Friday, February 22, 2013

Carlos Ruiz DC United El Pescadito


Did Seal Team Six miss?
Did DC United pick the wrong Guatemalan?
IS Osama bin Laden really that fit?
Is Carlos Ruiz no longer fat, slow and all elbowy?
Was Osama hiding in Guatemala all this time?
Do they have caves in Guatemala?
Do they have fish in Pakistan?
Is United Al-Qaeda of MLS?
Will Barra Brava have to endure IEDs on their walk to RFK?
Are the Screaming Eagles the Red Cross/Red Crescent of Lot 8?


2013 season for DC United is sure to be interesting.

Friday, January 04, 2013

Ive started dealing with my fat

Walking which will lead to running.
Running will lead to cycling.
Eating less will lead to eating healthy.

A show was dropped and a smaller show was picked up.  The client likes me. I dislike my work. Always have. Not to be confused with my job or employer.  Its my output silly. I feel inferior and not fully trained... but i fake it. I sell it.  I mumble through it and put in the hours.

Ive recently taken to wearing a Tom's of Maine deodorant that is and could be  considered manly all due to the shape of the container in which the deodorant is dispensed. I like Tom's of Maine.  Just not the lemongrass scented deodorant.  During kidney failure i unfortunately used a Tom's of Maine scented with lemongrass and it made my armpits itchy and uncomfortable.  Thinking, at the time, my organ failure caused this horrible reaction if uncomfortableness. I now realize that i simply have a mild allergy to either lemongrass or another ingredient.

Its late and cold.  I will sleep now and hold my complaints for another day.

Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Organ

I want to be known for more than just my failed organs

Thursday, December 13, 2012

I'm Canadian

I recently visited with my Uncle Jack!

Uncle Jack and I have a special bond.  We have both had kidney transplants.  His happened 26 or 27 years ago (kidneys generally only last 11 years in TODAY'S medicine, so the life of his kidney is nothing short of a miracle).  Mine happened a year and a half ago.

We rarely see each other, but when we do conversations are always turn to our medications, complications, hospital stays and "clean living" (his secret for being so healthy).

Uncle Jack was so excited about our last meeting that he told my mother how proud he was of me and how I have been dealing with the family kidney 'issue'.  Our kidney issues are hereditary. As patriarch of the Hope family, he provided me with documentation/family records that proved my great grandfather, his grandfather, immigrated to the US from Canada. Quebec to be exact.

Amazing! Now I know why I love poutine and it was only natural that I have always been drawn to all things Canadian.


(Additionally, via the same family records, I learned that my great uncle lost his life in the Cocoanut Grove fire of 1942.. I'll save this story for another blog post)

Wednesday, December 12, 2012

December 12, 1912: STOP THE MOTHERFUCKING MADNESS!

Were they freaking out on 12/12/12 back in the twentieth century?
Motherfuckers be freaking out on the social medias and in the real worlds today.  What's up with that?

What's up with the fact that its 12/12/12 and the baby whales be dying up in here?  WHat's up with that?

Why are Kirk and Spock and Bones and that Scottish Doode (James Bond) not fixing this problem, yo?  Where's their invisible bird of prey, yo??/  They need to be thinking about the crazy baby whales that are getting eaten by the Japanese and Fijians and shit.  Bring them peoples noodles and stuff.  Maybe even those lychee candies that tastes good.  Lychee candies gotta be better than whale meat.  I heards that whale breast milk is the consistency of cottage cheese.  how is that shit healthy?  I guarantee the whale meeat is all fatty....


Where's Bjork?  And would she be freaking out back in 1912, singing her whale songs? DOODE, WHAT'S UP WITH THAT?

Bjork!! STOP THE MOTHER FUCKING MADNESS, YO!

TMI:  At 12:12:12 on 12/12/12 I was holding my junk as I had to use the restroom. WHAT'S UP WITH THAT? YO!

Thursday, November 15, 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?

Friday, September 28, 2012

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.

Thursday, September 13, 2012

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

Friday, August 10, 2012

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

Thursday, August 09, 2012

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!!!!

Monday, July 23, 2012

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!!

Friday, July 20, 2012

El Jefe

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

Thoughts?
do you know who it is?