The Moops

Only 22 hours left to vote on Blog is the New Blog's latest poll, "Does Mark have the balls/ovaries to delete his Facebook account?" Interestingly enough (see: sadly enough), not a single person has voted "Yes" so far. People either think that A) I don't have the balls, or probably more likely B) Not only do I not have the balls, even if I did have the balls I would never delete my Facebook account because I adore it.

Either way you're all a bunch of haters.

In other news, Blog is the New Blog embarks on a trip in two days. The destination? Ohio.
The last time I was in Ohio it was Christmas and I remember a particular episode where I was struck by the bleakness of some frozen cornfields and kind of wanted to cry.

Let's hope spirits are a little higher this time around.

Blog is the New Blog finally got to hang out with some its favorite homeys recently. On Saturday my buddy Barry and I drank 24 oz. cans of Pabst on a side street in Capitol Hill before going to the quad at Seattle University to watch Common Market perform. Before that night I had never heard of Common Market, supposedly a group similar to Blue Scholars. Let's just say I still wish I had never heard of Common Market.
Actually, the rapping wasn't all that bad. The worst part was watching a bunch of Jesuit kids pump their fists in the air to music they probably didn't like. Blog is the New Blog also saw a hippie couple doing some new-age, "just like, feel the vibes of the music, man" dancing. The female contingent was wearing a Camelbak and looked like she had just ingested some sort of trance-inducing drug.

The world is going to hell in a hand basket.

In other news, I was just looking at the 2007 Weblog Awards because I wanted to see what blog won "Funniest Blog," but it didn't turn out to be all that funny so I decided to check out the "Best Culture Blog" thinking it would be cool stuff regarding - uh - culture. But it wasn't. It wasn't at all. The best culture blog turns out to be a site called "The Cool Hunter," and it basically just has a bunch of pictures of fancy houses and shoes¹.

Finally, Blog is the New Blog regrets to announce that the bike trip from Ohio to Quebec that I spoken so fervently of will not be happening for health-related reasons (see: I am unhealthy). Please feel free to comment with your words of consolation or the semi-obligatory "I told you so" (you can comment anonymously).

We're still bikin', though, just not as far. Today I rode about eight miles in honor of Eminem² and had a lot more fun because my achilles wasn't crying and I actually felt like I could prudently take the liberty of riding while standing up (I didn't do it in the past because it was a bit hard on the achilles).

Also, last but certainly not least, take a chance to read Chuck Klosterman's article about British handball and other things in the new edition of "Esquire." It's quite funny.

Summer is almost here!

-Boosh Clown


¹Which, I suppose, pretty much hits "American culture" on the head.

²Just kidding.