U-DUB

pretty place. for those who haven't heard, i accepted last week and will be headed back to school next september. here are some pics from the sunny days we had in Seattle.

Great freaking news!

Yes, my footballing nerdiness is on full display this week, my friends. And I have no regrets! So why stop the fun? This is probably the best news a Mank fan (see here, definition #3) like me will have until they secure the treble in a few months time: Cris Ronaldo pledges his future to Manchester!! This blog has not been shy about its love for the Portugeuse winger, and will continue to lavish him with praise (as long as he continues to mesmorize and score goals that carry United through games). And now we get to continue watching him at Old Trafford through 2012! Exciting stuff folks! A great kickstart to the weekend. I just hope this whole Friday the 13th thing doesn't put some weird curse on the whole deal. If he goes out and breaks his leg next match, we'll take that as a sign that it did.

And, not only is he one for the gents to admire and attempt to imitate on the field, but chances are the ladies will also find him quite pleasing on the eyes. Behold, "The Angel of Football":

Friday the 13th

Just a friendly reminder to all the Domesticants out there: watch yourselves today. If you see this guy around, alert the authorities and run like hell.

OH LA LA!

UNITED 7, ROMA 1

Wow, while I was wasting away at work earlier this week, Manchester United were putting on a clinic at Old Trafford. Check out these SEVEN FREAKING GOALS! Carrick's are especially pretty. This youtube clip is in French, and after Carrick's second the announcer does this funny "Ohhh la la!" thing, highly entertaining so be sure to watch with the sound on.

Also, Roma's lone goal was amazing. One time volley out of mid-air from di Rossi, who wasn't even facing goal. Yes, this is the same prick that slogged Brian McBride in the face (youtube clip if you need a refresher) with his elbow last Copa.

Enjoy, this is an entertaining 2 and a half minutes.

:::NEWSFLASH::: this just in...

The news has it that the photographer is the real baby's daddy. So, when this guy ends up moving to the Bahamas and dying a mysterious drug related illness, maybe we'll start to think this other guy had something to do with it... am I getting this story correctly? I have to say I haven't been following the trials and tribulations of the Smith baby paternity battle, but it seems to me like this Bahamaian law-dog Stern is a low-life creep. While this Birkhead character is just a money grubbing dude like the rest of us.

He's obviously happy with the outcome, seen here (left) doing Mike Madono's fist pump (we could describe it as Tiger's fist pump, but hommie Larry has got some serious hockey-hair... and if you went to high school in MN you know exactly what I am talking about).

And this my friends is headline news. God bless America.

Compulsory blog posting on "Spring"

All around the vast array of tubes that make up these here internets, it seems like everyone is doing their "spring" post right about now, including peleton members Abe, Kraemerica, Slurry, and Ms. Minneapolis (ok, I don't know if Mindy has, but she's a pretty active blogger so I am giving her the benefit of the doubt, but feel free to go looking around for it on your own).

Spring in DC is nice. Here are some pics to prove it. This is DC's Southwest Waterfront, as seen from a morning spin around Haines Point.
And, as this is a compulsory blog posting on Spring, it obviously needs to have plenty of cherry blossoms...
cherry blossoms with ft McNair in background...
cherry blossoms with DCA in background...
And here you can see what happens after only a few short days or weeks in bloom, all the petals fall off and cover the ground like snow...

Here is "the awakening," the statue at the SW tip of Haines Point.
Spring also means golf to a lot of people... so here are some shots of the Haints Point (East Potomac) Golf Course:

And finally, I'd be remiss if I didn't share with you some shots of our nations phallus, and the throng of people waiting in line to get inside of it (3rd pic). But first, the tidal basin:
There you have it folks. Spring.

Check out Billy Graham

Wow, just read this e-mail interview with the Rev. Billy Graham at the Strib. Interesting. He's really mellowed in his old age. This passage struck me as remarkable:

Q Have your views on such issues as foreign policy and homosexuality grown more liberal through the decades?

A Well, I hope they've grown more balanced over the years, although I try to avoid labels like "liberal" or "conservative." When I was young, I thought I knew the answer to almost everything, and I cringe when I look back at some of those ill-considered remarks. The world is complex, and as I've grown older I've learned that foreign- policy issues, for example, usually aren't as easy as they may seem on the surface.

Homosexuality is not a lifestyle that is endorsed by the Bible, although I don't believe Christians should single out homosexuals for condemnation or contempt. God loves the homosexual just as much as the heterosexual, and so should we. We have all sinned, and we all need God's grace and forgiveness. We also all need God's strength to fight temptation and to change our lives.

If there is one thing I dislike, it's intolerance. I would even go as far as to say I am intolerant of intolerance. And I actually think that is only mildly, if at all, hypocritical. And while Billy Graham and I disagree on just about everything, at least we agree that we're all sinners in someone's eyes and that we should "judge not lest we be judged."