Observations are Back
Posted December 11th, 2006 by Nathan DeGraaf
There are times in life when something beautiful happens, when something you've been waiting on and waiting on finally comes to fruition. And that day is finally near. Michael Curtiss, quite possibly the laziest writer since Two Fingered Steve Kazman (and Steve wasn't lazy so much as he was all down on himself because he only had two fingers and they, according to old Two Digits, "got sore easy") has finally decided that he will grace us with a fucking column. Seriously, Fearless Editor Court "I'd rather be lawless than fearless" Sullivan recently sent me an email to that effect. The column will be (I believe) entitled "Up Shit Creek." And, as someone who's been bitching about Curtiss's (that's just too much S action, right there) lack of PIC appearances, I just gotta say, "I'll believe it when I see it."
I hate it when people complain that they got too much sleep. I mean, it's their body. I don't think anyone can provide peer pressure to make someone sleep. I've never heard of anyone getting bullied into sleep. If you got too much sleep, I don't feel sorry for you in the slightest. In fact, fuck you for bringing it up.
How come when you bring beer to one of your friend's parties, it's considered polite; but when you bring beer to one of your friend's toddler's birthday parties, it's considered "raging alcoholic"? Just seems unfair.
This is how much I suck at watching TV: I just started watching Scrubs. I'm inching my way towards 24 and The Wire.
My friend Ryan got me a toolbox for my upcoming birthday. Inside was absolutely no tools and a six pack of beer on ice. "Come on," said Ryan. "We both know you ain't fixin' shit." True enough.
My opinion on Mark McGwire in the Hall of Fame: enough already. Who gives a fuck? It ain't like the HOF pays any of these sportswriters or players, anyway. The HOF has more people working for free than The Red Cross. That kind of sucks.
My buddy Dave has figured out an awesome way to gauge how well he's doing at losing weight. He approaches hookers and asks them how much. He must be doing well at his diet because he's gone from $250 a fuck to around $100. And yes, I'm dying to figure out what my Hooker Rating is. What can I say? I'm a loser.
And finally, because my writing has been so shitty lately that I actually had two people ask me what happened to my "observation" pieces, I leave you with the following, which I overheard at a bar:
"Sobriety used to be awesome, too. But this is just that much better."
I hate it when people complain that they got too much sleep. I mean, it's their body. I don't think anyone can provide peer pressure to make someone sleep. I've never heard of anyone getting bullied into sleep. If you got too much sleep, I don't feel sorry for you in the slightest. In fact, fuck you for bringing it up.
How come when you bring beer to one of your friend's parties, it's considered polite; but when you bring beer to one of your friend's toddler's birthday parties, it's considered "raging alcoholic"? Just seems unfair.
This is how much I suck at watching TV: I just started watching Scrubs. I'm inching my way towards 24 and The Wire.
My friend Ryan got me a toolbox for my upcoming birthday. Inside was absolutely no tools and a six pack of beer on ice. "Come on," said Ryan. "We both know you ain't fixin' shit." True enough.
My opinion on Mark McGwire in the Hall of Fame: enough already. Who gives a fuck? It ain't like the HOF pays any of these sportswriters or players, anyway. The HOF has more people working for free than The Red Cross. That kind of sucks.
My buddy Dave has figured out an awesome way to gauge how well he's doing at losing weight. He approaches hookers and asks them how much. He must be doing well at his diet because he's gone from $250 a fuck to around $100. And yes, I'm dying to figure out what my Hooker Rating is. What can I say? I'm a loser.
And finally, because my writing has been so shitty lately that I actually had two people ask me what happened to my "observation" pieces, I leave you with the following, which I overheard at a bar:
"Sobriety used to be awesome, too. But this is just that much better."
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7 Comments
It's 11 AM Eastern Australian Time and I just finished your first observations piece in a few months. It's good, but it's been a while since you did your last ones so I won't rip into you yet.
Seeing as your lastest gimmic includes getting a (hot) stoner chick to help you with NFL tipping, I'll let all this slide. You're a great writer and an entertaining person so I'm looking forward to the next awesome piece.
P.s. when you're making NFL tips, are you choosing the team that you think is going to win or are you sometimes chosing the team you think will lose but cover the spread?
The column's all advice for betting. He wouldn't provide the spreads if he wasn't choosing them based on that. Sorry, that question wasn't meant to be fielded by me.
I'm excited to hear that Michael Curtiss is getting a column. Especially since in the last few months he's been..what's the opposite of prolific? amateurlific?
Its not that youre writing has been shitty, it's more I just missed the offbeat observations of a creative, raging alcoholic. Glad theyre back, now keep them back. May I suggest a weekly Monday/Tuesday entry?
Awww. Look Nate, you're in demand. But yeah, I don't care what others say, it has kinda been ....un-good lately, you're writing. Who knew I'd be so happy to find the reliably funny observations back?
Anyway,it's good to have them back.
And if you can be a lost dog then why cant you be a dead dog, which is inanimate? and if you can be an inanimate corpse, then cant you be food too????
Observations may be witty, but snippets will always be my favorite.
Observations can slack off, whatever. Just keep the snippets coming.
im with dan.
observations=keeper.
and sara.....
dogs ARE food, silly....
what do you think big macs are made of?
;)
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