Mar
31
What I Am Listening Too (WIALT) – April 2009
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Here you will find all the musical goodies that are in heavy rotation in my iTunes. Where possible I will give you the best track on an album or other useful bits of information that will be meaningless in about a weeks time.
White Lies – To Lose My Life
Best Track: From The Stars
Bonus Video
Ladytron – Velocifero
Best Track – Burning Up
Bonus Video
British Sea Power – Do You Like Rock Music?
Best Track – No Lucifer
Mar
31
Welcome Russ
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McD Note – Russ Cohen, the founder, owner and top writer at Sportsology.com (as well as a host on XM’s Home Ice channel) , has become a good friend of mine through our travels covering the Flyers and the Phillies. Russ is an easy-going guy who can hold his own discussing a wide range of topics: music, computers, sports, films…you name it and Russ has a well formed opinion. He won’t bash you over the head with it (unlike me) and he makes logical points to balance his opinions. So when he found out about my ‘lil thing going on over here he offered to write…and I took him up on it. I think this might be a good place to let Russ loose without the restrictions of a “formal” website.
Anyway, hope you enjoy Cohen’s stuff as much as I do.
Lisa Marie Varon was better known as Victoria (r, photos by Sportsology) in the WWE and now that she’s retired the federation will take yet another hit in the already weakened women’s division. Having her lose her final match against Michelle McCool was yet another slap in her face. She was a former two-time champion and these days when you leave the WWE its almost always with a loss and that’s sad.
I had the chance to interview her before Wrestlemania XX and the Hair vs. Title match with Molly Holly. Before she got into character she had noticed my last name and said, “Hello Russ, by the way I’m in the tribe”. I was stunned, and really caught off guard. She told me about her Sephardic Jewish heritage, which explains her exotic good looks. She also mentioned that her father was from the Bronx and I knew she was telling the truth by the way she was pointing her finger at me – no not that finger.
She then told me about some times that she used to spend in New York, in the Bronx and in her uncle’s barber shop. Again it was a nice unexpected conversation that I had with her and that showed me how personable she really was.
That night I had the chance to interview Trish Stratus, and Torrie was there but she was too swamped to talk to but I thought Victoria was easily the best interview of the evening. Don’t get me wrong Trish was great, but Victoria was just a bit better maybe because she didn’t get bombarded like the other two did that night or maybe because she felt more comfortable in New York.
She was always a hard worker and fun to watch even when the federation was ruining her character, and make no mistake at times they did just to have a “hot chick” try and climb the charts in the women’s division. Varon could wrestle but many of the women in the last few year’s can’t. I think we all know who they are.
I can’t wait to see what she does next. Who knows if she will be in the public eye or not but I will keep an eye out for her because she knows how to entertain. If nothing else I can always get my car worked on at Black Widow Customs in Louisville, Kentucky where she is likely to be spending some time in the future.
Mar
26
Reason Number Two : The Fruit Stand
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…And now the thrilling conclusion to “Why I Gave Up On Lygertron”…
So, I have a couple of confessions to make and this will be the only time I mention this here. It is something that I had wanted to do for a while and I feel very fortunate that I have the chance to do this.
I work – part time – for Apple in one of their retail locations…and I truly love it.
So what does that have to do with writing a blog that no one reads?
Well, you see , I love the computers and the technology that Apple brings to the masses. I’ve been a loud and vocal fan for many years and have become very passionate about what their products and services can do. A bit of a fanboy if you will.
So after the passing of my father, I kinda felt the old “You only have one shot at life” mojo, and I went for it. Things worked out and I was brought on in October.
Great, but what does that have to do with the blog???
Well , here is what it has to do with it. I wanted to write about the things I was passionate about and Apple is one of them but working for them and writing about it is not a great idea. There are plenty of places to get product reviews, Apple gossip and rumors, and even blogs where present and past employees dish the dirt. I didn’t and don’t want to risk losing my spot to a stupid blog…and at the time there wasn’t much else I wanted to write about ( hell , the hockey season had ended) so the blog kinda floated off into the distance.
Now I still won’t discuss anything Apple from this point on – my wife and I have given the secret code word “The Fruit Stand” to the store – but I will say this about my time there.
One of the reasons I wanted to work there , aside from the products, was the fact that I felt like a part of my personality ( the geeky side) was dying and I couldn’t share that passion with anyone. No one I knew was into it as much as I was. So I am very lucky in that I have met a lot of interesting, funny, talented, and knowledgeable people there and I feel like I learn something new every day…and that is all that I have ever wanted from the experience.
Mar
26
…And That Was Almost A Year Ago
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Wonderful fucking job by me.
Now to be honest I did write about 10 or 15 posts on this blog after the opener but I ran into some issues. You see, when I started this mess I didn’t really want to focus on any one topic. I felt that by locking me in to write about one given topic would bore the hell out of me and I’d dump it in a second. For the most part that held true. I mixed things up and wrote about my travels to Chicago, some geeky computer and internet stuff, and some sports stuff as well.
So what happened?
You see, I have two issues that knocked me off the course – one I’ll write about here and the other I’ll dedicate to another post. So the first issue that I had (and I still have for the most part) is that I have a very hard time focusing. Now it goes well beyond the normal “I am bored..I don’t feel like it” general laziness that everyone has. It is the “100 channels running in my head and someone other than me has the remote” kind of stuff. It’s the “Did I lock the front door…ok let me check it for the 6th time” kind of stuff. It’s the ” You have about 3 minutes with me before I am zoned out somewhere else” kind of stuff.
Now at times it is stronger than other times, but by-in-large the channels are always changing. So for me to plop down and write about anything for any real length of time ( and not come across as some insane retard) is a difficult task. I could write about a million things but they all want to come out at the same time. The thoughts don’t want to slow down. Writing , even just in one post on one topic, became a bit of a chore…and when that happens I bail out the window. Maybe if I wrote five blogs at the same time that would work?
They have a medical name for this condition – ADHD – and in speaking with doctors and doing my own research there are a few bullet points used to determine if in fact you have ADHD or are just a self-absorbed jerk. They are:
- Often does not give close attention to details or makes careless mistakes in schoolwork, work, or other activities - strike one
- Often does not seem to listen when spoken to directly - strike two