Monday, May 18, 2009

Pure Randomness

This blog is randomness at its finest. I was having a hard time trying to think of what to say so I just hit random letters in the search box and went from there. At this point I have no idea what I will talk about. Tomorrow I might give you part three of The Return of the Dragon Gods story.

Well I’ve been trying to find a way to go see the new Star Trek movie, especially since so many of my friends and family have seen it, and my last idea to go see it with my father fell through, however I acquired some money and plan on seeing tomorrow. I bring this up because during our conversation with my father last night my sister mentioned downloading the movie and I don’t really understand why people do this. Why is it people feel the need to download movies to watch them on their small in comparison computer screens? I think this is one of the many things that I will never understand. I can understand watching DVDs on the computer because by that time the movies have been through the theater. In my opinion the best way to see a movie is in the theater on the big screen in the comfortable theater chair. Then you have people who download movies that haven’t even come out in theaters yet like the recent Wolverine movie. This movie was not even finished yet and people downloaded it, watched it, and don’t care to see the movie in the theater but yet complain about how the movie wasn’t that great. Well I can firmly say that I will not download any movies, music on the other hand is different. I have no problem downloading music. Music is meant to be enjoyed anywhere. You don’t have to sit down to listen to music.

Well my next topic that came up is actresses that I like. Well there a few actresses that I enjoy watching the movies of, the first of these actresses that I enjoy watching is the beautiful and intelligent Julia Styles. I have enjoyed watching her in movies since I first saw the movie “10 Things I Hate About You” which was based off of the Shakespeare play “Taming of the Shrew”. In fact Julia is the only actress to have been in the most modern Shakespeare movies she’s been in two more. Although my favorite actress is Eliza Dushku, I think the main reason I like her is the fact that in most of her roles she plays a strong woman that would have no problem telling you how she felt. I first saw her in the movie “True Lies” with Arnold Schwarzenegger playing his daughter; however I really fell in love with her when she played Faith in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Random Bachelor Dare Card of the Day: ”Get a group of guys to serenade a sweet thing with “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’”. Use your beer bottles as microphones a la Top Gun.”

That could be fun although I doubt I could get many of my friends to do that.

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Sunday, May 17, 2009

Ybor City Adventures

Wow what an interesting night! What started off as a few friends going to a local bar to do some karaoke turned into us going clear down to Ybor City and seeing many interesting sites.

It all started because my sister (Laziest Overachiever), my other sister, her best friend and roommate, and the Hobbit all decided to go out clubbing instead of our usual Saturday night routine of playing Dungeon’s and Dragons. Well since a good chunk of our players were not going to be there due to having a girl’s night out we made the decision to have a guy’s night out, so The Bruised Knight, the husband of the Hobbit, the husband of the Druid, and I went out to have some fun.

We started off going to a sports bar called Overtime, however the was a band playing there and the chances of the Knight and I finding any fair maidens were pretty slim so we made the decision to go somewhere else. After driving south on 19 for a while we made the decision to go down to Ybor City as well. First though we decided to stop to get something to eat, so we went to McDonald’s. Well it was pouring down rain and the poor girl working at the speaker could not here a thing so she was asking us to give our orders at the first window. Well we got there and two of us gave our order to the poor girl. When we told her we had a third order we were told we had to go around again so we went around a second time and gave our order after this they realized I hadn’t ordered and told me that since I had no money they would pay for me, so we went around a third time and gave our order to the poor girl whom I’m sure by now was sick of seeing us. Well after I got situated with my food (opening my sandwich wrapper and putting my straw in my drink) we were off.

As we were driving down 41 I found something out about my friend, Druid’s husband, he is quite the back seat driver. As we were coming upon the split to go either to Dale Mabry or continue on to 41 he first said to go one way then the other, luckily at this point my memory kicked in and I was able to go the correct way all the way until we got off of 275. It was after getting off of 275 that senility set in and I went the wrong way. Thankfully through a combination of road signs and my memory of the area I was finally able to get us to Ybor City.

After driving down the strip for a little bit while maneuvering around the city to find a parking place The Bruised Knight and I saw all kinds of beautiful maidens and were quickly distracted. Once we finally found a parking place we were off.

After walking down the strip seeing all sorts of shinies we first made the trip to Gameworks to utilize the facilities. While there we quickly made the decision that if the Knight and I were to find any maidens we would have to go elsewhere. From there we got a little lost and I caught a glimpse of a few interesting and shiny maidens that were getting a drink from the Coke machine as opposed to their castle to which they obviously belonged. It was after that that I made the decision that adding The Castle to places to check out for the night would not be such a bad idea.

We next wondered to Coyote Ugly. Along the way there though the poor Knight had “fallen in love” quite a few times. Once we got to the Coyote Ugly Saloon we witnessed two very beautiful maidens singing and dancing on top of the bar. The best part was when some guy’s girlfriend paid for him to get what I can imagine is a penalty shot. The guy walked up to the bar and one of the Coyotes wrapped a towel around his eyes and used a belt to hold his head back, she then proceeded to pour Jack Daniels down his throat straight from the bottle, after that she grabbed a sharpie and lifted the back of his shirt to write something on his back, and finally after writing on his back she used the belt and whipped him 2 or 3 times on his derriere. Unfortunately I could tell that Druid’s husband wanted to leave so as we left I took a mental picture of the many fine maiden coyotes.

Our party then proceeded to walk around a little bit and finally went to The Castle. Before we even got in the door I “had fallen in love” with the fair maiden at the door . We then proceeded to become engulfed a mixture of techno music, leather and interesting maidens. While there we ran into my sisters, the Hobbit and their friend. All’s I can say about that experience is wow my one sister and the Hobbit were definitely having a good time has they both had consumed much liquid courage. We stayed at the Castle for a little bit and I must admit I “fell in love” with one of the beautiful maidens dancing upon one of the pillars. However I must say while there were many things there I enjoyed seeing there was one in particular thing I did not care to see at all. I would explain this thing but since I have to keep this family friendly for right now just say a few words and leave the rest up to your imagination. Slightly overweight, mesh hammock. Well after that we proceeded to go home although we made a quick unscheduled drive through the ghettos we each did finally make it nice and safe to of our homes.

The Random Bachelor Dare Card of the Day: “Do a tequila shooter, but lick the salt from the neck of a sexy stranger.”

That sounds like something that would have been fun to do last night.

1,037 words. Sorry it was so long but last night was so interesting and fun that I even after condensing it there was a lot of stuff to write about.

Saturday, May 16, 2009

How I came to be known as Romeo without a Juliet

Well while thinking of a topic to write about today I realized that many of you have seen and called me by my other online name Romeo without a Juliet. In fact way back at the New Year’s party The Bruised Knight even introduced me as Romeo without a Juliet. So I figured I’d explain how I acquired that name. I’m going to warn you right now though it is a long but interesting story.

It all started way back ten years ago in the year 1999 I was working at McDonald’s and so was this girl named Stacy. Well before long after getting to know her I started developing a crush on her. Well I told a few of my coworkers and for some strange reason my boss Marie. Well on MLK Day that year she came into work and one of the people whom I told, Jeff, was having a conversation with her and Marie the whole time they kept looking back at me from the front counter in front of the bin. Well since I’m a paranoid guy when it comes to that kinda stuff I thought that they said something to her. So after talking it over with my friend Ben I decided that since she already knew I liked her then it wouldn't hurt to ask her out.

So about a week later as I was leaving for work I asked her if I could talk to her, and she asked me to come back later when she was on her break. Well I came back later nervous as hell and she was sitting down in the booth. So I sat down in the other side and stammered out something close to "You probably guessed this was coming since you know I like you so here it goes. Stacy would you like to go out with me?" This came as a big surprise to her since up until that point she did not know that I liked her. I found out this little bit of information from her response. She responded by saying, "Dave, I didn't know you liked me no one told me, but I'm in the middle of trying to get out of a bad relationship and I have to see where I'm going to go from there." Now I don’t know about all of you but to me that sounds like a big maybe. We even sat around and talked for a while after the 500 pound gorilla had left the room.

Well a few weeks later it was the week of Valentine’s Day and she received a carnation from this guy Paul. The next day I talked to Marie about it and she told me that Paul was trying to go out with her as well and that was his way of trying to get with her. Well I for some reason decided that I would play along with this game and decided that anything he could do I could do ten times better. He thought he’d be romantic and gave her a cheap carnation from school. Well I figured I can easily out romance him.

I checked the schedules to see what time she was working on Valentine’s Day and came into the store that day with a dozen red roses, a card with a poem entitled, “Why do I Love You?" in it that I copied by hand from a book, and a stuffed dog holding a heart that read, “ I Wuff You”. Unfortunately Paul was also working at the same time so he was doing everything he could to disrupt the moment including stacking up cups like a pyramid and knocking them down. Well after a while he had the nerve to come up to me and tell me to back off because he was trying to work on her as well and the tension was too much or something like that. Well I said my goodbyes and I left.

A few weeks later even after word had gotten around about what I had done she chose to go out with Paul. Well after hearing that one of my managers came out and said Stacy was stupid for choosing Paul over me, “a regular Romeo”. The funny thing is a week or so later Stacy dumped Paul because “he was a moron”. I must admit this part is true about him. This guy was a manager and when he left one day with the bank deposit he set it on top of his car and drove off leaving it for some little kids to find and thankfully turn in. Stacy and I remained friendly up until I moved away and down to Florida. I must admit though I still carry a torch for her, after all these years.

So anyhow that is how I came up with the nickname Romeo without a Juliet. I’m just a hopeless romantic who I know one day will find his Juliet, but for now I’m not actively looking I have too much going on in my life to worry about that.

Anyhow before I say something I end up regretting later (one of the perils of posting at 1 AM) I’ll present the Random Bachelor Dare Card of the Day. Today’s Random Bachelor Dare Card of the Day is: ”Find two ladies who will make you their ‘meat’ in their bump-n-grind ‘sandwich’ out on the dance floor”

That sounds like a lot of fun I could defiantly give that dare a try.

921 words. Sorry it’s so long but like I said an interesting story.

Friday, May 15, 2009

Fears (A Formal Warp Chalenge)

Well tonight I was sitting around trying to come up with a theme for today’s blog. I was going to just pick a random letter of the alphabet put it into a search engine and see what comes up and then just blog about that. Either that or if I had a dream I’d blog about that in the morning, however I was struck or should I say almost bitten by an inspiration. Tonight I was taking out the recycling bins and my dog noticed and proceeded to annoy a wolf spider. I quickly shooed my dog away before he was bitten and tried my best to kill it from behind our screen. Luckily my step father was up and he was brave enough to attack it with and empty bottle of laundry detergent. Anyhow this brings me to the idea I have come up with.

I formally am throwing out a challenge to my fellow competitors what are you fears. Now I’m not talking about small petty fears I’m talking about fears that alter the way you would normally proceed in a situation. I personally can tell you I have two major fears and one half fear.

The first fear and my most noticeable is ophiophobia or a fear of snakes. I’m not sure how this fear got started although where I grew up in Ohio I was surrounded on two side by about an acre or more of woods. In those woods lived a bunch of snakes that just loved coming into our back yard. Granted these were just garter snakes which are harmless however when you are four or five years old seeing one on your stoop as you go outside to play on your swing set can be quite frightening. This fear must have grown throughout the years and just knowing that in Florida there are many poisonous snakes I now run like hell at the mere mention of a snake being around. (Don’t go getting any ideas Bruised Knight.)

The second of these fears is the fear of what people think of me especially in social situations. While growing up I was constantly made fun of for just about everything and now it seems I am always second guessing myself in social situations especially around new people and around cute women. I believe this has been a huge hindrance in my ability to find a woman. My friends keep saying I need to find a Miss Right Now however I can’t even walk up to a cute girl because I’m always afraid I’m going to say something wrong and botch my chance with her, or in the case of FPG them, and this fear is what keeps me so shy. When I first met my now close group of friends I barely said a word to them. This was mainly because I didn’t want to say anything that could harm a potential friendship.

The other fear is more of a half fear than anything; it is a small hint of arachnophobia. My arachnophobia is only in proportion to the size of the spider and the color of the spider. In other words most spiders don’t bother me, however the bigger the spider the more frightened I get the same goes with color, the more colorful the spider the more afraid I am. This is just mainly due to the fact that in Florida there seems to be a lot of poisonous spiders and most of these spiders are big and colorful.

So there you have it my three biggest fears; snakes, what people think of me, and big colorful spiders. Now it’s your turn.

Now for the Random Bachelor Card of the Day: “Ask the bartender to give you gifts from the Three Wise Men: Jack, Jim, and Johnny (Daniels, Beam, and Walker).”

Now that’s a dare I can do easily plus it sounds tasty.

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Thursday, May 14, 2009

Energy

So anyhow it’s that time again, time for me to blog. Unfortunately since I am also having problems with my website I’m sort of doing two things at one time. Right now I figured since I’m sort of stuck until Dreamhost sends me my darn password I’ll start to write about what has been on my mind today.

Ever since coming back from FPG Beltaine I have noticed some things happening both in my life and in the community. First I will start with the good and what’s been happening in my home since I returned from FPG. Before I left I had gotten into a few verbal arguments with my stepfather. The energy in my house was so negative that I hardly wanted to come home. Then when I came back it was like the energy in the house did a complete 180. My stepfather, who just a few months ago said something like I’m going to prey for your soul so that it does not go to hell because you are pagan (Not his exact words but pretty much his meaning.), has been asking me intelligent questions about paganism and even went as far as having me talk to the air conditioner guy. You see the air conditioner guy was wearing a pentacle around his neck and apparently he mentioned to my stepdad that he had no idea where to go around here for pagan events. So my stepfather comes and gets me so that I can help the guy out and tell him about our wonderful community (or at least when it wants to be) and the various events and places to go. I proceeded to tell him about Java and Jam on Tuesday nights, I told him about our website (http://phoenixprojects.org) and told him about the wonderful list of events (that I need to update and add to) that are on the main page, I even pimped out our Midsummer event, and when he asked about a place where he could buy magickal supplies I directed him to Magickal Mayhem in New Port Richey. So needless to say it has been weird here in my home but a good weird.

Now I’ll talk about the bad. The other thing I have noticed since coming back from FPG is all of the negative energy that seems to be floating around the community and growing rapidly. This saddens me because at FPG the vibe and the energy there was mostly good. This is one of the things I am looking forward to at Midsummers, all the good energy. I am seriously hoping that all of the negative energy that has been floating around stops soon because after all the good energy is what makes this community so great. I will admit that I may have stirred up a small portion of it however when I realized this I backed away. I’ve been hearing about too many people having a problem with The Bruised Knight, whom I consider to be a close personal friend that I will stand by, but no one is approaching him about it instead they are running around and telling everyone else. This right here is a major cause of negative energy and I hope that it does stop soon.

Well after much consideration and demand I will bring back the Random Bachelor Dare Card of the Day. However I do not plan on doing it on story days. Anyhow tonight’s card is: “Announce to the bar that your friend is getting married and would like to have one last fling, so you’ll buy a drink for the first woman who gives him a condom.”

Wow that was an interesting card and a fun one as well.

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