Just Me Against The World

What’s the worst profession in existence? Not bad for the person doing it, but for the rest of the world to despise him (I am only using man/men/him/he not because I’m sexist and un-PC, but it’s just faster for me to type and it’s less confusing to try and figure out how to label a unisex job position). Used car sales? Repo man? Parking patrol? Nah. I think the most despicable job on the planet is that of a weatherman. Why? Because for the past thousand years or so, these idiots claimed they could predict the weather and are not held responsible if they are wrong. Well, maybe at some point they were held responsible, but they sure as hell aren’t now. It’s even worse because they have all the technology at their disposal to be more accurate. (more…)

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What an annoying way to hit the middle of my Sunday. I haven’t played my Sony PlayStation 3 in quite some time now, but I heard there was a new game out called Heavy Rain that was pretty dope so I went out and bought it. Yeah, I bought a video game even though I usually get them for free from companies or Ty Rodriguez will hook me up. But this game was supposed to be intense like a murder mystery movie. I started playing it yesterday and it was really slow to begin with until you start setting up all the characters. Today, I was getting through another series of challenges when I realized that I missed something so I shut the PS3 console off so I could start that part over. When I turned it back on, I got an error message 8001050F saying that I was logged out of the server. No biggie, I’ll just log back in. Problem is, it wouldn’t let me. The PS3 just kept showing that same stupid error message. Not only that, for some lame ass reason I need to be logged onto the PlayStation Network just to play Heavy Rain. I can’t play it offline. When I try to load the game, it just displays the error message and quits the game. (more…)

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Whenever Maurice “Moe” Durand, Christine “C Jew” Jew, or Laura “Can’t Say Her Nickname On Here” Arbios hit me us up from Mitsubishi we know it’s going to be a pretty cool job for Medium Monster. This latest snowboarding one seemed dope, but got a little complicated because everyone involved only knew bits and pieces of info for the entire dealio. But Will Roegge and I can usually put those pieces together to make it all work out in the end. (more…)

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I’m always down to try a new place to eat because, well, I love food. There’s a Mongolian BBQ place around the corner from my house called Caesar’s that always looks empty. My boy Jimmy Le told me that the place sucks and is probably a front for money laundering because they’ve managed to stay in business for this long without any customers. The thing is, I really wanted to try it despite the fact that it was named Caesar’s. I don’t recall knowing any Mongolian people named Caesar. Come to think of it, I don’t know any Mongolians. (more…)

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There always seems to be something wrong with me. If it’s not some injury from playing ball or working out, then it’s me getting sick. It truly never ends and I’m only 31 years old right now. About three months ago, I started coughing really badly. Well, it started off with a stuffy head that I made worse by taking Zicam. Then it became a sinus infection so I needed to take anti-biotics for that. Just when I shook the sinusitis, I got a sore throat, which eventually led to the dreaded cough. (more…)

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Sometimes I sit here and wonder why I’m a Clippers fan. It’s painful to be one. I mean, really painful. For the past two decades, the team has only gone to the playoffs twice. That’s pretty sad. Especially in a town where the Lakers are making the playoffs almost every year and winning championships left and right. I don’t want to sit here and bitch about the team’s entire history so I’ll fast forward to what has been called the Dunleavy (Dumbleavy) Era. (more…)

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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. (more…)

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