Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Bracket Announcement! We Launch Tomorrow!

BREAKING NEWS

That's right, tomorrow I launch Round One of my "Man Crush Bracket", the "long anticipated" (Not really) Bracket spin-off is what I hope will be a yearly event for me, looking at different things each year (Or maybe a few times inna year).

So this is based off of just a regular NCAA bracket, four regions, sixty four teams, and one winner. So lemme get into how I'm gonna do each participant. Just look at my sweet example below.


NAME: The Real SamWow
CLAIM TO FAME: Semi-popular internet blogger, has a Twitter account that he never uses, and has weirdly extensive knowledge of knitting.
WHY YOU SHOULD CRUSH ON THE REAL SAMWOW: He's so damn charming and dreamy.
Pretty simple right? It has to be or else I wouldn't do this at all, I'm not in this to work (Unless you wanna hire me as a writer, to you I say "Working is all that I do."). So here we go, hopefully this won't be a mountain of suck. Enjoy..?

Saturday, February 25, 2012

Let's Go To The Mall....Today!

In case you were wondering "Where did SamWow get that super awesome title?" Well, that clearly means that you don't watch How I Met Your Mother (Monday nights on CBS, 8PM EST). That's the hit song from Robin Sparkles first music video, duh.

That being said, I do want to go to the mall...today, tomorrow, next week, next month, or even right now. I know that may be weird, but I enjoy it, free samples from the food stores, the people, Lids, the women, and just shopping.

But there are a few things I've noticed about going to the mall and the differences of stores that sell mainly women's clothes and those selling clothes to the "un-fairer sex", also known as men. Sorry guys.

Women's stores always tend to have a unique name, like Avenue 9, Forever 21, Victoria's Secret, Lane Bryant, or Body Central. They also tend to smell good, have some select mood lighting, mannequins displaying the store's wares, and some light, generic, "feel good" music pumping into shoppers ears while they hold dresses up to themselves in front of mirrors. But this stuff isn't what I wanted to talk about, the first thing I mention rarely is after all.

Let me preface this by saying I'm a bigger guy, I'm six foot one and roughly two hundred fifteen pounds of pure, lean, well, body stuff, not muscle. I also have a giant head, big feet, and to top it all off I'm clumsy and easily distracted. Now guys/fellas/gentlemen, next time you and your beautiful young wife/girlfriend/mistress/daughter/granddaughter are out shopping for clothes, take a break from hating every second of it and notice how un-fit for men these stores are, which is reasonable cuz we're not the intended clientele.

The stores are just so damn small.

Now, I don't mean square footage, some of these stores can be pretty big, but I mean the spaces between the clothing racks and the width of the aisles. Holy god, I've followed ladies through stores countless times, and as soon as they find a rack they like, they dart away like a little kid into a corn maze and they're impossible to find until after a few hours, they emerge victorious, clutching thrity sweaters, two pairs of pants, and a bra they won't ever let you see. It's amazing, to a full grown man, those aisles are like what they used to put in ancient forts so camel's couldn't come in (Which is stupid, how many ancient races fell due to mauling by camel?). Then if you look across the mall, past the old men sitting on the benches, you can see a store built more for men, like Dick's Sporting Goods, Modells, Sport's Authority, or Bass Pro Shops, and it's like looking into the mouth of a whale - the entrance is cavernous, empty, and moist, well, not if it's a good store, avoid stores that are moist. That's the tip of the day.

A store like Dick's or Bass Pro, a guy my size can go prancing down the aisles, twirling my arms, thrashing violently (Like how it looks when I zumba), and guess what people, I can do that across the entire store and I won't touch a damn thing. It's amazing, at the check out, there's no fru-fru stuff, just Big League Chew bubble gum, chewing tobacco, fish lures, bullets for your .22, Michael Jordan cologne, and porn magazines (You'd be surprised what some of those "Muscle & Fitness" magazines have in them). This is a kinda abrupt ending to the post, but that's all I have. Enjoy my immature antics below the picture.
If I were gonna caption the above photo, or maybe make a movie and use that image as my poster, I'd call the movie "The Waiting". I snapped the picture standing in the Misses department waiting for my girlfriend to try on somethings and after the third hour, decided I would take a picture and now I'm gonna end this corny little joke.

Ok, I lied, my girlfriend took the picture while I was in the fitting room, it's just so darn tough to find a new sundress to match my favorite heels and clutch.

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Random Thoughts & The Bracket Busting Announcement

I had a epiphany on the way home from Millersville on Monday, what if one day there's so many people that refuse to vote they do something different with how they elect people? That semi-smart thought was followed by me thinking "If I have the speakers in my car up this loud when I listen to the drums towards the end of Bruce Springsteen's 'Born In The USA' it sounds and feels like fireworks going off."

Those two thoughts, one smart, one really kinda stupid, led me to another moment of enlightenment, I clearly need to blog again, cuz it's crazy shit like that that reminds me that this little blog is my way of venting and hopefully bringing smiles to my one (occasionally two) readers.

So now onto my Bracket Busting Announcement, all straight men have man crushes, if you/your boyfriend/your husband is saying "Psh, I don't, that's GAY." they're lying. Whether it's an actor, athlete, entertainer, or someone else random. It doesn't have to be a sexual crush, you might just feel like if "Athlete X" is playing on ESPN, you need to watch. Or if "Actor Y" is in a new movie or TV show, you'll tune in. It's a simple, non-threatening thing.

So now the real Bracket Busting Announcement, credit my girlfriend's mother came up with this idea, and this comes just in time for the NCAA Tournament. I, along with the help of a few friends, have compiled a bracket of 64 man crushes, some of my own choosing, some the selections of a brain trust I have built. So come back in the next few days and weeks for the beginning of the bracket, I don't know yet how I'm going to break it down or put the options out there, but your feedback would be awesome on it.
Next time I post will be sooner, I promise.