LIAH #1142

I got all four of my wisdom teeth pulled this weekend. I'm hoping those four little fuckers were the causes of headaches I was getting, leaving me in good shape medically. We'll see. They didn't put me out for the oral surgery, I was just under heavy novacaine. I was told to listen to my iPod, which I did, and which was awesome. There was nothing more soothing then getting your teeth pulled while looking out into the suburbs and listening to Modest Mouse. It was a great mix, which I highly recommend. Well, here I am, hopefully living on the healthy side of life. We shall see, oh we shall see.

LIAH #1141

Dear Charles Wang,

My name is Andrew Southard, and I have been a fan of the New York Islanders for eight years.

I need you to understand that as one of your 100 percent diehard loyal custumors, I am telling you, that you are fucking up sir.

Your dedication to keeping the team where they are is admirable and undeniable. I'm talking about hockey though, and this team right now is playing like shit. We have some very good young players, but that is about it. We need an NHL experienced head coach, to start, and quite frankly we need an NHL experienced GM as well. Garth Snow is a hell of a drafter but we need more, and he's clearly not getting it done.

Please clean house and get us some proper fucking builders to finish this and get this team right. There is too much at stake here, and I like to think you know that. The Islanders desperately need to be relevant right now and they're not even close.

Please, with all due respect, get your fucking shit together. Please.

Let's go Islanders,
Andrew Southard

LIAH #1140

Happy holidays, to you and yours. That's been my go to holiday wish for people, "to you and yours", that's just class all the way. I spent my Christmas(or fifth night of Hanukah) like a true jew, eating latkas and bagels with lox in Queens with the family. It was a nice day. Now I'm going to go see The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo and get some Chinese Food. Fincher!

LIAH #1139

I am incredibly happy to say that I am done with this semester. I've got two left to go, which is one more than I was expecting, but I'm shooting my thesis film next semester. This is it, game time. This is the shoot I've been waiting for, for a very long time. I'm going to give this everything I got, and I can't fucking wait. Boomer 2012.

LIAH #1138

We live in a fake world. A fake society, fake culture, fake ideals, fake people, fake celebrities, fake music, everything is fake. Our generation is defined by autotune, spray tanning, and reality television. What's the running theme here? Fake. Does this suck? Yes, yes it does. The results of this are shitty music, shitty looking people, and shitty television.
Technology has lobotimized us. Facebook has isolated us and provides an arena for the fake. Twitter has reduced our thoughts to 140 characters or less. YouTube has made celebrity possible for anyone, making us all very, very stupid in the process.
I am an optimist though. If the 2000s were the years of the fake and stupid, I'm hoping the 2010's turn out to be the years where we defined ourselves as not morons.
Beavis and Butthead is back on TV and Ron Paul is surging in the polls. I believe.
I hope in 2012 we elect a president who will end the war on drugs, bring all of our troops home overseas, and cut 1 trillion dollars from budget in his first year of office. Two fake wars and fake money.
End the fake.

LIAH #1137

tomorrow is december. i'm going to start setting monthly goals for myself. december, i'm going to relearn piano. january, i'm going to learn spanish. february and march are both undecided. april and may have one distinct purpose in mind, to make the crap out of Boomer. to do what? oh you'll see.

LIAH #1136

This is it. The time is now for the New York Islanders to get out of their funk and make something of this season. The past three games the Isles have lost 6-0 to Boston, 5-0 to Pittsburgh, and 4-3 in overtime to Philadelphia. Next is a home and home against the Devils, and the Isles need to step the fuck up. What's become clear through this losing is a few things. The defense is shit and has too many has beens, Coach Jack Capuano seems to lack a game plan besides "working hard and hustle", Blake Comeau has scored 0 points the entire season, and their goalie situation is not solved by the 15 year contract man Rick DiPietro. After this losing streak, Blake Comeau has been waived and Al Montoya, the much better goalie, has come off the injury reserved. It's time to sweep the Devils in the home and home, and get this season back to where it should be, a trip to the playoffs in the least. The time is now.