There Is Only One Sinnacle

I love Monopoly but sadly you look like a total dork asking people to play Monopoly with you. When I was 16 I played in a Best of Toronto Monopoly Tournament. It was me, this 13 year girl. this mid 30′s banker and some college student. The Monopoly tournament was decided on who had the most assets after 90 minutes of play. Long story short I counted in my head that I had $800 more in asset then the 13 year girl. It was my turn to roll and I was on St James Place place and she had the Red’s all hotel’d up. It was less then a minute left and at the start of the tournament the tournament director clearly said you have a minute to roll the dice or lose your turn. Since it was less than a minute left I said to the tournament director “I technically don’t have to roll this dice don’t I?” The tournament director then said ‘Well, Yes but that would be bad sportsmanship.” Fuck sportsmanship this is Monopoly I just leaned back and watch the clock count down. The best part was this little girl’s family was there and everyone from her parents to grandmother were screaming and swearing at me. Yes, I’m a prick but I didn’t care I wanted to win my table and advance. So naturally the clock stops and because I’m an awful human being I then rolled the dice. Of course I rolled seven and would of landed on Indiana Avenue.

I love music and I also hate talking about music cause I respect the fact there is no right and wrong. You like who you like and I respect that. With that out of the way I’m going to be a hypocite to those words as I loved reading about a protest of people annoyed at U2 dodging taxes in Ireland. U2 is the wal-mart of music. Widely accessible but utterly swallow. Bono goes on about making the world a better place yet with Ireland in trouble they paid their taxes to the Netherlands. I’m tired of seeing Bono rubbing shoulders with world leaders just sing With or Without You damnit.

As for me I stopped liking most music after 1989 (U2 ended for me after the Joshua Tree). Today I mostly like bands who sound like 80′s bands. The older I get the more I love the Smiths. It’s weird to me as they are uplifting. The second life knocks you down I can play a Smiths song and know that someone relates and it isn’t the end of the world. Also in the 25 years since they have broken I have yet come across a band who comes close to the Smiths.

I was thinking about something the other day going past the not one, not two, but three shoe repair stores in my area. I’m in my early 30′s and I have never even considering going to a shoe repair store. I then took an informal poll of ten people who a) give me a weird look as to why I’m asking this question and b) then answered no they’ve never been a shoe repair store. To top it off I called my dad who when I was a kid for two years wore a busted sandle with a strap falling to the side and he too never been to a shoe repair store and he is old and cheap.

In other words how in the world hasn’t the shoe repair business gone the way of the old Italian guy riding his bike and ringing his bell to sharpen knifes or the Cynar trucks full of cheaply made pop? I’m convinced that if you quietly walk into a shoe repair store and ask for a large amouth of Crystal Meth Vincenzo will take you downstairs to his sercet lab.

Six months ago the idea came into my head to create a new website but me being lazy I decided to sit on it cause I didn’t have the time to build a website from the ground up. Six months later I decided to merge everything into this website that I have three years built into it. First off none of the soccer stuff is changing basically everything I’ve done on this site won’t change. Every morning I’ll do my EPL Gossip and other stuff about soccer that interests me. What I am doing is adding on to the site.

Now I’m not changing the world or anything. I’m just making this site to an overall blog where I’ll give my warped view about things that pop into my head. So for whatever reason if you wanted to know more about me then you are in luck. I also know that most of you are either from oversea’s or the States. With that being the case I’m sorry about boring you to death about topics only people from Toronto may get from time to time. You can scroll down to the Soccer stuff and as always thank you for visiting.