Titles are for Sissies

2006-08-22T10:25:00.001-07:00

Logan has never heard of Lawrence of Arabia or David Bowie. I'm in tears.

2006-07-08T22:32:00.000-07:00

My birthday was just a touch over a week ago, but it just now occurred to me to reflect on the past year. In a word, damn. It was a huge fucking year in my life, man. i turned 21. i learned how to drink, and i learned how to overdrink. i tried pot. i figured out that i'm not actually a big fan of pot, but at least now i know because i tried it. i started to fall in love. i lost my virginity. i got dumped and faced the downside of being emotionally invested in a relationship. i realized that i was going nowhere in college, and indeed nowhere in life. i subsequently admitted my failure at higher education, then i vowed to try again in the future. i agonized, man, for weeks over the fact that i couldn't hack it in school. i'm a smart kid, man, with air quotes. That's my identity. i'm a "smart kid." And yet i failed out of college. i made my peace with it. i wiped away the tears of anguish, and i strode forward into unemployment. My unemployment continues even today, after two months of searching for a job. i've run out of money no fewer than 4 times during the last 6 months. i've found myself to be the best person i've ever been, education and employment aside, and as a result of that last little gem, i've come through it all an overall happy person. When you consider all the shit i've piled on myself the last 12 months, it's a miracle that i'm happy. It's a fucking miracle.

2006-06-14T23:58:00.000-07:00

life sucks. not all of it, no, but most. i'm speaking here of my life, mind you, not life in the general sense. i need a full-time job. i need money. i need some sense of urgency or ambition. and i need to do this all myself.

which brings me to another reason why my life sucks right now. people seem to think that i want/need their advice. i don't. there are VERY few people whose advice i'm interested in, and i've asked them. if i haven't asked you for advice, i don't want it. period. so shut the fuck up and stop bringing it up. it's my problem, my business, not yours. i know you've got your own goddamn business to mind, so get to it.

i mean, maybe i was being naive when i expected other people to grow the same way i have, to learn what is and isn't ok to say or ask, especially with other people around. obviously, that was a foolish thing to expect, because certain people have completely failed to grow in these aspects, and it routinely ruins my day.

all of these things have kept me up now almost 2 hours after i went to bed. so, in conclusion, god damn it.

2006-05-04T19:32:00.000-07:00

Oh.

My.

God.

2006-05-04T13:51:00.000-07:00

Classic.

2006-05-04T13:08:00.000-07:00

sidney lowe.

check it.

2006-05-01T23:10:00.000-07:00

i feel i ought to address a certain issue. First of all, awesome that NC State had 3 defensive linemen selected in the first round of the NFL draft this year. williams was a no-brainer for the top 5, and lawson appeared to be a solid first-round selection, but mccargo came as a surprise to me. Ah well, such is the NFL draft.

What isn't awesome is analysts looking at State's record this year and using that to devalue 3 excellent players. Our defense was still very very good. It's just that our offense was anemic. Do a little fucking homework, guys. Yeah, the team overall was mediocre at best, but our defensive line was one of the best in the nation. Why do all sports analysts besides jay bilas, bill walton, and harold reynolds seem to want me to hate them?

In happier news, there's this gem. It pretty well speaks for itself.

And also, i know it's sort of an old story, but i simply can't get over the fact that he managed to tarnish the name of "pete rose." Simply extraordinary.

Ok, that's all. i pretty much ran the gamut of emotions in 5 paragraphs. Peace.

Eric

2006-04-26T18:45:00.000-07:00

Fuck lee fowler. Fuck him a lot. When herb left, i was optimistic. "Hey," i said, "this is our chance to get a better coach." We have not gotten a better coach. We've wasted a month of valuable recruiting time only to be turned down by some coaches and straight avoided by others. Now we're going to end up with a worse coach and no recruits to put under him. i don't want john beilein. i don't want a perimeter-based offense. i wanted john calipari. i wanted steve lavin. i wanted frank haith. All three of them gave us the finger. For the foreseeable future, NC State basketball is well and properly fucked. Goddammit.

2006-04-16T21:23:00.000-07:00

First of all, and i know i'm a few days late on this, but here it is, anyway: ramon hernandez.

!!!!!!!!!!!!

Second, i have a new favorite show. It's on MTV, and it's called Yo Momma. It's hosted by Fez, and it pretty much consists of funny people making fun of each other for half an hour. Tell me how nobody thought of that before now.

That is all. Peace.

Eric

2006-04-11T01:29:00.000-07:00

john calipari (in case y'all hadn't caught on, i started not capitalizing "i" because.....well, because i'm lazy, but also because it's a bit egocentric, if you ask me; so as not to seem down on myself, i've decided to capitalize no names in this blog. so yes, it's on purpose) You know what? That's a really long parenthetical, so let's start over. john calipari was in Raleigh today (yes, i capitalize cities, towns, and states), according to local radio, which suggests to me that there was a fairly solid source, or else the station would be pretty roundly ridiculed for its awful reporting. Then again, dan rather. So who knows? The point is, there's a decent chance calipari is at least seriously considering taking this job. And why not? As i may have stated on here before (and you know what? It's my blog, so i'll repeat myself as i see fit), if he wins a championship at Memphis (schools, too), he'll go down as a good, maybe even great coach. If he wins a championship at State, he'll be a legend. The man would never buy his own meal in this state again. So yay. Peace.

Eric

2006-04-08T09:29:00.000-07:00

Last night, i watched josh powell score two points for the Dallas Mavericks. This morning, i found out julius hodge got shot around 2:15 this morning. Just a really strange 24 hours to be a State fan.

josh has an NBA career, so he's certainly alright. julius is in fair condition at the denver hospital, so he's alright. also alright is my friend m. hecht who flipped her car yesterday. Funny how the weirdness piles up sometimes, isn't it?

Eric

2006-04-05T18:41:00.000-07:00

i'm not wearing any pants right now because i ate too much Hibachi Express (which logan bought me out of the kindness of his heart because i'm poor and he's generous). We played a round of disc golf at a course i'd never played before. It's called Buckhorn at Harris Lake Park. Great course. Real tight, wooded course with some water hazards. It's crazy windy by the lake, windy enough that on one upwind shot, my disc actually stopped in mid-air, hung for a moment, and then slowly sank to the ground. awesome. i played really well, especially early.

But that's not why i'm here. Our men's basketball head coach left for ASU over the weekend. Good luck to him, i'm very happy for him, but i'm also very happy for us. See, herb sendek is a good coach. Some might call him a very good coach. Nobody worth talking to would call him great, though, and greatness is what's required when the other two coaches in the region are mike krzyzewski and roy williams. That's obviously true, we'll trouble ourselves no further with that issue. The issue i wish to discuss is his replacement. Several names have been mentioned. There are many as yet unsubstantiated rumors stating that rick barnes has been contacted about the job. Also being mentioned are john calipari, jay wright, jim larranaga, phil martelli, frank haith, and others. Personally, if i had my pick, i'd take calipari. he's young (42) but with a lot of head coaching experience already under his belt (14 years), he builds teams that are fun to watch, and he could really get the most out of some of the talent on this team. i know his program at UMass was dirty, but it hasn't been at Memphis (that we know of). Plus, there's the fun possibility of throwing squid on the court after a big win (get it?). My vote's with him, but i've got a feeling we're not gonna get him or barnes. Call it a hunch. Peace.

Eric

2006-03-29T09:57:00.000-08:00

The Saga of Bloodninja

really funny. really obscene, too, but not with pictures or video or anything. Peace.

Eric

2006-03-28T20:17:00.000-08:00

Jason and I set metal on fire tonight.

Thermite. It's a mixture (9-4 by volume) of aluminum powder and iron oxide powder that burns at about 3000 degrees fahrenheit (that's right, I know how to spell fahrenheit). We made a small pile of it on top of three Dominos pizza boxes, lit the magnesium fuse (see, a lighter's flame isn't hot enough to ignite thermite), and took several steps back (three THOUSAND degrees, man).

The thermite caught fire and burned nice and slow, sorta like a big sparkler, except way hotter. then it fell down into the pizza boxes through the holes it burnt in them. The flames were huge and bright, and the boxes burned long after the thermite was gone. We doused the flames and examined was was left of the pizza boxes. They were specked with iron: iron we melted.

In short, this is the manliest thing I've done since I drank beer and watched sports on saturday. Peace.

Eric

2006-03-27T18:30:00.000-08:00

So I played golf today, for the first time ever.

I suck.

Seriously, y'all, golf is hard. I mean, yeah, it seems hard. But it's harder than it seems. I did, however, have a lot of fun. And I did make a few decent shots. Hell, I hit one over water. It was a small pond, but the ball landed within 15 feet of the hole. To me, that's victory.

In related news, I'm tired. I seriously need to get more exercise. I go up two flights of stairs and my quads tighten up; I walk 18 holes and am too tired to get off my ass the rest of the day. Even by my standards, that's disappointing.

That's about all I feel like writing about. Peace.

Eric