I haven't posted in a long time, but had to post this.

The Beatles version of Stairway to Heaven?

Corso at his best

Listen carefully

Gator Band

For all your landscaping needs

http://www.chriscaligari.com/

Tee Martin Wears a Gator Jersey

Thanks to Jenn Gleason. Just click here:

http://media.gswebmedia.com/comcast/teemartinjerseySm_Prog001.wmv

Hating on the Gators

In case you do not know who the RGX girl is, here is one of the commercials.

The Volunteer Whuppin' Highlights

Smokey is embarrassed

Was it the game or was it this?

Gleason's Travels

Week 1 @ Cal

Week 2 @ Boise St.

Basketball Ring Ceremony

Special request for Jon

Game 1 - At The Game

Omar & Katie

Keara & P

Plenty O' ice, sodas, water, & mini fans were required to keep cool.
Meanwhile on the west coast Baby G & the Tinman watched Cal beat the hillbillies.

Game 1 - Tailgating

The "Tribute to the Hispanic Man" was expanded beyond our tailgate.

Ropa Vieja, Black Beans & Yellow Rice for our meal

As part of the tribute Rascal takes a siesta

Scary Things That Go Bump In The Night

Frightening Video From The Summer

Preparing for the season......

...by attending the Tampa Gator Club Pub Crawl.

2007 Menu - Week 1 - 3

Week 1 (9/1/07)
The Gators vs. the dreaded Western Kentucky Hilltoppers and their frightening mascot.

Scheduled attendees – B, Jon, Kira, Keara, P, & Omar. (Baby G will be at the Cal / UT game)

Menu – the annual tribute to the Hispanic man (rice, beans, empanadas, ropa vieja, tequila, Corona, insults directed at Omar, etc.) UPDATE: With the game moved to 12:30 the menu is presently up in the air. However no matter what we eat the scheduled insults directed at Omar will still happen.

Week 2 (9/8/07)
The Gators vs. the Trojans (no not USC, they are still afraid to play us since Ring of Honor member Wilber Marshall put a whoopin on them in the early 80’s) of Troy.

Scheduled attendees – B, Jon, & P

Menu – Trojan horse meat kabobs & of course some Gin

Week 3 (9/15/07)
The Gators vs. the hillbilly Tennessee Volunteers & their frightening coach who is just smaller than the Western Kentucky mascot.

Scheduled attendees – B, Jon, Kira, Keara, P, Baby G, & the Freak

Menu - TBA

2007 Menu - Weeks 4 - 6

Week 4 (9/22/07)
The Gators @ the Ole Miss Rebels

Scheduled attendees – B, Jon, P, Omar, & Baby G

Menu – Leftover Memphis BBQ, something from the Crossroads, & what ever we can acquire while visiting the Grove.

Week 5 (9/29/07)

The Gators in a revenge game against the Auburn Tigers

Scheduled attendees – B, Jon, Kira, Keara, P, Baby G, Omar, & the Tinman (with a possible visit by Some Kind of Peanuts)

Menu – Big Game weekend (start looking for sources of Venison, Buffalo, Wild Boar, & Tiger meat).

Week 6 (10/6/07)

The Gators in Red Stick vs. the LSU Bayou Bengals

Scheduled attendees – A bunch of drunk Cajuns

2007 Menu - Weeks 7 - 9

Week 7 (10/20/07)
The Gators at the still smarting from basketball season & Billy D turning them down Kentucky Wildcats

Scheduled attendees – TBA

Week 8 (10/27/07)
The Gators vs. the dirty, mangy, not even good enough for Michael Vick, mutts

Scheduled attendees – B, Jon, P

Menu – TBA

Week 9 (11/3/07)
The Gators celebrate homecoming vs. the Commodores of Vanderbilt

Scheduled attendees – B, Jon, Kira, Keara, P, P’s niece, Baby G, & Omar

Menu –

2007 Menu - Weeks 10-12

Week 10 (11/10/07)
The Gators @ the Old Ball Coach and his South Carolina Gamecocks (assuming the administration doesn’t make him quit for not admitting players)

Scheduled attendees – TBA

Week 11 (11/17/07)
The Gators vs. the FAU Owls in the afternoon

Gators Hoops vs. the state university of New Jersey, Rutgers Scarlet Knights in the evening

Scheduled attendees – B, Jon, Kira, Keara, & P

Menu – Pre-game bagel spectacular with the post game meal TBA

Week 12 (11/24/07)
The Gators vs. the school out west with its doddering old coach & his new volunteer assistant

Scheduled attendees – B, Jon, Kira, Keara, P, Baby G, & Omar

Menu – End of the season mixed grill (various meats)

Four Weeks to Gator Football.......

and Gator fans can't wait. Meanwhile in Tallacrappy, ticket sales have not be robust..........

Who's Hungry For Some Biscuits?

A submission from Sablynski

Get me a cocktail, you damn, dirty ape.

Get Ready for Tailgating

Click to enlarge & read:

The Red Elvises

We saw them at a free concert in downtown Tampa, great band, especially live.

Worst Movie Scenes

Shark Attack 3 could be the greatest movie ever & such snappy dialog.

Everything you ever wanted to know about whisky

http://www.thewhiskyguide.com/

Swear Jar

This guy could get me back into baseball

Time is going by really really slow.

Beer Around The World

TRAVELLERS' VOCABULARY LIST - BEER

Afrikaans: bier
Albanian: birre" (e" = e-umlaut, pronounced approx. schwa)
Arabic: bira (birra)
Armenian: garejure (transliteration)
Basque: garagarnoa
Breton: bier
Bulgarian: bira
Burmese: biya (transliteration)
Cantonese: be1jau2 (1 = high tone; 2 = high falling tone)
Catalan: cervesa
Croatian: pivo
Czech: pivo
Danish: o/l (o/ = fronted o sound, written o with slash)
Dutch: bier
English: beer
Esperanto: biero
Estonian: o~lu (o~ = o-tilde, pronounced short unrounded 'o')
Finnish: olut, (slang: kalja; actually other beverage)
Flemish: het bier
French: la bie`re
Frisian: bier
German: das Bier
Greek: mpi'ra (transliteration) ('mp' is pronounced 'b')
Greenlandic: immiaarag
Hausa: fita
Hawaiian: pia or bia
Hebrew: birah (bira)
Hindi: biar (transliteration)
Hokkien: bit3 djiu4
Hungarian: so~r (o~ = short-o-umlaut; s = "sh"-sound)
Icelandic: bjo'r (o' = o-acute accent)
Indonesian: bir
Irish: beoir
Italian: la birra
Japanese: biiru/bieru (r is sort of between USA 'r' and Eng. 'l')
Korean: maekju (transliteration)
Latin: cervisia
Latvian: alu
Lithuanian: alus
Luxemburgois: be'ier (e' = e-acute accent)
Madagassian: labiera (yes, one word)
Malay: bir
Maltese: birra
Mandarin: pi2jiu3 (2 = rising tone; 3 = fall/rise tone)
Nepali: biyar (transliteration) (from phrase book)
Nepali: chang (from person who's been there)
Norwegian: o/l (o/ = fronted o, written o with slash)
Papiamentu: serbes
Persian: ab-e-jow (a = slightly rounded; j = as in 'juice')
Pidgin (Papua): bia
Polish: piwo ('w' is pronounced 'v')
Portuguese: a cerveja
Quechua: sirwisa
Raeto-romanian: bi'era (i' = i-acute accent)
Rumanian: bere
Russian: pivo
Samoan: pia
Scots Gaelic: beo`ir (o` = o-grave accent)
Serbian: pivo
Singalese: bire (transliteration)
Slovakian: pivo
Slovenian: pivo
Spanish: la cerveza, la birra (Central America)
Swahili: pombe
Swedish: öl (ö = o with two dots ["med tva prickor"])
Tagalog: beer
Tasmanian: beer
Thai: bia
Tibetan: chang (transliteration)
Turkish: bira
Ukrainian: pivo
Welsh: cwrw ("w" is pronounced approx. as "u" in "put")
Yiddish: bier (transliteration)

Are You On The Wagon Or Off The Wagon?

The Original Gin to Win

More Gin to Win

Gin to Win

Wanee - The Allman Brothers

Wanee - Gov't Mule

Wanee - Robert Randolph w/ Derek Trucks

Wanee - Rosehill Drive

Wanee - Midnight Jam

More Wanee

Wanee

Morning at the Mushroom Stage

Hoops National Championship Pregame

On Ruth Cris' Patio Overlooking Centennial Park

Final Four - Saturday

B & P Before Saturday's Game vs. UCLA

From Cartoon Network

Mark May Be Wrong

Check it out:

http://markmaybewrong.blogspot.com/


from the scarlett and gray blog:

portsMonkey’s predictions
Final Score: I think Florida will “earn” 14 points, while OSU will finish between 28-35. Florida could score a late TD against OSU’s freshman class after the game is out of reach. So I’ll split the difference and predict 31-17, OSU (although that number seems to indicate Florida will score a FG, which they can’t seem to do this season).
Leak vs. Smith: Under 100 yards difference for two reasons: I expect Leak to play catch-up, inflating his numbers, and I expect to see Tressel give Zwick a graduation present with a series or two behind center (assuming the game is out of reach).
Little Animal: Leak is the worst QB (INT-wise) OSU has seen this year, so I think he gets an INT tonight.
Which senior?: The always-underappreciated Stan White, Jr. will sacrifice his body for Smith, Pittman, and Wells one last time. Honorable mention: Pitcock and Roy Hall.

OH HYPE OH

Ohio State is not a tank. It is not a jeep.

It is an Afghani donkey-cart built with spare parts from a wheel barrel, an '82 Chrysler and particle-board bookshelf that someone left on the curb. The last bit got caught in the rain, unfortunately. The veneer is peeling off and the wood is getting puffy. The plastic nails are somewhat discolored, but in a Heisman trophy kind of way.

"It was at a whole 'nother level of 'vehicle satisfaction' with the duct tape was still sticky."

That's how Ohio State fans prefer to remember the 2006 Ohio State Buckeyes: The Ferrero Roche of football teams. Because apparently believing your team is flaky is much better than believing your team got bent over, chopped up and mutilated when they were at their best. Because during the season, we heard words like stogy, robust, durable and steel grit. When the season was over, we heard words like temperamental, delicate, atrophy and out-of-sync.

High-strung cunny-willows.

Yeah, that's much better to swallow as a Buckeye. We didn't get beat by a better team. We got beat by an average team. Consequently, we're a bunch of pussies. We're like that girlfriend you have to buy expensive, sparkly things for every week. You might even get laid on some nights. Some people know how to use 50 days to prepare and get focused. Not us. We're morons. It takes one month before everything we learned in six months gets reduced to that quivering mass of foam on a yeast infection. It takes one month before the number one team in the nation transforms magically into Youngstown State or some direction school that people should invite to homecoming. It's a slight-of-hand magic trick, but believe me; please believe me.

If you wanted a team filled with men, don't look at us. Tressel takes a handful of putty at the beginning of the year and molds it, cradles it, makes love to it, then cradles it some more, then produces a product that's only good for 2 months. Take a picture of it, but fast. We're like that flower that only blooms only on summer solstice in the moon light. Then poof! Gone. Make a highlight tape and slap it on the shelves. We're the best team that comes with the most asterisks in the nation.

THE Ohio State Asterisks.

We need to bring in a team with a losing record every other week to keep us fine-tuned. That's what prepared us for Michigan. All those teams with losing records. They kept our players in peek performance mode. Our offensive linemen are on a seven day schedule. After seven days without a game, foot locker wants their super-flight-athlete shoes back. Then we have to regretfully give them all bowling shoes. It didn't hurt last year though. But there was a mix-up at the airport terminal and they gave us the wrong bowling balls to practice with. What? What's that? Don't stop me, I know this is about football, but bowling is an important component to fat-asses up north. I mean, to athletes-who-need-a-constant-diet-of-games-to-play-well up north.

We're like that gun that needs to be cleaned after every shot. Actually, in mid-shot. When you're pulling the trigger, your other hand should be holding onto the fluke: that chimney cleaner piece for guns. It goes click-*clean*-bullet-comes-out-*clean*-*clean*-reload. People from the SEC wouldn't understand. We take gun management seriously. We take football seriously.

If you tip us over, we fall down -- unless we've played a game approximately 7-14 days prior. In fact, if Florida played us on Janurary 8th AND January 15th, the record would be evened up. We would have had our 'preparation game'. We would win that time. Michigan had their preparation game with us too. That's why they wanted a rematch. It's standard operating procedure in the Big 10 for teams that need actual game-day preperations.

Fragile Ohio State.

But keep this in mind. And this is an important thought to consider. If you're really the number one team in the nation, capable of hanging with anyone, why do you seem to have the biggest drop-off as a team? If you bought a car that could go from 0-60 in 3 seconds, then a month later, it barely make it off the driveway, did you buy a good car or a lemon? There are so many variables a great team has that others don't; the ability to step up no matter what the adversity, such as a layoff, should be one of them. The wind blows in the wrong direction and Ohio State gets lost in the storm? Sorry. That's never a good sign for a champion.

Adversity doesn't build character, it reveals it. Sorry Ohio State. Any team that doesn't show up for the championship game can not be called a champion. On any level. Just reapply the duct tape next season and hope it sticks until January. Pussies.

A Little Beck for the OSU Fans

Excellent Highlight Package