Saturday Afternoon Dump: I Had McDonalds For Lunch

And you know what? It was delicious.

Yeah, I know that their burgers are 32% soy, or horse, or whatever. And yeah, I saw Super Size Me. I know McDonalds is probably worse for you than crack mixed with crystal meth mixed with cancer. Most of the time, I avoid the place. But once a month or so, I end up there for a meal, and it is fantastic. Do I care if it’s bad for me? OH HELL NO. Those new angus burgers they have are pretty solid. It’s like McDonalds finally figured out that grown ups like burgers too.

I’m trying to write this as I watch a documentary about Steve Bartman and his infamous interference during the 2003 NCLS between the Cubs and the Florida Marlins. And it is fascinating. They’re showing footage from inside Wrigley Field that night, and AT LEAST half of the people there legitimately wanted to kill the guy. It security hadn’t intervened, I’m pretty sure the guy would be dead. It’s been close to 10 years now, and Cubs’ fans just can’t forget about this. Yet, nobody remembers Cubs shortstop Alex Gonzalez dropping a tailor made double play ball which would have gotten the Cubs out the inning with their lead intact.

Besides Cub fans, the reason your team can’t win isn’t because of some stupid goat curse. It’s because God hates Cubs fans.

Song I Like And Therefore You Should Too

As much as it pains me to say this, I’m going to anyway. The new Nickelback song isn’t terrible. I’m not going to make you listen to it or anything, it just had to be said. Instead, in honor of how cold it was this week, this Arcade Fire song probably could have been my theme song.

Simpsons Quote

Troy McClure: Hi! I’m Troy McClure – you may remember me from such Fox TV specials as ‘Alien Nose Job’ and ’5 Fabulous Weeks of the Chevy Chase Show.

Gambling Is Fun

I went 2-1 last week. Nice work by Tim Tebow screwing me over. All he needed to do was keep it close, but apparently God does not approve of me making imaginary money off his boy.

I think the Giants will beat the 49ers, so I’m going to take them plus the 3 points. I’m going with Chicago to go into Nashville and beat the Predators. And finally, let’s go with Kim Clijsters to beat whoever she’s playing, since she has a funny name. Is betting on Tennis a new low for me? Discuss in the comments.

So I’ve booked my holidays, I’m heading to the lights of Sin City exactly 2 weeks from today. Will I wager actual cash on sports while I’m there? YOU KNOW IT. I will also place some cash on some of those ridiculous Super Bowl prop bets, because apparently I like throwing money away.

Overall record: 16-21-2

A Post You Might Have Missed

Wednesday will mark the 2nd anniversary of Financial Uproar. I know, I can’t believe it either. Considering my work ethic and attention span, I gave this thing a month, tops.

Anyhoo, go check out my first ever post in celebration. And would one of you buy me a cake, dammit? Also, don’t laugh at how bad that first post is. Please. I’ll cry if you do. Nobody wants to see that… again.

The More You Know

Good thing I’m not doing this on Wednesday, or my random Wikipedia goodness would have been useless. USELESS I TELLS YA!

Eli Herring is a former Brigham Young University (BYU) offensive tackle who decided not to play in the National Football League for religious reasons involving working on the Sabbath and made his intention clear to all NFL teams prior to the 1995 NFL draft. Nonetheless, the devout Mormon was drafted in the 6th round by the Oakland Raiders. He is one of few people to get drafted in the NFL after declaring an intention never to play. He now is married with seven children and works as a school teacher and assistant football coach at Mountain View High School in Orem, Utah.

Really Eli? You’d rather be an assistant football coach than an NFL star? Nice decision making process.

Pick A Stock. Any Stock.

My favorite guest of all (Benj Gallander) was on Market Call Tonight this week. And yes, I enjoyed the crap out of it.

Anyway, one of his top picks was ATS Automation. They’re a auto parts manufacturer, who has been having some problems lately, due to a partially owned subsidiary in France. But they still make money, have a pretty solid balance sheet and should recover once they can deliver better results to the market.

Babe Loosely Related To Finance

Let’s go back to the well that Ms. Nose In Book left us, shall we?

Sofia Vergara has a new clothing line at Kmart, which is part of Sears Holdings, which was a stock pick a few years ago. Do you see how it all fits together? Also, Kevin Bacon.

Is there anything sexier than leopard print? Well, besides if she took off the leopard print?

Time For Links

Less than a full week after my guest post, Money Rabbit is quitting blogging forever. But who am I going to awkwardly hit on/stalk them while doing yoga now? Does anyone know if Young and Thrifty does yoga?

Speaking of Y&T, she got her blog redesigned this week. It’s a good thing it looks better, cause she’s still writing the same old crap! Hey-o! Nah, I kid. Go check out her bloggers for charity post, about kids in Nepal or something. I stopped reading after I saw her address was blocked out on her donation receipt. She clearly saw me coming.

Hey, we’re gone a whole 2 links without linking to something I wrote. Well, that’s truly a shame, so I order invite you to go check out my own take on the boring old risk tolerance quiz over at My University Money. It’s funny, at least to the guy who wrote it.

It’s nice to see Small Steps for Big Change isn’t dead. But she still won’t sleep with me. Still, go congratulate her on finally achieving a positive net worth. That’s pretty exciting.

More Nelly? Well, if you insist. I crapped all over the Chevy Volt over at Sustainable PF. So to summarize what I’ve wrote there, I’ve taken shots at a) sustainable investing and b) electric cars. And yet, I still keep getting invited back. Go figure.

I think Sandy from Yes I Am Cheap hates baby boomers. |Well Sandy, I’m going to tell my Mom, who is totally a baby boomer, who will talk to your Mom, who is also a baby boomer. And then you’ll totally get grounded or something.

Greg (of Control Your Cash fame) and Paula (Afford Anything) wrote a piece for Problogger that I agree with completely. Should bloggers be aiming for pageviews, or pageviews that matter? You go read now.

Over at Canadian Finance I asked if there’s really such thing as passive income. I’ll tell you what, blogging sure isn’t.

Finally, we have Random Thoughts and Acronyms, with a bunch of pretty pictures from Paris. I’ll show her, I’ll take a bunch of pretty pictures from Paris in Las Vegas. Totally the same, right?

Carnivals

YES! Control Your Cash and Diva In Debt accepted my crap finest offerings. Random aside – Diva in Debt only has women bloggers included in her blog roll. THAT’S SEXISS!

Have a good week everyone.

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