20 Day Challenge - Day 15

Celebrity that cares about the money more than the fans.

This is obviously going to be a sports celeb for me, but honestly who do I choose...

I will go with the one that I find to be the most ridiculous currently... Who turns down 10 years, 28 million a year.... oh thats right this idiot here... I would play baseball professionally for the salary I am making right now. Just saying...

Albert Pujols. You. Are. A. Douche.

20 Day Challenge - Day 13 and 14

Sorry... I suck again.

A Picture of A Celebrity I would do anything to meet...


This required absolutely NO thinking at all. I want to meet Dirk and I want to play basketball against him and I want to lose miserably. After that I would tell everyone I lost to Dirk Nowitzki in basketball, suck it. He has been my favorite basketball player since he entered the league. Not a big fan of the LeBron's and Kobe's of the world, but Dirk and even Blake Griffin are my types of players... probably because I am bigger dude and can't even possibly fathom doing the stuff that LeDouche does.


A Photo of Someone's concert you would like to go to...



Johnny Cash would be the ultimate concert to go to in my opinion, he is no longer with us. Johnny Cash laid the root work for almost every band I like today. Mumford, Zac Brown, and all the others around today have all used the name of Big John Cash as an influence. My dad loves him some Johnny Cash so I would take him to the concert. I just think this concert would be TOP NOTCH.

20 Day Challenge - Day 11 and 12

Yesterday was a day that involved NO posting on the blog. I had alot going on yesterday so I decided to double dip today.


Day 11 - A Band or Group you like that isn't known worldwide YET.

M.O.D -

Two out of the three guys on in this group are former students of mine. In the classes that I teach I get alot of "I wanna be a rapper/rock artist/newest biggest badass band ever" but these guys are LEGIT. I am proud to say that they were in my class and when they go big... I will be at the record premiere... Or at least I better be! You can check MOD out at

M.O.D on Myspace


Day 12 - A Picture of a celebrity from my favorite TV show -



Bryan Cranston or Walter White or Heisenburg from Breaking Bad. As much as I love Dexter and SOA, I think Breaking Bad is the best shows on television. A different type of "root for the bad guy" show, Walter is a cancer stricken chemistry teacher who decides to sell meth to make money for his family before he dies. He may be the worst drug dealer in the world and he chooses the second worst drug dealer in the world. The situations they get into, the drugs, the Mexicans, everything about this show is very intense. I like it. SOA has potential to jump it with an epic season 4!

20 Day Challenge - Day 10

Favorite Country Singer/Band....

This is Easy. Every song they have ever released OTHER than Chicken Fried have made it into my car ride playlist... Thats sacred ground when it come to music. I like the beard. If you can't tell I want a long nappy beard someday. Currently working on it! Zac Brown Band is one of the best out there right now. I like em alot.

20 Day Challenge - Day ???

I forgot what day I am on... is that sad?

Celebrity who you would be friends with...


Daniel Tosh

He has burst on the the scene in the last three years due to his amazingly funny rip off of Talk Soup. I find myself celebrating Tosh Tuesdays weekly now. I think Daniel and I could be great friends who sit around and talk about life and make fun of people as they walk by us at the mall. I picture us sitting in a coffee shop watching people get hit in the junk on Youtube and laughing endlessly over a latte. I will say this... Tosh.O does make the week alittle better since I usually need an uplifting hardy laugh at someone else's expense after two days of work... and for that we thank you.

JD

20 Day Challenge - Day 8

What Disney Star is your favorite?

I am older than this whole Disney generation of the Miley Cyrus', Demi Lovato, or any of those other teeny boppers I really can't stand. I guess by default I have to go with Justin Timberlake, but only if it is the older, more humorous, Jessica Biel dating, Social Network style Justin Timberlake.... not the bleached hair, Britney Spears, might like guys Justin Timberlake....


His music was mildly catchy, his boy band was mildly man loving, and you can't dog the guy for his history with women... but this new Lonely Island guest starring, major motion picture, no longer singing style Justin Timberlake is WAY cooler than the older version. I guess he is my fave Disney star... Other than Daisy Duck, she was hot.

20 Day Challenge - Day 7

Celebrity I would like to change lives with?


Josh Hamilton (Post Drug Addiction)



Since I got the clear from a blogger friend saying that Athletes are celebrities... it made today ALOT easier. I would change places with this guy any day! I am sure he could handle teaching my sports broadcasting class. Baseball has been my favorite sport since I can remember and Josh's background story, testimony and baseball ability makes him my choice on this day. The Tats (even if they were drug influenced) are wicked. He just seems like a nice guy. And it doesn't hurt he just signed a 2 year 24 million dollar extention. I would be ok with that as well!

Pitchers and Catchers Reported to Spring Training today, so all is well in my world right now.

20 Day Challenge - Day 6

Which Celebrity would you have a make out scene in a movie with?



No further explanation needed.






OK for real though who would I choose? My fiance, my guy friends, and probably even my parents expect me to say Scarlett Johansson. I may even expect myself to say that answer, but I am going to go a different route.

Kaley Cuoco




First and foremost she is a very attractive young lady, second off she seems like she is HILARIOUS, and third.... let's be honest... she's hot.

Thats all. Bye.

Frustration about Education

Many will read this title and think I am going to be discussing the current state of education or the proposed cuts in funding, but in all honesty I want to talk about my frustration with MY education. As you all know I am currently teaching Radio Broadcasting and Sports Broadcasting at the high school level and loving almost every minute of it. Let's be honest, every job has it's negative areas, none of them are perfect. As this whole wedding approaches, as well as the total different angle of having kids and starting a family bigger than just me and Caty, I get really frustrated with myself for being the slacker that I was all through college.

I was blessed with parents that took the steps early to make sure my college was paid for when I started. I attended UNT and studied in Radio Television and Film, graduated in 5 years, and drank more than any human ever should. Recently, I started taking a financial peace course and it was a blatant slap in the face how much money I could have saved in college when I was bartending, if I just hadn't blown it all on Jager and Miller Lite. Things have DRASTICALLY changed in my life the last few years and that part of me is almost nonexistent now, but it still is seeming to come back and bite me in the ass. I look back on the opportunity I had to really get into the classes and set myself up for something big in the future and I wasted most of it on partying, sports and skipping class. There have been numerous times I have thought to myself, "Man... how the hell did you graduate?"

Which brings me to where I am today, sitting in my office at the house or at school (depends on when I finish typing this post) looking at different Graduate Programs, missing the classes that I took seriously in college and wanting to have someone assign me an assignment that I may enjoy doing. I enjoy my job, the kids I work with on a daily basis are amazing, but I can't sit here and tell you that I don't miss the days when my least favorite professor in college would tell me I couldn't pass an essay over "Natural Born Killers" because I wasn't dedicated to school. That guy, even though I seriously despise him to this day, challenged me to a point that I dissected a movie shot by shot and wrote about 30 pages on the different types of shooting and lighting techniques present in that film and how they effected the way the film was interpretted.

And also TCU has what appears to be a sweet Sports Broadcasting Bachelors that I wish was around when I graduated.

So, thinking of going back to school... been thinking for three years now... Don't know how I will pay for it, don't want to run up student loans, so who knows...

Back to the Grind, Definitely a Knife Day.

JD

20 Day Challenge - Day 5

Whose hair would I want?

I am going to swing this question a little bit. Hair... I honestly like mine, short or long, I like it. So I will answer whose facial hair do I wish I had. This is an easy one due to my current addiction of Sons of Anarchy and my vow not to shave my beard until the wedding.

Ryan Hurst - Opie from Sons of Anarchy - Gerry Berteir (Remember the Titans)



This beard is the epitomy of what I want to have someday. The nasty, dirty, shaggy beard. I have tried and I have to shave every time because it is so itchy and nasty, but I am determined this time to make it happen... and then shave it off for the wedding! Once I get the beard then I can move on to the motorcycle and then the motorcycle gang! I am on my way!

Definitely a Fire Day.

JD

20 Day Challenge - Day 3 and 4

Sorry for the fail on posting my challenges this weekend, I was busying taking my fiance out for Valentine's Day and spending time with her. Call me a softy if you will but it was time well spent. Let's Do This.

Day 3 - Celebrity you would Turn Gay For...

This one has had me worried since I read this was a "day", because I had a huge debate on man crushes on my podcast a week or so ago and I am not sure who I would pick. If it were sports, it would be a no brainer, but as far as celebrities and Gayness... its a tough one. I don't think I have an exact Celeb I could choose. I definitely could pick a character tho...



This is a very recent addition I believe. I think his character is a true badass, who makes stupid decisions (banging the porn star). The fight scene in Ireland. The "Sell CRANK to my pregnant ex-wife" attack in EP1. The list could go on and on. Jax Teller is a BAD-A. The Big Dawg will not be surprised by this choice one bit... neither will my fiance...

Ask me this one again in a few months... it could/will change.


DAY 4 - Favorite Rapper

This is a no brainer. Even though he had released a few completely CRAP album before his previous... Nothing gets me more fired up to work out, play baseball, kick someone's ass, or just chill than the newest release by Eminem. His old stuff, while mildly immature, still was some of the better Rap I have heard. Tupac is in this argument, but if you have to ask me a FAVORITE right now at 11:58 on February 13th, Its Eminem. Hands Down!



Be on the Lookout for tomorrow's entry early tomorrow! Which Celebrity's hair would I want... if anyone can guess my pic before I post it I will buy you a coke!

TONIGHT'S CHOICE - FIRE

JD

20 Day Challenge - Day 2

A Celebrity You Would Marry If You Had A Shot.

EMMA STONE

If I weren't already in line to marry my fiance, I think I would have a shot with Emma Stone! Kidding. I chose her for the sole fact of how funny she is and she isn't too hard on the eyes. I fully admit to being a fan of Easy A, even though going into the movie I saw it as a sacrifice to please the fiance. Her roles in Superbad, Zombieland (still haven't seen it all the way through) and Easy A were hilarious.

20 Day Challenge - Day 1

Post a picture of your favorite band





Since The Big Dawg introduced me to this band about three months ago, they are seriously the only thing I am playing on my ipod unless I am working out. The sound of the music, the unique lyrics, and just the feel of the music is quite a bit different than anything I have been interested in for a long time.

The Mumford and Sons pandora station has become my favorite station for conference period listening at work. Pandora is a gift from God I think. The opportunity to hear similar music to your tastes is awesome. I have learned about so many new bands I would have never heard before.

If you haven't heard anything other than "Little Lion Man" that is endlessly played on regular radio, I beg you to check out the rest of the CD. LLM is nowhere near the best song on the album. Until tomorrow's challenge, I will leave you with lyrics from my favorite song right now by M&S

"And there will come a time, you'll see, with no more tears.
And love will not break your heart, but dismiss your fears.
Get over your hill and see what you find there,
With grace in your heart and flowers in your hair."

Here we go again...

So I have a sports podcast and a semi-productive media blog with a buddy but I have nowhere to talk about whats going with me... or just write in general. The layout of this blog absolutely sucks right now but I am too tired to work on the layout anymore tonight. The title "Fire or Knife" comes from one of my favorite scenes of one of my favorite shows on TV, Sons of Anarchy. Basically an ex gang member who failed to remove his club tattoo gets the choice of Fire or Knife for removal. Since that episode that has been an ongoing conversation piece with the friends, fiance, and myself.

So here we go again with this blog thing. I am going to do one of those 20 day challenges to try to get a habit going on this writing thing. Also I am going to use this to post alittle about my fitness, financial and faith journey I am working through right now. I hope you guys enjoy this and I hope I can seriously get into writing again through this blog.

Today's choice... Knife.

Dearing