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Congrats to the New Orleans Saints for beating up on the Colts and taking their first Super Bowl!  This is definitely a sports feel good story considering everything that team and city have gone through.  The big game is more than just a sporting event though.  It is a media machine.  A 30 second ad during the game will run you over 2.6 million dollars!  So, your ass better be serious about what you are presenting.  Here is a viewer from Forbes that has a bunch of the ads from last night.  Enjoy!

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This was a song from the MTV Movie Awards.  It’s funny because it is something I always laughed at.  In action movies, the hero always walks away from these massive explosions without even looking back.  Seems a little dangerous to me.  I guess that’s why I am not an action hero.

I love it when people I know start blogs!  It usually means that a little bit of my awesomeness has rubbed off on them.  Thankfully, none of my randomness rubbed off.  Their blogs always seem to have a specific purpose.  That brings us to my buddy, Grant.  He moved from Toronto to the left coast quite a while back.  Recently he has found that he orgasms quite easily while taking pictures.  Although I don’t quite share his fetish, I must admit to being impressed by his shots.  Check out his blog HERE.  Below are a few samples of some of his pics.  If you are like Grant then I suggest you…ummm…aim away from the computer!

You know, it’s time to be a little more positive about things.  I often post fails (courtesy of FailBlog) on this site.  It’s funny.  We all laugh at the stupidity.  Everyone goes home happy.  I figured that we could stand to see some awesome pics as well.  Moments caught that are complete wins!  Thanks to EpicWinFTW I am able to bring you a little sample.  Sorry for the infrequency of posting recently.  I will be more attentive to helping cure your bores going forward

I am back on Canadian soil.  Unfortunately, I am also back in Canadian weather.  After spending the last 9 days in shorts and flip flops and I pretty pissed off about having to wear a jacket.  Damn it’s cold up here!  I am happy to be back in my own bed though.  Below is a nice sample of some of the pics I got while I was down there.  Some of them are pretty random.  The last few show how I took a private jet for my flight back to Toronto.  I have to tell you, this is the only way to fly.  On a normal commercial flight you have to show up 3 hours before the departure in order to get through the anal probes that the new security rules require.  For the flight home, we showed up 15 minutes before take off!  No security steps.  The flight was faster and smoother…not to mention more comfortable.  Upon arrival, all I did was walk 10 feet from the jet to the limo.  No dealing with immigration or customs.  I think this is the way I will have to travel from now on.  Firefighters make enough to pay for private jets, right? 

Every dude has dealt with this before.  I can’t even say too much because the comic does it for me.  Just read and enjoy.  Any guy that has been through the same situation, which is probably all of you, will instantly feel it!  This comes to us courtesy of AbstruseGoose.

Sorry, I can’t upload photos just yet.  I forgot that Sony uses a little bastardized adapter for their cameras instead of standard USB.  So, you can’t actually see anything I have done yet.  Oh well.  I will post some pics once I am back.  Yesterday we went to Disney World for a day of fun.  We hit up Epcot Center because…well…you can drink there!  You walk around this man-made lake and they have little areas setup that represent Canada, England, China, Japan, Norway, Germany, France, etc.  I was pretty disappointed with the Canada setup.  They had a fake version of the parliament buildings and some native stuff, that was OK.  All the Employees working the Canada section wore lumberjack shirts!  Is that how they think we dress?  Like we all shop at Eddie Bauer about 15 years ago?  Weird.  Oh well, they did have Moosehead on tap!  Can’t argue with that.  We checked out some of the rides in the different countries.  The “American Adventure” was probably the most boring animatronic show I have ever seen.  Damn thing might as well have been a history lecture.  The Norway ride started out cool as you enter a viking ship that travels on the water.  It just got weird though with all kinds of trolls and stuff.  We were a little confused at the end.  Some of the rides were pretty cool though.  One of the space rides actually make you feel some serious G forces.  The GM Test Track was pretty fun too.  We were lucky that we never really had to wait in much of a line for anything.  So today we are off to Miami!  This is where the real fun begins.  Our trip is about 3.5 hours south of where we are right now.  So, it should be even warmer.  After leaving a bitterly cold Toronto, it feels so nice to be out walking around in shorts, t shirts and flip flops!  I won’t rub that in too much for those of you back home :)  I will do my best to throw up a post or two during the week.  When I get back I will take upload some of the better pics.  If I make a good powerpoint then I will throw it up and make it available for download.

Greetings from Orlando!  My buddy Shea and I decided that we needed a reward for finishing school.  Our choice was to get down to Florida from some fun in the sun.  We are spending a  couple of days in Orlando before heading to Miami for the rest of the week.  One of the best parts about this trip is that we are flying home to Toronto on a private jet.  Yeah, that’s how we roll.  We decided to get down here by a regular flight out of Pearson in Toronto.  Our flight was at 6:30am so we decided to show up at 3:30am because of all the security measures going on these days.  This meant that we didn’t sleep at all!  Shea was able to get through the security with no scrutiny at all.  I wasn’t so lucky.  My carry on was searched and everything was swabbed and analyzed.  They also made me reach my hand down my pants and then swab fingers.  Being a smart-ass, I asked if I was…ummm…you know…supposed to touch it.  He said that wasn’t necessary and seemed to relax a little bit after that.  Humor can get you out of anything!  Not sleeping at all meant that I was able to sleep on the plane.  As soon as we got into the sky I was out cold.  I woke up as the pilot announced we would soon make our descent into Orlando.  There was still enough time to select an episode of Two and a Half Men on the entertainment system.  I like having my own screen and the ability to select whatever movie or TV show I want.  Definitely an improvement.  After arriving in Orlando we met up with my bro who lives here and immediately had some beers and some food at Bahama Breeze.  We hung out back at his place in the evening and things went a little down hill for me.  We all went down for some naps and I woke up feeling horrible.  My stomach was bothering me and I just didn’t feel right.  I had a shower and then everything decided to come out or me.  I threw up like there was no tomorrow.  Weird because I didn’t even drink that much.  Luckily we had already planned to lay low on this evening.  I rested up and now am back to 100% awesome!  Today we are headed to do some shopping and hit up Disney.  We are going to do some drinking around the world at Epcot.  Hopefully I will be able to post some pics tomorrow.  After that I may not be posting very much.  I didn’t bring my computer with me.  I will try to get you a couple mid week posts though.  Later!

I have finally completed one of the most difficult purchases I have ever attempted.  This wasn’t a home purchase.  That was relatively simple compared to what I just went through!  This was the acquisition of a specific hockey jersey.  Yup, that’s it.  One freakin’ hockey jersey!  I joined a hockey team mid-season and had to find a jersey to match the team.  They all bought theirs this past summer, so we aren’t talking about something that was from the 90’s.  The jersey is an RBK Platinum in Orange.  The first step was to just grab the jersey where they bought it from.  I went to Pro Hockey Life and was told they had absolutely no stock in any of their stores.  I was advised to see if their online shop had any.  It didn’t.  I then looked up the jersey on Reebok’s website and called all of their distributors in Southern Ontario.  Nobody had this thing!  Oh, one of the phone numbers was someones personal phone - Reebok has the number wrong on their website.  Oops!  I stopped in at Duke’s in Etobicoke Ontario and asked those guys what I could do.  They contacted their Reebok rep and were told they could ship one out within a week.  I thought my struggle was over.  No such luck.  A jersey arrived the next week…in burgundy.  They contacted the rep and were advised that the orange jersey was on back order and wouldn’t be available until March.  DAMN!!!  I then started scouring eBay and any other online shop.  No stock!!!  I finally stumbled upon Hockey Monkey and I called them up to confirm that they actually had the jersey I was looking for.  The saint of a woman who I dealt with informed me that they were showing no stock but she would go into the back and see if any were around.  She found one last jersey!  I have never been closer to proposing to a woman as I was on that day.  The funny thing came to the pricing.  They jersey was cheap at only $29.  The problem was I then had to pay $20 in shipping costs and an additional $10 when the jersey arrived in Canada as a result of the import tax.  Getting the thing here from California cost me more than the value of the item!  It didn’t matter.  At this point I was willing to pay $100 to get this jersey.  Only moments ago I had the numbers put on the back and I am FINALLY ready to wear my own jersey when I skate with the team. 

Oh, in case you are wondering why I chose #62…it’s in honor of Andrei Nazarov - the Russian bear who had a journeyman career in the NHL as an enforcer.  I always felt he had the talent to score a lot of goals.  His problem was that he spent too much time getting into fights and head butting people.

I have been been posting awesome web comics from Cyanide & Happiness for as long as I have had this blog.  Little did I know they did animated shorts as well!  So, here it is.  Enjoy!