Saddest Things on T.V.

I've recently spoken to several of my friends in regards to the saddest things on T.V.

My vote?


Lou Holtz's "Pep Talks" on ESPN's College Gameday that he gives to teams before a big game on Saturday. Here's the setup, Boo Hoo Lou goes on before the segment and draws up a fake play on a chalkboard, gets a notebook and folds it over a few times to make it look like a used playbook, then he gives his speech to his men. The problem of course is that Lou hasn't coached in about 4 or 5 years, and he's giving a pep talk to a team that's not listening and to millions of viewers who don't care and are just tuning in to see what time USC plays the San Bernandino Community College J.V. squad.

What's Sweet Lou's team's record after getting this inspirational pep talk? Let's take a look...

After losing to Appalachian State, Lou transformed into Lloyd Carr and gave the Michigan Wolverines a pep talk. Apparently the Wolverines weren't listening as they went on to lose 39-7 to Oregon (which Lou of course pronounced Or-e-Gone)

Then he gave Penn State a talking to as the traveled to the Big House to play Michigan. Penn State lost 14-9.

Lou's next stop was in Baton Rouge, as I guess he felt it necessary to give #1 LSU a pep talk before their game against Kentucky. Of course, Kentucky beat LSU that game 43-37.

Holtz had the balls to tell Nebraska they had a shot against Texas. They didn't...Texas wins 28-25.

To possibly get an actual game right (actually he did pick USF over WVU) Lou donned his old windbreaker from 1988 and gave the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame a speech to rile them up...right into their first loss to Navy since a guy named Staubach played for the Midshipmen.


You see what I mean? He's showing just how washed up he is, plus he's a living curse! By the way, did he have a stroke? Why in the hell does he sound like Daffy Duck after one too many beers? Oh well, at least we'll get to hear how right he was when Notre Dame or South Carolina actually win.

18 Months!

That's how long it's been since my last post. I thought I'd come out strong and find others who have taken a similar 18 month hiatus, but honestly, nobody takes that long off anymore...except for Reggie the Alligator! I also found out that there's a chicken named Mike who lived 18 months with no head, but that's neither here nor there.

No, the real reason we've all gathered here today, is to celebrate a momentus occasion. Nate is blogging again! For how long? We don't know! But as they say in the U.S. Navy, we'll take what we can get!

So, what's been going on in my life? I've gotten married (which honestly, is still kind of weird to say) and now live in a two bedroom apartment with my wife of four months and our two dogs Buck and Kayla.

The number one question I get asked by everyone is "So how's married life treating you?" The picture on the left was taken after we were married, if I were to see that pic, I would think that it didn't really look like a married couple. My point is that we're still the same. Nothing has really changed at all since before we were married. I would say the only thing that has changed would be that I have to leave the seat down, and I can only leave to hang out with the guys on Tuesdays between 6:30pm and 7:15pm (joke).

Time for another run at a revamped Pop N Go?

A few years ago The A-Train and I somehow came across a penny stock company entitled Pop N Go. The premise of the company is to provide single servings of hot-air popped pop corn (redundant?) to the consumer in a fun, healthy manner. Individuals can buy a vending machine that allows customers to insert their money and watch their popcorn pop in front of them, or they can buy a commercial manual machine that can be used at fund-raisers or the like where you can pop the corn yourself and then in turn sell to your customers. Either way, its a magnificent idea, and the stock traded around $.02 to $.03 a share...and it stayed that way for about 2 years. Well, a week or two ago, Pop N Go announced its partnership with Walgreen's Corporation (y'know...drugstore) to have a sort of test program...in that time period, the stock has risen to $.06 and settled nicely at $.05. That means my investment would have doubled had I invested when it was $.02...if only. just thought I'd put the information out there to all of you...possibly with hopes that someone could buy, spike the stock and then in turn make me some money if I choose to invest...

Finals Week!

Finals week is finally upon us! I'm a little stressed about a Business Econ exam as well as my Geology exam for some reason, I'm sure I'll do well on both, but if I make a high B or higher on my ECON exam I can secure an A in the class. I'm just looking forward to the end of the week...i.e, Happy Hour at Gnat's Landing on Thursday, Savannah on Friday, and Retriever's on Saturday...after that I'm sure I'll have most of my partying out of me for the summer, and will make the trek back to Rabun. I'm really looking forward to this summer, especially since I'll get to be with my girlfriend whenever I want, as opposed to before when I had to drive 274 miles! I'm looking forward to hanging out with my friends whom I don't get to see regularly, but at the same time I will miss my GSU friends. I'll get to see theA-Train off...Adam, if you read this, we must play some golf, arrange that inter-radio station laser tag battle, and get me a last second pay raise! Well, I'm off to get some dinner and study in the library for a few hours...I have 2 finals tomorrow, one at 12:30, the other at 5:30! Wish me luck!

HOLY HELL, its been a month...and other observations

NOTE: Again, another one of the several posts I have started, only to not complete...I'm posting it today, April 10, 2006 at 2:23 PM, even though it was written on the 30th of March, and the events took place a few days before that. Enjoy!



I was really big on this blogging thing and then out of nowhere I just stopped...no idea. I guess because I've been fairly busy and I try to spend as much of my free time talking to my girlfriend who is 270 miles away.

A lot has happened in the past month, Mary and I have been dating now for almost two months, and I couldn't be happier. Its so amazing to be dating my best friend, and even though its just been two months, we've been close friends for almost five years and I know she's the one. But I'm sure you don't want to hear me go on all day about how great my girlfriend and our relationship is, you want to hear the good stuff...

Saturday we made a trip to good ole' Savannah...to tear up River Street once again. We started the night out eating at the Macaroni Grill, where 9 of us sat at a table made for 8...good times. I had the Layers upon Layers of Lasagne...it was the bomb! We left there for a liquor store where our friend Todd HAD to buy a fifth of Golden Grain...for those of you who don't know, Golden Grain is 190 proof grain alcohol and is not to be taken lightly...I poured three shots in a cup of fruit punch, added some cranberry juice and I promptly began drinking up and down the street. Then we went to some bars only to find out that my friends who weren't 21 could not get in...so we went to the only place on River Street that would let them in, and it just so turns out that they have 6 cans of miller lite for $6. 21 beers between 3 people (we bought some draft beer too) and we have a good buzz (I'm drunk) going on...and we have to pee. So we go to the Hyatt, a hotel right on River Street, and it turns out that they have glass elevators...the drunk people are intrigued. We rode the damn glass elevators for like 20 minutes before we went on to bigger and better things.

Apparently that day a pharmaceutical company had put on an exhibit in the hotel's upstairs lobby...hell, I'm in pharmaceutical sales, I need to take some of their stuff! So Drunk Josh and Drunk Nathan take off to find all kinds of medical goodies. Thankfully there's a bag sitting right beside all of the notepads, medical annals, and ink stamps so we can put them in there, instead of walking out with it all in our hands...which we would have done. Upon riding the elevator a few more times and having a woman in her 30s or 40s (she looked to have "been rode hard", as they say) touch my face, while her friends asked us where we were going, to which I responded "to steal som shit!" as happily and excited as possible, I bolted from the elevator and made it back to the table of medical stuff. As my bag ranneth (oh yeah, its a word...) over with all kinds of things I would never use...we suddenly got the urge to go to Krystal's, and it was the best I had ever had...Ahhh, good times in Savannah!

Bottled Water

"Bottled Water"
Lyrics (N. Dunham)/ Music (N. Dunham)

It was over when I met you
spent 3 months tryin' to get you
and I know that somewhere deep inside you know just who I am

now I'm sitting here in waiting
and I can't stop debating
if I should stick my head in the oven and turn the setting up to "dead"

since you
since you
since you
since...

You ripped my heart out,
put it in a doggy bag.
But if its to save it just for later
I don't see nothin' wrong with that

If there's a better way of coping
then I'd take back all the hoping
that you and me would ever be something more than just a "thing"

I think I'm losing my mind
and here's to wishing this time
that the knife'll go a little deeper and take away my pain

'cause you
'cause you
'cause you
because...

You ripped my heart out,
put it in a doggy bag.
But if its to save it just for later
I don't see nothin' wrong with that

You ripped my heart out,
put it in a doggy bag.
But if its to save it just for later
I don't see nothin' wrong with that

Well I can't take this any more
and tonight I'm walking out that door
to do something I should have done so very long ago

there'll be no hesitation
no feeling or sensation
and when the crimson starts to flow I know you'd feel it too

If I
If I
If I
If...

I ripped your heart out,
put it in a doggy bag,
but I won't need it any longer,
and I'm ok with that!







By the way, I hope you all realize that these songs are a pure mockery of the emo-rock genre of music...but I gotta say, I'm pretty good at it, plus I write guitar for them as well. These songs in no way reflect how I feel about anything...except for the part where I want to kill Mary....just kidding, I love you Mary! No, I think my real goal is to get as many 14 year old kids to kill themselves while listening to my music as much as possible.

A Date That Will Live in Infamy

NOTE: This blog was originally written on February 22, 2006 shortly after a trip I made to see my girlfriend. For whatever reason, I never got around to finishing it and posting it but I felt it was an entertaining story so I decided to post it now. Enjoy!




So, I recently visited the great city of Dahlonega to see my girlfriend, Mary. One of the many things we were looking forward to was our big date on Saturday. We both got dressed up and headed to the ATL.

Our first stop was the Georgia Aquarium, a great little place located in downtown Atlanta. It took us a while to park, but we finally got it and got out...I didn't bring a coat and Mary didn't want to carry her's around so we decided to tough it out. It couldn't be that cold could it? IT WAS FREEZING! The wind was blowing from everywhere and it was already really cold. We finally get in the aquarium where the warmth is and proceed to have a great time. Highlights of the Aquarium included riding on a seahorse made for little kids, saying penquin in a funny voice, pushing Mary around everywhere we went, and up and stopping in front of a guy for no reason other than to be an ass...All of that walking got us hungry!

Let me start out by saying that before we left to even go to Atlanta, I attempted to make reservations at Houston's on Peachtree...apparently they don't believe in reservations. So we were just going to walk on in after the aquarium. Upon leaving the frozen tundra that was Baker Street, we got in the car and headed up Peachtree Street to go eat. We saw Houston's a few miles down the street, but decided instead to go to the one in Buckhead, because we looked damn good and it was in Buckhead so it was certainly going to be a nicer Houston's. Well, I turned right on Lenox instead of left and thus we never found the resturaunt...no harm, no foul, we'll just go back to the one on peachtree...riiiiiight! Upon turning around, and to my best estimate, the entire population of Atlanta along with the greater metro area hopped on Peachtree street the same time we turned around. Traffic was at a standstill...probably because of the insane amount of traffic lights. Well, 30 minutes going back to Houston's we realize that they close at 10, so we can't eat there, but there is a Cheesecake Factory that we can see. 15 minutes to park, and we're still 3 blocks down and 2 blocks away from the resturaunt, and its cold as can be and I don't have a jacket...We get there, and the host's best guess is that there is about a 95 minute wait...we leave. As soon as I tend to Mary's frostbitten toes, and we amputate both of my ears, we get back on Peachtree...the date has suddenly turned into a survival mission. We are starving and contemplating Taco Bell...A quick trip back to the interstate lands us in Roswell, where we found a Chili's that I am convinced God himself put there. If I remember correctly, we had the Texas Nachos as an appetizer, Mary had some form of chicken while I had a burger...they were both wonderful and the date was still a success because I still got to spend all of that time with Mary!