Raffle-Man

Posted on August 17th, 2008 in Gambling, Tha Weekend, Things I Like, Video Game Reviews by whazzmaster

I was entered in the following raffles at Elburn Days this weekend:

  • Three entries into the $20,000 or 2008 Chevy Malibu LTZ
  • Two entries into the $3,000 vacation package (or cash) Firemen’s Raffle
  • Upwards of a dozen entries into the Elburn Basketball 30″ JVC Flat Screen raffle

As of press time I have not heard that I won any of them.  A man can dream.

Tim and I played bingo for about an hour today and I BINGO’d one time, butso did another guy and I only won $25.  One lady won after 4 numbers were drawn (horizontal across the middle).

We ran the Elburn Days 5K on Saturday morning (after staying in the beer tent late on Friday night).  I limped in with an embarassing 33:30, which I suppose isn’t bad considering that my ‘training’ was to run 1.5 miles on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday of last week.  Say lah vee.

No segue: if you have an XBox 360 I highly reccommend the games Braid and Geometry Wars 2.  Also: Too Human comes out this week.  I got the demo last week and that game is damn awesome; I’m definitely picking it up.

No segue again: Wednesday is the semi’s and finals for our summer volleyball league.  We’re seeded second and our first game starts at 7pm (champeenship at 9pm).  We played kinda like garbage last week, so it’ll be interesting to see if we can finish off what was a pretty good season.

Cast ‘Member’

Posted on August 11th, 2008 in Things I Hate by whazzmaster

The Brewers game today wasn’t on TV so I had it on my radio while I worked.  They ended up sweeping the Nationals (awesome) and I happened to leave the radio on while I was doing other stuff.  Anyways, I ended up hearing a commercial for some joint out by the mall called Tilted Kilt Pub.  Apparently these dudes are trying to give Hooters a run for their money– which I guess I can understand but there were two things that bothered me.

One: From their ‘about us‘ page:

The idea for a modern American, Irish, Scottish and English sports pub was the brain child of successful restaurateur Mark DiMartino. Wanting to impress Harrah’s hotel executives, Mark dressed in his finest T-shirt, ripped Levi’s and well-worn Chuck Taylor sneakers and pitched his idea of a contemporary, Celtic theme sports pub staffed with beautiful servers. And guess what the uniforms would be… knee-high socks and short, sexy plaid kilts with matching plaid halter tops under white shirts tantalizingly tied to show off the midriff.

There really is a lot of backslapping going on here when the idea boils down to: Hooters + Less Orange Shit.  Don’t try to sell me that this is the idea of the millenium.

Two: They’re using the Vegas Showgirl-Style of employee management.  All of the employees are called ‘cast members’.  From the Kilt Kareers (?) page:

The Tilted Kilt is always looking for talented and service-oriented cast members. We’re casting the rolls of: Tilted Kilt Girl, Tilted Kilt Host and Tilted Kilt Bartender in new and existing sports pubs now.

Bottom line: we don’t have to abide by any equal opportunity loaws because we are casting a role not hirin– fuck it NO UGGOS ALLOWED!  Dude, unless I’m at dinner theater I don’t want a ‘cast member’ serving me food.  No, fuck that, even at a dinner theater I don’t want a fucking cast member serving my food.  You (pointing at actor), act. You (pointing at waitress), serve food.  Don’t want to eat there… unless they show Pay per views, I guess.

Nom Nom Nom

Posted on August 9th, 2008 in General by whazzmaster

This post won’t so much be about substance as me catching up with all the shit I’ve done lately.

First things first: I signed up for that Facebook shit. You on there? Hit me up.

Next things next: I’m coming to Seattle on Thursday, August 28th until Sunday, August 31st.  I don’t have a place to stay on Thursday night– can I crash with you, maddddddddddddddddd? We could go out and play Golden Tee and errythang.

Last things last: Wwhazz, are we having any sort of poker/dice/bags game tonight?  Will it just be me and you watching the PPV?  Sceizzer, get over here to watch Brock LesNAR do a 360° spinning piledriver.  Anyone else that wants to come over for booze, UFC, and gambling… you know where I’m at.

Check this out: Bernie Mac died today. Sad.

Techno-roundup

Posted on August 4th, 2008 in Site News by whazzmaster

I can’t believe I can update Whazzmaster from my iPhone with the new Wordpress app. Crazy times we live in; crazy times.

Thanks You Bay Area, You’ve Been A Great Audience!

Posted on August 1st, 2008 in General by whazzmaster

Good night! *BAM*

Seattle Special

Posted on July 27th, 2008 in YouTube by whazzmaster

Space. Bear. Weather report!

Space. Bear. Summer Report!

I could swear that’s Atmosphere.

Xmas in Fucking July

Posted on July 24th, 2008 in Brewers by whazzmaster

The Brewers are surging, Kerrry Wood’s arm fell off, the Cardinals are getting swept at home (Albert Who?) and The Onion has the breaking news: C.C. Sabathia, Prince Fielder Keep Imagining Each Other As Giant Talking Hot Dog, Hamburger.

MILWAUKEE—The Brewers’ playoff push has run afoul of an unusual distraction, as sources close to the organization confirm that newly acquired husky starting pitcher C.C. Sabathia and sizable power-hitting first baseman Prince Fielder continue to visualize one another as a 6′7″ chili cheese dog and a 260-pound hamburger with all the trimmings, respectively.

So– I’m out in California and I can’t see Brewers games anymore.  I just get off of work, look at the scoreboard online, and see that we’re kicking the shit out of Team X.  I can handle that.

Btw– fuddruckus and manders had Baby Two this week.  Grace-o has a baby sister.  Her whazzmaster name?  Hmmmmm.  Either maven or ant; I haven’t decided.  Why doesn’t everyone congratulate them on this joyous occasion!  Huzzah!

Hey Cal– you wanna do something this weekend? Sunday in the City?  Eh?  Hollllar back, youngin.

Tim, C.C., and Me

Posted on July 7th, 2008 in Brewers, Golf, Music, Tha Weekend by whazzmaster

Spacebee, her sister, assorted friends, and I all went to Summerfest on Thursday.  I got her Tim McGraw tickets for her birthday back in February and she was ready to cash in.  All in al it was a good Summerfest trip– we stayed at the Hilton in downtown in Milwaukee and I got mistaken for Jason Aldean when we pulled up in front.  The concert itself was pretty fun (really drunk) and then we walked back to the Hilton from the Summerfest grounds afterwards.

Saturday morning we played disc golf out at Elver Park.  I’d like to do it again, so anytime anyone wants to toss some discs hit me up.  I also played golf on Tuesday at University Ridge with Scubby and down in Racine yesterday with my brother and JOEY~!  Yo wwhazz, my bro said he was going to have a poker tourney at his new house for his birthday this year– reserve August 23rd or 24th.

Finally: C.C. Sabathia.  I’m of mixed thoughts about it.  On one hand I hate to see them deal LaPorta; I would have rather them dealt Prince now and brought LaPorta up.  But I see why they did what they did– in a push for the division they’d rather have a known arm AND a known bat rather than take a chance on bringing up LaPorta in the heat of a pennant race.  However- I’m seriously concerned about next year at this point.  Sheets will be gone, CC will be gone, our top prospect is gone, Cameron is gone.  At a cookout the other day when someone broached the idea of dealing Prince I was shocked at first, but the idea makes a lot of sense.  He hasn’t really shown consistency, and his leadership seems (from afar) more like bullying.  If someone else wants a guy who hits 50 homers one season and 25 the next, and wants to deal us an arm for him I say go for it.  More and more in retrospect I like the Braun deal.

So, overall I’m concerned that they’ve mortgaged the future to make one final push in the division.  I suppose that’s pretty much the only way a small-town team can do it these days.  But if the Cubs keep surging and the Brewers fizzle out– *shrug* there may not be much to look forward to next season.  I’ll stay optimistic for now, though.  This is the first time the Brewers have won a mid-season pickup sweepstakes in… well, ever?

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