crossfire- the ultimate challenge

The other day while walking through DI we came across an old crossfire game. my initial reaction was to buy it. then i remembered that crossfire is one of those games that seems like the greatest game ever when your not playing it but once you play it you remember that it isnt that fun. it is proven that 99% of all crossfire boards have one gun that works good and another gun that always gets jammed and doesnt work. I remember the bb's would always get lost. the commercials for the game were intense. kids coming into an arena of screaming fans riding a hover board, playing with lightning in the background and the loser spins away. the commercial refers to it as the ultimate challenge. life would be awesome if the ultimate challenge was a game of crossfire. (http://youtube.com/watch?v=rCwn1NTK-50)
the person who owned the crossfire board always won because they knew which side worked and which side didnt. people say that home court advantage is most important in the nba, but in crossfire its more important. anyways we didnt buy the crossfire board, it didnt have any bb's.

learn to paint

the man in this picture is bob ross. his show used to always be on pbs but has slowly been taken off the air. last week his show was on and i watched him take a plain white canvas and within an hour paint an entire mountain range with a river and birds and everything you would think a mountain range would have. time flew by. me and my roommate debated over who is a better artist, van gough or ross. we couldnt decide because their styles are so different. van gough had a colorful impressionist style while ross is more of a boom! in your face, i'll paint whatever i want to kind of style. ross is definitley more of a people person although we dont really know because van gough never had a television show. during the show, bob talks to his paintings. when he was painting the river he said, "make it a happy river, there, a happy river, oh what a happy river". what makes a river happy? nintendo was going to make a bob ross painting game for the wii but decided to cancel the project. thats too bad. i would much rather paint on the wii then in real life. in real life you get paint everywhere and you cant erase your mistakes. i bet i am a lot better artist on video games then in real life.

ugliest or greatest?

the other day i read a post about shaq and his shoes on another blog (deepthoughtsandlove.blogspot.com). it made me realize that what some people consider to be ugly shoes, are the coolest shoes ever to other people. i remember back in the day, people would always talk about how ugly tennis players shoes were. i personally liked them because they were different and had tennis balls as pumps, but would never have been caught wearing them. now, looking at those old tennis shoes, people would pay a lot of money for them. nike has come out with new shoes designed after the old style of tennis shoes. i got these pictures from a website that counted down the ugliest tennis shoes ever.

these are my favorites



these are cool also



These shoes arent tennis shoes. they are kobe's shoes from about 3 years ago. if basketball were ever played on the moon, these are the shoes the players would have to wear. i heard they were designed after a car (audi). these make me not want to buy that car. maybe kobe can pull them off but no one else can.

I just realized kobes shoes have gotten a lot better since he moved from adidas to nike. maybe its not his fault for some of those moon shoe designs. here's one of kobe's last shoes with adidas

ridiculous.

this picture brings back a lot of memories. i ran into bishop nolte today and he asked when we were going to softball. i said "whenever". i rememebr the first game i put myself in right field figuring it was the best place for me to not have the ball hit to me (im a hitter, not a fielder). the first batter up hit the ball over my head and after that i spent the rest of the season as the catcher. one saturday afternoon after playing we decided to go to chuckarama. i still dont understand why we did that. edgar had me pull over when we were on university ave. after leaving the restaurant because he had to throw up. thank you edgar for speaking up and not throwing up in my car. i cant think of anything else, but im sure there's a lot more stuff that happened.