You should'nt make me angry… in the morning.

Life, Randomness

I don’t know if it was the fact that I hadn’t had my coffee yet, or that loud noises in the morning really set me off, or just that violence against women in general really pisses me off… but some guy on the metro just got a earful of Mark’s patented blind rage.

I was just sitting there reading the metro paper when I heard a guy’s voice yell “Stop Pushing me!” , “You’re pushing me!” Like most outbursts on a quiet crowded metro it came as quite a shock to my senses. I turned around to see a man in his late 40’s yelling in the face of a woman about a foot shorter and 20 years younger that him. Without any response from her or anyone around him that I could see his shouting quickly turned into “F*** You! F*** You!”

That’s when the details of this confrontation sort of get fuzzy for me because I went into this sort of blind rage but I’m pretty sure I stood up turned around yelled at him and then pointed at him and yelled “Why don’t you shut the F*** up you big piece of s***” or possibly “You want to yell at someone, why don’t you pick on someone your own size”. To which I swear he looked over at me and said “But… she’s pushing me” because he sounded like a little kid, the only thing I could think to say was… “Boo hoo, she’s pushing me.” and maybe something about yelling at a woman… I don’t know really… it was pretty intense.

I’m actually really thankful that there were so many people in between us because in my Mark-Hulk rage I probably would have grabbed him by the neck and thrown him off the train… and that would have been bad… enjoyable… but bad. I really need to learn to handle these situations in a more “Fezzik from Princess Bride” sort of way and less HULK style. But I think Laurel was proud of me in some way.

Mark

Snow-Fizzle my Nizzle

Interests, Life

Lots of stuff has been going on in the last few weeks, I “ran” a Thanksgiving 5K race at 6:30am, I’ve been snowboarding twice, and I’ve been strangley motivated to get things done… just not this blog.

My thoughts on snowboarding in the Washington DC area.

Sometimes it’s not all that bad. I’ve been going consistently for about 3 seasons now and haven’t had any problems with the mountains close to the area. Whitetail, Roundtop, Liberty. But I think I’ve finally hit the wall, it’s not so much that the mountains are too small… because I get tired after about 40 seconds anyway. Its the value, we started out the season by going to Seven Springs, PA for the opening day. It’s about 3.5 hours away so a day trip is an adventure to say the least, but the prices are so much better (37 and 43) and almost the whole mountain was open already. Last weekend we went to Whitetail in MD and the prices sucked (53 and 56) and there were only 5 runs open, none of them black. Maybe I’ve just been spoiled now that I’ve seen real mountains and real snow out on the west coast. But I’ll have to say that I don’t think I’m going to go back to the smaller mountains this year, it just seems like wasted money. I am going to Wisp this weekend for the Wisp Days, $7 lift tickets! So we’ll see how well I can deal with the crowds of other frugal boarders.

Another thing I’ve noticed is that I ride much faster and enjoy it more with a soundtrack. My new helmet has those speakers in the earflaps. I thought it was a little distracting last year but something is different now. It could be the choice of music. Nothing gets me down the mountain like Notorious B.I.G’s Greatest hits album.

and yes parents, that’s that “Gangster Rap”

and because I can, here’s a video of a kid taking a wicked header on the beach.

The Underbelly of the Internet

Entertainment, The Interweb

I love finding weird sites and weird communities of people on the internet. I’m not talking about pedophiles or Child Pornography weird, just regular old American weird… or possibly Japanese weird at the most. Everybody always asks me how I find these sites, sometimes it’s through blogs like neatorama, Boing Boing, or Dubious Quality.

Other times I’m just better at the internet than you are… deal with it.

Here are some recent finds.

Giada’s Cleavage – A site dedicated to the boobs of Giada De Laurentis from the Food Network

Pot That Zit – A horrifying community of people sharing picture and videos of zits, abcesses, and cysts… popping. Even their logo is gross.

Negse – A japanese guy that has been documenting his bedhead, everyday, since 2000.

Welcome to my world.