The Beauty of Lunch Guinness

It twas a cold & frothy December afternoon... Just kidding, I don't even know what that means? I do know that lunch Guinness is so good. I like Guinness anytime, but lunch Guinness is a different animal. Especially if it is icy cold. Let's take a moment to thank the fine folks at Runyon's for their fine establishment. I could have had one or 5 more of those. OJ is going to jail too. Shocker. He kills people & gets nothing, steals back some football cards & a jersey and gets the book thrown at him? Ahhh America. If he would have had a lunch Guinness, none of this would have ever have happened.

Explanation...

My good friend over at http://the-pea-green-boat.blogspot.com told me I should explain my photograph from yesterday a little. I was going to, but I forgot to give a little story behind it. So here it is... Kim & I went to Seattle for vacation last September. It truly is an amazing city. However, I do admit I was a little freaked out by the amount of homeless and junkies there were. The things you don't read about... Anyway, we visited the Seattle Center which features the Experience Music Project, Science Fiction Museum and Space Needle among other things. I took this photo outside of the EMP looking up between the EMP, a tree and the monorail. I am not a serious photographer by any means, but I love negative space and perspective of this shot. It is one of my favorite photos I have taken. Kim blew this up and framed it for our home.

Pic of the Day

Cheese Steaks

My wife & I love cheese steaks. We went to a place in the city last night called Shorty's. Really, really good cheese steaks. They have this deal where you get a Shorty cheese steak (which is 6 inches) and a pint for $8. I liked it a lot better than Tony Luke's which used to be in the same spot. 99 Miles to Philly is another good cheese steak stop. Awesome waffle fries & sauces there. Kim & I were lucky enough to stop at Geno's & Pat's this past summer to try the 'kings' of cheese steaks. Geno's was our favorite. One of our favorite local spots if Runyon's in East Meadow, NY. The put banana peppers on theirs. So good!! Damn, now I am hungry again. If anyone knows of any other places we can try... let us know!

Marbury

Please, please, please just get rid of him. You are already paying him his money. The more you send him away, the more time goes by. He is a bad teammate plain & simple. The Knicks gave him this ridiculous contract. Give him his money so he can go somewhere else and bother another team. He has had problems with every Knicks coach he has played for. Buyout his contract and end this mess. The longer it drags out the worse it makes the Knicks look.

Album Review: Chinese Democracy

Is this new album by Axl Rose & friends the complete train wreck everyone thinks it is? No.

Is it the best album I have ever heard in my life? No.

Is it horrible? Well, not exactly.

The songs have some very good parts, interesting solos and time changes. What the fuck is with all the samples, strings, horns and piano? How can a song called 'Prostitute' by a hard rock band have a piano outro? Come on fella! A few things need to be said first. Buckethead is an absolute kick ass guitarist. Even though it is hard to tell which solos are his? There was definitely a lot of cutting & pasting of material from all the various takes. I also prefer some of the demo versions of songs, such as Madagascar to their finished counterparts. I really wonder how many takes of songs Axl did? I am sure he and the producers only know for sure. Perhaps a boxed set eventually? Overall, I think this album sounds like a band recorded songs in one room and someone left the TV on loud in another and they put the two recordings together. A definite ego trip and an overproduced record. I would still check it out to see what all the hullabaloo is about and to check out Buckethead's work, but not at all a classic album.

Verdict: I give it 2 out of 5 Scouts.

Random Thoughts 5

Why do people feel the need to walk really slow and diagonally across a busy parking lot?

Why do players in the NFL, no matter the score is celebrate after every play? The guys on the Redskins were going nuts in the 4th quarter when they were losing 20 -7. Wow, you made a tackle? Probably should have some of those sooner.

Good riddance Stephon Marbury. I hope he is gone today. I do not like using this word, but he is a cancer. Look at every team he has been on.

The bird is indeed the word.