strike wolf wrote: This week's ticket is the premium seating at the New Yankee Stadium.
This ticket costs a staggering $2625. Now my first question when I heard this was "who would pay over $2000 to see a baseball game?" Apparently I'm not the only one who thinks it's too high. These front row seats aren't selling.
the wolf has spoken.
I dunno about anyone else, but I'm pissed at the fact that they tore down the REAL yankees stadium just to make another one across the street. And just because they wanted to make one that looked like it did when it was first built? It's called REMODELING, people.
As for me, I wouldn't even pay regular pricing just to visit some cheap-ass imitation of the house Ruth built. Yankees Stadium is now officially DEAD to me.
End of rant. You may continue with your daily lives.
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strike wolf wrote:It's time for Strike's guitar of the week.
this week's guitar is the Stevie Ray Vaughan.
Need I say more?
Also because I misssed last week's it's also time for Strike's baseball ticket of the week.
This week's ticket is the premium seating at the New Yankee Stadium.
This ticket costs a staggering $2625. Now my first question when I heard this was "who would pay over $2000 to see a baseball game?" Apparently I'm not the only one who thinks it's too high. These front row seats aren't selling.
the wolf has spoken.
Is the finish on that guitar coming off, or is it supposed to look like that?
And before anyone calls me retarded or says that not too many people intentionally make their guitars look like crap, keep in mind that not too many people smash their guitars to smithereens ant the end of a song, either.
Someone else can tell you better than I can but I believe its a mix. It's supposed to look like it's been chipped and worn down. I personally like that look to it.
Maxleod wrote:Not strike, he's the only one with a functioning brain.
strike wolf wrote: This week's ticket is the premium seating at the New Yankee Stadium.
This ticket costs a staggering $2625. Now my first question when I heard this was "who would pay over $2000 to see a baseball game?" Apparently I'm not the only one who thinks it's too high. These front row seats aren't selling.
the wolf has spoken.
I dunno about anyone else, but I'm pissed at the fact that they tore down the REAL yankees stadium just to make another one across the street. And just because they wanted to make one that looked like it did when it was first built? It's called REMODELING, people.
As for me, I wouldn't even pay regular pricing just to visit some cheap-ass imitation of the house Ruth built. Yankees Stadium is now officially DEAD to me.
End of rant. You may continue with your daily lives.
Personally I never cared for the Yankees in the first place.
Maxleod wrote:Not strike, he's the only one with a functioning brain.
Lucarilover240 wrote:Ugh, I miss vacation. Ton of essays and homework to do, the majority of which is due TOMORROW, my laptop crashed, AND I got a meeting with the firehouse tonight.
... And still I post on the forums. I AM UNSTOPPABLE.
You wouldn't happen to live around San Francisco, would you?
We went to Myrtle Beach, the first beachy vacation we've had in quite a while.
We stayed in a place with lots of apartments - we had one with a decent kitchen, a balcony with a "moderate" sea view, and bunk beds for the kids. I was favourably impressed by the accomodation. Roomy, clean, well-equipped.
We took a plane there - it's around 600 miles, and only Mrs Curl drives. This was a bit of a mistake - I have never been to a more car-oriented place in my life. It doesn't matter there that I call the bit you walk on at the side of the road a "pavement", and the locals call it a "sidewalk". They've never heard of the word sidewalk either.
The resort had a number of indoor and outdoor pools, which was lovely, and a "Lazy River". It was also right on the ocean, which would have been great if the water had been just trifle warmer. The kids got "boogie-boards", and had a fun time in the ocean for up to ten minutes at a time before deciding it was just too bloody cold.
Now, I'm used to walking. I enjoy it. But I walked over two miles north along the beach without finding any place to eat or drink - everywhere is taken up in these resorts like the one we were on, all private (though, pleasantly, the beach itself is not private at any point). It was two miles south before a cluster of about four places to eat or drink. Now SC allows smoking in bars, and these places were full of people who made me feel young, chain-smoking. Not somewhere I wanted to return to, let alone take the kids to.
After a coupla days, we got a car. This enabled us to drive up to the main bit of Myrtle Beach, where there are sidewalks, and lots of noise, and places to eat and drink, and some "Ripley's" things. It was worth all of half a day.
The reason that there are no local bars and, well, life, is because of the several multi-lane highways that run through the area. They suck the life out of local towns and turn the whole area into the sort of place that people seem to think that the whole of New Jersey is - dead except for places dotted along the highways, each with its own car park. Dull as ditchwater. I applaud (to a limited extent ) the delights of Route 10 and 22 - it's good to have a number of big chain stores and so forth near where you live - but on holiday I want new things to look at.
Most dissappointing of all for me and Mrs curl was the food. We like going to new places and trying new food - but this place is full of chains like Friendly's, Chili's, Outback, McD's, TGI, Denny's, Taco Bell, KFC, Arby's, and on and on. Now these places provide (in some cases) good food at a decent price - but it's hardly an adventure. All the places that weren't chains sold standard BBQ/Grill fish, steak, and so forth. I'd heard a lot about Southern Cooking, and was looking forward to it. I didn't find any. We ate some good food, don't get me wrong, but it was no novelty. The only crap food we had all week was the only on-site eating place after 7pm, the only bar on the site from that time. It was an outdoor bar, and each night had the same DJ, who played a selection of the music I hate from the last 30 years or more - not just this year's incomprehensible and unoriginal arm-waving rap, but everything I loath from the Macarena to YMCA to Cotton-Eye Joe. And if I never hear Sweet Home Alabama again, it will be too soon. Worse, there was Karaoke.
The highlight of the entertainment was one night when torrential rain and a thunderstorm cut off a multi-voiced karaoke rendition of Abba's Dancing Queen soon after it started. Unfortunately, this was only to give the dj time to move the speakers under the shelter and about two feet from my ear.
I could go on, and I might.
The kids loved the pools and the ocean, and it was difficult to get them to leave the resort for more than an hour or two. They had a great time, especially the curlson, who makes friends really easily and is just beginning to really notice girls. There is of course no better place to notice girls than where they wear swim outfits.
Oh, and one particularly good thing - I found One bookshop ( I spend much of my leisure time finding books, especially in used-book stores). If you're in the area, it's the only book place I saw, and it's called "A Novel Idea" (I thin they mean reading), and it's on the Northbound side of South King's Highway, just after the turnoff for Murrel's Inlet. I found a volume of Western stories by Theodore Sturgeon. I didn't know he'd written any. His own law (90% of everything is crap) is squared with westerns - 99% of westerns are crap. But these are darn good. I also bought a dozen or so other books - but this was the prize find.
I didn't used to dislike "SWA" - but it was played, and karaoked, endlessly, every night.
As for Cotton-eyed Joe, I don't give a toss, and never have, where he bloody came from, nor where did he bloody well go. Had the rest of the world shared my opinion, we'd have one less crap song to do a community dance to. And that would be a good thing.
Get this, I went to Myrtle Beach with a girlfriend in November of 2001. We hit a Hard Rock Cafe with what was supposed to be Arnold's motorcycle in Terminator 2 out front. Of course we both sat on it and had another friend take our picture. Eventually, this woman and I went our separate ways. A few months ago I ran across her Myspace profile and she had a picture of her current boyfriend and herself on that exact same motorcycle in the exact same pose as her and I had done years ago. I fell out of my chair laughing.
autoload wrote:Wonderful review. I been to Myrtle Beach once.
Get this, I went to Myrtle Beach with a girlfriend in November of 2001. We hit a Hard Rock Cafe with what was supposed to be Arnold's motorcycle in Terminator 2 out front. Of course we both sat on it and had another friend take our picture. Eventually, this woman and I went our separate ways. A few months ago I ran across her Myspace profile and she had a picture of her current boyfriend and herself on that exact same motorcycle in the exact same pose as her and I had done years ago. I fell out of my chair laughing.
Actually, target, if you're anything of a birdwatcher it's a fine place. I have some nice piccies - I may post some. I don't know that much about U.S. birds but there were lots of new ones to me anyhow.
One thing which I was very tempted to do was to go to "Medieval Times" for dinner - it looks good . But there's one about aqn hour away from where I live and we're probably going there for my birthday next month.
And if you're not tied in place by happy kids, there's a fair amount of history in the area. Well, I don't have to tell you that.
jonesthecurl wrote:Actually, target, if you're anything of a birdwatcher it's a fine place. I have some nice piccies - I may post some. I don't know that much about U.S. birds but there were lots of new ones to me anyhow.
One thing which I was very tempted to do was to go to "Medieval Times" for dinner - it looks good . But there's one about aqn hour away from where I live and we're probably going there for my birthday next month.
And if you're not tied in place by happy kids, there's a fair amount of history in the area. Well, I don't have to tell you that.
ok well at least that it not all bad i am going to north caralina on may through15 through 24 yeppers
In tidying my boy's room recently (which is a bit like archaeology in itself) I found my copy of Larry Gonick's Cartoon History of the United States. (Did I say this already?) If you haven't read it yet you should. I'll post a representative page soon.
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