Steve Geluso, Great Citizen

Today in Moses Lake, at the JV track meet where only the best athletes go, their was a horrible accident. As the girls 800 meter run started a row of sprinklers along the back straightaway of the track turned on and spewed water onto the track. The wind and sprinklers quickly discouraged most of the girls in the race so I, being the intuitive great citizen that I am, went over to a corner where the girls were getting hit by the water and stood on the sprinkler to keep it down. Some of the girls racing took time out of their stride to turn their heads to me and mutter out a small "thank you" and, well, those girls lost.

The race ended and I went on to doing other stuff. When the 200 meter race started there were a few people trying to keep the water off the athletes by just holding the sprinklers in another direction but they had nooooo easy solution to keep the sprinklers like that for the rest of the meet. That's when I knew that I had to step in and be a great citizen again by putting my unsurpassable intellect to use for the common good.

Taking careful note of my surrounds and how I could use them, I ran over to a trash can, ripped off the lid off, and sprinted over to the nearest "sprinkler control guard." I made direct eye contact with the goon and pointed slowly from the garbage can cover to the sprinkler. He looked back at me with a quizzical look on his face but let me approach his position slowly. I was gently setting the lid on top of the sprinkler when a ray of sun glanced off the shiny surface into the eyes of the goon sending him scampering away. The lid blocked the sprinkler perfectly and I fixed up two other sprinklers the say way to take the work out of other people's hands. Eventually other people caught on to what I was doing and grabbed trash can lids from all over the grounds to cover up the unwanted sprinklers. I had started a revolution and saved the day.

Seeing that my initial job of having the idea, putting it to use, and leading other people to do the same, was done, I walked around gloating about my efforts. I bragged to every semi-not-man-looking girl, "those sprinklers? yeah, they were pretty bad. they could have ruined the whole meet, you know? wellll.. as a matter of fact, I was the one who came up with the idea to put the trash can lids on top of them. pretty amazing, eh?" To which they would respond with furtive glances at me among their friends. Those glances didn't bother me much because I knew that they were all just checking me out.

After a few rounds of spreading the good news about my work I noticed that there were still two sprinklers that didn't have garbage can lids on top of them. Worse yet, there were not any more lids around to cover them! It was a crisis! Everyone in the entire stadium set their gaze upon me as I pulled out my sewing scissors and reached into the nearest lidless garbage can. I found two Gatorade bottles and cut their tops off so that the rest of the bottle could fit around the sprinklers. Then, I strode over to the last two sprinklers and capped them real good with the sprinkler-plug turned Gatorade bottles. Yet again, the design was perfect and not a single drop from the sprinklers was shed on to the track.

The funny thing was that no one recognized my valiant efforts and work done to save the track meet at all today. People were probably just told not to thank me today because that would demean the proper thanking that I have earned. The Moses Lake faculty is probably writing up a fancy official "thank you" right now with my name on it. I probably wont get the "thank you" letter until after they have finished casting the mold for the new statue in the track depicting my ingenuity, leadership and heroics shown today. And, of course, that statue wont be put up until after I have enough free time to set aside to attend the freakin' long ceremony and baby-kissing that will be needed to honor setting it up.

And from now on you can call me "Cann." Not only is it just a really cool sounding nickname but it also reminds me of who I am and what I have. I have a "Cann do attitude!" And that will be my catch phrase. Either that or "Only you, Cann, prevent forest fires!"

- Steve

Good Will Project of the Day

I don't really know how this all works, but apparently if you go to

THIS PAGE

and listen to the Losha's songs so that they may have a shot at joining Warped Tour.

I seriously have no idea how the site works. Apparently you have to listen to the songs allll the way through and then somehow they can have a chance at playing in Warped Tour. Let's get our boys out there!

- Steve

Post Secret

Go and check out PostSecret. It's an awesome site.

The main idea of the site is for people to mail in homemade postcards to whoever owns the site admitting a secret that they have never told anyone else before. There is some really funny stuff on there, especially this one:



- Steve

Post 1 of 1 for the Week

I noticed that the most visited part of the site was the pictures section. I can only assume that this is because that's the only real area that I have been keeping up in or that people are actually liking the pictures. Either way, I am giving you people what you seem to want and have posted two new cool sunsetty pictures.

In a semi-related topic I thought up the cooooooolest place for the next picture. I just need to wait for the right day now. Coooommme oooon sunshine. This one will be so awesome that you will poop your pants, but that's not really a story for show and tell.

Let's go see the pictures!"

- Steve

Teh P0p3

I am over here at Adam's house and I just read over his shoulder that the Pope has gotten his new e-mail adress, "benedictxvi@vatican.va." It's neat to see that he has an e-mail adress, but I still think that he should have chosen an adress like "PopeyJoe2005@vatican.va."

- Steve

Aggravating

Today I was paid a visit to the website of my server host to try and figure out why my tracking stats have been down for the past few days. The site always has a page full of special deals that are only being offered for the next 12 hours and always have a clock counting down in the center of the screen to add to the drama. The deal that they were showing today looked pretty good so I went ahead and checked it out further. While browsing through the billing plans I realized that the server hosting company has a referral program. If you get three people to sign up for their own hosting plans, then you get your next year of hosting for free. Sounds like a pretty good deal. And it is. It's just too bad that I have already been too good of a guy and hooked two good friends up with their own pages (which were both purchased while the company was having a huge 75% off what I pay for my hosting deal) without getting credit for the referrals. ARRRRRGH. Had I done that, I would only be one more sucker away from getting a free year of hosting!

*deep breath*

Anyone want their own website?

- Steve

Surprise, Surprise!

Anonymous once said "I think it's because they're expecting something REALLY good after all that junk, so they check back regularly."

And so here I am today presenting the Wall Steve Journal Forum.



Hopefully it wont suck. Hopefully. Go check it out, register and start foruming! Right now the forum is being focused on talking, art and events. Anything goes in the talking, or "Chillaxin" section of the forum. Movies, music, pictures, reading and writing stuff all goes in the "Art" section. Hopefully we can even get some fun stuff going on around town in the "Events" section. Just remember, since it is a forum and not a personally run blog, everything that sucks about it is your own fault. Make it good.

Travis suggested that I tell everyone to come to Richland High's production of "The Little Shop of Horrors." I decided to kick off the release of the new forum with the proposal that we make this play the first "real world event" for the forum. (where "real world event" means an event taking place in real life rather than on the internet.)

Join the forum. Come to the play. Have a great day.

- Steve

Star Wars L33t Trailer

Here's the trailer for Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith with l33t subtitles. It's some funny stuff. Real ROFL material.

L33t Star Wars

- Steve

Public Reminding Announcement

Just a reminder, I haven't completely forgotten about the pictures of music section quite yet. I threw some new stuff up there today, in fact.

On the other hand, I have completely forgotten about the Letters and Animation section.

- Steve

Pondering

Why is it that my hit counter always spikes when I am stuck in a rut and only post total crap?

- Steve

The Most Scrumtrulescent Sandwichy Fajita

I was going to whip up a batch of my famous Fajitas for the family tonight for dinner, but we were a bit low on all the necessary fajita-making supplies like microwaveable fajitas. So, being a man of the land, I decided to make use of what we had and make up my own unique fajitay thing.

It ended up being a double wrapped tortilla (because that's the only way that I can ever get tortillas closed) filled with thin fried chicken strips, corn off the cob, thinly sliced boiled potatoes, one super-buttery scrambled egg, cheddar cheese and sprinkled with strawberry jam. MMMMMM MM, it was delicious. I really don't know if it was more of a sandwich or a fajita, that's that I am calling it my sandwichy fajita.

I have always said that the secret to a good meal is color-coding. This particular meal had the pale yellows, tans and oranges of tortillas, fried chicken, corn, potatoes, scrambled eggs and cheddar cheese, with just a spruce of red from the strawberry jam. Taste AND color?! I am a culinary genuis.

Don't you diss my sandwichy fajita until you have tried it. Speaking of which, I'll sell a dozen of them to anyone who asks for only $90.

- Steve

The Ultimate Bank Robbery

I want to get a forum for the site. Then we could all site down and talk about cool stuff like this:

I think that someone could pull off a bank robbery using nothing but water balloons. Just get a team of four or five people in there to start off with and then start getting in people's faces and making a ruckus and the group would have everyone in the palms of their hands. Seriously. I mean, sure, they would have to throw some balloons around the place to show that they mean business and maybe even get a person or two wet, but it could be done. The effect would be even better if everyone trying to hold up the bank with water balloons acted with the same vigor that they would if they were holding a gun. They would have to yell at everyone in the same matter, get ready to throw balloons in peoples faces to scare them into submission and pretty much just act oblivious to the fact that they have water balloons instead of guns. The entire heist would have to be performed just as crazy as the restaurant hold up scene in "Pulp Fiction."

- Steve

The Best Story Ever

The most exciting and enthralling court case that I have ever read about used to be from "To Kill a Mockingbird." (That was at least until I saw the movie and the entire court scene was put to shame) I haven't read too many different court cases besides this to compare with one another, but today I found the most riveting court transcript ever.

The best part about this transcript is that it all actually happened. None of this is written by the drama geniuses in the writing departments for "Law and Order" or "The Practice" or other huge network TV shows, but it's what is actually going on in the MGM vs Grokster Supreme Court case.

When I read this transcript I can feel Mr. Verrilli searching hard for words and facts to back up his argument on behalf of MGM and only getting tied up by questions from the honorable Judges of the Court. I can practically see the sweat rolling down his face as the entire courtroom laughs at some of his statements. And I almost even feel sorry for the guy, but then I don't.

Either I have been reading some pretty horrible fiction or real life can actually be this real and awesome.

HERE'S THE TRANSCRIPT.
Read it while it's fresh.

- Steve

Tommy Shaw sent his first decent animation to me. You can see it over in the animations section.

The boys and I had a great TV night last night. We watched Sin City, which I "found" somewhere, over at Brandon's house, then Scrubs and The Office. Everything that we watched was amazing.

Sin City is an especially trippy movie. It is based off Frank Miller's comic book series, also entitled Sin City, and when I say "based off" I literally mean it. I read the entire "graphic novel" series before seeing the movie and the movie follows the comics so closely that I was remembering things from the comics that I hadn't seen in the movie yet, but I felt like I had. It's a hard thing to explain.

If you don't believe how closely the movie follows the original comics, then check out these panel to frame comparisons and see for yourself. The movie and the comic books are definitely not for families so be warned. You may not like what you see.

- Steve

Calling All Street Fighters

Late last night, when Brandon, Chad and I were beating Tyler with pillows, we came up with a super idea. A super DUPER idea.

We thought that it would be really cool to have a Pillow Fighting tournament down at Claybell park. We'd have some one on one matches, some tag team lineups and maybe an awesome five man team war all in the basketball court cage.

You'd only have to bring a pillow for the chance to be declared the best street pillow fighter ever! Wouldn't that be an awesome spring break?



So who all would actually show up for it?

- Steve

It's Spring Break...

...and there is nothing to write about.

There was a neat bluegrass band at church today called Brother's Keeper. There was a bass, a guitar, a banjo and a mandolin. They sang and played Bluegrass music.

I want to film my awesome movie idea "Cinderblock Feathers" soon, but I don't know who would be up for being in it. Pretty much all of the characters are girls and I don't know too many girls who are into making movies. It's not what you think it is.

I want to get a typewriter and a Vespa scooter. I probably wont get a typewriter for a while and doubt that I will ever get a Vespa.

My writing has lately lost any edge that it may have once had. Lemme see here...

*EDGE!*

...nope? Still not there.

Have a great spring break.

- Steve