the spare (haiku)

its what you asked for
second chances dont come much
throw down the middle

Bush asks for a better idea (eight words)

How about we use....
The Ion Cannon?
Duh.

Phoning in the Win!

c-t2| |t2n3|b|r2 - 9
x- |n| | | - 0

Did anyone else notice?

was it Stalin who said that a death is a tragedy but a million deaths is a statistic?

So on the same day two things happened:

1. Bush criticized Iraq's Prime Minister on how Saddams execution was handled. He didnt like that they taunted him beforehand.

2. The UN released the statistic that 34,000 Iraqi Civilians died in Bush's Civil War in 2006 alone.

I sure hope they werent taunted first. Those people just dont have any values.

wrestling with sanity

the boys
Originally uploaded by steakbellie.

My 3 sons are athletic in that they play lots of sports. Even when they are not great, they participate and we keep them involved. Year round we are carting them to various practices for Baseball, Roller Hockey, Swimming, Football and my favorite...Wrestling.

Wrestling stretches from November to February and offers them a chance to exert themselves through the cold winter. During really cold winters I'm grateful that they can do anything.

For me its also a chance to connect with them. I wrestled through high school and now am a coach with their rec team....so heres the crazy part.

They've been wrestling for 6 years, and have wrestled a hundred matches each. I've seen every match, in fact I know the scores of each match and who they wrestled. Even crazier, I scored the matches in my pda as they happened, so I know exactly how each match went how many takedowns, escapes, nearfalls, reverses even escapes they've had. We've gone to tournaments and I've searched their opponents names:
"You wrestled him last year at x tournament, you were winning 6-2 but he pinned you in the 3rd with 18 seconds left."

My oldest now wrestles for the Middle School, and is having a GREAT year. He's winning, but thats not what I think is great....he's working hard and giving it a complete effort. There's a maturity about taking responsibility for your bouts and being prepared. It's a source of pride for me to see him like that.

It's also the first time I've been unable to go to his matches, and thats so heartbreaking for me. The schools matches are held right after school lets out, while I'm still at work. On match days my wife races from work to get there on time. She calls me on my cellphone during the match and calls out the action as I close my eyes and imagine I'm there. I still get to see him wrestle on Saturdays for the rec team.....yeah, thats where I'd rather be right now....

big surprise (eight words)

i'm bored
with me

let me
be you

and yet i cant tell the differences between my yesterdays and my todays

today someone was born
today someone died
today someone slept in
today i went to work

The Steakbellie and WingKong Wingbowl Movie

Below is video we shot for the WingBowl. I'm very proud of everything except the opening title scene. I had a much better one, but it's didnt render properly. At 4am I decided to scrap it and just go basic on the intro title. So that I could announce the video on the air this morning. It'll haunt me forever I'm sure.

Enjoy the rest though!


Here's a link to the YouTube page if you'd like to get the code to put this video on your own page:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0Zvo1-nNSE

I'll be on 610WIP AM Radio tomorrow morning at around 8am-ish

I expect to be making a special announcement!

TCB

My head is nearly full.

Another trainride to work, and I watch the other riders and count sylables to see if I can turn that experience into a Haiku. Usually 2 or 3 per day to come to the surface. Most never stay afloat long enough for me to record them. I wonder where they go?

I used to get painting like that. Whole finished paintings would come to me and ask to be made. I could see their dimensions, color, texture, and imagery. Its a long scary process, making a painting, and not the kind of thing that happens in one sitting. There are materials to buy and gather, drawings to make, colors to mix. Time too, lots of time to do it, let it dry, and do more. It's easy to lose the momentum and drop the whole thing. Life just got too busy and they stopped coming by so often, because word had gotten out what the answer would be. I still see them sometimes though.

The computer helped with alot of these images. It cut down on the need for material preparation, and drying time. (I miss the smell of Paint Thinner though, thats a wonderful smell) I can set so many of these free, but even now as the years go by, it's easy to find other things to fill my time. I'm sorry, I cant make you right now, go see somebody else.

I like the Haikus though. I can work on them anywhere, and if I can remember them for a few hours, they can be written and released. Forgotten. Sort of like a fisherman who catches fish, records their length and throws them back.

tada.

dragging today from lack of sleep and too too much to do. Had a 3:30 deadline and no direction and I just pulled a rabbit out of my hat (or ass) in the way that I used to have to do on a daily basis. In the last 15 minutes before it was due I had a brain storm and wowed the client with something thrown together....one of those creative moments when you finally see 'how it should be' and made it so very quickly.

that felt very good.

wonder how many rabbits are left up there?

keep moving forward.

No, I really am that crazy

Went back and revised the logo, even though its already on disk for the printer....could stand how the bottom type was curved and not skewed....maybe now I will be able to sleep?

I am a forty-seven and a half foot tall giant (haiku)

i see the sun first
mostly naked and bored
know any big chicks?

You're Doing a Heckava Job Bushie!

I just cant believe this guy.
He's sending over 20,000 more troops to Iraq...pretty much just letting the poor guys who are there, stay there and then having their replacements come early.

So if we add 20,000 to 130,000 we get.....

WE GET EXACTLY HOW MANY SOLDIERS WERE THERE LAST YEAR YOU MORON

The bipartisan Iraq Study Group spent months trying to find a way out of this, adding 20,000 troops and then sitting around and waiting for things to improve, was not one of them. Does anyone REALLY believe he takes responsibility for all of this? I mean other than just SAYING it? If he really felt bad he would have come up with something new or different to try ANYTHING. Our people are getting maimed. They are getting killed. They are losing the best part of their lives....and for what? What was worth it out of all of this?

How many times have we heard about 'Values' or 'Integrity' from his supporters during the elections. I still fail to see anything Moral or Good about this man. I dont believe he talks to God. I dont believe he's intellegent. He took our great country and put it out like a cigarette. 'Stay the Course' is for people who have no idea what else to do, and fired all the people who do.

You should read this Blog
While I am just passionate and lashing, he finds words.

details

It's Jan 10, and there is just more to do than time to do it. I've got a bunch of Freelance work coming in and that is really making some demands on my schedule. Some remaining WingBowl duties...

I finally finished the tshirt designs, but cant send them out til I deal with what sponsors need to be on the back.

I've got someone reserving a bus, but I need to make sure it's filled with people and paid for before the event. Need to make an expected guest list.

Afterparty details.

Design and then help build a float (probably this weekend)of unknown dimensions or theme for that matter.

Check on my enterauge's costumes and make sure they are outfitted the same

Look into getting a second bagpipper...Joe, you know anyone who'll do it for free, just to be in the enterauge? I think it would be super cool to have two of you guys out there.

try to find some spare tickets

finish editing the Steakbellie/WingKong promo movie and post it online...LOTS of work there

write press releases and send them out

and the most important, and least pleasant....train, train, train.....

gong

took my first non-beginner Kettlebell class today.

i wrote about them earlier...it's an aerobic/pilates class done with weights.

who the hell are these people who cripple me????? dont you know that i have a job and a family that I need to go home to? the beginner classes had me limping for 5 days or so, and i dread what todays toxic dose of lactic acid might bring.

i just unfolded myself out of the chair to get some water. perhaps a chair with wheels? i'll call it a wheelchair and i'll zoom about my life during my recovery....

ugh.

he dumb (eight words)

stay the course.
more of the same.
----------
DEAF???

The future is in doubt (eight words)

A-List Actors
will play
our parts,
but poorly.

oh yeah (eight words)

i had forgotten
that you died

stupid me

They had Carrots in their Pockets

They had Carrots in their Pockets
Originally uploaded by steakbellie.

See you hardons? We really are Cowboys.

YeeHaw.

off for a long weekend as a rodeo cowboy....

Shazam!

I feel really good today.

I finally got a decent sleep and i woke up this morning with lots of focus and energy. I ran to the train in my work clothes, not because i was late, because i couldnt walk. I'm cutting through all of the unfinished business on my desk without issue or paralysis. Even the easy stuff is easy today. Huh....

how to write a years worth of crap (eight words)

put one post
in front of
the other.

happy to you

Good Morning.

I wish all of you the strength to deal with the things you must deal with in the coming year. I hope to learn something in the next twelve months, but I am too stupid to know what I dont know.

At the end of 2005 I did a post reviewing my year by listing the first sentence typed of each month. It was interesting, so I will do it again.

January: possibly drunk, probably crazy, definatley hung-over, this is what i ate for breakfast on new years eve.

February:i finished training this past weekend, and so now I'm just trying to heal up for friday.

March:Boss: "Are you ok?"

April:Go sit in your favorite room of the house.

May:I didnt eat this weekend...just kinda didnt work out with baseball and everything else going on.

June:Please stand clear of doors

July:Tomorrows the dance and I have no ticket.

August:PetSmart: buying crickets

September:The hallway is dark.

October:This is a quick note, I know some of you are waiting to hear how things went.

November:For several months I've been working on an important software project.

December:I feel like complete crappy-crap-crap.....