James's Journal

10/03/2007 13:20 #41472

The Most Disgusting Food Gift Ever
Category: food

Hi,

You know how you get a song in your head, in this case Last Dance With Mary Jane by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, and then you read a little on wikipedia then 30 minutes later you have followed a giant trail of vaguely related items and find yourself reading about sausage casing?

Well, that happened just now. And check out what treasure was unearthed

That is right! From a large distributor you can order sausage casing in the shape of a beer bottle! And this isn't a skimpy little sausage. Oh no, this is 1 1/4 pounds of summer sausage fun my friend.

Think of the hilarity as you whip this bad boy out on your next fishing trip. All your friends will be pawing for a bit of your beer bottle sausage. Hey there fellers, there is more than enough sausage to go around!

Order yours now from the mouthwateringly named Mid-Western Research and Supply Inc.

jbeatty - 10/03/07 23:18
I don't know about most disgusting ever. I think those hickory farms gift packs may be ahead if it.

fellyconnelly - 10/03/07 21:40
you make my mouth water.

jason - 10/03/07 14:50
Oh man, I get sucked into Wiki-surfing alll the time. The other day I started off somewhere, who knows where, and ended up looking up info on King Ludwig III of Bavaria and the German Emperor Wilhelm II. Eventually that led to information about Audrey Hepburn. Damn you, Wikipedia!!

10/02/2007 12:01 #41452

The Big Disapointment
Category: buffalo

Ya, the big, big, big, big news is out.

We made it on the top ten list after all. I am happy for Buffalo, but after all that hype I wouldn't have been happy with anything short of a five-story H&M

Here is the Buffalo News story.

Yup, that's the big, big, big, big news.

Which reminds me...

I will never tire of that song or video.

james - 10/02/07 23:05
except so much more awesome!

fellyconnelly - 10/02/07 22:57
this is like that annoying gerbil hamster song that used to waft from cubicle to cubicle.

james - 10/02/07 19:15
oh ya, they did a lot of work (I think, at least) and deserve credit. But after the hooopla, mixed with the fact that this was a national news story days before, really made me think it would be something... better.

If I just found the news story and we didn't have this secretive press conference I would have been really happy about the whole situation. Instead I feel a little left out in the rain.

dcoffee - 10/02/07 19:09
That was my thought too. Maybe I just don't know jack about the APA, there must be a lot of neighborhoods in the country, millions I guess, it's a definite honor to be in the top ten. They must have been super excited to create all this hoopla, and they deserve some praise for their hard work. But I did expect something different. Do we get any Cash for that honor?

10/02/2007 11:35 #41448

Big Buffalo News
Category: buffalo

UGH!

It has been an hour since the big ass Buffalo news was unveiled at Glove market by the Elmwood Association.

yet, why can't I find any info about this? This was supposed to be HUGE frickin news. But, go to the Elmwood Village Association web site there isn't a bit of news. The last news entry is from January...

I have gone to other sites looking for some info

Buffalo Rising
Buffalo News
WBFO
Craig's List
Buffalo Geek
Buffalo Pundit
All Things Buffalo
All Thing Jennifer

nothing

ugh! Did we just get on some stupid top ten list or is something big actually happening? A little moral booster isn't big news, it is nice fuzzy news that makes us feel good for a little while when outsides make fun of us for living in Buffalo.

joshua - 10/02/07 12:35
Eh, I can understand why EVA would have such a hard-on - its a marketing tool.

zobar - 10/02/07 11:57
Sorry, guys, Top Ten is all it is. Bizarrely, the press conference is/was supposed to be in front of the now-vacant New World Record.

- Z

james - 10/02/07 11:54
ya, i have been checking the comments on BR all morning. (Have I mentioned my job is ridiculous and mindless?) The Top Ten looks like it is it, but I am holding out for something more substantial.

jenks - 10/02/07 11:41
Sadly james, you are right. I googled it, and found an article in Buffalo Rising from yesterday- but nothing newer. But in the comments to the BR article they give it away, and yes, it's just a top ten list. Hopefully we're wrong, and it really WILL be the amazing most wonderful thing ever that they are billing it as.

BR article: :::link:::

The big news: :::link:::
(buffalo is at the end where they list the "other nine")

james - 10/02/07 11:41
updates on my frustration finding out what the fuck happened every hour on the half hour.

joshua - 10/02/07 11:38
So much for "big" news. Ha!

10/01/2007 20:17 #41441

A Private Matter
Category: politics

There is a private discussion involving an online hit job around here.

It made me think about my favorite such hit job online that is amazingly NSFW.

It was also a great coincidence that the target of said hit job, former senator Rick "god hates fags, jews, liberals, and uh people that don't vote for me and oh by the way I LOVE my family in a profound way that you mere human could never begin to comprehend" Santorum may be running for Governor of PA next time around.

Check him out,
Rick Santorum

just a hint now of what to do.

jenks - 10/03/07 22:46
hehe, I just clicked the link. Oops! double-post! sorry! I assumed it was a REAL political website.

james - 10/02/07 11:48
jenks: the linked site is the one that started it all

Joshua: I don't mind one bit good sir. And congrats on Halo. If you see an exploded bit of torso that is me.

joshua - 10/02/07 11:46
Oh, BTW - we just got Halo 3. Fortunately for me, college is over so I don't have projects to interrupt the carnage.

joshua - 10/02/07 11:43
I know that James; I was having a little cheeky fun at the expense of Santorum anyway. I didn't think you'd mind!

jenks - 10/02/07 10:43
does anyone remember that bit a couple years ago- that "Santorum" is the word for the frothy shit/lube mixture created during vigorous anal sex? that is ALL I can ever think when I hear his name.

james - 10/02/07 10:21
paul: I was protecting something....

Jason: oraganic? chicken wings taste better when they are hormone injected ^_~

Joshua: The hint was not for Santorum. It was for the squatter.

joshua - 10/02/07 09:55
You fucking vote for him, thats what you do!

Wow that site was a tad off the deep end.

jason - 10/02/07 07:47
Lol. I hear that, I hear that. Remind me not to piss you guys off, or if I do, stop by with a bag of organic goodies.

paul - 10/02/07 00:27
No clickyness, I was just suggesting knocking off the squatter and (e:james) was trying to protect my reputation as an upstanding citizen, lol.

james - 10/02/07 00:17
It was a conversation outside of estrip involving non-estrip people. I just didn't feel comfortable mentioning specifics because I was unsure if i had permission to. estrip is still one big happy family.

Sadly there isn't a politician lined up to get it. Conservative or liberal doesn't come into it, douche-baggery is the target. If anything worth sharing with the class comes of it you can count on it being posted here.

jason - 10/01/07 23:58
Fantastic. So what arch-conservative politician in WNY is going to get it? And why are there cliques on e-strip???

Anyhow, really funny site.

09/29/2007 20:31 #41408

Bideo Games

What fun,

I have two tests on Monday and a ten page paper due. That material isn't difficult and I should do well. And that is a big problem.

Unless I am into the material or find it challenging I can't care. I have had this essay for three weeks now but it is just busy work, so I naturally put it off to the weekend before. I will do a good job, but I have so struggle to stay focused.

That is how I get things done, by making an assignment challenging, by putting dozens of roadblocks in my way. Right now I am listening to a new album by one of my favorite bands. Piano, two guitar lines, some flutes, and three part vocal harmony demands that I listen to is closely.

Then, just to make things easier, I go out and get a new video game, Halo 3. Oh lord! All that running around and shooting things until their explodey death. Great fun. Today I wanted to write six pages, and in my five hours of work time today I have a page banged out. The distraction is great, a black hole in the living room sucking all energy and matter towards it.

This can only mean that I will have to double up my efforts tomorrow.

OH crap! I have another paper due tuesday for a book I have only read a quarter of. Sounds like I need something really distracting to get me through this; like an uncomfortable genital piercing, or a new pet cockatiel.

now if you will excuse me, I need to bathe in digital gore.

fellyconnelly - 09/30/07 09:57
when i read the title of your post all i could think of is a child with a cold and a flair for the dramatic asking to stay home from school so he could play halo3.

tinypliny - 09/29/07 21:52
Welcome to the ODES club! Where its fun to dodge into the 13th hour.

(O.bsessive D.eadline E.scapism S.yndrome)