The Stormy Present

Jeff Francoeur got sent down to the minors to work on his swing yesterday. This is especially crappy since I’m going to the Braves game tomorrow and now won’t get to see him play. Over at SP Sports you can read my post about why he is still my favorite Brave and why the people that booed him are complete assholes.

Also at SP Sports is a post recent post arguing that it is ok to pull for a college team even if you didn’t attend that college. Then over at The Stormy Present Society you can read a post debating what the best bad movie of all time is and then read a post debating what the most underrated movie of all time might be.

Happy 4th.

I’m back in the States and already I’m sick of election coverage. Anyway, thanks for the comments while I was gone and now perhaps we can get this thing back on track.

Over at SP Sports read my post about how it is ok to pull for a college team even if you didn’t go to that school. Over at The Stormy Present Society page you can read my post about what the most underrated movie of all time is.

Just to catch you up, also at the Society page is a discussion about what the best bad movie of all time is and over at the Politics page there is a post wondering whether or not justice delayed is justice denied in relation to the elections in Zimbabwe.

So if people come back and start to read I’ll try to up the number of posts as will Jeff and Jim and Brad. Happy reading.

I go on vacation for a week and everything shuts down! Well I’m back now but about to catch a flight back to the U.S. of A. This not only means that I will miss the Euro 2008 final, but will also have to prolong the agony of relatively few posts.

But to tide you over until the jet lag and depression wears off you can read three new posts. Jim wrote a good one that has video. So go over to The Stormy Present Society page and check it out. Watch Tim McGraw pull a guy out of the audience and then shove him toward security. Then discuss whether or not that story would be reported in a humorous or positive light if it happened at a rap concert. Interesting thought.

Also at The Stormy Present Society page you can read my post about what the best bad movie of all time is. I think the answer is painfully obvious, but I encourage everyone to chip in with any other suggestions for the title.

Lastly, I had to write a little piece about the elections in Zimbabwe that are taking place today. I wrote this piece last week when people were wondering whether or not the elections should be postponed. If you read my piece over at The Stormy Present Politics page, you’ll see that I didn’t think they should be. Of course no one cares what I think so the MDC pulled out of the elections and now it is pretty much agreed that the elections should’ve been postponed. So give that a read, keep Zimbabwe in your thoughts, and let me know what you think in the comment section.

I know that title is offensive, but when you are finished reading this post you’ll see why comedy insisted that I do it.

So the Celtics beat the crap out of the Lakers despite the fact that I wrote a post that specifically detailed why Boston Doesn’t Deserve It. Oh well, at least David Ortiz is still out with his (steroids related) injury.

In other sporting news, you can go over to SP Sports and read Brad’s newest post about that casual fan named Hank who owns the Yankees. Not only does the post make fun of Hank, but it also gets it into a discussion of why the National League is superior to the American League.

Also, if I were to tell you that by simply reading a post about soccer you could see hot topless Euro babes, would that be something you might be interested in? If so, at SP Sports if you read the post about EURO 2008 called The War in Europe, and then read the comments, then you will be rewarded with a link in the comment section that directs you to pictures of a soccer match between hot Austrian babes and hot German babes who are all topless (hence, the title Hitler’s Wet Dream).

Just as you cannot resist checking out topless Euro chicks, Jeff could not resist putting up a post about Senator Obama. But who can blame him? When you see a bumper sticker on facebook that reads, “anyone but Obama” something has to be done to fight that sort of douche-baggery. And Jeff has been fighting douche-baggery since 1982. So go over to The Stormy Present Politics page and check out his post examining the mentality of someone that would say, “anyone but Obama”. Also my own Obama post is below his so if you haven’t gotten your daily quota of all things Obama, then feel free to read my piece called The Opportunity of This Moment.

If a fist bump is a terrorist jab, as Fox News called it, then the largest terrorist organization in the world is the NBA.

I came up with that joke over the weekend and felt the need to use it. Also over the weekend, my underdog pick for Euro 2008, Turkey, ensured that they would make it through to the knockout stage. And in a combination of the two previous things, a joke and Euro 2008, a friend of mine here in South Africa insists on calling the French national team “The African All-Stars” because half their team hails from Africa (which makes us think that soccer dominance was the real reason for French colonialism).

Back to the website. Over at The Stormy Present Society you can still chime in with your thoughts about Brad’s post The Office Space of High Fidelity. You can also read the latest post in which I share the experience of my worst job and others have shared their experiences in the comment section. So give that a read and add your worst job experience.

Over at the politics page you can read about why Jeff is going to ‘go silent’ in regards to Senator Obama. He’s hoping it will be a sort of reverse jinx, which is funny because he does the same thing with football (spend 3 days talking about how awesome your team is and follow it with 3 days talking about how your team sucks and is going to lose by 100). To pick up Jeff’s slack, I’ve posted something I wrote for work a while back about Senator Obama. It’s written for a South African audience and references the situation here in South Africa, but might be an interesting read anyway.

So enjoy the new stuff, keep commenting on the old stuff, and treat your baby momma with the respect she deserves.

What am I going to do on Sunday mornings? We have truly lost an asset to American politics, and to they way they are presented to the American people. Tim Russert was the last blank slate when it came to engaging and interviewing persons of political power. As anyone who tuned in on Sunday mornings knew, he always questioned and fought for truth no matter who was across the table. 

I can’t imagine being in Tom’s shoes, having to return to a desk after leaving years ago, only to announce the death of a great colleague, and a great friend. Tonight we should all pour a cold one for lil Russ.

First of all let me welcome everyondpe with a fist bump, which is apparently also known as a “terrorist jab” (here’s the link in case you missed this bit of Fox News greatness)

Secondly, we’ve got two new posts and some great discussion going on. At SP Sports you can read my piece about how I think we should all be watching Euro 2008, how soccer inspires ’sporting nationalism’, and my excuse for why Americans haven’t fallen in love with soccer.

At the Politics page you can read my musing about the Bilderberg Group, David Stern, and the J-Curve. It isn’t that good, I just wrote it because I wanted an excuse to a) make people aware of the Bilderbergs, b) talk about the genius that is the J-Curve, and c) compare David Stern to North Korea. Just thought I’d tell you that in the interest of full disclosure.

But maybe the most interesting thing for your weekend will be to read the post and following discussion surrounding Brad’s post The Office Space of High Fidelity over at the Stormy Present Society page. Read it and comment. We can all relate.

Enjoy your weekend, and Go Turkey for Euro 2008!

Why did we start this blog? Why do we continue to update and write stuff for this website? The answer is boredom created by a Quarter Life Crisis.

Speaking for myself, I wish my brain would manifest Tyler Dergan so he could make me drop out of society and do cool stuff. Even though I’d eventually have to shoot myself in the cheek, I think this would be an improvement on my life in terms of work.

Brad addresses this issue of being a 20 something who is up-happy with their work life in a much more eloquant way than what I just wrote. So go over to the Stormy Present Society page and read his post called The Office Space of High Fidelity. Excellent stuff and sure to get a lot of comments.

In a similar vain, I wrote a post at SP Sports about whether or not it is ok to use “we” when referring to your favorite sports team. Kind of like the Royal We except masculine. And why is this an important issue? Because if your work sucks you have to find meaning elsewhere and sports the place to get it.

See it’s all connected in a sad quarter life crisis sort of way.

Since Friday was D-Day I thought we should hold off making announcements for a couple of days to allow the D-Day post (below) to have the prime spot out of respect.

But now it’s Monday and we’re back to business unusual. So here’s what has been going on over the past couple of days:

At SP Sports you can read why Jim is going to give in and watch the Finals. Beneath that post you can read my little homage to John Smoltz, which isn’t all that interesting but did spark a debate in the comment section about who your favorite Brave is. That debate is worth checking out.

At The Stormy Present Politics page you can read my 2008 Election Trilogy: Part 2. This one uses Star Wars to analyze the present state of the election and what might happen as we approach November. Below that you can read Jeff’s post called “The Audacity of My Father”, which is hilarious to read and the discussion is equally funny as we taunt all the false information sighted in the anti-Obama email and discuss the stupidity of the Left Behind books.

Finally, at The Stormy Present Societypage you can read my in depth analysis of Sex in the City; not the movie, but the series as a whole and how it related to men and women. I think it’s pretty funny. Funny enough to risk my manhood by writing a post that has the title, “When She Left Aiden, That Said it All”.

On this day in 1944 the invasion of Normandy began. In what was to become the largest single day invasion of all time, over 130,000 troops landed at 5 beaches on the Normandy coast.

I know I speak for everyone associated with The Stormy Present when I say that the soldiers who took part in that invasion did something so unbelievably brave, patriotic, and heroic that they should be remembered every day and most especially today, the 64th anniversary of the invasion. I’m also sure that we all agree that every American should take a moment to consider the sacrifice that so many men made that day, the sacrifice that so many more soldiers have made throughout the entire course of our nation’s history, and all the brave men and women who have  risked and currently do risk making that ultimate sacrifice in service of our country.