Sunday, August 24, 2008

I wasn't going to blog it

but then it happened twice. Alright here it is, I sneezed on my hands.

Saturday, May 05, 2007

Rugby damn

Rugby Dan,

For your achievements in the twin fields of weightlifting and trapezoid-becoming...


...I named a star in your honor.


Forever your loving disciple,
The ACTUAL God

Wednesday, April 25, 2007

New low

Felt guilty picking out the dark chunks from a can of tuna.

Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Virginia Tech Nightmare

filling in for Joe Dumars at a pistons game, high. get to the bench late, through the wrong entrance - band/security stops me, i tell them i'm joe dumars, they apologize and carry me to bench. i'm wearing a green long-sleeve t so i take it off. "no no no, not too soon." playing with a livestrong bracelet making machine, choose color called gunsmoke, get a skinny yellow rubber band instead, and it's broken. tell brett i'm not going to shoot much in this game. brett tells me if it wasn't all official i'd knock down all my shots. cut to: brett on playground swishing a 3, saying "yes!" brett's mom aka fan aka ref says "yes" in the same voice but also rocky's voice. back to pistons game. filling in for laimbeer is joel mchale from the soup. jewish moms all left to tend to a certain tragedy, all sons notified by text.

cut to 20th floor, british hotel. possessed joel mchale holds a hundred people in lines of 3, waves gun, lectures ably, puts people on spot. says to one asian girl, "you've got the perfect face for television" and puts one through her dome. he turns to me, "see, if you'd try a mini-muffin with some ketchup..." and hands it to me. for survival, i pretend it's a gross and funny combination but i don't mind ketchup on a muffin. he waves gun at me. i beg him, "i'd make horrible tv," kneel behind someone. mchale aims at my forehead, i'm sure it's about to happen, but he shifts his attention, shoots through another guy's palm to make a point about pop culture. lots of crying, everyone's losing calm, descending into madness. some tv dad enters (it's patrick duffy but it's not), i slip out the door, book down the hall, waste 3 seconds at elevator, realize he'll just stop me at the 16th floor, go to staircase, fly down whipping around corners, jumping whole flights. pass the 16th floor, mchale screaming, vowing, gunshot victims screaming and dying. whip down more stairs, twist ankle, find a janitorial space with exposed pipes, no lock, no door. curl up, beg for police to come scoop me, told to sit tight, they're pretty busy.

wake up, horrified, don't want to pee, sad about the real shooting, less sad but still sad for having a second negative association with joel mchale (first was his appearance on pos improv show "thank god you're here"). plan for the moment is to watch msnbc until whenever.

Wednesday, April 04, 2007

I like cartoons

Professor Brothers

Update: haha so cute

Tuesday, April 03, 2007

Slaying of the first born

This weekend I lost my entire actual hard drive because of an Apple genius' negligence. It's complicated and devastating and I'd rather not talk about it. My dad's been calling me round the clock about it.

AG: (groggy) Hello.
Pops: Did I wake you up? Oh shoot, I'm sorry.
AG: No, I should get up, what's up?
Pops: Hear anything from Apple?
AG: Not yet.
Pops: I know this doesn't help the situation at all, but a good thing to do is to back up your data on a zip drive.
AG: A zip drive.
Pops: Yes, I can get you one if you want -
AG: You know I had my shit backed up on a regular external hard drive. How do you come up with a suggestion like that? I don't even think zip is a thing anymore.
Pops: I have a zip drive -
AG: Not relevant.
Pops: I'm just saying -
AG: Just -- don't bring up retarded things, okay?

No matter what happens to my data, I always get up for Passover. My dad's folk dancing friends Yankeleh (m) and Shuli (f) hosted the seder tonight in the Valley. Dinner was delayed a few minutes because Yankele couldn't Tivo "Deal or No Deal" and "Dancing with the Stars" at the same time, so a group of Israelis yelled at each other about that for a while.

Pops: Who is that guy?
AG: Apollo Anton Ohno.
Pops: Oh yeah! Apollo Ohno, the speed skater.
AG: It's Apollo Anton Ohno.
Pops: No no no, Apollo Ohno, the speed skater.
AG: Wrong.
Pops: You sure?
AG: He goes by all three names, trust me, I'm positive.
Yankeleh: He's a beautiful dancer.
(joey fatone tangoes across the screen)
AG: Hey, that's not fair, he's a professional dancer!
Yankeleh: Oh, he's a beautiful dancer too.
Stepmom: Who is that?
AG: Joey Fatone, he was in 'N Sync. They did a lot of hardcore dancing, so it's kind of bullshit that he gets to be on the show.
Stepmom: Who's in sync?
AG: The pop-band, with Justin Timberlake?
Stepmom: That's Justin Timberlake?
AG: No, he was in the band with him. But they all did a lot of precision dancing so...
Stepmom: Oh. You know, I was thinking of another Timberlake.
AG: No, no you weren't.
(the announcer presents fatone and his dance partner, cheryl burke, a random professional dancer)
Stepmom: (feigning a note of recognition) Cheryl Burke, hmm...

That's pretty much how it went most of the night, very fun seder, lots of singing - I was one of the last to leave at around midnight. I stopped to get gas on the way home, and as I was pumping, this skanky blonde in camouflage and black tights was straight eyeing me from inside the store. I made a Pesach resolution to be more bold, so I went in and walked right in front of her, decisively choosing the most ballinest Fiji and wintergreen tic-tacs. When I got to the register, I heard the girl say into her phone, "And he's so healthy."

"Me?" I asked, and she said "Yeah you."

I said "This is my dinner," and she laughed, and so did the Korean guy behind the counter. I looked back from the Korean to the blonde, who made a little shimmy like she was trying to undress without her hands. She said "Yeah, I gotta go" into her phone, and followed me outside.

AG: Not getting anything?
Her: Where do you live?
AG: Just a couple minutes from here.
Her: So...I'll just follow you then?

Then I put a tic-tac in her mouth.

Right now she's under my covers biting on matzoh I took home from the seder, getting crumbs everywhere and asking me what I'm doing.

Her: What are you doing?
AG: Bolding the dialogue shits to make it readable. It'll just be one sec.
Her: Oh come on back to bed, people will be able to read it regardless.
AG: Relax, I'm not even colouring them.

Thursday, March 29, 2007

To Catch a Predator: Petaluma II

Marine: Hi.
Hawt Decoy Girl in capris: Hey, I made some frozen lemonade (wtf), go ahead and pour yourself some. I'm gonna go get changed into my bathing suit.
Marine: Uh, I didn't bring a suit.
Girl: That's okay, you don't really need one.
(girl walks off, marine takes shirt off)
Marine: Sweet.
(chris hansen comes out and sits the marine down, goes over the chatroom transcript, chides him for awhile, etc, marine clearly knows it's a sting)
Chris Hansen: You served in Iraq?
Marine: Yes sir.
Chris Hansen: That's tough service.

Marine: I'm sorry.
Chris Hansen: For what?
Marine: For being stupid.
Chris Hansen: Being stupid how?
Marine: (teary) Jus' being dumb. Everything I've worked for my entire life is ruined now, just because...
Chris Hansen: Because you wanted to have sex with a 13-year-old...Well...There's something I need to tell you...
Marine: Yeah?
Chris Hansen: I'm Chris Hansen.
Marine: (nonplussed) Okay.

Next segment, a computer engineer from Silicon Valley...

Indian: It was my friend.
Chris Hansen: Oh yeah? What's your friend's name?
Indian: I had a party, somebody must have logged on to my computer.
Chris Hansen: It says here, you wrote: "I will eat your shaved (bleep) -- because you are young and fresh."
Indian: There were many guys over at my apartment.
Chris Hansen: Here it says she asks you your name and you say "Anurat." That's your name, isn't it?
Indian: Yes.
Chris Hansen: So you're friend was using your name.
Indian: Yes, I don't know why.
Chris Hansen: But Anurat - there were several conversations, and several different references to sex. So either you're having a party over several days without knowing what your "friend" is saying about you online, or, you're telling me a big fat lie.
Indian: I came here to help her. To be like a big brother.
Chris Hansen: A big brother?
Indian: Nothing else, I swear. I'm looking you in the eye and telling you the truth.
Chris Hansen: And I'm looking you in the eye and telling you, that I'm Chris Hansen.
Indian: (nonplussed) I'm Anurat.

If I were one of these guys, I'd show up to meet the girl in a Chris Hansen mask. That way if it's not a sting, great, just take off the mask. If it is, just be like, "I was joking obv, look at my mask dummy."

UPDATE:
Found a scandalous picture of the decoy girl, thanks facebook. Link.