heads love to hate on bloggers...I think they actually see themselves becoming irrelevant because of all the quality bloggers, and vloggers out there...

But guess what, Anger and cynicism have always been in this world...It's just now people have an outlet for it...An outlet that is easy for you, or anyone to access...In the good old days, I guy would have a shit day at work, hear something on the radio on his way home, that pissed him off...He get home, bitch about to his wife, who wasn't listening, and then go kick the dog, and tell the kids to leave him alone...Now he can pull out iPhone, or laptop, and fire off a tweet, or write a blog, and boom...That shit's off his chest, and the dog doesn't have any broken ribs...

But for some reason twats like these guys don't think our opinions matter....(I actually like their show, usually)...I've also heard this crap from one of my favorite comedians...Jim Norton who is also 3rd mic on my favorite radio show, The Opie and Anthony Show, has bitched about bloggers before...I've heard him go off, just bashing bloggers, and how they suck, and no one cares, and how they're needy for attention...What, and his ego isn't needy for attention, standing on stage, or talking on the radio? I love Norton, but this is one thing that bothers me...

Technology, and the Internet has afforded the everyman the ability to get their thoughts and opinions off their chest, and out there...It doesn't matter if 2 people read it, or 2 million...It's out there, and it's off my chest...Freedom of Speech wasn't just given to Radio show host...Newspaper Reporters, TV talking heads...It's not just for those with a degree in communications, or for a guys that got lucky and fell into a great job...It's there for all of us...Even dopes like me with a degree in business, who sweats his balls off in a kitchen for a living...So you can trash bloggers, and I can trash you...Eat a dick...That's the beauty of it!

Later, The Beeze.

Monday Moaning

There are certain things that fathers pass down, from generation, to generation...One of those things that my old man passed down to us was, Duct Tape can fix almost anything!

And well, after this past week, I've realized that there are a lot of people out there, whom it would serve well, if they spent some time Duct Taped to a chair!

You see, I've had bit of a battle this past week with some people at Sporting News...That's where I first started blogging...I still post there once a week...This past Wednesday I wrote a blog blasting LeBron James, the Cleveland Indians, and the City of Cleveland...My displeasure with the city I live in is well documented...I re-posted it at SN...This post rubbed people the wrong way...One person who lives in Washington state, but calls herself a Clevelander was very unhappy about it...She responded and called me an "Underachieving Jerk"...Not really that harsh, but I reacted, as I often do, by over-reacting, and going for the throat...

This lead to many people blasting me, and ignoring the point of my blog, and that she provoked me...So I posted another blog, trying to get people to understand where my opinion was coming from, and backing it up with facts...It didn't matter...They kept coming after me, and some taking shots at You Gab Sports, even though I was the only Gab member involved in this...

So this lady posted a blog about the incident, and apologized, while still getting in some jabs...More people commented and blasted me...I responded, and apologized for what I called her, but nothing else...We both seemed to be done with it...But since then 3 blogs have been posted by 2 people, about it...And well, about how I'm the asshole...

I had planned on walking in here with my gasoline shoes on,and dropping matches all over the place...I was ready to light everyone up, and continue burning bridges...
But then, this afternoon I realized, it's not worth it...1. that's what they want...They want me to go off, so they can keep poking at me, and say what asshole I am...2. There's no winning...I'll never change their minds, and they sure as hell aren't gonna change mine...So f*ck it!

You know what, I will win...Because they're still gonna come and read my blogs...They can't wait for the next one

Say hi to Lindsay Marie...

(yes it's random, but some people will get it)

Moving on...I had another losing day at the track as Lookin at Lucky won, and my horse Jackson Bend came in third...I also had money on Dublin, who shit the bed right out of the gate...Sorry Little Beeze, you may have to get a job soon! Especially after signing the kids up for swimming lessons today...Last year our local rec center, funded by our tax dollars, charged $23 dollars a kid, for lessons...This year $40...this really pisses me off because they cut the rec center hours 6 months ago to save on the costs...This is what happens when your Mayor is drunk and sexually harassing people all the time!

Then we signed the little Beeze up for T-Ball...that was $35...Then the lady started pushing me to coach...Apparently they haven't had many volunteers...So I agreed...I don't know how good our team will be, but we'll have the best swearing bunch of 5 and 6 year olds around!

But at least I won't be teaching them to shake their asses like a bunch of cum dumpster strippers...In case you haven't seen this shit, I'll let you check it out, then I'll break it down like John Madden, without blowing Brett Favre...



I'll start by saying this...For 7 year olds, they dance well, and you can even see a bit of gymnastics in play here...But they're dressed like strippers! They're 7 years old, and dressed like strippers! I know how strippers dress! Then there is the song selection...Beyonce's "Single Ladies"...The basic idea of the song, at least what I get out of it before I turn it off, is it's suppose to be an empowering song for women...But every time you see women or girls dancing to it...They're dancing like strippers...Dirty cum bucket strippers...And this f**king crowd is loving it...'Look honey, Our little girl is gonna be rockin' the pole one day!' And I'm the asshole!?!

In hockey news, Friday night the Boston Bruins finished off an epic fail...After taking a 3-0 series lead over the Flyers...the boys from Philly came back to win 4 in a row...As much as it hurts, I have to give the Flyers some credit...They continued their winning ways, blowing out Montreal 6-0 in the first round of the conference finals...

In the West, Chicago took a 1-0 series lead after beating San Jose 2-1...This series is packed full of talent...San Jose has collapsed repeatedly in the playoffs, but seem to have it together this year...Chicago is young, and I don't have a lot of faith in their goatending...I see this one going seven games, and being a real knock-down, drag-out fight...

On the home front, we're still looking at names...I think we've settled on a girls name...Molly Kathleen...For a boy, Finn is the front runner, but we needs solid middle name for that...Yeah, I'm Irish if you couldn't tell!

This pregnancy has been a tougher on the wife...the first two she never got sick...This time she's puking a bit, and feeling run down...Although the 20 hours of OT she worked last week doesn't help that...All of this isn't helping me need for sex either...I'm spending even more time at xHamster ****(before you click that, it's a porn site)****

This next video I had to share...Countdown with Keith Olbermann pulled this from The Daily Show...Olbermann seems to have lost his marbles, but this may have been the most sanity his show has aired in awhile...It's Lewis Black, losing his shit over how f**king insane and obsessed with Nazis Glenn Beck is...Olbermann and Beck should get together and choke each other out!

Christ, one day Black is gonna have a heart attack on stage!

Now, on a sad note, Sunday singer Ronnie James Dio died after battling Cancer...He was 67 years old, and had one of the most incredible Rock & Roll voices ever...Rest in Peace.

Later, The Beeze.

Words

Today...Maybe yesterday...Whatever it may be...I lost some one I considered a friend...I never actually had the chance to meet this person...It was a blogging friend I guess...(don't get me wrong, I have blogging friends that I truly consider friends, but then there are some you hardly know) I thought I knew this person...Our only communication was through our blogs and comments and sometimes an email...

Why did I lose this friend? Because of my blog...Because of words...I guess we disagreed on something...And I wrote things that weren't liked...I've always felt that disagreeing could make for a good conversation...I don't even think that we were that far off from each other...

Some would say, 'they're only words.' Some would say that 'there's nothing more powerful then words.' Some would say 'silence speaks louder then words.' Maybe all three points are right, or at least true at sometime...

I will always apologize if my words hurt people...And I did...But from day one, not just on this blog, but in life...I always say what I feel or think, at any given time...That's me...That's how I deal with my thoughts, my anger, my sadness, my stress, my goofiness, or whatever is going on in my head, and yes even my heart...

That's what this has always been about...This blog is for me...If you want to come along for the ride...Great...If not, That's cool too...

So to any and all readers...If I offend you...If I upset you...If I piss you off...If I make you laugh...If I make you think...If I do anything at all...Good! Haha! Too bad! I'm sorry!

But they're only f**king words...My words at that.

Later, The Beeze.