I'm a winner. I'm going to win.

Super Bowl Sunday is truly an American Holiday. I hope everyone enjoys it.
I know I will, my fucking team is in it BABY!

Here is a write up I did on the game over at LOV today:

In a year that my team makes the Super Bowl, they have to go up against a team that hasn't lost a meaningful game in a little over a year. It was a very bitter loss, too. One that probably fueled them heading into this season to dominate. And dominate they did. 16-0 regular season, with two post season wins at home making it to 18-0. One more win, and they will be known as the greatest football team in the history of the game.

And the only thing that stands in their way is my team. The New York Football Giants. A team I have been rooting for since birth. A team with great history and pride. Wonderful owners, tremendous class of hall of famers, alumni, and coaches. A team that has set it's own record this year, a record of 10 straight road games. A team that has clawed it's way to the Super Bowl by winning 3 games on the road. A team that has gone through both the #1 and the #2 seeds in their conference. A team that started the year 0-2. A team that has peaked at the right time.

Now most of you say they don't belong. I pose this one question to you if you think that.


If the other team wasn't going for the 19-0 record, would you still be picking against the Giants this Sunday? If your answer is yes then there is no hope for you. The Giants are playing the best football than any other team right now, other than those Patriots. And in the end, isn't that what it's all about? You hear all the time about how teams "get hot" at the right time. Your 2007 Rockies, Blue. Somebody's 2006 Steelers. There is an example just about every year in sports. This year it's the 2007 New York Giants.

They can run the ball at will. The secondary is playing like they are on fire. The front seven led the league in sacks. They finally found a return game. They have a confident kicker. The best punter. A winning coach. A hot assitant coach. Veteran leadership. Outstanding rookies. And of course a budding star QB. I can go on here is the point.

Giants win by the score of 30-28, and history is changed.

MENU
Wings
Chilli
Kilebasa
Cheesesteaks
Mini Italian sandwhiches

Beer comes standard with the above.

Who's the fellow owns this shithole?

Work has been atrocious lately. Fucking boss has been a disease.
He's like that shit'n diseases that comes out of Michael Clarke Duncan's mouth in The Green Mile.

This economy is very volatile. Scale back the 401K's for a couple of months. Take the cash.
Shit is taking hits. Unless you guys play the the short side of this whole mortgage crisis.
I'd buy Euro funds or metal funds if avaialble. A nice stable fund or a Dodge and Cox Income fund is solid too.

To my Philly readers, a big how ya doin! Mets sign Santana. Enjoy that for the next 7 years!

I'd tease the Braves fans too but they don't exist.

The Backyardigans are awesome.

Women weaken legs!

I think I'm gonna start a cell-phone photo blog.

Or just post some pics on this one. I don't know. Whatever I feel like.

Anyway it's Friday and I just wanna stomp the Gollum's guts out. He's a fucking annoying piece of Euro trash and I don't know how much longer I can stomach him. This is the little prick. In this picture he is eating raw garlic. Fucker.

I just realized I am going to have to do a "Best Candy" post sometime soon. I forget how good Rolo's are.

Can you believe fucking Rambo is out today. No they aren't re-realeasing the original one. Stallone shot a new Rambo. Incredible.

Starting tonight... people will die. I'm a man of my word.

Since you guys know i'm a big movie fan I figured I'd mention this Heath Ledger death today. Looks like a drug overdose of some kind. Not sure if it's suicide or what. Seems like all actors battle personal demons when delving into their movie roles. Heath had mentioned his latest role as "The Joker" in the new "Dark Knight" movie due out in July. It's the second installment to the new and improved Batman series (which i just fucking LOVE). Anyway he used words like disturbed and how he lost sleep, his mind was racing. I guess I don't truly understand what it takes to be an actor. I would think it would be cool to play such a great character. Either way I'll give you some movies he was in (or one's I enjoyed), other than Brokeback Mountain which I did not see believe it or not......

The Patriot - he played Mel Gibson's son

A Knights Tale - not a bad movie, he playes the lead role Sir William Thatcher

Monster's Ball - I think he played a guard at the jail, i think....for some reason i can't get the Billy Bob/Halle Berry sex scene out of my mind. Don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing.

Brothers Grimm - Along with Matt Damon, I didn't really like this movie too much but it wasn't Heath's fault.

Dark Knight - Cannot wait for this one. Heath nailed the role. Well from the looks of the pic I'd say he nailed the role. THE JOKER

SUPER BOWL BOUND

Elisha Manning detractors be gone. The kid brought his team to the Super Bowl.
85 throwing attempts, 0 interceptions...only playoff QB without a INT. That's Super.
10 straight road games, 3 of them in hostile playoff conditions. The Giants are rolling, rolling, rolling. Problem is the team that is rolling just a bit more is the mighty Patriots. They must go down.




THE GIANTS ARE IN THE SUPER BOWL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
GO BLUE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Today's mission is to convice my wife to fly down to Arizona and take in this game live at a downtown Pheonix bar.




What an awesome run. I couldn't be prouder to be a Giants fan today. I'm downright giddy.

Well, I'll be damned.

I got a vicious disease from the N train, been home the last three days. Blows.

Stay with me, i'll update the blog shortly.

This has been a public service announcement brought to you by one eye-talian, angry motherfucker looking to exact revenge on the gook that coughed on my neck last thursday evening on the N train. You've been warned.

Pay that man his money

Couple of thoughts on AC

1. You know the roulette "dealer" or the one who spins the tiny white ball of misery? You think they work or personalize there "wave"? You know the wave I'm talking about. The one where they imply no more bets as the ball finishes it's last lap or two. I thought that if I were in that position I would most certaintly have a wave that would be a crowd pleaser. I was thinking it would resemble a Nazi quick strike karate chop in the air. Or maybe a soft hand over hand double wave. Or maybe something with some spunk like a wave with spirit fingers.

2. White trash is everywhere. You can't run, you can't hide. White trash people with money is a dangerous concoction. Playing $25 a hand on blackjack while wearing a backwards trucking hat, drunk, and missing a couple of teeth doesnt exactly scream class. Oh and the fat wife hangin on your shoulder smelling like $2 blackberry brandy rooting you on is a nice touch.

3. Lot's of hoes. Something about AC that makes women dress like streetwalkers. Explains why some of the rooms (espeacially the complimentary ones) reek of BDUSSY (translation: Booty, Dick & Pussy).

4. Still think table games are the way to go. Slots, I just don't think will ever consistently pay out to keep you going. Neither will tables but if you get some cards or hit a number or two you can manage.

I play Texas Hold Em', Three Card Poker, Blackjack, and Roulette.

Stayed at the Tropicana, with a jaunt over to Ceasars which is my personal favorite place.
AC for me is always good times. I'm a terrible degenerate gambler. I just like the thrill of possibly winning money that I don't have. Something about having the balance of money on the line for something that you think you might have control over. It's a weird pshycology.

Anyway Giants beat the Cowboys so all is right with the world. If they win at Green Bay I'm so going to Arizona for the game. Believe.

T.O crying like a bitch was a spectacular sight. I will remember that for a long time.

For those of you living outside the northeast and don't know what AC is:
A.C.

And they are building alot more casinos........

Every man dies, not every man really lives

"Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses."
- George Washington
What a man. What a great, great man.

Guys ever wander off on Wikipedia and just re-learn all the shit we are supposed to know from our schooling? It's quite refreshing. Try it.

Gold might hit $900 an ounce, that's sick.

Guys that wear dress shirts with thier initials on them are superdouches.

Alternative energy companies are all the rage in 2008. If you want to make money off them track these companies.

Zoltek makes carbon filter used in wind turbines. GE is always solid. The wind turbine business is growing by the billions. Verasun (VSE) and Pacific Ethanol (PEIX) are dirt cheap and could see some legislature backing. Keep your eye on them. Orion (OESX) manages power demand and Itron (ITRI) makes these smart readers that are similar to electric meters on houses. Cosan (CZZ) is up 10% since the NYSE debut of it's ehtanol producing company.

Tomorrow is my birthday. Yippee.

Atlantic City this weekend. Pumped.

This Cloverfield movie is garnering a ton of buzz. Blowing up NYC must be fuun for these Hollywood producers. Christ be more creative, I understand visually it's a tremendous picture but it just gets tired.

I'm sleepy.

Yesterday's movie quote was Al Pacino in A Scent of A Woman.

Ooooooooo-aaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh.

When in doubt... fuck

I want ribs, but from like memphis or kansas. Which state is more prominent for the ribs?
I make some good ribs. I don't know if they are as good as Memphis ribs but I try.
I dont know what makes them so speacial but I'd like too.
Texas makes good brisket I hear. I can dig that.


A superflu sounds bad.


"How was your weekend"
"Too short"
hahahahahhahhaa
no. not funny. die.


I may or may not write a book on office talk.
No serious.


I heard Hillary's is bigger than Bill's.
She really makes me sick. Call me sexist but yesterday she proved why no women can be elected president. Fucking crying cuz running a campaign is TOO HARD. STFU.

Hollywood is more concerned about the Golden Globes and the Oscars than they are about the writers themselves. Oh no I won't be able to wear $5,000 worth of shit and pose for pictures if they don't strike a deal!!!! Humps.

The Holland Tunnel blows.

I wish.... you had..... more time

You guys are lucky. I'm going to post more.
See despite what some of you might think I am busy at work most of the day.
But I found a way to blog and not miss out on too much TPS (Office Space ref).

Open the blogger, click NEW POST.
Any thoughts throughout the day get jotted down on the blank new post canvas and voila!

A POST is born.

So whatever shit that I think of throughout the day that pops in my head, you'll know about it.

Long winded and compounded posts that require more thought, research and spell check are no longer welcome. Unless one day I feel like a Hemmingway.

Also I never use spell check so if it's wrong I dont care.
Also I usually dont re-read the posts so that goes for grammatical errors as well.
Paint me a rebel I just love free-form writing.

Til tomorrow!

P.S. - every title this entire year will be a movie reference, if you know it feel free to guess so in the comments if you dont give a fuck ce' la ve.

P.S.S i dont know what ce' la ve means, just felt right.

Happy New Year

Just don't tell the Chinese that. They follow a different calendar and it's not New Years for them. Go figure.

Now some of my best moments caught on camera.

Shea hey, beers before the game is always key.

Chi-town was a blast

Best hero in brooklyn

Lasik, wise choice

The birth of my beautiful baby girl

MMMKKKKAAAY

Priests brawl at Bethlehem birthplace of Jesus...

the world is fucked

in other news if my NY football Giants beat New England on Saturday night expect a italian brooklyn man to be on the next am newscast running around Boston with no pants on, peeing on all corners

Merry Christmas

Let me just say to everyone have a healthy and meerrryyy Christmas.

To rub in my italian heritage I give you tonights menu.

tonight's menu sponsored by guido's

antipasto
crab legs in a fish marinara sauce
cold seafood salad
scungilli
baked clams
stuffed squid
lobster tails
filet mignon
rice balls
shrimp scampi
calzones

EL Pad's NYC Good Times Post

2007 NYC Holiday Tourist Guide

A couple of tips:

If your going to use the subway, and you should, buy a subway map or print one from the MTA site. Trust me it can get very confusing for a newbie and you don't want to end up in any of the wrong parts of any borough. Unless you like to urinate on yourself.

Brings me to point #2. Seriously for as big as NYC is, crime is ridiculously low. Don't believe the stereotypes, this is not 1992. Outside of that homeless man who carved up that Texas kid last year there have been zero serious crimes. Just be smart, obviously the pick pocket guys are out this time of year so inside pocket with a zipper is like a fire safe and ladies wear the handbags under your arm. Snatch and runs are too easy and the crowds are RETARDED, you'll never chase them down.

Point #3, Crowds are retarded. Serious. You can hide an elephant on 5th ave. during this time of year. Keep a nice pace, I understand your sight seeing but try not to get trampled. We move at a very quick pace.

Point #4, you will see homeless people. If they scare you don't show it, cuz they smell fear and will make the most of it (chase you around, yell, growl, etc). You can patronage them if you wish, chances are your contributing to a liter of vodka. Your call.

Point #5, is obvious. Get some information from your hotel concierge about restaurant discounts, nightclub passes, tourist coupons, etc. NYC can get expensive.

Point #6, taxi's drive like lunatics. That's just the way it is, hail it (stand 2 yards into the street and raise your hand), hop in and pray.

Now some hotspots, must-do's and good times.

Visit Rockefeller Center. If you don't this time of year why did you bother? The tree is phenominal as usual and check out the observation deck on the TOP of THE ROCK. The surronding area is pretty cool too. Check out the SAKS 5th Avenue windows (for the ladies) then look up and check out the illuminated Snowflake Symphony on the acutal building. Right across the street is St. Paticks Cathedral. If your catholic get in there and talk to the big fella. It's quite a church. Stores surrond the area, everything from Coach to Sharper Image. The Rock Cafe below is a cool lunch, get a window seat to watch people bust they ass on the ice rink and get the crabcakes. They are phenominal.

Shop 5th Ave. Any and every major store in the world in on 5th ave. Stretches from 42nd street down to Central Park. Just heed my fourth point. No really. There are a ton of people.

Central Park. Oasis. If your trying to be romantic do the horse and buggy thing but bring a mask. Smells like horseshit if you ask me. Wolman Rink > Rockfeller Ice Rink. Wolman Rink is in central park. Skate there instead of Rockefeller Center.

The museums are awesome if that's your thing. The Hayden Planetarium is cool and the Museum of Natural History is something else.

Pizza = Di Fara's, Original Ray's Pizza (Prince St. location), Lombardi's (coal oven), Patsys (all locations) and Una Pizza Napoletana. If by any chance you are in Brooklyn L&B Pizzeria, Lenny's and Krispy Pizzeria.

Walk Little Italy if you can, almost every Italian restaurant is good.

Attempt one of the Rickshaw's Dumpling houses. Very good dumplings. And try a slice of Junior's cheesecake, you won't be disappointed.

Enjoy Broadway.

Chinatown is something you've never experienced before. It actually feels like your in China. Not kidding. If your looking to buy some horned frogs or a rolex whisper to one of the chinese women standing on any corner, follow her, don't worry, she won't hurt you.

Times Square is nuts. I know this. Financial district, any Irish bar will do for a quick beer. Whitehorse is my favorite. Check out the Trinity Church (National Treasure movie) and read Alexander Hamilton's tombstone. While your in the area check out Ground Zero, even though it just looks like a construction site now (hurry up with that boys!).

Dining/Bars:

Theater District/Midtown:

1. Dillions Bar and Restaurant - tourist cliche's abound
2. Burger Joint - located in the Le Perker Merdien hotel, you really have to find it but the burger is worth is and at $6.50 it really is a bargain.
3. Carnegie Deli - the one the only, giant piles of meat...if you finish a pastrami on rye i'll mail you a check
4. Morell Wine Bar & Cafe - if you like wine go here, the food is good too
5. Patsy's - One on the upper east side too. Excellent brick oven pizza, excellent.
6. Carmine's - Family style italian eatery, very good food, 2-3 hour waits without reservations.
7. Virgils bbq - Smoke is close but to me this is the best BBQ fare in the city.
8. Quality Meats - steakhouse for the young and hip, not the distinguished and old
9. Jimmy's Corner - one of the best bars ever established
10. Flute - champagne bar, cool if you with the lady
11. Whiskey Bar - cool little spot in the W hotel in midtown
12. Maggie's place - cool joint, just a regualr bar

Village

1. Art Bar - cool feel
2. Automatic Slim's - lunch served, sort of a party crowd at night
3. Sevilla - excellent Sangria and Paella
4. Caliente Cab Co - mexican fare, good margaritas
5. Down the Hatch - my favorite dive bar of all time
6. Off the wagon - 2nd favorite

I can type all day long, reference these two sites to look up every single establishment in Manhattan. If you want to ask me if I been there I will be honest.

Search Meatpacking district, village and Chelsea. I tried a marathon post but there is literally so much shit to do, see, and enjoy here in NY. Hope this helps.

Best site to look up Bars

Best site to search for restaurants

Coming so soon

Coming soon : a Holiday Guide for tourists travelling to NYC.

I realize that 4 million people come to NYC during the holidays and why not. Great place to be.

I will give some tips and link some cool places to check out. Hopefully by Friday.

Til then, enjoy this pic. Got my infected tooth pulled from my skull yesterday.

My xmas list

Amex Members lounge

Best thing about xmas shopping yesterday. Click above.
I thought at some point someone would come out and milk my prostate but that never happened. Not even a ball tickle. Ah, neither here nor there it was pleasant.

Great company that American Express. Recommend it to anyone.

My Top 6 Xmas wishes includes:

I LUV Portable DVD Player
Plays videos off your IPOD as well. Nifty.

Stereo with Dock for the Desk
I'm done with the FM transmitter.

I Touch IPOD
I needs a upgrade.

I want a Taser
ZZZZZZ...ZZAPPPPP. Don't Tase me bro!

XBOX HD DVD Player
Gotta have me one of these, although I can't say I'm happy that I have to purchase HD DVD's going forward.

The Glenlivet
Or something similar, like a Johnnie Walker Gold or Blue. Doesn't have to be a single malt either.

Following Gift Cards will be accepted.

Sunglass Hut - ever since my LASIK surgery I've wanted to drop a hundy or two on a nice pair of shades
J.Crew - most comfortable T-shirts on the planet
Macy's - where I purchase my suits and ties from, mostly
Gamestop - Call of duty 4 be calling me, be calling me
Foot Locker - could always grab a nice pair of Nikes
Pink Pussycat Boutique - what, no sex shops for you?
Best Buy/Circuit City - DVD's

Any and all restaurant gift certificate's work and work well

I also like fine Turkish sheets, 2000 thread count preferably.

Wine Decanter's would work, some Mach 3 refills (damn things are expensive), a POGO stick, and maybe on of those Koi fish.

See, I'm simple. Besides XMAS is not about these material objects. It's about peace, joy, family and the birth of christ as we understand it to be. But if I don't one of these things I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger.

Merry Christmas.

Office Talk

This sign is for you fat guy. You know who you are. Your damn ass hangs over the bowl and shit is everywhere. Your a slob. Just eat yourself into a coma.

People who laugh at thier own jokes while they tell it are lame. And usually the joke is not funny.

The "It's Friday" guy is in full effect today. His boyfriend must be in town.

Blow your nose again Miss McSnot, I can't get enough of that shit.

If I think your taking a peek at my shank while we are at the urinal your getting pissed on. No words. Just piss. Make it rain.

We got this one dude who constantly picks his ass. Dude we know a wedgie sucks but can you be a bit more discreet. Fuck.

This is what keeps me sane. FENG SHUI.

(pay no attention to that spikey haired gorilla in the background)

Tryptophan

Thanksgiving rocks balls.
Thanksgiving per the Bible

Football, Food, Football, Food, Football, Sleep.

I mean for crissakes what day, if any, comes close to Thanksgiving.
Wake up, roll around in bed, check out the Thanksgiving Day Parade, maybe toss the pigskin around outside, hopefully it's chilly but not freezing and then off to wherever you go to gorge yourself like a fat road hog. It's awesome.

Going to the in-laws first then back to my fam's house. It's going to get ugly. Quick.
Spanish Thanksgiving first. Then Italian. It's the best of both worlds.

I'd say the speacialty from each would be the Arroz con Gandules Recipe here from the Spanish side and the homeade bread stuffing balls (or the Candy Yams, can't go wrong here) Generic recipe here, I don't know which one Grandma uses, it's her own from the Italian side. I can write so much more about other items but these two stand out. Italians do it a little different than the Spanish. Spanish there is no Antipasto. This usually includes a bunch of salads, some salted meats, cheese, stuffed mushrooms, a clam bake dip maybe, and other lusty appetizers. Spanish just rip right into the bird. Either way you can't go wrong.

Dessert is like wow, can I even eat right now. But it's always so solid you have to. Pies, cookies, cakes, pastries. By that time you want to puke.

I can really write forever about food so I will stop here. I'm sure I already have gotten your tastebuds jumping.

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For my degenerate buddies out there the 4 games on Thursday, all are worth watching.

12:30 ETA - Packers @ Lions (Pack -3.5)
El Pad's Pick : Packers and the under
Pack are hottttttt, Lions are on their way to a collapse that all the Detroit fans have been telling us about. Remember when the Lions would always find a way to win on Turkey Day and save Wayne Fontes job? Those were the days. BTW Under is 11-4-1 in GB's last 16 vs NFC North and it's also a stellar 7-2 in Detroit's last 9 home games.

4:15 ETA - Jets @ Cowboys (Boys are -13.5)
El Pad's Pick : Lay the two TD's. That Jet win was a fluke and no one other than Brady/Moss is hotter right now than Romo/T.O. (A sharp pain just throttled my heart as I typed that). The Jets stink. Dallas is 8-3 ATS in the last 11 games (all season).

8:15 ETA - Indy @ Atlanta (Indy is -12)
El Pad's Pick : Again, lay the wood. Atlanta is a terrible team with no direction right now. Indy squeaked by a very underated KC team and is troubled by injuries. However when Jeff Garcia blows up your secondary what do you think Peyton Manning will do? Indy has covered 10 out of the last 14 games.

The Turkey Day Teaser
Don't feel like laying the wood? Think all three favorites will win outright? Tease it!

Pack +6.5, Boys - 3.5, Indy -2
Sounds better right.

Bonus NCAA game!!!!!!
8:00 ETA - USC @ ASU (USC -3.5)
El Pad's Pick : ASU +3.5
USC has beaten them 7 straight times, dating back to 1999. I think it's time for some Pac-10 Sun Devil revenge. At home, the whole country wathcing, a chance to throw their hat into the national title talk and , and a chance to beat a team you should absolutely hate. One could argue that this is ASU's biggest game in years. I have to take the home team. By the way if you wanted to throw this in the tease it would look like this:
ASU + 15.5 and the above bets would move up two points each.

Have fun and enjoy. Daddy is off til Friday.

Round Here

I'm a fairly young guy. Late twenties. So if I were to hand you my Ipod and you looked through each song I think you'd be surprised. And I think the reason you'd be surprised is because of the music I actually have jammed in there. First let me say that I would have none of these artists in the IPOD if it weren't for the IPOD itself. It allows you to hold so much music, some you'll never listen to, some you will and love and some you'll discover. Who knew that Eric Clapton would be one of my favorite musicians in the world? After growing up and listening to nothing but Rap / Hip - Hop you'd think that's all I would know. But now, I know alot more.

Examples:
I know that I enjoy the Acoustic guitar over the Electric one. Even though the electric one rocks balls the quiet tight strings on a acoustic guitar make the best natural sound for me. Gimme a stool, a liter of Whiskey, a pack of stoges and acoustic anyday of the week. Stain'd comes to mind.

I know the harmonica is a kickass wind instrument that can turn a hook into a dancing ballad faster than you can say Tom Petty. I mean if I listened to "Mary Jane's Last Dance" when I was 15 years old I would have destroyed the walkman right there on the spot. Now it's in heavy rotation.

And Clapton my god. What a genius.

Now I ain't abandoning hip-hop because I still love it, not so much the new stuff cuz for the most part the new stuff is unoriginal but I've matured waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyy beyond my years when it comes to other genres.

I'll list some artists that I listen to often that I never thought I would ever listen too. Feel free to write "________ sucks" in the comment section cuz that never gets old. (This is outside of the usual bands that most people and I like, for example : Red Hot Chilli Peppers, U2, Linkin Park, Green Day, etc.)

Eric Clapton
John Lennon
Counting Crows
Arcade Fire
Incubus
Rise Against
Tom Petty
Snow Patrol
Joseph Arthur
Johnny Cash
Bloc Party
Al Green
Don McLean
Billy Joel
The Rat Pack
Miles Davis
Phish
Sting
Velvet Revolver
Weezer

To name a few. Now I know there are bands that come out every five minutes and I know that the music never stops but there is no way I can keep up, even with a 30G IPOD to store it all on. There is not 48 hours in a day unfortunately.

Maybe one day I could contribute or amass myself to a Top 500 songs list or something. And this should all genres. From The Notorious BIG to Jerry Garcia I might be able to cover it all.

Pics

Couple of pics to wet the appetite.

1) First class
2) Sky Vodka
3) Soilder field