embracing the struggle

nothing quite like going to bed at 3 in the morning and wake up every 10 minutes because you're choking on snot. i eventually had to try to sleep in my massage chair. that has a heating element with it, so i think i was able to trick my body a bit and get a few hours. i suppose this is my punishment for being out in public. and as much as i would like to embrace death, dying from my own snot is not the way i would like to go.

i have a conspiracy theory this season with the Dayton Flyers. the administration has told Anthony Grant that the team doesn't need to be great until the renovation of the arena is done. by then, the team has to be back in tournament. i don't want to believe it but after the game yesterday against Saint Louis, i'm starting to. i have never seen a coach in my 42 fucking years of watching basketball go an entire game without calling a timeout. and then the asshole after the game, when asked by the media about not using a timeout, says he'll look at it and maybe he should have. jesus fucking christ. as one fan put it yesterday, he better get great players here because coaching is obviously not going to be what gets them to the next level. to watch Dayton go from a double digit lead to trailing by halftime to getting back even and then just pissing the game away... i'm getting fucking tired of watching it. and now they get a week to sit on this loss. Saint Louis won 75-65.

Saturday Night Live was great last night.

ROH was excellent last night.

Austin City Limits was fucking brilliant last night.

NXT Takeover: Philadelphia was great last night. the main event might have been the best wrestling match i have ever seen in NXT. and the show certainly set the bar pretty damn high for the Royal Rumble tonight.

enjoy some music:

and now some of this and that:

on the DVR tonight will be the season finale of Shameless, The Chi, Divorce and Crashing. i'll be watching WWE Royal Rumble for most of the evening on WWE Network.

i might try to watch a little bit of the NHL All Star game this afternoon.

i know team USA is playing a soccer friendly tonight against Bosnia and Herzegovnia. i'll probably see the highlights. i'd love to see them win, mostly because i could use some Jack Daniels tonight.

i'm probably going to miss most of the Grammy Awards tonight. i figure i'll catch the highlights on YouTube during my insomnia tonight.

i figure most of today i'm going to either be trying to get a nap in or having snot drain and racing to a sink. i don't have a fever or anything else, so i think it's just the classic head cold. i figure i'm going to have to break out the NyQuil tonight to get some sleep. a little of that and some Jack Daniels should do the trick.

at least i did manage to get my laundry done yesterday.

i hope everyone had a great Saturday. hopefully your Sunday is even better.

solo yo aquí en mi locura

be well. be creative. be cool. be quick to send me CASH, panties, hate mail, love letters, broken promises and dirty pennies from heaven.

peace and chicken grease...

music:

Chris Stapleton - Midnight Train to Memphis
Sturgill Simpson - Long White Line
Shooter Jennings - Gone to Carolina
Tyler Childers - Nose On the Grindstone

"Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been." - Alan Alda

and your whatever the fuck i wanted you to see video of the day: