I hate my country

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Who wants some prints?

Inquire within...



*sniff*

Today is my two year anniversary

I would like to thank:

• 8 pound 4 ounce baby jesus
• Stoner Dave for meeting kate's sister online
• AIM
• Pentagon City mall
• Dara
• My superior wang

xoxo boo


Talking with lily...
wanderingstar:you two are retarded
jason: "what do you want to do?"
kate: "i dunno, what do you want to do?"
jason: "wanna make out?"
kate: "ok, sure"
BHAHAHAHA
JKREW: HAHAHAHA
wanderingstar04: lame
why not just say...dear _______, i am head over heels for you...lets make a go of it and see where it takes us! love, _______
JKREW: ok hold on
wanderingstar: of course you have to fill in the blanks

Asking kate
JKREW: wanderingstar: why not just say...dear _______, i am head over heels for you...lets make a go of it and see where it takes us! love, _______
jkrewdotcom: ok hold on assface
......
dear kate, i am head over heels for you...lets make a go of it and see where it takes us! love, jkrew

Back to lily...
JKREW: hahaha waiting for reply
wanderingstar: *taps finger on desk

Back to kate
ohkate: ok (:
JKREW: sweet! now what do we do?
hold on, let me ask lily
ohkate: hahaha ok

back to lily
JKREW: ohketurah: ok (:
now what do we do?
wanderingstar04: see, was that so hard?
JKREW: HAHAHA
wanderingstar: now you are BF AND GF!!!!!
awwwwww...

finally back to kate
JKREW: wanderingstar: now you are BF AND GF!!!!!
awwwwww...
wtf?! haha
ohkate: I haven't dated someone in a while... what does it mean?
JKREW: I just asked if I should kick you in the leg

Nice photos

New U2 "Windows in the Skies" Video

Here's a link to the highest quality I could find: Click me

Or you can just watch the video below if yer a lazy bastard:



I am so in love with this video right now. It's so passionate and just makes me want to do more for some reason. Great idea and awesome execution no matter if you are a fan of U2 or not. Just enjoy it for what it is =)

For fucks sake, this kids range is just silly...

Sideboard Update #2!

So, over the xmas break, I tackled my sideboard project with vailiant and wreckless abandon. It took about three days working on an off a few hours each having to stop to have the laquer dry. Special thanks to kate's pop for letting me use his table saw as that's pretty much the only tool I don't have crammed into my tiny condo.

I'd give the final outcome a B+ for being home made and my first real furniture project. Obviously it would have been much better with really nice oak stock but as that was 9 bucks a linear foot, that wouldn't have been in my budget.

Sooo, final bill:
5 sheets of wood stock (no idea what it is but it's not too bad): $14 a pop; $60
4 brushed aluminum feet I got off the int0rwebs: $10 a pop; $40 bucks
4 cans of laquer: $4 a pop; $16 bucks
4 L brackets: $5 bucks
2 sheets of foam core: $6 bucks
=
$127 bucks for something I made myself that is custom made to my home theatre items' specs =)

This is what inspired me:


This is what I made:








BK Lounge to the rescue...

After a completely disheartening and shit-tastic evening, there is nothing better than straight-out-of-the-fryer onion rings and a steaming hot sourdough bacon cheeseburger.

The grease can fix ANYTHING.

meh, it could be better...


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um, ok

Good bye YouTube

It's time to pack them bags youtube, because your days are numbered. Say hello to the Venice Project:

(from gizmodo)






The guys who brought you KaZaA and Skype are at it again, and their upcoming Venice Project Peer to Peer streaming will show YouTube how video is really done. Just like KaZaA was a disruptive force in music sharing, and Skype was a disruptive force for phone calls, the Venice Project will kill current online video sharing and TV streaming sites.

So how can the Venice Project demolish what is essentially the biggest video site on the internet? Two reasons: the founder's track record, and the state of the Venice Project now.

Janus and Niklas know peer to peer. They know exactly how to make it work to meet a singular need. And from the quality of both the video and the speed of the streaming, they've done a superb job with the Venice Project as well. It's definitely no contest when you compare this to the blurriness of YouTube and other streaming sites.

Do people care how the data is getting from the host to them? No. That's exactly why peer to peer will definitely win over a centralized, YouTube approach. By cutting down on bandwidth costs (they're mostly from the users), the Venice Project can have much higher quality video. Just like with Skype, what do people care that their call or video is going through Zimbabwe before getting to them? The only thing that's important is that the quality is there, and the content is there. All that the Venice Project needs now is content.

Who wants one?


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JKREW: Now 100% cavity free!


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I even got to keep the sexay glasses =)

Great moments in JKREW stupidity part 196

I just ordered three feet of dead animal carcass and I am pretty damn excited about it. That pretty much sums up this blog entry to a T.

This unlucky bastard got his ass handed to him in Africa and now some wise american is making a profit off of his innability to hide in the brush. BRILLIANT!





This is going to be an art project so stop the hate mail now and just wait until I finish.

I wanted this bad boy but he was too expensive =(

Yay for smarts!

Ok, it took me an hour and three drafts but I got it. You?

This brainteaser, reportedly written by Einstein is difficult and Einstein said that 98% of the people in the world could not figure it out. Which percentage are you in?
There are five houses in a row in different colors. In each house lives a person with a different nationality. The five owners drink a different drink, smoke a different brand of cigar and keep a different pet, one of which is a Walleye Pike.
The question is-- who owns the fish?
Hints:
1. The Brit lives in the red house.
2. The Swede keeps dogs as pets.
3. The Dane drinks tea.
4. The green house is on the left of the white house.
5. The green house owner drinks coffee.
6. The person who smokes Pall Malls keeps birds.
7. The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhills.
8. The man living in the house right in the center drinks milk.
9. The man who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats.
10. The Norwegian lives in the first house.
11. The man who keeps horses lives next to the one who smokes Dunhills.
12. The owner who smokes Bluemasters drinks beer.
13. The German smokes Princes.
14. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
15. The man who smokes Blends has a neighbor who drinks water.

There are no tricks, pure logic will get you the correct answer. And yes, there is enough information to arrive at the one and only correct answer.

If you get the correct answer, congratulations, you are one of the exclusive group of 121,348,731 people in the world who can.

The answer: NO CHEATING!!!!!

157 freaking holiday cards to potential clients


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Please baby jesus, don't make them all want design and websites all at the same time or my heart will implode.

Yay for being grown up and crap!

Sweet christ, I love this guy

Just for you nick!

(click white area to play video)

Someone's gonna lose a finger

In my attempts to get out of the post "COLLEGE" phase-turned "IKEA" phase and now ready to graduate to the "HAND PICKED" phase of furniture ownership, I have decided that I need a sideboard. I am only using the term sideboard to a) sound like I know what the fuck a sideboard is and b) use it in a sentence because I just found out what it meant 5 minutes ago.

A sideboard is a table that I guess has shelves but isn't big like a coffee table or a bookcase. Usually it's meant for dining rooms to hold crap in it for display purposes.

That being said, I simply need a table to hold my tv. That's all. No big whup right? Wrong.

I found this beauty last month at crate and barrel but was agast (agast I tell you!) at the price. $330 bucks for 5 pieces of wood. No thanks.

Sooo, I just purchased some metal feet from the int0rwebs and plan to build the table over xmas break. Now I just need a table saw.

And the knowledge of how to actually build a table in the first place. Surely, this will end on a positive note. Surely. I mean, I built a speaker box earlier this year with relatively no issues whatsoever. Good thing the emergency room is on speed dial in the krew household.

Kwanzaa

I have good reason to believe that Kwanzaa is a fake holiday. Do any of you actually know a single person that celebrates that stupid ass holiday? I mean seriously. WTF.

A) It was invented maybe 10 years ago because I sure as shit don't remember hearing about it while growing up.
B) I don't know a single person who is actually from African decent that celebrates it.
C) It's just a stupid holiday.

And just to bring this argument home, if given the choice, would you like to celebrate a holiday where you get free shit and have the day off from work orrrrrr dress up in a table cloth and eat some crabs and ears of corn while in the dark (electricity is forbidden!)

Yeah, thats what I thought.

Please send all hate mail to kate @ ohkate.com folks.

*runs out of room

Man I need this engine...

(click the white space to play video)

Midday at the grocery store...



p.s. I like how someone at SNL can't spell "original" properly too. Doh!

Fucking figures

I bust my ass for YEARS to make it into PVW and Kate gets a 1/4 page photo of herself without even asking hahahahaha

TEH FAMOUS PART TWO BITCHES!!!



bigger pic

If anyone is still shopping for me

I'll take this please...

Jesus Forsakes Trinity Bible College

When University of Minnesota Morris football team soundly defeated their rivals at the Trinity Bible College 67 to 0, some smartass at the school newspaper (who is now probably going to hell) gleefully wrote this:

Security Cameras see EVERYTHING

Shaolin monk Hal-tank can beat your ass

Teh Famous™


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Anyone can be known for their car, Team Krate™ are known by their first names in photo captions because that's how we roll =)

Go pick up the latest issue of Performance VW today suckahs!

Still alive folks

Been craaazy busy with jkrate lately. It sucks. It's far too much work for one person to do but for now (sadly) I kind of have to do most of what I need to do on my own. Much to kate's dismay and her offerings of help, I think it's best to just stay the course and get shit done for the time being on my own. That or teach her Adobe Indesign overnight. Poop.

But it's going well, clients are starting to bite simply by word of mouth which is quite alarming to kate and I. It's a double edged sword so to speak. Spend time advertising and schmoozing new business or do the business you just got.

Just had our first real deal proposal on friday and barring a nuclear attack on DC, we will have our first five figure account. And a two week deadline to build a MASSIVE site hahaha

Macaroni is busting his heiney getting stuff coded and I love him for it. I can finally pay his ass this week!

Kind of weird how different print vs. web is. Once print is out the door, it's done. Web is never done. There are ALWAYS changes and there is ALWAYS shit to fix. It's kind of annoying now that I think of it. I like print better but it's nice to come up with a design and hand it off to macaronni and know that he will get it done because god knows I couldn't code my way out of a paper bag.

I guess I'll sleep next month.

*sigh


p.s. I fall in love with kate more and more each day lately. I like that feeling.

who wants some?


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starting a business sucks


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Reply vs. reply all

There is a guy trying to help my get her website out to the world. God bless em for trying to help. Anyhoo, he called me today to ask for help or whatever may be. Now, I'm not the busiest man by any means but when I am in meetings and my phone rings from someone, I will either turn the ringer off or hit ignore on the phone. Now, if you were calling, you would leave a message and wait for me to call you back.

Not call me 3 more times. One after another.

So, that got me a little perturbed. Then, going to check on his site, I notice that it crashes my browser because it was coded by retarded chimp and not cross-browser checked. Well, I didn't need that download that I had been waiting to finish for the past 8 hours from the LA office to ever happen anyways.

Strike 2.

So I reply to my mom with a scathing email of anger and frustration. But I hit reply-all.

I'm gonna hear about this one for awhile...

*sigh

(this week can honestly just end now please)

Signs that your friend is addicted to myspace

Dave. Put the mouse down and step away from teh keyboard...

I blame the parents

Yesterday I was pwned. FuXored if you will. At around 7pm last night a bunch of kids single handedly killed a website of mine and my friends. And do you know what the fucker of it all is? They did it while talking to me on a message board.

We got some hate mail yesterday for our cat website...

Ever heard of 4chan? Well i come from 4chan, a little place on 4chan called /b/ and /b/ doesn't take kindly to people stealing our pictures and water marking them, call this an aggressive warning OK BITCH? I'D DELETE ALL THEM FUCKING PICTURES OFF HERE NOW OR ELSE! EVER HEARD OF WWW.LOLCATS.COM? THEY DID WHAT YOU DID AND GUESS WHERE IT GOT THEM? FUCKING HACKED. YOU'VE BEEN WARNED BITCH GTFO NOW.

Not knowing what this site was, I did a google search, found the site and even found the thread that was created by a bunch of what I'm guessing were bored pre-teens with shit all else to do. They were claiming that they made the photos of the cats on our website and that we stole them and were profiting from them.

You can re-read that last paragraph if you were too busy laughing at the absurdity of it all.

So I went in the thread and started asking questions. Obviously in way over my head, on my own in enemy domain, I tried to keep it somewhat cool when standing up for myself but eventually that calmness went out the window. (When was the last time you heard of me not losing my cool and saying the wrong things eh?)

I started getting threats about how they were going to hack my server blah blah blah and well, having lived on the int0rwebs for almost 10+ hours a day for the past 8 years, I've probably seen and heard of it all. I know how hard or easy certain things are to do so I didn't really take the threats too seriously. The thing that bothered me the most was the balls of these kids. Telling me to my proverbial face what they were going to do and then doing it. Granted, not one of those little fuckers actually got into a server, their mail bombs did kill it and eventually we just took the site down as to not have an army of basement-living fucksticks peck away at the server all night.

My life is pretty much an open book on the web. I post personal information in form of stories and photos almost every day full well knowing that that information could be leveraged to my disadvantage but still, I go on doing it. Even in hindsight, I'm not going to censor myself because of this, I'm just trying to collect my thoughts on the whole situation.

When I was out of college, I was a member of a fairly large and chaotic private message board community. We got to be pretty good friends with each other, meeting in NYC, inviting each other to weddings, parties et al all the while fostering fairly innocent relationships with each other. All the while being international as well. Something that couldn't be done without the web. We would often attack other boards just for the hell of it posting images of cats and baboons. As must of us were creative folks, it wouldn't be too destructive as the other boards would invite us to wage artistic war. That being said, it was just for fun. The slate would be wiped clean after the war and things would go back to normal.

And then there was this place I had the opportunity to get fucked with yesterday. 99% of the place there were undoubtedly well, how can I say this nicely... retarded. The other .9% knew general knowledge about hacking a server but were too scared to do anything and the other .1% actually did the attack but didn't announce it. The 99% of retards were the little vultures that posted screenshots of the aftermath and were the ones who were shouting rape rape rape the entire time this was going down.

Why am I so upset about this after the fact? Well, because I could do something but I wont. Why? Because there is just too much to risk. A lot of my life is online, as is my girlfriends life. And now as my mom becomes more adapt to tech. her shit is also online.

That's a lot of information that can be used against us all but more importantly, it's really easy to just plain fuck with us if someone wanted to. Could I call my hosting company and show them the thread where these fucktards bragged to my face about hacking my server? Sure. Would anything happen? Not really. Why? Because people were anonymous on the site as well as it being hosted on a server overseas.

Could I probably get the site shut down? Maybe. Would the "hackers" (I use that term VERY loosely) then use that move as a reason to unleash the fury on my shit? You betcha.

Maybe I'm getting old. Maybe it's because I saw them post information about my girlfriend which immediately made me back down that did it. I mean, it's not like this hasn't happened to me before. I can deal with people talking shit about me on public forums. Everyone has haters and if you don't then you are boring and don't matter. But when I am faced with either continuing the fight or protecting my loved ones, the decision isn't difficult to make.

I can probably start to fathom how ridiculous this reads to most of you. It's like bizarro world on the internet I'm sure. I was laughing at the absurdity for most of the day yesterday until it got real. And that was some scary shit.

Live and learn I guess. Today is a new day.

Fuck all of this

I quit.

I've totally been good this year



And only 35,000$ Two please!

Great, just what we needed...

SUPERLIONS!!!



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Just FYI

Pearl Harbor Pics



Found in an old Brownie camera in a foot locker...

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HOT XXX Monkey Action!



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That could be painful



When they first met, Romeo the pelican was simply in need of a little tender loving care.
But the amorous avian appears to have mistaken a nurse’s attention for something a little more intimate and has set about trying to woo his human companion. . . .

Mrs Bailey, 47, revealed how the lovelorn bird tries to impress her when they are alone. “He looks right into my eyes and puts on what I can only describe as a mating display, with his wings up and his head bowed down,” she said.

“He will walk over to me, snuggle in and preen me. Romeo loves to take my hair or my hand in his mouth and he also plays with my shoe laces.”

But woe betide anyone who the enormous bird sees as a threat.

Mrs Bailey said: “If I am not around he’ll tolerate someone else feeding him his fish, but as soon as I appear he goes for them.

“He gets in between and his wings go up, his mouth opens wide and he lunges at them snapping his big beak. He’ll bite if they’re not quick enough to get out the way.

“I feel terrible because I know it can be very painful. He has bitten staff, volunteer helpers and the vet. It seems to be my fault because he thinks that he’s protecting me.”

Oh, reward time!

I will give 50$ bucks to the person who can find me new or used metro cards in quantity (i.e. lots of them). Doesn't mater what kind of cards albiet NYC, DC, Japanese what have you. Just want some metro cards.

GO GO GO!!!




Only in my town


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Do the people here not only leave their car's running as they wait in line at Starfucks, they also leaves their doors open.

*sigh

It's funny because it's not me

Great moments in stupidity part two! Wow, please please listen all the way through.

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Oh and p.s.

My company is starting to hypothetically find out that it is losing the account that I work for. If you know then cool, if you don't then read some papers in a few months.

Sadly, if when the account is gone, so will be my job. That displeases me greatly. Why? Because this is the best job I have ever had. Ever.

Anyhoo, just wanted to add that right this very minute, as I type this blog, my bosses are discussing my future here. They are deciding my fate so to speak behind a closed door made of pale brown wood.

I'll keep you posted.

What's next on the internet?

I came into work today to read this email sent by a higher up in the company:

Do you think You Tube is "so 2005"? Does your MySpace site have over 10,000 friends and so much content it would take weeks to surf? Do you already know what will be the next big thing on the internet in 2007?

If so, we need your help! We are looking for those bleeding-edge technologies that will be all the rage soon, but aren't yet in the media spot light. We have a significant opportunity with a large international brand and we want to impress this potential client with how "in the know" our consultants really are. (And, of course, we need this information by this Friday 12/8)

Thanks!


After reading it, I noticed that the email was "reply-all"d to about a dozen times with replies that pretty much came close to given me an aneurysm just trying to decode what the flying fuck people were saying. Obviously I was no longer in an advertising world and had somehow managed to get myself into deep trouble working for a nerdy-tech/web company.

So after logging onto my lil' web community for whose name can't be spoken and asking for help, I came away with a nice rebuttal/addition. A rebuttal in which I replied all to as well full well knowing that it was going to EVERYONE in the company. Risk taking is fun!

Here’s my take as a recovering Gen X’er / tech nerd / int0rweb ne’er do well...

The big things that will effect me in the next year:
• DRM (boo)
• everything going green. Bring on the tesla! http://jalopnik.com/cars/news/mechanical-resonance-the-tesla-motors-press-intro-complete-with-governator-188590.php
• social networking for the 30+ set (why anyone hasn’t tapped into this yet is beyond me)
• On-demand made-for-web video but more importantly, on-demand EVERYTHING. I don’t mind paying for it just as long as I can have it right now, this very minute and I want it to be high quality. Sadly as bandwidth increases, so will thievery. The way to combat this is to give the customers the format and medium that they want. The CD will be obsolete by the end of the next decade and I will happily throw it a going away party.
• Music being created solely for reverse-technology i.e. Producing music for MP3 players, inferior quality computer speakers as well as making smaller streamable files. Not my cup of tea but it’s sadly starting to take over the use of recording studios.
• Better mobile technology. In all sincerity, I don’t know a single person who really cares about playing games or listening to music on their phones but I do want a better way to incorporate my ability to stay in touch with my friends and social network while away from my computer. Phones will never replace TV or movies purely based on it’s experience, EVER, but different ways of communication will become richer and more robust.
• VOIP will get better and possibly lead to portable means.
• Wireless. Everywhere. I can’t wait until I can surf the web while in my car on the fly. (as a passenger of course *wink)


Things that will will get missed out:
• microformats: if this actually caught on, searching the web will be revolutionized. How cool would it be to search for a recipe and actually get a recipe instead of getting countless webpages with 90% of it being useless information.
• social information gathering like www.swivel.com, wiki and flickr and the likes. Why has no one leveraged these gems too?


Things that I would like to see go away:
• viral marketing: ok, we get it. It’s not cool anymore. This overused and extremely played out form of advertising has caused the entire market that you are trying to reach to second guess everything’s motives. Nothing is really shocking anymore and it’s starting to really lose it’s impact.
• blogging. What’s the tally? A new blog born every half-second? I’m all about keeping the web clutter free and the simple fact that my mom has a blog isn’t really helping.

Meh, I dunno. I know I’m more of a left-brain kind of guy but you asked for technology and what’s going to be hot to me so I hope this helps...

Cheers,
Jason Kress
Artsy Pixel Pusher



What's your response folks?

Great moments in stupidity

You can almost see the thought process going on in his head as he realizes that he is going to be the laughing stock of the free world as soon as he leaves the studio...

*shoots self in forehead. OMG LOL! tH@Ts s0 1337!

Awesome Billboards: Part 1 in a series of 1



W. T. F.

BY WENDI AARONS
- - - -
Mauricio the Magnificent

El Pompadour

The Puerto Rican Pelé

Jackass Ball Hog

The Apparent One-Man Show

Mr. What Kind of 5-Year-Old Has Facial Hair?

The Ringer Suspected of Juicin' in His Mommy's SUV Before the Game

Seriously, the Boy Has Pubes

Le Stealer of Le Fucking Ball From His Own Le Fucking Teammates

The Boy Who'd Better Stop Pissing Off the Snack Mom

Jesus, Will You Pass It Already?

The Kid Whose Ass Will Be Kicked by My Kid Come T-Ball Season

More!

Flatulence on plane sparks emergency landing

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The best part is that she wasn't allowed back on the plane. Think we have any freedom left folks?

Mary Poppins as a horror flick

Shite font choice but semi funny nonetheless...

This is what I have to deal with every day

Imagine holding a cantalope in your hand, kind of tiny eh? Well, that was the size of this womans head. I really wish I could have gotten the front shot here but you can just try to imagine the clusterfuck of a hairdo this woman was rocking today. Her hair was probably a 4:1 ratio of hair to head size.

That and well she, how do I put this politely, smelled like a street whore in 103º weather.

Please, please, please get me out of this town.


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kind of blurry but it's starting to take shape


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swirls almost done


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Lastly, I would also like this for christmas

Ladies and gentlemen, it please me greatly that I live on a planet that has these creatures on it as well.

Behold, The Freckled Death Seal™



Wheeee!
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The Southern Tamandua



Vast tracts of rainforest in Brazil are to get a new protected status. The area contains thousands of species of wildlife, including the southern tamandua (Tamandua tetradactyla), also known as the lesser anteater.

YES, AND I WANT ONE FOR XMAS.

I know I posted this before but

I fucking love this image...



I totally want one...
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Dear dad,

You're not really a great dad. It's not your fault (I guess), but you just sort of plain suck at being a father. I don't think you were really ready to have me or maybe it's your upbringing and your family. They are the good ole fashioned southern family who don't really talk about issues etc etc. That being said, mom on the other hand is 1000% opposite to you in terms of just about everything. Introvert vs. extrovert (god those two words have to be the lamest words in the english language...). Mom talks it out, you hold it in. You spend your money on shit, mom saves for a rainy day. Mom is outgoing, you are the unibomber hiding up in the woods.

Anyhoo, I could go on and on about how much you have fucked with my head through the years. I could go on and on and just bitch and complain about how I wanted you to be in my life while growing up but quite honestly, you did your best and I appreciate the effort. You tried to do what you could and I'm not going to say there weren't moments. Remember that one birthday where you actually pulled out the stops and made that silly video for me to watch? Or when you helped me install my first stereo in my first car? Or when you got up early and helped me reupholster the car while I was still sleeping? I will NEVER forget those.

That's cool and all. I really appreciate it but being in the field of advertising, the term "You're only as good as your last project" can be said about you and well, you're kind of batting a big ole zippy lately dude. When the holidays come around and you muster up enough energy to call me and then when I ignore the call, I get to listen to your half assed attempt at a message that sounds like a combination of you being half asleep and half not-even-giving-a-fuck, it sort of hurts. It really does.

But I can look at it another way. At least I have a father. My best friend had his father taken away from him at an early age and I have seen what he has to go through every fathers day and every x-mas without a dad. It sucks to see him hurt so much in reality, I should be thankful for you.

I am, I'm glad I have a dad but that brings me to my point.

I'm moving on, I don't really think I need you anymore in certain philosophical aspects of my life. I'm about to start a family and quite honestly, I've given you the chance to make room for me in your life but it just seems like you aren't interested. God only knows I've given you the chances and made the effort on my part. For fucks sake, I drove to your house, cried on your couch telling you I needed you to step it up but it didn't last. I didn't think it would and thanks for proving me right.

So, in the next few months, I am giving up your name. I don't want it. I never wanted to be the last in the bloodline but when given the choice of carrying it on, I'd rather start something new and be proud of what I help build with my wife. No offense, I really loved gramma and grandpa but due to you selling me and mom out over that whole "college thing" we both know where I stand in terms of your side of the family. Guess that was a bad idea to do that eh?

Anyhoo, it's been nice. I'll probably see you around some time. Maybe when I need to drive to your house and pick up some of my crap or when you have another heart attack (think you should quit smoking soon? I mean, one heart attack is enough dude. Fuck, I even quit. Man up.) Believe it or not, I do care about you and want you to see my kids born but that's not going to happen if you don't start to make changes. I know change is hard but it's so hip right now.

So in closing, don't take this is a big ole "fuck you" or anything. I don't blame you for a single thing, it's not really your fault. You just aren't really great at being a parent. I just can't keep feeling empty when I think about my "dad". I needed more, I didn't get it so I'm moving on. I'll always love ya, I just need to do this.

Merry Christmas pops.

Sincerely,
Jason

ok, getting tired


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18 glue sticks and 3 burnt fingers later


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gonna be a looooooong night


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There is rambo and then there is this guy

- This man was listening to radio communications and heard about a team that needed rescuing.
- He volunteered to jump on the next helicopter going in for a second rescue attempt (first one failed).
- Got wounded in the right leg, face and head.
- Despite injuries, dragged several men to a helicopter.
- Got shot in the stomach and got blown by a grenade in the back.
- The rescue helicopter he came in got shot down.
- Pulled the injured out of the crashed helicopter into a defensive perimeter, and inspired them to keep fighting.
- Called in air strikes and directed support fire.
- Got shot in the thigh, and then started carrying wounded to a third rescue copter.
- Got clubbed by an enemy soldier while carrying wounded to the copter, but killed him.
- Killed two more enemy soldiers because the helicopter’s gunner couldn’t.
- Made one more run to carry the last of the wounded to the helicopter, then got on.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Benavidez

Quite possibly the coolest blog this week...

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