Chariots of Fire

This weekend Matthew and Brad reconnected in a romantic getaway in Sedona.


They allowed Shanna and I to tag along because we are curious about the supernatural and metaphysical worlds and Sedona is a hotbed for aging hippies and new agers who know a lot about UFO's and auras.

Matthew getting "educated" at the Ye Olde UFO Store.

it was a great trip. Thanks Kesbones.


.......Oh yeah, since we were in town we decided to run a 1/2 marathon. No biggie.

Correction: HUGE BIGGIE. Since our August pledge to run a half marathon Shanna and I have logged quite a few miles jogging/chatting.

We ended our 6 long months of training (way tooo long) by joining our fellow runners in Sedona to run 13.1 miles of the HILLIEST course I could have ever imagined. The scenery was beautiful, The mini snickers were delicious, The Ibuprofen was plentiful, the display of flesh and spandex was mind boggling, and the finish line was one of the sweetest sites I have ever seen.

Matthew showing his support and devotion by touching my armpits after the race, yikes!

Shanna and I getting our post race stretch on at the Giant gas station. If you wanna see my medal, good luck. Either I lost it or Brad has stolen it and is secretly wearing it under his shirt. If you wanna see more pics you can check it here.
If you wanna ask me how I started this sojourn never having run more that 1 consecutive mile in my life to becoming a professional athlete, don't bother I will tell you anyway.

2nd Annual Ryan's b-day w/ the Suns

in honor of an age old tradition celebrating ryan's birthiest day ever, he took matthew on a date to see the suns play. it ended up being the suns 2nd biggest margin of victory ever (48 points), so that was basically real nice, but on a sadder note it was most likely the last time we'll be able to see this suns squad in action before they trade amare and steve nash.
thanks to carla for the tickets, steve for losing the friendship competition, jason richardson for playing a great game, and most of all ryan, for being the greatest friend for a second consecutive celebration. see you next year.

bff's

about to tip off for a 48 point blow-out

matthew's height advantage almost assuredly garuntees victory over diana turasi

ryan and amare are soaring with the eagles with those wingspans

Better Know A Beatle (part 1 of 4)

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What We Headbanged To In '08

Lindsay Favorite Albums 2008

• Vampire Weekend - vampire weekend
• MGMT - oracular spectacular
• Lykki Li - youth novels
• Cut Copy - in ghost colours
• Girl Talk - feed the animals

Matthew Favorite Albums 2008
40 tokyo police club - elephant shell
39 the notwist - the devil, you + me
38 animal collective - water curses - ep
37 the very best - the very best' mixtape
36 t-pain - thr33 ringz
35 lykke li - youth novels
34 land of talk - some are lakes
33 beach house - devotion
32 david byrne & brian eno - everything that happens will happen today
31 albert hammond jr. - como te llama?
30 young jeezy - the recession
29 fleet foxes - sun giant - ep
28 crystal stilts - alight of night
27 stephen malkmus and the jicks - real emotional trash
26 ruby suns - sea lion
25 los campesinos! - we are beautiful, we are doomed
24 m83 - saturdays=youth
23 the hold steady - stay positive
22 girl talk - feed the animals
21 spiritualized - a&e
20 beck - modern guilt
19 no age - nouns
18 mgmt - oracular spectacular
17 okkervil river - the stand ins
16 the dodos - visiter
15 plants and animals - parc avenue
14 t.i. - paper trail
13 bon iver - for emma, forever ago
12 blitzen trapper - furr
11 deerhunter - microcastle/weird era cont.
10 miles benjamin anthony robinson - miles benjamin anthony robinson
9 los campesinos! - hold on now, youngster
8 fleet foxes - fleet foxes
7 tv on the radio - dear science
6 cut copy - in ghost colours
5 wolf parade - at mt. zoomer
4 kanye west - 808's and heartbreak
3 vampire weekend - vampire weekend 2 lil wayne - tha carter III
1 the walkmen - you & me

Don't Shoot!!!

To all who may be struggling with a last minute gift idea for the elderly or disabled in your life, get ready to send me a thank you note because I am going to throw you a bone. I came across this story while listening to NPR and it made me feel foolish that last Christmas I gave my aging Grandmother a hot water bag in a faux fur liner and not THIS.

Her very own, elderly and senile friendly HAND GUN!!! The clear choice for the disabled, easily startled and alarmed loved ones in your life. When thinking of my own Grandmother, a Tom Clancy super fan, I thought "I can not think of a single downside to this gift." The 2nd amendment loving manufacturers of the first ergonomically correct hand gun are marketing the Palm Pistol as a defense mechanism for the elderly against home intruders and ungrateful Grand Children. Despite being denied by the FDA to classify the Palm Pistol as a medical device and therefore make it available by prescription through medicare, I would wager a bet that they are still going to be successful. They are after all targeting one of the more paranoid demographics of our great nation.

A Family of Winners (not wieners)

There are two things that the Brown's do well, look good and win. And that is exactly what we were doing Sunday night. Matthew kicked things off by winning the betting pool we started at the beginning of the Amazing Race (and he wants his five dollars: Jimmy, Allison, Mindy and Ashley).

And I finished the night by embarrassing all of the people at this table with my insane Scrabble Skills.

The embarrassed loser's in question.

The Scrabble board that carried me to victory. If you notice in the lower left hand corner you will see the seven letter, 149 point word that slayed my competitors.

How do you score a 149 point word? Just call up the scrabble master (my new handle) and I will let you in on how I get all my pretty little tiles lined up in a row.

Operation Humble Kanye

Nobody ever has, but if they ever did, both of us would undoubtedly answer the question "who are some of your favorite humans in this world that you can think of off the top of your head right now?" with a list containing some of the following:

stephen colbert
kanye west

and the list usually stops there. so lately we've been pumped up because theres been a lot of those two to go around. in addition to his nightly tv show, Colbert has a Christmas special out on DVD, A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift Of All and a soundtrack to accompany it (featuring musical performances by other favorite humans of ours: Leslie Feist and Toby Keith). And Kanye has a really really good album 808s and Heartbreak that just came out.
But apparently the world can only handle so much awesomeness at one time before a major beef breaks out -- think Biggie vs. Tupac, Jay-Z vs. Nas, Shaq vs. Kobe, or 50 Cent vs. anyone. So the inevitable has happened and now Kanye and Colbert are beefing.

To catch you up, this is how it all started on Dec. 1st:

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Operation Humble Kanye

Colbert at Christmas
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Green Screen
Bill O'Reilly Interview

Then the next night, Dec. 2nd, Kanye hardly kept his Love Lockeddown when he responded on some nerd website called Twitter (?) with a rated 'R' message that is just a lot too much for this blog to handle, but Colbert gives you the 411 in the next clip from Dec. 4th:

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Operation Humble Kanye - Stephen Beats Kanye

Colbert at Christmas
Colbert Christmas DVD

Green Screen
Bill O'Reilly Interview

This kind of stuff really revs my engine. I hope it never ever ends.

-- matthew