These guys are reason enough to travel to Chicago and Cleveland respectively. When they happen to be in the same city at the same time, it's required that I be there. These photos were taken Nov. 4th in Cleveland. Good times indeed.
Tuesday, November 15, 2005
Best Friends for Life, I Say
These guys are reason enough to travel to Chicago and Cleveland respectively. When they happen to be in the same city at the same time, it's required that I be there. These photos were taken Nov. 4th in Cleveland. Good times indeed.
Wednesday, November 09, 2005
Oh, the Places I've Been
So everyone knows the de riguer gift for friends and family memebers who are lucky enough to be graduating from their respective schools and universities; it's "Oh, the Places You'll Go" by Theodor Geisel, or Dr. Seuss to you and me. It gives kids the false hope that their life will actually mean something in the grand scope of things and that they can do whatever they want if they put their mind to it. Yeah, right.
14 years after graduating from college I'm here to tell you, don't believe the hype. I'm jobless living in a shit shack in Brooklyn with two roommates. Suffice to say, my life has been more "deep blue wells of confusion" than "grinning purple elephants." However, that's not to say that I haven't had my share of fun while fumbling towards the answer to the $64,000 question of what I want to do with my life. As I was sitting in the Horseshoe watching Ohio State wax Illinois this past Saturday I thought back over the past few years where the amount of time I've been employed is roughly equal to the time I've been unemployed.
Some highlights in no particular order:
Fiesta Bowl - 2003 Ohio State Defeats Miami in double overtime to witn the National Championship. I was there. I stayed at The Phoeneican (that place was ridiculous), everyone from ESPN stayed there, Herbstreit, Fowler, Corso. I almost goaded Jim Kelly into a fight, he would have annihalted me, he's freaking huge. I enjoyed free sex from a stripper (thanks, Josh) and got to experience the joy of watching a team I've rooted for since birth the win national championship with my best friend. Until the Indians win the World Series, this will remain the single most amazing sporting event I've ever witnessed. Followed closely by...
The 2002 Kentucky Derby
I was sitting around conducting my daily half assed search of Monster and HotJobs on a Thursday afternoon when one of my best friends, Phil called from Chicago.
"What's up, guuuy?"
"Nada, what's up with you, guuuy?"
"Want to go to the Kentucky Derby Saturday?"
"Yeah, let me work on that an I'll call you back in 15."
Some of you have already read my account of how I got there and in what condition. Suffice to say it was one of the three worst hangovers of my life and I made it to Churchill Downs 17 minutes before post time. I was wearing a bad-ass light blue suit however. That whole event was amazing, Phil and his friends had a box right on the track. When I say right on the track, I mean, if you bent over the railing you could scoop yourself some dirt from the track. I can't describe the sound 20 horses make when they're thundering down the straight away towards you, but damn is it imposing. And the horses? Gorgeous animals bred for one reason only, to run really, really fast. Truly an amazing event all the way around, the folks in Louisville DO NOT mess around with this tradition.
One week after getting shitcanned from a job in 2003 I found myself on the road as the tour manager of Columbia recording artists, A Static Lullaby. While it was actually a job, I did get to travel through most of the US and way too much of Canada. It was, for the most part, a really fun time. There were times when I had to play mom, dad, police officer, big brother et al to these kids (yes, they were kids, all between 19-22 at the time). I also got to stay in LA for a week at the end of the tour, bonus points for that.
In the past month and a half alone I've flown to Columbus to see Social Distortion, I've seen Ohio State play Penn State at Happy Valley (big effing disappointment) and Illinois in Columbus (fun game to watch). I spent two weeks in LA way back in 2002 and hung out with one of the guys from Nash Bridges (probably about 1,942 on my top 10 list) and taken dozens of weekend trips.
So, even though I haven't been gainfully employed all that much over the past five years I have managed to have a considerable amount of fun, all while "on scholarship." Not to mention the countless hours of bad TV I've witnessed with my roommate, the weekenights I was out drinking myself into oblivion instead of home, safe in bed and the countless sunrises I witnessed after bouts with said bad TV.
Hey, the pay ain't great, but you can't put a price on the things I've experienced. Well, maybe you can, but hell, most of the time, I wasn't paying. Anyone up for New Years in Paris? I just bought my ticket and I've got a free place to stay. The unemployed guy rides again!
14 years after graduating from college I'm here to tell you, don't believe the hype. I'm jobless living in a shit shack in Brooklyn with two roommates. Suffice to say, my life has been more "deep blue wells of confusion" than "grinning purple elephants." However, that's not to say that I haven't had my share of fun while fumbling towards the answer to the $64,000 question of what I want to do with my life. As I was sitting in the Horseshoe watching Ohio State wax Illinois this past Saturday I thought back over the past few years where the amount of time I've been employed is roughly equal to the time I've been unemployed.
Some highlights in no particular order:
Fiesta Bowl - 2003 Ohio State Defeats Miami in double overtime to witn the National Championship. I was there. I stayed at The Phoeneican (that place was ridiculous), everyone from ESPN stayed there, Herbstreit, Fowler, Corso. I almost goaded Jim Kelly into a fight, he would have annihalted me, he's freaking huge. I enjoyed free sex from a stripper (thanks, Josh) and got to experience the joy of watching a team I've rooted for since birth the win national championship with my best friend. Until the Indians win the World Series, this will remain the single most amazing sporting event I've ever witnessed. Followed closely by...
The 2002 Kentucky Derby
I was sitting around conducting my daily half assed search of Monster and HotJobs on a Thursday afternoon when one of my best friends, Phil called from Chicago.
"What's up, guuuy?"
"Nada, what's up with you, guuuy?"
"Want to go to the Kentucky Derby Saturday?"
"Yeah, let me work on that an I'll call you back in 15."
Some of you have already read my account of how I got there and in what condition. Suffice to say it was one of the three worst hangovers of my life and I made it to Churchill Downs 17 minutes before post time. I was wearing a bad-ass light blue suit however. That whole event was amazing, Phil and his friends had a box right on the track. When I say right on the track, I mean, if you bent over the railing you could scoop yourself some dirt from the track. I can't describe the sound 20 horses make when they're thundering down the straight away towards you, but damn is it imposing. And the horses? Gorgeous animals bred for one reason only, to run really, really fast. Truly an amazing event all the way around, the folks in Louisville DO NOT mess around with this tradition.
One week after getting shitcanned from a job in 2003 I found myself on the road as the tour manager of Columbia recording artists, A Static Lullaby. While it was actually a job, I did get to travel through most of the US and way too much of Canada. It was, for the most part, a really fun time. There were times when I had to play mom, dad, police officer, big brother et al to these kids (yes, they were kids, all between 19-22 at the time). I also got to stay in LA for a week at the end of the tour, bonus points for that.
In the past month and a half alone I've flown to Columbus to see Social Distortion, I've seen Ohio State play Penn State at Happy Valley (big effing disappointment) and Illinois in Columbus (fun game to watch). I spent two weeks in LA way back in 2002 and hung out with one of the guys from Nash Bridges (probably about 1,942 on my top 10 list) and taken dozens of weekend trips.
So, even though I haven't been gainfully employed all that much over the past five years I have managed to have a considerable amount of fun, all while "on scholarship." Not to mention the countless hours of bad TV I've witnessed with my roommate, the weekenights I was out drinking myself into oblivion instead of home, safe in bed and the countless sunrises I witnessed after bouts with said bad TV.
Hey, the pay ain't great, but you can't put a price on the things I've experienced. Well, maybe you can, but hell, most of the time, I wasn't paying. Anyone up for New Years in Paris? I just bought my ticket and I've got a free place to stay. The unemployed guy rides again!
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