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Derek, did you forget about taking Halloween pictures?

Of course not! Would this be a "blog" if it didn't have Halloween pictures!?! And everyone knows that Halloween is the holiday that gives girls the excuse to dress as trampy as humanly possible! So who WOULDN'T have pictures of that?

Alrighty folks. Hope your comfy, cause here we go!
This is a picture of us on the Saturday night before Halloween, a.k.a Sha's Birthday! WOOO!


From left to right it's me (old man), Brenna (cat), TC (cowgirl), Sha (witch), and Abby (tennis accident).

TC and Sha are friends of Brenna's from back in Washington. TC is awesome. She's a geek that plays magic and has a Star Wars skull and bones (vader helmet and lightsabers) bag. Plus she's a member of the exlcusive red team. Or was it blue team? It's hard to remember these days. Regardless, our team eats meat and doesn't sit on benches. The other team is our arch-rivals. One of whom sleeps with me.

It should be noted that the team members often get confused and switch which side their on pending on the current debate/discussion.
It should also be noted that in either instance Sha shall remain my "friend", even if she is an arch-NEMSIS.

Main Entry: ¹friend
Pronunciation: 'frend
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English frend, from Old English frEond; akin to Old High German friunt friend, Old English frEon to love, frEo free
definition: someone who gets Derek water.

Abby on the other hand doesn't belong to either team. She goes to school with Sha, and coincidentally, also went to UB for a short time...such a small small world.

So yeah, basically that night (Sha's Birthday) we went to In-N-Out and got food...and looks from old people. Then we went to a very very strange party.
Bad news first: Brenna broke a hookah with her foot....when the hookah fell off the table...on to Brenna's foot.
Good new second: There was a dude named Derek there. He was ecstatic that there was another Derek (me). He had never met another Derek before, with the name spelled correctly. I have, but only once before this incident. Derek was awesome, he was pretty much the only person worth talking to at the party, because everyone else was dressed as ho's and "Tu Pac." Either way, there was just way too much Derek at the party, so we had to leave.
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DEREK Act (Introduced in Senate)[S.579.IS] - states:

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the `One Derek per party ACT' or the `DEREK Act'.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS AND PURPOSE.

(a) FINDINGS- Congress makes the following findings:

(1) Congress has recognized the important role of Derek's in attedance to person(s) attending party(s)

(2) Congress has therefore deemed it necessary that for party(s) to be given even
standard amount of fun(s), they must be restricted to one Derek per party.
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So that was that night. Then on Halloween


Brenna, Sha and I dressed up and went grocery shopping at Albertson's!!!! I dressed as a zombie


Brenna and Sha wore the same thing they did on Saturday. After grocery shopping we went to Sha's and got her roomate, Trevor, and went out to a bar. Trevor was a glam-rock star (see: David Bowie) for Halloween, but he couldn't bear another night of high-heels, so he went as a track star...or 80's coke dealer...same thing.


While Brenna and Sha were tearing up the dance floor some random asian lady took a picture of me with her cell phone. It came out awesome, cause it was all grainy and dark. She didn't send me a copy though...nor did I give her an address to send it too. Sorry to all you 40-year-old asians reading this, I don't give my info out to women years older than me.

Unless they're hot!

Sha had a bunch of friends at the bar (half of which were Canadians that moved here to play for the Ice Dogs...you know how much I love preppy guys, Canadians, AND hockey players!), none of which I really knew.


Trevor left because he was starting to get sick and was tired. So I pretty much flew solo while Brenna and Sha danced. After the bar they all went to...ANOTHER BAR. Whoa! It's like I'm back in Buffalo!
In the mean time Brenna and I went to a place that was much dirtier than Denies, but with much better food. I had a delicious hamburger. It was delicious.
Then we met everyone at the bar...but they were leaving to go party in a greek restaurant that was closed (I'm assuming one of them works or owns it?). Things got shady....you know, the typical 35 year-old guys tryin to get the young girls from the bars...to party in their greek restaurants?
I was happy when we got home. I don't think I'm ready to make new friends.


With 35-year-old drunk greek men.

Hey! Isn't it time for some random pictures! YES IT IS!
Here are some pictures of downtown Long Beach (not to be confused with L.A.)


Those weird, colorful pillars change colors over time, and emit a green laser-light show (that progressively gets faster). I didn't get a shot of the lasers. I will soon. Very, very soon. MWU HAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!

'cough'

and here's a pic of me and THE BRENNA.


and Sha and TC...smile like a donut!


And here's that picture of Jenny McCarthy's ex-husband...just in case you missed that one. I still get creeped out by how much that dude looks like me. On that Jenny McCarthy would marry a dude that looks like me.
Yeah me :)


That's about it for pictures, some comments on the area.

News here is so ridiculously fake.
You know how typically when you're watching the weather report a meterologist is speaking? Welllll...here it's a little different. There is ONE meteorologist, on ONE channel, in ONE time slot, in Los Angeles. That means, if you're watching ANY weather report that's not on channel 9 at exactly 5:00, an actor is giving you the weather. It's RIDICULOUS.
On top of that, the regular reports change every freakin' day. I don't remember the last time I've seen the same face on the news. I seriously would NOT be surprised if they just had a call for actor/actressess on craigslist every day, and just used those schmucks.
And on top of that, the fuckin video switchers can't even do THEIR job right!!! The fake, craigslist reporter will be talking about some fucking news story about pirates robbing a cruise ship (I shit you not) and the video switchers will be showing some sizzle clip of Tyra Banks walking down a fucking runway. The reports just kinda smile, try not to laugh, and tell their story, and in the mean time you watch fucking Britney Spears shakin' her bare-ass on a Pepsi commercial that has NOTHING to fucking do with the pizza shop that was just robbed (and I might add the robber supposedly took time to make a pizza while he was there, and it was caught on tape).

What else is fucked up here...oh, how about the phone calls I get 5 times a day telling me that if I don't vote yes on Prop 77 the woman's daughter will get an illegal abortion and run off with a mexican alien. Oh hey, Senator McCain just called and informed me that the smear campaign agains Prop 79 is absurd and against everything he stands for (seriously, I just got that call). And then Arnold "The Governator" called informing me that Prop 76 was a step to help better our education system and the teachers wages. In the mean time former Judge Whoppner called and told me to SAY NO to prop 74, it gives judges way too much power and allows them to make laws that should remain in the hands of district lawyers.
I can't wait for vote on propositions 74,75,76,76,78, and 79 to freakin' end. When the hell is Jenny McCarthy going to call me?!?!

Ok, so how about a good difference.......the other day when I was shopping at the grocery store I bought a bottle of gin. Yup, screw you liquor stores, I can purchase any type of alchohol in a grocery store here! WOOOO!!!!
What's that Brenna? We need bread, cheese, soy milk, and...CAPTAIN MORGAN'S? I'm on it! Hell, it even kinda makes sense, I can buy the beer, the ice, the pina coloda mix, the cups and the rum all in one stop!

Ayyyy....

So last night Brenna and I went for a walk on the beach. I'm not gonna bore you with the mushy crap, but at one point we walked out on a pier (near waterfalls and a harbor...my god that sounds weird...you just have to see it) and the water off the shore from us kept catching my eye. Every now and then I'd see a faint weird glow, so I just shrugged it off as the moon reflecting off subtle waves.
At some point I mentioned it to Brenna, who replied by picking up a rock and throwing it.

Usually when she responds like that I have to hit her on the head with newspaper and say "NO." in a stern, and commanding, yet non-intrusive manner.

This time she actually had a good reason though. It occured to her that it was bioluminescent dinoflagellates.
Actually, it probably occured to her that it was "those cool glowing plankton thingies," but that's what they're called.
So we lobbed tons of rocks into the water, every time a rock hit the water would turn BRIGHT green, and travel outwards like electricity. It was super-freakin'-cool. Tonight I'm going to go back and try and get a movie of it, as well as capture some in a jar.

Yessss....they should breed nicely with the sea monkeys...or should I say...SUPER sea monkeys
MWU HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!

Hm...other than that I've got nothing. Tomorrow is my job interview with Satan...I'll let you know how that goes.
In the mean-time why don't you check out these amusing corners of the internet!

http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/index.php (a very good emulation of DDR)

www.jdate.com (the online dating site for people like Marnie)

very long link (a creepy party video...just keep watching)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobius_strip (the mystery behind the mobius strip)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durian (a fruit worth staying away from. FAR away from.)

Piece out homeslice.