Posted 6:50 PM by Brian
Well, it wasn't pretty, but Mryland finally got to the promise land under Gary Wiliams. True, it was one of the most hideous games at any level in any sport that I have witnessed, but that's not important. Maryland showed toughness of body and mind when confronted by the spectre of a game slipping away, not unlike the Duke game that bounced them out last year. Is Juan Dixon the man or what? Loses both parents to drug related HIV, grows up in a shithole neighborhood, and turns out to be the most outstanding player in the college tournement. And I complain if it's cloudy two days in a row. Makes me almost think that I should appreciate what I have........Getting ready for the big nine week EMT course starting next Tuesday. Im actually looking forward to being really busy, as I have been kind of stagnant lately. More than a few times, I find myself driving around during the day, wondering what to do. Most of my accounts already are probably sick of me pestering them, and I don't want to overexpose myself........Hard to believe, but i've actually been feeling pretty lonely up here in LA recently. I think that it stems from a job where I don't really have any coworkers, and I spend most of the time by myself. When I am around people from work, I'm an outsider. Someone to greet and behave courteously towards, but no one to get to know. Yeah, I make a lot more money now, but I almost wish I was back in San Diego, living in a small two bedroom by the beach, and working at a resort hotel. It was great- I had plenty of friends, everything was close by, I saw Shea all the time.....but, it's a lot different when you have more reponsabilities.........
The big question for me is: What am I going to do after I complete this course? Am I going to take a big pay cut and try out the fire department (if I can get in, but that's a whole 'nother blog ), of do I stick with this job? I'm also still seriously considering the LAPD, but evybody thinks Im nuts. Well, that's not new......more about this later.....

Posted 4:44 PM by Brian
Whew! It's been a whirlwind couple of weekends, with both Colin Mcgrath and JP Sommerville both making appeareances into SD. I loved seeing both of them, and we had a great time.......Thank god they're gone. I am ready for a quiet weekend, finally. Of course, this being only Tuesday, I have a problem.
Been a little while since my last post. I feel that the only thing at this point worth discussion is the middle east, and what the hell can one say that hasn't already said? Palestinian suicide bombers pack their bombs with nails, broken glass, and steel slivers in order to maim women and children, and then Israel gets into the tanks and takes out a couple of empty condos in Bethlehem. "Cycle of Violence", my ass.....'course, that's really just an excuse used by Europeans to make sure that everyone still hates the jews....
On a lighter topic, we have another wacky local politician out here in good ol' California. State Senator Ortiz has learned her valuable strategy from the tobacco wars. In her proposed bill, Californians would be taxed two cents per can of soda in order to fund education about how you shouldn't drink soda. I'm telling you, you can't make this stuff up. She believes that this will help to reduce the numbers of overweight children in our schools. Just a thought here: Can Soda alone make a kid obese? There's no way just drinking a can of yoo-hoo can turn a child into a butterball. Not only are the number of calories marginal, but children's metabolisms at that age are sky high. I mean, they have to reall be putting down some swill to get fat at that age. No, it's more likely parents who can't or won't entertain their kids, and let them sit at home eating Mcd's and watching the tube that does it. So that common sense tells you that this is a total scam. How much of this money in the proposed use of the tax revenue (and she's talking about a cool three hundred mill!) would actuallly get to a program to teach kids about food? A hundreth? Maybe. Another feel good policy, this plan won't work because you can't tell kids that they should be eating broccoli and not french fries, and expect them to comply. You know why? CANDY AND SNACKS TASTE BETTER! Shocked silence......

Posted 5:29 PM by Brian
I know that it must be time to quit my job when I spend the whole day dreaming about quitting.....

Posted 5:28 PM by Brian
Well, another day, and another palestinian murderer blows up women and children. It is absolutely unbeleivable to me the conditions in which the israelis have to live. I even find myself growing accustomed to it each day, expecting to come home and check the day's tally. And the gall the US shows in urging Israeli restraint, when we are waging our own war on terrorism, shocks me. If I were Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon, I would have turned Palestine into a goddamn parking lot by now. I fear that we are going to be seeing an all out war over there very soon now.....

Posted 9:42 PM by Brian
Just got back from my boxing class.....I like it a lot, and my teacher is really good, but I think I might have to find a new place to go. Driving ten miles doesn't seem that bad, but in LA, it can take an hour. Feeling pretty good, although I got pretty beat up tonight. I was fighting a guy who was a lot shorter, and very stocky, and for some reason, I have trouble with those guys. Anyway, I will post some better links tomorrow now that I've figured out how to do it. I start my EMT class in about another week and a half at UCLA, so I will be SUPER busy for the next three months. I just remembered today that I know a guy in the fire department in San Diego, so I'll be looking for employment down there as well. God, I'm counting the days until I can quit the job I have now. Sales, at least for me, can be summed up like this: Great Money, Totally Unfufilling......Well, I'm going to bed, dammit....

Posted 5:16 PM by Brian
I just saw some guys who reminded me of the icy hot stuntaz.....I think it was da flame.......

Posted 5:03 PM by Brian
Jesus saves......and Gretzky scores on the deflection!

Posted 4:49 PM by Brian
My question today is this: What the hell has happened to New York City? We all know the images that have been fostered throughout our culture- the swaggering, tough, how-you-doin'-don't-bust my balls attitude. I can think of dozens of movies and television shows where the New York tough guy has been celebrated. But now, this once great city is slowly being turned into the biggest pussbag state in the union. It's a damn sad day when one has to turn to Los Angeles for an image of independence and American swagger, and I say that as a proud Angeleno. It was bad enough when they took away people's cell phones and elected Hillary Clinton. (Can you picture all of those firefighters casting voted for Hillary? I'm embarassed for them.) But now today is an even more disturbing story out of the small apple. Apparantly, a judge has said that a mother may no longer smoke in her own home, at any time, because her son has complained about the smell. Keep in mind, this boy suffers no health problems of any kind, and otherwise loves his mother. But in New York, the new nanny state, the government is now reaching into the sanctity of ones own home and instructing the parents on how to live their lives. Now I know what all the do-gooders are going to say- Smoking is evil, cigarette companies are run by agents of Satan, and that this mother is one short step above the ladder to Hell than Andrea Yates. The judge was just looking out for the best interests of the child, and we should be glad, nay, celebrate this learned member of the bench. One question- what's going to happen the next time a mom is doing something that these interfering bums in black robes disapprove of? I can picture it now. "Mrs. Smith, I noticed that little Jonny here is gaining a little weight. Therefore, I rule that you are no longer allowed to keep fatty foods in the house." Or, "Jonny's schoolwork has suffered recently, Mrs. Smith. It seems that he has been watching too much television and not paying enough attention to homework. Therefore, you will disconnect your cable at once, and not have it on at any time, even when Jonny is not staying with you." I know, I know- that will never happen, right? Have you people learned nothing from the tobacco wars? The tobacco companies are forcecd to cough up billions of dollars to defend their perfectly legal product, the money ostensibly to be used for health programs. What happens? States are using the money to fix their freeways, and Peter Angelos, drunk with his newfound fount of cash, buys the Baltimore Orioles, for chrissakes. Now, having learned, the hordes of lawyers are turning their sites on other sources of pleasure- fatty foods, alcohol, candy. All in the name of the children, of course. But of course, in New York, anything is possible. Say what you want about LA- our obsession with our bodies, the hunger for fame, the flakiness of our city. But at least we can use our fucking cell phones without getting a ticket. Stay on the east coast, gambinos. You can't handle it out here.

Posted 10:14 PM by Brian
I should really get to bed now. I don't know why, but now that I have this spot to write all of these ponderences, I feel that I have to write something in it all the time. I feel that everything that I post here needs to be this great journalistic masterpiece, when it will more likely be the disjointed ramblings of a strange young man living in Hollywood, Ca. Well, strange is relative, I suppose. I mean, I live across the street from two satanists who design clothes for Marilyn Manson, for Christ's sake. (Is that sentence ironic? Just wondering). Anyway, now I'm having second thoughts about forwarding on this site's address to you people. Mom, keep in mind that I'm not writing the friggin' great american novel here, ok? Most of this writing will probably be therapeutic, if nothing else. Actually, you know who I feel like right now? Fucking Doogie Howser, MD. Remember that show? Nice premise- Nerdy young doctor who is destined to go through life being called Doogie by people who purport to respect him for his ability while ridiculing him for his pedophiliac good looks. And his only respite is to sit down on his commodore 64 or whatever computer he had and write hackneyed, postmondern philosophy that somehow gives the whole show a rosy moral message. All doctors are assholes, anyway. The only reason that they go into medicine is because they figure now that they have a future with a rosy financial outlook, they'll finally get laid. I mean, have you seen these fuys who go to medical school? I feel like I'm on the set of Ghandhi when I walk across USC's campus. Not that there's anything wrong with that.......

Posted 8:17 PM by Brian
Hey James, I got your email regarding Jane Fonda. I passed it along to evry one in my address book. You are right- we can never forget what that pyscho leorard wearing commie bee-yatch did. It galls me ever more when I see she is being celebrated as this American Icon, like she's fucking Betsy Ross or something. Why is it that people have such short memories? In Hollywood, it seems as if most are more concerned with a goddamn dress that Gwyneth Paltrow wore to to Oscars than that we are faced with millions of fanatical muslims that would like nothing more than to nuke us with a few "dirty" nukes. Oh well. I guess it's going to take a few more airplanes going down for the great unwashed to tear their eyes away from such societal abortions like, "Glutton Bowl", and "Celebrity Boxing". Ok, Ok, I kinda liked celebrity boxing. Vanilla Ice is a pussy!......

Posted 7:57 PM by Brian
Okay, Now that I can see that this shit is working, we 'bout to be typin' mad, crazy, shit up in this joint, son!.......Oh, sorry....sometimes my street upbringing gets the better of me. Colin Mcgrath was in San Diego over the weekend for a visit. As one might expect from an Irishman, it was a weekend filled with booze, good conversation, and morally casual polish exchange students. Colin was super smooth as usual, and it resulted in him having meaningful, um, conversation with her. Unfortunately, I don't remember that much as far as speaking with her, due to the large amounts of cheap liquor that Pacific Shores was serving up that evening. I do remember her asking me if I knew anything about Poland. I replied that the only things I knew concerning her fair country was A: They have a really cool-named city (Krakow! Krakow!) and B: They got rolled hard by the Germans in dubya dubya two. I'm not sure she saw the humor in part b of my scholarship, although I myself was greatly amused. Anyway, props to Mcgrath for stepping up to the plate and coming out to S.D. Now, if only my parents would come see their troubled child, that might really be something. Thinking about quitting my job, which is a new development. I mean, it has been about three hours since I last thought of it, so in my mind, that counts as new. Not sure what exactly I'm qualified for- However, after that abomination on television last night, perhaps I could become a full time Oscar presenter. Now I know why these people are actors- when confronted by any situation that does not come with a script and publicist, they display about as much charisma and intelligence as that Cleetus character from "The Simpsons". Well, that's enough for tonight. Now, on to the porno websites! (Just kidding, Mom.....)

Posted 7:37 PM by Brian
Did anyone outside of Hollywood actually watch the academy awards last night? I don't mean the last half hour, of course, but the torturous, blue collar three and a half hours preceding Halle and Denzel? Perhaps I'm being cynical, but I can't imagine anyone glued to the edge of their seat, waiting with white knuckles to see who won the, "Best Production by a Midget in a Spanish Speaking Film" category. Is that Fair?.....

Posted 7:33 PM by Brian
Well, here goes nothing.....Finally got around to something that will help all of my family and friends who are exiled in other, lesser cities keep track of what's happening in the city of lost children.