Saturday, September 6, 2025

Geaux Cougzzzzz

 Just drove into Pullman - it’s the drive into town that makes me super nostalgic haha makes me feel old at 32 - reminds me of my early to mid 20s and just seeing all the stuff around town - so reminiscent haha it’s crazy how long it feels since I saw this stuff on a regular basis - it’s weird how a place becomes connected to a specific time of your life - like i literally felt like I was 22 as we drove into town haha it was this strange overwhelming feeling of nostalgia and events that have happened already and days and years passed 

Places become connected to times in our lives! And going to those places brings us back to those times in the closest way to reality as possible 

Thursday, September 4, 2025

Joke of the Day

 ๐ŸŒฒWeed is the Matthew McConaughey of drugs - I keep gettin older, I keep stayin the same age 

Saturday, August 9, 2025

⛳️A Totally Honest Review of Happy Gilmore 2

 It was pretty good for a sequel 29 years in the making - like a reunion for your high school golf/hockey team.

Lots of physical humor - lots of schtick - like WWE but more fake - i enjoyed the numerous cameos - tons of famous ppl strewn about the film - fun to see, like Where’s Waldo? It was pretty Waldope - haha 

Fans of the original film should definitely watch this one - not cuz it’s the greatest sequel ever but it pays a lot of homage to the OG 1996 golf comedy classic - it’s a fun game of Who has aged the best? The Sandman looks like Tiger Forest - idk haha just wanted to shoehorn that one in there

Writing is weird cuz I don’t do it much anymore and wonder if I have lost my magic touch! Haha idk is it like riding a bike or maybe hitting a baseball - is writing a practice or a science or an art or all the above 

Anyway HG 2 was a serviceable sequel (The Serviceable Sequels sounds like a killer garage emo band) ๐Ÿ–ค and I def recommend everyone to watch it - but you have to watch the OG Happy Gilmore first or this one will literally make no sense haha it is super tied to the first one and constantly shows flashbacks and gives nods to the OG - as you would expect - anyway check it out on Netflix and have a wonderful day - thanks for reading and also listen to my podcast Summer House Stan ๐Ÿ–️ wherever you get your podcasts and check out my five self-published books and old columns for The Daily Evergreen, The Sports Quotient, and Last Word On Sports - and thanks for stoppin by ✌️ 

Friday, July 4, 2025

10 reasons why I love South Dakota Summahs


 10 Reasons why I ๐Ÿ’œ Summah Vacay @ South Dakota Grandma’s 

  1. It’s Summahhhhhh - love the weather and a great time of year
  2. Baseball season - self-explanatory - America’s pastime 
  3. Fourth of July & watching fireworks ๐Ÿงจ ๐ŸŽ† from Grandma’s porch 
  4. It’s tradition - 4th consecutive Summah my Dad and I have done this road trip from Spokane, WA to Rapid City, SD 
  5. ๐ŸŒญNathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest and the Mustard Belt (which sounds like the nickname for the Pittsburgh metropolitan area)
  6. The road trip from Spokane, WA with my Dad (listening to Bill Simmons & Rewatchables, stayed at Grandpa’s in Great Falls, MT, camped outside of Glendive, MT, swimming in Clark Fork, just driving in the middle of nowhere) 
  7. Spending time with Grandma @ 88 yrs old - pretty special to have this time with her
  8. Putting green @ Grandma’s & listenin to music & podcasts while putting and flipping up the ball 
  9. The change of pace from everyday life
  10. South Dakota itself - it’s beautiful, so different from WA, not many ppl, cool touristy stuff around Rapid City, Mt Rushmore & Hill City & Lake Sylvan from National Treasure 2

Saturday, June 28, 2025

The Pod

Yoooooo thanks for checkin out the blog everyone - huge numbers lately especially internationally - make sure to also check out my podcast Summer House Stan, my 5 self-published books, and other writing work - thank you for bein here!

Saturday, May 31, 2025

A Totally Honest Review of Mission Impossible - The Final Reckoning


 Where were you in 1996? Let’s see how far we’ve come (shoutout Matchbox Twenty). A fun, nostalgic romp - Tom Cruise runs, swims, jumps, hangs on, crawls under, gasps, yells, perhaps dies and comes back to life, punches, pokes, stabs, tackles, flops, trips, and much more fun stuff often involving unsuspecting schlubs.

Tom Cruise is cold and wet a lot - he’s good at pretend shiver and convulsing. It’s good to see the whole gang one last time - like a spy school reunion. Simon Pegg is a wonderful wanker. Ving Rhames has the voice of a sturdy angelic brute. Hayley Atwell is charming and lovely. Esai Morales and Tom Cruise are in a heated competition for the better looking 1962-born fella. Pom Klementieff is lethally silly. It seemed like the CIA crew was working in a sauna, they were sweatin’ like a husky in Houston. Fun, fun movie and a great way to spend a warm ultimate day of May - 3 hours in the cinema with my dad - some classic father-son bro-action-thriller bonding - Tom Cruise has been uniting fathers and sons for over 4 decades, what a living legend he is, I’m excited to see what he may do next, like jump off the Grand Canyon but then he has a lil mini bike that somehow flies outta nowhere and he catches it in the air and rides it on top of a bunch of trees and over a bunch of school busses in an Evel Knieval ode to greatness but maybe Tom Cruise can play Evel in a movie and do even crazier stunts or some fun stuff let’s make it happen shoutout David from Survivor, also a stunt man, maybe he can be in the next Tom Cruise movie and it’s just Tom Cruise as like a Mr. Miyagi at a school for stuntmen and he’s like “Wax this…foooooooo” and leaps off a helicopter with a bungee cord on his buttocks. 

Also I totally bro’d out and cried near the end of this one - bro warrior tears of a chompion - God bless America - I also sobbed a bit during the last one back in July 2023 and Top Gun: Maverick the Summer before - maybe it’s my personal connection to Hollywood, Tom Cruise’s undeniably cute face and small town charm, action thriller bro-mances where the bro-mance is between Man and the air (like Parkour but for old guys - Rosa Parkours - Cross-git’r’done - I love America and Tom Cruise movies, if truck nuts were a movie, I would camp out like people getting a new iPhone but I wouldn’t have sleeves or shame - a chaw and a prayer - slap a bumper sticker on me that says Billy Murrica, now I have an NBA playoff game to watch - Geaux NYK in Indiana I want Game 7 on Monday - wonder if Tom Cruise watches the NBA playoffs or perhaps he’s in a hyperbaric chamber listening to Zendaya, he probably just leapt off something, his feet must be made of cement and Greek Yogurt - what a great man, though, is he from upstate New York or upEarth World this guy is a legend love T-Cruise and go Knicks and have a great day also check out my pod and books and old articles for Daily Evergreen - what if they called it Seminole-aid haha or Hurricane-aid (which sounds like a charity) or Hurricaid - just saw the Gatorade commercial haha does Coke own one and Pepsi owns Powerade or what let’s go

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“Colorful thing”