I don't like stuff that sucks.  One would think that most people also don't like stuff that sucks, however there is so much stuff that sucks that it leads me to believe that a lot of people do in fact like stuff that sucks, which means that a lot of people suck.  That goes without saying...how else could a place like Stanfurd exist?  They have figured out how to fabricate, clone, breed, engineer, and market stuff and people that suck there.

So, what sucks and what doesn't suck?  Stanfurd sucks.  That has been covered and will be beat to death.  The NBA sucks.  Dancing With The Stars sucks, I've never watched it, but would imagine that its just a bunch of people from Stanfurd dancing around...John Elway, Brook Lopez, Adam Keefe, Steve Stenstrom, not Bill Walsh because he's dead, Frick and Frack, and so on.  Chris Derrick would never go on there because he's from Jersey and he's good at running.

This is too negative, I'm trying to be less angry and more positive in my old age.  Check back for the some frequent reflections on things that do not suck...


THURSDAY, JULY 29TH, 2010

Rex Ryan does not suck.  After watching the 12-minute preview blurb for HBO's "Hard Knocks" featuring the Jets this year, I am pretty fired up.  New stadium, Jets-Ravens, Monday Night Football September 13th...this will not suck. 




WEDNESDAY, JULY 28TH, 2010

The Bengals do not suck.  Thank You.  Thank You.  And Thank You.  Terrell Owens NOT being a Jet does not suck at all.  Thank you again Bengals.  Thanks for hosting us and in the Wild Card Round of the playoffs last year after we romped you in week 17.  Both were satisfying wins.  Thank you, drive through...


TUESDAY, JULY 27TH, 2010

Terrell Owens in a Bengals uniform wouldn't suck because I am a huge Jets fan.  Terrell Owens in a Niners uniform didn't suck, Terrell Owens in an Eagles uniform didn't suck, Terrell Owens in a Cowboys uniform didn't suck, Terrell Owens in a Bills uniform didn't suck...all because these uniforms ARE NOT JETS UNIFORMS DAGNABBIT.  Terrell Owens in a Jets uniform would suck unspeakable, incalculable amounts of ass.  Terrell Owens in a Dolphins unioform YAYYYY...Terrell Owens in a Patriots uniform WOOHOOO...Terrell Owens in a Giants uniform GIDDYUP...Terrell Owens in no uniform I DO NOT CARE...JUST NOT A JETS UNIFORM...forsucksfake...



SUNDAY, JULY 25TH 2010

NY Jets training camp opens in one week.  Additionally, we are already two weeks removed from an extended period of a whole lot of suckiness, otherwise known as soccer, the world cup.  Many changes and big hopes/dreams for the Jets in 2010. 
Next year I think Fred will be old enough to make the trip north and check out camp for a day...who knows maybe Gang Green will be the defending champions of something at that point.  Tomlinson who knows?  He looks jacked walking his dog though.  Santonio Holmes will be limited by suspension.  Sanchez SHOULD be more calm, consistent, etc.  As good as the D played at the end of the year, that was without Kris Jenkins.  Should he be healthy and stay that way...watch out.  Our 1st round draft pick out of Ohio State from 2008 still sucks so much that I refuse to type his name here.


SATURDAY, JULY 24TH 2010


The Hockenenheim Ring does not suck, nor does the GP of Deutschland...particularly when homeboy Sebastian Vettel is on pole by 2/1000th's of a second.  Suck it, Alonso.  Several months ago, I dreamt of this weekend and the triumphant return of Michael Schumacher to race on German soil.  He starts in 11th.  It seems that this season will be more of a footnote or curiousity in his career, a ceremonial tour of sorts.  Perhaps he'll return next year and Ross Brawn will have things squared away, or perhaps not.  Its still an honor to watch him race again though.  Vettel has left many points on the board this year and needs to win in Das Vaterland tomorrow.  He is the guy and should be in position to win his first World Drivers Championship already.



FRIDAY, JULY 23RD, 2010

David Cone does not suck.  Unbeknowst to me before I was flat out/hanging on for dear life at the end of my group run yesterday evening, he was right here in Morristown signing autographs at an AT&T store in the same building that Mark Sanchez and a few of the other Jets live in. 



THURSDAY, JULY 22ND, 2010

Uhhhh, ummm...wait, I'm not sure, but I think this might suck...wait...oh no, I'm pretty sure it might suck.  Hall of Famer, yes, non-sucking Jet...I am afraid not. 




WEDNESDAY, JULY 21ST, 2010

The Original Pancake House does not suck...not the original Original in Portland or any of the other non-original, yet still non-sucky Original's elsewhere  Nearby, there is one in Whippany, NJ.  Just recently I met the operating owner of this fine establishment (7.5 women's Adrenaline) and came to find out that many of the Jets eat there frequently.  All the more reason to get back over there for an apple pancake...





SUNDAY, JULY 18TH, 2010

Joba Chamberlain doesn't suck.  Even if his ERA is over 5.00 this year, I feel good about him in big spots.  I proudly wore my "Joba Rules" shirt last week at the Yanks game in Seattle the day after he was shelled.  A few faux Yankee fans out there jeered me and my shirt.  They suck.  A lot.  Wearing a real Yankee jersey (not t-shirt) with the name on the back automatically makes you a wanker and fake fan.  Real fans know who's jersey it is if its #7, #5, #42, #2, and so on.  They don't wear names on their jerseys, dagnabbit. 



FRIDAY, JULY 16TH, 2010

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrbNiN2bFMk&feature=related
Long time, no update, many things do not suck of late.  To stick with a common theme of utter non-suckiness and downright cool, more Greg Dulli. 

On a recent trip to Seattle, first time there in 15 years...I had the pleasure of being treated to a fine mine with my co-workers at The Running Company by our friends from Brooks, at a fine dining establishment and Wine Bar.  Wine, by the way, does not not suck.  Always open-minded, my experimentation at this wine bar resulted in fixating early on a fine offering from Bend, Oregon's Deschutes Brewery.  I don't think I even touched my empty wine glass to move it out of the way.  Clear a path.  Mirror Pond Pale Ale...excellent.  Perhaps on par or superior to Sierra Nevada.  Bend does not suck, so it should be expected for products such as this to not suck.  I hoped that our other stops that evening would find us at a spot that had Black Butte Porter from Deschutes, but hope in one hand, poop in the other and see what fills up first. 

One stop featured the default beverage of the trip, Mac and Jack's while another resulted in a nightcap of Lagunitas IPA.  Miraculously, I got out the door prior to 6 AM for 90 minutes of the running.  It also did not suck.  Nor did the 2 loops of Green Lake we did around lunchtime, although I wish that instead of a 2nd loop we woulda run up into Woodland Park and rocked a zoo loop. 


THURSDAY, JULY 1ST, 2010

Pilot Cross...Grape Crush...does NOT suck.  Nor does the incoming recruiting class:  check it out at www.portlandpilots.com.  They have a few oldtimers like T-Bar still hanging around who don't completely suck, as well.






THURSDAY, JUNE 24TH, 2010


The Firebird burrito at Macho Nacho doesn't suck.  Order without lettuce, as lettuce is a vegetable and vegetable suck.  I had to poop so much this morning that I couldn't sleep past 6:00, but I'm not sure that's Firebird's fault, or an issue with sheer quantity given that I also ate a bean&cheese burrito and a Machaca burrito AND many chips with hot sauce and a few Negra Modelo's.


THURSDAY, JUNE 17TH, 2010

The Twilight Singers do not suck.  I'm pretty out of the loop in terms of good, new music these days.  I don't have an ipod...actually I do, but its 6 years old and I don't know how to use it.  Either way, I cling to the past and some of my favorite bands, Afghan Whigs, and mostly just keep listeing to Twilight Singers albums in the car...it seems new to me.  Time flies, I still feel like "Black Love" is new, but I suppose its not 1996 anymore...



TUESDAY, JUNE 8TH, 2010

Rocky's Pasties DO NOT SUCK.  One of them is a meal.  So I ate FOUR.  This place is so old school, that the term old school is an insult to it.  Located on a side street in Wharton, run by the same family for several generations, it should be added to the Morris County historic register...or something.  A pretty good runner for Morris Hills is from this family, for what that's worth.  2 beef, 2 sausage...excellent, but I would say that the beef was most excellent, even though neither of them sucked.



THURSDAY, JUNE 3RD, 2010


New Jersey does not suck.  Bear witness to that fact tonight at the NJ Meet of Champions.  The track scene is ablaze in The Garden State.  There are parts of New Jersey that do suck, but not that part that I live and work in, nor the fact that we actually have a single Meet of Champions for x-c and both track seasons. 



WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2ND, 2010


I may have already said this, but Andy Pettite does not suck.  Roid or whatever or not, who cares, everybody else did the same stuff.  Pettite is just an all-time great Yankee.  Period.  Right now, he's more or less the ace of the staff.  Very reliable, and non-sucky.



FRIDAY, MAY 28TH, 2010
The new Brooks Ghost 3 does not suck.  I didn't think that the original Ghost or Ghost 2 sucked, either, but this one has taken non-suckiness to a new level...and it still has Nenow on the outsole of the heel.




THURSDAY, MAY 20TH, 2010

Scooby-Doo doesn't suck.  Although it would be nice if they had more episodes available on demand.  Particularly the one about the ghost clown.  Fred would appreicate it...






WEDNESDAY, MAY 19TH, 2010

Marcus Thames playing DH does not suck...so why the hucking fell do we have him playing in the outfield...he's a frigging disaster out there. 



TUESDAY, MAY 18TH, 2010
Walk-off home runs don't suck...particularly against the Red Sox, particularly in Yankee Stadium, particularly after a game tying 2-run job by Alex Rodriguez, particularly off of Jonathon Papelbon...who does suck. 



WEDNESDAY, MAY 12TH, 2010

The Boston Celtics do not suck.  I'm not a fan, really never have been, not even in the 80's in the Bird-McHale-Parish-Cornbread Maxwell heyday.


I don't even like the NBA anymore.  I USED to be a huge NBA guy, no more.  That said, good on the Celts for beating up on the Cavs a LeBron in Cleveland last night.  Hope they knock them out in Bean-town.  Hope that LeBron leaves and signs with the Knicks and continues to not do the winning. 



THURSDAY, MAY 6TH, 2010


Cinco de Mayo doesn't suck, although I didn't remember that it was the 5th until I realized it was already the 6th.  I did eat some frozen burritos.  In retroactive celebratory fashion, I shall soon consume mass quantities of Macho Nacho in Morristown.




TUESDAY, MAY 4TH, 2010


Formula One being back in Europe does not suck.  Nothing against the races on the other side of the world, some excellent tracks and what not, but being able to watch qualifying at 8 AM Saturday and the race at 7:30 Sunday...well, it doesn't suck.  Hard to imagine Alonso not being the favorite in Spain in a Ferrari with some extra time to load up for the bulk of the European campaign. 

http://formula-one.speedtv.com/article/f1-jersey-city-a-possible-new-york-gp-site/
Uhhhhhh...F1 in Jersey City definitely would not suck.  That said, they can't even organized a decent half-marathon without too many turns, often some wrong ones, how the hell could they pull this off?  The FIA could...JC not so much.  I vote a big yes for NJ, but how about Morristown?




WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28TH, 2010
Kazoo doesn't suck.  This came up minutes before typing the first entry here in about a whole week, even though I've encountered many things that do not suck since last Wednesday.  I am working on screening Brooks shirts for this Saturday's Bernards Invite...the man with the plan that I'm helping (and who setup this site) was just on the phone from an expert in the screenprinting biz...dude's name is actually KAZOO.  I'm not sure, but I think it might actually suck to be named Kazoo, but the actual little green bloke from The Flinstone's doesn't suck.  Briefly, some other things that do not suck include:  Pat Schellberg scoring the watch, Randolph girls making CoA 4x8 final, Bernards girls running 9:18 and getting as close as you can get, Oregon not winning everything like Texas with Coach Vig a few years back, after being stopped in the men's bid for the trifecta by Coach Vig's UVa squad,  and finally it didn't suck to go on my first run in over 2 weeks today, no more vein(s)...but I do suck at running...



WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21ST, 2010

The Brooks Green Silence doesn't suck...or at least it looks like it doesn't suck.  I haven't run a race in 4 years and just had a phlebectomy, which I will keep mentioning because I like typing the word phlebectomy...but I still have a pair of these shoes. 



TUESDAY, APRIL 20TH, 2010


     

The Yankees starting rotation other than Javier Vasquez does not suck.  Sorry to sound like a negative, whiny, impatient Yankees fan, but I am just not sold on this dude yet.  Start number 3 tonight, and most of it SHOULD be past my bedtime playing out in Oakland.  If I'm still awake and he's not pitching and I'm forced to watch The Daily Show, then my doubts grow.  Not ready to lump the guy in with Carl Pavano, but not ready to be confident that Vasquez can get it done here.


MONDAY, APRIL 19TH, 2010

Grilling does not suck.  My son is into it now, as well.  I don't really let him play with fire...yet.  Last Thursday an order of the best stuff for any grill anywhere arrived...Usinger's...excellent German tubular meats.


WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14TH, 2010


Compression socks don't suck.  I don't actually have any, and have always thought people who wear them for running look kind of silly, but I have a newfound admiration for the product. 

Compression STOCKINGS suck all kinds of ass...they suck unwashed, unwiped, gut-rot, cling-on ass. I know this because I've been wearing one since Monday morning...just one on my left leg.  It looks just like the thing in the picture there, but open-toes.  Rad.  Compression STOCKINGS suck more ass than having a big needle and catheter jammed into your thigh and groin to kill a vein. 


SUNDAY, APRIL 4TH, 2010

Sebastian Vettel does not suck.  Fortunately his car didn't suck today, either.  2 poles and 1 win in 3 races in 2010.  He should have at least 2 wins.  Today's conquest in Malaysia keeps him on track to contend for a title if his Red Bull team can be consistenly reliable.  Thus far he is outdriving everyone, although Fernando Alonso is close.  Surprisingly the next best German is Nico Rosberg, not Michael Schumacher thus far.  Vettel may well have a Schumaher-esque career ahead of him.  He is still only 22.  That said, its unlikely that any man will ever match The Mike's 7 titles.  I would feel better if the young German eventually was in a car NOT powered by a French Renault engine.  The Red Bull team is great, but lets get a Mercedes engine behind this guy eventually.  Thank you, drive through.


FRIDAY, APRIL 2ND, 2010


Critical Bill doesn't suck.  Why don't I have that movie on DVD?  That sucks.  Was reminded of the greatness of this character flipping through channels and stumbling upon Treat Williams in "1941"...an underrated farce with him as a younger dude, alongside the likes of JOHN Belushi, Akyroyd, and more.  Funny stuff.  Not much could be better than what he did as Critical Bill, though...


WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31ST, 2010


Happy Meal's don't suck, particularly if you are my son and don't eat much of the stuff that's in them and just enjoy the toy that comes with it...in this case a two-headed dragon from some new movie.



THURSDAY, MARCH 25TH, 2010

Scrotie McBoogerballs doesn't suck.  Hahahahahahaha...McBoogerballs. 
Oh and...BOW DOWN TO WASHINGTON!



MONDAY, MARCH 22ND, 2010


Quincy Pondexter doesn't suck, nor does Washington, nor does the PAC-10 for that matter.  Living in Jersey, I fully recognize the east coast bias.  Whether in football or hoops, it seems every season the pundits proclaim the PAC-10 to be soft and weak.  There is a big other half of the country and then some out there, and the schools in the PAC-10 are all pretty big and pretty supportive of sports.  Its too good of a conference to ever be truly weak.  Top to bottom there is a lot of talent in hoops and football.  Very rarely is it true that even the worst few teams in the PAC-10 are total pushovers in hoops or football.  U-Dub doesn't suck, they are talented and playing well right now.  I wish they would had the higher seed like Cal, who they beat to win the PAC-10 tourney so the could have drilled Duke and knocked them out of the tournament.  Duke sucks.  Hard.  Washington doesn't suck...Bow Down To Washington...



TUESDAY, MARCH 16, 2010

Smash Williams does not suck...he was the man leading the Dillon Panthers to the big state title in Texas on "Friday Night Lights".  When's that back on, by the way?  I had thought that Smash earned his way to a scholarship at some fictional Texas school after his senior year knee injury, but just saw him in Morristown, where he is apparantly a student at Drew University in Madison.  Not much of a football team there (none), but they have a 200m indoor track that they don't let anybody wear spikes on even though they don't have a track team.  Maybe they'd let Smash workout in spikes if he was getting ready for the NFL Combine or something.  He is apparantly betwixt a size 13 and size 14 shoe, but not that big of a dude...probably not D1 tailback material.  Then again, a couple of miles from Drew are the headquarters for my beloved Jets in Florham.  Leon Washington is a tiny dude, but built like a stump.  Not sure what size shoe he wears, but I'm pretty sure he'll come back from his broken leg and be fine this year.  The Jets just signed LaDanian Tomlinson, who does suck.  I could do without him.  Actually, I'd rather have Thomas Jones back or take my chances with Smash as a backup to Shonn Greene, who does not suck and is also from NJ...albeit from Winslow which is so close to Haddonfield that it might actually be in the state of North Delaware.


MONDAY, MARCH 15TH, 2010

Varicose veins don't suck...oh wait, yes they do.  I have one of the largest varicose veins in the history of mankind on my left leg/calf.  It started to hurt last week...I may not have it for much longer.  Perhaps even more stuff will suck less with this monstrosity removed.


WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10TH, 2010

 

Mud doesn't suck...



Not in this context, either...but I'm talking moreso about mud instead of snow/ice.  Trails in Mendham, NJ, are now runworthy.  Snow sucks.  Mud doesn't suck.  I could do without either, but will take messy and runable to snow. 



THURSDAY, MARCH 4TH, 2010

Chimichanga's don't suck...duh.  Its a burrito, but deep-fried.  Ummm, yeah sign me up.  Duh.  Cool word to say, as well, sort of like titicaca or Buttafuoco.



WEDNESDAY, MARCH 3RD, 2010


The Yankees don't suck.  First spring training game this afternoon against the mighty Pittsburgh Pirates, who should bring back the flat top Civl War style hats circa the Kent Tekulve days...

Either way, the Yanks don't suck.  I will miss Matsui a bit, not so much Chien Ming Wang...he sucks, surgeries or not.  Opening day against the BoSox less than a month away.



TUESDAY, MARCH 2ND, 2010

"Get Carter" does not suck, nor does Sylvester Stallone, which should go without saying.  I was shocked and dismayed that IFC only gave it the one-star on the info pop-up box.  Perhaps this is why I'm not a film critic, but I've watched "Get Carter" many times, have it on DVD, and still stop to watch it anytime its on the tube.  Jack is a pretty cool, badass dude in it...plus its set in Seattle.  Big fan of "Copland", too, but the Sly character is a bit more sad in there...at least his name is Freddie, which is not why I named my son Fred. 


MONDAY, MARCH 1ST, 2010

March does not suck.  It got up to a pleasant 47ish degrees today in the Garden State, the excessive and unwelcome snow is melting a bit, and February is behind us.  February did not not suck.  It sucked.  Too much snow.  Trails unrunable.  And I believe I picked up the plague.  F-off February.  Felt better and less plague-ridden already today.  Yay March.  Two weekends away from the first F1 race and selection Sunday.  The 'Cuse is #1, likeable bunch.  March does not suck.



SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27TH, 2010


Robotussin CF does not suck.  In fact I believe it to not suck even more than the Tylenol crap I was taking for the past few days.  Running about 1/3 of the mileage this week that I've been getting in does suck, however.  Alas, the streak remains in tact.  Consecutive day streaks don't suck, particularly when you do suck at running and the streak is the main thing you have to hold onto...and weekly mileage.



THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25TH, 2010

Women's golf doesn't suck.  It apparantly sucks a lot less than track does, at least at Seton Hall University, which just cut its men's and women's track programs and added women's golf to save bucks and comply with NCAA Title IX guidelines.  Title IX, by the way, does not not suck.  Meaning...it sucks.  The Hall is keeping x-c at some sort of club level, which is sort of silly.  Seton Hall x-c, like Title IX, does not not suck.  Meaning...its not very good at running. 


WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24TH, 2010


Cold and flu stuff doesn't suck...needing to take it does.  So does the fact that it says its non-drowsy.  Perhaps I'm a lightweight, but this stuff makes me drowsy and feel like my head is in a tunnel or box.   





MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22ND, 2010


4:10 for 1600m on a flat track at the NJ State Group Meet doesn't suck. Back to the good running for Delbarton senior Pat Schellberg after a less than satisfying result in Boston.  The Millrose Champ goes after his first Meet of Champions title this Saturday. 



WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 17TH, 2010


Larry Holmes doesn't suck.  He's probably not going to go back to school and get a degree from Harvard anytime soon, but neither am I...Not only is The Easton Assassin an underrated, overlooked, all-time great, but he seems an honest, earnest...dare I say...good guy.  The YES Network's show, "Centerstage" has a good episode with Holmes now.  There's also a new feature on Ali, with some long interview segments with Holmes.  I have always felt that the things that Ali brought into the sport like trashtalking, losing to inferior fighters when unprepared, etc...are really not that great.  Larry Holmes did not talk a lot (at least for a boxer) but he won a lot, with precision and skill.  There were a few fights in the prime of his career where he was in trouble, and he did what a great fighter should do...fight.  He fought back and won in spots against guys like Ken Norton and Mike Weaver when he almost went down.  He showed class and mercy when he could have literally killed Marvis Frazier in the ring.  He's very honest about why he continued to fight when well past his prime and he knew he would lose...money.  Long story short, Larry Holmes doesn't suck, no did his jab.





TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16TH, 2010


Honey Stinger bars don't suck.  I ate one of the new protein ones yesterday as part of my terrific lunch.  My Clif Bar supply has dwindled down...very few Builders Bars left, so I have sought new options.  These, just to review, don't suck.  They are good for eating...





MONDAY, FEBRUARY 15TH, 2010

I have been thinking lately that Southern California doesn't suck...particularly when it keeps snowing in NJ and I can't run on the freaking trails.  Monrovia Canyon near Arcadia doesn't suck.  Lots of the sun there. 




SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13TH, 2010


Trevor Dunbar does not suck.  Have I said that already?  US Junior National Cross-Country Champion.  He is good at running.  Last year's winner was German Fernandez...lets hope that Young Dunbar is better than 97th place at NCAA X-C in the fall.  This is Portland's 1st Junior National Champ...kind of cool...it doesn't suck.  I believe the first team member since Tim Briggs...who was 35th at World Junior, top American, 1995.  Go Pilots.



WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10TH, 2010


Snow plows don't suck.  I anticipated that my run this morning might suck as much as any run that has ever sucked before.  Alas, the plows in Mendham were out and about and keeping things surprisingly not that sucky. 

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 8TH, 2010

The Who does not suck.  They may look old, sound old and be old...but they don't suck...never have, never will.  Pete Townshend kicks ass.  The halftime show music usually sucks so much ass that its hard to fathom.  They aren't what they once were, but they are still legendary and great to watch. 



FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5TH, 2010


Kashi bars don't suck.  They're pretty tasty.  I'm running out of my supply of Clif Bar products that I liberated from my former place of "employment" and Kashi stuff can be bought cheaper than Clif it seems.  Very important to keep the routine for lunch the same.  A bagel and two bars.  Breakfast is either nothing and black coffee before running, or a bar or Clif Bloks and black coffee before running.  The post-run recovery drink is more black coffee, for what that's worth.




THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4TH, 2010

The Michael Schumacher comeback does not suck.  I have already gone over the obvious fact that The Mike himself does not suck, but will stay with the theme for a while longer here.  On a side note, 3 burritos from Macho Nacho seems to result in an excessive amount of turds. 




WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 3RD, 2010

Michael Schumacher does not suck.  In fact, he does not suck more than anything that has never sucked before.  He doesn't suck as much as Stanfurd does suck.  Day 3 of official F1 testing in Valencia, Spain concluded today, and Herr Weltmeister was an unofficial 3rd on the time sheets for his new Mercedes squad.  Fernando Alonso topped the charts for Ferrari.  That's weird.  In Schumacher's retirement, I had come to not hate Alonso and start to think that he doesn't suck.  Not anymore.  Good thing it became painfully obvious that I could not afford the Audi RS4 this past fall.  I surely would have been conflicted and gotten rid of it, perhaps for an AMG type of thing solely because of Schumacher.  Silliness.  They don't even make them with a clutch.  Lame.  I will save money for Macho Nacho burritos this way.  Only 6 weeks until the F1 season opener.  2010 will not suck. 






TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2ND, 2010...GROUNDHOG DAY

Running With The Tobe does not suck.  After several years of doing this, I am reasonably sure that he doesn't hate it.  Either way, he's a pretty loyal dude, and great partner for needless 2nd runs of the day which I do often.  Toby is a creature of habit, sandbags horribly on the way out, dragging behind me, ears sagging...as soon as we turnaround and head for home, he hammers, often the split is close to 8 min. pace on the way out, 6 min. pace on the way back.  The Tobe...


SUNDAY, JANUARY 31ST, 2010


The burger I had Friday before Millrose with bacon, egg and cheese on it does not suck.  Nor does Sierra Nevada on tap at the same establishment.  To make the meet more exciting, they should have made Lagat and all others in The Wanamaker mile eat 2 of these burgers within 30 minutes prior to the race, and then turn it into a beer mile.  I would have to think somebody like Chris Solinsky would do well in such an event.



FRIDAY, JANUARY 29TH, 2010



The train station in Morristown does not suck, great spot to catch a ride into Penn Station for Millrose this afternoon.  My son is fired up to drop me off there.  It does kind of suck to not put Fred to bed and to miss dinner with him, but pretty fare trade off with the pleasure he will get from going to the train station.  In another year or two he'll be able to go to the meet and knock back some beers with me.



THURSDAY, JANUARY 28TH, 2010



All-Wheel Drive does not suck, and I'm glad my car has it.  Otherwise it may not have been possible to make it to work today...43 miles in 2 HOURS and 28 MINUTES...Its a good thing that I didn't have an XL Black Coffee from Dunkin Donuts during this drive, or I would have had some sort of seizure.  I am generally impatient and angry, and don't see this changing.  Kurt Vonnegut doesn't suck, but the whole thing about having the wisdom to accept the things you can't do anything about...I am bad at that.



WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27TH, 2010

The Stig does not suck.  He is good at the driving.  Monday night was the season debut of Top Gear on BBC-America.  The Stig took off the helmet, and it was none other than Michael Schumacher.  I was pleased about this.  Unfortunately, the episode was filmed months ago and The Mike was still quite retired. 




TUESDAY, JANUARY 26TH, 2010


Chairs do not suck.  They are good for sitting.  Apparantly sitting on a plastic crate used to carry water bottles all day hurts my back.  Funny, because whilst I was doing so it really just hurt my ass, which is partially my fault for not being as fat as I was a few months ago.  Being not as fat doesn't suck, nor does running more.  Today my back doesn't suck as much, either, and I even have a cheapo chair to sit on and work the Grotepoll magic for hours on end. 



MONDAY, JANUARY 22ND, 2010


Braylon Edwards not dropping a pass and scoring on an 80-yard TD does not suck, nor does leading 17-6 in the AFC Championship Game.  Having to deal with Peyton Manning sucks.  He does not suck.  Braylon Edwards is not the guy.  He's probably caught and dropped his last passes as a Jet.  Thanks for the memories, bye bye. 



FRIDAY, JANUARY 21ST, 2010


Hockey doesn't suck, nor do Martin Brodeur and the Devils.  I can not consider myself a real hockey fan, I just don't know enough about it, but the NBA just sucks so much, that I am trying more and more to be a hockey fan.  Sure, the Nets are one of the worst teams in the history of the league this year, but the downward spiral into suckdom has been going on for years.  I used to be a huge NBA fan, followed/watched all the games I could, read box scores and articles every day, now I am as disgusted by it as I am by vegetables.  Although I really can't say I have sat down and watched a hockey game this season, I pay attention and will watch in the playoffs. 



WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 19TH, 2010


The Garmin 310xt does not suck.  I caved in to techmology about a week-and-a-half ago and picked one of these up.  Very easy to use, and accurate.  As is well established, I'm at least half-a-retard, yet still have had no trouble using this thing and getting the info on the Garmin Connect site.  Then things really take a further turn away from suckiness.  I like maps.  Maps do not suck.  Every day I can see a map of where I just ran.  Neat.  Even if I kind of suck at running.  Something tells me when using this thing that for many years I probably overestimated how far and fast I was running.  So it goes.  This should help me not suck as much at running far...or something.




MONDAY, JANUARY 18TH, 2010


Everything doesn't suck...the Jets are in the AFC Championship Game.  The 'Bolts RB with #21 does not deserve the nickname LT.  As far as I know he never did crack or anything, and certainly is nowhere near the caliber of player that Lawrence Taylor was.  I dislike the Giants, but still...Every year in January Mr. Tomlinson mopes on the sidelines as his team loses a playoff game in disappointing fashion, and he really doesn't do much positive to prevent it from happening.  F-him.  Clear a path. 




THURSDAY, JANUARY 7TH, 2010


37, that's right THIRTY-SEVEN doesn't suck.  Its downright balmy in NJ at 37 degrees.  Perhaps with the sun some melting of the snow and ice will make trails runable again before it gets nasty cold again this weekend.
The national championship game doesn't suck either, working in Princeton today, it is highly likely that I will make a run for the border on the way home and have myself a feast. 



SUNDAY, JANUARY 3RD, 2010

Season tickets to the Jets don't suck, other than the cost of the tickets and the PSL's, and until of course its 17 degrees with 30mpw winds with heavier gusts and the last game of the year doesn't start until after 8 o'clock AND you get out of the game at midnight or later AND don't get home until about 1:30 in the morning AND you have to wake up the next morning to run and be at work before 10.  Good thing I opted to not buy season tickets with money I don't have and will enjoy the game from my couch with a farting Weimaraner by my side.


WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 30TH


Heat doesn't suck, particularly when its 12 degrees outside in the morning.  Waking up at 5:55 AM (thanks Fred) to find that the oil heat went out doesn't not suck.  It sucks.  Petro Company showed up at 11:30, and is still doing the fixing.  The movie "Heat" kind of sucks, although I watch it everytime its on, hoping that Robert DeNiro will get away and/or shoot Pacino first.  I'm not very smart.



FRIDAY, DECEMBER 25- CHRISTMAS DAY

I have taken a deliberate few days off from Stuff That Doesn't Suck to submit the following.  So much does this not suck that it can only be fitting on Christmas Day. 


THE MASTER RETURNS.
There is no other athlete (yes F1 drivers are athletes) that I admire more than Michael Schumacher.  Thank you, Michael.  This news makes my 2010 before it even begins.  Watching Brit Jenson Button win a world title with Schumacher's man Ross Brawn last year was difficult, worse given that this prevented young German and Schumacher heir Sebastian Vettel from staking his claim. 

Although I was a Schumacher guy before his Ferrari days in the early 90's with Bennetton, clearly the images of The Master racing all feature him in Imola Red.  No longer, however.  The move and reuniting with Ross Brawn at Mercedes will be strange, but a marketing match made in heaven.  I would have been conflicted a year ago if this had happened.  Way back then, I opposed Mercedes, mostly on the basis that all of their cars, even the biggest, baddest AMG's have automatic trannies.  At that time, and until late August I drove (notice I don't use the word "owned") an Audi RS4, tuned and tweaked to 507hp.  Clearly Schumacher in Mercedes is a German marketing dream, especially with 2nd driver Nico Rosberg, another young and promising German, along with him.  Rosberg comes over from Williams, and also drove the same black RS4.  He'll probably get rid of his, as well, but for different reasons than I did.  That said, I never had the money for that, and even before this news could not be happier with my new job, move to Mendham, great 3rd Christmas with my son, Fred and family, and reasonably positive progress in some sort of running comeback. 

All that said, some of my happiest moments as a sports fan have come in watching Michael's 91 victories and 7 World Championships.  Some of the most gut wrenching and saddest have come in his losses or crashes...or Fernando Alonso world titles...or worst of all his final race in Brazil in 2006.  I will confess that when his ill-fated race that day was nearing its end and he capped it with a fastest lap of the day, I shed tears.  Not 911 wing eyesweat tears, the real kind.  Its likely that by the time the Bahrain GP rolls around on March 14th there will not be any tears, they would have happened during practice or qualifying when Michael makes a run at the pole. 

Froehlich Weinachten, Herr Schumacher...danke, danke, danke. 


SUNDAY, DECEMBER 20TH

Snow sucks, snowblowers do not suck.  I wish somebody would snowblow Patriot's Path for about 6 miles from Mountain Ave. in Mendham.  That would rule. 



THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17TH

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