Agressive Retort!!!!

will be posted soon enough, man school and work, and catching up on said school (first 2 weeks worth) too much, but I will retort once I figure out what the fictional flynn manufacturing can claim as indirect manufacturing cost for the year 2017...

Wildly Nostalgic in Unexpected Ways

I hold that title to be self evident of the things currently firebombing my brain right now. Who are the thunderstorms for? People like me Ty, people like me.

NSFW

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You have been warned

I was just looking on the internet and I came across something that I need clarified. Can someone please tell me, what the fuck does UFC have to do with poker?! Why the fuck do I have to watch poker to get SPORTS SCORES on a fucking SPORTS CHANNEL?! Who the fuck made poker the national past time of the internet? Why the fuck are there "poker stars"? Why the fuck are they allowed to wear sunglasses? Isn't the whole fucking point of poker a person's ability to watch for tells and not reveal their own? This is the equivalent of putting a piece of plywood in front of a hockey net and saying, "Well we don't want the fucking puck going in do we?" I honestly don't understand why the fuck poker is on television! Why can't I watch a farm team hockey game instead of a fucking table game?! I'd rather watch Dubai Sport's camel racing then watch some fucking douche who looks like Jesus with sunglasses and a cowboy hat on stare at the dealer's cards for 3 hours. I can't go onto the internet without getting ads for some fucking poker site. I ask again, Isn't the whole fucking point of poker a person's ability to watch for tells and not reveal their own? Play fucking solitaire, it comes with your fucking computer! Fuck poker!

Who's the more foolish?...

Well my WARRIORS hockey sweater is on it's way to my bored little hands, I am in desperate need of Ultimate Fighting Championship or at least some Pride FC. Every time I see Pride FC I think it's a gay soccer team, am I the only one? Wrote my first story to appear in the news, and I did an editorial cartoon, I'm the first staff cartoonist the Sheridan Sun ever had. Reading books, playing Little Big Planet for PSP and hanging out with the kooky kids from my Journalism section. Bicycle has a flat, so even though there is no snow on the ground I'm relegated to places within walking distance. I can't wait to come back and do some more hiking. We need more pictures like this before we all get fat and slow with families and responsibilities... Just sayin'. Also publishing a book for my class, should be interesting. And yes, Ty mon frere I have things to discus next time I get a hold of you!

OK, next person's turn!

Right, Right now, in a province far, far away

We join our intrepid hero as he sits at home waiting for potential employers to call him. With only one more interview to go before he's working for Enterprise Rent-A-Car, he's nervouse and with the need to wear dress pants and shirts everyday, kinda reminds him of high school. Missing an xbox cable that yegway has to look for, getting sick of tv, pc and wii, he needs a job, something to do during the day before he starts setting fires to amuse himself. Plus not making any money while the girlfriend is employed is a bit of a kick to the junk, and not in the $500 a night kind of way. Trapped now on the Tantive IV by an imperial star destroyer, my only hope is that this message reaches you in time to get the death star plans to my father on Alderaan, or sending me goofy stuff on facebook or msn to keep busy and sane, or at least busy.

I guess thats what you call Karma

Just a touch of the homesickness, I guess it will really settle in when I am playing 360 alone for the millionth time.

Re: Re: Post

Food for thought

Re: Post

Ok, hardly visible in the background is a MOUNTAIN! King Mountain, October 25-30... discussions?

What is in store for this Friday

Just a little something I doodled today after work. I see Ninja Turtles involved with my last day of work plans somehow, Turtles in time? or possibly a marathon, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: Secret of the Ooze, TMNT movies?

When I Die Don't Make a Facebook Group

When I die please don't make a facebook group, don't plaster my profile wall with messages. I'm not going to get them, whats the point, I'll be dead! Don't put R.I.P. and then a flower icon on your MSN messenger name. I do not want an electronic footprint that I ever died. Wear an armband, go to my funeral, have a beer in my honour, but don't go bandwagoning with internet 2.0 forms of sincerity. Tell tales about my demise at the hands of the man eating ants from mars, about the time I boxed a kangaroo, or when I was listed as "super badass" in the credits of Point Break. Wait no! Make a facebook group when I die! Tell the stories of my life! Who says I didn't climb K2? are you really going to insult the memory of a dead person? And call it, Andrew MacDonald, a spark beyond time! James, I charge you with this, and if you don't do it I will haunt you for 4 score decades!

fantastic

My god,

lets go to new zealand for a few weeks...
screw work, screw school, screw winter 47 weeks of the year...

wake me up when we reach auchland

the first of last

The first day of assertion and all I feel is tired, everything today has gone well (with one exception in the form of a delicious rice crispy square). except for the extraordinary tiredness.

I would like to however reiterate the advice I was given yesterday from an unusual source; The father of a friend. "It's only money, and you'll have lots of worries and time to worry about them later." He thought I should leave and do something before I end up fifty and have kids and a mortgage.

I hope I'm intelligent enough to listen his wisdom

McK

10 in 125 for 25

I have compiled a list of ten things I would like to accomplish in my last 125 days in the first quarter century of my life. They are as follows
1- pray, meditate, or yogafy daily
2- get in scary shape
3- survive with out putting anything harmful in my body (thats a big tough ass list)
4- finally climb that damn mountain
5- take a photo a day
6- make a post a day
7- get in the habit of flossing daily
8- make plans to expand my current sphere through travel
9- fire the genocide gun with paco
10- give something thoughtful and beautiful to everyone I love

so tomorrow will mark day one in this process... lets hope its a good one

McK

Why the world needs Hemmingway!

Let Me Share With You a Story

I have never liked first wave feminism, the elementary level binary opposition of Man Bad, Woman Good that exists at the heart of a high school study of the subject should be embarrassing to any true educated feminist. Of course, this as a foreword to my tale could immediately turn some off. Well so be it.
Weeks ago now, my pals were sitting around a campfire, doing what over educated-under employed (or over educated-unemployed) people do--wax intellectually about mundane things. We are all readers, we began to discuss "great" books, and after one of them listed some "Only I have heard of them so they've gotta be good" titles I said, Old Man and the Sea. And you know what he said to me? "Hemmingway is rubbish." If there is one thing I can't stand, its English majors thinking they are English, I HATE when they use words not in common speech to appear superior. But I realized, his girlfriend there as well, is quite immersed in feminist literature, so my pal from high school is a bit different than his current post masters self. No problem in it, just not the answer I was hoping he'd say. I thought, then said, "Hey! We need Hemmingway! If not for his kick ass stories, then at least to man up our future sons!"

Part B: Cardigans Aren't Just for Hipsters

As I sit, weeks after the initial conversation with a glass of Jack Single Barrel in my left hand I have finally decided how to post. I don't fish often enough to say that I'm a fisher, I have never hunted, though, as I get older the yearning to conquer wild animals pulls stronger. I camp, but never off a designated camp site. I haven't been to Nam, or Korea, or Germany, I will never see "action" in the battlefield sense. And to that effect, neither has my father. But even my father hunted, fished and camped in the wild. Living where we do I have been offered a broader male, bildungsroman, as the Germans call it, than people living in larger cities.
Still as time trickles away and our fathers and grandfathers give up their guns because of paperwork, young kids get too freaked out about putting worms on fishing hooks (modern young fathers are no better), and the bears(or bugs, or whatever) keep fathers and sons from camping trips, where does the strong male role model come from? Males are subjected to pacification for so many reasons they can't be counted. There is nothing wrong with spending a weekend in the woods and giving a yell to hear your real voice, to know you are still alive. The Canadian Tire flyer, every week finds a new way to make some manly task less manly, portable camp kitchens, grippy, self locking wrenches, self inflating air mattresses.

III: The Fewer Blades on your Razor the Manlier

I admit my softness... well compared to a lumberjack. But I feel as part of the boy to man experience one must experience the conquering of something, and if not in the first person, as can rarely be done nowadays, then through a book, and no book captures the half grumpy grandfather you always wish you had better than Old Man and the Sea. Its not "rubbish" to me, its basically a blueprint to understand what being a manly man is all about.

UFC 100.5: Retracting Statements

4 out of 5 aint bad. I admit that possibly my picking of Bisping might have had something to do with the brutal way Pride fighters have injured each other since that company's founding. Unfortunately for the sport, which is slowly winning more acceptance, Hendo's second knock out hit, a flying forearm smash to the chin of an out cold laboured breathing Bisping sent the event, which was supposed to garner new fans straight back to the brutal roots that it has climbed from. Henderson admitting that he knew he was out was the least classy thing of the night... that is... until Dumptruck opened his mouth. Lesnar, giving the finger to the fans pretty much solidified zero growth in fanbase from the event. Someone should put a collar on that dog before he insults the center ring sponser... oh wait that happened too, well Joe, now would be a good time to take the mike away from him before anything racey happens -- oh, good he's going home to have sex with his wife, drunk on coors light. And now we all know.

GSP Fights, and wins with a pulled groin! Thiago Alves proved to have quite a bit of power, still the considerable reach advantage of GSP kept the fight from being a knock out night. Georges proved that superior skill in all martial arts trumps a one trick pony everytime. In his post fight GSP was very gracious for the oppertunity to fight on the 100 card as well he said that Alves was a challenging opponent and that GSP lost his first fight over Hughes but learned from the fight and in their second meeting won, and that "who knows" about Alves' progression over the next few years. Leave it to the Canadien to put a classy spin on a fight bookended by 2 brutal displays of historic UFC brutality.

My Picks

Well UFC 100 is tomorrow night and my Tapout shorts are wrinkle free and my Extreme Couture shirt freshly washed. Though I have never done it before I'm posting my picks before hand, so I can tell how wrong I was.

Yoshihiro Akiyama vs Alan Belcher

going with the odds on this one, I really am not too familliar with either


Michael Bisping vs Dan Henderson

I think Henderson has taken one too many in the melon and bisping needs it to become more than the guy to get through to get to the top.


Jon Fitch vs Paulo Thiago

I think fitch has a shot to stop Thiago's streak... but he's been rocked pretty hard the last couple years.


Frank Mir vs Brock Lesnar

Frank looks in the best shape of his life, he has trained very hard for the battle but I am sure Brock has been doing his JuJitsu homework and the last thing he is going to want is to be embarrased the same way again.


Thiago Alves vs Georges St. Pierre

Thiago may be a roid monkey with a lot of power but GSP is pound for pound the best god damn fighter on earth and a student of true mixed martial arts. And he's the Canadian (or Canadien) boy

p.s. noone wants to watch Mark Coleman fight, Dana, so please stop putting him on cards

From June of 6 years ago...

I have started to work out cleaning my room and in procrastination I started to look through the highschool yearbook. I can't say I've changed that much. I would like to share a couple things however.

Tyler
NN: Doug
BKF: Jerk (being one?)
AMB: Hibernian to a Champions League cup
PD: World's Dirtiest old man
FE: What? You can't back that
BM: Haunted Tacos and Christmas Trees
PP: Arsenal fans jerks
LW: I got a little game here called connect 4, the Dougler

C Nev
NN: Neveu, Velcro, Jarvis, Christophero Sly
AMB: Forensic Science
FE: Its all semantics
BM: Michigan road trips, Haunted taco bell & Christmas Tree
LW: Don't take life too seriously, you'll never get out alive.

Jimi James
NN: Squirmy, Segway, Yegway, Joe Speed, Squiggy's Brother
BKF: Vast Vocabulary
AMB: World Domination
PD: the mague (? morgue maybe?)
FE: For unbenched reasons, I'd like to hit up some of that.
BM: Little's antics with JP and JL
PP: Shoulder slings and ditches, idle death threats and stub arms
LW: As I leave these hallowed halls for the last time and my friends spread to the winds, know this... you are the forge that has moulded me and I am forever indebted to you, I will look back on these days with softness in my heart and a fondness in my head. I bid you adieu.

Andymac
NN: Andymac
BKF: Sandals in cold weather
AMB: Superhero / Couchmonster
PD: Sidekick / Couchmonster
FE: Most excellent, bogus
BM: Mr Santana's History class
PP: People who chew ice
LW: I know what the meaning of life is!

I still know what the meaning of life, though I still cant find anyone to listen! We all ended up with university degreesand still we are the same four guys. Pretty good if you ask me! And finally on the back page of my yearbook is something that is still relavent as we drift into the mundane minutae of 20something life.

I would just like to say
todays been one of those days
this weeks been one of those weeks
this year has been one of those years
so why stop rocking?
- Tyler Plaunt

One Week

This is my stolen picture tribute to our 4 celebrity deaths this week, may they rest where they rest... you get my drift

Blockbusted

Chances are when I get out of school, for the umteenth time, I won't be reviewing films or flims for the New Yorker, New York Times, LA Times or any other of the countless higher brow periodicals, But if only I were. As in music, there is not just one style of film, and these styles must be addressed by someone fluent in their presentation. I dont need the narrow minded view of a God fearing goofball from some christian science review telling me not to see I Love You Man because it is "offensive on all levels". In that same sense I don't need some quasi feminist from the New York Times telling me my summer blockbuster prefers "action over introspection"

Well I could have told you that! Its a summer blockbuster after all! Holy Hell. Its not No Country for Old Men , or Gran Tourino! Its Transformers 2! The way I figure it, the summer is really just starting, so as celebration you go and light some fireworks, but why spend $50 on 20 minutes of fireworks when you could spend $10 on 2.5 hours of em!? Just as chick flicks and buddy movies are not put through the same high brow filter that an "oscar hopeful" must meet, so too summer blockbusters dont deserve criticism from people who have obviously made up their minds before even stepping into the movie. Not every movie needs an Oscar to do what it set out to accomplish.

Jaws - Rubber shark plagues Amity Island for 2 hours (kicks ass)

Terminator 2 - GOOD terminator travels through time to protect JC from another BAD terminator, who's arms become hooks (kicks ass)

Jurassic Park - genetically engineered dinosaurs go nuts when the power goes out and eat people (super kick ass)

Transformers 2 is definately far from these films, hell I wasn't impressed with it for the most part, but I got what I paid for, giant ass robots kicking the bolts out of each other, Megan Fox and another explosion loaded FLIM. Cheers for the fireworks to kick off the summer!

2.5 stars

touch this!!!

15 staples, and 3 cell phone photos... man I'm dumb, but I told Goo and the the cute nurse he works with that it was all Flatmates fault for possessing said chair as part of an evil plot to ruin my gorgeous looks forever