I thought hurricane season was over

11 02 2009

haha i love this line from P.Exp. (just made that abbrev up). I’m not gonna lie i thought about looking this up on youtube after i was watching a thing about Nostradamus today. It gave a bunch of evidence to how he and the Mayans predicted the world is gonna end in 2012. Hurricane Katrina was the first of a bunch of natural disasters that will lead to the end of the world.

Get your canned goods and head to the fallout shelters.





The Bro Bible

2 02 2009

Okay so here’s the deal: I got a job writing for a startup men’s blog called the Bro Bible. That doesn’t mean the end of this blog it just means that you’re going to have to check there for the really good stuff.

So go check that out, my pen name is CRobs and I’ll be writing about everything from sports to food to Heroes and Lost weekly reviews.





Why don’t rappers just rap

29 01 2009

Kanye wants to sing like Akon. Lil Wayne wants to be a rockstar. I’m all for people trying new shit but I don’t like when they devote a whole album to something that I’m not going to like. Kanye’s 808’s and Heartbreaks was stupid. “Heartless” has grown on me but I still would rather a sick K-west beat with a tight flow about bitches and hoes instead of sappy love songs with a synthesized kc and jojo feel.

This new song “Prom Queen” from Lil Wayne is out of the ordinary, he hasn’t done anything like it before. Not even the Kevin Rudolf song because at least he rapped on that. He’s going straight Kobain on us in this new joint. Weezy lost his marbles a while ago and I hope he finds them after he gets this album out of his system. The good thing though is that if he lives long enough I see him having a great concert career down the road. He made so many songs last year and then you throw this new different stuff into the mix where he’s playing a geetar and that makes for great performances. He will be kind of like the rap version of Dave Matthews. The way he has about a million songs and can make a different set every night, you never know what you’re going to get.

I put the live version because the man can perform, just as long as he shows up for the concert.

p.s.-i understand why they branch out, its because they are musicians and want to write music. Its just my personal opinion that they are both better rappers than they are doing the other stuff. I hope that they can both get back to their rapping someday, but I’m pretty sure Kanye is lost forever and is going to try a new genre every album from here on out.





Beer B4 Liquor

26 01 2009

Just wrote this paper as my first assignment for a class. Names have been removed because I wanted to so suck it:

The clock strikes five and a slew of rugby players pile into Hamden, Conn.’s Andale! Bar for happy hour. A round of beers is ordered along with some shots of tequila and not one of them thinks twice about which one they will be drinking first. The boys slug their beers, clink their shot glasses, and down the hatch. The kid with a pen and paper at the end of the bar asks, “What about that liquor before beer thing?” The rugby players proceed to laugh and order another round of both shots and beers.

Almost every college student has heard the phrase and most of them even learned it in high school. That phrase of course is, “Beer before liquor, you’ve never been sicker. Liquor before beer you’re in the clear.” This means that over the course of a night if a person drinks liquor before they consume beer they will not get sick, but if they do it the other way around they will turn green or even vomit. Some say it is a myth with no validity but others live their weekends by it and believe the mantra to be fact.

One hundred college-aged men and women were asked if they believed the statement to be true. Out of those questioned forty-seven felt that beer first makes you sick. Forty-three others thought that it is completely false. The ten remaining could not decide if it was true or not.

“It is definitely true” said Name Removed a junior Public Relations major at Quinnipiac University and a member of the rugby team. “If I start off the night drinking beer I get full and then when you throw the liquor into the stomach it gets crazy.”

Many other students said that it is not about drinking liquor before beer but about what kinds of liquor are mixed with each other. If someone is alternating between tequila and whiskey shots they have a very good chance of worshipping the porcelain god by the end of the night, regardless of if it came before or after the consumption of beer.

Doctors or professors would not give the right kind of analysis for this type of experiment so who is the best resource for this question? An experienced bartender has both experienced the situation on a personal level and watched people as they serve them. Name Removed is a bartender at REMOVED’s Steakhouse in Boston, Mass and has over ten years experience as a bartender in the city.

Bartender thinks that it is a case by case scenario and everyone’s stomach has different capacities for combinations of liquor. He says that he personally, “like(s) to drink liquor in the beginning of the night, such as shots and mixed drinks.” This way he can get a nice buzz going before the night starts and as the evening drags on, “I can chill with the beer and take my time drinking it.”

That is just his personal preference of approaching the beer and liquor situation. He thinks the saying is just myth and was made up by some college student a while back as an excuse to their weak stomach.

On Saturday night a group of three students were observed. The students were separated during their “pre-game” period before heading out to a bar. The first started off with a bottle of vodka by drinking mix drinks. The second used beers for his pregame. The third alternated with the vodka mix drinks and beers before heading out to the bar.

At the bar, the first two students switched respectively to beers and vodka drinks. The third kept alternating the drinks. By the end of the night the students were all quite intoxicated with the first two feeling good about themselves. The third participant was not so fortunate. He vomited upon his arrival to campus after stepping off of the campus shuttle.

This experiment along with student interviews and a bartender’s analysis leave the myth to individual interpretation. Some students can drink beer before liquor and others can reverse the order. When the drinks are alternated throughout the night a person is more likely to become ill.





Flavors of the Week 1.26.09

26 01 2009

islafisherBroad: Isla Fisher. I’m 99% sure she is the first ginger as a flavor of the week but dammit she is sexy. I remember seeing her in I Heart Huckabees and thinking she was really cute but I didn’t fall in love with her until Wedding Crashers. She is funny, she is beautiful, and she has the most important thing a women could ever have: an australian accent. She hides it in movies but I heard her in an interview one time and lets just say I couldn’t stand up for a few minutes afterwards.The fact that she’s 5′3″ is pretty adorable too.

Song: Jamie Foxx ft. T-Pain “Blame it”. I have come to really like Jamie Foxx’s music even though I still can’t take him seriously because he’s such a funny actor/comedian.

Movie: Notorious. I saw it this week and was very pleased. I’m not saying it was like the best movie of all time or anything but they did the story of Biggie Smalls justice. Lil Kim was dope, almost as hot as the real one. Jamal Woolard as Biggie was really good and I bought the performances and the mannerisms even though he didn’t look that much like Frankie White without sunglasses on. Boobie Miles as Puffy was really good, but once again without sunglasses didn’t really look like him, but he did the “puffy dance” better than anyone I’ve ever seen.

Complaint: This was like the worst Sunday ever because I was feelin kinda sundaaaaay but there was no football to be watched. I kinda forgot what its like after the bowl season ends, the nfl playoffs wind down, and theres just the big game left. I’m not gonna complain about the superbowl because it could be a pretty good game and both teams have playmakers that are fun to watch, but after that its just basketball (which I like but we don’t get celtics games here at school) and that sport they play on ice to watch until spring training starts.





UV exposure t-shirt

25 01 2009
Left=indoors. Right=outdoors.

Left=indoors. Right=outdoors.

Found this shirt called “secrets of the city” on threadless.com which has a cool little twist. The left part of the picture is what the shirt looks like indoors but when you go outdoors you reveal the “secrets” through using UV ink.
The shirt itself is kind of dumb but I like the idea behind it. There could definitely be some cool shirts using this ink and soon enough this shit should catch on. My first idea is a shirt that says “I HEART YOU” (3 columns, one word over the other picture an I <3 NY shirt but written out) indoors. Then you walk outside and the sun shines on it and an F comes out of the E, and the H gets covered up with a picture of a bum, ED appears after the T, and ON shows up before the YOU. So when you are outside it says “I FARTED ON YOU” hahaha, oh man that’s rich. Okay that was just the first thing that came to my head for some reason but I’ll think of a better idea eventually. I wonder where I can get my hands on this ink.





Cadbury Eyebrow commercial

25 01 2009

This video is a little weird but very funny. I saw it on Perez and “he” says its a commercial from England. I definitely believe that because these kids are way too pale and ugly for an American to have made it.





My Current Timewaster 1.22.09

22 01 2009

Achilles from AddictingGames.com is the game I’ve been playing instead of taking notes in class. Finals week was owned by bubble spinner but a new semester needs a new game and this one tickles my fancy quite nicely.

“Assassins hurt most. We are not afraid to die but scared to live.”

Brad Pitt's got nothing on this animated killer

Brad Pitt's got nothing on this animated killer

The reason I started playing it was because we were watching Troy and my roommate told me about this game he used to play where you walk around and just kill people with a sword and spears, so I immediately pulled out the laptop and got after it.

RLB Game Ratings
Playability: 9/10 no learning curve, you just walk and kill people
Graphics: 5/10 I don’t expect much from Addicting Games for graphics but they could definitely do much better.
Potential for addiction: 6/10 I’ve been much more addicted to other games.
Premise : 10/10
Total: 30/40

helentroyP.S. Diane Kruger (Helen of Troy) will be one of my wives someday. She’s so smart and sexy and beautiful in the National Treasures I just want her to tutor me and talk about history and shit.





Pearl Jam Misheard Lyrics

18 01 2009

If you’ve never seen this video its a treat. Its the Pearl Jam song Yellow Ledbetter where the lead singer just mumbles the whole time, nobody knows what he actually says. This video does a decent job of translating it and illustrating the song for us. I remember this being one of the first videos I ever saw on youtube but this is an updated version of that. My favorite part is “potato wave”.





Flavor of the Week 1.17.09

17 01 2009

Broad: 0815_hills_02Lauren “LC” Conrad. I’ve loved her ever since Laguna, I even liked her more than Kristin at the time (I took personality into consideration because they are both 10s but Kristin was a little bit more smokin). The Hills sucks and I can’t even watch 2 minutes of it but after seeing her on Bromance this week I fell back in love and want to find this girl and propose imediately.

Movie: Surfer, Dude with Matthew McConaughey. The world’s best surfer, Steve Addington, returns home to find his sponsors left him and all his money is gone. This shooby-suit who used to be a surfer tries to lure him into reality-tv and videogames but Add just wants to smoke weed and surf fuck all that other noise. Then there is a 2 month wave drought and shit hits the fan. Appearances by Woody Harrelson and Willie Nelson. The plot and dialogue sucks but its one of those movies that is so bad its funny and I’m probably gonna watch it a hundred times. Oh yeah, I think it went straight to DVD and I got it at BestBuy for 5 bucks the day it came out. Drinking game: drink everytime they say Dude or Brah…you’re gonna be effed up, brah.

Activity: Going back to school.

TV Show: Already mentioned it, Bromance, brah. Luke Verge reppin’ Malden Catholic to the fullest is going to take home the prize and if he doens’t then this show sucks…actually the show sucks anyways but he’s the only redeeming quality of it. LC asked him what kind of pickup line he would use at a bar and he says, “Wanna go halves?…on a baby?” the comedy isn’t in the joke, it was in his delivery and he nailed it and hopefully nailed LC right after.

Pumped for: The return of Lost. And I gotta go see the Biggie movie at some point.

Food: Billy’s Roast Beef, dude. I just had my first one of the break today and I’m a little mad at myself for waiting this long.

Song: Eminem is back. “Crack a Bottle” is another one of his songs that is going to be stuck in your head for weeks until it gets way too overplayed and you start to hate it. Plus it features the latest return of Dre and that gives me a good funny feeling in my tummy.