28/04: I heart Ryan Howard
Did anyone watch the Phils game last night? I had to go to my new favorite spot in the LNC to watch it because Direct TV is a disgrace, and must've cast some kind of withcraft on me when I signed an actual contract saying that I'd pay for their sad, no Phillies showing service for 18 months. Back to the point, I went to my new digs and ended up schooling a bunch of older gents, and when I say older, I mean they shuffled down from the retirement village up the street, at darts while watching the game. And I drank 3 shots of Jack Daniels. Which not only impressed the gents, it enhanced my eye-hand coordination making me an unstoppable force on the dart board, and I think it may have worked as some kind of rally agent for the Phils. Right after my first one, Ryan Howard hit a grand slam, and after the 3rd, Ibanez did it again. Amazing.
You know, this started out as a post to pay homage to Ryan Howard and the Phils, but I've been thinking a lot about last night, and I think I am awarding Player of the Game to Jack Daniels.
You know, this started out as a post to pay homage to Ryan Howard and the Phils, but I've been thinking a lot about last night, and I think I am awarding Player of the Game to Jack Daniels.
27/04: The Return of Skidz
It seems to have taken no time at all for my fan base to bounce back after my extended hiatus. In reality, that's no surprise. What surprises me most about celebrity and superstardom, believe it or not, is the lengths to which people will go to provoke a reaction. Which is why I've got to give my loyal reader, Skidz in North Carolina his due. For reals, thanks for including me on this letter at random to the Republican Party. Also, thanks for the entertainment, now go find your Mommy and cry into her skirt. You get no sympathy from me.
What can the Republican Party do to earn your trust? April 17, 2009
I really don’t care about party, but the Republicans seem to be the closest party to the ideals of limited government and the worth of individual achievement. However, in the last 8 years, our White House and our Republican (and then Democratic) Congress spent money like we had extra to give away? I tend to have Libertarian leanings in that I would just like government to leave me and the free market alone, and I would like to see our Republican party return to those small government ideals. I want us to quit pandering to the left by adopting their socialist platform such as with the new expansion of Medicare. If we try to govern by making friends of the media, we will lose every time and more importantly, so will the American taxpayer.
We have an uphill battle to fight because of the entitlement mentality that the American people have begun to adopt. Everyone’s a victim and deserves government help. We need to reverse this mentality first by being sure that everyone enjoys the “patriotic” feeling of paying taxes. With 50% of Americans not paying income taxes, why be concerned about rising taxes? We need to eliminate the IRS and the income tax and replace it with some sort of consumption tax. This will still end up being graduated with the wealthy buying more stuff with their dollars. We need to get back to rewarding achievement instead of punishing it as we do through the tax code.
Most of all, we have to reinvigorate the ideals of American values by preaching a positive message about Americans, the free market, liberty, etc. – the same ideals that the current administration is tearing down. We could use a Reagan-type leader who loves this country and its people and proudly touts our accomplishments around the world instead of apologizing for America.
Lastly, we need to educate Americans about the greatest Constitution in the world and what it actually calls on Congress to do through its enumerated powers. As our government entitles more and more Americans, it slowly strips us of our individual freedoms and destroys the precepts of the 10th amendment. I hope that our leaders will remember that about the only thing that government should be embarking on is defending the rights and liberties in the Bill of Rights and defending our nation. Most of our executive departments and agencies are thereby illegal! (And I am a public school principal in North Carolina just wishing that Reagan would have been successful in eliminating the DOE, returning autonomy to the states for the administration of public education).
I hope someone reads this, and I hope that the leadership of our party will find that positive spokesman that can instill pride in Americans in pursuit of the American dream. I hope that we will remember what limited government is, what the free market is about, what the rugged individualist used to be in the greatest country ever created on God’s earth.
Thank you,
Skidz
Questions? Comments?
What can the Republican Party do to earn your trust? April 17, 2009
I really don’t care about party, but the Republicans seem to be the closest party to the ideals of limited government and the worth of individual achievement. However, in the last 8 years, our White House and our Republican (and then Democratic) Congress spent money like we had extra to give away? I tend to have Libertarian leanings in that I would just like government to leave me and the free market alone, and I would like to see our Republican party return to those small government ideals. I want us to quit pandering to the left by adopting their socialist platform such as with the new expansion of Medicare. If we try to govern by making friends of the media, we will lose every time and more importantly, so will the American taxpayer.
We have an uphill battle to fight because of the entitlement mentality that the American people have begun to adopt. Everyone’s a victim and deserves government help. We need to reverse this mentality first by being sure that everyone enjoys the “patriotic” feeling of paying taxes. With 50% of Americans not paying income taxes, why be concerned about rising taxes? We need to eliminate the IRS and the income tax and replace it with some sort of consumption tax. This will still end up being graduated with the wealthy buying more stuff with their dollars. We need to get back to rewarding achievement instead of punishing it as we do through the tax code.
Most of all, we have to reinvigorate the ideals of American values by preaching a positive message about Americans, the free market, liberty, etc. – the same ideals that the current administration is tearing down. We could use a Reagan-type leader who loves this country and its people and proudly touts our accomplishments around the world instead of apologizing for America.
Lastly, we need to educate Americans about the greatest Constitution in the world and what it actually calls on Congress to do through its enumerated powers. As our government entitles more and more Americans, it slowly strips us of our individual freedoms and destroys the precepts of the 10th amendment. I hope that our leaders will remember that about the only thing that government should be embarking on is defending the rights and liberties in the Bill of Rights and defending our nation. Most of our executive departments and agencies are thereby illegal! (And I am a public school principal in North Carolina just wishing that Reagan would have been successful in eliminating the DOE, returning autonomy to the states for the administration of public education).
I hope someone reads this, and I hope that the leadership of our party will find that positive spokesman that can instill pride in Americans in pursuit of the American dream. I hope that we will remember what limited government is, what the free market is about, what the rugged individualist used to be in the greatest country ever created on God’s earth.
Thank you,
Skidz
Questions? Comments?
22/04: Time To Drop Some Knowledge
These days I venture out of my dojo less frequently than once I did. In those days, I delighted the people with wit, levity, honesty, and a certain tight-pantsed insouciance that was then utterly inimitable and still today remains completely unique. In fact, I think it's fair to say that it will never be replicated. Perhaps if the scientists and dreamers of tomorrow's tomorrow were able to genetically engineer a Diana Ross/ Giselle Bundchen / Hillary Clinton hybrid... perhaps that dynamo of the future would be fit to stand in my shadow, but only perhaps.
But this weekend past I did venture out. I attended a birthday soiree at The Real Jessica's house, and onward we strode to Lancaster's fabled Annie Bailey's Irish Pub. Not only was it a delight for the waitress I tipped a sum approaching three dollars (American) over the course of the evening, it was a delight for me. I found the company to be quite engaging, fun even. This despite the unnerving proximity of a variety of peoples to me.
It is those peoples that are the focus of my insight today. Not all of them, of course, as I seldom find right-leaning professionals with pronounced interest in tennis to be worthy of my gaze, let alone my words. No. The young men are the people that I wish to discuss on this great and glorious day.
Apparently Annie Bailey's has a following among the early 20 somethings of our crumbling empire. The bar was packed with them. I'm talking about men in their very early twenties. The kind that text messages bafflingly encoded missives to one another. Missives that, one can only assume are utterly without truth, beauty, substance, art, or feeling.
Before Annie Bailey's last Saturday night, I'd not been exposed much to this breed of yonker and was surprised by much of what I saw. Since then, I've noticed more and more of them on street, and I wish to bring to your attention some of their more unnerving life choices.
First, what bothers me is that they seem to have adopted the worst possible style of jean for their shape. It is very tight, very short, and very tapered. I assume this is in an effort to ape the likes of Joey Ramone. Unfortunately for us all, Joey Ramone was one of the least attractive beings to roam the Earth in its history. And so into these jeans do our youth pour themselves, and the effect is fifty pounds of ass that looks as though it will avalanche down and out the cuffs were they not so tight.
Second, what's with the hoods? As I am a lover of music, I watched Rockstar: Supernova, and I am not ashamed to admit it. Ok, maybe a little ashamed… If memory serves, over the course of this season, a number of performers wore hoods up. I assumed these were misguided attempts to look pensive, dangerous, or mysterious. Well, I'm here to report that the misguided attempts aren't limited to would-be Supernovas. These men wear their hoods up and, more often than not, and it looks ridiculous.
And finally, they play Sudoku. They make a plan to get a drink, (or coffee in the case of this morning, when I saw the latest posse of young gents sitting at a table, not speaking, but all playing Sudoku,) probably via MySpace, or Facebook or text messages or something, they pour themselves into their jeans, put up their hoods, show up at the venue, and whip out their Sudoku books. When I was their age, we had a name for those kind of people. Nerds. What's wrong with these people? Why am I the only one smoking a joint in the bathroom?
But this weekend past I did venture out. I attended a birthday soiree at The Real Jessica's house, and onward we strode to Lancaster's fabled Annie Bailey's Irish Pub. Not only was it a delight for the waitress I tipped a sum approaching three dollars (American) over the course of the evening, it was a delight for me. I found the company to be quite engaging, fun even. This despite the unnerving proximity of a variety of peoples to me.
It is those peoples that are the focus of my insight today. Not all of them, of course, as I seldom find right-leaning professionals with pronounced interest in tennis to be worthy of my gaze, let alone my words. No. The young men are the people that I wish to discuss on this great and glorious day.
Apparently Annie Bailey's has a following among the early 20 somethings of our crumbling empire. The bar was packed with them. I'm talking about men in their very early twenties. The kind that text messages bafflingly encoded missives to one another. Missives that, one can only assume are utterly without truth, beauty, substance, art, or feeling.
Before Annie Bailey's last Saturday night, I'd not been exposed much to this breed of yonker and was surprised by much of what I saw. Since then, I've noticed more and more of them on street, and I wish to bring to your attention some of their more unnerving life choices.
First, what bothers me is that they seem to have adopted the worst possible style of jean for their shape. It is very tight, very short, and very tapered. I assume this is in an effort to ape the likes of Joey Ramone. Unfortunately for us all, Joey Ramone was one of the least attractive beings to roam the Earth in its history. And so into these jeans do our youth pour themselves, and the effect is fifty pounds of ass that looks as though it will avalanche down and out the cuffs were they not so tight.
Second, what's with the hoods? As I am a lover of music, I watched Rockstar: Supernova, and I am not ashamed to admit it. Ok, maybe a little ashamed… If memory serves, over the course of this season, a number of performers wore hoods up. I assumed these were misguided attempts to look pensive, dangerous, or mysterious. Well, I'm here to report that the misguided attempts aren't limited to would-be Supernovas. These men wear their hoods up and, more often than not, and it looks ridiculous.
And finally, they play Sudoku. They make a plan to get a drink, (or coffee in the case of this morning, when I saw the latest posse of young gents sitting at a table, not speaking, but all playing Sudoku,) probably via MySpace, or Facebook or text messages or something, they pour themselves into their jeans, put up their hoods, show up at the venue, and whip out their Sudoku books. When I was their age, we had a name for those kind of people. Nerds. What's wrong with these people? Why am I the only one smoking a joint in the bathroom?
