The line from the title above has been in a couple videos over the past 2 years and every few weeks I get asked what it means. This blog is a reminder to myself to tell the story on camera some time when I see my brother next, but the quick summary is that it was about 13 years ago, involved alcohol and has been a running gag in the family ever since.
Until the story gets told properly, i’ll leave you with this…
From left to right: It starts with an appropriate level of joy expression for the venue, then as we move over to Brody we tick it up a notch to extra “look at me, i’m posing for a picture” style of smiling and then… RowRow bringin in the “sticking my face out of a car window on the highway” posture that forces a smile so big that any more of it and his face would melt off.
Taken at a “Dinner with Santa” event.
The only downside to playing pretend with the nephews is that Aidan Bushnell and i constantly have to fight over which one of us gets to be Justin Bieber. luckily im still a couple inches bigger so I win, but maybe i’ll hook him up with some Biebs action “One Time”. Never Say Never motherfkkerrzzzz.
Even though it will be turned back on tomorrow – I couldn’t handle the lack of internetz here at my brothers house in Florida so I drove Aidan up to the town square where they have free Wifi, I guess to lure patrons to the local shops. Their marketing strategy worked, cuz Aidan went to Starbucks and as we sipped on the stadium seating with our lappytoppies, I snapped this pic and uploaded it to his Facebook with the following caption:
I thought it was about time i took a photo of you where you WERENT sleeping for once. thanks for the mocha latte carmelotto grande with whipped cream, Bestie!!!1
#chillaxin @ the park
Now it’s time to go eat the same amount of food I would at any other meal at any other time of the year but pretend like it’s a big deal cuz evidently everyone else is going balls out with their portions or something.
But before I go: quit being such a Hipster dick, Canada…
My sister-in-law just revealed that she’s pregnant, so that’s pretty newsy. I already have 4 nephews. If # 5 doesn’t turn out to be a niece, I have no idea how any of us are going to pretend we still love it and want it around. Nephew Aidan is 16 and lives with his mom so i’ll fill in his reaction as being along lines of a “cool story, bro” response, but sis-inlaw Sarah delivered the news to her 3 boys and got the following reactions:
Riley (7): “that’s awesome!”
Brody (4): “I gonna be so nice to that baby!”
Rowan (5): “I THINK IT’S RETARDED! AND STUPID!”
I’ll have to sit them down for a “kids say the darndest things” style interview and ask them all about it when I’m there for Thanksgiving in a month.
“Goodnight, you princes of Maine… you kings of New England.” – me to my nephews as I turned off the light, hoping just one would maybejustmaybe go “aaahh. John Irving. very nice Unka Rich. very nice. g’nite u ole scamp”. they did not…
My aunt was looking for her Google phone amongst a line of my brother and nephews Google phones on the counter so I waved my hand and told her “these aren’t the Droids you’re looking for”.
She didn’t get it and no one else was around to witness the comedy gold 🙁
I have decided to live the rest of my life in desert seclusion. Meaning: I’m thinking of renting Bristol Palin’s house in Arizona.
My brother, sister-in-law and 4 nephews come to my parents house in Texas (where I am now) in the morning.
It’s 2AM now, so I thought I’d leave this on Aidans (the oldest) Facebook:
Sleep well my pet… Uncle Rich will need your strength soon enough…
See you soon…
Will see the little boogers from Florida at my parents house in Texas in late June. In the mean time, the youngest 2 are practicing their swimmery:
Rowan the Seaweed monster
Brody, sharkin it up.
My family has decided they’re Star Wars fans now that Spike is doing an endless marathon of all 6 movies…
Most facepalm moment so far has been my aunt asking “Is that SamEL Jackson? that’s interesting since he plays the voice of ObiWan in the first 3 movies”…
she’s thinking of James Earl Jones as the voice of Darth Vader…
UPDATE: Conspiracy theorist Asian-Josh asks: “are you suggesting that if Spike did Alex Jones marathons, your family will decide to be 9/11 truthers?”. The answer is of course, no. they have to have heard of the thing and know that its generally held in high regard. so conspiracy scam artists are out, Lethal Weapon, LOTR and other several part entertainment film series are in.
Most of my traveling this year has been for funny Facebook statuses and such.
It rained for 4 days straight here at home so I posted a status announcing that I did not move to California for this crap and would be spending the rest of the week in Hawaii. so while in Hawaii, when a cloudy day came, I had to remain consistent and leave. so I did.
