Never Forget

An interesting thing happens to all of us every single day. It probably happens hundreds of times every day to every single person. This thing that happens is called memory. Memory is absolutely nuts to me. You really are not aware of what exactly you remember until you remember it, and you never know when you will remember something until you do. It makes no sense to me. You may hear a song that you literally have not heard for years, and find yourself somehow remembering all the words and singing along. While this often happens without any effort, many of us struggle when we really sit down and try to remember something. There were several times during school when taking a test that I would come to a question that I know I covered when I studied the material, but no matter how hard I tried I just could not remember the information. Memory is nuts.

Memory can come and go. You may remember something one day and forget it the next. You may remember your best friends phone number from growing up, but you cant seem to remember your own phone number. You usually remember the name of the girl that you never talked to, but find yourself struggling to remember the name of the girl that you dated for a few months in college. I find myself wanting to know more about what makes us remember things, but I realize that I really only want to know what helps me remember. If I can unlock the secret to my own memory I could easily be King. Those people who have unlocked the secret to the success of memorizing what they need to and remember when they need to are the ones who are ruling the world. I want to be one of these people, but in all honesty I know that I wont do the work to make it happen.

In a weird way this gets me to a different topic. Not settling. I think that far too many people are settling in their lives all the time. I find myself becoming dangerously close to settling. I dont ever want to look back on anything and realize that I settled for something less than what I could have had. I am constantly thinking about ways to make my life better, but then find a new thing that catches my fancy or a reason to steer away from the original thought. As long as I keep thinking and keep trying to find what it is that will make me happy I know that I havent settled, and as long as I havent settled I am happy. Well, there it is. It would seem that as long as Im happy in always searching then Im happily searching. It probably does not make any sense to all of you, but it makes perfect sense to me. thanks for reading

Dear Tiger,

I myself am completely over Tiger Woods. I would absolutely love it if for some reason Mr. Woods would just disappear for the rest of time from the face of the earth. I no longer want to hear about him or any of his women. However, there is one piece of information that I want to know and am fairly certain everyone else is waiting for as well. All I want to know is what exactly took place on that fateful thanksgiving night that started this whole thing off. Thats it. Thats all. Tell us what happened that night and disappear forever. I know that if you dont leave us to our lives, we are going to have to hear about you forever. We will have to hear about how you either failed in your comeback or succeeded, whether or not you fell of your "sex addiction" wagon, if your wife smartened up and left you, or finally, whether or not you got your credibility back with the world. Please Tiger, let us know what in the hell caused you to crash your car that night and how bad did Elin kick your ass.

Yeah Bro or should I say Brah

This morning I took it upon myself to relive some of the great memories from the not so distant past. The main tool in this time warp was a television show that unfortunately only lasted three tremendous episodes. This show was Living Lahaina on MTV. It is the story of some surfer dudes who are supposed to be spending their days teaching surf lessons on the island of Hawaii. However, these totally awesome dudes spend most of their time partying and just living the life that I desperately want for myself. Although this show only lasted the short three episodes, it lead to at least one nickname for a friend and several quick laughs on a daily basis. I was able to watch the three episodes once again thanks to MTV.com and until now the idea of researching the show and the guys had not crossed my mind. I will definitely need to look into it and find out whether or not there are any more episodes out there to watch. Until that time I most definitely recommend that you take the time and enjoy some good bro action if you have the time. Also, this makes me realize that MTV has actually had quite a few shows that did not last very long, but were in fact great entertainment. Im not talking about shows like Laguna Beach, a great show for many reasons, but more so shows like 8th and Ocean and several others. It would seem that MTV might cut shows before they are really given a chance to thrive. So, MTV, I hope that you chill out in the future and let us enjoy the little things in the shows that we like. Thanks for reading

Combination=Glorious

This morning I witnessed a most glorious creation. Some of you are going to doubt this piece of absolute awesomeness purely due to the fact that I saw it on saturday morning cartoons on The CW, but I swear to you that it truly is amazing. It is called Turtles Forever and combines the old Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle cartoon from the late 80s with the cartoon from the early 2000s. It is awesome. I have not finished watching it yet, so I cannot clearly state its level of awesome, but I will bet that once I finish it, it will quickly surpass the second and third live action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle movies. I would have to say that this particular combination is good, but a great combination would be combining the WCW and WWF of the late 90s with one another.

I am fully aware that they are combined now and have been since the early 2000s, but by the time they combined much of what would have made an earlier combination great was over. Im talking about how glorious it could have been to have the NWO vs. DX at their prime, or Sting vs. Austin, The Nation of Domination vs. Harlem Heat, or several other dream matches that could have taken place during this time. I will forever be left with the What ifs on that combination, but I can and do thank the creators of the Ninja Turtles for combining the two series and making it light and comical for me to enjoy. There are no doubt several other combinations that could be truly amazing, but I will leave you to thinking of your own and enjoying the possible gloriousness in your own head. Also, very quickly, if you get a chance try and watch Donald Glover on Comedy Central Presents this weekend. If you cant catch him there, he appears on Community on NBC, or go to youtube and check out Derrick Comedy. Thanks for reading

Bad Ronald Bad

Um, so yeah, I have two words for Mr. Ron Washington; I knew you were a druggie liar. As I made very clear yesterday, Texas Ranger's manager Ron Washington has had to have used drugs on more than the one occasion that he claimed he did, and today my beliefs were justified. Ron came out and admitted to using marijuana and amphetemines during his playing career. Now now Mr. Washington, thats not it and we all know it. You have used your entire life and I know it. You need to step forward and let us all know that you are basically the real life Tyrone Biggums.

On a much lighter note and far less spiteful, against a person anyway, is my feeling toward eye drops. I despise eye drops and am currently being forced to use them to attempt to clear up corneal ulcers which seemingly came out of nowhere and are causing me great discomfort. My hate of eye drops really has nothing to do with the drop itself, but more so with my hate of sitting there looking at the drop coming out of the bottle waiting for it to drop into your eye. Is the drop going to be super cold, somewhat painful, soothing, what? I cannot wait to finish these drops and finally get to put my contacts back in so that I can see further than ten to fifteen feet.

Finally my gaze is cast upon the NCAA basketball tournament. Last night The New Mexico Lobos won their first game. This made my father happy and caused me great despair as I had to listen to him brag about "his team" which I am fairly confident that he has never even seen play a full game. My only resort is to ask all of you to cast bad juju on the Lobos tomorrow as they play their second round game against the Washington Huskies. Go Huskies Beat Lobos. Thanks for reading

Ok Lets Talk

Apparently last summer the manager of the Texas Ranger baseball team admitted to and failed a drug test for cocaine. Ron Washington admitted that he would fail the drug test before it was even administered, and upon his failure of said drug test, claimed that it was a one time mistake and will never happen again. Washington has been tested three times per week since and has not yet failed another drug test. It seems that Washington has overcome his mistake and found his way back on to the straight and narrow, but I cannot help but completely not believe his story.

Washington claimed that it was a one time mistake. What? I do not think that a 57 year old man goes out one day and when given the choice all of a sudden decides to go ahead and partake in some nose candy. No sir. This man had used cocaine before and was not caught until this drug test. All you need do is look at this man. He looks like a crazy crack head tweeker looking for his next fix. Come on Ron, you gotta do better than that story, no one believes that you only used cocaine that one time and it just happened to come right before a drug test. Secondly, what are the Texas Rangers doing. Why is this guy still in charge of your baseball team. He is at least a former crack head. I would not want this guy in charge of Fifty Cents, much less my entire baseball team. So, Ron Washington, you better tell the truth, and Rangers you better get your act together.

On another topic all together, I recently saw an old episode of Step by Step. This viewing brought back all of my old memories of watching the show and all the other shows that were on TGIF back in the day. One character that stood out for me back then, and now, was the little tomboy daughter Alicia. Thanks to TMZ and my own curiosity I found out that Alicia or Christine Lakin in real life grew in to quite the attractive woman. I just wanted to share her transformation with all of you as well, so enjoy the pictures and thanks for reading.

March is Mad

The 2010 Men's NCAA basketball tournament begins tomorrow. This is always a very exciting time of year, and this year is no different. Well, no different in the fact that an exciting tournament is about to begin, but less exciting for me due to the fact that my personal favorite team is once again nowhere near being good enough to make the tournament field. That team is Indiana University, and as long as I can remember I was raised to love and cherish the IU basketball team. However, recent years have seen a tremendous rift within the Houston household over team loyalty.

You see, it all began in the year 2000 when coach Bob Knight was fired from the university. Although his firing was fairly controversial, I was left with only a little bit of sadness and despair over his departure. On the other hand, my father, the man who made me into the hoosier loving man that I am, found the whole situation very troubling and basically severed ties with the university and its basketball team. My father decided to change his loyalty to Texas Tech to follow coach Knight, and also more recently after letting go of the Red Raiders after Knight's departure from that team, he has found a new "love" for the New Mexico Lobos coached by former Indiana player once coached by Knight, Mr. Steve Alford. Now, while all of this has taken place I have kept my loyalty in its right place. I have stayed with the hoosiers through it all and will remain until I die.

My loyalty has not been easy. Recently, thanks to now former coach Sampson, the hoosiers have been scraping the bottom of the barrel. However, the season immediately after Knight left, the hoosiers made a glorious run to the national championship game. Looking back on it, it is no coincidence that as soon as Knight's tremendous yet tyrannical reign ended at Indiana, his players rejoiced and played with more vigor and zeal than they had in years, nearly culminating in another championship for the school. The team may be extremely far away from a repeat performance of this tremendous feat, but they continue to gain positive experience every year and sooner than later they will be back in the tournament and ready to make a run for another championship.

As far as this years tournament and the teams that are in it, I have a few basic opinions on how things will go. I am a little biased as far as some of the teams are concerned, which may lead you to not head my words as much as you should. First, I look to see the Lobos lose in the first round to Montana in the hopes of being able to rub it in my fathers face for years to come. Another team that I loathe, but respect, is Duke. This hatred may or may not be due to the fact that my best friend loves the Blue Devils, but either way I despise them. I am able to look through my hatred and realize that they are well coached and always play the best team basketball every single year. This year, Duke has the best team it has fielded in several years, and I am putting all my imaginary money on them winning the entire tournament. There are several teams that can easily defeat the Blue Devils and snatch the championship away, but many of them lack the team skills that Duke exemplifies and uses game in and game out to dominate.

Take the necessary steps to watch as many games of the tournament as you can, and if you do nothing else, please join me in cheering heartily against the New Mexico Lobos. Thanks for reading