Escapades in LA (now with more cowbell!)

-Saw Wil's dred locks for the first time in person
-Touched them
-Made fun of Wil for playing Sean Paul in the car when he picked me up at the airport
-Went to Hooter's for the very first time
-Was given a balloon that said "Hooter's virgin" on it
-Our waittress was pretty cute
-Wil made me carry the balloon back to the car
-Drank far too much my first night
-People wouldn't stop giving me drinks
-Got much love from UCLA fans since I was wearing my Texas hoodie
-I wore the hell outta that hoodie
-"Swing danced" awesomely.
-And by awesomely, I mean not awesomely, since I cant dance
-Drank a jaeger bomb through a straw (wtf?)
-Peed off a balcony
-Got molested/assaulted by some hippie while I was passed out on the sofa
-Woke up the next day in a Mexican cabana boy shirt
-I'm not even sure what a Mexican cabana boy shirt looks like, but I was definitely wearing one
-I'm still learning new details about that night
-There are conflicting reports on if I puked or not
-Went on my very first Tech Scout
-Was given the nickname 'Tag Along'
-Ate at In 'N Out Burger
-Watched Raiders of the Lost Ark
-Went to the worst 80's party ever
-Still had a good time.
-Had the whole Scott Baio thing goin
-Went to the Elephant Bar in my 80's getup
-I was totally awesome
-Ninja Assassins: The Movie......it's gonna be fuckin' huge!
-Watched the AFC and NFC championship games
-Seahawks won, yay
-Steelers won, boo
-Lost $200 playing limit hold 'em with these old guys that throw money around like nothing
-It was the first time I ever really played limit hold 'em
-I was also really intimidated and got nothing but crappy cards
-Anytime I had something OK, I got beat by some guy chasing a flush
-Was pretty bummed afterward
-Actually hottubbed it with some folks from UT
-One of them went in the hot tub fully clothed
-It was hot
-Took over the jukebox at Pat's Cocktails, since we were 2 of like 5 total people there
-Sang rather loud as I am wont to do
-Saw DJ Qualls in a Wendy's
-I went up to him and asked if he "wanted to smoke some drugs"
-Not really
-Met a member of the Academy
-She hadn't seen many of the potential Oscar nominees nor did she even know when the Oscars were
-She did, however, say that I had a very cute Texas accent
-I have a Texas accent???
-Listened to Matisyahu's 'King Without a Crown' about 3,471 times.
-I still don't know the words
-Except for..."Shiggy Yiggy Oh, Yiggy Yiggy Oh!"'
-Kicked it old school and drank a 32 oz. Smirnoff Ice
-Went to Chicago.
-Came back from Chicago.
-Built a bookshelf
-It was harder than it should've been
-Ate at an authentic Japanese restaurant and sat on the floor at these tiny tables
-I had hot saki for the first time
-I ate the entire meal solely with chopsticks
-My legs hurt afterward
-Watched South Park on network television
-Hottubbed again
-Visited all the locations from the Tech Scout again
-Got to see Wil bribe somebody
-Saw that Wil had Dominique Swain in his phone
-He wouldn't call her, though
-Was asked to be in a porno
-I declined courteously
-Was asked to film a porno
-I declined courteously
-Watched The Empire Strikes Back
-Saw the Sunset Strip
-Went to a Mexican restaurant called Casa Vega
-The wait was an hour and a half, though, and they wouldn't let us in the bar because it was too crowded, so we went to find a bar
-Ended up at Sushi place
-Drank hot saki and some japanese beer and got sufficiently buzzed from that since I'd barely eaten all day
-Went back to the Mexican restaurant and eventually managed to get into the bar
-Had two ginormous maragaritas
-Was really drunk and could barely eat my meal
-Helped Wil flirt with the 30-somethings at the table next to us
-They looked at lot younger, and one was pretty hot
-Wil concocted some story about me recently breaking up with my "girlfriend" because she constantly snooped around in my stuff and got mad about dumb little things
-For how drunk I was, I think I did rather well in keeping the charade going
-Nothing came of it, but it was funny
-Made a fool of myself
-Went to a Karaoke bar
-Was going to sing 'Regulate' with Wil, but they didnt have it
-I was gonna be Warren G, and Wil, Nate Dogg
-We couldn't decide on anything else to do, so we just hung out
-Saw Mr Belding (aka Dennis Haskins) at the Karaoke bar
-He even sang a song
-Eventually, I went up to him and asked to take a picture
-He was really nice and kindly obliged
-I couldn't remember his real name, though, and didn't want to call him 'Mr. Belding'
-I actually uttered the words "I'm a huge fan" to him
-Someone bought me a jeager shot that I reeeallly didn't need to do
-I did it anyway.
-Came back to the ATX
-I don't want to go back to work
-I'm freakin exhausted
-Met lots of people over the 2 weekends there
-Had a freakin blast
-I want to go back

"I'm trying to be a good teammate here. Let's just say we had some protection problems"

Peyton Manning is such a douche.

Quit your bitching, take some responsibility for when you suck, and stop blaming everything on your teammates. Nothing ever seems to be your fault. If you're trying to be a 'good teammate,' don't go right out in the post-game press conference and blame your O-line.

Douche.

"It's certainly not from a lack of effort on my part. I can honestly say that. I never walked off the field saying I could have done more to prepare for this game. I can't tell you how much I studied these guys the last two weeks. I really expected to play Pittsburgh and really studied them hard. I'm going to keep trying. That's all I can do."

"We had some, uh . . . I know in playoff games y'all are going to ask me questions about other areas and other positions,...I'm trying to be a good teammate here. Let's just say we had some protection problems. I'll give Pittsburgh credit for their blitzes and their rush, but we did have some protection problems."

"We just had some, just some . . . looking for a safe word here, guys.....Pittsburgh did some things that just gave us some trouble. They had some good looks. They've got good players."

Boo hoo.



I'm now rooting for the Seahawks and....ugh...Broncos.