Things happening on the beach.
Mar 7 2006
Don’t forget to watch MTV’s 8th & Ocean tonight!!
And, of course, keep an eye out for a fat brown guy walking down the sidewalk on 11th and Collins. That would be ME!
Oh, and look for Raul and the rest of the District Lab crew too. I think Tracie Wright went there and they filmed her.
Mar 4 2006
zOMGz this is so amazing!!
As you may or may not know, Blink 182 is one of my favorite bands. I had it really bad for them in 2001, when I saw them 8 times, in 4 different states (Florida, New York, Washington and Oklahoma)! According to my last.fm account, they are my top artist by a mile. I’m sure you get my point.
Well, last night I was half asleep and trying to find some episodes of Miami Ink to download for Chad. I think I did a search for “Miami Ink” at mininova.org and I found this little gem. I grabbed the torrent without paying too much attention to it, assuming it was audio and it would sound pretty crappy, as most bootleg live recordings sound. Then tonight I was trying to find the episodes of Miami Ink I had downloaded, and I realized that the Blink show was actually video!
How cool is it to find video of a concert you went to nearly 6 years ago, on the innernets!? Hey, that was the night I got my lip pierced too!
I’m gonna go watch it now. I hope I see myself! I remember me and Adam didn’t have tickets/passes to get on the floor, but we snuck in anyways. Adam lost his shoe in the pit somewhere. It was such an awesome night!
Mar 2 2006
South Beach is done. Actually, it was done last week, but I was too lazy to type about it. Eight episodes down, and I am moist with anticipation to hear if there will be a 2nd season, and beyond. I hope so. Was I the only person that liked this show?
Never fear! 8th and Ocean is here! Just 5 more days until the premiere of MTV’s 8th & Ocean! 
WHAT? You can’t wait that long?? Well, head on over to MTV’s Overdrive where you can catch a 4 or something minute long preview of the new show. Oh, but Mac users beware… Windoze lusers only!
And since I was too lazy/not clever enough to come up with a new graphic centered around ME, I decided to revive this old one!
Can you believe I’ve been waiting more than 4 months for this show to start? It seems like just yesterday when I was signing my release form!
Mar 2 2006
Does it make me cheap if I buy bottles of soda from a vending machine at the laundry mat around the corner instead of buying them at the corner market, because I can save $0.38 on each one? That’s 38%! That’s better than buy 3 get one free! That probably doesn’t make me too cheap, does it?
Ok, what if I consistently walk 3 blocks to use the ATM at the Bank of America on 9th and Washington instead of paying a surcharge (or whatever) of $3+ to use on of the many ATMs closer to my home? Does THAT make me cheap? I just really have a problem with paying that much money for convenience. Especially when I’ll probably be spending the money I get out of the ATM at the business it is located at.
Here’s the goocher… Does it make me cheap if after getting cash out of an ATM at the bank, I keep walking past the corner market to buy a bottle of soda at the laundry mat?
Ok, maybe I AM a little cheap, but… I just can’t afford not to be. I mean, if I have no cash on me, and I go to the corner market to buy ONE bottle of soda, it would cost me $4.38 (including the ATM fee)! $4.38 for 20 ounces of Wild Cherry Pepsi? I don’t think so.
Another benefit of walking to the bank is picking up a slice of pizza at Pizza Rustica! When I worked at Lazerland, across the street from Rustica, I would get slices from there like every other day! I’ve tried every kind of pizza they have, and some that aren’t even on the menu! Matter of fact, my very first post to nofuckinaround.com was somewhat about Pizza Rustica.
I don’t care if I’m cheap! I’m eating kick-ass pizza for dinner and you’re not!
Feb 16 2006
This video of Al Roker and Matt Lauer attempting to double luge made me LOL! (Try this if the link doesn’t work.)
I saw this thing drive by and I was like LOL WHAT!!?? I live right around the corner from there and If I had been walking to work when that picture was taken, I would have been in the background.
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I’m bored.
Feb 9 2006
+100 ePoints if you can remember where I was 2 months ago today (well, yesterday, I guess. I mean the 8th!). Here is a pretty good hint!
This picture was taken at about 6:30 this morning.
+1000 ePoints if you can name the guy on the left! (hint: That’s a real Disco jersey!!)
+5000 ePoints if you know who the guy in the middle is! (hint: he sent me the picture)
+10,000 ePoints if you can name the guy on the right. (even I don’t know who he is)
Tonight I had dinner at Big Pink (zOMG twice in 10 or something days!!) with 5 girls! I missed South Beach, but I got it on tivo. I think I’ll go watch it right now.
Jan 30 2006
I stayed up Saturday night because I knew I wouldn’t be able to wake up in time to cheer Jean on as she ran by in the ING Miami half-marathon Sunday morning. When I actually hit Ocean Drive there were zillions of people already there and it would have been the ultimate game of Frogger to get across the street to the place where I said I would be. So, I sat on the curb on the corner of 11th and Ocean and took some pictures of strangers. I never even saw Jean.
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Jan 24 2006
Is it ok for me to call homeless people “bums”? Because I’m working on something that I think will be marginally neat, but I don’t want it to be offensive, and I would lose all interest in it if I can’t call them bums.
I took these pictures yesterday from my desk at work.
Jan 22 2006
According to this post, I live one block over from the “Highway to Hell”! Who knew?
zOMG I THINK I FOUND MY DREAM BIKE!!!
Too bad Florida is so flat. I’d look like a jackass riding that thing anywhere around here.
Also, last night’s Supercross from Anaheim is on CBS at 1 PM!
Jan 21 2006
I woke up this morning and I was instantly bored. I checked the innernets, but it was too early for fresh content, and I had stayed up too late reading everything I had missed during the week. I thought about walking over to the beach, but it wasn’t enticing enough for me to leave my abode. Everyone with snow and ice on the ground is like OMG I would kill to be on the beach right now!!!, but not me.
I think the beach is pretty boring. I suppose it’s ok if you go with friends, but to go alone is just too mellow for me. And when you’re a local, especially an expatriate from Central Washington State, there are certain perils that come with visiting South Beach that a person might not think of. Allow me to indulge…
People tend to show a lot of skin on South Beach and that’s one of the properties that makes it so great. If you feel like seeing bare boobies, you walk over to the beach, and there you go. But this is where problems can arise. Say you’re walking along the beach, minding your own business, not even trying to look at boobs, and all of a sudden you hear “Christian! CHRISTIAN!!!” and you’re like, “What? Is someone calling me??” and you look around to see one of your friends jogging over to meet you at the water’s edge. You talk with your friend for a minute or two and they invite you back to their spot on the beach to hang out for a bit. You oblige, being that you have nothing better to do, and then you’re introduced to your friend’s new girlfriend. And that’s when you realize that she’s topless and you’re very thankful you spent the extra $10 for mirrored lenses on your sunglasses!
OR WORSE…! Imagine bumping into your boss/doctor/mail man/banker/professor/member of the clergy/whoever and they’re topless or wearing a Speedo! TALK ABOUT AWKWARD!!
Now, I’m sure that my upbringing has something to do with my prudeness and such, but I’m sure I’m not the only person who finds it hard to keep the same level of respect for a person once you’ve seen them in such a state of undress.
Anyways, I didn’t go to the beach this morning, so here are 3 pictures I took on the beach on January 1st.
Mar 8 2006
They’re here!!
Did you notice? Have you seen them?? I’m sure you have, but if not, you soon will because…
IT’S SPRING BREAK 2K6!!11eleventy-one!
Oh, yes! My favorite time of year!! From this last weekend until Memorial Day Weekend I will be on a mission to stank as many hos as I can. Oh, wait… No, that’s not really true. But I will be trying to attend as many bikini/wet t-shirt contests as I can for the next 3 months!
After that, I try to stay inside as much as I can because it’s too dang hot out for a fat lazy guy like me.
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