Month: April 2012

High 5 for 05.01.12: Me Tarzan, you Jane

Posted by – April 30, 2012

Tarzan and Jane.

FIVE THINGS I LIKE:
1. Blue golf shirts.
2. Old “Tarzan” movies.
3. Heavyweight boxing fights in the 1970s.
4. Barbecued ribs.
5. Those little chocolate donuts Hostess makes.

FOUND ON FACEBOOK: “Go big or go home!”

OVERRATED: Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.

UNDERRATED: Rebecka Maas.

FIVER THINGS I DON’T LIKE:
1. Paper torn from wire notebooks.
2. The Sopranos.
3. Louie.
4. The Waltons.
5. Mobwives.

High 5 for 04.30.12: Love those calendars

Posted by – April 29, 2012

FIVE THINGS I LIKE:
1. Salty pretzels.
2. Ruffles potato chips, baked or otherwise.
3. Desktop calendars.
4. Radio rolls from Underbrink’s Bakery.
5. Mr. Goodbars.

FOUND ON FACEBOOK: “I really wanna learn how to smoke meat. ”

OVERRATED: Barnaby Jones.

UNDERRATED: Angus T. Jones.

FIVE THINGS I DON’T LIKE:
1. Seagulls.
2. Crazy Olympic events that only European countries know anything about. (Can anyone say “biathlon?”)
3. Ashes the family dog getting nervous every time it rains.
4. Ashes the family dog getting nervous every time it thunders.
5. Ashes the family dog going absolutely nuts every time there is lightning.

High 5 for 04.29.12: Move over, NASCAR

Posted by – April 28, 2012

Supercross -- yay, NASCAR -- nay

FIVE THINGS I LIKE:
1. Jeff Gordon. (Yo, Jeff, could you find Victory Lane again sometime this century?)
2. Peppermint chewing gum.
3. The name “Ella.”
4. 60 months, no interest.
5. Hoodies.

FOUND ON FACEBOOK: “The Tribe is in first place btw. Bring the noise!”

OVERRATED: NASCAR. (Our favorite sport needs a major overhaul. The boredom is awful.)

UNDERRATED: Supercross.

FIVE THINGS I DON’T LIKE:
1. Day three of the NFL draft.
2. The number “77.”
3. The color brown.
4. Dancing With The Stars
5. The Voice.

High 5 for 04.28.12: Empty them, just empty them

Posted by – April 28, 2012

RGIII

FIVE THINGS I LIKE:
– RGIII
– The new college football proposal for a “Final Four.”
– Beef tacos.
– Shrimp fajitas.
– The San Diego Padres’ new road uniforms.

FOUND ON FACEBOOK: “Well hello you sinfully declicious double bacon cheeseburger.”

OVERRATED: ESPN coverage of the NFL Draft.

UNDERRATED: NFL Network coverage of the NFL Draft.

FIVE THINGS I DON’T LIKE:
– Overflowing wastebaskets. (Empty them!)
– Post-Its
– The Cleveland Browns’ front office.
– Tebow bashing.
– Ventriloquists who move heir lips.

High 5 for 04.27.12: Shirts optional?

Posted by – April 26, 2012

FIVE THINGS I LIKE:
1. Riding with the windows rolled down. (Preferably in the summer.)
2. Walk-in closets.
3. Watching Ashes, the family dog, sleep on her oversized pillow. (The occasional nightmares are always hilarious.)
4. Button-down collars.
4. The number “29.”

FOUND ON FACEBOOK: “Wondering if I’m missing out here. Not once have I ever had a job where shirts were optional.”

OVERRATED: David Archer.

UNDERRATED: Mallory Archer, director of ISIS on Archer.

FIVE THINGS I DON’T LIKE:
1. Four-way stops.
2. Yield signs.
3. Getting the flu in the spring.
4. Vomiting at any point in the year.
5. Filling out surveys.

High 5 for 04.26.12: Black and white? You can have it

Posted by – April 25, 2012

Jack Twyman, an NBA star in the 1960s.

FIVE THINGS I LIKE:
1. The sound of the ball snapping a basketball net on a three-point field goal.
2. The NBA in the 1960s.
3. Faded Glory jeans from Walmart.
4. Uniball gel pens.
5. Palomino horses.

FOUND ON FACEBOOK: “Holy crap I didn’t know there was a softball league just chics! How cool is that?”

OVERRATED: Tom Selleck.

UNDERRATED: Tom Scott.

FIVE THINGS I DON’T LIKE:
1. The nickname “Chipper.”
2. Black-and-white movies, TV shows, etc. (No, it’s not artsy, it’s boring.)
3. Waiting for the trailer for the new James Bond film.
4. The name Luigi.
5. Any commercial Charles Barkley is in.

High 5 for 04.25.12: Pam Poovey, underrated no more

Posted by – April 24, 2012

Pam Poovey

FIVE THINGS I LIKE:
1. Coconut jelly beans.
2. Coconut on hot fudge sundaes.
3. Coconut on just about anything from the ice cream, fruit and Jell-o families.
4. Coconut right out of the bag.
5. Coconut on shrimp.

FOUND ON FACEBOOK: “You couldn’t handle me even if I came with instructions.”

OVERRATED: Pam Dawber.

UNDERRATED: Pam Poovey, human resources director at ISIS on Archer.

FIVE THINGS I DON’T LIKE:
1. Dripping pizza grease on another shirt.
2. The cheese on pizza that begins to harden after about a 30 minutes.
3. Pizza without any meat.
4. Taco pizzas.
5. Pizza with too much sauce.

High 5 for 04.24.12: Love those blue jerseys

Posted by – April 23, 2012

FIVE THINGS I LIKE:
1. Madison Bumgarner.
2. Tim Lincecum.
3. The Cleveland Indians’ blue jerseys.
4. “Friday On My Mind,” by the Easybeats.
5. Pre-computerized Strat-O-Matic baseball.

FOUND ON FACEBOOK: “The Monster Energy girls are smokin’ tonight.”

OVERRATED: Justin Bieber.

UNDERRATED: Justin Upton.

FIVE THINGS I DON’T LIKE:
1. Cleaning out the gutters.
2. Lukewarm pizza.
3. The number “14.”
4. The name “Duane.”
5. Mayan predictions.

High 5 for 04.23.12: It was (and is) a terrible show

Posted by – April 22, 2012

FIVE THINGS I LIKE:
1. “Call me rock god.”
2. Samuel L. Jackson.
3. The number “19.”
4. Sandra Bullock.
5. Bratwurst.

FOUND ON FACEBOOK: “Feels like it’s been ages since I’ve got to watch some good dirt flinging and I was on such a roll.”

OVERRATED: Jessica Simpson

UNDERRATED: Jessica Sanchez

FIVE THINGS I DON’T LIKE:
1. Sunday night rainouts at Quincy Raceways.
2. The Killing
3. Spring football games.
4. 0.5mm mechanical pencils.
5. That 70s Show.

High 5 for 04.22.12: Freestyle walk? Me, too

Posted by – April 22, 2012

FIVE THINGS I LIKE, by Jamie Adam:
1. Movies about Vikings.
2. Stupid YouTube videos
3. The guy on Chopped
4. “Mr. Clean” cleaning supplies
5. Shrimp

FOUND ON FACEBOOK: “I don’t trip. I freestyle walk.”

OVERRATED:  SyFy (Channel).

UNDERRATED: WiFi.

Five things I don’t like, by Jamie Adam:
1. Leap Year
2. The Octomom lady
3. Hoarders
4. Mondays
5. A tenderloin that is way too big for the bun