When You Were Young

YOUNG vs OLD

"When you were Young" a line from one of the many songs from The Killers show Sunday is still ringing in my head...I'll get to the reason in a moment..Let me say by the grace of Alcohol and Ibuprofen The Killers show was very well done. While I honestly don't know the name of the opening act, they were all from Japan and sang Beatles covers..I really enjoyed them...Now... the real news

Prior to the show we had a large family gathering...29 people....and we ate and drank and enjoyed each others company..I went outside after eating and saw the under 2o somethings playing catch with the football...Now I can do that, said my stupid inner voice...I'm only 40 something..

I grabbed another 40 something and we challenged the under 21 somethings to a game of 2 hand touch..Now the 20 somethings started with the ball but we stopped them and while I felt good about that, the warning signs should have been apparent..They were not breathing heavy and my teammate said he ate too much and felt like he might puke...But we kept at it and while I did throw an interception maybe two plays later and watched the young one score...We did manage to tie it up.

It was then that my left foot decided not to play anymore. I mean this has happened to me before while painting my hand will cramp and say "I'd rather be holding a beer!" This time it was my foot saying "Hello we're going to a concert tonight, I'm leaving"

Fortunately for me when my hand cramps up I just use the other on to paint with. Unfortunately, when my Left Foot decides to quit, bad things happen...See picture below

Needless too say while The Killers were good, My foot is killing me and then there's the line to that song playing in my head!1

"when you were young......blah blah blah blah blah"

Killers Tonight

Going to see The Killers tonight, I'll have a review later in the week.



And here's a pic that someone sent me and well...It made me laugh in a dark a twisted kinda of way!

Yankees Suck

Yes we lead the Yankees by six games in the standings, but I wouldn't rush out and get any tattoos yet. Dice K only has one win so far and the Sox tend to deflate after the All-Star break. While this is NOT a sports blog, I had Post this picture of my good friend Mitch as he would have hit me with a bat...yeah that's what he said.

Fashion Sense

I go by a corner which must be a regular hangout for a group of kids. maybe 15-17 years old. There are a couple Black , a couple Hispanic and always 2 or 3 White kids. At least 2 or 3 times a week I find myself stopping to let one or two of them cross the street.

They have never waved a thank you, never smiled, and never hurry They just saunter across the street with the waist of their pants halfway down there ass, the crotch around their knees. And an oversized t-shirt which looks almost like a petticoat hanging down under their hooded sweatshirts , hoods up over their heads. These must be the boys of that hood.

I just don't understand the concept of wanting to have my pants only half on. So instead of condemning the style I went home and tried it out. Granted my pants are not as baggy as theirs, but I gave it a try, inside the house.

I let out the belt and slipped the pants down so the crotch was closer to my knees and the waist was now half way down my ass and then the phone rang. I went to pick it up and my pants fell down around my ankles. I did the shackle walk over to the phone and it was Alan Thicke calling about some time share he's selling..I hung up on the recorded message and went back to my fashion experiment.

I got my pants back where they were and concentrated on walking without losing them around my ankles again. I found that if I swung my hips and walked a bit slower I could actually keep them on. And that's when I understood the kids never smiling, waving or really anything but walking slowly. They were concentrating on keeping their pants on!! They didn't have time to smile never mind wave. Hell with the amount of concentration it takes to keep the pants on, I'll bet those kids didn't even see my car.

It was about then that I ended my experiment because I believe I have established that this is not some sort of fashion sense, but fashion nonsense.

What??

I'm working on a post and it's not quite ready...OK! As it wasn't ready I thought I'd share this picture I received in an email!! I wonder if CatWoman looks like that when she's having a bad day?

An this is a cool link, pick the pictures that represent your choices and get your Visual DNA/Profile

April 24th

Happy Birthday to my Brother-in-law Joe and family friend Arlene too..They were both born on the 24th, different years and in different places. They share their birthday with Barbara Streisand, Shirley MacLaine, Captain Sensible, Dino Radja, Chipper Jones, Kelly Clarkson, and Cedric the Entertainer to name a bunch.

1917, A Yankee pitcher, George Mogridge, no-hit the Red Sox and the Yankees won 2-1....what a silly no-hitter I mean the Sox still scored.. We swept the Yankee's 3 games to 0 over the weekend HAHAHAHAHA !!!!

MIT sends TV signal by satellite for 1st time: CA to MA , 1962..My parents have a dish on their roof now!

US tested a nuke in Nevada in 1963...Hey they did that on my birthday too!! Copy CAT!!

1968, U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R, April must be a good time to test Nukes!!

1969, Paul McCartney says their is no truth to rumors he is dead, no he lived to marry a 1 legged strumpet...ooops, probably wishes he was dead now!

1981, IBM-PC computer introduced ....they have come a long way since!

Lots more stuff happened on that day but the best things that happened of course were the births of Joe and Arlene because, well, I know them...so Happy Happy!!

Joe sometimes works for the Hideaway Team as a photographer, his last assignment was the free Jewel Concert in Boston. Hey that was back in February we have to get him back to work!

The Actor,Character and Line Game

Well I've made up a game it's honor system rules..I give you the Actor, their character and a line from the movie...You simply give me the name of the movies without looking them up elsewhere...Today I have 4 Movies, give me the Titles, you may want to write them down first because other comments may give the answers away..I don't want any cheating. I want your original responses..If you have the answers I'll come visit your website/blog..If you have a movie quote you can stump me with I'll visit your website/blog and attest to your obvious genius..Hell if you leave a comment I'll visit your damn website/blog!! Comments Here will absolutely increase traffic at your website.


Clint Eastwood as Will Munny : "You better bury Ned right! Better not go cuttin' up... nor otherwise harm no whores... or I'll come back and kill every one of you sons-o-bitches"

Jack Nicholson as Daryl Van Horn; "Do you think God knew what He was doing when He created woman? Huh? No shit. I really wanna know. Or do you think it was another one of His minor mistakes like tidal waves, earthquakes, FLOODS? You think women are like that? S'matter? You don't think God makes mistakes? Of course He does. We ALL make mistakes. Of course, when WE make mistakes they call it evil. When GOD makes mistakes, they call it... nature. So whaddya think? Women... a mistake... or DID HE DO IT TO US ON PURPOSE?"

Cary Elwes as Westley says to Buttercup: "There's a shortage of perfect breasts in this world. It would be a pity to damage yours."

And from the same movie Wallace Shawn as Vizzini: "INCONCEIVABLE !!"

John Lithgow as Lord John Whorfin: "Sealed with a curse as sharp as a knife. Doomed is your soul and damned is your life." So many quotes in this movie, when I saw him say this I burst out laughing. He was so Evil in a Dr. Evil sort of way

Darwin's Theory At Work

Have you ever heard the song Flagpole Sitta by Harvey Danger?, you can see the music video here, but why I mention the song is how the following line from it really sums up this post!

"Been around the world and found that only stupid people are breeding"

Well in the case of poor Marko, a 55 year old Croatian man, Harvey Danger was "balls on accurate," to borrow a line from My Cousin Vinny.

You have to be pretty stupid to believe that a Hand Grenade would be at all helpful in cleaning a chimney with the possibility of ever using it again, never mind finishing the job alive....Alas, Marko did try the largely unknown chimney cleaning grenade trick and now he's dead. He was as many who die such ridiculous deaths, given a Darwin Award !! If you haven't heard of this award you must check out their site. The Darwin Awards commemorate those who improve our gene pool by removing themselves from it and of course were named in honor of Charles Darwin, the father of evolution.

The fact that Marko lived to be 55 means he probably did reproduce. A sad state of affairs for mankind...Who knows his child might move to the US, get elected President, start looking for WMD's , start a war and oh....sorry this is not a political blog.....

I want to thank Choo Choo over at Stop Looking at Me for reminding me about all the stupid people out there (-:

If you haven't heard the song go back to the beginning of this post and go listen to it.