Blog-a Balooza! Day 7: Fun with Dorm Life

Well, well, well....what have we here? Day seven of Blog-a-Balooza! you say? And you doubted me. Well looks like I showed you! (Wow, I don't even know who I'm talking to anymore.)

So with this being the final day of Blog-a-Balooza!, I'm a bit drained on ideas of what to blog about. So I figured I'd just share some of my favorite sites that I like to waste time on. I figure if you're here reading this, you must be looking for ways to kill time, so I'll go ahead and help you in your search.

Fun With Craigslist is a blog started and maintained by my friend/co-worker Tyler. We're actually best friends/best co-workers. He won't admit to that if you ask, but we are. The dude is beyond hilarious and innovative and has been for as long as I've known him, so it's cool to see him use this as an outlet for his creative abilities. I could go into detail on what the site is, but just click the link and look, I guarantee you'll laugh. Possibly even out loud. An 'LOL' if you will.

Dorm Life is one of the best things I've come across this year. It's a web series that focusses on a group of 10 fictional college students (plus some key role players) living on a dorm floor. It's shot in the same style as The Office where there's a camera crew on the floor filming the lives of these fictional students, complete with private confessionals where the characters reflect on things to their web camera's. I'm not very good at reviewing things, but I'll tell you this series is awesome all around. Extremely well written, terrific acting, great camera work. It's hilarious and you find yourself bonding with the characters as you watch. I really appreciate it as someone who lived in the dorms for 4 years but it seems to be a show that is enjoyable regardless of whether you've shared the experience of living on campus. About two weeks after I discovered this show, I randomly ran into one of (if not THE) main characters of the show, Mike (who's real name is Chris Smith). We were both in the Chipotle in Culver City and the dude was beyond cool. And very humbled to be recognized on the street, telling me it doesn't happen too often. But he's a really talented guy (as all the contributing members of the show are) and aside from starring in it, he edits and I believe does a fair share of the writing. He probably does a bunch more too. But I thought it was funny that I ran into him RIGHT after I started getting into the show, otherwise I would've just walked right by him and missed out on some nice conversation. Anywho, go watch Dorm Life.

I don't really have a whole lot to say about these other sites other than they're funny and I enjoy them. Check them out some time:

http://awkwardfamilyphotos.com/

http://mylifeisaverage.com/

http://goudawooda.blogspot.com/

Blog-a Balooza! Day 6: Pen15

Six days in a row of updating! That would mean I'm one day and one update away from reaching my goal of updating for one week straight. Oh Blog-a-Balooza, you're looking to be a success!


Over the past few months I've been coming across pictures on random Google image searches as well as taking my own pictures of objects or designs that all have a common theme. Only problem is, I can't figure out what that common theme is. All I know is that all of these objects/designs spoke to me. They stood out to me and they stood proud and firm. You could almost even say I was attracted to them in some way. Not sure what it is, maybe you could look at them and give me some insight....

Blog-a-Balooza! Day 5: Who is Kevin Schatz?

I was just introduced to the Cha Cha text service last week. If you're not familiar, it's basically just a service where you text a question in and it will answer the question for you. It's really designed for people who don't have the internet on their phones for when they're out and about and need to know something like the start time of a game or movie or something like that. Or it's for people who are too lazy to Google something themselves. But it's a pretty cool service because it's free (aside from standard text rates that do apply and a quick advertisement or two that are sent right after you ask the question) and because it tends to be pretty accurate. Anywho, the reason I bring Cha Cha up is because it BLEW MY MIND the first time we used it. A few friends and I were out drinking and we were a few beers deep and definitely feeling them when someone suggested we ask Cha Cha who I was. We literally sent it "Who is Kevin Schatz?". It initially asked for more imformation, needing to know where I was from. So we text back "Lomita, CA". Again, bear in mind that we were all a bit tipsy at this time, but the response amazed me. Here is the word for word response from Cha Cha: "Kevin Schatz works for KROQ (an alternative rock station in LA), & primarily answers the request lines. He's also known as Gouda." Now in case you don't know me, that is EXACTLY right! I mean, right down to the fact that I PRIMARILY answer the phones. I do a few different things for the station, and the request line in just the main thing I do. So we were all pretty much blown away. I had to look at the phone several times and I have to admit, I was a little freaked out that Cha Cha was telling me who I was. I don't even know you Cha Cha!!! Now even in our drunken state, we were smart enough to realize that someone is simply Googling these questions. And they MUST'VE gotten this answer from my Facebook or Myspace. Only problem was I couldn't remember typing any of that information on any of those sites. In fact, I KNEW I hadn't shared that information on my Facebook or MySpace. So we were all pretty boggled as to how Cha Cha was so precise in it's answer. It wasn't until getting home later that night that I scoured my various websites for this info and eventually found my way to this very blog that you're reading right now. I ask you now to glance over to the right side of my page and scroll down or up a little (depending on where this particular entry is on your page) and tell me if you see anything familiar. Are you telling me? 'Cause I can't hear you. Well regardless, Cha Cha's answer pretty much came word for word from the info I provided on this blog. I must say, it's still pretty impressive because this blog isn't the first thing to pop up when searching "Kevin Schatz Lomita, CA". In fact it doesn't even come up in the first dozen searches, if at all. So someone dug around my various social networking sites to get their answer. And for that they are to be commended. I just hope whoever found my info has come back to read my blog more. Have you Cha Cha? Have you???

Blog-a Balooza! Day 4: Kid Quotes

This would be my 4th straight day of Blog-a-Balooza! so I guess that means I'm still on pace to make it all seven days. Really though, that doesn't sound too impressive.....seven straight days of updating a blog? Oh boy, watch out for me! It's kind of even sadder when I realize that hardly anyone even reads this blog. But I like to think that someone will come across this down the line and be like, "Oh look, he updated seven straight days in a row and called it Blog-a-Balooza! How cute, he must've thought it was such a good idea at the time....poor guy..."

Anywho, for today's blog I thought I'd share with you some of my favorite kid quotes from when I worked for an After School Program by my house. As much of a pain as some kids can be, my goodness they say the funniest things! They don't hold anything back and it makes for some good laughs. I have quite a few "conversation" quotes that go back and forth between me and the kid or two kids or something like that. But I find that the one liners are usually the best. So that's what I'm sharing here. All names have been changed for the confidentiality of the young ones. With that said, please enjoy:

Jeffery: Hey! Why does he get delicious pudding?!

Nick: You know, some people wear their pajamas under their clothes.

Greg: Jeffery just kissed my ear.

David: You smell like my dad.

Cole: Kevin he looks like you. (Pointing at a picture of Kevin from The Backstreet Boys.)

Nick: You know, most electric fences are very dangerous.

Eric: If you cut off your butt, do you die?

April: I ate all of my corn nuts without drinking ANY water!

Greg: One time in preschool, this kid didn't wear his underwear.

Eric: I was going to the bathroom then this happened. (Pointing at his wet pants.)

Blog-a Balooza! Day 3: Mentos, The Fizz Maker!

This is Greg , Chuck and I at Greg's aunt Laurel's house. She really wanted to test the Mentos/Coke thing and had all the necessary supplies to do so. I hadn't heard of this Mentos/Coke reaction so I was pleasantly surprised. The best part is that little fizz sound when the camera looks into the post-experiment Coke. That and the fact that the Coke isn't Coke at all, but actually Stars and Stripes. God Bless America.

Blog-a-Balooza! Day 2: The Blueberry Edition

Well this is day two of Blog-a-Balooza! in which I am attempting to update my blog each day for one week straight. So far so good, I suppose. And today's entry recaps the adventure of a determined little blueberry!

So I had two friends in town earlier this week, Greg and Chuck, who took off to Nor Cal for the end of their road trip yesterday. So to show them off in the best way I knew how, I took them out to breakfast at IHOP. Not only did I take them for pancakes, I took them to an INTERNATIONAL HOUSE of pancakes. Damn I'm a good host! We all enjoyed our various breakfast foods and I personally ordered the Double Blueberry Pancakes. Now obviously with a name like Double Blueberry Pancakes, I was expecting there to be quite a few blueberries on these pancakes. But holy crap, I'm pretty sure they forgot to give me pancakes with my blueberries! These things were COVERED in blueberries. Funniest thing about that is I'm really not that big a fan of blueberries. I just really like them in pancake form with the bomb blueberry syrup IHOP gives you. Anywho, we all devoured our meals and said our goodbyes as Greg and Chuck took off on their road trip. I went home and took a quick nap to let my breakfast settle. But apparently these blueberries (or atleast one of these blueberries in particular) had other ideas. I wake up from my nap and feel a slight bowel movement, which I've found is a common occurrence among human beings. So I take care of my business and after I'm done I take a look in the bowl, as is generally habit for me. I'm surprised and somewhat worried to see a small darkish object sitting at the top of the bowl. I get as close as I can without making myself vomit only to discover that this small dark object is a FREAKING BLUEBERRY! I had just POOPED a WHOLE BLUEBERRY!! I didn't know what to do. Dig it out and save it? Take a picture? Sit back down and see if I could squeeze another one out? I sadly did none of these things and instead proudly glared into the toilet bowl in awe of my accomplishment. I regret not taking a picture as proof, but I doubt many people would have enjoyed this visual as much as I would.

So there are a few thoughts I've had on this experience since it occured. First, this blueberry made it's great escape from my body not more than three hours after I originally put it in my mouth. I'm no digestion expert, but I'm pretty sure food normally takes a little longer to digest than that. So the saddest thing of all this is that my body rejected the valuable nutrients inside of the blueberry and instead just kept passing it along at each digestion station in my body. Quite the determined blueberry; my sister dubbed it "The Little Blueberry That Could".

One of the other blueberry thoughts I had came as I was watching the Dodger game last night. I realized that this blueberry may just be the ultimate sign of my devotion to the Dodgers. Dodger fans always brag about how they bleed Dodger blue...but I'm pretty sure none of them have bled any color other than some shade of red. So maybe they're really Cincinatti Reds fans? BUT, from the moment that blueberry found it's way into the toilet bowl yesterday, I earned the right to officially tell people that I POOP DODGER BLUE!! Or, I poop Dodger blueberries anyways. Maybe the Dodgers should look into selling Dodger Blueberries. I'd buy them. Back to the point though, Dodger fans, be jealous. None of you can say you poop Dodger blue. The truth is in the toilet bowl...

BLOG-A-BALOOZA!

I've decided that, while I don't want to be an annoying blogger who constantly updates about the stupidest things, I do think I need to update with a bit more frequency. So to get myself in the habit of updating, I've decided that starting today, this week will be known as "Blog-A-Balooza!". And the goal is to update my blog once each day for one whole week. My guess is this will last for two days. But who knows, maybe I won't even make it that fa