Ålesund’s starting to happen
July 3rd, 2009
ULTRA PEANUT’S LIST OF NOTABLE THINGS THAT HAPPENED THE LAST FEW DAYS
- Got on a plane for Frankfurt, then one for Oslo, then one for Ålesund, which is small enough they have stair trucks (”you’re gonna get hop-ons”)
- Saw a little kid in the Oslo airport in a 2006 USMNT jersey
- Accidentally walked into the men’s room in the Oslo airport
- Hey, look, transatlantic travel will do that to you, okay?
- Had a cookout on the side of a mountain with the Revs’ old GK and some of his pals
- Walked around town buying candy
- Ate pizza that was, for some reason, served St. Louis style
- Bought a bunch of souvenirs
- Repeatedly tried to explain why, exactly, two dumb Americans would travel to an obscure part of Norway
- I understand the sun sets here at some point, but I haven’t really seen it
- Ate huckleberries right off the bushes
- Ran barefoot across another team’s field (I’m up to 4 now)
- Hiked around the perimeter of a mountain, coming out of the woods into the parking lot of a 3rd division club, where a bunch of kids were playing a pickup game of cricket
- Got taken back into town by a suspicious looking orange party van
- Did I mention the van was driven by one of the extras from Metalocalypse?
- Learned that Denmark is apparently the Canada of Norway
Team color pedicures are crucial
More at some point, along with full photo set. We’re still two days out from an actual gameday.
melonhead of the century
June 8th, 2009
Remember this thing from last September?
Those two banners finally debuted this evening.
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Campaign 2010
June 6th, 2009
If internet memes can help elect a president, could they help convince the US men’s national team to take along certain players who’re on the borderline to make the cut for South Africa?
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and now, possibly the best worst joke I’ll come up with all season
May 24th, 2009
I’d like to see the Sounders do a Freddie Ljungberg bobblehead night. You press it, and it has to take an Imitrex and go lie down in a dark, quiet room for six hours.
mario league soccer
May 17th, 2009
Q. What happens when the guy who sells you your season tickets calls you up and asks you how to make a banner?
A.
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Kyle Lindsay, my box office homeboy, asked me for help in putting together a banner. Said he had the idea to do one of Wario in Revs getup after seeing someone in Germany a while back with a similar one. I thought the concept was fantastic, and offered to get the template sewn up and traced, then to teach him how to paint it. Julie volunteered her attic and some painting services to the cause, too. I love this banner; it’s a neat, neat idea that I haven’t really seen elsewhere in MLS, very eye-catching. My only regret is we realized too late that the patch on his shoulder should say “Mario League Soccer” and have the foot kicking a turtle, not a ball.
Wario is wearing uniform #6, a decision we made because we don’t have any real leg-breakers on the squad anymore, but we do have a guy with a bad temper who won’t shut up. (In the extremely remote chance he’s reading this, we love you for it, Jay).
put it in your pantry with your cupcakes
May 6th, 2009
I’m pretty okay at baking stuff, and back in February, I came across a couple of recipes that I knew would be ridiculously popular at tailgate parties. Stolen Adapted from Nook and Pantry and Smitten Kitchen, here are Irish Cake Bombs:
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even more words
May 4th, 2009
It’d be an understatement to say that words project was successful beyond our expectations; we’ve never had the team and/or individual players track us down, unsolicited, for compliments on this stuff before. Thus, we saw no reason not to continue the theme with new players who made distinct impressions on the squad through the remainder of 2008 and early 2009.
Kheli Dube, “JOY”: This is actually a holdover from last summer that I never got around to posting here, largely because I was trying to combine it with a video showing this banner’s creation from start to finish. That never came together, so here’s the banner, based on what else but Dube doing his goal-scoring dance of joy.
Chris Tierney, “DRIVE”: The first of the 2009 entries. I was a little unsure about the source image, which was a much smaller resolution than I would have liked, but I think the final effect came out quite striking.
Darrius Barnes, “SMOOTH”: Was almost “throw,” given his popular hundred-yard throw-ins. The best thing that could possibly happen with this banner is him getting the nickname of Smoove B. Girl, that other team ain’t right for you. Smoove B will freak your back line nasty. Also, there will be throw-ins.
why I love this league
May 3rd, 2009
Taken right after an irritating Revs home loss:
L-R, fans of: Houston, New England, New England, DC.
I’m short
HOT DAMN
April 25th, 2009
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NO SLEEP TILL CAPE TOWN
so as I was saying about this is way out of hand
April 18th, 2009
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