My cell phone is barely functioning. My watch is fritzing out. My tv freezes up every now and then. I saw turkeys on the street last week. Gifford Miller likes Jelly Bellys. I woke up early on a monday. It's supposed to hit 81 wednesday. You know what this means?

Society is finally starting to break down.

Ok so yesterday was odd. On the way to campus I see 6 turkeys in the middle of the street. Turkeys. On Staten Island. And not on my plate. This makes me a bit nervous. 163/83, and 86 truck and Rescue were also on campus for a few false alarms.

Today was my first day volunteering at Gifford Millers office. For those of you who don't know, he is the city council speaker running for the democratic nom for Mayor and he will win. Really nice, personable guy, he was even singing "Stacies mom" all day which was halarious.

See.....now that....was a baseball game. Way to go boys.

Whats it say about modern day media coverage when NY1 is the first major news orginization to break news of the Popes death and keep coverage of the story all day, hours later when at the same time, CBS stayed with the story for roughly an hour and a half and then went to college basketball?

Jeez....how much do you want to bet the news people are pleasuring themselves right now?

Johnnie Cochran, The stadium, Shiavo, Frank Purdue, and now the Pope. It's a news weekend they dream about. Now I know all...what...29 people that read this are most likely thinking i'm a heartless bastard, but it's true. Most...not all...but most news people don't have feelings. They just want to get the story out, which is good and all, but have a heart.

I might be an atheist, but that doesn't mean I don't like the Pope. Matter of fact, any guy who can enjoy breakdancing as much as he did, and wear Bono sunglasses(Thanks Mellissa) is a-ok in my book.

That stadium is gonna be the end of it. This city is gonna go nuts. But before I go on with the rest of that rant I want to know why the MTA didn't just wait longer for more bids. See...they[the MTA] said that they wanted bids on the land. The MTA is cash strapped, so therefore one would think that they'd go for a nice high bid, like Cablevisions, but instead they went for the Jets bid, which was far lower. The MTA board had members from bloomberg and Pataki, so obviously they were gonna vote stadium...but the obvious fact is...the deal stinks. If the MTA is in need of money, why not go for the higher bid?

This stadium is not what we need. Even though they claim theyre going to put parking spots elsewhere, there will still be mass amounts of traffic in that already congested area.

Now, they say this stadium is a good sign that the International Olympic Committe(IOC) will give New York the 2012 Summer Olympics. This is very bad. The plan calls for events in all 5 boroughs. Summer tourists plus three million plus athletes and press, from all over the country, coming in over a short 3 week period. The mayor says that the Republican convention from last summer proves that we can handle it. Lets compare.

Republican convention prep time and event length: Roughly a week and a half.
Likely Olympic prep time and length: 3 months.

Republican convention attendees: few thousand tops.
Olympic attendees: I'm guessing 3 million. (athletes, trainers, support staff, press, judges, tourists, family)

Republican Convention area: About 15-20 square blocks at most.
Olympic area: All 5 boroughs will have at least 2 events.

Now lets talk security. NYPD, as much as I usually don't get along with them does a great job handling big events...but even this is beyond their scope. Now the government has promised to give security, but they also promised relief money after 9/11 and thats slow to come in so I don't beleive them, and some government agent schmuck from Virgina will not know how to survive in the south Bronx at 2am. New York City is already a high terroist target, the Olympics have had terrorist attacks before (1996 Atlanta anyone?) so thats like adding fuel to the fire. There is no way that we can garuntee the safety of all these extra people.

Speaking of all these people...where we gonna put them? They say they'll build hotels along with the Olympic venues. Right...and this will be done by 2012? "Yes" they say. Right. Thats why we've been wiating for them to finish the ferry terminals for how long now? It takes 2 years to repave half a mile of highway and they're gonna pop up all these hotels and event venues in 8 years?

The good thing about me being a firefighter is, we can close the bay doors and not have to deal with these people till we go out on a call...in which case they'll almost assuredly be in the way...but, again, I really gotta feel for the cops in this thing, becasue they're out on the street and they are gonna have to play tourguide to all these people...many of whom will either not speak any English or have any clue where they're goin, or both.

Another bad thing about this stadium is...now every event in the country or world is gonna be here. The NFL has already said that if and when the stadium gets built, we will be the host city for the 2010 Superbowl. Then the floodgates will open... the Grammys, Oscars, Academy Awards and probably the porono awards will want to have their show here. And the owners of the stadium, the money hungry bastards they are, will approve everything. Yes, the city does need money, but we don't need the extra hassle.

This thing is going to be very bad and not a lot of people see it.

Niel Rosen from NY1 may be the best movie critic ever. He finds something to like with every movie even if it sucks, and never out and out says he hates something.

good day. :-)

Spring cleaning is begining to wear one me. I need more tools. It's starting to scare me how much Maya on Just Shoot Me is very much like one of my friends whose name I will not mention for fear of being killed.

I just saw Matt LeBlanc in a Bob Seger video. This is funny.

Everytime I'm feeling a lil down or out...everytime I think I couldn't possibly love New York more, something happens that only can happen in New York and I love this place a lil more...

Alright, Carl Edwards might not be my favorite Nascar driver, no one can replace Kyle, but after his 2 one hundreths of a second amazing win yesterday...and his freakin great celebration, ya can't help but like the guy a lil...


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What do I think of all this writing i've had to do for these classes? Well to be honest i'm not super pumped.

What do I think of yesterday? Well to be honest....I am kinda happy.

When I get immensely bored I put on ESPNews and wonder why...just why would anyone give a damn about lawnmower racing. Have we really reached that low a point in our society that we have downed ourselves into watching a bunch of shitfaced hicks running laps around hay bales in their John Deeres? I mean c'mon..

Looks like George Carlin was right...disgruntled worshipers are making there presence known. Some nut went ape in Wisconson and shot and killed 7 people from a church group then killed himself. Apparently one of the reasons was the fact he didn't like a sermon. This proves my point that religon is bullshit. Nothing good comes of it. Wars, famine, killing, theft...it's all pointless.

Jeff Nelcarz is on the Weather Channel. Who the hell is Jeff Nelcarz?

Gonna do somethin I haven't done in a while....Random naming of names for no rhyme or reason and in no particular order. Feel free to comment if your in this list:

Enrique, Joe, Dave, Tom, Mellissa, Rob, Amanda, Dana, Diana, Rebekah, Tarah, Mike, Edgar, Alex, Chris, Rick, Ashley, Frank

SNL...why has thou forsaken me? I'm watching it now and I can't even fake a smile let alone laugh at this. Like I just told Speedy; "It's like Sean Penn is directing the show". Even Weekend Update is falling flat. David Spade is hosting tonite and hes classic David Spade....and thats the problem...His Martha Stewart sounded like David Spade. Really..this is almost phyiscally painful.

I need that damn K.I.T.T sound effect and I don't know why. I just want it.

Finally gettin around to thanking Bridgette for the new layout. Shes the best. Thanks a lot!


Been thinkin of the saying "You can never go home again". Not really sure why...just been a bit retrospective lately I guess. Actually I've been all over the place lately, quite hetic, and for once I don't mind. The Banner is keeping me busy and I enjoy it. I was talking to Mellissa before and we both agree that it actually makes going to campus worthwhile for a change. It's a very good almost family-like vibe in there. If one of us falls we all help that person up. I enjoy it. We've been threatened and asked to change stories and we refuse cause we stand for the truth. It's really good. It reminds me of a firehouse almost.

Hooties doin friggin flappin Burger King commercials with Brooke Burke. What has the world come too?

Oh yea...I hate Realplayer.

Why does mother Nature hate me?
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Quote of the moment:

"If you can't support me and can't endorse me then get out of my way."- Shirley Chisolm