I'm gonna be hard pressed to make
you sit through a whole bunch of randoms without first
explaining the video. You'll all just skim to that one
anyway, so let's just knock this puppy
out.
1) Bro Code
Ammendment
Palaur was really my only forray
into the sacred unspoken agreement between men about
messin' with your buddy's girl. In true Adam fashion
I spectacularly destroyed the code in order to
"save" the damsel in distress which most likely forced
her to waste another 10 years on the guy because of
the guilt housed within that drama. I have always
felt guilty about it (though he and I weren't
truly friends, I did know him just as well) and
immediately "grew up" after that played out. Contrary
to popular belief I do seek out peace and not drama...
I just happen to have a drama compass in my pants that
is hard to ignore. :-)
It was with said compass that I
flirted online with a Facebook friend who put up a
rather breathtaking profile pic. I knew a good friend
of mine was "seeing" her, but since he was also
married? It never registered as possession.
I mean, isn't possession 9/10th of ownership or
some shit? Oh, before I forget the woman is
also married. So the whole thing is on shaky
ground. However, she instantly (and I do mean
instantly) copy and pasted my flirting to him
(cheating women sure love attention don't they?) and
he immediately gave ME shit.
SHE'S MY GIRLFRIEND.
SHE PUTS THOSE PICS UP FOR ME.
I of course gave him shit RIGHT back:
"Dude, you're married. And how can you be possessive
of another man's wife? Shouldn't THAT guy be the
offended party?" I was just poking in jest at this
point because I defriended her right away and
apologized. I care quite a bit for this friend and
have never judged his situation or his choices - and
wasn't gonna start now. But it does bring up quite the
little debate: Is your mistress off limits? To me?
This is laughable at best. Your "social code" went out
the window the second you cheated on your wife. Then
again, the whole concept of jealousy really is lost on
me. I've never had that gene. I've always trusted
wholeheartedly and figured if the person I was
seeing wants someone else more? Go. In fact - hurry
the fuck up and stop wasting my time. I find myself
hot shit thank-you-very-much and will find someone who
feels accordingly. :-)
Anyway, this was something I
actually lost sleep over... which brings me to the
apology:
2) I'm sorry I hit
on your mistress...
<shaking head> I really have
a hard time being sincere with this apology as you can
tell. I am truly sorry if I hurt a friend...
but that's about all I can muster when it comes
to this situation. 'Cause I really do find it
ridiculous. Like, sorry 'bout that - I'll hit on your
wife next time. !?!?!? Are you INSANE MAN? How? Huh?
What? So I now pose the question to those out
there (I guarantee this falls completely along
female/male lines) to see what you think. 'Cause I AM
very respectful of others' relationships and don't
want to start ANY shit - but this whole "once your
friend's dick has been in it he has ownership" thing
just... just baffles me. It's archaic and draconian to
me. It's so dismissive of women I'm somehow offended?
Christ I must have a vagina in me somewhere. LOL.
Alright, enough damage done - I really hope he
laughs at this.
3) Bob Conners'
Girlfriend
You just have to throw your hands
up sometimes at how completely interwoven our lives
are. On the second plane ride back from Ohio (Phoenix
to LA) I sat next to a woman from Columbus... who
dated Bob Fucking Conners decades ago. How is that
freaking possible? For those unaware, Bob Conners
was (and still is) the "MAN at 610 WTVN. He would
be the Andyman equivalent for that station. I was on
before him overnights and the transition was always
nerve-racking for the 19 year old kid who had no
business at a talk radio station. He is a towering man
with a booming voice that scared the bejeezus out of
me... and then he actually ended up liking me - having
me make some bumper music for him - and even did a
jokingly singing promo for me (which
I later turned into a song that no one believed
was actually him). Such a
thrill. I ended up playing the promo for his
ex-girlfriend to which she just laughed. How small is
the world? We talked the entire flight. I really
do enjoy connecting with people and hearing their
lives.
4) About that
other Ohio guy
I had a bunch to say about LeBron,
and then with Andyman's passing - all things shifted.
I will be saying nothing that hasn't been
repeated much more eloquently than I will, but I have
to at least my two cents on this as I have been a very
vocal fan. Falls into two categories. First up -
leaving Cleveland:
I had no problem with him leaving
Cleveland. I assumed it would happen. That show
however - was a fucking travesty. You don't hold back
your decision from your team and the entire city for a
nationally televised event - when you're LEAVING the
team. You fucking do not. It is about as cruel and
heartless as you can possibly be. Having your hometown
gather around their TV sets for the big announcement
in some audacious spectacle? KNOWING cameras will be
in those bars? Fuck you man. Just a big fuck you for
holding everyone hostage like that. He should have
done a press release and then gone on TV well
afterwards to thank his fans in Cleveland and show a
little understanding at how much this will crush them.
This isn't just any city - this is the heartbreak
capital of the sports world. And you just become a
bigger dick than Art Modell. How unbelieveable is
THAT? And amazingly? That isn't the most disappointing
part of the story.
If any of you for a second think
Jordan would have joined the Lakers to play with Magic
after getting his ass handed to him by the Pistons
when he was TWENTY FIVE years old - you clearly
haven't the slightest idea what Jordan was about. Or
Magic... or Bird for that matter. Even Barkley or
Ewing - all of them. You don't JOIN them you
COMPETE against them. Hell Kobe was trying to
LEAVE the Lakers because of not being the man... and
HE WAS RIGHT. To be an upper-echelon player,
you are the leader of your team and you win a ring.
Period. However, if you're at the end of your career -
I get pulling a KG and joining up with the Celts to
get a ring. Clyde Drexler did it with the Rockets,
Malone tried to do it with the Lakers. It does indeed
carry an *asterick when you get a championship like
that... but it's acceptable in the minds of most. At
25? Twenty-five? When your team had the best record in
the NBA the past two seasons!?!?! 66 WINS? What?
You go join Dwayne Wade's team who already has a ring?
Huuuuuuuuuuuuuh? talk about killing your own brand in
one sentence. I mean killing it. Say
goodbye to the big endorsements, the MVPs, anything
that has to do with "King James" because you just
CHOSE to be a Pippen when you have the skills to be a
Jordan. But clearly, LeBron does NOT have the mindset
of a leader. Which is so freaking disappointing to me.
Soooooooooo disappointing. Of course they'll win a
championship together if not multiple titles because
they have 2 of the Top 5 players in the league and
arguably 3 of the top 10. And players will be lining
up to play with them for the league minimum just to
ride that wagon... What, the, fuck. One of the bigger
pussy moves I've ever witnessed in the NBA. I keep
thinking of the big names from the 80s and 90s and how
they just simply would never do this. Ever. You can
say "well jordan had pippen, and magic had kareem..."
BLAH BLAH BLAH. Cleveland won 66 games last
freaking year (72 is the all-time record) LeBron had
the talent around him. In his defense he had a
mediocre coach (which THEY CHANGED), but he
should've either stayed in Cleveland or gone to New
York or Chicago. Period. A place where you are
unequivocally the man and YOU lead the team.
Everything he does in Miami will have an asterick now.
And I'll say it now: "No way he spends the rest of his
career there". No way. This will be broken up sooner
than we think.
And I cannot WAIT to root
against this team next season. Man is anyone happier
than Kobe right now? Do you realize how impressive it
will be if he threepeats with the Lakers against THAT
stacked team? Ties Jordan's titles by beating a
Super-Team? Sheeeeeeeeeeeeit. He will have a case for
being the best ever at that point. An argument that
needs to STOP BEING ARGUED until he is done.
These haters on Kobe (RHETT RHETT RHETT) are
pathetic. Let the man finish his remarkable career,
and then we'll talk. This from one of the biggest MJ
fans in the world.
5) Oh yeah - this
was incredible
YouTube recently expanded their
time limit to 15 minutes allowing me to only slightly
edit my Jordan Documentary from when I met him in
1995 and upload it. I planned on doing it on November
9th (the 15 year anniversary) but figured I'll do it
early so people can enjoy it, and then do the
anniversary entry in November. People
are definitely digging it,
and watching it again - it really is extraordinary how
rare the footage is. The sounds from the bench are so
clear... and it really is just something you do not
see very often. I'm extremely proud of the video and
believe it or not? No more than 3 or 4 people have
ever seen it before this. Isn't that bizarre? I made
it, Burgundie and my dad saw it... and seriously?
That's it. I put it in a box and never took it out
again. <shakes head> I mean, before the internet
what were you going to do? Very glad true fans get to
enjoy this. And it's so nice to see comments from
people that are so positive. Almost everything
I do is mixed (as are all things on the internet)
but this is universally so exciting for Jordan fans
they're nearly shitting themselves when they happen
upon it. It really is quite a treasure.
6) Marathon
Meltdown
So freaking aggrivated. So
I met up with Natilly Boals early in July
(mentioned her in 2008 for getting me the tape of my
performance at Otterbein back in the day) whom
I went to college with and mentioned
I wished I had someone to run the marathon with
me and she said: "I've said the exact same
thing..." Funny considering she's in a wheelchair,
heh, but we have yet to figure out what to call that.
We constantly fuck up and say run/walk about
everything (you can't imagine how many euphamisms
require you to walk). My favorite was "Alright, are
you sitting down?" and she would laugh "That I am
Adam." (sigh). ANYWAY - obviously has a great sense of
humor. So I was set, I came back and started
running to see if I could pull it off. I was
going to make my choice on July 31st. I told myself if
I could easily run 10K ('bout 6 1/2 miles) I
would start to train for the full marathon ('bout 4 of
those) and I'd run it with her in Columbus on October
17th. Man I went all out. Bought shoes, downloaded
training schedules, got all the stretches down...
I was really, really serious about it. The day I
left to come back for Andyman's funeral I went a bit
over 10K (8 miles to be exact) and felt pretty decent.
I was way ahead of schedule and my muscles were
fine, and cardio-vascularly I was great. I was
amazed at how quickly I could do this,
considering I was 30 pounds overweight. As the days
passed however, it was clear I had done something
very bad to my left knee and now a month later? I'm
completely screwed. I can't run 20 feet. I haven't the
slightest idea what it is, and am just PISSED. 'Cause
damnit, everything I could control? I had it.
Man, I had it. I can do this. And relatively easily.
But you just can't control something that is wrong
with your body. Real injury has got to be the most
frustrating thing in the world. I mean, I've said this
a million times before: I'm not an athlete. I don't
have the body/joints for it. I do it cause I'm strong
willed - but I hate every second of it. It's the
discipline to fight through things you hate that I
enjoy. I hate every second of running. I want to
stop every single mile... but welcome to The Journey.
That's why I do it... or did it. Now? I actually think
I need surgery. I mean, I can do little things
like four square, even basketball or what not - but
the act of actually jogging? That weight-bearing
motion? Not even close. It's really bad. I wish I had
insurance. :( The one highlight of course is that I'm
now able to concentrate on weight loss with my
exercise bike. Marathon training is not ideal of
weight loss but, since I can't do that? I'll be
back down to my fighting weight - right around the
beginning of October. Maybe then I'll be able to run?
<shakes head> I hate that I can't run that thing
in October. DAAAAAAAAAMNIT.
7) Friedman back
in TV
Lost in all the craziness in July
is that Steve Friedman (the guy that hired me at CBS)
is back in TV after a nearly 3 year hiatus. He's the
executive producer of the Dylan Ratigan show on MSNBC.
I emailed him immediately asking if there was
ANYTHING I could do. I would move to NY in a
heartbeat. Rent out the house and just GO. I would do
almost anything at this point - and I'm really just
waiting on his reply to see what the next step would
be. His correspondence with me in the past 3 years
however has been remarkably sparse and this may just
be one of those irons that never gets hot... but my
heart certainly skipped a beat when I heard about
it. Too bad I'm a month late on the news.
:(
8) Ambition:
Gone.
Simply put. It's waned all year,
but I have none at the moment and haven't this entire
year. It frightens me, but I just don't care.
I need help. I can't start on my own right now
and if something I've created in the past 11 years
isn't enough to get me where I'm supposed to be? Then
I'm not getting there. 'Cause I am 100% burnt out.
It's a very, very scary time for this project and for
me personally. I am considering selling everything and
running away to another country. At least the journey
entries would be good. I know I've said it all year,
but it's been so prolonged now that there's no denying
that this is the lowest point of this story so far. I
need help. I need someone to point me in a
direction, because I simply cannot keep running
without it. Done. Done. Done.
And you know? 8 it is. Man you
know it's bad when I can only pull of 8
randoms. Heh.
