Heavy Lies the Crown

Zen Robbi has come out with a new album, "Heavy Lies the Crown" and I must say it's pretty damn good. Go on check it out, you can download it on itunes or buy a copy off Timmy. That's right, if you didn't know him you'd assume that Zen Robbi was just another up and coming band. Well they are... but it's also Tim Baker's band (an LD Products employee and personal friend of mine). They're extremely talented and have proven it again with this new album.

Song like "Assh*les" and "Kings of California" will pay rent in your head and ultimately become a home owner at a low APR. I found myself singing "Assh*les" all day yesterday and that's not a bad thing at all.

Good luck to Timmy and Zen Robbi, great album hope to see you top the billboards!

San Francisco Valentines Pillow Fight

Feathers filled the air, flashes of white lights in my head, it was a scene straight from Braveheart (or any other war movie) with soldiers screaming "freedom" and eyes filled with rage. It was the 3rd annual Valentines Pillow Fight in San Francisco.

I didn't know what I was getting myself into when I agreed to take part in this event, but I'm sure glad I did. I've heard that over 7,000 people attended the mass pillow fight at Justin Herman Plaza once the clock struck 6pm on Sunday and I think that's pretty accurate, because the streets were full (and I mean full) of people clutching pillows in their hands.

I admit when I first walked up and saw the mess I was a little nervous. There were mosh pits of people swinging their pillows as hard as they can and often making contact with sombody's head. When we finally walked into a mosh pit we saw a 1 v 1 battle between two guys who were going at it pretty intensely. Once the fight looked like it was going to turn to fist, the two guys smiled and shook hands, "good fight". The overall morale was friendly, although there was the occasional crazy person (who we avoided when possible).

There were a few mosh pits I joined in and swung my pillow cracking the smile off a few people's faces, but remember this was a pillow fight, so I too took a blow or two. In one incident I was walking away from the mosh pit and boom, I saw a white flash, I turn around to see who nailed me and got cracked again by someone else. A wave of energy filled my body and I rushed back into the mosh pit to unleash a fury on others. I'm sure a few other people saw the "white flash" and although I'm unsure if I hit the guys who cheap shotted me, I like to think I got them back. I had to eventually come out of the pit, because my lungs were full of feathers. We saw people walk up with masks and thought they were just wusses, man was I wrong. I wish I had a mask. I think i'm still coughing out feathers from time to time.

The fight lasts from 6pm to 10pm and turns into a dance party with a DJ. We didn't stay long enough for the dance party, but did have an awesome time. I recommend if you are ever near the bay area during valentines to participate in this extravoganza. It's guaranteed good times.

Spiderman 4

Wow, I just read that the production of Spiderman 4 has been aborted. How do you quit on the series that has grossed over $750,000,000 per movie that they have made? Spiderman 3 was even more successful than Spiderman 2, so you think you got to continue with what's hot.

Tobey Mcguire will no longer play Peter Parker (spiderman) and Kirsten Dunst will no longer be Mary Jane (which I think is a good thing since she's hideous anyway).

The villain of part 4 was supposed to be Carnage which is one of the great villains in comic books. I was really looking forward to this. It's a shame. From what I heard Marvel was bought out by Disney so of course Disney is going to make the movie the way they do. The new Spiderman movie which is still set to be made is going to take place as Peter Parker is in high school. I'm guessing it's going to be High School Musical meets Spiderman which is going to be terrible. Whatever, I'll still watch it and probably memorize some of the dances (ok definitely memorize some of the songs), but it's a shame. It truly is. At least Percy Jackson and the Olympians looks AWESOME.

Good luck Zack Effron as Spiderman!

Vizsla Puppies

Happy New Year everybody! On New Years Day I went to Arrowhead. There isn't much to do there, so like always we went to the Arrowhead outlets and shopped. What I wasn't expecting to shop for was a little brown puppy. It was so cute. It was a weiner dog (a salchichon) and the perfect gift for my mother. Luckily, I text Steph and she talked me out of it.

Through this experience I realized how much I missed my little Dukey Wukey :( . I miss having a dog (a real dog, not Cassady (Pablo's dog)). So Monday morning came around and Steph and I decided to look up Vizsla rescues which lead to vizsla puppies and they are cutest things ever! I wish this van was ours!

Steph and I are waiting for the ok from Mom so that we can "rescue" a dog soon. I want to do it soon, because I know I won't be able to handle a vizsla on my own once Bianca and I get married. Vizsla's have way too much energy for us. So this is my last chance at living with a vizsla before the wedding.

I love you Dukey!

Fantasy Football can lead to Fired in Reality

There are a lot of similarities between me and some guy I just read about in an article. We are both into fantasy football. We both have had discussions about our team at work. The only difference is he got fired for it!

That is some bull. This guy chatted with a friend via IM about how bad a player did during a week of games, and his employer ended up calling him into an office and firing him for gambling on the job. That is ridiculous. If that was the case, most of the guys at LD would be fired. Devane, Frank, Me, Dindo, Scoop, Richard, Jason (fired twice cuz he talks so loud about it), Hien (fired twice cuz he's on so much and that's all he uses his 2nd screen for), and a bunch of warehouse guys too, oh and even Michelle! Oh, and Aaron would have to fire himself.

I thought this article was going to be about how much time this guy spent on fantasy football sites during work or something along those lines (cuz there are definitely some people here that spend too much time reading up on their players and yelling about it from downstairs so everyone can hear it) , but it was simply because they considered it gambling. It's not gambling. Anyone that plays fantasy football or fantasy sports, knows it goes way beyond that. It's a game. It's fun. Sure, in most cases there's a league fee of like $10-20 but that is only to ensure people are committed and don't just join the league and not change their players over a span of 17 weeks (this would be boring, trust me some people still do it). You wouldn't call someone a gambler if they payed to join a basketball tournament where the winners win money.

Fantasy is about having a reason to watch every football game, being able to talk crap to people even when you're favorite team is sucking (49ers haven't had a winning season in almost a decade :( ) Unfortunately for me I took last place in my "leagve" (that's a whole other story), so have had crap spoken to me about my favorite team and fantasy team.

Here is the link if you want to read the story: http://sports.yahoo.com/fantasy/blog/roto_arcade/post/Investment-company-to-fantasy-owners-You-re-fi?urn=fantasy,208825

Good luck to this guy. I hope for his boss' sake that this guy sucked on the job and they are using this fantasy thing as a cover to fire him. What is the world coming to?

Leave Tiger Alone

Where's Chris Crocker when you need him? Ok, so when do you think this whole Tiger Woods thing is going to blow over? (get it blow.hehehe) Give the guy some air for crying out loud. I mean haven't we heard enough? (don't answer that Biancs...she loves celebrity gossip) so the guy messed up, once, twice, ok about 20 times, but really it's no one's business but him and his wife. Why are we so intrigued with other people's misfortunes? I admit that sometimes I too enjoy hearing these things, but enough is enough. I can only imagine how shitty it has to be for her.

Poor woman (not literally, cuz I heard she's balling if she stays with him). Imagine trying to get over this and being reminded every time you turn on the damn tv!!! You can sometimes have something that reminds you of an ex-flame like a song, a movie, even a trinket, but his wife gets to listen to the radio, watch tv, and probably have stranger's look at her and whisper, "It'll be ok." It won't! Not if these people don't leave them alone. Geez (she's hot btw)

Sorry I was just watching football and heard that he's losing a bunch of endorsements over this whole ordeal. I wish his family the best, good luck trying to fix this crappy situation.

Finding a Christmas Tree

It has become a ritual that Steph, my mother, and I go to All American and find our yearly Christmas tree. As we performed our yearly tradition and went on the hunt to find a tree, I quickly realized that I have no idea how to find a good Christmas tree. Every tree that I thought was good enough, was either crooked or too empty in certain areas. What makes a good tree anyway? I'm sorry Biancs, I know that next year (when we finally get to choose our own tree and start a new tradition of our own) I'm going to suck at picking a tree. I'll keep pushing for a reject tree that looks like the Charlie Brown tree.

This got me wondering, what happens to all the reject trees? Steph and I made our way down the aisles and came across an aisle that seemed to be full of the rejected trees. Ones that just looked beat up and you just knew no one was going to pick . I wanted to choose one of these reject trees for sympathy and just have it on display in our front yard or something. Poor trees. They were like the ginger children of their society. All the other trees poke fun at these trees and pick on them and designate a day to kick them. It's a very sad sad scenario. I think that places that sell Christmas trees, should at least offer some sort of discount for these "ginger" trees so that they can at least stand a chance to be purchased.

Notice that in this picture above, this tree appears to have a crack in it.

Well Merry Christmas everyone, let me know if you have any tips on finding a good tree so I won't be so bad at it next year. I'll post up pics of our decorated tree once it's finished.