I Wanna be... (The March Edition)

A member of the Get-Along-Gang and help them search for their Red Caboose, a pilot that writes messages in the sky, that guy on the Krispy Kreme commercial, a hype-man in a rap group, owner of a seeing-eye dog, Vin Deisel's cousin, animator of Kool-Aid Kool Man for the packets of Kool-Aid, the guy who invented ipod's, really good at something (read: amazing) like piano or marco polo, friends with Ben Stiller and Will Ferrel so I could be in 8 movies every year, the chicken or the egg so I could answer the question of which one came first, the 4th stooge, a reincarnation of Rodney Dangerfield so that I can finally get him some respect, that man working in a peach factory downtown who puts the peaches in the can in the President's of the United States of America's song Peaches, able to walk on water like Jesus, a little bit talla and a balla, The Voice like my friend Shayne, a monster truck driver, an owner of one of those old time Ma and Pa cafe's where everything looks like it's stuck in the 1950's, Mr. Clean, a friend to all of the little animals who need one, somebody's baby, a washed out celebrity who's only claim to fame is that they are a commentator on I Love the 80's/90's or I Love the 80's /90's Strikes Back, Dr. Sam Beckett (originally played by Scott Bakula) on the remake of Quantum Leap, the Queen Bee, the leader of a sadistic cult and the first one to drink the poisoned punch, a voice of an animated cartoon character that is drawn to resemble me, like Mike Bates, an Anchorman just like Ron Burgandy, an award winning blog writer, on a professional dodgeball team, Noah's Ark, somewhere beyond the sea, critically bashed by professionals but raised up on a pedestal by my adoring fans, able to think up new things that I wanna be...

(to be continued)

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pookon.com receives recognition from fans

Something amazing has happened to me and my website over the weekend, something that seems to be happening more and more often. Before I explain myself, go to your favorite search engine (be it yahoo, msn, google) and type anything related to my site (pookon, godsplash, miller park, beer pong, saguaro cactus, STYX) and see if you can find my site. Often random people type in keywords and accidentally stumble upon my site. Most times I don't find out, but when I do it is spectacular. Tim was browsing the STYX website message boards, and saw a post about summerfest photos, where a random person stumbled upon my site, the posted the link for everyone else to view. The following is that post:

http://www.pookon.com/styx1.html Here is someone's concert photos from a summer concert. I stumbled across it by accident. He has some great concert photos. If you leave it the page for a bit, he also recorded a bit of the show, a different song for each page. Maybe this will help a bit with all our need for new concert photos.

Tim saw this and went nuts. He replied to this post with the following:

OH MY GOD! This is soo crazy. That's my brother's website! I made him bring his camera along. You can even see me ruining the songs by singing along every once and a while (sorry). I am the guy in the first few pictures with long hair standing next to Lawrence. How did you find it?

The next post answers Tim's question:

Hey Tim!! That is amazing that I stumbled upon the website of your brother's!! I was sitting here waiting up for my teenage daughter to come home from a night out with friends. I typed in "Styx" on MSN homepage and started surfing. And there it was. He has some really great photos. Love his comments, what a great sense of humor! And the music add to the pages is such a great idea. Funny and creative too, What a great Kid your brother is. You taught him well!

Tim then conveyed my thanks for the pleasant comments:

Haha, well it was just mind blowing to open up this post and see my brothers website link there, lol. Anyway he really appreciated the comments and we look forward to rocking out and taking more pictures in the near future.

When Tim told me about this it rocked my socks off. It's times like this that make me keep working on this site, even though some times it can be a burden and time consuming. Somewhere out there, there are people who care. I can add a few more Styx fans to that list now. How much does that rock?

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office

welcome to my office, or at least my online one. step inside, because you're about to be fired, donald trump style. i kid, i really do, but sometimes i can be serious and try and find a common ground between the others and myself. my real office is currently in the uwm union, although i am currently looking for new space to run my business out of. if anyone knows where a sprite young chap like myself can be employed, send a message my way asap. i'm gonna use my espn sense and say that a notice is on the way, so i'm going to go and sit somewhere and wait for that notice. until then, good day to you all, and if you need me, i'll be hanging out in the chocolate room at the wonka factory, drinking my cup of tea and then taking a bite out of it.

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beer pong

I write this from the Cramer house, where at I am involved in the beer pong leauge spring 2005. This is my 3rd year, and I have established myself as not only a worthwhile member of the beer pong community, but also a player for the youngins to look up to. For those of you who are new to the sport, beer pong information specifically associated with our leauge can be found at www.chbpl.com or for general information visit www.nbpl.com. I write this blog because beer pong is the greatest sport known to man. Forget about decathlons and soccor, this sport combines two of humanities greatest wants and needs, the nature to be competitive and the need to consume alcohol. It's not called kool-aid pong after all. I guess the fact that yes officer, I've had a few is relevant in the fact that it allows me to ramble without the intervention of a third-party watchdog makes it the best sport of all time. Beer pong as a game brings out the best (and I will admit, the worst) in all of us, and we all must step up to the table some time if we want to shoot the ball. Life as we know it is centered around survival and the ability to shoot a ping pong ball into a 16 ounce clear cup filled 1/4 of the way with the chepest beer on the market, with the end result of everyone enjoyng themselves in a way dictated by our predescessors. When we compete with each other in the relm of beer pong, we find out who we really are, and by that we determine our future as pointed out by the ultimate game. That is all I can say right now, for it is time to finish for the night. But don't worry, there is always a time and place for everything, and beer pong, like religion, will always be an established part of society, and we draw upon that to live our lives and fullfill our dreams. The game will determine our place and passage in life, and like Doogie Howser, typing on a computer at the end of an episode, that is where I will finish. And that my friend, is where the Iceman finishes the race.

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Almost Famous

At work today, I had a conversation with Alex from the dishroom about the movie Almost Famous. The soundtrack was playing, and I asked "Is this the soundtrack to Almost Famous?" Of course it was, because I've seen the movie so much that I can easily recognize the music from it. We talked about it for a while, noting that it was one of the greatest movies of all time, and then we both came to a startling conclusion - we both could not believe that there are people in this world who have not seen the movie Almost Famous! Normally I don't really care about your likes or dislikes, nor will I tell you what you should or should not watch because I realize that everyone is entitled to their own opinions. But, I believe that everyone, before they die, should take a few hours out of their lives to watch this cinematic masterpiece. And if you don't like it, I mean truly do not like the movie, I will personally buy you a movie of your choice. That's how strongly I feel about it. I feel the need to inform the world of Cameron Crowe's semi-autobiographical wonder, and I thank you for taking the time to read what I have to say.

GO OUT + BUY ALMOST FAMOUS

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this is me

This is me

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Start of the Blog

I guess I'm going into this kind of blind, because after all, I have no freakin' idea what blog stands for. I guess it's one of those new-age technical terms, kind of like spam (which used to be that fake ham stuff that poor people buy but now stands for unsolicited email or something.) I guess this is where my lack of schooling kind of shows, even though I've been in college long enough that people should start calling me Scott M.D. Hell, I'd even settle for Scott R.N. right about now. I'm getting off of the subject and spouting random stuff, which is something that you'll see me do quite often. I'm starting this blog because I always wanted to post random thoughts and observations (much like I do in my journals) but never really found an outlet for them. I do have the website (pookon.com) but I can only write things that pertain to the pictures that I post and can't really just go off about something. Well, hopefully I keep at this and bring you some funny stuff. Let me know what's going on in your Mr. Roger's neighborhood and hopefully we can be neighbors. Hooray!

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