Chris Pontius Midfielder Robbed COMEBACK PLAYER OF THE YEAR

Comeback Player of the Year 2012

dc uNITED disMEMBermeNT pLAN oh my!~!! @thedplan @dcunited

So the D-Plan (Dismemberment Plan), who you might know from such works as Ice of Boston




or
my personal favorites: Back and Forth http://youtu.be/RLUXXuSzXXM
&
8 1/2 Minutes http://youtu.be/HkpbogdXbWw

wrote a nice article on WHY DC UNITED IS GOING TO WIN THIS WEEKEND.

The D Plan also used a picture of a display I did with the Screaming Eagles in that article.

Oh how great it is to be in DC at this time.

Vamos United!


To honor both DC UNITED and THE DISMEMBERMENT PLAN, I hastily created the below IDEA for a banner, thoughts?

THings you find on the internets, MLS related

New York Red Bulls are the Joke of MLS since 1996

I've always thought this, always will.

Languishing

Languishing in the fall days of eternity.
Longing for trees and dirt below my feet.
Leave the asphalt of my failures behind while I run run run.
Climbing towards victory, ever upward onward and beyond.

Pic of the day

Found at an antique store in Fredricksburg, Va

Beat I am, rest is need before winter arrives

I hallucinated, I think, last night... after running around chasing a ball for 50 minutes.  I got it in my head that my sweat smelled of pee.   Paranoia... yes.  the kidney transplant always has me going in that direction.  before the transplant my breathe and sweat occasionally smelled of pee... symptoms of kidney failure, the doctors told me . as the toxins in my body needed releasing and thier scent was urine smelling.

But yes 50 minutes of chasing a ball, colliding into Russian speakers and occasionally being beamed by laser rifles fired soccer balls does tend to make an elder like myself  occasionally tire ed, occasionally

the work day has been lost

my feet not hurting but tired from pounding on the faux turf covered concrete

eyes heavy

face warm

Fall is near, rest is need prior to long winter's night that fast approaches

preparations need to be made as this winter will be long and never ending

Di Vaio

I've spent the morning designing a banner for Club Echa Panza, that I am more than likely to make, for a game where there is only .5% chance of me traveling to.

Supposedly a player from Montreal, let's call him Di Vaio has been accused of match fixing in his native Italy.  This player now plays in the MLS for Montreal as a designated player.

After doing some quick research, it appears that Di Vaio was acquitted of all wrong doing: http://sports.yahoo.com/news/montreal-striker-di-vaio-acquitted-085800163--mls.html

I will still go ahead with the EVER SO POLITE banner that makes reference to Di Vaio's match fixing scandal or Scommessopoli.

UPDATE (10:07am): No butthurt fuckers will need to go to Steve Zack or his equivalent at Montreal to complain.  

UPDATE (10:29am): scommessopoli is such a stupid word and looks stupid on a mock up of a banner

S'il vous plaît ne soyez pas mal bout à bout

Going for the Gold!

I am not one for national teams.  But here ya go!

In honor of the USA v Japan Gold Medal match in soccer today, August 9, 2012 (same date the US dropped the atomic on Nagasaki).  I give you the above.

Fixed the poster to not be so bigoted and added something for the ladies!

Vamos USA!!!!

Donkey

Propane and grilling accessories

Stopped in the highlands of Maryland, I saw a propane sign at a fancy gas station rest stop. With my super duper MS Paint skills, I created this!!

El Jefe

New Idea for tifosi or possible a wheat glue poster.  First for a non footballer

Thoughts?
do you know who it is?

Knifes

I went to Ecuador and ate Guinea Pig

Cuy, or Guinea Pig, is a delightfully tastie critter.  To me it reminded me of what a greasy turkey would taste like.  Some say pig/pork, but I never got that taste.  The cheeks and head meat were the tastiest.  I stopped at eating the eyeballs, not due to how disgusting the thought was, but because once I started chewing on the critters teeth it made me think a bit to much about what I was eating.  Try chewing on teeth.

But yeah, Guinea Pig is tastie!

Ecuador also has llamas. Lot of llamas.

 While at first thought, llamas might be cool... being they are so foreign to anything in our cultural recollection, but really... they don't anything.. they eat, graze, chew cud and glare at you as though you might be the devil. BORING animals if I may say. I invited several llamas to spit (as they are prone to do) but none could be bothered. ASSHOLES!!

Ecuador also has a hard on for Che!

His image is EVERYWHERE.
On trucks, on motorbikes, on the side of buildings, on bars and tourist trinkets. I saw more images of Che than Jesus.  But saw far more Virgin Marys than Che and Jesus combined.

What's with the poodle fixation?

Dogs are loved in Ecuador, even though they may be dirty and look as though they are homeless. Dogs of all varieties are loved.  Poodles probably the most loved.  In the middle of nowhere, on the road to the Amazon, we found a gaggle of poodles romping about a roadside sugarcane juice stand. Side note: oddly enough most dogs that are pets know English or at least the command SIT! Either that or dogs are dumb and sit at the first 'command' a human gives.

DC UNITED HOMEMADE DUCK PROPAGANDA (regarding cheezy poofs)

Morning made

Big dog being pulled by bike. Ok day it is only 7:45, how can you top it?

Life was simple back when I used to listed to Unrest and drink coffee all day

Sigh

I am old, broken and mostly lazy lately.
Where have I gone , when did I destroy myself.
A disappointment to all those that matter.

I lack eloquence, the ability to self edit and I run my mouth when I should listen.

Sigh

I guess its Monday!

Unrest and coffee.

Now I have both, yet nothing is fixed.

Self loathing.

I think I need a vacation.

Bathsalts and Root Beer

THERE WILL BE FLAGS [or there will be blood ;)]

Vamos United! 

#pooponthedoop

#DCU

I worked in this building 2004 -2008

Found the above picture at  http://ghostsofdc.org/2012/05/24/midget-cop-julius-daranyi-1924/.  The picture was taken at 14th and G.  Great read about old DC.

In the background can be seen 1333 H Street, NW. (top right)

I worked on the 7th floor.

There I worked with the man who claimed to have invented the high five, enjoyed mouth was as a beverage and secretly stashed Reese's Peanutbutter Cups around the office.  Also worked with the bird lover, who took her bird everywhere.

Those were some good times!