Death of the Corn

Here you can see the 2008 Corn King, Ricardo Pugliese, as he is prepared for burial. Ricky was the first to lose his tournament life this year, while others, mostly Kovacs and Orlando, remained on life support to out live the Jerk.

Rick's death brings great joy to many as no one brags about winning, (though it doesn't happen that often anymore), or runs their mouth on draft day as much as he does. Matter of fact he was already laughing at all the supposed excuses everyone else was going to use, leaving himself none. On one hand he can use the excuse he had the lowest pick in the first round, but there are still teams left taken in later rounds, so that holds little water. Plus he took Duke with that pick, now I love Duke, but my words when he took the Blue Devils were, "Dammit, i was hoping to get them in the 2nd round." Plus, he didn't have the worst picks overall, I believe that distinction went to Mark O.

Anyway Jerk, enjoy being the biggest loser...you've earned it!

Radio Ga Ga

"Quiet you numbskulls! I'm broadcasting"

Last weekend was Big Friends Weekend, and I should have blogged about it already, but because of Good Friday falling in the middle of it, giving me an extra day off, I also had an extra day of drinking. Thus my desire to blog was dulled. It took another week because I have been fighting some sort of chest infection since Saturday afternoon.

BFW hit a new high, or low, depending on how you look at it. Local sports radio host Joe Pete Jr. broadcasted a special edition of "The Sports Report" from Rick's basement, as you can see in this picture of Joe with his "cans" on. The show featured certain individuals being called out on the air for not being present due to lack of manhood and a controversial call from Donnie V. "The Bopper" managed to tick off the shows biggest sponsor, Domino's Pizza, by saying on the air during a call in that he was picking up Salvato's Pizza on his way over and not Domino's because he wasn't eating cardboard. Needless to say the Domino's owner was not happy and expressed his displeasure in an immediate text to the host.

On the plus side, as far as I know we kept the language polite and WFUN didn't receive any fines. Of course, they also came during the 2 hour break in TV coverage.

It should also be noted that for the first time in at least a decade no one referred to it as Big Great Lakes Weekend. Since the dealership lost a deal to Rick's employers Paquet Auto Group they were all banned from coming. Yes, Bopper came anyway.

So hoping I feel better soon I have a few things to blog about over the next few days, mostly complaining so that should be fun. There may also be a Can of Corn Trophy winner tonight, if nothing else I will at least try to post his name, (even if its mine) along with a embarassing picture of them.

Primary Obstacle

So here's to unfulfilled blogging promises. I canvassed in Conneaut yesterday and didn't finish until 7:30 (OOH EXIT POLL NUMBERS ARE COMING IN!) then I had to pick up Mattie ands take one more crack at convincng Bonita to vote for Obama. I think she still voted for Hillary but I think I at least convinced her that he isn't a Muslim Terrorist.

Speaking of which, a lady I met through the campaignhas a kid who goes to Geneva's Jr High. The child's math teacher told the class that Obama is a terrorist, because he is a Muslim and all Muslims are terrorists...allegedly. As far as allegations go this is a supposedly educated person who did about 5 things wrong in one sentence. But I'm not going to comment until I hear what others have to say.

As lies like this continue coupled with the incompetence of the Ashtabula BOE and city officials my need to attack ignorant people has subsided because I just cant take any more.

Polls close in two hours so I'm not going to bother stumping for Barack anymore. I just hope all of you exercised your right and responsibility to vote today.

Knockin' on Heaven's Door

So Its been an incredibly long time since my last post, and its not because I haven't had anything to post about. The problem has been time and motivation. One of the topics I wanted to post about was the Flogging Molly concert Karen and I went to in the middle of February. You may remember it was about the worst weather of the year; snow; rain; cold; ice... It was bad enough that my niece wasn't allowed to go, and that was probably the right decision. I am hoping to have some pictures soon of Jay B's birthday bash last night, but until then I'll post about what I'm currently doing.

Right now I'm sitting in Barack Obama Campaign Headquarters in Ashtabula. It is located in the rear of the E-Comm Cafe on Main Avenue. The young lady pictured (left) with Senator Obama is our Field Organizer from the Obama Campaign. I spent yesterday knocking on doors for Obama. I was a little nervous, but it was a great experience. I canvassed the West side of Station Ave, so I saw some familiar faces and was invited in to sit and chat at a few homes. The goal in Ohio is to knock on 1 million doors, from 10 AM yesterday by the close of the polls on Tuesday. My plan is to go back out tomorrow after school again.

In the meantime I came to HQs to make phone calls. There was also a goal of 1 million phone calls, that was already met yesterday and raised to 1.5 million. I came here because there was a problem, i thought, with the website. You log in and it automatically generates an Ohio call list. The problem is the site is OVERLOADED!!! There are so many people logging in to make calls that the site can't handle the traffic. So I decided to try and wait it out a bit and post.

Guess that's it for now. I promise another post tomorrow before the Ohio Primary Tuesday, it will be my last Obama pitch for a while. Remember to get out and vote Tuesday, if you cant for some reason. GET TO YOUR COUNTY BOARD OF ELECTIONS BY 4:30 TOMOROW! You can vote early in Ohio.