UngsungBlog: A (Fantasy) Sports Blog

Quick-hitters:

- Man-Ram: 2 for 4, HR, 2 RBI, 2 R, .500 batting average since the trade.

I’m just sayin’

By the way, what is it going to take for Joe Torre to realize that Ramirez-Kemp-Ethier MUST be his outfield against any RHP??? Does Torre have something against Ethier?

And does anyone want Andruw Jones? We’ll take a bag of sunflower seeds for him!

- (Un?)fortunately, it appears that Sprint has fixed my billing issues from yesterday, and I only owe the correct amount of $31.77.

Drat. I really wanted to yell at them too!

- Current rebate-o-meter: $1,300 and still falling.

Big-box-in-living-room-o-meter: nine and rising

- Dear Fedex delivery guy,

2 <– This is a TWO.

3 <– This is a THREE.

1 0 2 <– This says “ONE ZERO TWO,” as in “Unit 102.”

1 0 3 <– This says “ONE ZERO THREE,” as in “Unit 103.”

If a package is addressed to “Unit 102,” you should probably leave said package in front of the door labeled “102.”  You probably should not leave said package in front of the door labeled “103,” and you definitely should not stack three huge, heavy boxes in front of the door labeled “103.”  What if my neighbor couldn’t move the boxes, and, therefore, could not get into his house?

(And you most definitely should not do this on consecutive days.)

I’m thinking about asking my neighbor if I could stick a sign on his door with a huge arrow on it and the words “ONE ZERO TWO is over there!”

- As soon as I found out that Foreigner was headlining the August 2nd edition of this year’s Alhambra Summer Jubilee, I circled this date on my calendar.  That was several months ago.

We swung by Victory Restaurant for lunner—a late lunch/early dinner—and had the grilled garlic with chicken.  In other words, it was a grilled piece of chicken with a crapola of chopped fried garlic on top.  Good stuff, though it was a shame that we couldn’t get there in time for the lunch specials.

We got to the Jubilee at around 5PM, and apparently they now require you to get wristbands before you could sit in the bleachers.  These wristbands had section, row, and seat #s on them; I don’t recall getting assigned seating at last year’s Jubilee.  After we got our wristbands, we strolled onto Main Street where we listened to this “band” butcher GnR’s “Sweet Child of Mine” for 30 seconds, or 29 seconds too long.

After that horrific experience, we went east of Garfield to a drink shop (I forget the name), where I had a Green Apple Green Tea.  At least, that’s what they said the drink was; it tasted like slightly watered-down Apple Pucker.  It was ridiculously sweet!  I felt like I was eating one of those green apple lollipops.

From 6-7 and 7:30-8:30, we were entertained by 80z All Stars.  They weren’t terrible, but I couldn’t really get into the music, as I was anxiously awaiting for Foreigner.  Finally, at around 8:45 (fifteen minutes later than scheduled), Foreigner finally came on stage, starting off the night with Double Vision.

When the second song came around—I believe it was Head Games—some guy who sat directly to our left returned to his seat, and proceeded to royally piss me off.  He got to his seat, but instead of sitting down, he started singing and gesturing to the band!

Picture this:  Head (gesture) games (gesture)…It’s you (gesture) and me (gesture) baby (gesture)…Head (gesture) games (gesture)…and I can’t (gesture) take it (gesture) anymore (gesture)…

(EDIT:  After a bit of deliberation, this douchebag’s act reminded me of this.  Go to 1:07 in the video, and focus on the guy in green.  Note the gestures, and then realize that the douchebag sitting next to us gestured at Foreigner

Not much later, the guy left again, and thank goodness that he never returned.

As for the rest of the concert (Note:  I’m recapping this off the top of my head; if I made a mistake somewhere, please let me know):

1) The first half of Waiting For a Girl Like You, sans strings, was incredible, as well as their new “remix” of Say You Will.  I especially loved the latter.

2) Urgent got the biggest screams of the night…at least by the individuals near me (and my ears have yet to recover from all that screaming).  Jukebox Hero was S T R E T C H E D out to nearly fifteen minutes, mostly of crowd interaction, and they could have ended the show right there without anyone being disappointed.

Fortunately…

3) After Long, Long Way From Home (a song I’ve heard once or twice before), Foreigner played an amazing rendition of I Want to Know What Love Is, and they could have ended the show after that song.

4) Then again, what better way to end a concert on what started as a hot summer evening than with Hot Blooded?  Right?

Awesome concert overall, and the fact that it was free doesn’t hurt.  And thank goodness that the Lou Gramm Jr. left us after only a few seconds of torture.

Tags: alhambra summer jubilee, andre ethier, billing issue, delivery guy, double vision, fedex, foreigner, head games, hot blooded, i want to know what love is, joe torre, jukebox hero, long long way from home, manny ramirez, say you will, sprint, urgent, victory restaurant, waiting for a girl like you by Peter
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So I cannot believe I just spent the last two hours of my life watching Wipeout and I Survived a Japanese Game Show on ABC. I needed a good laugh, and I was hoping to see some awesome, MXC-like wipeouts.

I want my money back.

John Anderson (aka the SportsCenter anchor) was mildly entertaining, though perhaps the producers should have paired him with Stuart Scott or Scott Van Pelt. The other John (whatever his name is), though, was trying WAY TOO HARD to be funny, and of course, he was not even remotely funny. And don’t get me started on the eye candy interviewer Jill Wagner. Was Jill Arrington not available? Stick to the Mercury commercials, Jill.

(That got me thinking: how many takes does a single Mercury commercial take Jill to complete? Ok, so maybe she doesn’t do well with live action. Couldn’t ESPN have loaned the producers of Wipeout Erin Andrews? THAT I would watch.)

Once the debacle that was Wipeout ended, I started watching I Survived a Japanese Game Show…and WTF? The previews showed nothing but crazy Japanese game show action, and, I got to see a short, pudgy woman scream at a bunch of Road Rules rejects?

Twenty minutes in, and I was ready to shoot myself in the face. About the only thing entertaining about the show was the super-hyper host, who should have done all his commentary in Japanese.

(EDIT: Oh great. I just found out that this show will be Survivor-like, where each week, one player gets eliminated. Don’t worry…I see nine eliminations next week, if you catch my drift.)

(EDIT #2: OK…watching Cathy rickshaw around the sumo wrestler was kinda funny. Fine.)

I’ll consider laying 3:1 odds to anyone willing to bet that both shows will last four weeks.

(I know what you’re thinking. If the shows were so awful, why did you sit through both hours? Honestly, I have no idea; I think I went in and out of a coma several times.)

Tags: i survived a japanese game show, jill wagner, john anderson, not funny, waste of time, wipeout by Peter
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Quick-hitters:

- Somebody clearly turned down the thermostat outside this morning, because it was freezing cold!

I can’t wait for Spring.

- Current rebate-o-meter: $1,850.

Current unfiled-rebate-o-meter: $775. Damn I’m a lazy ass :P.

- (from Consumerist) Apparently, retail renting, where a person buys something from a store with the intent of returning the item after using it, is becoming (or already is?) a serious problem in this country (original article here). How there is any debate as to whether or not this is ethical astounds me. It’s one thing to buy a product, and then change your mind and return it. It’s a wholly different matter to buy something, with the intention of using it once, only to return it later!

(By the way, the term “retail renting” isn’t quite correct. Krunk and I have decided to name this “retail borrowing.” How is it “renting” if a person gets his money back?)

My two favorite arguments heard in favor of retail borrowing are:

1) [A store] sucks, so they deserve to be retail [borrowed]!

2) If the store didn’t have such a lax return policy, this wouldn’t happen!

Please. Stop. It’s the same customers that see nothing wrong with retail borrowing that probably ruined Costco’s awesome return policy. And I don’t want to hear that stores can charge a restocking fee, and just put the item back on the shelves. Not everything can simply be put back on the shelves; these returns have to be marked down, returned to the manufacturer, or destroyed/donated. Never mind the fact that the store has to waste their time processing returns on these borrowed items. And what if stores, in an effort to curb retail borrowing, decide to start charging restocking fees on all returns? How is that fair to those who are returning products for legitimate reasons?

Please do not confuse retail borrowing with what I call the delayed return/rebuy: a person buys a product from store A, buys the same product from store B, and then returns the item purchased from store B using the receipt from store A. I have no problem with this, as long as store A is getting the exact product back in brand new condition. In fact, I’ve done this before to get an item immediately from store A, while saving some money by buying it cheaper from store B (and usually, store B is an online outlet, requiring me to wait a few days to get the item).

Clearly “the customer is always right” has gone way too far.

- Have you ever sung a song, only to find out some time later that you were single one line (or part of one) incorrectly this whole time? Up until recently, I thought this line from the song “Hard to Handle” by the Black Crowes went:

Hey little thing let me light your candle
cause Mama I’m sure hard to handle, now,
Yes, I am

Click on that link above, and you’ll see that the line actually is:

Hey little thing let me light your candle
cause Mama I’m sure hard to handle, now,
Gets around

Several other lyrics sites confirmed the “Gets around” line, but I was 99% sure that they were all wrong. I went to YouTube, found the video of the song, and sure enough, I was wrong! That being said, “Gets around” makes no sense at all to me. I just cannot get myself to sing the line correctly, so much so that I will continue to sing the line as “Yes, I am” even though it’s wrong :P.

Loyal readers (all none of you): is there a song lyric that you continue to sing incorrectly, because it sounds better than the correct lyric?

- What a game between the Lakers and Suns last night! I think I’m going to go ahead and Ung-hex the Lakers by calling them the favorites to win the NBA Championship this year, Bynum or not (more on that another time). As long as Kobe’s finger doesn’t get worse, and Odom or Gasol don’t get hurt, who’s going to beat this team?

Shaq looked terrible for three quarters, but he looked pretty good in the 4th, so much so that I’m starting to think that the trade won’t be as awful as I first thought. As long as teams insist on doubling on Shaq, Amare and Nash are going to get great looks at the basket. It appears that the Suns’ chemistry—not something to be overlooked in the NBA—is much improved, and I previously mentioned that addition by subtraction was, perhaps, the key motivating factor for the trade:

It almost sounds like the Suns are taking the addition by subtraction approach: by dumping Marion, that frees up valuable PT for Diaw and Barbosa. Or maybe the alleged Marion-Stoudemire chemistry issues boiled over, forcing the Suns to move Marion for Shaq!

We also saw how bad the Suns’ defense was, especially against the pick-and-roll. We also saw how big losing Marion was; do you think the Suns could use his perimeter defense and three-point shooting? And I thought Shaq was supposed to clog up the paint! How many points did the Lakers score in the paint?

We’ll see how the Suns handle the next couple of games on their schedule: v Bos, v Det, @ Mem (yawn), and @ NO. That gate at New Orleans should be especially good; I expect Chris Paul to go for 40 and 15 in that game.

Until next time.

by Peter
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Can you believe it? Blog entries in consecutive days???

Quick-hitters:

- The Dale and Thomas Toffee and Walnut popcorn flavor was most excellent. I’ve now found my second-most favorite Dale and Thomas flavor.

- Current rebate-o-meter: still around $2,500, but rising (and after Black Friday, don’t be surprised if that total reaches $3k again).

- With Black Friday around the corner, here is my current Black Friday-o-meter: $175.

- So I’m sure my loyal readers–all none of you–know how much I hate stupid, annoying commercials. Boy, have there been some doozies polluting my television experience lately:

• There’s this Tonka (?) ad that declares that “Boys are built different, and Tonka’s got the blueprint.” Never mind the apparent gender discrimination here (girls can’t play with trucks, trains, etc.?); I think Tonka meant to say that “Boys are built differently.”

(Tangent: Don’t get me wrong; by no means am I a grammar Nazi. However, if you’re going to air a nationwide advertising campaign, is it that much to ask for a simple grammar check?)

• I thought the Apple v PC ads were gone forever. Then I saw this commercial. Then I saw this one. Yeah, as if watching these commercials really make me want to buy a Mac!
• Has anyone seen this McDonalds’ commercial where a kid is snacking on apple slices to the tune of music? W T F? After seeing that commercial for the first time, I think I was clinically dead for a few minutes. All I remember is that it was light outside before the commercial started, and it was dark the next time I looked outside.

I can’t believe I am actually missing John Mellencamp commercials.

- Here are my Week 11 (Fantasy) Football Thoughts:

• I’m 6-5 in the BargainShare league, riding a three-game winning (read: lucky) streak, and I’m tied for first. Three weeks left, and I face division opponents in each of the final three weeks. A 2-1 record in those three weeks might be good enough for me to make the playoffs. I’m 4-7 (ugh) in my second league, 3-8 (last place, baby!) in the LT league, and 5-7 in my other league (all losses). I really hate fantasy football.
• The Patriots are the greatest team ever! At least, that’s what I’ve been told. 10*-0 now, and six more to perfection.

(Tangent: That was quite the interesting theory offered by Andrew Siciliano, guest-hosting on the Jim Rome Show today. He suggested that the Pats will go 15-0, only to play to lose in Week 17, screwing the NFL over on potential revenues earned from the Patriots going undefeated in the regular season. Very interesting, but I can’t see it happening.)

• The false ending of that Browns-Ravens game was something, wasn’t it? And how is a field goal attempt, at the end of a game, NOT a reviewable play? Nice job by the ref, by the way, insisting that after “consulting” with the other officials, he declared the FG good! And Brian Billick needs to be fired RIGHT NOW. He could have run out the clock before Matt Stover’s would-be game winner, but went incomplete-incomplete right before the attempt. And why keep kicking to Browns’ KR Joshua Cribbs?
• Cincinnati, Carolina, and New Orleans really stink. At least Carolina has a good excuse (injuries). San Diego stinks too.
• Indy sure misses Marvin Harrison, don’t they?
• Miami gave me a scare this past week. They almost won! And now I’m hearing that Miami’s next opponent–Pittsburgh–is dealing with some big injuries too. Nooooooooo! The only thing that might offset a Pats’ perfect season is a Dolphins’ “perfect” season!
• Speaking of Pittsburgh, how the heck did they lose to the J-E-T-S?

- As soon as the UCLA Bruins Men’s Basketball team got ousted by Florida last year, I was looking forward to this year’s version of the team, with Lake Oswego’s Kevin Love patrolling the paint. After watching Mr. Love on consecutive days (Monday and Tuesday on one of the ESPNs), I can’t help but be positively giddy at the Bruins’ chances of making it to a third consecutive Final Four this year. Yeah, the Bruins’ come-from-behind win over Michigan State today was UG-LY, but I don’t think the Bruins could win shootout games.

By the way, it appears that Love won’t get a foul call unless he’s bleeding.  Oh wait; he was bleeding at one point the first half, and he still couldn’t get a call (that’s not to imply that there should be been a whistle on that particular play)!

So when will teams employ the “Hack-a-Love”?

If I don’t post again between now and Thursday, Happy Thanksgiving!

by Peter
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- Wow, did The Office season premiere deliver or what? There were several LOL moments, and I still couldn’t believe how the episode started!

(spoilers to follow…you have been warned!)

• I was thinking that Michael was going awfully fast, when he turned the corner into what we found out was the Dunder Mifflin parking lot.
• I wonder how many takes it took Pam to say the entire foundation’s name correctly.
• Who didn’t see Michael cramping up during the run, after carbo-loading minutes before the episode, then passing up on the water?
• I want one of those “Support the rabid” wrist bands!
• I did NOT need to see Pam walking into Michael’s office and seeing his (as Pam called it) “dangling participle,” nor did I need to hear Andy talk about his chafing nipples. *gag*
• My favorite moments of the episode:
  • Kevin: “Are you kidding me?…Are you KIDDING me?”
  • Michael: “I’m not superstitious, but I’m…I’m just a little stitious.”
  • Michael: “Occasionally I’ll hit someone with my car. So sue me! No…don’t sue me!”
  • Angela’s hip check into Dwight.
  • The flyer saying that the run was 5,000 miles, not 5 kilometers.
  • Seeing Creed, Oscar, and Stanley (of all people!) running to the taxi. I figured Kevin would have been there, not Stanley. And I loved how the taxi drove them right to the finish line, not a few hundred yards before it.
  • Dwight: “I put Imodium in Toby’s coffee before the race.” Michael: “Excellent…wait…Imodium, or Ex-Lax?”
  • Toby: “He couldn’t have made it a circle?”
• I was actually surprised that the writers touched on the Jim-Pam relationship as much as they did in this episode. I thought they were only going to make mention of it once, and only at the end of the episode, while playing the whole “Oh, we’re not together” angle throughout.
• What??? No Jim and Pam picking on Dwight today? Where was that?

All in all, I was very happy with today’s episode, and I’m really happy that there will be three more hour-long episodes coming up in the following weeks!

- In the BargainShare Fantasy Football league, I needed to avoid a big day from Drew Brees and Reggie Bush to win. Bush did his part to hurt me, but Brees had an abysmal game, and I held on. I’m now 2-1 in that league, but bad news for me: Rudi Johnson is out for the NE game!

In the other league in which I was 1-1, I needed a single point from Vince Young to win there. I’m now 2-1 there, but I have Rudi Johnson in that league too. As for the first of my two 0-2 teams, I rode Donovan McNabb and Brian Westbrook to an easy win, and now i’m 1-2 there. As for the other 0-2 league (aka the “LDT is letting me down” league), my opponent needed nine points from Drew Brees. So now I’m 1-2 there as well. Hopefully I can report four more wins next week :D.

As for actual football, here are my Week 3 thoughts:

1) Another week, another dominating Patriots win. Now they’re 3*-0, and facing a horrible Bengals defense next week. Fortunately, I don’t face Brady or Moss in any of my fantasy leagues next week!

2) What’s more surprising: the Packers at 3-0, or San Diego, Chicago, and Cincy at 1-2? And was that Brett Favre, circa 1997?

3) Didn’t you used to be the Chicago Bears’ D? Crap, my strategy of taking the Bears Defense/Special Teams early looks really bad right about now. And boy did Dallas look good last week! Looks like they’re the favorite to finish second to the Pats, Colts, or Steelers in this year’s Super Bowl.

4) Can we go back to calling New Orleans the ‘Aints? Boy was that a horrible performance, especially at home, and the loss of Deuce McAllister has to be crushing.

By the way, people can stop calling Reggie Bush a bust. No one ever said he was going to be a between-the-tackles, power rusher. Also, this is only his 19th regular season game! Give the guy a break!

At least people can stop with the “Mario Williams has more TDs than Reggie Bush has” comments.

5) How in the world did Indy (-6) NOT cover against Houston???

Next time, more thoughts about sports, but I’m getting tired. So I’ll end today’s blog with this:

- For your bloggers out there, have you ever seen URL-less spam among your blog comments? This is a must-read article about this not-so-new phenomenon, and the two points mentioned in the article make total sense to me.

I used to allow some of these URL-less spam comments, until I noticed that all of these comments were vague; they did not point to a particular subject covered in the blog entry in which these comments appeared. That’s when I figured that these comments were suspicious, and I began blocking them. I mean, why else would a spammy commenter leave an otherwise harmless comment on one’s blog?

Clever, eh?

Happy blogging!

by Peter
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So I must be insane.  I’m considering opening a Bank of America checking account.

(I can’t stand my current bank, Netbank, and I don’t exactly mind a free $100.  Then again, I will have to deal with Bank of America.)

By the way, prayers go out to the family of Hal Fishman, who died yesterday (Tuesday) of colon cancer.

- So powdered donuts are evil, and they seriously are like crack!  Damn you Krunk *shakes fist*

I saw the same damn box Krunk probably saw at Safeway, and I couldn’t resist either.  My sister, who insists that she isn’t a fan of sweets,  obviously didn’t heed her own advice as she downed several donuts, before realizing what she had done

And yes, I think they need to make powdered choco-donuts.

- So I had a mad craving for some enchiladas today (yeah, I wasn’t planning on eating donuts for dinner, although…).  I remember seeing a recipe on Amy’s blog for them, and I thought I’d try it out.

The rice was a bit overcooked, and the enchiladas were a bit dry, but I’m almost certain that this was user error and not a fault of the recipe.  Besides, any Mexican food that is too try can be topped with copious amounts of guacamole and sour cream, right?  Even though the food wasn’t perfect, it didn’t stop me from eating way too much, as usual.

Damn, I could go for another plate right about now.

(Don’t worry, Hank!  One day, I swear I will try one of your recipes out!)

- In this television era of dumb reality shows and bad game shows, what took so long for television producers to come up with  singing game shows like The Singing Bee or Don’t Forget The Lyrics?  Doesn’t everybody like to sing, even if they royally suck at singing, or if they don’t know the words (check and check)?  Seriously, stupid game show ideas like The Chair and The Chamber came about years before a game show where regular people had to sing song lyrics?  No producer, in years past, said to himself, “Hey, let’s start a game show where people have to sing song lyrics to popular songs.  Certainly we can find an out-of-work boy band-er to host it!”?

By the way, I wouldn’t mind going to a taping of The Singing Bee; it seems like everyone in the audience has so much fun!

And for the record, I stink at both games.  Most of the songs I know are from the 80s, so if a recent song shows up, I would just quit on the spot

Oh yeah, I also heard that Barry Bonds finally broke Hank Aaron’s record.  Yawn.

Happy blogging!

by Peter
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Argh! Brad Penny just hurt himself running down first base! Lowe got hurt a couple days ago, and now this?!?!

We’re screwed! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!

- So I lost the flyer to the best non-chain pizza place around me, forcing me to satisfy my pizza cravings with (ugh) a pizza from a chain restaurant. Fortunately (?) for me, Papa John’s had their B1G1 for 99c deal, so I went with a Chicken Alfredo, Spinach, and Tomato Pizza, with a Pepperoni thin crust pizza.

(I like getting lots of extra pizza, so that I can freeze it away and have it on a later date. It comes out quite good, provided you reheat it in the oven, and not the microwave. I also had a Papa John’s gift card, so I figured now would be a good time to use it.)

I was pretty happy with the pizza, but not at first. You see, the two pizzas cost $21.xx before tip!!! Among other things, there is a $1.75 delivery charge!

(I know, I know; if I want to avoid paying a tip + a delivery fee, I should just go pick up the pizzas myself.)

Good thing the pizzas were kinda tasty today. For a chain restaurant, I’ll take kinda tasty any day of the week.

- I am of the opinion that 99% of all song covers are crap. I’d like to go ahead and modify that statement, after visiting this page (from Digg) of the 100 Greatest Cover Songs of All Time.

My statement, regarding song covers, shall now read as follows: 99% of all song covers done in recent times are crap.

(Notice that many of the songs on that list were remade years ago.)

- Finally, do you suppose this guy has a gambling problem? A 36-year-old Florida man is accused of leaving his two kids in his car while he went to play some poker in a nearby race track:

Police arrested Terrence Davis for child neglect after a passerby spotted the children at the St. Johns Greyhound Park.Davis said he left the car running with the air conditioner on while he went inside the track. He said he had only intended to peek inside the park, but got talked into playing a few hands of Texas Hold ‘Em. He told police that he was only inside for about 15 minutes.

Well, at least he left the A/C on! No word on whether or not the guy got his buy-in back, though. It would be pretty cool (for the other players, at least), if the guy wasn’t given his money back, and the casino would just blind him off as the game went on.

Here’s my question, genius: what are you doing leaving your kids unattended in the first place?!? I don’t care if you went in to the race track for sixty seconds! You went in there to take a peek, and you got “talked into playing”? What did the people around you say? “Oh, go ahead and leave your kids in the car. This will only take a few minutes”?

I sincerely hope this guy got his aces cracked by 7-2 offsuit right before he was apprehended.

That’s all I’ve got for now.

by Peter
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- So we decided to head out to Dockweiler Beach today, in an attempt to escape the valley heat.

Bad idea, but not for the reason you might have expected.

As soon as we reached LAX, the sun decided to disappear behind a slew of clouds. When we finally arrived at the beach, the winds and the lack of sun made the weather unbearable. Never mind the fact that the water was COLD, so much so that we didn’t spend more than a few minutes in the ocean itself. To keep warm, we started jogging back and forth in the sand.

(Tangent: I forgot how hard it is to run on the beach, and it doesn’t help that I’m not exactly at a high fitness level.)

We only spent a couple of hours on the beach–most of us were napping or reading a book–before we decided to pack up and leave. That was money well spent, eh?

So what does one do when a trip to the beach gets ruined by a lack of sunshine? Easy! One goes to the beach again the next day! No word yet on which beach we will be going to…

- After the trip to the beach, we went to Alhambra’s Summer Jubilee to see Pat Benatar in concert! In short, the concert was quite an enjoyable experience*.

* - except for the following:

• the idiots occupying two rows in front of me, tossing popcorn at each other, crying because the ushers were only doing their job, talking and giggling throughout the concert, and basically not giving a damn about people around them. Did I mention they had two little kids with them, who did nothing but squirt water and toss popcorn at each other, causing the adults to act like children and retaliate?
• one woman in said group that wore a backless shirt, when she really shouldn’t have (if you know what I mean)
• another, ahem, “heroically portly” woman who kept leaning backwards, jabbing my knee every five seconds
• the #1 Pat Benatar fan screaming “Sing Heartbreaker!” after every freaking song, and then screaming “Sing Heartbreaker!” even after Benatar sang it.

Benatar sang a bunch of songs I’ve never heard of, but she also sang Invincible (awesomely good, btw), We Belong, and Hit Me With Your Best Shot.

(Tangent: I should mention that a song can only be considered “awesomely good” by me if I’ve actually heard it before.)

Of course, at the end, she sang “Love Is A Battlefield” to the delight of the crowd. Yes, that was awesomely good too.

With regards to the morons in the stands: all we needed was a beach ball, a fight in the stands, overwhelmed security guards, a USC v UCLA debate, and a “Joan Jett sucks!” chant, and the experience would have matched that of an LA Dodger game in the cheap seats. Any true Dodger fan knows exactly what I’m talking about.

(I know, what should I have expected from a free concert?)

That’s all for today. Happy blogging!

Tags: "heroically portly", alhambra summer jubilee, cold weather, dockweiler beach, heartbreaker, hit me with your best shot, invincible, love is a battlefield, pat benatar, stupid people, we belong by Peter
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