Homeless People Make Great Dancers

Well I'm feeling inspired. I hope you enjoy this...

The following I feel is supremely sweet...

Homeless men dancing for money. I'll try and paint a picture for you because the appearance of this man should not be understated. So the base image here should be a homeless man - by this I mean unshaved and generally dirty. His hair was untamed and upright and of course he spoke terrible English. Adam and I were in a white subaru outback on a typical city street at night in Baltimore. He approaches the car wearing navy ripped pants and a hoody three sizes too small. We gave him the no-go before he got close enough to car to ask and what happens next is the whole reason I'm writing. He approaches the car in front of us passenger side from the sidewalk. He sticks out his hand and drops his shoulder as he begins the dance. He does a shoulder shake, involves his head in rhythm, bends his knees and brings them apart. He then shakes his hips appropriately, flares one of his legs out sideways (Adam and I are slack-jawed watching at this point) and then sticks his arm out again for money revealing his toothless smile. We absolutely lost it. The only thing that kept me from throwing all my money out of the window as the light turned green was that I was paralyzed from laughing so hard.

This of course begs the question of whether or not it would be appropriate to ask homeless people to bust a move before giving them money. I think the word we decided on was, "terribly inappropriate."

Saying, "I reckon." Webster defines "reckon" - 1) to settle accounts 4) to accept something as certain. Just because hoosiers predominately say it doesn't mean we shouldn't. In fact, its more fun saying it with a southern accent when somebody asks you a question.
Hey man, want to go to the movies?
Yep, I reckon.
All I can say is try it and I reckon you'll enjoy it.

[As an aside] Whenever you hear hoosiers say, "I reckon that about settles it," tell them that they are being redundant .

Easily winning political arguments. You may wonder how I win all my arguments concerning politics. I'll let you in on a secret of mine. Whenever your friend begins to argue an especially liberal topic, respond by calling them comrade. Here's an example:
"And that's why labor unions are needed."
"Sure comrade."
Amazing huh. You automatically imply they are communist and if other people are around, they'll start to stare. Nobody likes to be considered communist so they'll immediately tone down their argument.

Lexus. The car can parallel park itself in between two giant champagne glass pyramids. Sick. You apparently can't get out of the car completely because you have to control the braking, but still I'm not going to hate on it. Just because the feature is simple doesn't mean it was easy to create. What makes this development sweet as well is that this is just a taste of what cars are becoming. I'll let your mind wander now.
Lexus also came out with the first hybrid SUV and lets face it, the SC430 is lush.

The Departed. If you haven't seen the movie I understand, but if you aren't planning on seeing it you're crazy. I won't spoil anything and I'll try not to over-hype it but the humor within the context of the movie is unprecedented. That, and it is so Scorsese. That is all.

Although not much has been lame lately, the following I feel is still pretty lame...

The Sun setting so early. Five o'clock and its dark outside. What makes this worse is two weeks before daylight savings I was complaining that the sun sets too early. I followed that by wrongly assuming daylight savings would correct this. Wrong - just the opposite actually.

Not returning my phone calls. This woman, Laura, was supposed to call me back to let me know whether or not I can buy her hoopty. She hasn't yet and I left her a message last night and still nothing. I'm calling again today - right now actually. I just finished calling.

I'm not ready to talk about:

The phone call I just made. Jay-Z and November 2nd.