Dear Hose,

Long time reader, 3rd time posting....What has happened? When did this blogspot became Evil's blogspot...my god, hardly anybody else writes and all he does is rant about something or other....Doesn't he have anything else to do? Doesn't he have like a job or something? Oh wait....

Anyways, even if Friends its a foreign concept or if you feel uncomfortable watching Will & Grace for whatever Metrosexual reasons you may have, I implore everybody to start watching Coupling on NBC. Rena Sofer is freaking hot and I can't keep popping my "Keeping the Faith" DVD just to see her in action...



Hey Xtian...you remember rushing to Astoria to catch "Ed" on Wednesday nights...yeah yeah!!!

Perfect Gentlemen

Back in Winter of 2001 I was living in Astoria with Manolo and Bad Will Hunting. On ocassion one of Manolo's pimpalicious friends would show up and drag us with him to Flashdancers. Manolo went far more often than I did, a fact I discovered only after I accidently thought his credit card bill was mine.

Anywho, going to FDs is kind of a slippery slope. Once you start its kind of hard to stop and it becomes the fall back plan for any night that is shaping up to be pretty lame.
Manolo and I had this running joke

10pm (any night of the week)

Me: what are you up to?

Manolo: I dunno. what are you up to?

Me: Nothing. That's why I was wondering what you were up to

Manolo: Nah,man not me. I got nothing.

Then we would book for the door and try to hail a cab and hit FDs. In our defense we probably only got out the door, maybe 2-3 times. But the other 20 times we both knew we wanted to go but neither of us wanted to be the one actually responsbile for spendig all that money.

But like I admitted earlier. We went and pretty often. Besides, for us Astoria types it was really easy. you're in a cab, you're going to midtown anyway because that's where the 59th St Bridge (Queensbridge for y'all who know) is and you know, its a quick right instead of a quick left and BAM! boobage!

These days, 2.5 years later, I am seeing similarly disturbing patterns emerging.
I'm just minding my own, when i hear a few clowns doing a quick exchange:

"New Century?"

"New Century."

(Cut to the Batmoble)
Not that I am actively participating in it. In fact at this point in my life I might be disgusted with the whole scene or maybe just the place that some friends of mine like to go to. I have only been once. When you enter you are given a large fountain cup and when you walk into the joint there is a fountain machine, where you can drink as much HiC or Coke as you want. CLASSY! I have only been once but these cats are rolling over there on the regular. Bit much for my tastes.

As Mr. Shoulders used to say whenever he swung through FDs
"I'll take the Go-Go-Rama on rt 35 any day!"

Evil
SLEEVE: I know you posted this one!

Evil
Hey yo. I haven't been around. Just got back from a detox center in Florida. I did happen to catch the California debate on JetBlue last nite tho. I think it's officially over for California. When is Bill Clinton going to step in and save the day?

What else?

Oh, after living most of my life in New York, I spotted a celebrity for the first time last week. I was going in to a meeting at 1440 Broadway and saw P. Diddy at the elevator banks. He was dishing out a bunch of demands to his crew. I tried to get in to the same elevator car as him, but these two goons were not going to have any of it. (Turns out that the Sean John offices are in 1440 Broadway, but that's not why I was there.)

What else?

Kentaro has been very quiet lately. What's going on? Has Ken been putting in some extra hours as Theo Epstien's right hand man? Engineering the Red Sox's post-season run?

What else?

Sorry I'm a little late on the news, but remember the Guantanamo army chaplain who got was accused of spying? His name is Captain James Yee. C'mon now... doesn't he look like any one of 4 or 5 people who you know? That guy could be anyone. I think he sort of looks like this kid Noph from Columbia.

Backlash what?

Stacy Pressman, who is really hot, goes off on metrosexuals in ESPN. Read it here!

The summer finale of the OC was pre-empted last night so they could show some stupid baseball game. Who can care about Barry when Seth, Eminem and the gang were going to T.J.????

Bay area freaks??

Evil
Mesmerize yourself with this for a few seconds...

Jets

This year the Jets are 0-2

Last year the Jets, Started the season 1-3 but Vinny went down and was replaced by the Chad. Who led the NFL in QB rating and made late season run into the Playoffs, embarrasing the Colts on their way to getting pushed around by the Raiders in the second round of the playoffs.

In 2001, The NY Football Jets started the season 1-2 (i think) before coming back, heating up and making a late play off run.

In 2000, the Jets finished 9-7 in the a season that included the monday Night Miracle and 3 wins early where they were outplayed embarrasingly until Al Groh finally cut loose Vinny and the Spread (eagle) offense.

In 1999, Vinny went down in game 1 and the Jets started the season horribly. After surviving the Rick Mirir debacle they brought in Big Play Ray Lucas, who earned himself a decent contract by leading the Jets to a respectable 8-8 record after some major upsets including smacking the Dolphins around something awful on a monday that I proudly recall.

In 1998, the J-E-T-S started the season with Glenn Foley who went down in Game 3, and was replaced by Vinny who led the team to a 12-4 record and an appearance in the AFC Championship game.

Where am I going with this...not sure....except that the Jets have not figured out how to start a season to save their life in the last 5 years.

Evil
A taco eating competition... hmm. Sounds intriguing, but you know what... I'll have to pass. I do enjoy some taco once in a while, but I don't see myself munching on a long line of them. Who knows where they've been? Those eating competitions never really look like they meet the minimum bar for cleanliness. Besides, I hate eating something and feeling bad about it afterwards. You chicks in the audience are probably familiar with that feeling, right? The second you are done swallowing, that guilt smacks you in the face. It's all about self love. Speaking of which... Shout out to MR. SHOULDERS. Just making sure he's still alive.

Paul Krugman has a pretty good Op-Ed piece in the Times today which better communicates my feelings watching the President's speech than I could. Normally I think Paul goes a bit far but I found this right on.

I am vibing with Wes Clark right now, anyone with a title that includes the phrase "supreme allied commander" is pretty cool. Still backing Howard Dean though...

Linen should generally only be worn while sailing or possibly at a BBQ. I know NYers tend to just wear it whenever its not cold but I am pretty sure that is overkill. The stuff wrinkles to easily and where can you walk around being wrinkled and not look dumb.

I usually keep it in the closet unless there is a polo match to attend.

This commercial seems to be part of some MBA backlash that I did not know existed. Its funny, i mean Jeremy Shockey backlash I understand, the guy is totally over exposed but are MBAs really that over exposed?

Wierd...

Speaking of backlash there is already some to my unfortunate Haasweek column, The Hustle, which is going to be a weekly feature. As soon as it gets posted on the Haasweek site, I will post a link. For those of you who don't know it will focus on my work to find a job. So far I have put zero effort into it, so imagine what the first article will be about. I have a wednesday deadline and I have nothing to write about. Sad.

More later

Evil
I think that X-TIAN should write a Metrosexual advice column. Why do I think that? Because sometimes I need the good advice of a metrosexual. As such, I am submitting the first question to X-TIAN's advice column in hopes that he'll answer it.

Dear X-TIAN,

People say that you can't wear white pants after Labor Day. But is it OK to wear linen pants after Labor Day? (Non-white ones, of course.) I don't feel as tho I've worn enough linen this year and want to get in a few more linen days before it becomes ass cold in NYC.

Unrelated...

I never did get that fly. Damn fly.

Evil
GOAL OF THE DAY

There is this damn fly that keeps landing on me. It's touch and go. Touch and go. The fly is pissing me off. He just landed on my nose, as if taunting me to smack my own face. I didn't fall for it. So HAH. My goal of the day is to smack this damn fly. I'll keep you all posted...