SB Nation User Blog: BlazermaniacAndy

JD 11/12/09- And the Triumphant Return of Many Things

BlazermaniacAndy — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 08:24:40 -0000

Greg Oden is back, I think we last saw him this way somewhere in his senior season in high school.

The Blazers are Back - I heard best start in a decade? Touche. All this after half the bandwagon fell off after only 6 games.

I'm back posting in this old junk drawer. Oddly enough I have not posted on this site in 7 months. Oddly enough I have had one of those old ball and chain thingys for about, 7 months.

We shall call this the Triumphant Return.

No more about the blazers eh. You can go over to the timberwolves site for that. I'm here because you want a place to post pictures about what you have been doing for the last 7 months.

I got lots of pics. I have been doing alot of hiking around the old pacific northwest. Today, instead of doing so many things of responsibility that I no doubt should of have been doing, I went and visited the Bonneville Dam. And had myself a lunchables ontop of a little hill that overlooks where the Army Corp of Engineers moved an entire town to accomodate for the 2nd power station. Amazing.

Almost as amazing as the fact that I am a business owner. Somebody wake me up, what do you mean I have to do my own taxes?...

I went crabbing. My girlfriend went to bed at the normal time and was for some reason shocked when I came to bed at 6 am. Did I mention I had like 20 crabs all cooked and ready to eat just sitting in some ice? This hotel had a dock with a card key locked gate so only the hotel guests could drop their pots off this dock as the tide came in and out. I used frozen mink for bait of course. Sure enough my circle type pots were pulling crabs all night and their baited box soakers werent so lucky.

What else...I miss you guys... All of you, blazer fans all over the world. Sometimes when my girlfriend breaks up with me I get all sad and require pints of microbrew. I adorn a pinwheel on my shirt and perhaps my hat and no matter where I go someone either wants to talk about the scarlett and black or at least has a matching symbol of my portland team on their head perhaps.

A funny story before I go.

My friend Colin and I used to play on the same city league basketball team. I have since dropped out but Colin still plays once a week. A few weeks ago they had a game against a team with better record and knew they would have to work extra hard to try and get a victory. It was a back and forth battle until one man took over the game for the opposition. His smooth dribble and silky smooth step jack jumpers had obviously been honed over years of playing. He passed to his teammates when they were open, he knew when to pull up on the fast break. At which point he would wave off a screen and take his man one on one, laying it up everytime.

I thought I recognized him but I just couldn't be sure. Could he really play on a team of mostly younger men on a city wide rec league? Colin went up to the man and shook his hand, confident he knew the mans name. He gave Colin a business card, turns out he sells insurance too. The mans name....

MIcheal Holton

Poll

Who's Back?

Me - I told you i was back

8 votes

You - You never told me you were back!

2 votes

Greg Oden - Good Old High School Happy Days Greg

42 votes

Micheal Holton, this story sold me, but drop the big man from that show

10 votes

Micheal Jaskson - Nuf Said

1 votes

63 votes | Poll has closed

A Repost WITH pics finally! Andy @ the Memphis win, + poll, have you traveled for your team?

BlazermaniacAndy — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 06:29:23 -0000

First of all, sorry to repost this but when I posted it the other night I couldn't get ALL OF MY GREAT PICS uploaded because photobucket was down.

Andy and Adam sit in Row A in Memphis - A Recap- We won, I flew 2,300 miles to visit a friend who had moved here for Nike and had not had a friend come out and visit him. I (like LetsBlaze met up with Travis' uncles at BB kings bar after the game. They even bought me and my friend Adam (aka 503rd) a Biere!

When we arrived at the arena we walked down to our seats (Adam was able to buy row A seats for $80!) and made sure the local camera guy saw where we were sitting! Then I yelled at Mike and Mike and made sure they knew where we were sitting and Barrett promised he would get us on tv. Rice was impressed I flew that far just for the game and I was impressed he is still alive and kicking (he looks much older up close and personal)

I am going to include the original post below so the fine folks who already commented on this post get the recognition they so rightfully deserve!

I will then proceed to post so many good pics you will flip your lip.

by BlazermaniacAndy on Mar 17, 2009 11:35 PM PDT 32 comments

Well I have finally made it to the Good Life. Starting a new business. Collecting Un-Employment. And of course, taking a week long trip to Memphis to hang out with my good friend from Oregon, Adam the 503rd. This was my first Blazer game away from the comfort of the Rose Garden. 2,300 miles later I was sitting in the best seats I had ever sat in, in an arena that must of had at LEAST 1,000 people there!

Seriously though, THIS WAS THE MOST FUN I HAVE EVER HAD AT A GAME! Partly because we won. Well mostly because we won, but the fact that this gorgeous arena couldn’t even manage to scrap together 1/4 attendance meant that our tickets (that would cost $150+ in Portland) cost only $80! As we walked down to our seats we saw a bunch of Travis Outlaws family waving around Giant signs so we knew we would not be the only PTB fans in the house. Being as this was my first away game i expected some of the opposing fans to be lewd and rude, but I didn’t not expect to be the victim of mulitple hate crimes. The first was when they asked me if I wanted to participate in an on-court skit at the end of the quarter. I was so excited, I walked down the visitors tunnel and then then their version of Todd Bosma (the guy who arranges these activities at the Rose Garden) told me they had decided NOT to let me do the skit, and they were going to dress up a Grizzlies fan in a Blazer jersey instead. I was hurt, but he offered me a free Grizzlie T-Shirt for me trouble. Joy! It might of have been better off because the skit involved putting a blindfold on, letting them wrap you up in double sided tape, and then they swept away the $1 bills they had laid out on the ground and let the poor sap roll around trying to collect imaginary money. The second was due to that dastard Grizzlie Bear. He pulled a ‘blaze the trailcat’ and sprayed silly string all up in my mouth and hair, oh they joy again, but at least the ENTIRE arena was watching this Blazer fan represent this site in my custom signed Blazersedge shirt!

Then there was a game as well I think.

According to their website, LeMarcus was killing it (yes, they misspelled his name), then Joel dunks, then I start focusing on trying to get a date with the realy cute Red Headed Grizzlie girl, she smiled at me alot, I think she really likes me.

At half time, we got us some more Adult beverages so we could continue to be loud and obnoxious to all the Griz fans in attendance, all 17 of them.

My words don’t do this game justice, so allow me to say what words cannot, and show you some pictures.

All in all, it was an amazing night, made all the more special by the fact we now have a winning season, AND we found a tattoo parlor right down the street from the Forum, that also serves Burgers and Beer.

Welcome to the Good Life.

Welcome to the Terror Dome

by BlazermaniacAndy on Mar 18, 2009 12:05 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

the low attendance

was obvious on TV, how sad, reminds me of the Pacers problems post a few days ago (can’t remember who put it up). That is sad stuff. I kept thinking: “Man if this was in Portland those seats would all be full….” I was starting to think our team only played good in front of big crowds, feeding off the energy – so it was nice to see them kick it in an empty arena.

There is probably no more terrible instance of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man — with human flesh.
Paul Muad'Dib - Dune (Frank Herbert)

My Translation: My Dad is a dude just like me, and my sons are dudes like me also. I love that.
Season Tix: Section 315, with my sons

by johnv59 on Mar 18, 2009 12:09 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I thought it looked rather amazingly empty myself...

note the ENTIRE EMPTY SECTION…..LMA already had 15 points…

"Sergio and I obtained chalupas to understand their power. Then Sergio showed that each one has 427 calories and 27 grams of fat. Leaping upwards, we reviled the accursed chalupa and its pressure. – Rudy Fernandez

by LetsBlaze on Mar 18, 2009 9:24 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

you messed up your post buddy

Karma

by Sabonis4Ever on Mar 18, 2009 12:17 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I know right! I HAD A HUNDRED PHOTOS TO POST and then photobucket went down for the night so it wouldn't even let me post them! f! well, I will try to repost them tommorrow, but alas, I will be going to new orleans, wish me luck

Welcome to the Terror Dome

by BlazermaniacAndy on Mar 18, 2009 12:29 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

good luck

Karma

by Sabonis4Ever on Mar 18, 2009 12:32 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Saw you on TV dog!!

There is probably no more terrible instance of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man — with human flesh.
Paul Muad'Dib - Dune (Frank Herbert)

My Translation: My Dad is a dude just like me, and my sons are dudes like me also. I love that.
Season Tix: Section 315, with my sons

by johnv59 on Mar 17, 2009 11:42 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

I still hate you

even though you had no cheer leaders around you… LOL

There is probably no more terrible instance of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man — with human flesh.
Paul Muad'Dib - Dune (Frank Herbert)

My Translation: My Dad is a dude just like me, and my sons are dudes like me also. I love that.
Season Tix: Section 315, with my sons

by johnv59 on Mar 17, 2009 11:42 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Andy ruuuuuuuuuules.

you looked really happy on tv. word up.

"I saw him in the face"

by RoodiePhirnandizz on Mar 17, 2009 11:43 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

They commented

about your “victory dance” (Mike and Mike) was kinda funny.

There is probably no more terrible instance of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man — with human flesh.
Paul Muad'Dib - Dune (Frank Herbert)

My Translation: My Dad is a dude just like me, and my sons are dudes like me also. I love that.
Season Tix: Section 315, with my sons

by johnv59 on Mar 17, 2009 11:53 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

When I saw "Andy" on the shirt...

I knew it was you. They also showed your buddy with the “503” several times.

by TallTimber on Mar 18, 2009 1:47 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

it's crazy how

even though I have never seen andy in real life, I knew when I saw him on tv that it had to be blazermaniacAndy…which I just realized looks like Blazermania Candy if you dont cap your A in Andy

C*mcast sucks!

by Blazermaniac77 on Mar 18, 2009 4:05 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

they shoudl make blazermania candy

I’d eat it

C*mcast sucks!

by Blazermaniac77 on Mar 18, 2009 4:06 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Some people get to have ALL the fun!!!!!!!!! (I am just jealous)

Blazer's Edge Ambassador to The Dream Shake Blog
LMA - Putting the POWER in POWER FORWARD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LMA Rocks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I <3 LMA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

by LaMarvelous on Mar 17, 2009 11:47 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Living vicariously

through our younger BE crowd, we are…. haha

There is probably no more terrible instance of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man — with human flesh.
Paul Muad'Dib - Dune (Frank Herbert)

My Translation: My Dad is a dude just like me, and my sons are dudes like me also. I love that.
Season Tix: Section 315, with my sons

by johnv59 on Mar 17, 2009 11:54 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

True That!

Blazer's Edge Ambassador to The Dream Shake Blog
LMA - Putting the POWER in POWER FORWARD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LMA Rocks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I <3 LMA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

by LaMarvelous on Mar 17, 2009 11:56 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Word, Andy.

Bedge or go home -- Sabonis4Ever

by prezofdeath on Mar 17, 2009 11:56 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Welcome to the Terror Dome

by BlazermaniacAndy on Mar 17, 2009 11:56 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Party 'til you are satisfied!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Or until you pass out!

Blazer's Edge Ambassador to The Dream Shake Blog
LMA - Putting the POWER in POWER FORWARD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LMA Rocks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I <3 LMA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

by LaMarvelous on Mar 17, 2009 11:58 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Represent

Karma

by Sabonis4Ever on Mar 17, 2009 11:58 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

sorry yALL photobucket went down for the night while i was posting, i got photos, i will repost them tommorow!

anyone else enjoy that game as much as me?

Welcome to the Terror Dome

by BlazermaniacAndy on Mar 18, 2009 12:33 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

sure

Karma

by Sabonis4Ever on Mar 18, 2009 12:37 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Fail

I'm tominhawaii, was dragline, and have never been tominrehab.

by tominhawaii on Mar 18, 2009 5:38 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

From the sound coming from my TV,

it sounded like there were a lot more Blazer fans than Griz fans,

My favorite teams are the Blazers and any team that is playing the Lakers.

by OCBlazerFan1 on Mar 18, 2009 7:00 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Blazermaniac Andy, you were featured prominently on tv. During the post game report, Mike and Mike were making fun of memphis, like, well, these two blazer fans (someone with a blazermaniac andy t shirt going nuts) represented about half of the crowd here.

by 50backflips on Mar 18, 2009 8:23 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

It was pretty much a home game

With all of Outlaw’s family there, it turned into Rose Garden East. Which wasn’t a bad thing. The Blazers played a beautiful game and it sounds like you had an awesome time! Wish I could have been there.

These are my principles. If you don't like them, I have others. -Groucho Marx

by RDreamer on Mar 18, 2009 9:39 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

I like these posts from Bedgers when they attend opposition arenas--

interesting insight, and sure looked like fun.

It's spelled "PRZYBILLA."
vanillathrillagorillaprzybilla

by RenoBlazerFan on Mar 18, 2009 11:52 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

damn, i should have met up with you. i hate you.

i was trying to text you when i saw you on tv but then i didn’t have your number.. email it to me foo!!!

Yes on Proposition #9 (RLEC must go!!!!)

by broyposse on Mar 18, 2009 11:58 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Andy man! I though you looked familiar!

I was the one with all the Outlaw family at BB kings after the gig…I have a great picture of you and the dude with the 503 tatoo on the back of his neck…

by LetsBlaze on Mar 18, 2009 9:16 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

I mean what BEdger could pass up a pic of a Rod Strickland jersey

by LetsBlaze on Mar 18, 2009 9:26 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

heh

RodFTW.

draft dejuan blair

by Cablinasian on Mar 18, 2009 10:11 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Poll

HAVE YOU EVER ATTENDED A BLAZER GAME IN AN AWAY ARENA? IF SO, WHICH ONE, DID WE WIN, AND HOW WERE YOU GREETED BY LOCAL FANS?

Seattle had a team for a while, I made the I-5 drive

6 votes

A California team, I made the I-5 drive

5 votes

An East Coast team, (everything west of Portland)

7 votes

No never, but seeing how much fun Andy had I must try it

19 votes

Not yet, but Andy, where shall we go next?

5 votes

42 votes | Poll has closed

Andy and Adam sit in Row A in Memphis - A Recap

BlazermaniacAndy — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 01:22:36 -0000

Seriously though, THIS WAS THE MOST FUN I HAVE EVER HAD AT A GAME!

Andy's Offical BEdge Party Recap -With Pics, and Kicks and Poll

BlazermaniacAndy — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 09:01:49 -0000

Welcome to the Terror Dome, March 20th marks the 3rd anniversary of the day the infrequently updated SBnation blog Blazers Edge came into being, and this is what is has become. A Party! The kind where really really good people show up to!

Well Well Well, didn't that go nicely!? The Blazers Edge party I meant, not the game. So let's just go ahead and forget we played tonight, and while I re-watch this Indiana victory I have on Tivo let's try and remember back to earlier this evening, when I met all my new best friends and family.

There was literally hundreds of people trying to hang out with me so pardon me if I can't remember all of your names,

There was the Dude, that one guy, The other guy, plus Billy the Kid, Crocodile Dundee, and of course Billy Zane.

Then there were these people...

Poll

Did you attend this event? And if you did, Did I shake you hand, once, twice, or thrice?

Once, Andy you know me, I'm that girl! (or that one dude)

14 votes

Twice, I look like that girl you met earlier (or that dude)

6 votes

Thrice, It was near the beginning, middle, and end of the night

10 votes

I didn't go, but I have met you before Andy, and no you can't date my daughter

23 votes

53 votes | Poll has closed

Andy's Blog about the Season Ticket Holder party - now with Poll and MORE PICS!

BlazermaniacAndy — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 05:50:14 -0000

Tonight was a special night, thanks to the Blazers and all the staff at the spot we went to, Can we say it was Big Al's? for providing me and my brother with memories, and juice. Oh wow did we drink a lot of juice.

It was sweet! I got to high five LaMarcus, Brandon, Travis, ! I got my shirt signed by none other than THEE Wild One Mike Rice! I played some pool with some Blazers staffer, shot some shuffleboard with this cute Blazer fan from Seattle, and, AND, have some great shots of Ben's manlove J. Bayless playing some INTENSE "Rock Band" with some lucky kids. Oh yes, he prefers to play drums compared to guitar. If you look closely at a lot of these photo's you can see me awkwardly standing in the background trying to "Hang Out" with the guys.

Then I saw it, big girl vs. BlazerDancer on Dance Dance Revolution. This tops hanging out with the players.

Look at these pics if you want to, or not.

Also, if you went to the event, share your pics! or stories, or picture stories.

I just thought those of you who don't live in Portland would like to kind of see what the Blazers put on for us Season Ticket Holders, and how much fun it so, so go ahead, move to Portland, that's you almart1!

P.S. oh, Barrett signed my chest, awkward! That guy can fake and bake too though...Orange is SO the In color for skin right now.

Oh, and in case you want to look at the rest of the photo's you can go to:

http://s722.photobucket.com/albums/ww222/QO2009/Blzrs%20Big%20Al%20BBQ/

Poll

How important are these type of events?

Gorgeous important - as long as BlazerDancer plays Dance Dance Revolution (she did tonight by the way)

100 votes

Pretty important, like which Blazer can sink more mini baskets? Free bowling is a good deal.

26 votes

Cute important, like, look at Travis whooping that kid at Air Hockey, that's cute! I will come for the free food!

26 votes

So Ugly It's Beautiful Important, I.E. Mike Ruffin, and we can do without these things

5 votes

157 votes | Poll has closed

It feels good. A kind of euphoric feeling that burns like a fire not easily extinguished. I get...

BlazermaniacAndy — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 08:32:56 -0000

It feels good. A kind of euphoric feeling that burns like a fire not easily extinguished. I get more and more people commenting on my blazer wall at my cubicle, it gives me something to relate to them about, thank you KP.

It has been a long and winding road, that leads, to the Rose Gardens floor. I am going saturday with a big time fan. I am going to hoot and holler, and honestly, get up stand up for my right to be proud of my team.

So...

How do they make feel?

to all the BEders out there, hear me now,

HOW DO YOU FEEL!?

Excited?! ( Do we make the playoffs? I'm thinking we win it ALL, we have thee Team)

Nervous!? ( What if collapse like last year!? aGHAgh!)

(Insert Emotion Here -exclamation point, question mark- explanation)

What I don't remember about Tonight, and what you don't either

BlazermaniacAndy — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 08:11:25 -0000

This is a little place of Blazersedge where you can recap what you remember about tonights game against the Hornet's. Or more importantly, what you don't remember. I am going to write this piece as if I had NOT gone to the game and watched Chris Paul sink shot after shot over my portland pinwheels. I will write this as if I went to the game to buy expensive beer and people-watch.

We all have off nights. Move on. Forget the bad and tell me the good. Like what pizza you ate at home while watching this game (did we win?), or where you went for post-game libations. I, like most Blazer fans, tend to remember the good times more so then the bad times. What happened tonight? All I remember is my date ditched me, that could of have been bad, but I forgot about it. I got more options.

Who is there to come through? My mom of course.

My mom is the coolest, she enjoys the half time entertainment more then the game. She only likes the Blazers cause I do. Any of you guys brought a lady like that? Or ladies, perhaps you know a dude who needs to get off the warcraft and check our the real craft of war, on hardwood instead of online.

That's how it should be sometimes, when you don't remember the bad times your only memories are of those sweet and ripe moments of life. I mean, if you attend a good number of home games like I do you look forward to the T-Shirt toss, and the blimp... Hey! Why didn't we get the Ford blimp flight tonight? My mom was waiting patiently to watch the envelops fall from the floating automobile. No joke, last game against Boston, I took her for her first Blazer game ever, and one of her many funny statements was "Where are the strings on that thing?...".

She also likes to ask me where the person who is being shown on the jumbo-tron is actually sitting at in the area, I know where a few of the regulars are, but that Darth Vader guy tonight had me searching, turns out he was right down in front of me in the 200 level, who enjoys watching an entire game in a Darth Vader Mask? Do you BEdge mister Vader mask dude? How can you even see in that thing?

So to everyone who is still up this late at night, and at home or somewhere near a computer, let's pretend we are here to talk about something other than... Oh wait, I can't Remember...

12/19/08 Junk Drawers/Quiet 52 Edition

BlazermaniacAndy — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 08:40:03 -0000

I was at the Rose Garden tonight and I knew Brandon was having a game. I just didn't know he would have Thee game of his young career.

My lady points up at the score board. It's still the third quarter and Brandon Roy has 35 points. As some of you might of have heard he went on to score 52 points in our victory over Shaq-Fuul and the Suns. It was the most points I have ever been able to witness scored live, and it was by far the Quietest 52 points ever. I can only recall a few plays where Mr. Roy did so much as a fist pump. So, can you recall some player scoring so many points with this little of hoopla? I don't think so.

Back to the junk.

So I got my first present to put under my tree today. I want to open it so bad, but I won't the wait only helps to build the excitement. It feels like those old tins with bandaids in them.

I went to Winco late last night and stocked up on supplies assuming I would wake up with 3 inches of snow on the ground and have had work canceled. Neither came true. Oh how I hate thee weather man.

s/ We were going to do a gift exchange at work till my looser boss suggested we donate to charity. Now I don't get my worthless white elephant I have always wanted.

My mom brought me lunch today. I love my mom. I'm not trading her for anything. What are you getting your mom for Christmas?

Oh, and Didn't Dave mention he wanted the junk drawer to become the trade drawer? So talk trades if you want, I can't think of any good one's. Wait...

The Spanish Triple Armada!?I WANT JOSE CALDERON! I am willing to trade, Blaze the Trailcat, and I'll toss in a free headband.

Poll

If you had to make a trade what would it be?

RLEC + one of our babies for a decent piece to this puzzle

30 votes

Trade A few of our budding players for one star

12 votes

Trade Blaze the Trailcat for Lionel from the Thundercats

22 votes

Trade my bologna sandwich for your Peanut Butter and Jelly

23 votes

87 votes | Poll has closed

12/16/2008 Junk Drawer - Christmas Tree Edition

BlazermaniacAndy — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 08:17:09 -0000

So I finally got my tree up a few minutes ago.

I decorated it with some multi-colored lights and some nice red metal globe things my mom got me for my 6 ft Noble Fir. She even gave me 5 boxes of random assorted Christmas decorations! The festivities will now include snow globes, Stockings to hang by the fire, and of course, a bunch of puffy white snowmen to adorn every random nooks and crannie.

It usually takes me a while to warm up to the Holidays for some reason. But to think it's only 8 days till the man in the red suit brings me that new Blackberry Bold i want. Oh and Santa, please for the sake of hypothermia can I also get some insulation for my house! I so desperately want, or perhaps, need it pumped into my walls and all over my attic immediately, as in, it's getting cold here in Portland hopefully preparing for a White Christmas. How cold? It's in the Teen's outside (hey for Portland that's cold!) and inside My house it was 55 degree's this morning! I can't even afford to run the furnace at night. You have to love Suburbia. They sure did build them well in 1970, but they didn't insulate for squat.

I played basketball in the snow for at least 3 hours yesterday. I only say it was this long because the neighbor kids mom's called them inside after an hour or so, and my roommate and I dueled it out in front of our house for another hour or so. The sun was down and the game was still on. As Brandon Roy says, shooting with gloves on is hard, and try as I might attempting to win the game on desperation 3's, I came up just short.

As is the lesson to be learned people.

Always stay properly hydrated when exercising outdoors in winter.

Hot Toddy your are the man.

Nov 8th Junk Drawer - least commented JD ever, just a blog I posted earlier elsewhere with a few blazer references

BlazermaniacAndy — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 22:09:55 -0000

Ha! Made you look! Now you've waster your time reading this, you might as well read the whole thing, then comment, something original, like, I like swiss cheese.

My fellow BEdgers, to help you kill the time until the game tonight, read this, and I will see you at the game tonight, I will be the guy wit the fabulous smile on my face. We're gonna win baby, let's not take them for granted, but come on, we're gonna win.

I know I know the remainder of this blog belongs on myspace, good point, but I figured it had a little Blazer in it. Just like we all do. So if you like it, thanks. I think it's swell, it's todays blog, it's called.

On my new fav song, on gutters cleaning and dramatic endings, Or....
Current mood: fabulous

I'm listening to that new Death Cab song Cath. It's good...Or....Great....
I probably should be cleaning right now. It is the weekend, and I have been doing alot of, well, not cleaning. Last night was the Ozomotli show at the Crystal Ballroom. I love that place, at one point we were on jumping, and it felt like we were walking on air, so dreamy...It was hot, dang hot, and I'll be a lying sweaty pig if I didn't say I sweated, like a pig. A dancing pig if you will. (Do dancing pigs sweat?) They played the songs that make the world go round and the round asses go up and down. I had to choice but to let the music take me over, take over me, and take me to a sweaty place you can't find anywhere else. Squished into a place near the front of the stage, Cutting a rug, shaking my grove thang, Ok forget I said that last line. The Mary and Andy adventures took a random night to see the best band to dance to I have ever been to, 4 times. Even Chali 2na came with the band so they could sing their old songs from the first album I got of theirs, and they could play "Super Bowl Sunday" which is a particular song I like to bob my head and shake my face to.
Afterwards we decided to go clubbing, as usual. If you know me you know I am a big clubber, mostly golf clubs and club sandwiches, but hey, I like to try to new things so let's check out a dance club. We met some friends at the infamous hole in the wall, The Tube! Don't let the name scare you, because it did scare me away for a while, remind yourself this in the the gay-club part of town, but yeah, the drinks are cheap and although there was a cover, and it's extremely small, and it was smoking, and some of the music was suspect, it was, eh, all right. We met this couple from Brooklyn while waiting in line, they had just got in last night and say the line was smaller then the one across the street with the $10 cover to they thought they would check it out, they loved it, actually they wanted to meet back up there tonight and booze boogie. I wonder why? I think because Mary and his girl made him a manwich for a few songs, very nice. I even danced with a few strange ladies, until they saw my moves, in which case they shimmied away to a more crowded part of the room.
So what else do you want to hear about? My house? Can we talk about something else instead? No, ok, well, the cats still crap in my fireplace. I have been doing a little bit of manual labor. The house work has been coming and going in waves. Some months I do a little, perhaps a ripple, other months, the Monsoons come and I actually get something done. The problem is the Blazers season started and now I only have a few days of the week in which to focus my energy elsewhere, and then there's Blazers Courtside Monday Night so that kind of ruins the first day of the week, I don't know, I did get the gutters cleaned the other day, and I finally played Joe the Plumber and went to home depot to rent a snake drill, cleaned that baby out real good and deep, and then bam, she runs like a track star. I need to tile my upstairs bathroom STAT, and work on getting another roommate lined up because Musonda moves out at the end of this month.
Well, what I am really thinking about is tonight. Blazers versus the T-Wolves baby.
We have already had two home games, tonight is the third. Opening night, well, amazing astounding and awe insipiring! We met up with some bellow BEdgers at McFaddens and got a little pre funky. Then we got to witness history, and it still feels like a dream. The Spurs Schmurs. Welcome to the New Kids on the Block club. For our second course we were witness to the most amazing finish to a game EVER. Ever, Ever, Ever, google it, or go to Blazersedge.com to read about it. I don't have the time to write about all the points scored in the last 1.9 seconds, 8....Let's just say Brandon roy has Andy-like basketball skills, maybe, just maybe, a little better.
Let's just say tonight has a lot to live up to. We should destroy the Timberwolves of Minnesota...And the night is fast approaching
I suppose I should get to work on cleaning now......