PDX bound

On my to IAD for a trip to Portland, OR. Why Portland you ask? To see my beloved DC United, match. Stay tuned for updates.

Mobile Ninjamonkey3000

A part of the re-launch will include a mobile component. This is a test of the said mobile Ninjamonkey3000 component. Enjoy
mighty!

Relaunching after 2 years

A lot has happened in the last few months that has made it important that I start blogging again. Let's just say, I will have a lot of time to do nothing but blog in the near future. Give me some time (couple hours) and I will have an update published to this very blog.
Great to be back, I hope I still have some readers out there.

mighty!

Weekend as a lock in

Didn't do much..

Cooked a delish cassoulete for dinner for the week. The use of a whole chicken will make it last for a week if not more...

discovered that there are limited funds in the bank... DAMN SEASON TICKETS.. it's tough, after a year at a job where you are paid $4000 less a year....than your previous job and with more expenses due to driving 22 one way five days a week..

soon i will be in Chicago, living off a per diem...
YEAH! note the sarcasm...

the pic is of Josh at our wedding (the Nif and mighty!)

I lied actually, made if out early saturday to have a lite lunch with Mella at Matchobx (yum)..... On my way back home I spied DC blogger Jimbo crossing the street in Chinatown....i only know him from the photos he posts, on his site, of himself.... can't say i have ever talked to him online or in reality.... of course it might not be him at all... and just some bearded dude that looks awfuly similar to the doode in the pictures on Jimbo's bloggggggggg

meeting of the striped shirt collective

All is well in Croatia!!

Been a while

here is a chicago deep dish pizza for you......
... and iggy...


and more iggy


thats a lot... can you handle it?

Practice what you TALK! JACK!

"The time is to stop talking and get things done!"
- Jack Evans, at the Stead Park announcement (as seen on the NBC 4 morning news cast 5/24/08)


TALK TALK TALK TALK O STREET MARKET TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK O STREET MARKET TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK O STREET MARKET TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK O STREET MARKET TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK O STREET MARKET TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK O STREET MARKET TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK O STREET MARKET TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK

How about the 9th Street Corridor?
SHot Spotter (editor's note: I don't agree with shot spotter, but if my neighbors feel safer with it in Shaw than I won't push for no shot spotter.)
O Street Market?

Name that stain!! The Hotel Edition...

These were found in one of the most expensive hotels in America, the Gaylord Opryland in Nashville, TN. Probably the worst hotel chain I have ever stayed in.

So I ask you my loyal NINjamonkey's, what is the stain?

Happy Birthday in Korean

Kim was Korean, straight from Korea. His english was limited, I'd find him some times downstairs with the Korean Moonie who ran the lobby shop. CHips, sodas, klondike bars, and my favorite Mike & Ike's. Just talking in Korean, both looking miserable and lonely, the shopkeeper always looking bored.........
Sharlleen was my direct super, Duke graduate, so we had North Carolina in common. She was younger than me but was not naive to the Bossman's ways. She tried to warn me as best she could:

"He doesn't understand technical terms, so when possible use technical sounding terms so as to confuse and silence him. You'll be set if you do."

The Bossman liked to be as spontaneaous as he thought he could, never plannning to leave at a certain time, meetings never planned, everything just as last minute as possible.

This one morning, a birthday morning, probably my second or third week there , he hatched a plan to help celebrate Sharlleen's birthday. This morning he called Kim and I to his office.

I think it would a good idea if we sing happy birthday to Sharlleen. In Korean!

After a few minutes of convincing KIm, using various tones of

"The song you sing on someone's birthday????!! on the day someone was born"

Questioning ourselves whether or not he understood what we were trying to say.........Kim taught us the song you sing to those on the anniversary of their birth. Then on the bosses lead we burst into Sharlleen's office, one over eager spontaneous guy, one confused Korean and one embarrassed new hire, singing a half assed version of Happy bIRTHDAY IN Korean..
Asweome..

some names have been changed to protect the unwilling participants!

Edited Madness

I posted a really ugly rant about out part time councilman (JACK EVANS if you didn't know works for a lobbyist), our ignorant neighbors, the idiot children and adults with guns and other stupid idiotic crap that infests our lovely neighborhood. Problem is, I was not in a proper state of mind....so when I awoke the next morning at 6 I immediately erased the post. My apologies to all those who thought they were going to read a post about jack evans other job as a whore's vulva.

Apologies!

HUH!!!??!?

What???

probably should have said it differently

to the deli counter guy "no need to pack it in, i only need a little meat with my tossed salad."

MC083534404

To whom it may concern:

I am submitting payment for this parking fine, not because I believe I am guilty of a violation but because I do not currently have the time, money or resources to fight such a ridiculous fine. I received this parking violation in the multi level public parking lot in downtown Bethesda.

On the night in question, my wife and I along with some friends planned to catch a movie and dinner. After submitting two hours worth of coins into the meter, after dinner at approximately 7:15, we ventured off to the theatre to view a 90 + minute movie (which started at 7:30). After the movie we decided to enjoy a few cocktails at one of Bethesda's many bars and restaurants, but before we did this I thought we should stop by the car to deposit more coins into the meter so as to avoid getting a parking violation. To my surprise when I arrived back at the car at approximately 9:25 there was already a ticket. Needless to say the idea of spending more money in a town or county that treated its guest with a $35 parking violation was not a priority. That night I wasn't in the mood to enjoy and celebrate Bethesda.
And as a person living on a budget, this was not $35 well spent.

My question to you is how do you expect people to celebrate and enjoy Bethesda through visiting its many movie theatres, restaurant and bars if you only allow them a ridiculously limited amount of time in which to enjoy Bethesda's many social venues? Especially when it comes to movies, these days movies run in excess of 2 hours. How are movie goers supposed to enjoy a movie if every two hours they have to leave to deposit coins in a parking garage that is 2 blocks away.

Please know that from now on I will do whatever it takes to ensure that my money, my wife's money and my friend's money is never spent in Montgomery County and especially Bethesda. Because Bethesda, Montgomery County hates visitors and those that spend money there!

Yours in Violation,

Ninjamonkey3000
MC083534404

The Lumberjack

We rarely if ever had meetings, when meetings happened they always divulged into tangents and anecdotes about subjects no one quite knew how to follow or understand. Rarely were meetings for everyone, but story time to help feed the teller's ego.

On this morning a meeting was called to address professional attire and tardiness. A few nameless colleagues (it was a small office so it wasnt hard to figure who) have
a) been regularly late to work and/or
b) not dressing professionally (read suit tie, or two steps up from business casual, or as we like to call it "bidness formal")

Minutes felt like hours as The Boss and my direct supervisor (live via teleconference) went on and on about the importance of dressing in professional attire and arriving on time. Knowing that this talking to was not directed at me I settled into a hazy dream world of "I DON'T CARE".

"No Jeans"

"No Sneakers"

"No Haltertops"

"When we say 9:00 AM, we don't mean 9:05 or 9:10"

Blah blah blah blah.............

Eventually the meeting was done and we all went onto do our respective tasks for the day......

The next day....

It was known around the office that The Boss liked to stay late and he liked the taste of alcohol, we weren't really sure if the staying late and the liking of the taste of alcohol were related but there was always alcohol in the office, be it in wine bottle form or mouth wash form (which is another story for another day). It was also easy to determine if the boss had stayed late the previous night because he always had bed head and usually was dressed in the same clothes or variation of the previous day's attire from the previous work day. So the next day after the "MEETING on professional attire" it was obvious that THE BOSS had stayed the night. Only on this occasion, accompanying his bedhead, he was dressed in a red and black flannel and a pair of jeans, that we later discovered he stored in filing cabinets,

Never again were we warned about attire.....

I almost don't want to say anything, but the coincidence is to fucking weird.

Image the luck. Driving to work and spotting another douchebag, what luck... I ask...what luck!
If you remember earlier in the week we saw propagandist Krauthammer driving and running over children. Or so we heard!!

Imagine my surprise when I saw conservative Robert Novak (not to be confused with Krauthammer's nëu-conversativism rock style!!). so weird 2 prominent propagandists in 2 days!!!
Propaganda is a good racket, as evident by Bobby's Corvette.

AN accident at the corner of 9th and Constitution kept Bob and I next to each other for a few seconds......So I documented....

To all residents of the DC environs, please for the sake of the children, keep a wide berth around Novak's busted up black corvette. It's condition was reminiscent of Dirk Diggler's Trans Am late in the movie, it had seen better days.


Don't say I didn't warn you!!

Where the hell have you been??......

...the blogsphere masses scream at me as I walk the streets of Mount Vernon Square (or as I like to call it, LOwer Shaw or as the "let's rewrite the past" crew calls it Convention Center Land).

well if you must know... I was let go from my place of employment a few weeks back, during this time of post and pre employment I spent my time drinking coffee and watching copius amounts of football games (that's soccer to you mouth breathers). SO yeah, I was let go from a job I extremely disliked (wasn't as though as I was upset when I found out on that thursday). SO anyway, before i was let go I was able to line up a couple of interviews,miracously I was hooked up with a company appropriate for my career choice. and a week after i was let go i accepted a position.

So now that I am gone from THE ASSOCIATION, I will attempt to unload some unbelivable but true stories....
Look forward to posts in the future with such titles as:
The Lumberjack
Happy Birthday In Korean
The New Hire is Fucking the Boss
The Death of Sushi or How Momma Killed The Parrott
The Hidden Reese's Peanut Butter Cup
Underwear!!!! The Filing Cabinet Horror
High Fives, THE INVENTION!!!
Methadone: The Accountant's Assistant!

Get off the Roads!!!!!! Douchebag Crippled Neocon Drives*

though you might not make it out, that is the douchebag neocon bastard Krauthammer. who I saw driving down L street this evening.

I was sure to manuever my car out of his way to ensure I wasn't sucked into a never ending hell based on lies, lies, lies, either that or a fender bender. A little further down the block I witnessed him run over a group of Palestinian and Iraqi children. Moments later I purposely ran over a hawk,.


*This might be offensive to those who like to wear their panties in a bunch!!!

Sad and Disappointed, YET SUPER HAPPY!!!

Numbers point to zero visits in the past few days!!!

:(

I guess crappy posts about a crappy councilman get the hits!!

So here is this!

Jack Evans not only is he a part time councilman, word on the street is he is also a part time lover....::::...::.::.

Ninjamonkey3000 commenters are like Jack Evans in a non election year!

Nonexistant!!

SO since no-one voted on which is the better song in my last entry, you will be subjected to videos from The Gladiators in mid 1970's Jamaica.

Enjoy!!!

Caribou

What's the better track off Caribou's Andorra??
Melody Day


or

She's The One



You Decide!!!
Comments Open NOW!!!!!!!