So, here’s what I’ve done since last Monday. Monday the 22nd was actually pretty entertaining after I posted the last blog. I went and got a haircut as I really needed one. Someone recently even noted that. That went fine. Soon after that I went to the east side of Orlando to check out a movie that was only in the area at Waterford Lakes; it’s an import from Britain called Attack The Block, about some young punk kids and a 20-something woman who defend their block in South London against alien creatures who happen to be hairy and have light blue glowing teeth. Despite that description, the movie was pretty great. It was just fun and entertaining to watch, and it has a great pace and energy to it. I talk more about it at my movie blog review thing*
• http://blairreviewsmovies.blogspot.com/
After that I went to the nearby Friendly Confines to watch the preseason Chicago Bears game against the New York Giants. It’s preseason, meaning the game doesn’t count and backups play too. I hope their performance wasn’t a harbinger of things to come this season, as they lost 41-13. They got their pants pulled down, that’s for sure. At least I was able to drink alcohol while watching the game. That’ll be once again the main place I go to for the watching of Bears games. Hopefully it’ll be as nice of a season as it was last year. It’ll also be nice to go there to watch the games and people-watch.
Wednesday and Thursday were dull*, so I’ll mention some online drama that doesn’t involve The Toadies, for once. Instead, it’s on a forum which I shall not name. To make a long story short, there are some real Troglodytes and knuckle-draggers on there; if it wasn’t for the cool people I’d have given up awhile ago. Anyway, for no reason at all one random member there decided to ACT LIKE A SHEEP and constantly go “BAAAHHHH!” This is not a joke. I called him out on it and raised a stink, and much to my shock, *I* was treated like a pariah for getting mad at the guy, as Mr. Sheep allegedly was “funny” and “entertaining” as he was doing this because he was “bored”. I still can’t believe it myself. I am reminded of the Pink Floyd song Sheep, from their underrated album Animals. It describes Mr. Sheep rather well… and way too many people on that forum, sad to say.
• Thankfully, no stories about Hurricane Irene, as it turned away from Florida and ended up going up north, where it wasn’t as bad as it could have been for those people. We just got some more rain than usual, really.
Friday, I ended up having a busy day. Someone I know was having their birthday party at the German restaurant in Sanford, Hollerbach’s Willow Tree Café. I went there last year, discovered when I got there that it was a German restaurant, and despite that I still had a nice time there. It’s a terrible thing to say given that it’s a part of my heritage, but most German food isn’t for me. All that onion stuff… no thanx. However, this year I had dinner somewhere else then went to the restaurant and I was planning on having something there such as a treat; I saw that they had something new, which was a giant pretzel, so I went with that. That was a good choice on my part. By the time I left I was pretty bloated. Oh, and unlike last year, this year I figured I should get my friend a gift, which that person appreciated.
Saturday, it was UFC time, and for the first time in almost 13 years they had a show in Brazil. It made for quite the atmosphere. The bouts that they had on Facebook were pretty poor (I’m glad I only saw parts of that) but once the broadcast stuff started, it was quite the show. It was also quite the crowd at the local Buffalo Wild Wings. It was surprisingly packed there, and as always there are always a few cretins around; other than that, though, the only other highlight to mention is something that I’m actually glad I don’t know the context of, as out of context it’s hilarious. Someone yelled, “K-Mart, Motherf*****!” I have no idea why but it got a big laugh out of me.
Sunday, I didn’t do anything interesting. I certainly did not watch the MTV Music Video Awards; it’s hilarious they still have that as a show, for obvious reasons. I caught a few seconds of the opening, and Lady Gaga was apparently dressed like Andrew Dice Clay! I turned it off after a few seconds as I didn’t want to lower my IQ watching some dreck. Well, later I find out she was playing some male character, as if she was Nicki Minaj playing one of her 100 different personas*, and those are some celebrities I am more than tired with by now and even me hardly paying attention to most pop culture means I still have to think about them way too often. I did laugh, though, at a comment I heard on Twitter, which was that male character was Johnny Cade (played by Ralph Macchio) from The Outsiders, which made me lol… oh, and he needed the money, OOOHHHH!, to deliver a punchline from Mr. Clay. I wouldn’t dare to tell a typical joke from here on an all-ages blog like this.
• All of whom have in common the disturbing trait of them having to make the stupidest facial expression at all times. Honest, I don’t think I’ve ever seen her with even a halfway intelligent look on her face. Of course I’ve never heard her rap well either, but that’s another story.
As for the upcoming week, right now it’s pounding rain and thunder, but I do plan on my September 5th blog being entertaining, as there’s college football returning, which is cool, and on Wednesday I’ll be seeing Scarface on the big screen, as it’s a special one-night thing and even though I know the type of crowd that loves Tony Montana the most, I’ll still attend and I’ll cross my fingers there aren’t a bunch of idiots I have to deal with for a 3 hour screenings. I’ll also find other things to talk about, I’m sure.
Monday, August 29, 2011
Monday, August 22, 2011
Traffic Drama, Power Outages, & Every 1’s A Winner
The way my past week went, this is the best title that I could come up with. I’ll explain the traffic and buffet things later, but now I’ll mention that the last thing is the title of a song by Hot Chocolate; you know, the British band that did “You Sexy Thing”. Well, that wasn’t their only quality song. I’ve known it for years but when I went to a special wrestling show on Saturday night, I was pleasantly surprised to hear it there. The rest of the tunes they played were mainly cheesy 80’s dance/R&B tunes that I even hadn’t heard of before, as that is definitely not my favorite era of R&B… at least it was better than the same old same old songs having to be heard by me.
As for what I did, the only interesting parts are on Monday and Friday/Saturday. What I did on Monday was go out with some people to the hip and happening restaurant hotspot known as… The Golden Corral. Like I said before, those places are more about quantity than quality, and that was again the case this time. Plus, some of my fellow customers there… not the highest fiber of society, that’s for sure. I kept it on the downlow from Tuesday through Thursday, so let me skip ahead to the weekend, starting with Friday (getting down on Friday).
Friday’s action was in the evening, when I was going to go to Downtown Disney at Walt Disney World to see a low-budget foreign movie they were showing there. It’s a “found footage” (re, Paranormal Activity or the movie NOT named after me, The Blair Witch Project) from Spain/Mexico and it’s called… Atrocious. Honest, that was its title. I talked more about the movie in my movie reviews blog* but it wasn’t too good. The dipshit audience I saw it with didn’t help out matters… that said, even if the audience wouldn’t have been filled with cretins and degenerates, the movie still would have been poor. It wasn’t atrocious, but Atrocious is still a movie you should never see. If you ever thought the movie not named after me was boring and stupid, Atrocious would teach you how wrong you were. At least while I was there I found out that on the 31st of this month various locations across the country are showing Scarface on the big screen for one night only. It’d be great to see Tony Montana theatrically, although I can only imagine the type of crowds that movie will attract. An idiot factor could be possible, but Lord I hope not.
• Found at http://blairreviewsmovies.blogspot.com/
I was going to leave a little after 10 to see the movie at midnight (as they are only showing it at that time) only to have the power go out throughout the entire neighborhood. Yes, a power outage. That was poppycock. It didn’t come back on for about a half hour, either, and it somehow completely blew out the cable box for the big TV where I live. The next day a new cable box was acquired and that works fine, but the whole thing put a bee in my bonnet as I had to wait for the power to come back on before I could take off so I didn’t spend too much time walking around Downtown Disney before the movie as I wanted to do.
Saturday, that was a day where I got real angry with Florida traffic. I mean, even more angry than usual. It was the typical awfulness, but there was also a redneck from Georgia who was perplexed as to the toll booth exits down here in Florida where you can only use Sunpass or the exact change lane-no lane where you can give a dollar and get coins back, for example-so the paint-sniffer got into the Sunpass lane and just stopped. I had to slam on my brakes, gave him the high beams, and blasted my horn until he got his ass moving, then I actually stuck my head out the window and yelled at the car, which is a really rare thing from me, to say the least.
That was coming back from what was actually a really nice thing: I went to Sanford but not the usual wrestling show there, but rather a special benefit show for Justin “Ryze” Honeycutt, the late wrestler who passed away early last month. It was put on by a federation which hadn’t put on shows for awhile but before that put on shows for many years. Way back when I went to their shows but I stopped because I called them out for putting on horrible/illogical shows and they got mad so there was an “incident” way back in ’06 and after that I never went back to one of their shows until Saturday night. I figured there’d be no incidents this time and I was correct. Overall, while there were some stupid/illogical moments* (I just think they can’t help themselves but be stupid at least a few times a show) overall it was a nice tribute show to the late Ryze. Some wrestlers came in and gave emotional speeches about their friendship with Justin and you could definitely see they cared a lot about Ryze and were sad about his tragic death. There was even a video screen up and a nice video played of stills of him and it was a nice show. Oddly enough, during the show the lights went out for a few minutes. If you believe it to be divinely inspired, go ahead.
• The highlight being what was THE worst match I’ve seen live in quite a long while. Even worse than a tag team match I saw at that Kissimmee show recently. This was only a few minutes long but just about everything that was tried was blown and botched horribly. Besides the action in the ring it was just put together in a stupid manner and I felt bad for one guy in the ring as he had to wrestle a stupid handicap match against two dudes and that one guy was clearly better than the two other dudes. No offense to them, but they were just terrible. At least the right guy won.
Stupidity (and a lady ring announcer who once again did the thing I always love, which is berate the crowd and be rude to them for allegedly not making enough noise. An especially classless thing to do at this kind of event, but maybe that’s just me) aside, it was a nice show and I’m glad I was able to go to it. Unfortunately, some A-hole wrestling promoter decided to have a competing show in Orlando proper at the same time as this benefit show. I won't name who the A-hole was but it's someone I've mentioned many times before and I am not surprised he'd do such a horrible thing as compete with a tribute show. Some guys had to work both shows which screwed up the pacing and flow of both events and I thought it was garbage. I know that with the clown troupe, the minions will rise up and get angry that I insulted their leader, but if they want to make fools of themselves, go ahead I say.
Yesterday for me was uneventful* so I’ll tell you that my next blog will be up on the 29th and I’ll have more planned than I did in the previous week. Aside from a hurricane that may possibly pass through where I live by the end of this week, I’ll be doing a few things, including seeing a UFC show, watching the Bears preseason game, a birthday party, and more.
• The only noteworthy thing is that last night I had a rather strange dream. All I remember is that it involved some one hour TV special and it was live action/animated and it involved one of my favorite ladies, Minka Kelly, but also not one of my favorite people, JUSTIN BIEBER. I am horrified I would have a dream that would not only involve that tiny individual, but that I had another dream involving that lady that was PG rated in nature. Son of a...
As for what I did, the only interesting parts are on Monday and Friday/Saturday. What I did on Monday was go out with some people to the hip and happening restaurant hotspot known as… The Golden Corral. Like I said before, those places are more about quantity than quality, and that was again the case this time. Plus, some of my fellow customers there… not the highest fiber of society, that’s for sure. I kept it on the downlow from Tuesday through Thursday, so let me skip ahead to the weekend, starting with Friday (getting down on Friday).
Friday’s action was in the evening, when I was going to go to Downtown Disney at Walt Disney World to see a low-budget foreign movie they were showing there. It’s a “found footage” (re, Paranormal Activity or the movie NOT named after me, The Blair Witch Project) from Spain/Mexico and it’s called… Atrocious. Honest, that was its title. I talked more about the movie in my movie reviews blog* but it wasn’t too good. The dipshit audience I saw it with didn’t help out matters… that said, even if the audience wouldn’t have been filled with cretins and degenerates, the movie still would have been poor. It wasn’t atrocious, but Atrocious is still a movie you should never see. If you ever thought the movie not named after me was boring and stupid, Atrocious would teach you how wrong you were. At least while I was there I found out that on the 31st of this month various locations across the country are showing Scarface on the big screen for one night only. It’d be great to see Tony Montana theatrically, although I can only imagine the type of crowds that movie will attract. An idiot factor could be possible, but Lord I hope not.
• Found at http://blairreviewsmovies.blogspot.com/
I was going to leave a little after 10 to see the movie at midnight (as they are only showing it at that time) only to have the power go out throughout the entire neighborhood. Yes, a power outage. That was poppycock. It didn’t come back on for about a half hour, either, and it somehow completely blew out the cable box for the big TV where I live. The next day a new cable box was acquired and that works fine, but the whole thing put a bee in my bonnet as I had to wait for the power to come back on before I could take off so I didn’t spend too much time walking around Downtown Disney before the movie as I wanted to do.
Saturday, that was a day where I got real angry with Florida traffic. I mean, even more angry than usual. It was the typical awfulness, but there was also a redneck from Georgia who was perplexed as to the toll booth exits down here in Florida where you can only use Sunpass or the exact change lane-no lane where you can give a dollar and get coins back, for example-so the paint-sniffer got into the Sunpass lane and just stopped. I had to slam on my brakes, gave him the high beams, and blasted my horn until he got his ass moving, then I actually stuck my head out the window and yelled at the car, which is a really rare thing from me, to say the least.
That was coming back from what was actually a really nice thing: I went to Sanford but not the usual wrestling show there, but rather a special benefit show for Justin “Ryze” Honeycutt, the late wrestler who passed away early last month. It was put on by a federation which hadn’t put on shows for awhile but before that put on shows for many years. Way back when I went to their shows but I stopped because I called them out for putting on horrible/illogical shows and they got mad so there was an “incident” way back in ’06 and after that I never went back to one of their shows until Saturday night. I figured there’d be no incidents this time and I was correct. Overall, while there were some stupid/illogical moments* (I just think they can’t help themselves but be stupid at least a few times a show) overall it was a nice tribute show to the late Ryze. Some wrestlers came in and gave emotional speeches about their friendship with Justin and you could definitely see they cared a lot about Ryze and were sad about his tragic death. There was even a video screen up and a nice video played of stills of him and it was a nice show. Oddly enough, during the show the lights went out for a few minutes. If you believe it to be divinely inspired, go ahead.
• The highlight being what was THE worst match I’ve seen live in quite a long while. Even worse than a tag team match I saw at that Kissimmee show recently. This was only a few minutes long but just about everything that was tried was blown and botched horribly. Besides the action in the ring it was just put together in a stupid manner and I felt bad for one guy in the ring as he had to wrestle a stupid handicap match against two dudes and that one guy was clearly better than the two other dudes. No offense to them, but they were just terrible. At least the right guy won.
Stupidity (and a lady ring announcer who once again did the thing I always love, which is berate the crowd and be rude to them for allegedly not making enough noise. An especially classless thing to do at this kind of event, but maybe that’s just me) aside, it was a nice show and I’m glad I was able to go to it. Unfortunately, some A-hole wrestling promoter decided to have a competing show in Orlando proper at the same time as this benefit show. I won't name who the A-hole was but it's someone I've mentioned many times before and I am not surprised he'd do such a horrible thing as compete with a tribute show. Some guys had to work both shows which screwed up the pacing and flow of both events and I thought it was garbage. I know that with the clown troupe, the minions will rise up and get angry that I insulted their leader, but if they want to make fools of themselves, go ahead I say.
Yesterday for me was uneventful* so I’ll tell you that my next blog will be up on the 29th and I’ll have more planned than I did in the previous week. Aside from a hurricane that may possibly pass through where I live by the end of this week, I’ll be doing a few things, including seeing a UFC show, watching the Bears preseason game, a birthday party, and more.
• The only noteworthy thing is that last night I had a rather strange dream. All I remember is that it involved some one hour TV special and it was live action/animated and it involved one of my favorite ladies, Minka Kelly, but also not one of my favorite people, JUSTIN BIEBER. I am horrified I would have a dream that would not only involve that tiny individual, but that I had another dream involving that lady that was PG rated in nature. Son of a...
Monday, August 15, 2011
Dolph Lundgren, The Taste Of BJ’s (Restaurant & Brewhouse), & That’s What She Said
Maybe I did come up with the most disturbing title for a blog that I’ve ever done… at least it’s memorable! And if you haven’t, read the blog I posted yesterday afternoon.
So, one thing I’ll mention off the bat is that on the 3rd of this month, my car went over the 75,000 mile barrier. Thankfully I haven’t had any real problems with it, besides the one time when there was a crack in the windshield, or when I took it on its one big road trip back two years ago, a mysterious check engine-esque light appeared and went off and on during the trip and has never come back on since; I forgave the car long ago for that transgression. On the 10th, new tires were put on and it was aligned; hopefully my gas mileage will improve from those actions.
As for my week… it involved quite a bit of me getting mad and angry at idiots on the highway. It was the usual stupidity and ignorance. It was nothing too spectacularly stupid but like the week in general, a lot of little things added up to me getting quite rankled, and that's not even taking into account what happened on Saturday.
Monday was dull so I’ll skip ahead to Tuesday and I managed to get caught in some rainfall. That was no good; at least my car got a bath. I wanted to get it washed and the rain didn’t do a great job of cleaning the car as it had to be taken in the next day… oh well, though. Oh yeah, and what I always say about Florida drivers and rain once again proved true. Wednesday once the car was serviced I ended up eating at Winter Garden Village and their Chipotle. I got a noise overload-never a good thing with me-as there was so much racket with little kids, babies crying, yelling, and I actually finished my meal in my car in order to get some peace and quiet. I then went to Barnes & Noble for a bit, picked up some things (more on one of those a little later), and then I walked to nearby Planet Smoothie to get a drink. I don’t know why the employees there always harass you as soon as you go into their store and act offended that anyone may need a minute or two to decide what amongst their many beverages they would want. Maybe that’s just me, though. Sometimes I’m shocked that what I think should be “normal” ends up getting rejected and thrown in my face. I mean, for example, in the past I’ve had problems with people asking me over and over in a short amount of time to do something that I did not want to do, and they were shocked that I’d get mad over having to tell them “no” over and over again. I wish I could understand people, but apparently that’ll never happen. As for the drink I got… it wasn’t bad.
Thursday, I was in the Mall at Millenia area and I didn’t actually go into the mall. Instead, I went into IKEA for a bit* and then ate at the nearby BJ’s Restaurant & Brewhouse and I’ll always giggle at “BJ’s”. It’s been awhile since I’ve enjoyed the taste and sensation of BJ’s… or rather, going to that particular restaurant. It was good food there, as usual. Also, I sat by a girl at the bar who had a Hello Kitty credit card, so that was interesting.
• That’s as Swedish as I get, along with watching movies with Dolph Lundgren in them.
My Friday was pretty boring, I already wrote about me getting mad on Saturday, and Sunday was also boring, so I’ll mention two quick things.
One interesting moment from my time at Borders on Saturday night that I can’t forget about was when I saw a young African-American couple and the male in the relationship looked at a book profiling Obama and he stated that he actually didn’t care for our current President, and his lady said, “You have to be the only black person who hates him” (hey, that’s what she said, not me) and he stated, “He pimped all ‘yall all the way to the White House”. I did not have an opportunity to ask him what exactly his problem was with Barack; of course, I will not mention my feelings on politics, as that is opening up a can of worms I prefer to be closed.
One of the items I got at Barnes & Noble was a book called That’s What She Said, which is filled with many tales where someone says something that has a double lewd meaning and someone responds, “That’s what she said.” I think I first heard that term on a MMA podcast, of all things. I had no idea where it actually came from, and it took the book for me to learn it was something said on the British version of The Office and used by the U.S. version. That and “Boom, roasted” (which I also heard from the same podcast) are likely the only funny things ever said on that god-awful Office… at least the American version I know is God-awful. But anyhow, “That’s What She Said” jokes do make me laugh.
I plan on being back the 22nd with a new blog. This time around I’m pretty sure I’ll be seeing a wrestling show, so that’s good.
So, one thing I’ll mention off the bat is that on the 3rd of this month, my car went over the 75,000 mile barrier. Thankfully I haven’t had any real problems with it, besides the one time when there was a crack in the windshield, or when I took it on its one big road trip back two years ago, a mysterious check engine-esque light appeared and went off and on during the trip and has never come back on since; I forgave the car long ago for that transgression. On the 10th, new tires were put on and it was aligned; hopefully my gas mileage will improve from those actions.
As for my week… it involved quite a bit of me getting mad and angry at idiots on the highway. It was the usual stupidity and ignorance. It was nothing too spectacularly stupid but like the week in general, a lot of little things added up to me getting quite rankled, and that's not even taking into account what happened on Saturday.
Monday was dull so I’ll skip ahead to Tuesday and I managed to get caught in some rainfall. That was no good; at least my car got a bath. I wanted to get it washed and the rain didn’t do a great job of cleaning the car as it had to be taken in the next day… oh well, though. Oh yeah, and what I always say about Florida drivers and rain once again proved true. Wednesday once the car was serviced I ended up eating at Winter Garden Village and their Chipotle. I got a noise overload-never a good thing with me-as there was so much racket with little kids, babies crying, yelling, and I actually finished my meal in my car in order to get some peace and quiet. I then went to Barnes & Noble for a bit, picked up some things (more on one of those a little later), and then I walked to nearby Planet Smoothie to get a drink. I don’t know why the employees there always harass you as soon as you go into their store and act offended that anyone may need a minute or two to decide what amongst their many beverages they would want. Maybe that’s just me, though. Sometimes I’m shocked that what I think should be “normal” ends up getting rejected and thrown in my face. I mean, for example, in the past I’ve had problems with people asking me over and over in a short amount of time to do something that I did not want to do, and they were shocked that I’d get mad over having to tell them “no” over and over again. I wish I could understand people, but apparently that’ll never happen. As for the drink I got… it wasn’t bad.
Thursday, I was in the Mall at Millenia area and I didn’t actually go into the mall. Instead, I went into IKEA for a bit* and then ate at the nearby BJ’s Restaurant & Brewhouse and I’ll always giggle at “BJ’s”. It’s been awhile since I’ve enjoyed the taste and sensation of BJ’s… or rather, going to that particular restaurant. It was good food there, as usual. Also, I sat by a girl at the bar who had a Hello Kitty credit card, so that was interesting.
• That’s as Swedish as I get, along with watching movies with Dolph Lundgren in them.
My Friday was pretty boring, I already wrote about me getting mad on Saturday, and Sunday was also boring, so I’ll mention two quick things.
One interesting moment from my time at Borders on Saturday night that I can’t forget about was when I saw a young African-American couple and the male in the relationship looked at a book profiling Obama and he stated that he actually didn’t care for our current President, and his lady said, “You have to be the only black person who hates him” (hey, that’s what she said, not me) and he stated, “He pimped all ‘yall all the way to the White House”. I did not have an opportunity to ask him what exactly his problem was with Barack; of course, I will not mention my feelings on politics, as that is opening up a can of worms I prefer to be closed.
One of the items I got at Barnes & Noble was a book called That’s What She Said, which is filled with many tales where someone says something that has a double lewd meaning and someone responds, “That’s what she said.” I think I first heard that term on a MMA podcast, of all things. I had no idea where it actually came from, and it took the book for me to learn it was something said on the British version of The Office and used by the U.S. version. That and “Boom, roasted” (which I also heard from the same podcast) are likely the only funny things ever said on that god-awful Office… at least the American version I know is God-awful. But anyhow, “That’s What She Said” jokes do make me laugh.
I plan on being back the 22nd with a new blog. This time around I’m pretty sure I’ll be seeing a wrestling show, so that’s good.
Sunday, August 14, 2011
S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y, Night!
Yes, this is a special Sunday blog that I’m doing just to talk about last night and how instead of going to a lucha libre (Mexican wrestling) show in Ocoee, I ended up doing some other things and managed to somewhat salvage things. And yes, I took this blog title from a Bay City Rollers song, as I heard it on the radio on the way back home, and hey, they were somehow a huge deal for a few months back in the 70’s, and as I learned on Wikipedia, were actually from Scotland, of all places.
Now, as I promised in the last blog I did, my plans for the second week of August included going to a lucha libre show that was being held in the Orlando-area in Ocoee. Now, I’ve never enjoyed Mexican wrestling personally. Sure, I liked seeing some of those wrestlers compete elsewhere, such as WWF, WCW, Japan, or other places. But, pure lucha libre… it looks WAY too fake and choreographed, and other things involved with it are just a turn-off for me. Yet, I decided to attend this show as most of the wrestlers there would be local guys I’ve seen wrestle many times before and while they didn’t even have a lineup announced beforehand, I still made the decision… which turned out to be poor.
You see, I looked up the address online and it was a place in the middle of nowhere, at some club I had never heard of before. I get there and see that it indeed is in the middle of nowhere, and the “club” is actually a warehouse. What made me not stay there… some A-hole who looked like he had about a 5th grade education was directing traffic in the parking lot, even though what I see in front of me is plenty of places for me to park. He directs me to park somewhere else, but he made it totally unclear and I see nowhere else to park, as there was a line there which blocked any way for me to park anywhere else, so I ended up parking in the lot that I was forbidden to do so by that Troglodyte who looked like he would be rejected from working at a 7-11 for being too stupid. Nothing was done there and I stayed in my car as I wasn’t going to stand out in the hot weather, and I had to finish off the vanilla soft serve ice cream I got from a nearby Burger King. I had that and a Whopper for dinner. By the way, the food was fine but the service at that Burger King was ass and that also describes all the traffic I had to deal with last night. It’s the usual terribleness from Florida drivers. Say what you will about me and how I act, but at least I understand “keep right except to pass”, “use your turn signal”, and “drive a consistent speed”. Most of the Troglodytes on the road don’t understand those rules.
Anyhow, I then see that magically there is now a spot where people are allegedly supposed to park even though again, where I was at had plenty of spaces so I had no idea why the dillholes at Club Fenix (nice spelling there) thought otherwise. I decided then and there that if those A-holes treat their customers that way by treating them like shit even before they enter the door, then they can go F themselves and I left without seeing the show. They don’t deserve any of my money. Of course, it meant that the promotion (which has held shows across the country with some famous lucha libre wrestlers and locals filling out the card in places like Chicago, where people I know saw and loved their shows) didn’t get any of my money either. That said, Club Fenix can go F themselves. By the way, I HAVE gone to some local lucha shows back when I still lived in Illinois. They were up in Chicago and some people I knew at the time were big fans of me. Me, I didn’t particularly care for it; besides the wrestling not being for me, it was *horribly* run, with events starting real late, 5 minutes or more between matches because they were buffoons and couldn’t get their s*** together, etc. It didn’t seem to bother those guys, for whatever reason, but I can’t stand that sort of incompetence.
As I had time to kill tonight, I decided to go to Winter Park and see if their Borders is still open. I know the one by the West Oaks Mall closed down but thankfully the Winter Park one is indeed still open. I’ll miss going to those stores, and I’m unafraid to admit that as a dork. I looked around at their stuff, and most of it is from 30 to 50 percent off, so I picked up some random things. In the upcoming week I plan on being back in that area again so I’ll likely stop in there one last time; leave the memories alone.
I then took a longer way home, which involved driving on 441, and for the first time in a few years, I stopped in Fairvilla; if you don’t know… that’s an adult store! I looked around and laughed at a lot of the products they offered, including their extensive movie collection, and most of their titles I wouldn’t dream of ever writing here. As I only had a few bucks on me at the time and I didn’t want to be that guy who gawked and didn’t buy anything, I purchased an energy drink; hey, it’s better than nothing.
So, that was the crazier than usual day I had on Saturday night. I’ll post another blog tomorrow afternoon where I’ll talk about what else I did the second week of August.
Now, as I promised in the last blog I did, my plans for the second week of August included going to a lucha libre show that was being held in the Orlando-area in Ocoee. Now, I’ve never enjoyed Mexican wrestling personally. Sure, I liked seeing some of those wrestlers compete elsewhere, such as WWF, WCW, Japan, or other places. But, pure lucha libre… it looks WAY too fake and choreographed, and other things involved with it are just a turn-off for me. Yet, I decided to attend this show as most of the wrestlers there would be local guys I’ve seen wrestle many times before and while they didn’t even have a lineup announced beforehand, I still made the decision… which turned out to be poor.
You see, I looked up the address online and it was a place in the middle of nowhere, at some club I had never heard of before. I get there and see that it indeed is in the middle of nowhere, and the “club” is actually a warehouse. What made me not stay there… some A-hole who looked like he had about a 5th grade education was directing traffic in the parking lot, even though what I see in front of me is plenty of places for me to park. He directs me to park somewhere else, but he made it totally unclear and I see nowhere else to park, as there was a line there which blocked any way for me to park anywhere else, so I ended up parking in the lot that I was forbidden to do so by that Troglodyte who looked like he would be rejected from working at a 7-11 for being too stupid. Nothing was done there and I stayed in my car as I wasn’t going to stand out in the hot weather, and I had to finish off the vanilla soft serve ice cream I got from a nearby Burger King. I had that and a Whopper for dinner. By the way, the food was fine but the service at that Burger King was ass and that also describes all the traffic I had to deal with last night. It’s the usual terribleness from Florida drivers. Say what you will about me and how I act, but at least I understand “keep right except to pass”, “use your turn signal”, and “drive a consistent speed”. Most of the Troglodytes on the road don’t understand those rules.
Anyhow, I then see that magically there is now a spot where people are allegedly supposed to park even though again, where I was at had plenty of spaces so I had no idea why the dillholes at Club Fenix (nice spelling there) thought otherwise. I decided then and there that if those A-holes treat their customers that way by treating them like shit even before they enter the door, then they can go F themselves and I left without seeing the show. They don’t deserve any of my money. Of course, it meant that the promotion (which has held shows across the country with some famous lucha libre wrestlers and locals filling out the card in places like Chicago, where people I know saw and loved their shows) didn’t get any of my money either. That said, Club Fenix can go F themselves. By the way, I HAVE gone to some local lucha shows back when I still lived in Illinois. They were up in Chicago and some people I knew at the time were big fans of me. Me, I didn’t particularly care for it; besides the wrestling not being for me, it was *horribly* run, with events starting real late, 5 minutes or more between matches because they were buffoons and couldn’t get their s*** together, etc. It didn’t seem to bother those guys, for whatever reason, but I can’t stand that sort of incompetence.
As I had time to kill tonight, I decided to go to Winter Park and see if their Borders is still open. I know the one by the West Oaks Mall closed down but thankfully the Winter Park one is indeed still open. I’ll miss going to those stores, and I’m unafraid to admit that as a dork. I looked around at their stuff, and most of it is from 30 to 50 percent off, so I picked up some random things. In the upcoming week I plan on being back in that area again so I’ll likely stop in there one last time; leave the memories alone.
I then took a longer way home, which involved driving on 441, and for the first time in a few years, I stopped in Fairvilla; if you don’t know… that’s an adult store! I looked around and laughed at a lot of the products they offered, including their extensive movie collection, and most of their titles I wouldn’t dream of ever writing here. As I only had a few bucks on me at the time and I didn’t want to be that guy who gawked and didn’t buy anything, I purchased an energy drink; hey, it’s better than nothing.
So, that was the crazier than usual day I had on Saturday night. I’ll post another blog tomorrow afternoon where I’ll talk about what else I did the second week of August.
Monday, August 8, 2011
Stories Concerning Hard Cider, Double Rainbows, & Purple Speedos
So, the first week of August wasn’t the most exciting for me, but I still have some interesting things to say; it includes discussion of a purple Speedo, which was NOT worn by me, thankfully. I'm not built like Matthew McConaughey, to say the very least.
Monday was dull so I’ll get to Tuesday. I could go on a real long rant about all the horrible traffic I had to deal with on the way to my destination and back home, but I’ll be nice instead and skip all that. I just had to deal with such hassles as being tailgated and having someone pull out in front of me. I’ll just mention the good things, which is that I went to Sand Lake Road to eat dinner at Lime Fresh Mexican Grill (as I hadn’t been there in awhile) and then afterwards I stopped at Pinkberry. Both meals were pretty tasty. I also saw TWO Bentley cars, which isn’t a surprise as I drove through the rich area of Dr. Phillips and Windermere and it’s not rare to see vehicles like that around.
Wednesday was dull and the only highlight was me having dinner at the local Target and their Pizza Hut Express (where I got to see a white trash family argue amongst each other; always good entertainment while chowing down on cheese pizza and breadsticks) so I’ll mention that the only highlight for me on Thursday was going to Buffalo Wild Wings to eat there and see what was shaking there. As I figured, it was business as usual there.
The weekend was more interesting for me. Friday, I had free time in the evening so I went to the Altamonte Mall first for a bit. I saw that some stores were closed down, so even that place has been hit by the years-long recession; it isn’t as bad as the West Oaks Mall or especially the Festival Bay Mall by any means, but I guess most malls aren’t immune to it. After that I went a little bit north and for a second time visited the Tilted Kilt in Lake Mary to enjoy the food… and oh yeah, the ladies working there were food for the eyes. I wish that some of the ladies I saw the first time there would have been there this time; I guess I shouldn’t complain, as the ladies there on this night weren’t ditchpigs by any means. I had my usual (i.e. “almost always”) of a burger and fries and instead of having one of their fancy mixed drinks, I noticed that they had on draft Woodchuck Cider-seeing that on draft is pretty rare-so I went with that, and along with the food it was tasty.
Oh, and on the way there it was rainy out and I literally saw a double rainbow. If you don’t get the reference, some strange guy on YouTube apparently took some shrooms or some sort of hallucinogenic drugs right before filming a double rainbow he saw in person; he went monkeyshit crazy at seeing that image, and it became a huge viral hit.
Saturday was the latest UFC pay per view, so I returned to the local Buffalo Wild Wings to watch that. The card on paper was pretty poor, due to there being a ridiculous number of injuries; it proved to exceed those low expectations, so that was good. Unfortunately, I could have done without having to sit by some local yokels, but I tried to ignore them the best I could. The beer I had was a good aid in that ignoring. I not only had to listen to rednecks talking about mixed martial arts (at least I was able to get some laughs from that) but there was even a guy there who watched other things and was bad-mouthing MMA and talked about how great boxing is… LOL to that, by the way. If only I could have sat by some attractive young ladies… that’s usually not the case, though.
The “highlight” of the show, or at least the thing I’ll remember the most, is the fight between Brian Ebersole and Dennis Hallman. Both guys have fought many fights in the past. The first time I saw Brian back in February, I was wildly entertained by his unorthodox style… he was effective and efficient when he had to be, though. Best of all, he shaved his chest hair into an arrow pointed at his head! Somehow, Hallman topped him on this night. He fought in a tiny purple Speedo! You can imagine what the Buffalo Wild Wings crowd thought of that outfit. Me, I was disturbed by the image of him wearing something where you can see his entire package. Really, they were nuthuggers, to be blunt. The fight itself was pretty entertaining, and Ebersole ended up winning.
I was on the down-low yesterday so I’ll say now that when I post my next blog on Monday the 15th, I do not have much planned for the next week besides the interesting thing on the 13th of attending a Mexican wrestling show (Lucha Libre) in Orlando. That usually is not my thing but I’ll give it a shot anyhow. I’ll find other things to write about, I’m sure.
Monday was dull so I’ll get to Tuesday. I could go on a real long rant about all the horrible traffic I had to deal with on the way to my destination and back home, but I’ll be nice instead and skip all that. I just had to deal with such hassles as being tailgated and having someone pull out in front of me. I’ll just mention the good things, which is that I went to Sand Lake Road to eat dinner at Lime Fresh Mexican Grill (as I hadn’t been there in awhile) and then afterwards I stopped at Pinkberry. Both meals were pretty tasty. I also saw TWO Bentley cars, which isn’t a surprise as I drove through the rich area of Dr. Phillips and Windermere and it’s not rare to see vehicles like that around.
Wednesday was dull and the only highlight was me having dinner at the local Target and their Pizza Hut Express (where I got to see a white trash family argue amongst each other; always good entertainment while chowing down on cheese pizza and breadsticks) so I’ll mention that the only highlight for me on Thursday was going to Buffalo Wild Wings to eat there and see what was shaking there. As I figured, it was business as usual there.
The weekend was more interesting for me. Friday, I had free time in the evening so I went to the Altamonte Mall first for a bit. I saw that some stores were closed down, so even that place has been hit by the years-long recession; it isn’t as bad as the West Oaks Mall or especially the Festival Bay Mall by any means, but I guess most malls aren’t immune to it. After that I went a little bit north and for a second time visited the Tilted Kilt in Lake Mary to enjoy the food… and oh yeah, the ladies working there were food for the eyes. I wish that some of the ladies I saw the first time there would have been there this time; I guess I shouldn’t complain, as the ladies there on this night weren’t ditchpigs by any means. I had my usual (i.e. “almost always”) of a burger and fries and instead of having one of their fancy mixed drinks, I noticed that they had on draft Woodchuck Cider-seeing that on draft is pretty rare-so I went with that, and along with the food it was tasty.
Oh, and on the way there it was rainy out and I literally saw a double rainbow. If you don’t get the reference, some strange guy on YouTube apparently took some shrooms or some sort of hallucinogenic drugs right before filming a double rainbow he saw in person; he went monkeyshit crazy at seeing that image, and it became a huge viral hit.
Saturday was the latest UFC pay per view, so I returned to the local Buffalo Wild Wings to watch that. The card on paper was pretty poor, due to there being a ridiculous number of injuries; it proved to exceed those low expectations, so that was good. Unfortunately, I could have done without having to sit by some local yokels, but I tried to ignore them the best I could. The beer I had was a good aid in that ignoring. I not only had to listen to rednecks talking about mixed martial arts (at least I was able to get some laughs from that) but there was even a guy there who watched other things and was bad-mouthing MMA and talked about how great boxing is… LOL to that, by the way. If only I could have sat by some attractive young ladies… that’s usually not the case, though.
The “highlight” of the show, or at least the thing I’ll remember the most, is the fight between Brian Ebersole and Dennis Hallman. Both guys have fought many fights in the past. The first time I saw Brian back in February, I was wildly entertained by his unorthodox style… he was effective and efficient when he had to be, though. Best of all, he shaved his chest hair into an arrow pointed at his head! Somehow, Hallman topped him on this night. He fought in a tiny purple Speedo! You can imagine what the Buffalo Wild Wings crowd thought of that outfit. Me, I was disturbed by the image of him wearing something where you can see his entire package. Really, they were nuthuggers, to be blunt. The fight itself was pretty entertaining, and Ebersole ended up winning.
I was on the down-low yesterday so I’ll say now that when I post my next blog on Monday the 15th, I do not have much planned for the next week besides the interesting thing on the 13th of attending a Mexican wrestling show (Lucha Libre) in Orlando. That usually is not my thing but I’ll give it a shot anyhow. I’ll find other things to write about, I’m sure.
Monday, August 1, 2011
Stories of Sugar Gliders & The Return of Mountain Dew: Vin Diesel
So, I do apologize for being on the negative side in the special blog I posted on Thursday. This one will be more positive. It’s mainly about me getting to go to Daytona Beach on Friday.
For the first time in a few years, when I was in Daytona Beach I was able to go to the beach and enjoy that. If you don’t know, there are big sections of the beach that you can drive and park on, which I’ve done before. I took a long scenic route there which involved mainly two lane roads, which made for pretty scenery, but I also had to deal with frustrating traffic. I won’t go into detail there, though. I stopped to get gas and I went in for a drink; I found some hunting-themed energy drink. I don’t even remember what it’s called, which is a pretty good sign of what I thought of said drink. As I headed into Daytona Beach, I passed by a Food Lion. Now, if you don’t know that’s a popular chain of grocery stores that are mainly in the Mid-Atlantic area, such as the Carolinas. I had no idea there were any in Florida, so I made a mental note to myself to stop in there after I was done at the beach.
As for the beach (which I believe was technically in Ormond Beach instead of Daytona Beach, as that’s where I entered town first) it was a nice time. It wasn’t too crowded, the water was warm, there was a nice little breeze, there were birds on the beach pecking for food… it was a nice scene. Oh, and some of the ladies there that were wearing bikinis… not bad either! None of them asked if I could rub any sunscreen on them, sad to say. Still, I had a nice time in the water and laying on my beach towel getting some sun. I didn’t get burned so badly that I needed aloe vera once I got home, so that was a plus. Overall, it was nice getting to spend a few hours on a beach relaxing.
Once I left the beach I went into that Food Lion to check it out. It turns out they had some soda that I had been looking for; awhile back I heard that Mountain Dew was going to offer in the summer some limited editions of old soda; the two I knew of were Mountain Dew: Pitch Black (from way back in ’04; it’s a grape flavor) and Mountain Dew: Supernova (a strawberry melon flavor; that’s what it says on the can; it’s not a reference to what I saw on the beach; it’s a rejected flavor from one of those DEW-Mocracy campaigns). I tried to find them at various stores in the area but no one had it, which made me unhappy as Pitch Black was supposed to come out in MAY. Yet another reason for me to get ticked off at Florida, as if I needed more reasons to do that. Hell, there was something I’ll tell later that got my dander up. Anyway, I have no idea why Mountain Dew named some flavors after mediocre sci-fi movies from the past 15 years, but they did. At the time I joked that Mountain Dew: Pitch Black should be called Mountain Dew: Vin Diesel and when they released a different grape flavor called Mountain Dew: Pitch Black II I called it Mountain Dew: Chronicles of Riddick; I’m glad that finally I can use those old clever jokes again. So anyhow, I got two cases of each along with some other items from that Food Lion, then I headed off to the local Volusia Mall in town to see what was poppin’ there.
At the Volusia Mall I walked around and didn’t do too much else… but I did see something curious. In the middle of the mall there was a temporary display and some goofballs were peddling something called a Sugar Glider, which is a marsupial from Australia. I sure as hell had never heard of a “sugar glider” before but I looked online and it’s not only legit, but apparently “popular” as a pet in the U.S. At least that’s what was claimed online. It’s a little critter which does look “cute”… I’m not sure I’d trust most people to properly care for such an exotic creature, though. Especially many of the people you encounter in Daytona Beach! Sorry, but remember that the two most popular activities in that city are stock car racing and a giant biker rally. Speaking of that…
Before I drove back home in the evening, I stopped by a McDonalds right before I-4 as I heard about their new Mango Pineapple Real Fruit Smoothie, and as I highly praise their other smoothies, I had to try that one too. I ordered Chicken McNuggets and that beverage (which in fact is some good stuff) but not before some angry redneck barged in and made a scene about his order getting screwed up. Alright, so the staff there appeared to be rather incompetent but the stink he raised was more than what was warranted and he stormed off even before getting the refund he wanted, that hillbilly stump-puller was so mad. Between that and having to listen to a bratty little girl… I was happy my beverage was so tasty.
My weekend was boring and the only interesting I did both days was catch the MMA show on Showtime from the Strikeforce promotion. At least it ended on a high note. I can tell you I did NOT watch that ridiculously overhyped “Shark Week” and I won’t be watching any of it, as I never do around this time of year. To me, talk about repetitive and an overstated thing.
Anyhow, if you heard the news about a lady on the beaches of Daytona getting hit by a lifeguard driving a truck, that happened Sunday, two days after I was there. Talk about something I am glad I did not see live in front of me. On the local news they interviewed someone from Quebec about what happened, and I was not surprised a Francophone from Canada was interviewed, as when I was there I saw no less than three vehicles with license plates designating they were from the land of poutine and pate chinois; that was three more than what I was expecting to see. Now, one of these days I’d love to spend time in Quebec and visit the sights. You know, fly up and rent a car and drive around. It’d be a unique experience considering the province is unique compared to the others in the Great White North.
As for what I’ll be doing the first week of August, just about all I have on the agenda is checking out the latest UFC pay per view at Buffalo Wild Wings, and I’m sure I’ll come up with other wacky adventures to get involved with.
For the first time in a few years, when I was in Daytona Beach I was able to go to the beach and enjoy that. If you don’t know, there are big sections of the beach that you can drive and park on, which I’ve done before. I took a long scenic route there which involved mainly two lane roads, which made for pretty scenery, but I also had to deal with frustrating traffic. I won’t go into detail there, though. I stopped to get gas and I went in for a drink; I found some hunting-themed energy drink. I don’t even remember what it’s called, which is a pretty good sign of what I thought of said drink. As I headed into Daytona Beach, I passed by a Food Lion. Now, if you don’t know that’s a popular chain of grocery stores that are mainly in the Mid-Atlantic area, such as the Carolinas. I had no idea there were any in Florida, so I made a mental note to myself to stop in there after I was done at the beach.
As for the beach (which I believe was technically in Ormond Beach instead of Daytona Beach, as that’s where I entered town first) it was a nice time. It wasn’t too crowded, the water was warm, there was a nice little breeze, there were birds on the beach pecking for food… it was a nice scene. Oh, and some of the ladies there that were wearing bikinis… not bad either! None of them asked if I could rub any sunscreen on them, sad to say. Still, I had a nice time in the water and laying on my beach towel getting some sun. I didn’t get burned so badly that I needed aloe vera once I got home, so that was a plus. Overall, it was nice getting to spend a few hours on a beach relaxing.
Once I left the beach I went into that Food Lion to check it out. It turns out they had some soda that I had been looking for; awhile back I heard that Mountain Dew was going to offer in the summer some limited editions of old soda; the two I knew of were Mountain Dew: Pitch Black (from way back in ’04; it’s a grape flavor) and Mountain Dew: Supernova (a strawberry melon flavor; that’s what it says on the can; it’s not a reference to what I saw on the beach; it’s a rejected flavor from one of those DEW-Mocracy campaigns). I tried to find them at various stores in the area but no one had it, which made me unhappy as Pitch Black was supposed to come out in MAY. Yet another reason for me to get ticked off at Florida, as if I needed more reasons to do that. Hell, there was something I’ll tell later that got my dander up. Anyway, I have no idea why Mountain Dew named some flavors after mediocre sci-fi movies from the past 15 years, but they did. At the time I joked that Mountain Dew: Pitch Black should be called Mountain Dew: Vin Diesel and when they released a different grape flavor called Mountain Dew: Pitch Black II I called it Mountain Dew: Chronicles of Riddick; I’m glad that finally I can use those old clever jokes again. So anyhow, I got two cases of each along with some other items from that Food Lion, then I headed off to the local Volusia Mall in town to see what was poppin’ there.
At the Volusia Mall I walked around and didn’t do too much else… but I did see something curious. In the middle of the mall there was a temporary display and some goofballs were peddling something called a Sugar Glider, which is a marsupial from Australia. I sure as hell had never heard of a “sugar glider” before but I looked online and it’s not only legit, but apparently “popular” as a pet in the U.S. At least that’s what was claimed online. It’s a little critter which does look “cute”… I’m not sure I’d trust most people to properly care for such an exotic creature, though. Especially many of the people you encounter in Daytona Beach! Sorry, but remember that the two most popular activities in that city are stock car racing and a giant biker rally. Speaking of that…
Before I drove back home in the evening, I stopped by a McDonalds right before I-4 as I heard about their new Mango Pineapple Real Fruit Smoothie, and as I highly praise their other smoothies, I had to try that one too. I ordered Chicken McNuggets and that beverage (which in fact is some good stuff) but not before some angry redneck barged in and made a scene about his order getting screwed up. Alright, so the staff there appeared to be rather incompetent but the stink he raised was more than what was warranted and he stormed off even before getting the refund he wanted, that hillbilly stump-puller was so mad. Between that and having to listen to a bratty little girl… I was happy my beverage was so tasty.
My weekend was boring and the only interesting I did both days was catch the MMA show on Showtime from the Strikeforce promotion. At least it ended on a high note. I can tell you I did NOT watch that ridiculously overhyped “Shark Week” and I won’t be watching any of it, as I never do around this time of year. To me, talk about repetitive and an overstated thing.
Anyhow, if you heard the news about a lady on the beaches of Daytona getting hit by a lifeguard driving a truck, that happened Sunday, two days after I was there. Talk about something I am glad I did not see live in front of me. On the local news they interviewed someone from Quebec about what happened, and I was not surprised a Francophone from Canada was interviewed, as when I was there I saw no less than three vehicles with license plates designating they were from the land of poutine and pate chinois; that was three more than what I was expecting to see. Now, one of these days I’d love to spend time in Quebec and visit the sights. You know, fly up and rent a car and drive around. It’d be a unique experience considering the province is unique compared to the others in the Great White North.
As for what I’ll be doing the first week of August, just about all I have on the agenda is checking out the latest UFC pay per view at Buffalo Wild Wings, and I’m sure I’ll come up with other wacky adventures to get involved with.
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