After last nights re-run of The Office, Pam & Roy’s wedding was supposed to be last week on June 10… so we think.

I say “so we think” because of after what happened in the last episode of the season.

So, for what it’s worth, what was supposed to have happened in TV Land has or hasn’t happened.

I’m so nervous.

I can’t help but think about Hilton Head Island, Beach Trip 2003 everytime I hear Coldplay’s ‘Clocks.’

I can’t help but think of the hotel room without a heater in Cortona, Italy everytime I hear The Fray’s ‘Over My Head.’

And I can’t help but think about whimping-out on my first kiss every time I hear Whitney Houston’s ‘I Will Always Love You.’

Question:

WOW: Graphical display of the relative size of our Sun, our Planets and other stars.

It’s almost hard not to feel small and insignificant after looking at this model.

I mean, seriously folks… I’m not asking you to believe in God. I’m simply asking you to understand that the believe of evolution that this whole world, universe, etc., just “kinda happened“ is a bunch of hooey, so to speak.

Over lunch today, Andy Byars mentioned a problem that almost all web users experience with YouTube videos.

They’re choopy. They start, stop, start, stop, and you really can’t enjoy them.

Even I – the almightly blogger – experience this issue.

TIP: When you click the “Play” button, click it again when it turns into the “Pause” button. Let the entire video load (the gray line will move from left to right) and then hit the “Play” button once more when the video has loaded.

This works for ALL internet video streaming.

That is all.

I mean, seriously… who didn’t watch this show?

I’ll take the physical challenge!

Help me with this list…

Sour Patch Kids
Sugar Babies
Sour Straws
Mike ‘n Ikes

An Internet classic. Don’t forget to turn up your volume.

The following conversation took place about 10 minutes into the Snoop Dogg concert at City Stage last weekend.

We’d secured our spot, just a stones throw from the stage, when all of a sudden two nasty 40-something drunk women come barging into the crowd. One woman was worse than the other and fell forward, at which point I caught her before she landed face first on the ground.

I picked her up, then looked at her friend when the following conversation took place…

Me: You need to take her out of here. I’m not going to stand here and hold her up all night.
Drunk Chick: Well… she’s drunk!
Me: Obviously… now take her away before she passes out on me.

Drunk Chick kinda stumbles around attempting to support her friend. Steps right in front of Jennifer, blocking the view we’d worked so hard to get.

Me: Excuse me, sweetheart. You’re blocking her view.
Drunk Chick: Well everybody’s blocking my view.
Me: That’s because you walked your drunk butt right into the middle of the crowd.
Drunk Chick: You’re too young to speak to me like that!
Me: You’re too drunk to speak to me like that.
Drunk Chick: Kiss my a**!
Me: It’s too nasty to kiss.
Drunk Chick: You couldn’t handle it anyway!

I turn my head back to the concert

Drunk Chick: [mouthing] Mother F***er

Yeah… not my finest moment in “do unto others”, but I would expect anyone else to treat me the same way if I decided to lose all self respect by drinking myself silly and dragging my drunk friend into the middle of a Snoop Dogg concert.

My cousin Forrest sent me this link the other day, and evidently it isn’t a joke.

Dustin Diamond (aka “Screech” from Saved By The Bell) is about to lose his house and is pleading for fans to help him out.

Wow… what sad, penniless people our former child heros become.

More:

Consumerist: Help Save Screech’s House!
Yahoo! News: Screech: Saved by the Shirt?

As many of you may have noticed, it’s been a little more quiet around here lately.

July is the biggest travel month of the year. Also, many of our top commenters are studying for the bar/doing rotations/having babies… yadda yadda yadda.

However, hits have hardly changed a bit; still averaging over 300 people a day. But again, I’m not doing this thing for the hits… I’m doing it because you like it, and because I love doing it.

That said, over the next few weeks, things will begin to change somewhat:

1. Football season will begin
2. I’ll be moving/taking a new job
3. Lot’s of people will be having their babies (did ya’ll all have sex on the same weekend or something?)

Will all of this change the course of the blog? Yes- but for the better.

1. I’ll be tweaking the look of the site just a leetle bit. Just a facelift to make it slightly prettier, slightly faster.
2. I will also be spacing out the highly-popular random links so that you will be given random links throughout the day, and not in one post. That way, you have something to look forward to…. I guess.
3. I will be personalizing the site more. The one complaint I’ve had from readers is that at times I haven’t put enough of myself into the blog. You like the links, you like the videos, but you want more of a personality to go along with it. If I’m mistaken on this, please let me know… ’cause I’m about to cover the blog with senior portraits – kidding.

The blog is changing; evolving into something I hoped it would become.
Some things to say about that:

A big, fat hello to the regulars…

Day-in and day-out you waste away your workday on the site.

Nothing makes me happier to know I’m contributing to the delinquency of corporate America office life.

I love you. Seriously, I love you.

Welcome to the new readers…

We’ve picked up some new readers over the last few weeks. Welcome! We know you’re afraid to comment just yet… and that’s ok. For the first month of this blog only 5 people would ever comment on a daily basis.

At times it may seem that the only people who read this blog ar MC graduates or citizens of the great state of Alabama. Nothing could be further from the truth. More than 2,000 people in more than 40 countries visit the site each week. Many of whom I’ve never met, though I would love for you to shoot me an email and tell me a little about yourself.

Welcome back to the old faithfuls…

Many of you have been away on vacation/mission trips/boycotting attempts and what not… and we’re standing at the door of our adobe house with arms wide open, ready and willing to kill the fattened calf upon your return home.

You’re the ones who always do a good job of initiating conversation/making fun of me/making fun of me/making fun of me/and making fun of me. And for that, my swolen ego is eternally grateful.

That is all. Expect changes and announcements over the course of the next few weeks.

If you have any comments and/or questions, don’t hesitate to contact me.

A few of you have asked me for updates on my brother Aaron, and I feel like a piece of crap for going so long without any updates.

1. Mom got to see Aaron on Sunday for the first time since he left in September. She is traveling with People to People and Aaron is spending a few days with her group. He’s even helped some of the kids negotiate prices on souvenirs with the Chinese vendors.
2. He lives with his friend Mona and her mother in their high rise apartment building. This is a much better set-up than his first living space.
3. Aaron has been told by mutiple second language professionals that he is learning Chinese at a “very impressive rate.”
4. Aaron has been offered a contract extension to stay in China through December 2006 or March 2007. He isn’t sure yet as to how long he will stay.
5. For those of you who are Facebook friends with Aaron [view profile], he has mutiple photos from different experiences posted within his profile.
6. While on a mission with the Chinese army, Aaron was thrown from his horse and left for dead before being adopted by a small villiage… yeah, I’m sorry… I was thinking of the movie The Last Samurai.

I’ll give y’all some more updates as they come through. In the mean time he would love to hear from some of you via Facebook messaging.

Yes, if you haven’t heard yet, Snoop Doggy Dogg in his preformance at Birmingham’s City Stages welcomed special guest American Idol Taylor Hicks to the stage in an appearance that was rumored all week in the ‘ham.

This is a (rather crappy) video of the event, filmed by my self.

About 10 minutes into preforming, a harmonica began to play off stage, and Hicks emerged to a very happy crowd.

Before watching the video, please note…

A flip on yesterday’s question.

Question:

As a child, what were your favorite Halloween candies recieved while Trick-or-Treating?

The best comments from the past week… but I only did a few ’cause I got tired.

Ugh… you guys keep me young!

The funny thing about living in the South is that just when you forget where you are, something Southern is waiting to remind you.

I killed a lightning bug while running an errand last night.

I am a murderer.

There I was, driving my car while listening to the radio when the flicker of a lighting bug caught my eye. “Oh, a lighting –” WHAM! His friend smacks my windshield.

I glance in my rearview to watch his lifeless body spin towards the earth, making one more big glow before impact.

I just love lightning bugs… or, as I used to refer to them when I was five: litenin bulbs

As children we’d have total disregard for the lives of our summer friends. We’d catch them, pull out their lights, and watch in amazement as it would continue to glow, minus the other half of its body.

How cute and demented we must have appeared to be.

Ahhhh. Summer in the South.

- The hum of homemade icecream makers scattered accross neighborhood backporches.
- The sting of the hot concrete surrounding the pool.
- Trips to the snow cone stand to ask for “Tigers Blood” or “Suicide” flavors.

Can’t beat it.