I was going to come home to mckinney — but that means I would go out on the 4th, and I don’t need to go out with a triathlon next weekend thats probably going to kill me. Therefore, I will stay home and redesign this site.

This guy talks funny, but sings alright.

I haven’t posted due to the madness that is summer school + magazine deadline…. but I had some free time this weekend to capitalize on everyone else’s misfortune in the economy and do some craigslist browsing. I wanted to set up an aquarium and for an insanely cheap price I set up a lil 10 galloner.

My new fish :

A REDTAIL SHARK
He’s not that cool though besides looking like shark due to the fact he just sits there…. I think its a ploy though. One day he’s going to grow huge and lump out of his aquarium and try to eat the dog or something.

A ZEBRA DANIO
2 of them actually. Because they are cheap and race around chasing each other. I have to buy some more of these for a school, they like to be in groups of six, but petco ran out.

A PEARL GOURAMI
2 of these as well. Cause they look cool and normally cost 5 bucks but I got them for 99cents (both of them) . HUZZAH

So, those are my fish for now. I want an algae eater but yet again Petco was out of them. I was surprised that the tanks were well maintained, no dead fish, but the selection was low. Anyways… I’m going to play with my fish now, and by play with my fish I mean play with the dog because fish are boring.

Deadspin used to do it :

You have to click it cause my ads are in the way.

- 11% of Americans think Obama is a Muslim . I did not make that figure up. 11% of Americans are beyond attempting to save apparently. The founding fathers and their distrust for the citizenry seems more and more founded every day.

- Sarah Palin. Really. First off… the joke “during the 7th inning her daughter was knocked up by Alex Rodriguez.” a) the joke does not say rape. b) the joke is innocent. c) not accepting david’s apology makes sarah an idiot d) continuing to lambast david in the media makes you even more idiotic. The fact that she is going to be a candidate in 2012 scares me and signifies the end of the republican party.

- Iran reelected Ahmadinejad (who knows if its legit) but yep…. thats the end folks.

- N. Korea announces intentions to weaponize its plutonium. Yep, thats what we needed. A nation state currently in the throes of political uphevel due to a power transition weaponizing a nuclear arsenal. FANTASTIC.

- I watched Fox today for a half hour. Obama’s speech in Cairo was great, and if followed through upon means even greater things. FOX rips it apart. ‘Pandering’ to Islam they say… Then you hear on Fox Radio how someone is ‘praying for Obama to be killed’ and then Limbaugh says something stupid, and you just wonder if these people can possible actually believe the words that are coming out of their mouths.

In OTHER NEWS :

It was cool to see the Pens win the Cup, I just like Crosby, nice of detroit to stay in the arena and cheer on the winning team even though they lost… If i remember correctly when Dallas won the arena emptied ASAP… (winning at home is much more fun)

Texas plays tomorrow @ 6pm. Be there. Southern Miss is trouble, coach is retiring after the season and they are hot so Texas just has to take care of business.

This is one of the greatest videos I have ever seen :

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The nice thing about having a nice giant liquor warehouse .35 miles away from your house (yes we measured it… from doorstep to doorstep…) is the ability to fill your bathtub with grain alcohol on a whim…

The OTHER nice thing is the slightly wider selection of craft brews that you can pick up. Times you catch me drinking involve when Nate is in town… and UT sporting events… beer just doesn’t fit into the new triathlon lifestyle at other moments. HOWEVER, as a budding beer entrepreneur myself I need to get out and try some other varieties so that my Texas Blonde can be as well rounded as possible.

Today I grabbed a TSINGTAO. Yes I spelled that correctly… and it is Chinese… or is a cool acronym [insert acronym here that I was not able to come up with on the fly] .

Why did I buy it? Because it has a green bottle with chinese labels on it. Will look cool with homebrew in it.

How does it taste? Pretty solid . It is an american lager (yep, that makes ALOT of sense CHINA) smooth, crisp and refreshing. Very drinkable in my opinion. Beer advocate gives it a C , I’m gonna go with a B. You should try it out… you just might like it in the hot summer.

My Chicken Recipe – loved by all

Grab some thin sliced breast chicken.
Throw it into your favorite pan and coat with paprika, cayenne pepper, taco seasoning and black pepper. I coat my chicken with those four . Don’t doubt. It is awesome.

Just slightly get each side cooking, and then toss in about half a can of your favorite beer. Depending on the mood. Lone Star works great, any light american beer will do, but I’ve tried it with some heineken and it wasn’t bad either. Next I’m gonna try some mexican beer and see if it gets it anything different.

Then, your gonna let it sit till the chicken is cooked through, or until the alcohol is almost dissipated. Then your good to go. You will have some good tasting perfectly cooked chicken with a kick in the pants from the paprika/cayenne.

Do it.

I randomly switched in my browser to the texas game, (well i thought i was just checking the score) when I saw a live feed of the game still on via the internet . (wasn’t on tv) 16th inning. WHAT? I convinced Travis to come along and we sat through a back and forth fight that almost lasted another full game (it almost lasted 3 all together) and was finally ended in the 25th.

Austin wood pitched from the 17th to the twentieth. Wow. Coming in in relief, expecting an inning or two and you get 13. Texas left something ridiculous like 17 on base during the course of the game, and from the 17th through the 25th, I saw probably 9 in scoring position. Yet they finally got it. Sucks to be BC because they have to play 11 hours after the finish of the game . ouch. Texas plays at 6. I might have to go.

Here is my horrible iphone video of the game winning hit.

Both of these selections I chose due to the fact they are shot based on true stories and attempt to stick to the truth as much as possible. This is an armed forces themed post .

Taking Chance I wasn’t expecting much out of this movie. In fact I don’t remember putting it in my queue and have no idea how it made it to the top of the list. From the first few minutes I was hooked though. Its a somber drama, based on a true story, about a soldier (played by Kevin Bacon) who volunteers to escort the body of Chance Phelps from his arrival in the states to his destination. Probably one of the most emotional movies I’ve ever watched, Kevin Bacon is great, the story is great, and the whole thing is done very respectfully to a tough subject. I would definitely recommend this to anyone — perfect timing around memorial day also.

If you are looking for a fun movie, this is not it. I might say this is one of the best movies I’ve ever seen though.

Generation Kill This is the exact polar opposite of Taking Chance . Done by David Simon of “The Wire” it does what he does best, and that is being as true to reality as possible. It is gritty, tough, and at times unpleasant, similar to Jarhead in many ways, but about a team of soldiers in Iraq. It is also a true story, told from a Rolling Stone reporter who was embedded in the unit, and who is a character in the action as well. There is only one name actor in the entire set, the rest are new guys, so as to maintain the illusion of a documentary. Just like all Simon productions, this is top notch. I would not rate this at the top of my lists, but it was a good collection to be sure. It is a 3-disc series from HBO.