LIAH #970

broke, broke, broke. tough times with the economy. i'm still working on getting that job at build a bear, hopefully it works out. in the mean time i'm skewering craigslist to try and find something. i'm sick of it. yes skewering. that just happened.

LIAH #969

there's something about october baseball in the bronx. there's nothing like it. absolutely nothing like it. and now we're going to the world series. how freakin exciting is that. it's been a long 6 years since our last trip and an even longer 9 years since our last win, and a lot of pain and hardship since then. 2000, i was 10 years old. simpler times. didn't have to deal with nicotene withdrawal. it's not that bad i'm being melodramatic, but anyway, the yankees are going to the world series. it seems that all is right in Yankeeland. four more wins, thats all i ask. four more.

LETS GO YANKEES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

LIAH #968

I quit smoking cigarettes. Yes, I quit smoking cigarettes. I want a medal, parade, statue, and a blowjob. I'm not feeling good, and I read it's helpful to write a good-bye letter to cigarettes. Sounds ridiculous, but it sounds like a good LIAH. This is more for myself and it's not going to be funny or anything. If the Jets win tomorrow I'll write about how happy I am and include a joke or two.

Dear Cigarettes,
Where to begin. It all started in 10th grade. I was on a date with an ex girlfriend. I don't know why I was there, but I was. She ended up getting mad at me and ditching me, for really stupid reasons, but that's when I first found your comfort. I was with Z-man afterwords and this kid Johnny Bave, and I wanted a cigarette. I don't know why I went to you but I did. What followed was about five years of smoking.
I went to Djarums first, kind of like clove cigarettes. Before I would go on dates with another girlfriend(the girlfriends stopped happening after this one, related to smoking? i don't know) I would have a Djarum and feel suspicious smoking it. I wouldn't look at people in the street as if they were looking at me with disgust. After that I slowly moved on to Marlboro Lights.
I feel like everyone's first cigarettes were Marlboro Lights. They were nothing exciting, and which is when I had my first solid loyal cigarette in Marlboro Menthol Lights.
During Junior year of high school they were my cigarettes. That was until I quit for two weeks my Senior year of high school. I was quitting for a girl and that was stupid, I wasn't doing it for myself. After two weeks I had a Marlboro Menthol.
I was a Marlboro Menthol guy for the rest of high school.
Upon going to college, I moved over to Camel Lights. Camel Lights were the shit and I stayed with them until yesterday.
Until yesterday, because now I am an ex smoker. Cigarettes, you made me feel good many times. There were times where I felt I needed you, but I'm afraid waking up every morning hacking up a lung is not something I want to deal with every day.
I've dumped way too much money on you. I'm not going to calculate how much, but at 8 dollars a pack, I just don't want to know.
We're done. It is you, not me. This is your fault. You're really bad for me and I'm not dealing with it anymore. Every day I feel like shit and it's your fault. No more.
Here's to the future.
Andrew

LIAH #967

i literally can NOT stop listening to the pixies album, doolittle. i've had surfer rosa forever, but this album, is so fucking good. i've listened to it stoned, listened to it straight, listened to it tired, listened to it when i get up in the morning. i can't stop. i know i'm like fifteen years late, but seriously go get it, now.

LIAH #966

go see where the wild things are. it isn't a movie for kids, and it certainly isn't light hearted. spike jonze wants to get to you emotionally with this film, and he does, by displaying childhood in all it's honesty. while he does this he paints this beautiful portrait, just stunning cinematography. spike jonze is one of my all time favorites with being john malkovich and adaptation. also he's made some of the sweetest music videos with sabotage, buddy holly, and weapon of choice. this is his masterpiece, and i want to see it again. i highly recommend you go see it, more so with mary jane and imax. you serious? come on its epic.

LIAH #965

i was watching the daily show/colbert yesterday, because it's really the best place to get the news seriously, and i found out about how this health care bill got passed. supposedly it was a really stripped down version of the bill so i'm not really sure what it accomplished but it passed. and it passed because a republican senator went out of her party to pass it. now as the very proud co-founder and former president of conservative americans united, and as a registered republican, i really could care less abotu this bill being passed but more so that a senator(it might just be a representative i don't know/don't care) is being applauded for voting out of her party. why is this a big deal. this shouldn't be abnormal. it can't be so incredibly divided that nothing can ever get done. it's all a fucking joke. the more i think about it, the more we need people like ron paul in government. there's too many politicans and no one cares about this country anymore. god forbid you go out of party and maybe lose supporters. fuck that. it's all going to shit.
rudy '12

LIAH #964

well, desperate times call for desperate measures. in our troubled economy, finding a job is not easy. luckily, one franchise is always willing for my services. that franchise being build a bear workshop. i kid you not. i'm being called up to the big leagues at the store on fifth avenue. i've got an old connection there, and i dominated the bear promise on my audition. i felt like johnny drama auditioning for the new melrose place, but i nailed it. i really wish i was kidding about all of this, but i'm not. I, Andrew Southard, bearstuffing professional, am getting ready for my second tour of duty at the workshop. in the meantime i plan on taking a vacation for the next week and smoking myself off of Earth. once i return, back to build a bear.

LIAH #963

islanders lost today. they put up a fight in the last 5 minutes, but that's about it. it's all good though cause of the yankees sweep and the jets are on monday night football tonight. i'm a huge monday night football fan. something about football on monday, i always try to watch it. now we have mark the sanchise in the national spotlight, i'm pumped. i'm close to finding a job also, so everything is starting to come together. a win tonight would be huge.
also, i got NO greater joy than seeing jonathan papelbon completely blow the red sox season. ah all is right in the world. i don't give a shit if he wants to play for the yankees, our bullpen is too dirty for him anyway.
we could always use a good bat boy though.

LIAH #962

old time yankee baseball. with arod playing like arod. mark teixara is just godly. it's been too long. the boys in the bronx are making noise.

LIAH #961

second only to rick reily, bill simmons is one of the best sportswriters out there. even though he's a dirty new englander red sox/patriots fan, the man is fucking awesome. i suggest you just go through his column on espn, it's great. after sports illustrated gave away reily espn is just king. click 961.

LIAH #960

there really is nothing like playoff baseball in new york. in the bronx excuse me, the only thing they've got going on at citifield is the shake shack. as much as i despise my former employers, damn they make a good cheeseburger. an even better milkshake. but anyway, what a game last night. they're having fun out there. arod is hitting. jeter is jeter. damn, it's just awesome to watch. who doesn't love october?

LIAH #959

man, what a show at the garden. there really is something about that place, it has that aura to it. yes, the fucking new york ranger tards play there too, but whatever. the only ranger game i've been to the islanders won 7-4. anyway, blink-182 just blew my fucking mind. backtrack.
i get there, around 1. i get to the back of a small 50 person maybe at most line. some dude throws a consent form at me. whats this? oh just sign this cause we're filming a documentary(blinkumentary i've heard of this gonna be sweet and now i'm on it) and the band's going to come out and say hi. give me two of those. i forged zmans signature quite nicely, and of course quickly after that the zman himself comes around the corner. i told him we were meeting blink and many dude!s we're exchanged. around twenty minutes after i met mark hoppus. boom. i told him that he brings the awesome on a consistent basis. zman got him to sign his shirt. mark hoppus is simply just the dude. it doesn't get much more complicated than that.
that could've been a day in itself easily and one for the record books, but there was still a show to be seen. we sat on line for a solid 4 hours after being hopped, it wasn't that bad. met some chill blink fans, had a dirty water hot dog and half a pack of cigarettes, and at one point a bus drove by that looked like a boat. i kid you not.
eventually we got in, ran, and got on the gate. right next to the stage. legit. now i don't need to explain how incredible that is for blink, it does have its downsides. listen, fall out boy sucks. sometimes maybe i'll listen some of their music but all of that is taken away by how much of a herb pete wentz is. anyway, as i'm suffering through this shit hole, the other guitarist with a beard talks to me and zman in between songs. once again, i kid you not. he tells us we're not rocking hard enough. i told him we were there to see blink. he then told us he promised to go nuts if we did. i was like, eh, well this is awkward. so we gave them some for when they covered don't stop believing. kind of cool the guitarist talked to me and zman, i'm a fan of that guy. but fuck fall out boy. pete wentz wears fake eye lashes. herb.
anyway, after our little entanglement with fall out boy, after a long wait it was time. blink. they have a curtain up before their set, and i know i'm close to the stage but i want to see this. it falls and they go into dumpweed. the set was pretty similar to last time i saw them but they played obvious and don't leave me, two awesome songs. every song they played was just sick. for stay together for the kids they go, "this song is about us". seeing tom and mark play their hearts out towering right over me was just insane. like i was saying before that energy was there. it felt like an intimate show but yet it was huge. amazing.
has it topped green day at giants stadium for the first spot on my top 5 favorite shows? i don't know. it's as close as anything and a solid number 2 that i can say for sure.

LIAH #958

islanders season opener tonight at the coliseum. bill guerin, the former captain, coming back in a different uniform. john tavares making his debut tonight. hockey season is back. hockey season is back!

LIAH #957