tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11643685458323163792011-07-30T14:13:08.916-04:00It's a blog. Delicious.Matt Maskillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14703680247366335301noreply@blogger.comBlogger571100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1164368545832316379.post-68214485080174366672009-11-20T09:21:00.006-05:002009-11-20T13:36:54.021-05:00

As a father, I adore the projects my children bring home for me. From a simple picture, to a barely recognizable mammal constructed of paper plates, cardboard, some dried macaroni and half a bottle of Target brand glue, each piece of art is special to me. I am so proud of their effort. At the same time, I can't help but think, oh, how time has changed.I fondly remember an "art" project I was

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Three months have passed since my short list of commandments for fantasy football smack talk. Since we are now through the halfway point of the regular season, I thought it would be a courtesy to you, the reader, to continue what I started. These, my friends, are more of the smack talk commandments.7. Thou shall finish what you start. If you take the time to lay down the smack, finish it. Ending

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It's time for another installment of Assumption Movie Review. You remember the drill, I dig up a movie poster and write a review based on the picture.In this third installment, I am taking the assumption movie review across the pond, over a channel, through the country side, over some mountains, over another pond, through a desert, half way across a third body of water, and finally treading water

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When I think of singing, I think of karaoke. When I think of karaoke I think of inebriated oriental business men singing popular 80s songs. When I think of 80s songs, I think of Journey. Obviously, when I think of Journey, I think "Don't Stop Believing."Unfortunately, when I think of funny oriental men singing Don't Stop Believing, I can't help but think of how they would misprounce it."Don't

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no post, no rant. just a fun mashup. Enjoy!

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So, for like the 10th year in a row, I am playing fantasy football. I am not overly competitive, and I like to have fun. One of the things I like most about the game of fantasy football is the smack talk/trash talk. I am a big fan of this method of communication. Even when I lose, I like to talk a little trash about myself. Mostly I like to compare my competitve ability to obscure things

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I had to have backspaced over a thousand characters tonight thinking of something to write. Having nothing to say when you want to say something is quite possibly the worst thing in the world.Actually, it's really not that bad. I mean having a splinter is pretty bad too. So is having someone in front of you take the gas pump you wanted to take.Come to think of it, those aren't really too bad..

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I would like to start out by saying tonight is a very special night, but it's not. It's Tuesday. Another reason tonight is not very special is because I get to assume I have seen the movie...CLASS OF 1984Ah, yes, Class of 1984. Judging from this movie poster, I can only assume they are referring to a very large graduating class. I was in a class of 300. This one is much bigger, close to 2,000.

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I am going to do a review on a movie I have never seen. I will simply find a movie title and judge it by its cover. Tonight's movie is Alien Dead.The zombie movie genre is one of my favorites. I put it in a close second to any movie with John and Joan Cusak in it.Judging by the cover of this "DVD" (notice lower left corner), I would have to say Alien Dead is an aquatic zombie movie. Not only that

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(insert celebrity name here) was a good person with enormous talent. (insert celebrity name here) will be missed by family, friends and fans alike.(insert photo of celebrities here)

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Billy Mays, you will not be remembered as the most popular person to tragically pass away this week. But know this, my friend, knew the secret to a clean life.Billy Mays, R.I.P

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I have a punchline, but the rest of the joke has turned up missing.  If you find it, please return it to me.  Description of punchline:Jupiter.

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I like music, and I like lists...so, I will make a list of my 5 favorite songs.5.  Can I Play With Madness - Iron Maiden4.  Major Tom (Coming Home) - Peter Schilling3.  Alex Chilton - The Replacements2.  Stove - The Lemonheads1.  Sister Havana - Urge OverkillI suppose you were waiting for some detailed breakdown as to why these songs are so spectacular.Well, you're not going to get one.  I like

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We spend a lot of time in line. Most stare blankly at the back of the other person's head. After all, this is the proper way to queue isn't it? I am not British, so I am far from an expert in the art of the queue. I pay attention to those in front of me, as they provide those wonderful quirky moments that make my existence richer.That being said, I got to be in line recently. Let's read on!This

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No message today, just a banner for The Lemonheads single release in the UK.

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Some my favorite commercials are those on during the Price is Right.  Most of them star Wilford Brimley and his endorsement of "di-beatus."  I think that's what he's endorsing.  I don't pay much attention as I am hypnotically drawn to the stately white mustache adorning his upper lip.This is not the point of this particular post.  This rant is about the glamorization of the Hoveround electric

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I am bored, so I thought I would make some sports-related predictions:NBA:Western Conference something-or-otherDenver vs. LAExcuse me Mr. Basketballer, please return the Astros undies.Did you know they played basketball in Denver? Remember the Nuggets? You may remember them as the team from the 1980s that played basketball in the Houston Astros' underwear. Apparently they still play hoops in

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A decision had to be made about dinner. The question wasn't "what to have to eat" or "where to go", but whether or not to recognize dinner (or as some like to call it, "supper") as a member of the meal "family." In this time of economic uncertainty, cuts have to be made. Light bulbs have been removed from lighting fixtures in rooms within eyesight of a window, the furnace has been turned down

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I don't know if it's acceptable to retract something from a previous blog.  In this case I have to.  I would like to retract that I would like to be Potsy from Happy Days.  I don't know what I was thinking.Potsy was a tool, but he didn't know kung-fu.  That makes Potsy a tool missing one function.  Kind of like pocket knife without the side storage tweezers or a bag lady without the grocery cart

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I am Potsy from Happy Days.  Potsy Weber was a Leatherman. He represented the nerd, musician, friend, dreamer, and genius in all of us.  Potsy is Everytool.  I am Everytool.How could you not dig Potsy?  The dude got to hang out with Ralph Malph and Richie Cunningham.  And, for those that remember, he could "sit on it" like no other.  It's too bad the Fonz didn't really warm up to him, he coulda

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Say Anything...

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The month of March brings thoughts of filling out your brackets for the national championship of college basketball.  Blatantly stealing from this sports-related rite of spring, Safe Miscellaneous in conjunction with matt.maskill.com will change the way you look at brackets.Stay Tuned.

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Since the creation of the World Wide Web and all of its internet goodness, lists have become more popular than ever before.  Lists are easy to read and fun to look at.  It is for this reason I will talk about the things I miss in list form.1. Going to a friends to play "Atari."  I was a child of the 80s.  We played Atari (even if it was an Intellivision or ColecoVision, we still called it "

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So I am asked in passing by all sorts..."How are you?"Don't ask the question if you are interested in not hearing the answer."How are you?" is not a continuation of "hello." Please don't feel obligated to follow up a greeting with this trite expression. Frankly, it's annoying. A simple "hello" will suffice. I don't need extraneous words to make a greeting go longer than it really needs to.If

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I will be splitting my writing time between this and another writing project I am working on. My posts may be even more few and far between, but that's okay because you are only reading this when I tell you I posted something anyway.On a similar topic, I don't like the term, "How's come?" It's never really made sense to me and has always sounded a bit, whats the word...hillbilly. I am more of

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It doesn't take long for something to become a pet peeve for me.  I irritate easily.  I have discovered a recent trend with people trying to improve on a cliche.  As if a trite expression wasn't enough to get their mundane point across, some "heroes of the oratory arts" take it upon themselves to "one-up" the tried and true.Here's an example...Me:  "Wow, Can you believe that guy?  He ain't playin

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I have heard the sound of guilt.  It happened this morning.  I was laying in bed, pretending I was British royalty like we all do, and a noice pierced my ears. It came from the neighbors.  I couldn't tell which neighbor, because I was laying down and couldn't get my bearings.  But the sound was recognizable and upsetting.Shovel scraping paved surface.  The sound of guilt.I tumbled out of bed. 

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I hate waiting.  I am one of those instant gratification type people.  I think it's why I haven't really embraced buying things on the internet.  I would rather drive to a store, buy it and have it right away other than wait for it.  Waiting is the hardest part.If you think I wrote that last sentence because I thought it was unique and witty, please stop thinking.  I know it's from a Tom Petty

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Tonight a woman will be leaving her job from a gas station and driving home.  Inspiration from the evening will hit her and she will type an entry in her blog. This will most likely be her entry..."...tonight while staying warm in my cube of impulse items and cigarettes, a man walked up to me asking me to "reset the pump" because his card wouldn't run through.  I didn't have the heart to tell Mr.

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Someone once asked me what my blog was about.  They were looking for one or two words to sum up what it is I do on this site.  I think they were hoping for something like gardening, or whittling. Wrong.Below is my conversation..."Excuse me sir, could you tell me what your blog is about?" he asked."My blog is nothing more than a collection of half-edited random thoughts strung together to form an

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scene from tonight.  probably fiction.lights off in the living room.doorbell rings.lights come ondogs bark out of controlMatt taps dog out of the way with his foot.Stranger at the door:  Hello, do you have a second.(Man is holding a pamphlet, easing pamphlet towards Matt.  Enticing him to take it.  Matt is way to wise to this tactic and pretends not to notice.  This is what makes Matt rad!)Dogs:

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The high-pitched mosquito tone is piercing my brain.I am supposed to be happy about something, but I forget what.Tonight's silence is the most stressful sound I hear.My head is heavy, relaxed, and everything below is falling in line.I should break into a rebel yell...let my heart, head and body startle. A moment of pure heightened sense.Now the moment before sleep.   A euphoric exhaustion making

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Judging from the news today, it appears as if the Internet is about to experience another wave of melodramatic facial expressions of white collar suburbanites wallowing in despair as we continue to test Depression 2.0.1 Beta (also known as Project Uber-recession)  Of course, I will not just sit back, enjoy this ride, and laugh at other's misfortunes.  That is not the point.   But, I would be

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I would like to apologize to  the women of country music.  I think many of you are very attractive.  Unfortunately, I can not put you in the status of "hot."  Please don't get me wrong, I would like to put you into this grouping.  Most of our great country puts you in the category of "hot", but I can not.  It's not because of  your extraordinarily aesthetically "pleasing-to-the-masses" muscle

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I have become desensitized to photos grief stricken white collared stock investers with their hands on their heads in shock and despair. I went to 5 different internet news sources, and ended up laughing hysterically at the variety of melodramatic expressions of hopelessness on their disgruntled visages. Each man is trying to out-pity each other in a winner take all market-collapse-a-thon.Who

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  This morning it took me 10 minutes to shape, tease, flatten, and sculpt my hair.  I towel dried, hand frizzed, and applied an epoxy consisting of copopolymer, armorall,  Tricontanyl PVP, Beeswax, Sorbitol, Vinyl Caprolactam, the sweat of Greg Proops,  Dicetyl Phosphate, Peanut Butter, Water, Tinactin, Gelatin, Corn Starch, and muratic acid.   This salon strength JB Weld holds my hair into a

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There are a few people in this world I would like to sit down and have a cup of coffee with.  Actually, truth be told, I would like to have coffee with just about anybody.  Well, not Paul Newman, he's newlydead.  And probably not the guy I saw at O'Hare Airport that looked like Morgan Freeman AND Jessica Tandy.   I would have a beer with Evan Dando, but I wouldn't invite him to coffee because I

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Mr. Newman, your acting career and your salad dressing can be summed up in one word.  Prettydamngood.

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  You were a great ball player on the court and a great person off the court.  You were my favorite player in Super Tecmo NBA Basketball for Nintendo. Photo taken from another website. 

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(rewritten edit of an edit of a unscripted rant...) Homeless people are a wonderful source of inspiration and comparison.  Tonight I did not get a chance to see a homeless person, but I did see a number of those marquee signs.  Those signs instantly reminded me of homeless people as they are both easily recognizable and difficult to read at times. In my many years of driving in a land I like to

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Innerpartysystem -- Don't Stop Enjoy...no comments, no sarcastic remarks...just posting a video.

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  "Look at us, we got the Gold Medal in stupid." Congratulations to the Spanish Basketball team and all parties responsible  for taking the most insensitive photo they possibly could.   The only thing missing is the head coach in blackface making the "shocker" symbol.  Let's pay special attention to the meat-bag straddling the basketball with his pressed ham wearing the number 10 on his

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Over the weekend, I found something interesting.  I wasn't looking for it.  Strange how things like this work.  It happens when you least expect it, it happens and you didn't even force, let alone, even try to make it happen. When I found it, it hit me suddenly.  I could not prove this truth wrong.  I could not deny its existence and I surely could not make it go away once I found it.  This

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(I am talking about the band and not "canines feeling under the weather", silly.) So, I have let it all soak in for a week.   After one week and listening to their music  at various times, I am still convinced, Sick Puppies rock.  Great sound, and an energetic stage presence.  I am not one to write about bands and critique them, but if I had to rate Sick Puppies, I would say they are tres

Matt Maskillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14703680247366335301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1164368545832316379.post-76637389655308284392008-08-02T20:46:00.001-04:002008-08-02T20:46:03.027-04:00

(under-edited random thought.) Isn't it curious when people where the same colors of clothing to work?  I mean, it is pointed out ad-nauseam when two coworkers just happen to dress in the same color combination.   This is especially common in men, but it really doesn't matter who does it, the result is the same.  Annoying. I really don't like the warm-blooded mouth breathers that seem to

Matt Maskillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14703680247366335301noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1164368545832316379.post-78646443620606788952008-07-30T15:50:00.001-04:002008-07-30T15:50:17.753-04:00

  As I was taking a shower this morning, my thoughts turned to something other "why isn't the hot water hotter."  Today was special.  My mind turned to the comparative.  Some days I like to think about superlatives, and those days are the best.  Comparatively speaking I don't think about comparatives as much as the next guy. Still with me?  Good.  Let's get on with this.  As I was thinking in

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Chances are better than average you have clicked on this link from http://matt.maskill.com . If you have not already checked, I have made some updates to the site. Well, just one part of the site in particular."What if Matt..." has some new photos on the bottom of the screen. I should point out, as I do at the bottom of the page, each photo and parts thereof are taken without permission and

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(unedited random thought...) Just recently most of us were able to witness a spectacle unlike any other.  This event could only be summed up as, well, almost monumental.  This is to say you're definition of monumental is "slightly above average."   The event I am referring to is the first professional women's basketball game played, get this, OUTDOORS.  I am all for mixing it up a little bit

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(Subtly edited from earlier writings, but worth another look.  Enjoy!) I am currently listening to XM radio. Channel 41 (Bone Yard) if you want to know EXACTLY what I am listening to. As I have been "rockin' out" to Extreme, Poison, Saxon, Dokken, Firehouse, and Bon Jovi, and Black Sabbath, I have come to a conclusion. I still like butt rock. I don't mean I just tolerate it and appreciate it for

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This is for you.  You know who you are.  I hope you are flattered, impressed or maybe even honored that I am writing this just for you.  If you are reading this, you may or may not know why I am writing this.   It's simple words, and simple thoughts written exclusively for you. Even though sometimes its all about you, it really isn't, but you know that too.  Although maybe it should be? You have

Matt Maskillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14703680247366335301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1164368545832316379.post-67755322311252400262008-06-26T18:39:00.001-04:002008-06-26T18:39:46.783-04:00

Here are some pics of my new tattoos... my triquerta atari outlined in green a runner on my ankle.

Matt Maskillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14703680247366335301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1164368545832316379.post-23422255023936838522008-06-25T21:32:00.001-04:002008-06-25T21:32:02.173-04:00

You were funny and old.  Good job.

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Somewhere between the dusk of  analog and dawning of the digital a age, a critical step in the evolution of a budding relationship disappeared.  Through the wonders of technology, our quest of bigger, better, stronger, and a selfishness to want more, we lost a part of ourselves.  The newer generations will never truly understand.  The older generations saw it as a waste.  To those in Generation X

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I would like to take this time to personally thank Tony Chachere and his wonderful Creole Spice concoction. This magical spice works on everything, just as he says on the can. I can easily say I have tried this on some unconventional items with GREAT results. Let's list them.Ham Sandwich. Nothing kicks up a plain ham sandwich like Tony Charchere. Not even the once immortal Lowry's salt can

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Movies have been entertaining me for years.  I am not the most avid movie goer, but, I can say the movies I have seen, I have always been able to pull something important out of them.  I would like to share a few of these little lessons with you, my precious reader(S). The Karate Kid- Many lessons can be learned from The Karate Kid.  Lessons in confidence, teamwork, and perseverance are common

Matt Maskillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14703680247366335301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1164368545832316379.post-63753846525652837192008-06-15T15:43:00.001-04:002008-06-15T15:51:15.947-04:00

Technology and I are pretty good friends.  We get along okay.  I am trying a couple of new things to make my blogging life a little easier.  This has required me to once again change my blog site.  I am back on Blogger, and trying it for a while.  This change was made because apparently some servers like to think that the Microsoft Spaces pages are not work friendly.  For this reason, I changed

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