campaign withdrawal...

so, the polls have close.  jesse crazylastname, the dirt and some other dude are the undisputed top 3 vote getters, and now it's up to the pop panel to vote the final two.  man, i hope it's me.  didn't really realize how much i put into this until i looked at all my posts to facebook and all my tweets last night.  or, i guess this morning when the polls closed.  i must have driven people crazy.  i wonder how many people hid my news feed.  out of the 653 friends i have i am guessing about half hid the hell out of words.  i think i would have hidden me too.  no matter, there were those that stayed to the very end.  to those i say mazel.  thanks, andy cohen.  betthany frankel was on the show the other night.  she's crazy looking, but man can she build an empire.

anywho, tomorrow is the day.  i was telling my boy the other day if i win, i win by only making funny noises on the internet.  if i don't win, damn, i made so many funny noises on the internet to no avail.  oh, well, college basketball is on and i have much interest in what be happening there.  that will take my mind off of it.  no, it won't, but at least it will be a distraction.

i hope that come tomorrow i will be in the hunt to represent chicago, pop nation and pop culture.  if i am not in the hunt then i will be bowling on saturday with my boys with a clear head and a nasty curve to my ball.  i just learned how to do that last year.  was thinking about going pro, but i'm just not that good.  crazy how sam adams nobel pils can make a man feel so confident one minute and so tired the next.

let's do this.  this is, well, i don't know yet.

billionaires and millionaires and here i sit a thousandaire.

okay, the collective bargaining agreement (heretofore referred to as simply the cba) in football is totes ridic. hate that i used that, but not going back to erase, too tired.  you have billionaire owners haggling over billions of dollars with multi-millionaire athletes.  get it solved already.  i have two fantasy leagues that depend on it.  it kind of disgusts me that this is really happening.  an 18 game season is ridic, ha, used it again, but come on.  suit up, share revenue and quit all this "talking".  i want to say i would not watch football again if there were a strike, but come on, i would.  i would hate every second of hoping desean jackson goes over 100 yds. and gets a score, but i think i would watch it.  i'd be mad, but would watch nonetheless.

i bought a cool vase at a goodwill today.  it's one that looks just like one that cracked, so i'm psyched.  derrick rose is real good.  and, it is cool to live in chicago when you have winning teams.  granted, i grew up a cavs fan, but stopped watching nba from college to a few years ago.  straight up bulls fan now.  it's cool because i'm getting in on ground level.  been a fan before d rose was drafted.  a legit bulls fan am i.

went on an audition today.  felt okay about it, but am just not sure.  weird career path i've chosen.  i remember when i was playing with the idea of going into finance.  sounded nice, but couldn't get past the feeling i got whenever i was on stage.  kind of like the feeling i get when i drop a 10 foot cornice into a powdery bowl, take a couple turns and make my way out of it.  man, snowboarding is dope.  can't wait to sun valley next winter.  hope it is as v.p.  maybe ashton and i can meet mid mountain for an afternoon beef sandwich and a beer.  hope that when we meet there it's by design and not accident.  hope when we meet up i don't have to say, "oh, i was in the v.p. competition.  remember?".  hope it's like, "man, that bowl was dope.  remember when i hit that jump and soared into the air like a pegasus on a straight mission?"  that would be dope.

two more days of voting and i need to get some sleep.

boom is the sound of powder 3 feet deep.  boom.

the real reason why...

i've kind of stayed away from it.  i mean, i think it's kind of obvious, but still just stayed away from it.  why do i want this job so badly?

let's get real.  no one in this competition wants this more than the other person.  okay, there is some dude way down the way that doesn't necessarily want the job that bad.  i  mean, he's shooting a pistol during his speech.  seriously, check it out.  he's probably down real close to last.  seriously, check it out.  he's shooting a pistol.  think he's calling it his "pop" gun.  real weird.  but, barring that type of applicant we all want the job.  some want it because they think it would be cool.  real cool.  and, it is going to be real cool.  some want it to jump-start a career.  it will.  for the right person this could be a real springboard.  others want it because they want to be able to pay bills.  this job will mos def pay some bills for some people.  so, why do i want it?

i want it because all of that.  pop culture is paying bills.  pop culture is exposing or reiterating the truth, reality.  i drive a lexus.  that lexus was my mom's.  that lexus is 16 years old and is awesome.  pop culture is driving a beater to and from work.  pop culture is blasting talib kweli whilst driving to work.  that's right, i used "whilst".  i did it because i can and it's grammatically correct.  pop culture is living married.  pop culture is raising a kid.  pop culture is listening to the same music that the kid you're raising is listening to and relating to it.  pop culture is talking to that kid about the birds and the bees, but not being able to call it that anymore because that's what your parents called it.  now, it's just sex, and hickies.  hickies?  what?  that still happens.  pop culture is living in 1,100 sq. ft. in chicago because you want to be right by the lake.  man, the lake in the summer is super dope.  super dope.  pop culture is blogging at 1:45 am after you get off work.  pop culture is voting for Brian Kash.

i'm not going to tell you why others shouldn't get the job.  i'm only telling you why no one else shoud get the job but me.  i just went straight jerry mcguire on all y'all.  now, that is kind of dating me, but any 10-18 year old could be watching the sunday afternoon movie on usa and catch that reference.  and, when they catch said reference they will know that Brian Kash completes them.  ooooh, 2 jerry mcguire references.  and, tom cruise is a scientologist.  he's going to a different planet for his eternity.  ooooh.  wonder if it's weird there.  yep.

boom, tiggity boom goes the vote,

b

i do this just because.

no one is reading this, but i don't care.  i write because i have to.  suck on it, non readers.  i'm winning.  should have put a hash tag there.  damn you twitter.  it's like a whole different language.  it's a whole different world.  it's a whole different game.  the game?  i'm winning.

vote for me, now.  now.  now.  now.  oh, then vote in 24 hours.

i'm not going to talk about charlie sheen..

but, man, he was cool in ferris bueller's day off.  wasn't he.  just a little cameo.  jennifer grey, the old jennifer grey and him had good time in that movie.  good times.  the film was shot in chicago.  i live in chicago.  i should shoot a film in chicago.

so, it's 2:03 cst, and man am i tired.  i'm so tired i can't really tell if i am putting ",'s" in the right place any more.  i'm a comma dude, too.  see, just put one there and there.  i like gerunds as well.  that's like a noun used almost like an adverb and similar to an adjective.  no, i'm kidding.  i hate gerunds.  they have done nothing but burned me in the past.

i wanted to write about this earlier, but just didn't have time.  now i have time, but don't really want to write about this.  but, i am.  i am going to write about "this".  so, here goes.  the word "this" was created by the saxons in tibet in the year 1233.  no, i'm kidding.

so, i was walking from an audition today from one of the big casting houses in chicago.  a new location.  very mod, very cool.  i decided that i would trek the 2 1/2 miles from there to work.  it was cool, not cold.  windy, but not blustery.  awesome.  i walked over the river twice and saw dudes on bikes, a girl on a scooter and a whole bunch of real nice cars driving next to me.  i thought to myself that living in a city this large is straight boss.  existing in a machine this large is unusual.  walking into a teacher from grade school is absolutely the strangest thing that could happen.  thank goodness that didn't happen.  so much to see in one great city.  can't really wrap my mind around what exactly i am trying to say...

vote for Brian Kash if you are reading this.  vote now, there's only 4 more days left.

lady gaga is all gaga over gaga...

that's it.  just that.  i'm real tired and that is for sure.  i titled this latest entry about gaga because i thought people might want to read about gaga.  i'm using gaga a whole bunch.  it has come to that.  just using gaga to describe a belief, a following a weirdness.  oh, and kim kardashian has a jam?  wow!

a.j. hammer has just released the "lost charlie sheen" interview.

is brittany quitting show business for good?  not if she owes k-fed back alimony.

is there a beatles song on a buick commercial?

can you really discover newness on a dive on a disney resort?

is flo really doing a new progressive commercial?

mr. andy cohen has a new housewife, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

has this old vine zinfandel gotten better even though the box that it lives in has no room to breath?

is my debit card accruing points?  should i refinance?

wendy williams is really a weird clone of tyra, right?

man, tombstone pizza is as good as papa john's, but only when served cold.

paula abdul was straight car jacked.  or was she?

charlie sheen is crazy.  that is for sure.  he has tiger blood and bi wins.  he should have stuck his own thumb up his ass as ordered by a girl that no longer looks like the girl that told him to do so.  but, what do i know, she danced with the stars.

i will be the v.p. of pop culture because i play racquetball and wear a bow tie.

boom goes b

bow ties and racquetball...

now, i'm not saying that i am ahead of my time because i don't think i am .  but, i am.  or am i?  who wears a bow tie anymore?  who, other than your dad and your dads weird friends play racquetball?  i do.  i do and so does my friend chris.  chris is 25 and he thinks that racquetball is the bees knees.  that's right, the bees knees.  i'm bringing that back.  did it ever go any where?  don't know.  don't care.  it's part of my every day.  common place.  as common as katy perry on 101.1 in chicago.  that's pretty darn common place.  today, chris straight whooped me 3 games in a row and that ain't right.  i'm not used to losing to him.  sure, he's doing p 90 x, but come on.  

right now, my wife is asleep on the couch and dr. phil is on.  he's on only because i haven't gotten up to turn the channel back to sportscenter.  getting up now.  for real.  wish i had an hd flip to chronicle said get up.  that would be cool.  can't wait to get one when i win this campaign.  

okay, back to chris whippin' me.  it sucked.  real bad.  but, hey, i'll get him next time.  

who wears a bow tie?  yep, my old g.m., chuck wore a bow tie.  looked good.  he is a strange fellow and i thought it might only work with his kind.  his kind being a strange kind.  found out last month i can pull it off too.  looks good.  in fact went to nordstrom rack and straight picked one up.  red and black.  looks good with a light grey suit.  lucky that is the only color of suit i own.  i have one of them.  suits that is.  i now have 2 bow ties in regular rotation.

my point is, pop culture is what you think it is. in different circles it is l.a.r.ping.  in other circles it is going to cubs games just to go to say you went.  it is definitely katy perry and bieber, but it is also racquetball and soccer.  look outside and you will see it.  it is keeping all 50,000k for your own or donating to a worthy charity.  it is diversity and empathy.  it is dogs, cats and whales.  it is a bumper sticker stating that you believe in something.  pop culture is faith in believing what the masses, whether that be 5 or 5,000,000 people, believe in.  it's up to you to believe in what you want to believe in.  

i believe that i will be the best v.p. of pop culture because i love racquetball and wear a bow tie.