Dave & Buster's Debauchery

So last night, we had a post-Christmas party at Dave & Buster's for the ground crew that works at WMGK... We had free food (mini-pizzas, chicken tenders, taco bar, etc.), pool tables, and $10 game cards for each person. Drinks weren't free, but since I ended up carpooling with some people, I decided to make up for the money I saved by spending it on booze. Needless to say, I ended up drinking a fair amount, even managing to save some money by getting a free soda and filling it with bourbon, courtesy of Gill's flask...haha. To add to the enjoyment of the game room, Gill had managed to get two $25 gift certificates, one we put towards a game card, the other to pay off part of our bar bill. Now, I'm not usually much of a video game guy, but I enjoy some of the shooter games every once in a while. And then decided to parlay the game card into winning tickets to put towards meaningless prizes. And we hit the jackpot... We found a machine that had to be malfunctioning because every time you'd swipe the card the max amount of times allowed, you'd win 500 tickets just for shooting a ball into a hole. So we racked up some tickets and went on a shopping spree. Unfortunately, someone had decided to buy extra large pixie sticks with their tickets and someone decided to dump a good amount of that sugar shit into one of my beers which was extremely disgusting. But since the beer was so expensive, I had no choice but to finish it... horrible. But one of the highlights of the night had to be Joe C doing lines of pixie stick sugar off of the back of Gill's next as Gill was trying to concentrate while playing one of the games... I guess you had to be there to find it as funny as we did.

So you ask what did I end up buying with my plethora of tickets? Well I decided to get everyone some candy, a Homer Simpson doll, Al Lee ended up getting himself a Bartman doll with some of my tickets (not sure how he pulled that off), and then I ended up getting a pink Care Bear for my lady of interest... a pink Care Bear?... yeah I was definitely into my drinks that night...haha

HORSE THE BAND - Earth Tour...

So it looks like HORSE THE BAND, one of my favorites, is booking their own world tour of 40 different countries, without the help of booking agencies and other corporate entities of the likes. And they plan on taping the whole excursion and turning it into a video or TV show and they're looking for help. Maybe I should try to get on their production crew... Some of the countries they plan on touring include, United Arab Emirates, Turkey, China, and Israel... pretty extreme!

Things are Starting to Look up for the Dolphins...

Bill Parcells continued the revamping of the Miami Dolphins organization today with the hiring of Dallas Cowboys assistant coach, Tony Sparano (not to be mistaken with Tony Soprano, FOHGET ABOUT IT) as the head coach. If you couple that with the hiring of Jeff Ireland, another former Dallas employee, as the General Manager, there's a lot of upside there. Could we be looking at the Dallas Cowboys 2.0, two or three years down the line?... I certainly hope so. Sparano had been the Offensive Line coach for the Cowboys this season, but last season he was calling plays for the offense. And Jeff Ireland was Vice President of college and pro scouting for the Cowboys, so he was pretty integral in the formation of that team. The Dolphins also hired David Lee as their QB coach. You might know one of Lee's best protege's... one Tony Romo, who went from undrafted free agent to starting QB of America's team.

Obviously, I realize that football games are won on the field and not necessarily in the front office, but the Dolphins do own the number one pick in the draft which would best be utilized on a lineman, either offensive or defensive. The two names that stand out in my mind would be: Offensive Tackle Jake Long out of Michigan and Defensive Tackle Glenn Dorsey out of LSU. Dorsey was completely dominant in the BCS championship game against Ohio State and is a definite game changer while Long is a franchise Offensive Tackle that could protect your QB for years to come. Out of the two, I'd rather the Dolphins take Long because I think he could make an immediate impact (see Joe Thomas rookie offensive tackle for the Cleveland Browns) and make life easier for John Beck or whoever else could be their quarterback of the future. Speaking of QBs, with their second or third round picks, the Dolphins need to draft a possible franchise QB and have a competition for the starting job. I'm not entirely sure that John Beck is the quarterback of the future, especially since he's now 26, so bringing in young guy would probably be a good idea.

Optimism is pretty high right now for Dolphins fans like myself...

The Demise of Eminem...HAHA

Anyone that knows me, knows that I've always hated Eminem and every thing that he does. So it brought me great joy to find out that he is a "depressed recluse, eating his way to obesity". This British tabloid even went as far as to compare his situation to the demise of Elvis... gotta love it

Athletes & Presidential Candidate contributions...

So I stole this link from Bill Simmons, the Sports Guy, but I found it to be pretty interesting. It's a list of professional athletes and franchise owners and executives who have contributed money to Presidential Candidates' campaigns. Apparently the max contribution that they could make was $2300. Barrack Obama is the leader getting numerous donations from NBA and NFL players and I found it pretty interesting / disappointing that John Edwards' only contributor was Martina Navratilova... And if you take a look at Mitt Romney's contributors, there's Andy Reid making the max contribution to his campaign...

TOP TEN HST QUOTES

Thanks to Clavin for directing me to this site that supposedly ranks Hunter S. Thompson's Top Ten Quotes over the years from his books, speeches, interviews, etc. While I will admit that these are all awesome quotes from HST, I disagree with the quotes that were included and how they were ranked. But you be the judge...

Maybe Jessica was at the game after all...

Apparently, The NY Post bought a ticket for a Jessica Simpson impersonator to go down to the Dallas - NY Giants game this past weekend to distract Tony Romo. She had a pretty good seat, 3 rows off of the 50-yard line, so maybe Tony did end up seeing her...HILARIOUS