$50 Quit Smoking Challenge Begins!

Today at 12:00pm the smoking bet began. Lani, Matt, Nicole, and your boy Teeblah quit smoking at noon. Last one to smoke collects 50 USD from the sore losers. Things are going pretty well considering over here at Team Ashland. I can only amagine the chaos over at Team 36 1/2. The humanity.

I got an e-mail from none other than Jun Skizomama the other day, including a link to his site. All I can say is wow. Excellent stuff. He's moving from Paris to Tokyo, where his brother currently resides. Jet-set lifestyle indeed. Just thought I'd share with everyone.

HAPPY GOLDEN BIRTHDAY NICOLE!

Nicole Ave'Lallemant turns 25 today. Nice work Nicole! Tomorrow she will be jobless! Hooray!

Chris Penn found dead!

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Actor Chris Penn, brother of Sean Penn, was found dead Tuesday at a condominium near the beach in Santa Monica, police said. Police said they discovered the 40-year-old actor's body around 4 p.m. Lt. Frank Fabrega said there were no obvious signs of foul play.

Chris Penn's latest film opens today at the Sundance Film Festival. It's titled "The Darwin Awards"
which is about the website which is dedicated to "...salut[ing] the improvement of the human genome by honoring those who remove themselves from it. Of necessity, this honor is generally bestowed posthumously."

Will have to wait for the forensic report to see if this is absolutely ridiculous.

B-NUGGETS COMING TO TOWN!

You heard it here first folks, the B.L.zebub is heading to the Twin Cities to celebrate his mothers b-day. He will be in Feb 8-13. Buckle up cuz we gonna rock out like the Party Andersons.
<--Party Style. Sexiest man in America?--->

I was with Teeblah during his afore mentioned 12:37 trip to the bar. We did either 4 or 5 shots and had 2 beers each in right around one hour, causing me to become very drunk just before going to bed, which is always a good idea. I needed to wake up at 6:00 am for boot hockey, and it was just past 2 when we got home. The alarm goes off, and I wake up, still very much drunk. I throw some water on the face, and begin my journey home. My windshield is fucked, there's frost/roadspray all over it and I'm out of wiper fluid. I am probably all over the road on Snelling, and I'm becoming concerned for other people's lives at this point. Luckily, there are barely any vehicles driving at this godawful time. I drive with my head out the window to rainbow foods, where I am able to wipe my window off and the car warms up enough where the defroster begins to do its job.

I get home, and get ready for boot hockey. I am now moving into the pre-hangover/post drunk phase whereupon the subject is very tired and lethargic. We get to hockey, and the first thing we have to do is shovel. No problem. the six of us shovel the whole court off and it takes around 45 minutes to 1 hour. I'm feeling a little better by then as I have begun to work up a lather, and the sides have been chosen.

Play begins, and although I may not be lighting the world up with my skills, my brother paces our squad to an early 4-1 lead and we are firmly in control. We had been playing hockey for approx. 10-15 minutes at this point. The ball gets cleared into our end, and me and an opposition player give chase. The court is dry save for three icy patches in out end. I'm running at a pretty good rate and hit the ice. I slide a bit, then ht dry court again and my leg stops, but my body continues... and I don't remember much else besides pain and thinking "Oh shit, this might be the knee." Thankfully it wasn't the knee, but my ankle turned into something resembling a softball in seconds. I yelled for a while, yelled and cursed and spit at the misfortune of it all, because there were only 6 people playing this injury meant the end of the game for all. I tried to step on it, maybe I could sack up and play? Assuredly not. The game was over. My brother suggested hospital, I said home. Home we went, icepack applied, elevation taken care of, and I'm sitting there with this throbbing mess of an ankle, and then I have to vomit.

Just an overall sweet morning.

The ankle is decent now, it's still fairly swollen, albeit smaller than Saturday, and the pain has subsided. I can hobble around now and it was good that I had Sunday and Monday off (I was scheduled Sat. but called in).

Would I have fucked up my ankle if I had not taken that ill-advised 12:37 bar trip? The world may never know...

It is 12:37 and I'm heading to the bar. I feel this is my duty to blog about this.

Many of you may have recieved a v-mail in regards to the "great debate" over what species the Wild logo animal is. I have staked my position on the "bear" side of the fence while Nicole (great all-around sports mind) sticks with her "wolf" side. My argument consists of two parts: A) It looks like a bear. 2) It has a round ear, which bears have and wolves do not. I guess I could also point out the neck and snout but I like the fung shui of having a two pronged argument. Zen. Anyways, Marc Chouinard scored a nice shorty and a sweet, no helmet on, power play goal and Nicole noted that his last name sounds very similar to the nefarious "male coom noise". More Zen.

SWEET CHICAGO FUN TIMES

There has been a lot of talk lately about who is and who isn't going to Chicago for ST. Patty's Day. I am.

Anyways - I'd like to finalize plans - or at least the preliminary plans - so we don't get caught with our pants down. The following should provide the necessary details for all to make their decision.

We would leave for Chicago Sometime between noon and 3:00 PM on Thursday, March 09 and return on Sunday, March 12. PLEASE NOTE that this is one week before St. Patricks Day.

Ryan thinks he can accomodate 4 - but I think 2 is more realistic. The alternative plan is to get a hotel room - and have everybody who is traveling - even if staying with Ryan and Krissy - split the cost of said hotel room.

Beyond these minor details - the plan is to get outrageously drunk in a strange city amongst people will never see again - and maybe give a girl a baby if we play our cards right at the Hangge Uppe (sp?).

Baron Von Whipplepuss wants to get a fancy hotel - but I still think the Days Inn next door to Ryan's apt makes the most sense - but feel free to comment on this. We would need 1 or two volunteers to drive - depending on what type of vehicle(s) are available.

Everyone please weigh in on this sooner than later so we can all get it on the books.

Here is a comedy clip that is very good with that whole humor dealie. I kept forgeting to find this somewhere and when I did remember, it took .21 seconds for google to find it.

http://www.disposabletelevision.com/projects/cavalcadeofpersonalities.php

We have a new contender for goal of the year in the NHL... for those who didn't see it last night, watch this shit from Operation Dynamo stallion Alexander Ovechkin

Sweet Goal

I'm having trouble finding Spezza's goal from earlier this season, that was sweet as well. There's another one too, by David Vyborny where he goes coast to coast.

Comcast On Demand has a thing every week where they show the top 10 goals, hits and saves of the week. It is nice. They also have a soccer deal, where they show all the goals from the week in the Italian and Spanish leagues, as well as some random Guatemalan goals. I'll admit, On Demand is starting to lube me up a bit.

I hope this link works because this is funny.

http://www.methodshop.com/fun/grapefall/

and the follow up:

http://neversolved.com/michael/Wine_Maker.mp3

on a different topic:

http://www.jesusoftheweek.com/

There's a bunch more at viceland (link is on the right)

I watched the ending of the Colts-Steelers game at work with between 7-10 customers and 3 employees. There was no skate sharpening going on, no fitting rooms being opened, no flexing of sticks. Everyone was firmly glued to the big screen TV as they first watched the Steelers sack P. Marino's ass down to his own two, then Bettis get the ball, then Bettis fumble. There was a weird silence when he did that, then one of my employees uttered what I can only describe as the male coom noise, only a little more guttural. When Vanderjagt missed the kick most groaned in agony. There may have been tears shed. The level of involvement from employees and customers in the watching of the game was only surpassed once, and that was during a key power play in the Minnesota-Michigan NCAA final (frozen) four a few years ago. I thought it strange that a Colts Steelers game would command so much attention.

Anyway, it seemed like most of the people were rooting for the Colts, specifically Peyton Marino. I'm unsure why. Maybe they don't want another Marino, they, in the true montessori fashion, want everyone to win. I think I even felt that way a couple years ago. I don't anymore. I want to see him lose. I want to see him get blown out, lose heartbreakers, lose games that weren't his fault, and lose games that were. I think it's good for the game and good for the world if we can all set our clocks to certain facts that will never change. Chris Harrington will never successfully clear the puck from his zone when needed, and will also be the closest defender to an oppostion goalscorer when the replay is shown. A Glen Mason coached squad, when given the opportunity to stop a team on third and long, will not. The Twins will never have a 30 homerun hitter. Peyton Manning will not win a Super Bowl. These things provide a little balance and order to my world, and although I'd like to see most of them change, I will never root for Manning to win the big one.




I now root for this guy ===========>

And how could you not??? Just look at that sweet stache. Tom Brady eat your heart out. Jake the Snake for MVP.

We Blog with Teeblahg

Lannigan and Miller are currenlty spending their Sunday morning sitting in the dark - talking about:

1. Which figure skaters in this years world championships are now legal with respects to the age at last years championships. and;

2. Which events Nick's high school girlfriend competed in while a member of the gymnastics team.

3. In a couple of minutes - they'll be talking about this serious poop I'm going to take - upstairs.

"The King" apparently is enjoying the fruits of his vastly successful image. I believe that this is Brooke Burke that he is about to house. Long live the king!

T Shirt Idea-
Found this at a legitimate website among approx. 350 international beer logos.

Real quick here... as discussed with teeblah last night.

New Vikings Head Coach Brad Childress on the left...
and Gerald "Major Dad" McRaney on the right.

Finally got my new monitor. Best Buy is seriously full of huge douchebags. Dangerously overflowing with bags of douche. Now I can get down to biz with this a little more as my brother wasn't too happy with me dicking around with it at work. I guess technically I should be working right now... Anyways, I have a lot of undecided issue with structure on this deal. Should I split up the front page more? Should I give people their own sections or maybe topics get their own section. I'll work on it, just wanted ot say the site is own a little bit more now because of my ability to see my computer screen. Peace.