dang, i scratched my laptop screen!!

who's got new year's resolutions?

i have, courtesy of my mom, a three year all-club pass to 24-hour fitness. so guess what my new years resolutions for the next three years will be?

hopefully by the end of these three years, i'll have the body of a guy who looks like he's been at the gym for at least three years.

i also hope to eat better, all the time. maybe i'll start by reading fastfood nation, even though that's not really eating.

also, i'm gonna play hecka more video games, dammit. i've had my wii for a year now, and i haven't even beaten zelda yet!

and i'mma need a job hopefully by the end of february.

SO LET'S DO THIS THING!

goodbye 2007

there's a lot of things that happened in the past year, to me, but i don't really like talking too much about myself on this thing.
but at the same time, it's not like i wanna wrap up everything that has happened that i felt was pretty relevant, everything is relevant!

anyways, i love things that wrap up the year.

- sfgate has a day in pictures for the year.
- vh1's best year ever.
- all the sports channels usually have the top plays of the year, which is always pretty cool.
- ANNNNDD, skillz does his yearly rap up, here's one of my favorite lines from this year's song:

"soulja boy hit the scene
and i don't wanna see
YOUUU
doin that
unless
YOUUU
under eighteen"

you can check out that song at okayplayer.com
or the video at soveryfresh.com (nice name)

i must admit, i was pretty late to discovering what "crank dat" meant, and by the time i had hit the scene, i was like, that dance is kinna whack. but i grew attached, for like a day. now i'm ready to let it go.

what happened to dancing?
i remember being at a club, and i went up to these two girls, and was like, "is it ok if i dance with you two?" and first they were like "is that your game?" and i was like "game? why do i need game? i just wanna dance." but game is another story. anyways, after like 30 seconds of dancing, one girl was like "you wanna dance with her, she's the better dancer" and then the other girl starts doing these moves, like the ones you see in music videos. and i mean it look cool and all, but it don't even go with the song, and i'm like "oh is that dancing?" and they both laugh and about 2 and a half minutes later, they both leave.
what happened to dancing?

anyways, here's to another year.

word, mom

every year, all the little kids, and some big kids, would ask my mom why she doesn't buy a christmas tree for christmas. and why i knew they we stopped buying christmas trees awhile ago because she would get allergies with christmas trees, i always just wanted to tell folks to shut up and quit questioning my mom, dammit. but i knew better.

however, my mom is pretty religious, and she has a ceramic nativity set that she has taken good care of for awhile now, and she religiously puts this set out every christmas. and now when folks ask why she don't put up a tree, she just says "cuz i put out a nativity, and that's all you really need for Christmas."

word, mom. preach.

well i guess that's it

maybe i'm wrong

but going to college at berkeley (or any other college, i guess) is kinna like losing your virginity to a hooker (not that i've ever solicited one, but just stay with me for a second). i mean, for one, you're paying for something that you feel that if you tried hard enough, you could get for free (except without the degree). and you go into it on your own, intimidated, but excited, and not really knowing what you're doing. once you're in, you have to learn new things at a really fast pace, and have to improvise and learn how you like to do things, what works for you. once it's done, you're like "wow that was fast" and then you're spit out back into the real world, supposedly now, you're a real man, but you don't really feel like it. all you can say is "well i guess that's it"

wandbagon fans

i don't consider myself a bandwagon fan, but i also can't say that when a bay team loses, that i watch the game to the bitter end(unless i'm at the game). but seriously, it's not easy when you see your team on tilt during a game, you just wanna scream and throw stuff and run on the court and kick kobe/tom brady/alex smith/nate longshore in the face!!

i'm glad that this year, 2007, was when the warriors became the team in the bay to watch. cuz dang, ain't no other team around here to watch anymore, i have something to look forward to every couple of days.

a couple of thoughts on the lakers(106) vs. warriors(108 bitches!) game
- derek fischer deserves an oscar for some of the calls he gets. good thing he's made some incredibly clutch shots in his career, cuz i would hate to be known as a really good flop artist. even when he was a warrior i didn't like derek fischer, he never made those clutch shots for us! little punk.
- you have to live and die by the way steven jack plays.
- monta deserves more shine. sure it was baron that made all those clutch shots, but it was monta that kept them in the game with his hustle and consistent shooting.
- actually i take that back, i hope monta gets his shine on a bigger stage, like during the playoffs, so that he can be basketball's version of andruw jones, minus the overrated-ness.
- yes i said it. andruw jones is OVERRATED! i'm glad we got rowand, even though rowand made the last out of the allstar game.
- the bay area is a place where professional sports "media jerks" are loved. bonds, owens, davis, jackson, will clark anyone?