A Teal of Two Schwettys Fact: The only thing better than eating salmon for breakfast is eating salmon-flavored Schwetty Bocce Balls for dinner. In Week 4 of the Spring DC Bocce League, Change You Can Bocce feasted on their salmon-colored opponent in a 14-9 shellacking for the ages. Though The Beast, The Captain, and Mr. [...]
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Spring DC Bocce League: Week 2 Recap
May 1, 2009
Change You Can Bocce The 2009 spring bocce season has already offered its share of adversity. A 10-minute torrential downpour postponed Week 1, and DC Metro construction left Change You Can Bocce without two of its stars, Mr. Awesome and Dr. Clutch, for its Week 2 match against Bocce Ballers. Even worse, our Week 2 [...]
Tea(l)Bagging Party – You’re invited!
April 24, 2009
Tea(l)BaggingThe 2009 DC Bocce Spring season may have been postponed by a 15-minute thunderstorm that sent the District of Columbia into a whirlwind of uncontrollable fear and panic, but that didn’t stop our team, Change You Can Bocce, from showing up to Garfield Park last Tuesday night for our opening match. Of course, you wouldn’t [...]
Super Mario Kart Quest Update: New Mario Circuit 1 World Record
February 7, 2009
Despite claims to the contrary, my domination of all things Super Mario Kart continues to take the world by storm. Just this week, I shattered my own world records with brand new world record times for fastest lap and fastest race on Mario Circuit 1. Amazing! Red stars were added through sophisticated digital image editing [...]
The X-mas Super Mario Kart Challenge
December 30, 2008
Quite a lot has occurred during my 30 day, low-Internet diet. The Arizona Cardinals secured a playoff spot; my apartment complex lost all its electricity; I watched the entire Lord of the Rings series on TNT; and a new challenger has emerged in my quest to set all Super Mario Kart records on the SNES. [...]
A Questionably Questionable Question
October 23, 2008
Not that I would ever condone using any variation of the “Well, that’s the $64,000 question!” idiom, but I seem to have found myself regularly engaged in dialogues with people who do. In each instance, both the nature of the question and its associated dollar amount vary greatly. Sometimes its a $64K question; other times [...]
Rock Band Throwdown #1: AZ Attack
October 21, 2008
The best part about having exactly three friends is that nobody is ever left out of a Rock Band Throwdown. Last weekend, Richard, Brandon, Javan, and I dusted off our guitars and drumsticks and jammed to the tunes of our favorite bands, including Hole, Stone Temple Pilots, and Red Hot Chili Peppers. There is really [...]
The Super Mario Kart Quest continues…
September 25, 2008
While federal policymakers work to resolve our nation’s economic crisis, I have refocused all of my attention toward my quest to achieve world domination in Super Mario Kart. This time, I bring you eight new best race and best lap World Records. Click HERE to view the *official* TwinGalaxies.com press release announcing my accomplishments and [...]
Guess Who’s on The Oregashingon Trail?
September 15, 2008
Guess who had the bigger stomach ache after finishing their bubble tea? As far as I know, residents of Seattle love three things: 1) rain, or more accurately, the perception that it rains so much in Seattle that quality of life is severely compromised, a misconception that prevents millions of Americans from invading their city, [...]
Four Days After Christmas
December 29, 2003
One of my Christmas gifts was Balderdash, the self-proclaimed “Hilarious Bluffing Game” that you might remember from dozens of nights with Jasonand Brandon during our youth. While some of our classic definitions will be posted in the future, this journal entry will only detail the humorous contributions from our most recent Balderdash game. You see, [...]






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