Eduardo!

I have no words.

There are videos on YouTube.

Especially For K-Troos

I stumbled upon this today... and by stumbled I mean spent 5 minutes searching for. I watched the James Bond special on TV the other night and remembered the note you sent me a few weeks back... so to answer your question, yes, I have been watching.

Happy Birthday Jeff!

Happy Birthday To You!
Happy Birthday To You!
Happy Birthday Dear Niceguyjeeee
effffff!
Happy Birthday To You!

It's better with the guitar accompaniment don't you think?

In other news, who is D. Lewis?

Break.com had Hilarious Photos Today

I couldn't think of any photo to better celebrate life...well except for maybe one of Mams&Shams wearing her "To Busy to FCUK " shirt.This one is just funny cause it is a real product for itching or something like that...I didn't know monkey butt meant that either.

Horraaayy work!

-Blenk

To Jeff Pollack

Jimmy Eat World to play DC - April 26

April 26....Thats a Saturday everyone! They are playing a 6000 seat venue (Bender Arena) in downtown DC. Its actually, American University's gym. Tickets will likely go on sale this upcoming weekend, according to the shows announcement last Saturday. I'm not sure if tickets will go on sale to AU students first or if its all public, I will keep an eye on this development. Tell me you aren't interested, and I'll call you a liar. Shut up Greg.

- Blenk

Consider Boston Destroyed.

There's nothing like a good reunion. We tore Boston apart during my 48 hour stint. I know the guys weren't about to let up any as I was leaving, and that fact only made me more bitter about returning to work on a National Holiday. Hope you guys poured a few back for your boy. Man do I miss the old days.

- Blenk

More grand stories to follow. Including Hal...sleeping with the enemy.

Help make St. Patrick's Day a National Holiday!

Gentlemen,
A noble cause, demanding our attention.
Fight for a good cause!

http://www.proposition317.com/stpats.html

-Blenk

Let's make Feb. 14 the year's most sexist day on our blog!

Sooooo,
I just wanted to go ahead and congratulate one Marissa Miller on her fantastic cover grab on this year's Sports Illustrated Swimsuit edition. This is the same girl that Mr. Berry, Boll, Brad, and I (Blenk) have been pining over for the past, I'm gonna say 6 years now. Freshman year was my introduction to her awesome work, and I can only say the hits keep coming. Marissa, we salute you....sschhhaaaaawwing!

She will be mine, oh yes, she will be mine.

-Blenk

so confused

i dont know what is going on. but all i can say is that i love when pre-arranged marriages go well. i mean we all know that is what happened with brit and k-fed. i just dont think that her parents are going to stone her to death because she is wearing western clothing. because...lets be honest here. shes a whore. but if we could stone her i think i would be, atleast 15th person in line. no deeper into the line because after the 15th person, stoning just isnt fun.

but on the subject of ellen...i dont like her. i mean isnt she a big star? doesnt she have her own show, and a commercial or two, and isnt she a lezbo? i dont know about you guys...but if i were a woman i dont know if i would ever come out of the house or even ever go on a computer. i think i might just sit in my room all day and touch myself.

in other news im not going to work today...for...i have other things to do.

to ouside readers, get a life.
to the regulars...Munger '08 (Green-MA) and yes i look like a stud in a stove top hat. and hope u all know im kidding around with all of this.

BOSTON, Valentine's Day Massacre.

With Apologies to Ellen R. Sheeley

Did not see that one coming.

I don't know if any of you saw my last post, which I decided it best to remove, but Ellen R. Sheeley did...

About the Author

Ellen R. Sheeley is the Founder and CEO of Nob Hill Consulting, a San Francisco, California, USA based management and marketing consulting firm specializing in the international financial services and the technology sectors. She possesses an M.B.A. degree with a marketing concentration, a B.A. degree in psychology, and over 25 years’ professional experience. Ellen has served on the boards of a number of nonprofit and technology corporations and on the faculties of four American universities. She has lived and/or worked in the United States, the CIS, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, and the Pacific Rim and traveled to over 80 countries throughout the world. The research about which this book was written is a labor of love for Ellen and was wholly funded from her personal savings. In addition, all time and labor devoted to it were provided pro bono. Information on how to make a most welcome contribution to this effort may be received by sending an e-mail inquiry to forallwomen@gmail.com.

Needless to say I was incredibly surprised, a bit flattered, and ultimately embarrassed that she had come across the post and actually commented. I am primarily embarrassed because of the subject title (meant no harm by it and was not in reference to women), not necessarily for my astonishment at what I had come across. For those of you thoroughly confused about now, the post had been regarding an arranged marriage website for Muslim adults which I came across while reading an article on the Asia Times website on Europe's current struggles with its European identity and acquiescing to certain demands being made to incorporate elements of Sharia law by some, not all, Arab and Muslim residents (see image). I had been amazed that something like that actually existed considering much of what we read, hear, and see about the Arab culture and Islam. The point that I brought up, and was quickly corrected on was the correlation of honor killings and Islam, which she explained was more a product of pre-Islamic tribal code, therefore culture not religion. I think that we can all ultimately agree that regardless of Religion or culture, IT IS WRONG, and I don't believe that I am the only one to have that misconception that these honor killings are being associated with the wrong thing, correct? 

More often than not we are shown on CNN, BBC, MSNBC, etc. that some Arab male(s), in the US, Canada, the UK, the Middle East has detained, beaten, raped, abused or murdered...MURDERED his daughter or another woman for an assortment of reasons: from dating a boy to wearing "western" clothes, to WALKING ON THE STREET WITH A MAN THAT IS NOT HER HUSBAND. And when most Westerners think Arab male, what follows? I will leave that for you guys to finish. The statements and accompanying awe was not completely uneducated or unwarranted I believe. What was said was in no way an insult to their culture or religion and was more expressing my astonishment that a culture/religion which faces many misconceptions as primarily violent and backward was producing something progressive like an online marriage service....who knew right?

So I guess moral of the story is: You never know who's watching...at least now we kind of do.

So if you ever get to reading this one Ellen, my apologies and thanks for the clarification.

To the Regulars, you know who you are, hope you read through the whole thing. Way to ruin a great thing right? 

Just because it's Monday

Va bene va bene va bene va bene, va bene cosi.
va bene va bene va bene va bene, telephono me.

Love,

Jeff

Demetri Martin has way too much time on his hands.

We've been listening to comedy albums lately in the office... kinda reminds me of late nights in studio. Anyway, Demetri Martin referenced this poem that he wrote in one of his albums, so I googled for it to see if it was real... try reading it backwards.

Dammit I'm mad.
Evil is a deed as I live.
God, am I reviled? I rise, my bed on a sun, I melt.
To be not one man emanating is sad. I piss.
Alas, it is so late. Who stops to help?
Man, it is hot. I'm in it. I tell.
I am not a devil. I level "Mad Dog".
Ah, say burning is, as a deified gulp,
In my halo of a mired rum tin.
I erase many men. Oh, to be man, a sin.
Is evil in a clam? In a trap?
No. It is open. On it I was stuck.
Rats peed on hope. Elsewhere dips a web.
Be still if I fill its ebb.
Ew, a spider… eh?
We sleep. Oh no!
Deep, stark cuts saw it in one position.
Part animal, can I live? Sin is a name.
Both, one… my names are in it.
Murder? I'm a fool.
A hymn I plug, deified as a sign in ruby ash,
A Goddam level I lived at.
On mail let it in. I'm it.
Oh, sit in ample hot spots. Oh wet!
A loss it is alas (sip). I'd assign it a name.
Name not one bottle minus an ode by me:
"Sir, I deliver. I'm a dog"
Evil is a deed as I live.
Dammit I'm mad.

Ball on the Situation

Whoa. Greg put it best: This ball IS the situation. There must be something big and round inside....

-Jeff

Got a little nostalgic today.

Miss you guys.

Blenk

You said the same thing about the microwave and we use that darned thing all the time

Something to keep in mind when designing a house.

Tom

A bit of perspective.

Washington D.C.I just wanted everyone to know what the three of us here in DC looked like while Shane was Cougar hunting. And for a point of clarity, not a single one of the three of us can name this Bar, what time it was, or why the hell we each have a red bull and vodka in our hands. This is also the bar we were escorted out of by two bouncers. We think they did the right thing. Cheerio bouncers.

- Blenk

It's beginning to look a lot like Target.

Washington D.C.

Just wanted to share some none screw up news with everyone. Soon, our neighborhood of Columbia Heights will be home to a new Target. (Best Buy, Bed Bath and Beyond, and Marshals are all coming in soon too.) What makes this a big deal is all these big box stores are fitting into an urban neighborhood on one site that has been vacant since it was burnt down in the 60's during the DC riots.

A lot of people call it progress while just as many others call it gentrification. Either way it is quite a change and an even more exciting time to live and a big city where urban development like this is still able to take place. Id love to know what you guys think on these matters, seeing as we are all supposedly architects or something.

Aight, enjoy yourselves.

- Blenk

Sometimes when you're on the links...

Your bev-cart girl ends up being a cougar.
So as the story goes, this fine young lass picked up Shane and Van's tab (roughly 150 bucks), with Shane coming out of his blackout only long enough to see our temptress's phone ring with the term "Hubby." In a panicked state, our good friend made for the hills.

In an email conversation between our very own Gregor and Shane himself, this was shared.
G (11:54 pm) - did someone hook up with a cougar?
S (2:04 am) - Almost. The Serengeti is a dangerous place for a lion cub.

So there it is, apparently Hal isnt the only one throwing game at seniors.

- Blenk