Just Me Against The World

I don’t even want to get into my long rant about how much I hate former Clippers head coach Mike Dunleavy. I’ve gone through so many losing seasons watching this idiot make millions with his BS isolation play calling. Finally, today he got the boot. Well, kind of. He’s still the GM of the team. He said he “stepped down” but that’s just a face-saving way of saying he got canned. There aren’t a lot of Clippers fans though I know tons of happy people right now. No more stupid excuses on why we lost because of injuries. Oh, and I don’t have to look at his ugly suits blocking our front row seats. Do I feel sorry for him? Not at all. Hell, somebody give me a job for $5mill a year.

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In mid November, Will Roegge and I (aka the Medium Monster crew) went out to Palm Springs to shoot the launch of the 2010 Mitsubishi Outlander GT. Amazingly enough, I realized that I’ve never hung out in  Palm Springs in the 30+ years that I’ve lived in Southern California. Media guys stayed at the Riviera hotel while us dudes crashed in the swanky Colony hotel. Though we both had to share a room and the “intimacy kit” filled with condoms and flavored lotion was quite suspicious. Hey, it wasn’t only us! The photography crew had the same dealio. I think the Colony was more of a couples hotel than a business type one. Either way, no es bueno. Anyhow, after getting very lost the first day following Taro Koki from GTChannel and Ed Loh of Motor Trend in their sportback Lancer, we managed to get to the off-road course to see what the new S-AWC (Super All Wheel Control) system in the Outlander GT was all about. Check out the video with a special appearance by Moe Durand. He asked us to fill in his thinning hair, but somethings just can’t be accomplished no matter how much you tweak it in post. LOL. Just kidding.

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Two early mornings in a row I have gone to LA Fitness to shoot around on the indoor basketball court and been CBed because they were closed for remodeling. Yesterday, I ended up going to Del Valle Park since I haven’t been there in a while. Today, I went to Somerset Park or something like that. I didn’t really catch the name, but have driven past it about a million times. It’s not the greatest, but it’s better than nothing. I started my normal warm up routine and this gardener started his leaf blower on the other side of the park. No biggie. Then he started moving to my side blowing leaves, dirt, and water everywhere. Not sure where the water came from since it obviously didn’t rain last night. Anyhow, I figure dude needs to do his job so when he got closer to me, I moved onto the other side of the court. But then he’d come to my side again. I’m like WTF? It’s hard enough to concentrate without dirt and crap flying at you. I swear he was just doing it to be a dick. I forgot my eye drops so I had to sit around all day with dry eyes filled with dirt and debris all over my face. Good times.

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Damnit. Wordpress iPhone app failed me today so I have to re-type this whole blog entry.

Finally, our 3rd String ABA team got our first victory this past Sunday. Amazingly, it was an earlier game at noon against a team, Rum Jungle, that had a better record than us (though it’s hard to get worse than 0-5). Plus we weren’t with a full squad since Roel Concepcion has been out since game one with a knee injury, Eddie Lee was still up north, and we lost Elliott Moran in the first quarter after he tripped and banged up his knee. Their team wasn’t full either. In fact, they only had four roster players and some whiteboy they picked up in the morning. Hmm. Against league rules so we had to contest that. Not to be bitches, but we have dudes that we could bring in as well, but we didn’t and haven’t. So for a little bit, they were playing us four on five until their fifth man showed up then fouled out somewhere in the fourth quarter. Read the rest of this entry »

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Just when you thought that the hype of X Games 15 was over, Mitsubishi Motors and us over at Medium Monster (Will Roegge and Ricky Chu) bust out the Team ACP Rally video with rally driver Andrew Comrie Picard. He goes over the challenges of driving at the X Games dirt/tarmac combination course, the Evolution IX that he’s currently racing with, and the Evolution X that he’s preparing to run in the future. Remember, he’s the dude that flipped his Mitsubishi end-over at last year’s X Games (we’re sure he won’t forget that one). Really good stuff if we do say so ourselves…and we do. Check it out.

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I just kind of realized my addictive personality. Well, I’ve know for quite a while actually. Before, I used to spend all my money and time buying sunglasses or cell phones. That got kind if expensive. It actually made sense to stop on those since I finally found a pair of sunglasses that I liked and the iPhone is better than any phone that I had before. Now I’m addicted to buying basketball shoes and accessories for my iPhone. Hmm. The phone add-ons are probably a better bet since they’re way cheaper than whatever shoes I end up buying (even on sale with a coupon). Read the rest of this entry »

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OK. Technically my eye isn’t black. In this picture, you can barely even tell.  So keep that in mind before saying “oh, your eye isn’t even black.” It was more of a light purple and a tad swollen from playing D on that white dude at the gym and ending up getting accidentally head butted. Sucks that it was the same eye that hasnt stopped twitching for the past month and a half. Sucks even more that it’s still twitching. Now that we have that cleared up, the next step was to try and get rid of it. Read the rest of this entry »

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There are only a couple of things that come in the mail that are actually good: 1) coupons and 2) checks (not in that order). Everything else seems to be a waste of time and/or paper. Let’s see, bills, spam mail, fliers, and scams. Great stuff to come home to at the end of the day. The thing that I find weird is how my United States Postal Service worker just crams everything into my mailbox. I understand that he or she is busy and probably sick of their job, but it looks like my mailbox is a trashcan. When I open it up, everything just falls out. I really get annoyed when I’m carrying something in from the car and have to try to catch all the mail before it falls or pick it up after it does. It’s pretty ridiculous. What can I do about it? Nothing except bitch, moan, and accept it. I end up throwing away 80% of all this crap anyway. Like I said, waste of paper.

Written on my iPhone so please disregard any spelling or grammatical errors. Thanks.

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A few of us just signed up for the ABA (Asian Basketball Association) under the team name of 3rd String (other option was Bangcok Blockers). The thing is, we play next Sunday and we still haven’t gotten the entire team together for a practice session. So far our roster stands at 10: Mickee Zenarosa, Dennis Trilles, Roel Concepcion, Ross Colcol, Elliott Moran, Steve Chan, Tony Dever (who hasn’t made it to any practice yet so I have no idea who he is), Eddie Lee, Chris Serafino, and myself. We might pick up a couple more guys like Mike Morgan and whoever else. For jerseys, I had trouble deciding on a number. I figure most people would want 23 and the Lakers lovers 24. Maybe even 8 since it is an Asian league. My options were 1 or 3. I figure my birthday is on 11-01 so that’s all 1s. If someone else wanted 1, I’d go 3 since 1+1+1 = 3. Quite the formula I have going, huh? Read the rest of this entry »

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I was meeting Will, Janel, Kaylee, and Kyle Law for dinner at the Puente Hills Mall and had some time to kill so I went inside to look at basketball shoes (I know, I really shouldn’t be). But on the way in I saw this lady getting arrested for who knows what. I’m guessing shoplifting, but she was sitting on the floor handcuffed with a bunch of cops around here. I was caught stealing one time as a kid, but that was for back pain medicine. Lame, huh? Shoot. I don’t even know if this chick is a mom, but it’s sad and funny at the same time. This is my first time using the WordPress iPhone app so let’s see how it turns out.

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