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So X-mas break has officiallt started. Here is the tenative list of things I have planned for this break:

To start there are 2 PCS bowl games featuring Pitnells and crew, one the day after Christmas, and one on New Year's Day. Also, in the vein of sports, the Skittles Classic bowling tourney.

Speaking of tournaments. I hope to get some people on board for a Tecmo Super Bowl season over break. If it ever snows, sledding will certainly be on the menu also.
And how could any sports conversation happen without mentioning RAW at the War Memorial, Dec. 27th....o man.

However, the bulk of the break will be spent hanging out, lounging, loafing, pursuing leisure, and other such activities. I hope to complete or work more on some schemes with Neil and possibly Ben, as well as doing some cooking and baking.

Other plans include hanging with the old MCQ crew, like Eddie, DeNips, J-Rich, Jamie, Buda, Kreckel, Horvath, Jeremy Marks, etc.
I also plan on spending some quality time with the old Y gang also, as well as some shopping and chilling with Shannon.

Overall, it should be very rewarding.


Today's list is culinary in nature. We all know the elites of the candy world, like Snicker's Reese's Cups, Kit-Kat, etc. These may be delicious, but there are other candies that are often overlooked.

I present the most underrated candies:

• Mallow Cups
• Goo-Goo Clusters
• Raisenettes
• Heath Bar
• Zero Bar
• Cadbury Eggs
• Andes Mints
• Dum-Dums
• 5th Avenue

Peace Love and Understanding

The Time I Realized Food Service Sucks

So in today's post, I thought I would rap about work. No one likes going to work. That's why we have weekends, so we can be free from the fetters of labor for two whole days.

Anyway, I thought I would tell a little tale about when yours truly worked in a fine eatery as a bus-boy. Now, for those of you unfamiliar with the duties of a bus-boy, basically we have to do all the crap that the waitresses feel too important to have to do.

Now, it was bad enough that this establishment had only two bussers working at once in a huge packed house on Friday nights. It was bad enough that I was literally the only person employed there who had actual life aspirations like, oh I don't know....COLLEGE??

But, things were about to get worse. You see, there was a particularly foul waitress named Heidi who worked there. Heidi looked like a fish, but without a fish's winning personality. She was a bitch in every sense. She was a single mom who home-schooled her son, and never ever shut up about it. She treated me like crap whenever she could, especially after discovering that I had done such pompous things as graduating high school, and getting my name right on the SATs.

Well, one particularly busy Friday night, I saw an entire table of people stand up and put their coats on. They then proceeded to exit the restaurant, leaving a stack of nasty dishes and empty wine glasses on the table. After being dogged all evening by that jerk Heidi for not working fast enough, I decided to jump into action. I cleaned and re-set the table in record time. After doing so, I discovered a wrapped birthday present under the table, so I took it to the hostess, figuring in their rush, the party had forgotten it.

As it turned out though, they had merely gone out to SMOKE. I was informed of this by an incensed Heidi who proceeded to yell at me in front of the entire restaurant for not taking my work seriously, and then when I would try to argue, she would put her hand in my face and walk away. I told her that being using basic intelligence, seeing a group of people all leave a table with a stack of dishes in the middle, usually indicates that they are done eating and leaving for the evening. I also informed her that like the majority of Americans, and unlike every other single person employed there, I am a non-smoker, so the thought that these people were on their way to light up was not exactly the first thing on my mind.

She then proceeded to come up to me at several other points in the evening to inform me that I was unprofessional and yadda yadda, all while I was tryint to work. Then she told my boss, a miserable Italian troll named Jimmy Romano, fresh off his return from the Island of Misfit Stereotypes. I had it out with him too. Lord, do these people use any logic or common sense at all? Probably not.

Needless to say, I quit just a week later, citing that it was just getting to be "too much" to work there. Understatement of the year. I will never ever work in food service again as long as I live.


So, for today's list, I thought I would stay with the TV concept.

The Coolest TV Dudes of the last 10 years:

• Theo Huxtable (Cosby Show)
• Uncle Jesse (Full House)
• Eddie Winslow (Family Matters)
• Cody (Step by Step)
• Noah Allen (The Mystery Files of Shelby Woo)
• Bobby Budnick (Salute Your Shorts)
• Arnez (One on One)

Peace Love and Understanding

Creeps and Pervs

I never claimed to be the coolest guy in the world, nor the smoothest. I never claimed to be a "playa" nor a "pimp." However I know there are certain behaviors that are acceptable while interacting with the opposite sex.

Luckily, I have been fortunate enough to witness some of perhaps the greatest creepery and pervertary to ever grace this world. I work at a summer camp, where obviously romantic tension between the counselors is bound to boil over. Some guys know how to deal with this tension. Others though, are not so bright. One particularly grimy member of our staff (let's call him "Big Red") felt compelled to show the ladies just how strong and barbaric he was, by lifting certain, more petite members of the female staff over his shoulder and run all over the place with them. Bold move, Big Red. Other members choose a more subtle route. They go for the old fashioned, "come-up-behind-the-girl-and-breath-heavily" maneuver. A classic! Girls love guys who make them feel uncomfortable....I think it's that whole "bad boy" thing.

Another great thing girls love is when, on those hot days. guys, like our old pal Big Red, thought he was doing the females a favor by slowly pouring water down their shirts when thet least expect it. That is a really smart thing to do, because girls hate being hot, and they love it when guys they barely know get them all wet.

These are some landmark events perpetrated by some of mankind's most brilliant innovators. Keep up the great work, you Creeps of Zion, you Pervs of Evermore!

Today's List is Catchiest Cartoon TV theme songs from the last 15 years:

• Pepper Ann
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
• Ducktales
• Darkwing Duck
• The Simpsons
• Muppet Babies
• Angry Beavers
• Kablaam!
• Animaniacs

Peace Love and Understanding

The Away Message: Gateway to the Soul?

Being a college student, I obviously notice lots of very very very stupid behavior. It might be said that if 68% of all college students were rounded up into a huge tractor-trailer and driven off a cliff, the world would function much much better.

However, what's worse than stupid behavior is how the after-effects of said behavior are dealt with. Rather than dealing with things in a low-key down to earth fashion, many students choose to use their AIM away message as a an outlet. It's as if they think "well, my boyfriend cheated on me...I'm so depressed. I think I should let everyone know with this vague emo song lyric about being depressed...yeah that will do the trick."

Ok, I get it...you are in a bad mood. Great. What do you want me to do? Oh bother, that girl who I am an acquaintance with seems to be having a lover's quarrel, as indicated by this alarmingly effective quote from Hawthorne Heights, that delightful rock and roll combo! Maybe I should send her a care package or order her flowers.

Bollacks. People need to stop taking themselves so seriously. Your world is not a soap opera. If nothing else, realize the world does not care about your every little problem.


If everyone just keeps their own backyard clean, we could have the nicest neighborhood in town.


Ok, now for today's list.

Sweetest TV dads from the last 15 years:

• Alan Matthews (Boy Meets World)
  
• Frank Lambert (Step by Step)
• Carl Winslow (Family Matters)
• The dad from Lizzie McGuire, just because he was also in Revenge of the Nerds
• Don Wrigley (Pete and Pete)
• Jack Arnold (Wonder Years)
• Flex Washington (One on One)
• and possibly the sweetest of all, Roger Parker (My Brother and Me)

Peace Love and Understanding

Nicknames, Bad Sitcoms, and Pick-up Lines

Man, I wish more people had nicknames. You watch TV and see carefully designed sitcoms like the immaculate "One on One" on the good old CW, and it makes you wish that you and your friends got into more wacky schemes and all had crazy nicknames, so when you all went to the local teen hangout spot, people would call you by that cool nickname.

In general, life should be more like a bad sitcom. Creeps like JT from "Step by Step" seem to have no trouble getting dates just because they make up elaborate lies, and then when the girl catches them, they say something lame like "I just like you so much...I wanted to impress you" and then girl says "all you had to do was be yourself" and then something like "let's start over....I'm Ashley." I don't get it. I am pretty sure that if I went to Disney Land, and told some girls I was "John Disney, heir to the Disney fortune," I would be laughed out of the Magic Kingdom.

So, in keeping with today's theme, my daily list will be about

Nicknames that were common from the 1950's-1980's that need to come back into use:

• Lumpy
• Whitey
• Lefty
• Mongo
• Duke
• Ducky
• Buck
• Squints
• Skippy
• Big Guy
• Clyde
• Stroker
• King
• Chocolate Thunder
  

Exam Day

Well, so exams started bright and early today...8 AM. I was out of bed before 7. I haven't been up that early since 8th grade, when I got up extra early to watch Family Matters before school on TBS.

It's Western New York and there is still no snow. In fact, at about 9 AM it was already about 50 degrees out. This is ridiculous. I can't even remember the last white Christmas I've seen in Rochester. Oh well....maybe we can get a 100 gallons of sno-cone and spread it out on our lawn, like in Full House...they presented life pretty realisticly, so I am confident that this plan can work.


In other news, with all this free time, I am gonna start drafting my first script for a musical called "Give My Remains to Broadway" about a zombie who wants to get big on, you guessed it, Broadway. Hopefully Neil Fridd and I will dedicate ourselves to one of our like 10 projects we have right now and get something done.


okay, well now it's time for today's list:

Little joys in Life

• The blissful feeling you get after bombing a test on a Thursday, and knowing you can live in happy ignorance for 5 whole days until you get it back the following Tuesday
• Not getting blown out by an opponent in intramurals
• Getting a chance to cruise around on one of those pre-Razor scooters, the kind that weighed a ton, with the huge rubber tires and brake on the back wheel. Those things rule.
• When that smug, smart-ass kid gives a laborious and pompous response in class and gets shot down by the teacher.
• Visiting the Planetarium
• PB & J on white bread and a glass of milk
• When your favorite sports team plays your friend's favorite sports team on TV, and your team wins.

Peace, Love, and Understanding

Study Day!

Today is the famous Study Day here at Geneseo, which means that I will probably be playing a lot of Nintendo 64 and maybe going to Wegmans.


As I write this, I am 10 minutes removed from a sound and peaceful slumber, characterized by awesom dreams where the Orioles win the World Series, or I become famous or something. So, bummer.

Today's list is of some of the worst aspects of college culture, Part I:

• Stupid-ass Chuck Norris jokes (LMAO LOL ROFL). The whole concept is just a rip-off of the Bill Brasky skits from SNL
• People who insist on telling you how much alcohol they consumed the night before, because somehow this will impress you
• Girls who use the term "suite" to subsitute "sweet" for terms such as "suities" or "suite life."
  
• Intramural Refs who don't pay attention to the games at all, except when their friends are playing, in which case they make lots of smug comments and inside jokes
• Theater kids
• Professors who, after you make a long and detailed analysis of something, simply nod, and say "Okay"
• And Finally, those guys who desperately seek an in with a group of attractive girls, and wussify themselves by getting super excited for shows like "The OC" or "Grey's Anatomy"in an attempt to come off as sensitive.

Peace Love and Understanding,

Ah, the first time is a charm

Ah, well so begins the maiden voyage of John Finn's undoubtedly awesome blog. Featured here will be all of my rantings, ravings, and tasty tangibles.

For Today's entry, I believe I will start with a list of things I hate:

• Dried ketchup under the lid
• Girls that tan too much and are orange and gross
• L'il Jon
• Slutty college girls
• Running out of milk
• Cliquey theater kids whose lives are one big inside joke
• Dave Matthews Band
• Mustard

Lists like this will conclude every post. Peace