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Photo at left from last weekend's match courtesy of a former Beaverhausen John.
They posted something this month!
Is Beaverhausen back?
Only time will tell...
This weekend we head down to the Patuxent River area to play a few matches in the Celtic Feststival of Southern Maryland celebration. There's bound to be lots of events were large people lift and throw heavy things and/or play gawdawful insturments. I hope to get some pics of shirtless men in kilts for everyone. But the last time I uploaded a photo of a guy in a kilt to my blog, my server log stats totally got whacked from the incredible number of hits for such a pic. I'll serve it remotely from Flickr this time.
In related news, clogging is a hit in my hometown, and black bears are back.
If you've ever wondered what happened to Jo, Blair, Tootie, Natalie and Ms. Garrett, here's the lost Facts of Life episode, courtesy of BooBob. I always knew something was up between Jo and Blair.
There's a George Michael "TwentyFive" Release Party this Saturday, April 26 @ OmegaDC, 2122 P St., NW WDC 20037 featuring another delicious serving from VJ Tre:
I'll likely be fried from a day in the sun playing rugby. Plus there's a mega-paper due on Tuesday, which I will of course wait until the last hour to write.
Despite the threat of thunderstorms and/or a hot, humid day, the weather eventually turned pleasant, cool and dry in time for our match out in Winchester, Virginia. Both the A and B sides won, and there was no eye poking in the scrums. I got to play flanker on the B side, and had a few nice drives over the rucks, one resulting in pushing the guy with the ball over the goal line. I'll count that as an assist. Flanking involves a new set of muscles that I don't normally use in other positions, and it seems like my lower back muscles are especially offended by the new tasks.
After the match we had a nice social at a micro-brew pub, and the porter was dee-licious. Later on me and OMG DJ TM™ stopped at the Dairy Queen for burgers and Blizzards:
I still like going to Dairy Queen even though I used to work at the largest Dairy Queen in Wisconsin. I could never master the art of making a tiered cone, so I was only allowed to make burgers and Blizzards. When business was slow, us Brazier boys in the back would go disappear into the freezer and gorge on Dilly Bars.
Is it retarded when I'm chatting online with a woofy visitor to DC on Manhunt, and I start giving smart travel tips and hot spot nightlife recommendations? I can't help it if I was genetically engineered to dispense information. Perhaps Julie McCoy, the Cruise Director, was the 13th Cylon, and I'm one of her alternate models. I will always be able to tell you where it's at, at any given day of the week. Or I can find out in minutes, give me a moment...
I can't watch Friday's episode of Battlestar Galactica because I'll be paying $300 fucking dollars for a pair of shoes. I'll be seeing Margaret Cho as well, but Friday is all about Kelly.
Kelly wrote the lyrics for my personal mantra:
"I'm gonna blog and text and post and hostSo like yesterday I swear to you Cloris Leachman was working out at Washington Sports Clubs north of the Circle. And this totally hot scruffy guy with a hot wrestler build came up to me and politely said hi and introduced himself. I think his name was 'Drew but I was all flustered cuz he was scruffy. And I almost had a heart attack because he was so polite and friendly - I'm guessing he's not from the East Coast - and I was shocked by such a forward act of overt friendliness in this city. That's all it takes to impress me.
Podcast your bastard ass from coast to coast."
Rugby match out in Winchester, VA on Saturday. They're mean and they poke you in the eyes in the scrum. I'm gonna pull out my can 'o whoop ass and do a double-elbow atomic drop signature move like Chris Benoit would have done if they try to do that sorta shit. I'm going to get all Chris Benoit on your ass if you try that - don't you understand?
Oh yeah, and Blowoff is this Saturday at the 9:30 Club. I'm like totally going.
A Washington Post story about Faith, the two-legged dog. Here's the video and photo gallery of the irresistable bipedal pup.
We had our first match of the season today. Playing with the dirty old boys was a good catalyst for improvement. That's a nice way of saying we lost. The beer was good though, but all that fresh air has me tuckered out, despite playing only 15 minutes or so.
I knew I smelled Kylie in an 90's pop mix Stebbins gave me the other day. The intro song - That's What Love can Do by Boy Krazy - was written in '91 by Stephen O'Brien who wrote several songs for Miss Minogue, Rick Astley, and also collaborated with British music mega producers Stock Aitken Waterman on Dead or Alive's 'Youthquake' album. O'Brien is up there in my book with Cathy Dennis in the pantheon of most awesome pop music writers.
Somewhat recent cover:
S Club 7 - That's What Love can Do
And just for fun: S Club 7 - S Club Party
I know my sugar pop.
Having made a cameo appearance on the new Dr. Who, Kylie Minogue has now been elevated from Diva to Goddess status. Simply putting the words 'Kylie' and 'Dr. Who' together in the same sentence makes my head explode from overstimulation. According to my sources, VJ Tre will serve up some Kylie X on Saturday, April 5 at Omega for her pixieness' 10th album release.
Gaylaxicon 2008 will celebrate 20 Years of Fun this October 10-13 in DC. It's sponsored by Lambda Sci-Fi. It will be undoubtedly an odd mixture of fabulous and geektastic.
Last night we went to see Step Up 2 the Streets starring cutie pie Robert Hoffman and some girl with boobs. It was a guilty-delicious indulgence of schlock and cheese, and I felt spiritually unclean after seeing it. But it was as fun as a box of stale Peeps, and that's a good thing.
I wasn't aware that there was a previous Step Up film, which featured an even hotter lead, Channing Tatum, who is expected to star in the upcoming G.I. Joe live action feature. Both hotties have very smoove moves.
More cuteness: a shaggy ginger Prince Harry plays rugby in Afghanistan. Strange...he looks nothing like Charles, nor Diana. Whoever daddy was I'm glad for the ginger gene influx into the royal line.
FYI the 2008 World Championship Cheese Contest is in Madison, Wisconsin this year on March 11-13.
On a more serious note, I would like everyone to chill the fuck out. Especially all you hysterical Hillarians and Obamites. Both of you. Seriously, people, get over yourselves and your candidates.
Never before have I felt the need to channel the memory of my mother's protests when I was a child. Us three brothers would get too much sugar in our breakfast cereal and would be bouncing off the walls, and Mom would screech: "SIMMER DOWN!!!" and that would be the end of it.
That's what I feel like telling people this week: simmer the fuck down.
For all of you mean queens who say unkind things about Tilda - Renegades forwards Josh, Chris and Frank the Tank send their regards: 
Photo by Brettie taken on 5/25/2006 at the 2006 Bingham Cup in May on Randall's Island in New York City. Good times. We are bringing two full teams to compete in the 2008 Bingham Cup in Dublin, Ireland this June.
Rugby practice starts next week on March 4th from from 6:45-8:45 p.m. at Cardozo High School, 1300 Clifton St. NW DC, hopefully to resume in a few weeks at Stead Field, located on P Street, N.W. (between 16th and 17th streets). I've been to one conditioning training and have started to run on the treadmill, and hope to get to another conditioning session on Thursday. Last Sunday we did some recruiting and socializing at Fadó Irish Pub while watching the 6 Nations rugby semifinals. I think I managed to pull in my first Renegades recruit - we'll see if the bug bites him. This Saturday, March 8 starting at 8:15am you'll see Ireland vs. Wales followed by Scotland vs. England. We'll be there, stop by and enjoy the fun and beer.
Excerpts from tonight's case study assignment on the policy and practice regarding television program-length commercials (PLCs) marketed towards children:
The question of “which came first – the toy or the show?” often guided many of the FCC rulings during the development of PLC definitions. He-Man and the Masters of the Universe and Transformers toys and action figures preceded the cartoon programs by only a few years. Conversely, many years passed before toys and product lines based on Sesame Street and Disney characters appeared on the shelves. In most cases, the FCC avoided any clear definition between these shows and products, aside from banning the airing of product advertisements related to the shows during the television programs (Colby, 1993).
In this part of the paper, I admit to being a total geek:
But children love toys, and watching them come alive on the screen constitutes entertainment. Product manufacturers cannot be blamed for stimulating the inherent imagination in a child’s mind. From personal experience, I watched the Transformers first as a television cartoon program, had a few of the toys well into my teens, and thoroughly enjoyed the 2007 feature-length live-action film based on the product line. If the product marketing was an insidious invasion of my mind, I must admit that I’ve enjoyed every minute of it.
It's for my Legal and Ethical Issues in Global Communication class, which I am enjoying. All the boring requisite classes are done, with only 3 more classes to go to complete an M.S. in management, at the rate of one class per semester. At this point I can see the light at the end of the tunnel, which is a good feeling .
