– For young men, it’s a nice ass. The really observant will see the thong.
– For older men, it is a respectable woman with a nice ass crossing the street.
– The perverts will imagine her as a naked woman.
– Wise men will ponder the presence of the photographer in the face of such beauty & thank him for sharing it.

– For half of the women, she’s an ordinary woman who should not have left home dressed that way.
– The other half is wondering where she bought that blouse.
– The wise women imagine the misery that she will feel at the age of 50.
– Children, monks, & the curious will probably notice a dog driving the taxi…Don’t be alarmed, I didn’t see the dog either.

On a Friday Night, Steve and I went to his brother’s house to watch the Phillies game 5. This was the final game of the series at Citizens Bank Park and it was our best pitcher, Halladay, vs their best pitcher in Chris Carpenter. Without going into to much detail, the Cardinals won the game 1-0 with a run in the first. The Phillies bats failed to show up in the most important game of the season. I see my news feed on Facebook light up with people criticizing the players but anyone who does that is a fair weather fan. I even see people who watch every game burning Ryan Howard at the cross for coming up lame in the series and I just think it’s really clueless because without his 116 RBI’s during the season, we wouldn’t be here. ANYWAY, Me, Ed, Steve and Lauren (and some friends) watched the game together. The McGrath’s and I have a really good rapport and it’s a fun atmosphere to watch the game. The most fascinating part of the night, that only I would find fascinating, is when I saw a painting on the wall of their apt. It was a picture of Pee Wee Herman painted by Ed’s gf, Beckee, and it is very well done. I posed the question how much would you sell this painting for? I started with 100 bucks which she sort of balked at and then I raised the offer to $250. I don’t know if she would sell it for that much but she was considering it. This is a painting which you said was “the most time I ever spent on a painting.” Money is only an object. Money won’t pay you for your time put into that painting. So you put your hours into this work and you’d be willing to sell it to some schmoe like me? Yes it’s Pee Wee Herman and probably only has a monetary value to some but there is no way that this piece of work has any more value to anyone else but you. Money only blurs the focus of its value.

Whatever television program I was watching had this commercial airing often enough to make me think about what was happening. Two rival ships prepare to square off in battle and for some reason a 1 and a half off the plank by Captain Morgan causes everyone to be friends. Now I assume the marketing department is trying to make you think that Captain Morgan is so cool that he helps you get along with everyone for a good time, thus the captain being a symbol of the alcoholic drink. That’s not exactly what it made me think. I was curious how the two rival sides could so quickly become friends. I know if I was on the boat, I wouldn’t be so quick to trust the other side. I would constantly have my guard up because that could be the plan of Captain Morgan’s crew. Maybe once he gains their trust he’s going to slice everyone’s throat with his scimitar. This made me try to put this in modern times and how difficult it is to trust other people without really knowing them. How long does it take for you to really know a person before you’d trust them with your life? 1 month? 1 year? Never? I know these aren’t barbaric times like the Captain Morgan commercial but it just struck me as funny how the pirates could immediately become friends knowing that they could turn on you in an instant. This was a stretch, I know, but I started writing and at this point I’m not deleting it.

This clever title was thought of by me while sitting on the bench of last night’s basketball game. JKash, Bud and I were yucking it up and I don’t remember how it exactly came up but I think we were talking about how some people get stuck using the same phrases (I’ve written about this previously) on a daily basis and then I said the word phase and this title popped up. JKash told us how he has some co-worker who uses the phrase “quite frankly” too often and I told him how his brother describes everything as “ridiculous.” I got a text message from Jkash this afternoon telling me how I didn’t write about anything from last night so here it is.

We had a Bball game at 9:15 that started at 9:30 because of the other team’s tardiness. We had to laugh as one of their players was there before 9:15 and was shooting around in his slippers and was the last person to take the floor at 9:30 once his teammates arrived. It was an unusual game that we ended up winning by 15 or so but there weren’t many fouls called and with 3 minutes left the ref threatened to stop the came if there was anymore complaining. JKash was found mocking their biggest player, at least 6-5, with a laugh like “what the hell is wrong with you.” He looked over at the smash and I’m pretty sure muttered a death threat under his breath. Another funny thing was when CK4 faked a pass and Bud and I had a good laugh thinking that was the most ineffective fake possible, no one could ever fall for a fake pass from Chad. JKash also called me a shmohawk for mailing in rent checks and couldn’t believe I didn’t have it set up through PNC to do it for me. It never really PM Dawned on me to do so. This was sort of a lackluster entry but I wrote JKash about 5 times and he swears to me “the people” love JKash. I questioned who the people were and he assured me they are out there. This one’s for you people.

I see you are linking different pages in your posts which is good. HOWEVER, you aren’t clicking the little box that says open in a new window when you are making it a hyperlink. I can’t tell you how frustrating it is when I click on your link, get taken to the next page, watch your information, close the page as a natural habit and then freak out because I have to revisit your page. Yes, people notice this. I put this as a close second to unwanted ads in front of videos I want to watch. I am starting to hate ESPN, Youtube and Failblog. I can’t stand getting excited to watch a video this very instant only for it to be 30 seconds of ads. I know ads are everywhere and it’s not possible to live in a world without them. Even this blog has succumbed to the allure of making money, unsuccessfully of course. While we’re on the subject of Sam’s blog, your categorization really needs some work. I’m not saying mines great but try moving your categories from the right nav bar to the top (like mine). Sort of thins the page, makes things easier to navigate and almost gives the page some organization. With a 3rd blog added to our blogroll, I’m sure it’s just a matter of time before people start realizing our ingenuity behind these blogs. If anyone else maintains any sort of website, I’m happy to add it to mine as long as it’s somewhat mediocre. I find writing to Sam indirectly through my blog seems to have some effect as he did what I told him to do on the last post.

This is the last time I remind everyone that there is a link on my blog (in the blogroll) to Jeff and Nicole’s blog. They have now landed in New Zealand and I assume they should have some interesting things to write about. I hope this won’t decimate all my traffic because I write about Chubb insurance and they write about living on a fascinating land no one knows anything about. I told Jeff to keep in touch by email but I suspect that will be a thing where he writes something a week from now. Then it’s a month. Then it’s never again. Hopefully the update of their blog will keep them in touch. I would like to see Sam link to their site and then all of our sites link together but I know this is asking a lot. It’s really not but I know when either of them read this, it will almost force them into doing it. Indirectly telling people to do things is usually less confrontational.