Whazzgiving 2008

Posted on November 24th, 2008 in Special by whazzmaster

Here’s the menu:

  • Turkey
  • Root mashers
  • Stuffing
  • Green Bean Casserole
  • Relish tray
  • Sweet potatoes in some form
  • Dessert (TBD)
  • Some kind of rolls
  • Cranberries?

Here’s the shopping list:

  • Turkey
  • 3 pounds yukon gold potatoes
  • 1 pound of carrots/parsnips/celery root
  • 1 package butter
  • chicken broth (see if we have some)
  • fresh chives
  • half and half (small container)
  • Green Beans
  • French onions
  • Cream of Mushroom sopa
  • 1 pkg celery
  • 2 medium onions
  • Fresh parsley
  • 1.5 pounds of high-quality white sandwich bread
  • 4 quarts of chicken stock
  • eggs
  • Pillsbury rolls
  • 1 tri-tip steak
  • asparagus
  • 2 avocados
  • 1 tomato
  • cilantro
  • hot sauce (cholula or tapatio)
  • 2 cans frozen lemonade
  • 2 cans frozen orange juice
  • 1 bottle peach brandy
  • beer
  • two liter 7-up
  • broccoli
  • (good) salsa

Penzey’s List:

  • cayenne pepper
  • dried sage
  • dried marjoram

To Do:

  • Get knives sharpened
  • Buy turkey roasting pan
  • Buy dispoasable pans for cooking stuffing
  • Get turkey baster (maybe?)

What In The Hell Was That?

Posted on November 14th, 2008 in Antics by whazzmaster

I agree with Cal. All I figured out how to do was crunch that dude’s head over and over again.

Oregon Trail don’t got shit on me– I’m off on a 3 city tour today from San Jose to Los Angelos to St. Louis to Milwaukee.  I’m playing the Orpheum in each city, and might just make it home to Madison by midnight.  I sure hope I don’t have to sleep on a St. Louis park bench, at any rate.

California was OK but rushed this time out.  GMX, if you’re out there, I’m real sorry we didn’t hook up for lunch or dinner.  I was scheduled for marathon meetings and just usually ate dinner and then went to sleep to get up early the next morning.  But while the extra-curriculars sucked, I did get a lot done at the office for the short time I was there.

UFC and poker tomorrow at my place.  HOLLLAR back youngin.

Milwaukee’s Best

Posted on November 9th, 2008 in Tha Weekend by whazzmaster

Spacebee and I kicked it in Milwaukee last night with good friends Arlo and Jen.  To my delight, I found out that Arlo now has a blog on the interwebs at Arlo’s Bloggity Bloggy Blog-Blog.  To my dismay, I found out that madd has been moonlighting over there in comment section without my knowledge.  I don’t care what other websites he visits, you see, but I damn well want to be able to watch the fun when other comment threads crumble under his expert punditry.  Anyways, we had dinner a terrific Mexican joint across from the airport and then drank crazy beers at a post-modern beer bar.  We finished the night with Rock Band action and this morning Arlo served us tea and pumpkin pie.  I love that guy.

I’ve been crumpled in a chair in O’Hare for last 3 hours waiting for my connection to San Jose.  Barf-a-roo: these are flight times we can believe in, my friends.  Eventually I will saddle up to the front desk at the Crown Plaza and get myself a hunkerin bunker for the next week, but I hate travel so much that… uh, I guess I just hate traveling.  Whatever.

I never followed up that election thread with any sort of results.  FYI: Barack Obama won.  I made merry at the Lawman’s party and am currently cutting together a short documentary of my footage from that fateful day.  Mostly I remember walking through upper middle class near-west side Madison yelling at my phone.  Ultimately I made it to the Blue Moon to hook up with a newly-off-work Spacebee.  I made merry there for awhile as well and then went home and busted upon my pillow a maneuver that I like to call: The Crash.

I’m working on my yearly goals document right now at work and under my ‘Goals/Priorities to Achieve True North’ I have: Be the motherfuckin’ Six Million Dollar Man of making teams STRONGER and FASTER.  It will likely get excised from the final version but whatever.

Anyways, they just bumped my fligh to another gate because they are asshole motherfuckers, so gotta run.  HOLLLAR back you jerks.

Election Day Jam-Bo-Ree 2008

Posted on November 4th, 2008 in Politics by whazzmaster

Spacebee and I got to the polls at 7:45a and found extremely long lines.  They did some rejiggering though, and we only ended up waiting an hour.  Yesterday I hung door hangers down on Langdon to tell those frat dudes where they could vote.  Today I knocked on doors around Mifflin to tell people (a) today is voting day and (b) go up the street to vote.  Three quarters of the people I talked to on my route had already voted: nice. I took some video with my weird little video camera and I’ll be testing my iMovie Skillz later on. Look for an update with an exciting video of me walking down the street.

I know a lot of you jerks don’t like government, voting, passion about anything non-wrestling-or-poker, or just anything in general but fuck you anyways.  I don’t want to live in a world run by lunatic Republicans anymore.  Here’s an interesting map you can use to see the results:

I’ll be at a results party tonight drinking scotch. If Obama wins I’ll be happy that that dumb motherfucker and his kind aren’t running this place anymore. And if McCain wins I’ll probably break the bottle and slit my wrists. Happy Election Day!