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Published: April 16th 2009
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El Pibe
Pibe is the most famous Colombian soccer player ever. Obvious per the enormous statue with particular care paid to his hair, he is quite famous in his hometown of Santa Marta. I’ve been kind of scared that salmonella peanut butter might have made it’s way down to Colombia, and due to a gross deficiency in health standards, organization and concern for human life might not have been properly recalled. Then after extensive research (Wikipedia search) I find out all salmonella does is cause typhoid fever, which I’m super immune to.* Do you think people who are immune can get those recalled jars of PB on discount? Tangent: the genus Salmonella was named after Daniel Elmer Salmon, an American veterinary pathologist. While Theobald Smith was the actual discoverer of the bacteria, Salmon was the administrator of the USDA research program and thus the organism was named after him. Administrator taking all the credit. The man, at it again. I’m going to call it Smithella from now on. Can you have a tangent when you don’t have a clear line of thought? Whatever. I’m kind of foot dragging walker which most noticeably manifests itself in my being a frequent tripper/stumbler. At this point in my life I’ve tripped so many times that I don’t even get embarrassed when I do it in front of large groups of people, but maaaan do I still find
Gravy and Biscuits
If it weren't 115 degrees everyday I'd grow that thing forever and never look back. it hilarious when I see other people trip. I still remember with great joy seeing this lady bite it while waiting for the bus at SMS. Just tipped over and hit the deck, it was hilarious. She was probably a bit embarrassed but certainly not equivalent to how great it was for me. So joy at watching other people fall down is a good thing, someone should enjoy it. Plus every time you see someone fall down and laugh a Keebler Elf is born = more cookies. When grading papers I always put the rere students first because otherwise I’m grading the whole time dreading when I come upon them in the stack. I don’t know him, but I kind of feel like Eric Clapton sucks as a person. They say the same thing about George Brett though and I don’t buy it. I had two mothers from the school tell me that as a 32 year old teacher I should start dating 11th graders. When I displayed dismay and told them that was 32 and a teacher they both nodded their heads as if that affirmed my eligible bachelor status. Ridiculous. Time to move somewhere a little less retarded
Medellin
Checking out a fake colonial town that's now more of a theme park. I think. I recently beat the golf pro at the course we play at in a one hole bet. He gave me a stroke and I ended up beating him straight up with my first actual par in about five years. Better to be lucky than good I guess. I saw that Worlds of Fun is up for sale. I’m thinking of buying it, closing it to the public and living there. Maybe having mysteries. Josh’s nickname (from the students) is Mr. Monocue (spelling?), the name of a famous FARC rebel commander. It also translates into Mr. Monkey Panties . My patented One Child Left Behind policy is going as planned. I’m not going to say that the most probable candidate could be cast in the film Time Bandits but maybe that’s who it is. If anyone cares to look at my building on Google Earth it’s at like 11*11’55.90 N with 74*13’41.89W. Or something like that. We went to Medellin recently, my 3rd trip and the 1st time I’ve done anything touristy. It’s a great city, very well organized, low crime rate (contrary to its outdated international reputation, much lower than most big US cities), really nice people, metered
Medellin Botanical Gardens
I never figured out what the things were for. taxis. All in all it was a nice respite from the constant sketchiness of the coast. They even had a metro whose door nearly crushed the head of Maria Jose, a fellow teacher who came with us. She looked like the anti-mutant senator in the X-Men movie pushing his head through the cell window bars as Adam and I wrested the door open and pulled her to safety inside. Saw some art galleries, had food we can’t get here, and went to what is supposedly the largest aquarium in Latin America, opened some three months ago. Remember that one time when we were in Anatomy at Longview Community College and we took the anatomical dummy apart and then laughed uncontrollably when we couldn’t get the body back together and finally used tape to hold in the poorly arranged organs? You probably don’t remember that if you weren’t there which really narrows down the possible identifying audience. We have a didactic game at school called Spill Your Guts which is very similar to that dummy and it pretty much happened again. Neither Shannon nor the professor thought we were very funny. I guess we had a lot of growing up to
Kansas Chicken
The owner, like everyone else in the world, is probably a KU fan. do. I’ve recently realized that my contact lenses offer me UV protection that the super lame “sighted” portion of the earth doesn’t get without sunglasses. And I was thinking of getting lazik, I’m like a super hero with these things. I can’t wait until the next solar eclipse to give them a test run.
Seriously rad,
~T (to the A to the R to the D)
This month’s great Spanish saying: When something is messed up - Que cagada y media! What a shit and a half! It’s the visualization of a pile and then someone adding a half that makes this so amusing to me.
This month’s terrible movie: The punisher movie is actually worse than the first one which employs the talented Dolph Lundgren. It’s such a piece of crap I can’t fathom how it is the first movie released by Marvel Knights, Marvel’s new adult comic film production company. Titanic-esque maiden voyage.
This month’s great song:Play your Part (pt. 1) by Girl Talk. Any song that mixes “Let my love open the door” Lil’ Wayne, Walk it out, and Twisted Sister’s We’re not Gonna Take it is bound to be awesome. a
Monkey Panties
I don't know why the kids think he looks like a rebel commander. This month’s great Youtube video: Link stolen from Miss(ed) RowRow’s blog.
Hey, what’s Beard’s real name? ~ Adam Kostecki, referring to Tim Healy, code name Beard.
Son, my mustache is older than you. ~ Part of an imagined conversation between an angry old man and a soldier who was telling him to move his car as he blocked traffic.
*I realize it’s a
little more complicated than that and also think my immunization may have expired.
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