Portfolio

Hey all, sorry I haven't been posting in a while.  Been pretty busy.  For a long time I've been thinking about posting my photography portfolio for people to check out and let me know what they think.

Enjoy!

My buddy Anthony.  Always loved this one, captures his personality and it really opens up his pores.

Fourth of July in Hyattsville, MD -- pistachios and Bohs. 

Denali National Park in Alaska. 

"The Great One", Denali Alaska.

Fishing ship yard in Alaska.

Sunset in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

My Pop, and the mug we got him years ago.

My buddy Iron Man/Big Jim, Fall of 2011.

Horseshoe Bay, Bremuda

Horseshoe Bay, Bermuda

Horseshoe Bay, Bermuda.

St. George, Bermuda

"I have many loves in life, but beer will never leave me"

GREATEST EVER?!?!?!

Last night, the DMV, hell, the world saw the first game of the greatest player in the NFL. Hell, we saw the first game of the greatest athlete in the world.

Robert Griffin the Third.  RGIII.  R-Jesus.  Grif.  Bob Griffin.  Cool Hand Robert.  Robert "Subway Eat Fresh" Griffin the III.  The Baylor Bomber.  The Waco Kid.  The Visored Visionary.  The Shanahan Savior.  The Snyder Savior.  The Adidas Answer.  Robert "TO Wants You To Be His Quarterback" Griffin.  The Anti-Beck.  The Anti-Grossman.  The Anti-Ramsey.  The Potential Cowboy, uh, Killer.

Okay, I'm out.  But he's the best to ever lace them up for the Redskins.  Well, probably the best to lace em up ever.  He's replaced all the other greats like Troy Aikman, Drew Bledsoe, Tony Romo, Heath Shuler, JaMarcus Russell, Kyle Boller, Timmy Couch, Akili Smith, and Brett Favre.  That's my top ten QBs of all time, RGIII is at the top of the list, duh!!!!!!!!!!!!

I mean, last night against that amazing Bills defense (Iron Curtain Part Two anyone?!?!), he threw four absolutely perfect passes, passes that were guided by the wings of cherubs from the mouths of babes by the hands of God.  Boom.

And have you ever seen a quarterback drop back so eloquently?  Each step was like he was floating, just dancing into the backfield before zipping out one of those cherubs-babes-God passes for another sure fire completion.  I think Evan Royster should be banned from the league for dropping that hand off, how dare he blemish the legacy of a preseason start for R-Jesus?!?  I cannot wait for the next game against the Chicago Cubs.  It will be amazing to see this young super stud dominate again.




This is all a joke, in case people couldn't tell.  Did I like what I saw from Grif tonight?  Yeah.  But the DMV needs to tone this shit down.  Let's not anoint the kid anymore than we already have.  Until next time...All hail.

There are 619 Million Reasons to Read This Post

In this post, I'm gonna do something I've wanted to do for a long, long time.  It's finally time for me to tell you all how I would spend a MegaMillions Jackpot of $619,000,000.  In list form.  In all it's glory.

Now, I realize most of these will be totally overkill for pricing of stuff, but I'm not gonna price out dollars and cents.  Also, one of my friends said "Did you account for taxes?"  Hell no.  This is fantasy world, taxes didn't exist in Roller Coaster Tycoon, why would they exist here haha?

Enjoy, let's go.

1. $ 1,000,000 to Anthony (@MDsOwn) for his dream truck(s).  That's right buddy, you're #1.
2. $ 300,000,000 straight to my fancy new PNC Bank Account (Lame I know, but it's a lot of money to spend).
3. $ 5,000,000 to a trip through Europe for myself, my family, and whoever else I wanna bring.
4. $ 500,000 on this house.
5. $ 1,000,000 on things for that house.
6. $ 2,000,000 home theater and garage upgrades for that house. 
7. $ 2,500,000 on this vacaction home.
8. $ 1,000,000 on things for that house.
9. $ 1,000,000 to pay off my parents' house and the rest for utilities.
10. $ 5,000,000 to my friends for their "Dream Cars".
11. $ 500,000 to the "Dream Vacation" for me and the girlfriend.
12. $ ?,000,000 for Redskins Season Tickets for life.  It will probably wind up being well over 619,000,000 million just for parking alone, Danny Snyder, you're an asshole.
13. $ 15,000,000 to give to people going to Redskins games for their parking.
14. $ ?00,000 for six seats for a life time of Washington Capitals tickets (Up in them 400s!)
15. $ 7,000,000 for a trip for my whole  family to Alaska.  By air, land, and sea.  Boom.
16. $ 500,000 for the cost of the bar tab from that trip, after that ya'll on your own.
17. $ 5,000,000 to Boys and Girls Club of America.
18. $ 1,000,000 to the ASPCA.
19. $ 1,000,00 to Habitat for Humanity.
20. $ 5,000,000 to the Community of Hope - DC.
21. $ 5,000,000 to the American Cancer Society.
22. $ 5,000,000 to Lance Armstrong's LIVESTRONG Foundation..
23. $ 3,000,000 to DeMatha Catholic High School for whatever.  It would get my name on a brick, or a plaque in a hallway I'm sure.
24. $ 1,000,000 to University of Maryland for new football jerseys (Zing.).
25. $ 1,000,000 to St. Pius the Tenth Regional School in Bowie, MD (Where I graduated grade school).
26. $ 1,000,000 to St. Jerome's Catholic School/Church in Hyattsville, MD.
27. $ 2,000,000 to my friends to pay off college loans, sex change operation surgery, Taco Bell franchises, prostitutes, "Booger Sugar", or maybe they'd bribe their parents into letting him/her (her) buy a puppy.
28. $ 2,000,000 for my friend Gina's (Twitter: @tiwytk // and  her blog is here) conservatory (I had to Google it to find out what it is).
29. $ 45,000,000 for one of these bad boys, Pappa's gotta get from place to place, right?
30. $ 5,000,000 for a bus rental, driver, tickets, etc. for a trip around the country to every Major League ball park in the US and Canada for myself and a few friends.
31. $ 1,000,000 to the "Sam Wants to go to Alotta of Concerts Fund"
32. $ 5,000,000 for a pimped out M1 Abrams tank, cuz I gotta get to 7-11 somehow.
33. $ 2,000,000 for all new clothes, suits, ties,shoes, hats.  I know, I know, that's a lot of money for a ton of Under Armour shirts, thrift store suits, and hats...but I'd have to pay a lot of shoe companies to make shoes that are normally only "Regular" size to wides...
34. $ 63,000,000 to the Smithsonian Institution.  That's a sure fire way to get me on the board of one of them and then I can see all the behind the scenes stuff.  Sixty three milly well spent.
35. $ 5,000,000 to scientific research to make chickens with for more than two wings so the price of chicken wings will finally go down.
36. $ 1,000,000 for chicken wings.
37. $ 1,000,000 for a sit down with John Madden and Troy Aikman in front of an audience.  Everyone with a comment on how shitty they are at commentating can step up and let them know.
38. $ 500,000 for tomatoes to throw at Aikman at the sit down.
39. $ 2,500,000 to "Out Bottle Service" Jay-Z, Kanye, Kevin Hart, Floyd Money Mayweather or whoever else wants to rise to the challenge in Vegas or New York.
40. $ 2,000,000 for a tricked out Irish pub in Downtown Annapolis, called, uh, Carroll's Corner, or something like that.
41. $ 2,000,000 for a epic 72 hole mini golf course/driving range/batting cage complex...also with a full service bar.
42. $ 10,000,000 liquor budget.  Cuz that's how I roll.
43. $ 7,000,000 for a "Speed Camera" budget haha.
44. $ 1,000,000 for an empty aircraft hanger with a basketball court, giant moon-bounce boxing ring thing, foam pit, and softball field just outside of it on the grounds.
45. $ 1,000,000 for an empty warehouse with tons of floors and obstacles...and hundreds of NERF guns and thousands upon thousands of rounds of ammunition.
46. $ 3,000,000 to some waiters or waitresses for the tips of his/her lifetime.  I wouldn't give it to one person all it once, just big tips over time for a while.  That's how you impress a girl on a first date.
47. $ 45,000,000 to, as Kramer put it, "Do?  Do?  Hey, I'm doing what I do.  Ya know, I've always done what I do.  I'm doing what I do.  The way I've always done it, and the way I'll always do it."  Basically, this last forty five million is for whatever strikes me at the moment it strikes me.  

On a serious note here, I put links to all those charities there (Numbers 17-22) and donating is never a bad idea.  I try to  give what I can each month to one of those five charities, Community of Hope and LIVESTRONG being my most frequent choices.  It's never bad to donate to a charity and help those who need it more than you, and it feels pretty good when you get a "Thank You Letter", even if they are just a cookie cutter response.  Pay it forward people.