Quick Picks On This Wednesday…
October 20, 2010
I was contacted by someone to write a guest post article for this Wednesday and I have not heard from said someone since. Instead, I’ll mention a few things, so I don’t feel like guilty that I didn’t post anything to the 2 of you who read this website still.
1. http://www.twitter.com/jordan_is_ok
That is my twitter account as you should already know and should be reading. I’m not going to lie, I think I say some funny shit on there from time to time. My main critique of my twitter account is I don’t post enough pictures. Although, I might be biased because I might like pictures more than most people. My eyes really like to be used. They hate not being used.
2. Enemy Mine
For those of you who get high and like to watch wild movies when high – I thoroughly suggest this movie. Or if you don’t get high (jeez stop bragging about it because you’ll just hurt the feelings of the other people who use drugs as a crutch) and like to watch wild movies sober – I still thoroughly suggest this movie. It is currently on “watch instantly” on Netflix. A brief summary of the movie, Dennis Quaid and Louis Gossett Jr. play enemy space fighter pilots who crash land on a foreign planet and learn to become friends to survive on the planet. Did I forget to mention that Louis Gossett Jr. is an alien that looks like this…
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And…
He…
Gives…
Birth!!!!
Yes! You read that correctly. At some point in the movie, Louis Gossett Jr. becomes a pregnant alien and then later gives birth to an alien baby. So it is Wing Commander meets Cast Away meets Junior. Amazing.
Also, I would imagine if you are high while watching this movie you will find alien Louis Gossett Jr.’s speech patterns to be the funniest thing ever.
3. Claymore
I read Japanese comic books aka manga. I am a nerd. Nevertheless, I think you all should read Claymore. It is one of my favorite mangas and it is an almost entirely female cast. Mostly, vagina havers end up on this site and yes it is pandering to think that you would only want to read about about fictional vagina havers, but who cares. It is still an amazing manga. The premise: there are human eating werewolf demons in the world named “Yoma” that prey on people. The only thing that can kill them are an organization of half-women half-yoma who carry around enormous swords. The women use these swords and their demon power to kill the baddies, but if they use to much of their power then they’ll become even worse man eating monsters. The story becomes more complicated as it goes on, but no spoilers from me.
The manga is violent. No mistake about that. And sexual and disturbing at times. But what isn’t these days, am I right? I really love the artistry of it all. It is in black and white like all manga, but their use of the black and white and their use of light detail and heavy detail is incredible.

Like most mangas, the series starts off pretty slow and simple and gets better. I do like the early stuff, but I think the show really starts to get going when the character of Teresa is introduced and from then on it gets better and better and better and better.
This next couple sentences will be in code, so the authorities do not catch me:
Don’t Google “Claymore manga”. Don’t! Don’t click on the link to a website with the words “manga” and “reader” and “.net”. Don’t do that. Seriously, don’t do it.
4. German ram
It’s a fish.

I was surprised too. I thought “German ram” would be a “ram” from “Germany” or at least had German lineage or spoke German or was a ram that was very structured, organized, intimidating because it may invade its neighbor’s borders and put them in concentration camps, makes great cars and beer.
But no, it is a fish.
Supposedly, they have breathing problems.
5. Andrew Cuomo will win, but… who doesn’t want to vote for this guy!?!
By the way, Jimmy McMillan is an amazing human being and all, but I’m surprised no one is mentioning that there was a former madam aka a female pimp on stage as well saying hysterical things.
6. Gundam Wing
I’m rewatching it. It’s a Japanese cartoon series about giant robots that people pilot for war purposes. What?
Anybody have any random interests they want to mention that people should be getting into?

I Can’t Believe I’m Going To Talk Baseball
October 19, 2010
There is this little known and watched sport nowadays that is deep into its post season playoffs and it is called “baseball”. You may have heard of it in the news because everyone is on steroids. Who wins and loses is wildly irrelevant it would seem because we all suspect that they are using performance enhancing drugs and the game is still mildly interesting at best. Now, they tried to rid the sport of these drugs and in doing so removed all the excitement that had been existing in the sport as juiced up dinosaurs of our youth were still hitting homeruns. Now there is a cavalcade of young talent that don’t look like superstars and no one seems to care.

It doesn’t help any that baseball’s playoffs are up against the NFL. As baseball tries to hold the attention of its fans amid controversy for the past several years, football has only gotten more successful. More players are household names, more parity in the league, and just the basic game of football lends itself to be a more enjoyable game to be watched on television. Football is a sport that is about intensity. Even basketball has amped up intensity in the game without the glaring question of its legitimacy. Baseball is by-and-large a lax sport because of 162 games over those lazy Summer months. They’re the boys of Summer and their championship is almost into Winter nowadays. It is spread too thin.
Nevertheless, baseball’s first recorded game with codified rules took place about a mile from where I’m sitting and I think I should at least talk about it some. Right now, your professional baseball playoffs are between:
National League
San Francisco Giants vs. Philadelphia Phillies
Shocked? I am a little bit. The Phillies have become a powerful club in the recent recent years. Before that, there was quite a gap of success. The 90′s and much of the 2000′s were not kind to the Phillies of Philly. As for the Giants, they’re kind of the Cinderella team of this year. I know very little about the Giants and would have trouble naming more than 2 guys on the team. But this series tied 1-1 and they will be playing the third game of this series in a few hours actually. That’s another thing about baseball – there is a playoff game starting at 4pm on a Tuesday. Who the fuck is watching baseball at 4pm on a Tuesday in the second half of October? It’s chilly outside in Philly, so why are they playing this stupid sport still.
Truthfully, I’m not sure I care who wins this National league series. The Phillies won a World Series not long ago and lost another even less time ago. Do they need to go for round 3? In my opinion, it really doesn’t matter to me. The Giants haven’t been to a World Series since… 2002? What? Holy fuck do I not remember that World Series. Seriously, the Giants played the Angels in a World Series in 2002? Wow. I bet you could fit all the people who watched that World Series in a 747 and fly them back to “who gives a fuck”-ville where that Series must’ve taken place. And they lost it too. The Giants haven’t won a World Series since 1954, which arguably means you have an AARP card if you remember a second of it.
Wow, so the NL is whoever. I seriously hope whoever the better team is wins because I don’t even know. I do know that the Phillies have a much vaunted pitching rotation with Halladay and Hamels specifically, but even I know who Oswalt and Lidge are. Ok, I just looked over the Giants roster and I know Tim Lincecum and Pat “The Bat” Burrell. I think I know Aaron Rowand as well. But not Biblically like the others. Either way, let’s hope one of them wins.

American League
New York Yankess vs. Texas Rangers
I hate the Yankees. Hate ‘em. I hate them because I’m from the New York area and I’m not a fan. If you are not a fan of the Yankees and you live near New York then you are forced to hate the Yankees. The Yankees fans of this world are zealots. They are zealots who do not care about whether or not you will ever become a Yankees fan. They do not want to convince you to become a Yankees fan. They are not looking for conversion. In all honesty, because you are not a Yankees fan already – you’re an idiot to them and lesser than. How much more could the Yankees have done to convince you already, so at this point you’re just a buffoon for not being a Yankees fan. The Yankees are the greatest and they are fans of the greatest and with that they themselves are the greatest. They are like miniature kings or person’s of power because they wear that NY on their baseball cap.
So I dislike them with great intensity.

And I’m not rooting for Alex Rodriguez ever. Even if he was the sole representative in an inter-stellar exhibition between aliens of the galaxy of Nebulon 5 versus Alex Rodriguez the embodiment of the humanity of Earth – I would root for the aliens. And Jeter *shrugs*. Whatever. He’s great. He’s more than great. Who cares. He’s never captured the attention or been beloved by anyone who doesn’t just live or die by the pinstripe. His greatness doesn’t transcend. He’s the best baseball player of his generation and I’m more jealous of him for Minka Kelly than any of the rest. He is a boring interview, is pretty personality-less and he even comes across as unslightly bland because he didn’t take steroids when all the cool kids were taking steroids.

I’m rooting for the Texas Rangers.
Not a shock, right? I’m rooting for the Texas Rangers for 3 reasons. Well, 3 reasons outside of that reason above I mentioned with me not wanting to see the Yankees win.
#1. Josh Hamilton
Josh Hamilton is only a couple years older than me and he has seen and done many things that have aged him a hundred fold. Let me give you an example, I have spent countless hours raising chocobos in the videogame Final Fantasy VII to eventually breed a gold chocobo, so I could obtain the ultimate summon spell “Knights of the Round Table”. Where as Josh Hamilton, has spent countless hours doing hardcore drugs in an abandoned camper with homeless junkies. Just for clarification, a “chocobo” is a fictional animal that looks like a cuter version of an ostrich that one can ride like a horse and sometimes has the gift of flight. We have lived different lives.
Josh Hamilton was a phenomenal baseball prospect who at the age of 20 was in a car accident that sidelined him from baseball for a month and in that period of time he tried alcohol and cocaine for the first time and took to it like it was the missing link in his life. He lost several years to drugs and alcohol, but thankfully gave it up through faith and rehab. Since, 2006 Josh has been in the MLB showing off his incredible gift for baseball. He is easily one of the best players in the game and storyline wise is one of the most interesting.

To try and prevent Josh from backsliding, he doesn’t carry around much money, he isn’t allowed to drive by himself, he has no credit cards in his name, and the team hired an older gentleman to travel with Josh, eat with Josh and pray with Josh. The team even used ginger ale as their celebration liquid of choice to spray on each other instead of champagne when they beat the Rays in the last series because of Josh’s past. Everyone loves a story at redemption and he’s the best one we got.
#2. Ron Washington
On the complete flipside, I love the Texas Rangers’ manager Ron Washington because of his drug habits. Josh quit drugs, meanwhile Ron Washington was caught for using cocaine at the beginning of this season. Ron Washington is 58 years old, has a thin mustache, gray hair, and is an even tempered baseball manager for the Texas Rangers … and he does COCAINE!

Hahahaha, can you believe this guy did cocaine in the past year?! How amazing is that? It is not surprising if Josh Hamilton did cocaine. I mean there are a lot of people in the world who like cocaine and would want to do cocaine with a young millionaire All-star baseball player. But the manager? No one wants to do cocaine with Joe Torre or Jim Leyland. And it is crazy to think that Ron Washington was doing cocaine this year. That’s too funny. He is 58 years old and managing a team for America’s pasttime and he’s doing cocaine? 58 years old is too damn old to be doing cocaine. It’s a drug for the young and not an accomplished older gentlemen like Ron Washington.
Ron Washington was a professional baseball player in the 80′s so sure – he has done cocaine. But Ron Washington has played baseball in over 20 years! And he is still doing the stuff? Hahahahah, could you imagine? He wasn’t even that good of baseball player either. It’s not like he was even a famous baseball player. I can’t imagine he bought cocaine. I just can’t imagine it. Someone had to have offered him cocaine. I can’t see Ron Washington at 58 years old deciding he needed to purchase cocaine. He only had 414 hits in 12 years of professional baseball experience! That humbled man doesn’t buy cocaine.
I would bet Ron Washington was drinking at a club. Drinking bottled beers or maybe a few old man drinks like a Rob Roy. He was out that night with a friend from the old days who never grew up. A friend who really Ron Washington shouldn’t be hanging out with anymore at 58 years old. A man that Ron Washington thought may have changed. But he hadn’t. And that man brought cocaine to the party. After enough, suds and spirits in old Ron and hours of prodding by that old friend he convinced Ron it was the 1985 and he did some cocaine. The night just got away from the old man.

Nevertheless, Ron Washington at 58 years old had to give an apology speech at the beginning of this season which was bewildering and hysterical. And clearly he is good at his job since his team is here and up 2-1 on the Yankees.
#3. Nolan Ryan
Today, Nolan Ryan is part owner and acting President of the Texas Rangers. For the tenure of my love of baseball and for almost two decades prior to that, Nolan Ryan was an undeniable force in professional baseball. I loved baseball for the first 10 years of my life and during that time and during the period of time mentioned before that, Nolan Ryan was a freight train. He was a pyschopath as a starting pitcher.

Nolan Ryan won a World Series 3 years into his career and then played another 24 years without one. He generally played for garbage baseball teams where he was a lone gun slinger up there throwing 100mph heat flying at all cylinders. He has a ridiculously stupid amount of strikeouts and was simply a beast as a pitcher and was always a villainous character, which is probably why he never got a Cy Young trophy. And at the same time, he has more walks than any other pitcher by a stupid amount as well.
With all the fan fare for Brett Favre (as there should be), Nolan Ryan was there first. Favre is throwing it and has been throwing it forever. He has 80+ more touchdowns than anyone else and at the same time he has more fumbles and interceptions than anyone else. He is out there with the ball in his hands making decisions and just won’t stop. Same went for Nolan Ryan. He was throwing with reckless abandon for way too long. No one’s arm should have been able to throw that much power for that long of a period of time. Just a never say die, burly, humorless, angry pitcher who just fired the ball with all his might like a damn cannon forever.
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/133074/top_ten_baseball_fights/
Plus it is hysterical when the Rangers are playing at home and they cut to a shot of Nolan Ryan and George Dubya Bush sitting together. It’s W. It’s like he was never President. The Democrats mention him more than the Republicans do. He’s just doing what he did before he was the most powerful man on Earth for 8 years, he’s watching his Rangers play ball.

Remember Those Friday Questions? I did
October 18, 2010
Today is Monday, but I’m answering Friday questions. Crazy! I hope you can handle all the insanity. To help you through this transition, I thought a pretty face would lend to a calming presence. I have picked Jessica Pare who plays the gorgeous secretary Megan on Mad Men who will also be Don Draper’s new wife in the next season seemingly, as the two of them got engaged in last night’s season finale. Jessica is very pretty and looks like the sexy and impossible love child of Liv Tyler and Anne Hathaway.

I’m not a licensed doctor/scientist, so I’m not sure if Anne Hathaway and Liv Tyler can produce a love child. But I am pretty much an “honorary” doctor/scientist/street car race champion, so I think we should have Anne Hathaway and Liv Tyler try and try and try to produce a love child. We should video tape all these attempts and I will keep those tapes and review them constantly and make suggestions for each next attempt.
Also, if you would like to see Jessica topless (which is rhetorical statement I know) just google pictures/video of Jessica specifically from Hot Tub Time Machine. And she was also naked in another movie called Stardom. Also, also, she is naked in another movie and she might be naked in another movie and she makes out with Piper Perabo in another movie and she might be naked in that as well. Seriously, when is this girl receiving her gold medal for humanity?

I really loved Mad Men this season. They added a lot of more comedy to the show as well as showing a more human/sensitive side to most of the characters. I think one can safely say that one learned a lot about each of the characters this season – especially about their personal life. Hopefully, this new zombie show will be good because I have given up Boardwalk Empire. If anyone is still watching that show and something interesting actually happens on it (like if Nucky Thompson gets super powers) then tell me, but if not then I am glad to not be watching the show anymore.
Bored to Death and Eastbound & Down are still excellent… as well as FOOTBALL!
OH! Friday questions. hmmm let me think…
Do you think the Verizon iPhone is every gonna happen? And if it’s not out by January when my contract is up what smart phone from Verizon should I get?
Yes, I think that the Verizon iPhone is going to happen. I’m viewing this whole “smart phone”/”phone provider” problem much like the video game dilemma of a video game/video game system. There was a period of time when games stayed exclusive for one system like Halo and Xbox. For a long time, the video game companies sided between one system over the others and would keep their games exclusive for that system and stay loyal to that system. But at some point, someone realized that a game can get more exposure and make more money if it was released for both systems. For instance, BioShock was originally just an Xbox game, but if you waited a year then it came out on PS3 as well. I think that’s what will eventually happen with the iPhone. Right now, I think they are just churning up people’s intense interest for the iPhone who are on different service providers than AT&T and when iPhone’s are made available finally for the others, there will be a calculated mass attack on all stores offering cellphones as if Verizon and Sprint customers were the rage zombies in 28 Days Later.
Hmmm… well, I have an iPhone, so I really don’t know about these other “smart phones”. I will say this that I’m sick of calling my phone “smart”. It really seems that we’re throwing that word around pretty loosely these days. I know people with Blackberrys and Droids. I have heard good things and bad things about all of them. If I couldn’t have an iPhone, I would probably get a droid because it does seem very similar. It also seems the cool kids have Droids.
And with that, deciding which kid is cool because of their cellphone means this generations has NO COOL KIDS. Class of ’83 still rules, motherfuckers!
Does that fact that my bffs and I had a totally serious discussion about buying cars, car loans, interest rates, and taxes mean we are finally grown ups?
Does it mean you are finally grown ups? No, not necessarily. It does mean you and your bffs are boring. Hahahahahahah… Like all things in life – the end justifies the means – so if you learned something from the conversation or helped someone else with that conversation than all is good. Also, if the conversation ended and you all agreed to get Four Loko drunk and make bad decisions that would be great stories to laugh about once the police trial was over instead of talking about boring stuff like car insurance than sure that’s ok.

What is you favorite Sesame Street skit of all time?
No idea. Feel free to tell me yours with a youtube clip of it attached. Did you know that muppets were originally a serious of pipes that were painted on in the NBC basement done by Jim Henson and some other illustrators? They had to be the highest on acid. There is no way that a sober employee would venture to the basement, find some exposed pipes, think to themselves “we should paint these as crazy cartoon characters, and then proceed to talk other sober people into doing it, then doing it, then making those creations into workable puppets. That is what druggies do. Again, the end justifies the means.
So the next time you are subject to a drug test at work, turn to your boss and say “Well, you just sealed it now. I’ll never make the next generation of muppets.” And you explain to them you were going to find some old pipes in the basement and paint on them to then create lovable children’s characters that will have an international multi decade following and will teach these kids to read. Then they’ll fire you because even if your piss turns up clean they’ll think you paid someone because you are clearly crazy.

What animal would you most like to receive unexpectedly as a gift, and what animal would you least like to receive?
Same animal: polar bear.
I would love the polar bear like it was a big dog. The polar bear would most likely cover my apartment in its piss, feces, and destructive power. The polar bear may kill me. High probability it would kill someone else. But it would be a fun ride. Literally, a fun ride because I would put a saddle on it and ride it like a slow horse or I would attach a harness to it and it could pull me in a wheeled cart like I was the White Witch in Chronicles of Narnia.
What do you, Jordan, think would be a good food to offer a woman (or man) after a mammogram?
Cupcakes.
I could see a tray offering chocolate cake with vanilla icing and yellow cake with chocolate icing. This not to say “funfetti” could not be offered as well, but that will be up to the particular doctor and their office to make that decision. Just so this conversation could happen…
“I’m getting my mammogram done at Dr. Sanders’ office.”
“Really? I’ve heard only bad things about Dr. Sanders.”
“They have funfetti over there.”
“Well, then. I guess I’m going to have to schedule a mammogram from Dr. Sanders.”
Dr. Sanders – cold to the touch, the equipment might be out of date, but there is FUNFETTI!
It is impossible to be sad while eating cupcakes.

I hope everyone had a great weekend.
What’s up, motherfuckers? Get excited!
A Very Special Episode of The Tonight Show
October 15, 2010
First, I hope Photobucket isn’t banned in whatever office or prison you are viewing this at because the whole post is on it. Second, I will answer the Friday questions on Monday because this is my damn website and I feel like. I made this and felt like running it today instead of waiting until next week. I also found a website that does slideshows and put it in in a slideshow format, which I will post in a minute. Besides your normal hilarious feedback, please mention if the slideshow worked and if you would want to see more. Thanks. Hope you have a great weekend.




































