American Idol is Coming Back

Next week American Idol comes back. The show that no matter how much it goes against my love of true music and not prepackaged fluff It seems to draw me in every year. Despite one of the blogs that I follow being called 'Real Men Don't Watch American Idol' (Check it out. Christine is snarky greatness) I do consider myself not only a real man but also an Idol fan. I like the good singers, I like the bad singers. I like the crazy production they do on the quirky little sad "Wanna be on TV" rejects. I like the drama of who will make the cut in Hollywood and who won't. My wife and I even annually have a competition where we draft the finalists and see whose team wins.
Every year I think that Idol has gone downhill but I am usually surprised at the level of talent they come up with for the competition. This year should prove interesting as well now that Paula Abdul has been given the boot and will be replaced with Ellen Degeneres. I think that I am going to blog about AI this year in some form or fashion. Not sure exactly how just yet, maybe in a weekly recap or something. So Christine, Real men do occasionally watch American Idol.
So tell me do you watch American Idol? What do you think? Do you even care? Are you easily hooked in? Tell me what you think.
-Doc

Lucky Underwear

When I was in Florida back in November to see my friend Chris (The Absolutgator) we happened to be together on a night where both of our college football teams were playing on TV. As we were getting ready to watch the games Chris' wife says to his cousin, "Chris is so serious about Florida football that I bet he is even wearing his lucky orange underwear." My response was, "What is wrong with that? It just so happens that I have my lucky garnet underwear on." Half not believing that these two grown men actually coordinate what underwear they will wear based on who happens to be playing football that day she asked to take a picture of us showing our underwear to memorialize the occasion.

The thing about this that I don't coordinate my underwear for anything else. I just consider it an act of solidarity to show support to my team that is playing and I imagine that Absolut will tell you the same thing. Superstitious? Maybe but I guess that I figure it has worked for me so far I probably ought to keep it up.
So do you have anything like our lucky underwear? Any little superstitions? Please feel free to share. Or to pick on the picture Absolut's wife took.

-Doc

To Microwave or Not to Microwave? That is the Question!

On Monday, I bought a new microwave (pictured). An Emerson; good quality. I bought it at a small department store five blocks from my apartment. I did not have a car and I could not find a cab, so I carried the 30 odd pound thing, in it’s box, all the way home. Again, it is only five block but they are long blocks. It didn't feel too heavy, just cumbersome. I stopped a few times to make sure I didn’t loose my grip. Finally I got it home and my arms were in so much pain I could barely hold a coffee cup! My joints are still sore but it was a good work out nevertheless!

Anyway, let me get to the point of my story. I took it out of the box and set it on my kitchen table. Now look at this photo again. Doesn’t it look odd to you? The white on the left is part of the door. The inside of the door looks cut off and looks uneven. It bothers me. Now the photo on the box looks sort of the same but for some reason it looks better than the real thing. I can't really explain it but trust me it does.

On the bright side, it works fine. A lot better than the microwave I had before. Just this one bothers me esthetically. Now I am debating on returning it and search for a nicer one at another store. But it was such a bitch to get to my apartment, it will be a bitch to return.

Now what do you think I should do? Should I keep it? Should I return it? Am I psycho?

Oh and I almost forgot, I had to use two $25 gift cards and cash to buy the blasted thing. The woman teller at the store did not know how to debit from two gift cards and said she can only use one card. I was arguing with her to call a manger to help her out as I’ve used two gift cards to buy big items before. This is not rocket science for crying out loud! Finally she caved and called her manager who took forever to debit the cards! So if I return it, they may not know how to refund back to two gift cards!

I think I got to bite the bullet on this one and keep it. I’d like to hear your opinions. Thank you.

- The Mountain Cat

The Mountain Cat has a new favorite condiment!

Trappey's Red Devil Cayenne Pepper Sauce.

This stuff is awesome! It is not too spicy but it has kick! And a plethora of flavor. I put in on my eggs, burgers, ham sandwiches...it goes good with anything and everything!

It replaces my previous favorite condiment, Chick-fil-A's Polynesian Sauce. There are no Chick-fil-A's in New Jersey or New York anyway so I lost the desire for it.

- The Mountain Cat

Looking forward to getting back to normal

With all the holiday schedules and people travelling etc. my blogging schedule has been messed up. I know that blogging should be whatever you want to post about but my OCD nature makes me have a little bit more rhyme and reason about it. Usually Monday there is a post about the weekly poll, Tuesday and Wednesday are reserved for musings, humor, or ranting about something or other inane, Thursday is for Random thoughts that I collect throughout the week and Friday is a wrap up or Hitting the High Notes every 2-3 weeks or so. This schedule just works for me pretty well seeing as YJKOBT is pretty much a one man show these days.

However with the Christmas holiday and then New Years things have been all jumbled up. One would think that this week things could get back to normal. Not for me. This Wednesday night I am leaving to drive to New York (The NoFo to be exact) for my brother in law's wedding and won't return until next Monday. So my blogging will be all disjointed for at least another week. ARRRRGHHHH I just want things to get back to normal.

OK, Rant over. Thank you for listening and please keep reading, I promise 2010 will be a really good year here at YJKOBT. Thursday Random Thoughts will return (even if only to help keep me sane) Even though I won't have much access to blog while on the road later this week I am going to have something posted each day.

-Doc

Warren Beatty the New Wilt Chamberlin?

Years ago we all chuckled when Wilt Chamberlin claimed to have slept with over 20,000 women in his auto biography. Well after that magic number was put up there you knew it was only a matter of time until someone would come out with an equally absurd number. That time has come. May I introduce you to the next biggest male-ho ever Warren Beatty. Yes it seems that a soon to be released biography claims that Ole Dick Tracy himself has had sex with 12,775 women. To make it even more grand that number, "does not include daytime quickies, drive-bys, casual gropings, stolen kisses and so on." (BTW - what is a sexual drive-by - Never mind I don't wanna know.) HA!

OK boys and girls lets all get our calculators out. Warren Beatty is 72 years old. So lets figure this. He claims to have lost his virginity at age 20 If he started at then it would give him 52 good years of doing it. This amounts to 245 different women per year (every year) for 56 years. Holy Moly this man gets around!

I'm also sure this comes as a little bit of shock to Annette Bening who he has been married to for 18 years. I think that what happened is this; Ole Warren knows that Tiger Woods was going to make a run at Wilt Chamberlin's record so he wanted to go ahead and stake his claim on second place ahead of time.

Your Thoughts?

-Doc

So what do we call it? Weekly Poll 1/4/2010

OK, So the year 2010 is now here and apparently there is much debate about exactly what we are going to call this year. So Lets hear what you think. Should we refer to this year as Twenty- Ten or as Two Thousand Ten?
I'm not sure that I have a real preference at this point simply because I haven't thought about it that much but I am sure there are some strong opinions out there. I would love to hear them.
Please vote in the poll and comment as you wish.

-Doc

Oh and Two Thousand and Ten is not an option because that is just poor grammar...

Happy New Year From YJKOBT

Wishing you and your family a Happy New Year and a great 2010 to come... Everyone have fun but drive safe.
-Doc