Wot, no Super Lager?

No one has written in a while, we are busy as hell. I do not find this shocking.

But lately I have found a lot of things shocking, and now you have to hear about them.

1) Ken Griffey Jr. is about to hit the 600 home run milestone and nobody cares.
- WHY??? Where is the outrage?? Ken Griffey Jr. is the greatest player that never was. If he didn't spend most of the years after 2000 severely injured, this guy would probably be past 700 right now and would potentially staring down 800. On top of that, the guy's got over 2500 hits and over 1700 RBI, and if you just look at him you know he did it without the juice. As someone said, "first guy in 35 years to hit 600 home runs and do it without drugs." To the 38 year old man once known as, "The Kid" - I will be watching, and I will be applauding. I played little league during the years when Jr. was tearing it up and making a name for himself - and wearing his hat backward and always smiling. We thought it was so cool and we all tried to emulate him - he bought Nintendos on the road and just had a blast. We all looked up to him. I got mad when he said he'd never play for the Yankees because of how they treated his father. But you know what, could for him - a man of morals, and that's what baseball needs: a man of morals with 600 home runs. I tip my cap to you.

2) "Watchmen" - how did I not read this sooner?
- Seriously?? What the hell?? Was I trapped under a rock for the first 25 years of my life? I am outraged, OUTRAGED that I did not read this sooner. This is the single greatest collection of comics I've ever read and is on par with much of the literature I have ever read. No wonder it's ranked in Time's Top 100 novels since 1923. It's incredible, and even if you don't like comics, read it, because you're missing out. I feel like there are so many layers to this that maybe after four readings I'll have it 80% sussed out. But on this first reading, I'm trying not to burn through it in a matter of days.

3) "Tales of Brave Ulysses" is the greatest song that I almost never hear on the radio.
- This is one of Cream's gems, in my opinion maybe their best song, but I feel like I hardly ever hear this song on the radio, and maybe that's the beauty of it. But listen to it if you haven't, because seriously, you are going to be bitch-slapped with brilliance. You want to hear the Odyssey in three minutes in trippy music? Listen to it, and write a paper on it for your Lit 101 class and impress the girl who sits across from you with the blond hair and the nice smile. Ask her if she'd like to come over to hear the song sometime, tell her it's rocks when you listen to it with candles on and a glass of wine in your hand...but if you're in college you'll probably turn on a black light and give her an Old Milwaukee...so take my advice, or don't, and remain her, "good friend." The choice is yours.

4) The sheer brilliance of Arrested Development
- This show is amazing, and doesn't need my endorsement for more people to realize this. But I'm working on a scene right now where we're attacking Twelfth Night as characters from Arrested Development, so I'm watching a lot of it lately. The actors are all perfect, PERFECT. I don't believe the show could work with anyone other than those actors cast in those roles. I haven't even seen anyone able to impersonate the job Michael Cera does on that show. We can mimic some of the other people, but I believe there is no substitute for most, if not all of these guys.

5) (Added later in the day, which was the purpose of the post...) America, as a country, hasn't discovered Super Lager.
- WHY??? THIS is outrageous. Super Lager is a lager made by the Tennent's Brewing Company of Scotland, it tastes a little like PBR, only with a little bit more of a syrupy quality, and it's 9% alcohol. You do the math. It's two beers in one, in a 500ml can, so really it's 3 beers in one. Drink two, it's a party. We have crappy equivalents in the states - Steel Reserve, Old English High Gravity, but come on, I'd easily pay 4 bucks for a can of Super over here...be aware Tennent's, and send that shit over.

Ok, 4 (5) things really isn't "a lot" - but I'm sure there are more, and I'll post them as they come to me. That or I'll be shocked by the amount of hyperbolic statements I make.

-Jobimoto out

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