It would appear, by all good measures, that I am getting lazy. Well, while it is true that warm weather and good news slackens my angst, believe in the core of your very bones that it is not that I am getting lazy - it's that good news makes for bad literature. Sure, I could regale you with tales of how I've convinced an insurance company to give me more money than I paid for my car to fix it or how a neighbor just gave me a lawn mower and how in my quest for a DSLR camera I've finagled a free one... but where's the conflict? These things on their own are uninteresting. Onward toward victory, right?
This past weekend I was enlisted to distract my good friend, sculptor of young minds and all-around wood handling man, Mike, as his girlfriend prepped for his surprise birthday party. We went to the Hooker Brewing Company in Bloomfield and gorged ourselves on several tiny cups of their Blonde, Irish Red, excellent Munich and candy-sweet Watermelon Ale. Ah, nothing like a bright and sunny summer's day to sit inside a dark warehouse drinking fresh beer straight from the tank. This, followed closely by pizza and a pitcher at the Fireplace in Southington... the weather was perfect for deception.
And of course, the party. A few more gallons of beer and some tequila, and as you could imagine, I was deeply engrossed in a conversation with Mike's mom, who just-so-happened to be in town in time for the party. It was at about ten o'clock when I told her that I was going to kick her son's ass. At about ten thirty, Mike and Lory had gone to bed and it was time to go home. Long day.
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Thursday, June 30, 2011
Thursday, March 31, 2011
Awesomesicles
Arrested Development is a television program that ran from 2003-2006, and while it is a funny show and all-around pretty good, I have found that sometimes people identify with the show as a means to establish intellectual dominance - in much the same way someone might like Frasier. This is unacceptable.
Recently, when out to dinner at the Fireplace in Southington, and, mind you, where part of our group was standing and chatting away from the group with some hanging-on interlopers, while we were trying to eat, which of course was very disconcerting and I'm fairly certain rude, the topic of Arrested Development came up quite excitedly from a member of the group. I agreed that the show was good, but added that it was over-rated. This caused great indignance on the part of the late-twenties female I was talking to, who immediately challenged me to produce no less than four better shows. I thought four was a bit much.
Surprised by the idea of any sudden challenge, let alone something so inconsequential and aggressively posed, I immediately went blank, having not worn the right kind of shoes for this terrain. After taking a moment to get footing and take a breath, I was able to quickly spout in succession, a stream of superior shows: The League, Bored to Death, Modern Family and It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia* were the first ones that came to mind. In a purposefully crass show of brute dominance I held out my hand with my thumb hidden behind my palm, wiggled my downward pointing fingers and said: "Awesomesicles!"
* I actually referenced The Inbetweeners here, but wasn't able to remember what the other show was at the time of pressing.
Recently, when out to dinner at the Fireplace in Southington, and, mind you, where part of our group was standing and chatting away from the group with some hanging-on interlopers, while we were trying to eat, which of course was very disconcerting and I'm fairly certain rude, the topic of Arrested Development came up quite excitedly from a member of the group. I agreed that the show was good, but added that it was over-rated. This caused great indignance on the part of the late-twenties female I was talking to, who immediately challenged me to produce no less than four better shows. I thought four was a bit much.
Surprised by the idea of any sudden challenge, let alone something so inconsequential and aggressively posed, I immediately went blank, having not worn the right kind of shoes for this terrain. After taking a moment to get footing and take a breath, I was able to quickly spout in succession, a stream of superior shows: The League, Bored to Death, Modern Family and It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia* were the first ones that came to mind. In a purposefully crass show of brute dominance I held out my hand with my thumb hidden behind my palm, wiggled my downward pointing fingers and said: "Awesomesicles!"
* I actually referenced The Inbetweeners here, but wasn't able to remember what the other show was at the time of pressing.
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