FRIDAY PREGAME: "When I Sleep I Dream And It Gets Me By"

I know this is titled “Weekend Pregame,” but no fears, the DOSE is still here. Today’s Link of the Day is so much stupid fun that I can’t describe it. Try the baseball oracle if you DARE. There’s only two degrees of separation between Lou Gehrig and Rob Mackowiak.

The Song of the Day is Yellowcard’s “Ocean Avenue.” High octane, solid lyrics, good song. Somewhere out there, beneath the pale moon light, some beautiful girl is buying me their album and ordering me Luke’s Badass Yellow Jacket. And wherever she is, she will be mine…OH YES, she WILL..be mine.

Now, on to the Weekend Pregame. This one has a chance to be interesting and boring at the same time, which is sort of a trend these days, I suppose. Tonight is the usual law-type shenanigans in O-town with Sprout, Kelly, and maybe Danielle. Afterwards, it’ll be oot and aboot with Andy and Pizz (and probably Team Varga) and maybe even the ever-elusive Gavin, who’s the Arnold Schwartzenegger to my Danny DeVit, in “Twins.” If you’re going to be in the neighborhood, drop me a line!

Tomorrow I’m going to make a foolhardy attempt to clean my house, watch the Stillers, and finish my comic. Throw some luck at me. Also, if there’s fun to be had in the evening, please let me know. I’ll be lookin’ for a good time.

Moving on to Sunday, I hope to finish up decorating the Christmas tree I don’t have yet (if I actually get one), wrap up some presents, and head the Gavin’s big family Christmas BONANZA out in the South Hills. He promised me “free food, an open bar, and sorority girls,” so I’m feeling pretty good about that plan.

So, interactivity here in the Kingdom is going through the roof, which is super-exciting. I can’t WAIT to see what Gramps has to say about the new Rules. This could be fun. In other Kingdom-news, I’ve changed the profile picture. It’s a result of me actually realizing I have pictures of myself on my computer. Exciting, no? That’s one of my favorite pictures of my very un-photogenic self, which is ironic because I remember going home and puking my brains out with a stomach virus about 20 minutes after that was taken. It’s from our first cocktail party of senior year, and I’m, of course, sporting the “franchise player.” I totally need to get that boy dry-cleaned and starched, and start wearing it on chick safari. It’s kind of tough to see, I know, but whatever, it’s My Kingdom. If you want to see the real version so badly, come to my house. I love the low angle, I’m all in your grill like a rap video, with my posse behind me. Pictured from left to right are Kup, Lt. Taylor, US ARMY, Sandy (my Dickinson Mom away from Mom), Vandy Law’s own superlawyer Jerry, and our own resident TopShelf22—Marc. So there are some faces to go with some names for all you non-D-son educated ones out there.

Apparently, I use too many Dickinson/OX inside jokes around here. I had to explain the whole “I got it!” and “liberal arts education at its finest” stuff to Jeanie last week. Oh well.

Speaking of OX, I just wanted to give a shout out to Pi Chapter Pledge Class ’99, “D-Generation OX.” We just forgot to celebrate the 5th anniversary of our initiation. Not that we’re still big “rah rah OX rah” guys at this point, but more that it’s CRAZY to think it’s been five years since we all became such incredibly fantastic friends. So here’s to Broms, Buff, Kurt, Jerry, Marc, Taylor, & Kup—the best friends a guy could ever ask for.

With the weepiness concluded, so does this version of the Weekend Pregame. Stay tuned to the Kingdom as WINTER BREAKout! keeps rolling along. Grampy will be ranting, I’ll be writing about Watchmen and Identity Crisis, there might be some more pollage, and I’ve got some Year In Review specials I’m thinking up. Thanks for sticking around as I join the 3,000 Hit Club.

Until next time, take ‘er easy…

..and if she’s easy, take ‘er home.

-apk