The musings of a madman...

Look, it is no secret that I am a drinker. To those that know and have been around the family, there is no secret that the fact that I drink comes largely from being from a family that drinks. This blog, and likely few others to come, will be about that in general. But last night I got a call from Granny... [ Phlip note - in fact, put a pin in that one and we'll come back to it] It has been said that Tiger and Elin are buddy buddy again , now that he is out of damage control sex rehab, and thinking about returning to golf , and now they're being seen out in the world together again... The questions are out over what kind of sucker she is for accepting him back after his alleged transgressions of 12+ jumpoffs and just how earnest she is about making this thing work, or if she is in it for the paycheck. As I have previously opined (two links, that), I have been convinced all along that she was in it because the (by way of marriage) partner's share of anything is usually h

Your lack of planning really should no one's emergency but your own, and you're quite irresponsible to treat it as such. Anyone know somebody who ONLY leans on you when they want or need some shit that they could have planned better for? Know any who do this shit all the time? What, when this person is habitual in the fuckuppery, yet instead of copping to being a general fuckup would sooner yell at anyone in an make it everyone's fault but their own? Ever notice how this person is usually all about what you can do for them, but God forbid you need something in return, or even prompt reparations of what you have done? Lovely in this, how they'll usually build a network of yes-persons and suck-butts to tell them how great they are against all convention -- or at the very least to make excuses for looking past the elephant in the room. Never is it simply about the wanting or needing of assistance, but more about the continued doing (or not doing) the same shit ov

The internets and ESPN are abuzz with the talk of college basketball as they are at this time literally every year of our lives. The only redeeming things about it to me, though are that it stretches the time I can ignore baseball for a few more weeks in wait for the NBA playoffs. [ Phlip note - c'mon, baseball... Take on my suggestions and your game won't fucking suck!] Anyway... This is the time that, as described once before recently, coincides with that lull in the NBA (and Hockey, if you care) season where teams are gearing up to take it home. It also represents a time where the everyman (or what USED to be 'everyman') student-athlete from a small-to-midsize school can prevail in the land of giants. The word "parity" applies here. One problem... Players who once were able to just g'head and skip college and not even PRETEND to be taking classes now HAVE to go to school for one year and do just that. With that, you have what is now known as the one-a

SSC = S helby S uper C ars... Shelby = Caroll Shelby, the grand motherfucking daddy of sportscardom... Shelby SuperCars = ... fuck, you get it. The Ultimate Aero TT, therefore, is the top of the top of the motherfucking line. Prototyped in 2004, debuted in 2006, continues to now, but only 25 total... Under 3000 pounds, over 1000 (1183 to be exact), Berlinetta-styled coupe. Expect to unass about 5-600k for one of these. Oh, and get some driving lessons, as electronic pussifications, such as anti-lock brakes and traction control will NOT be in the building for your most-of-a-million outlay. Power comes courtesy of a Chevy Corvette (BLASPHEMY!!! Shelby is a Ford guy!) 6.2 liter twin turbo engine. 1183 horses and over 1000 pound-feet of torque. Anyone still miss that Ford motivation? Me either... I could go on and on about issues uninteresting to most of my 17 public and 4 private readers (yes, I have figured out how to see you too, though I can't identify you) and those who

I presented my FaceBook friends -- all people I have either met or at least conversed with in some realish-world fashion with the exception of fan pages, by the way -- and some folks via email with the question of the day: "H ow far does a man allow a woman to take it before physically defending himself ?" I then settled in for the last 40 minutes of my work day and waited for the responses to roll in, just to see what folks had to say in response. Keep in mind, the responses you will find here do not represent those of the staff (me) here at " The Musings of a Madman... " but of the individuals quoted as having said them. Any individual named and quoted will be such with a link to their own blog if you would like the chance to read them and hug it out with them. Or argue the merits of their response... As usual, my opinion and response will be last. First response, as is custom with the question of the day, was former coworker, Dominik (female, happily married),

NFL is gearing up for Draft Day and teams are feverishly releasing and signing players who already are and/or have been in the league for a while... And the Will he - Won't he Brett Favre drama rears its ugly head yet again. ... and Ben Roethlisberger allegedly inserting his penis in an unauthorized manner into someone's recently post-teenage daughter. [ Phlip note - put a pin in that one, I am coming back to it] The NBA is in the post-All Star lull just following trade deadlines, where players pay actual acknowledgment and medical attention to any injuries to prepare themselves for either the post season or next season, dependent upon whether or not they will even BE in the playoffs next year. We also see players posturing to shore up their stats, or make last-ditch efforts to make their names as huge as possible in hopes of windfall monetary gains in the offseason, if not directly through a free agent contract, then by any means necessary, word to El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz .

As I type this, it is now 1am on a Sunday and I am inexplicably awake and unable to fashion a full post on Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland . I will talk about what the hell I want to talk about... The sequel is entertainment's idea of striking while the iron is hot, or Jumping the Shark as it usually happens. Just sayin'. While in the theater, before the movie, we saw a movie poster for Sex and the City 2 , a sequel that I will never see to a movie that I have and never will see, and Katie has been henceforth advised as of this scribe. Part of me would be inclined to have to complain that sequels have been an ongoing problem with movies for the whole of my existence, what with the "trilogies" or longer series of my childhood. Star Wars , Indiana Jones , Rambo , Rocky and Terminator come to mind immediately. Horror movies are another example, but I am not terribly into those. The thing, with these, as they were, is that the stories were usually long since writt

Here I am... Had a doctor's appointment this morning, $4.00 (yes, four dollars) in prescriptions medication and zero copay at the office later and now I am home with the rest of the day off... [ Phlip note - I guess all that complaining I did about the cost of my insurance was unnecessary after all] Apparently, today marks the anniversary of a large historical occurrence. Being the internets nerd and researcher that I am, I decided that I would take a break from looking at images of naked women in Feedly to look and research what historically has taken place on this day... [ Phlip note - that is a link, and if you use an RSS Feed Reader, you NEED that, same if you have an iPhone/Android device] It would happen that today marks the occurrences of literally thousands of things throughout history, I decided that I would have a crack at 19 items to share with you. And here we go... 1454 – Amerigo Vespucci , Italian explorer and cartographer, the discoverer for whom The Americas ar

What you're about to read is a scribe co-written by the homie Galen Henderson... [ Phlip note - one of these days I will talk the boy into starting a blog, as I'd basically GIVEN him this one, lol] This topic seems to be a bit of a hot (or at least warm)-button issue, based upon recent events in the news, along with a prevailing opinion of my own. With that said, Mr. Henderson has the floor until I announce that I am taking it back. Greetings ladies and gentlemen. My name is Galen Henderson and at this time I would like to thank the resident SMPF Scribe for giving me these few minutes to post up a few words that’s on my mind. A couple of weeks ago, I stumbled across a Youtube video where the Sprite Step-Off Competition Sorority Division shows the team that won. Here’s the video. Go ahead and take 10 minutes to take a look. Watched it? Good. Ok, I have to say that was extremely impressive!! Now they won and because of that, ALL of the so-called “Divine Nine” (that’s

Have you ever played the dozens, or at least just plain got fucking picked the fuck on? No, seriously... I mean that to say have you ever been on a school bus, subjected to a barrage of mean-spirited and poor-taste jokes from 50 directions all at one time? How did you respond? Did you... Cry like a bitch on the spot and watch the onslaught be turned WAAAAAAY the fuck up and used as fodder the next day? [ Phlip note - or for the rest of your days, like the girl who peed on herself in Kindergarten sitting on the floor in front of David Allen and myself and apparently NEVER lived it down for the rest of school] Laugh it off uncomfortably, then go home and cry like a bitch until your parents got home, then tell them what happened, only to have them tell the bus driver the next morning -- which made for more material to be used that afternoon? [ Phlip note - yep, I'm pretty sure that happened too] Ignore it in hopes that it would just go away, then cried like a little bitch when you