I’ve come to realize that around the holidays a lot of people either don’t post much or don’t read and comment much, so therefore I’ve not posted much over the course of the past few weeks and therefore have missed out on writing about a lot of different topics in the news. So that being said, I guess I should catch up on a few things that I wanted to air my asshole opinion on over the course of the next few posts.

The first is the rather pathetic story of good ol’ Mittens Romney. See according to his son Tagg? Or is it Freeze? Or Hopscotch? Or Tonka? Or Kleenex? Or Mousepad? Or Transmission? I don’t know, it’s one of those made up names. Shit the guy has five sons, some of them with normal names, others with odd names. I’ve always liked odd names. But, it doesn’t mean we shouldn’t make fun of them a bit. Nevertheless, his son Candyland said that Mitt never actually wanted to be president. Now first of all, let me just say that there is no way in utter fucking hell that I believe that statement. There is no way that was true. He is totally full of shit. Full of shit in the way that he is a sore loser about losing and he is pouting. Look the guy ran for president for five fucking years. He changed his position on just about every issue and said everything humanly possible to get elected including the excact opposite of what he said five years ago and then completely reversed his position to what it was five years ago in the same sentence as he had uttered the opposite of what he said. Confused? Get it? Neither do I but that is what he did. And he was so convinced he was going to win that he didn’t even write a concession speech. Are these the actions of somebody who did not want to be president? Fuck no, they are the actions of somebody who wanted to be president more than anything in the world.

But, let’s pretend for a few minutes that little Pin The Tail On The Donkey was telling the truth about his dad not wanting to be president. If I were your typical Obama hating Republican, I would be fuming pissed and feel slighted that the guy we nominated actually did not want to win. I saw a comment on the article I read about this story in which somebody wrote that Mitt Romney was a disgrace because he didn’t want to win. Normally comments on news stories are ridiculously over exaggerted but in this case, I think it was pretty much dead fucking on. I mean shit, how can he even look his fellow Republicans in the eye if he truly did not want to be president. Just think of how hard fought the nomination was and that they could have chosen any of the other clowns in the circus to be their nominee and they chose the only one who didn’t want to be president. Fuck, if I were his donors, I’d demand my money back.  Shit he might as well have run ads that said “I’m Mitt Romney and I disapprove of this message”. Man what a true fucking loser.

As promised, a summary of pics from 2012:

 

This was the highlight of our year: my best friend getting married in Jamaica on May4. That’s me giving him the ring.

This might have been the coolest moment of the year. Our friend Dae playing at my house for J.T.’s bachelor party in late April.

 

 My brothers and I at our annual Friends Thanksgiving in November.

 

This is picture from a rooftop bar in Chapel Hill, N.C. taken in July.

 

 Uhhhhhh……………

 

A rare picture of my house after the storm  hit on June 29.

Most of you are familiar with this pic. Some of you are even in it. Taken in November.

My entire group of friends down in Jamaica shortly after the wedding.

The maid of honor at the wedding in Jamaica got engaged. While para-sailing! They were married the day after Thanksgiving.

Me and what is probably my three closest friends at the bachelor party.

 

So there you have just some of the pics from the year gone by.  

   

I don’t know about all of you, but I could not be happier to see 2012 end. A year ago I was sad to see 2011 end as it was nothing if not a great year for me. But the same could not be said for 2012. It was one bad thing after another many of which seemed to keep coming back to haunt me for the entire year. Heck, the year started off bad right off the bat; on New Year’s Day my furnace stopped working and although I was able to get it fixed for free it kind of set the tone for the entire year. Nevertheless though, here is just a brief summary of my year:

• The year started the same way it ended; at a small laid back party at a friend’s house. And then of course, the next day we had the furnace issue. Later in the month though I hosted a party which was fun if not rather uneventful. Also my cell phone died.
• February I saw the American Idiot musical in Chicago. This was cool because the previous year I saw it on Broadway.
• Once again in April, my phone died so this time I bought an iPhone. Around that same time I also managed to cause some significant drama among my friends that seemed to plague me for months. The end of the month though was pretty fun; I threw a weekend long bachelor party for my best friend which included a friend of ours performing an acoustic set at my house. My friend loved it; in his words he was “blown away.”
• May was the big trip to Jamaica for his wedding. While over all it was a great time and most certainly the highlight of the year, I managed to screw that one up by giving a REALLY bad speech at the reception.
• June. Oh June. I won’t soon forget June. Especially the weekend of the 29th. This is when a large tree branch crashed through my roof leaving a two foot hole that took the whole summer to fix. Also that very same weekend I started improv classes at Chicago’s legendary Second City.
• In July I took a trip to North Carolina for work. This was my first time there and it was pretty cool.
• August saw my transmission die in my 11 month old car. While it was still under warranty, I had to drive a loaner car for about a month.
• Labor Day weekend saw my roof FINALLY get fixed. Or was it fixed? Also the night before Labor Day I was sick, throwing up for the first time in eight years. As if that wasn’t a bad enough September, I also threw out my back and wound up in urgent care due to muscle spasms. Oh, and remember the roof? Yeah, towards the end of the month I discovered water damage on the ceiling in the room where the damage had occurred.
• It wasn’t until November that I finally was able to get the ceiling fixed and put to bed the damage from the storm. Also in November I was excited to finally meet a couple of Xangans in Oshgosh, Wisconsin. Unfortunately for me though, I got a $200 speeding ticket on the way up there!

So that is a brief summary of my year. I hope to post pictures of the year over the course of the next few days. But until then, here is a fond fuck you to 2012!