HawkeyeTom.com has finally undergone a revolution. I'm not done re-posting all the old stuff but I'm working on it. As soon as I get caught up with the old I'll add some never before seen tailgating and party pics from the past couple years. Any special requests for old stuff let me know and I'll post that first.
Joe Miletich just dedicated a beer bong to Oda Mae Brown of the movie Ghost. I forgot the camera for the bonfire but I thought I should record the moment.
If you can remember my loose reference to “camping” from my last post (http://www.hawkeyetom.com/post/112994677/scott-county-park-memorial-day-weekend) you’ll understand from this one. About a 40 minute drive north of the QC there’s a state wilderness preserve named Buzzard Ridge, this is where a few of us and a few bottles of liquor spent our Saturday. The difference in the previous post and this post’s camping: two miles of backpacking before setting up the tent. You’ll understand how much easier it is to get out of hand when you don’t drink beer but Hard A instead. You see, when you backpack all your gear in about two miles you really don’t want to carry beer because of the extra weight. Also since it was about 80 degrees you’d have to pack ice and a cooler to really enjoy it. This is why not a drop of beer was enjoyed but rather: Thunder 101, 99 Bananas, Jack Daniels, Bacardi O, UV Blue, and Kessler didn’t make it to the campsite, but didn’t make it out.
I’m not sure what happened with either the video taking or the transferring to my computer but I lost a good video of Joe talking major shit about Klobbo and some girl that made it to Thanksgiving dinner. I don’t remember her name but I guess Kobbo forgot it too, which was the main point of the video anyway. Then there was something about citronella, but I’m a little fuzzy on the details of that one too. Anywho, enjoy the pics and videos.
Camping at Scott County Park over Memorial Day weekend. I use the term camping very loosely…air mattresses, showers, giant grills, smokers…but there was quite a bit of drinking which helps the qualification. I only stayed one night (my tent somehow got burned last time I went camping so I picked a night with good weather and slept under the stars) but I was out for a few drinks and to visit every day.
Beer pole is a new game brought to us by Wisconsin native Karl. Its not really a game as much as it is drinking entertainment. When you finish your beer you duct tape a fresh one on top. Eventually you’ve got a long pole of beer, quite simple. Turns out drinking out of a pole of beer doesn’t allow you as much control over the flow of beer and you end up drinking more faster.
This translates into my new favorite bonfire activity. I’m not sure how many I ended up with, Joe got a ride home and I guess I was tired of drinking out of something that was taller than me. There’s one picture that I count 14 cans down to my shin…
Thanks go out to Tater to another successful Crew Hawk bar crawl. It was great to see everyone again, though we missed Jeff “Spiderman” Lenius and the Yoders.
I recommend the $4 long island fish bowls at DC’s…
Today in 1984 that Jon made an entrance into this great world. His parents, D-Man and Babbs, knew that they had something special when their young child threw his baby bottle on the floor and reached for his dad’s Miller Lite instead. Again and again he would spit out the teat he was given and cry until a Miller Lite was in his hands.
Records of Jon’s younger years are scarce and inconclusive, suspects believe that much pot was smoked with a questionable character that had an alias of “The Snake.” Due to his extreme love of alcohol and pot he’s unable recite any information prior to the age of 18 when he came into contact with a great group of guys.
These guys, Tom, Andy, Jim, Ruger and Ryley, became great friends with Jon as “The Snake” began to slowly fade away into Guppie’s darkness. Upon first glance Jon was a frightening young man, strange letters tattooed on each shoulder, tall, lanky, and always without a shirt. Just all around goofy looking from head to Timberland, this apparently is how they grow their volleyball players in the north. Soon these guys were able to get over his odd looks and took him in as one of their own. They even let him to win a few MarioKart 64 races just to boost his self esteem (he really did suck at Kart). It was only then, Jon’s freshman year at the University of Iowa, did he really fall into his alcohol paradise. Being young and binge drinking is what underage college kids do in Iowa City (see here).
While there are picture and video records of Jon’s existence throughout college, eye witness information is very spotty at best. As it turns out Jon brought his love of alcohol to a new level in Iowa City and he took a number of his new friends down that rode with him. There are reports of him attempting to eat a 40 oz steak, breaking dorm ceiling tiles, peeing in gas grills, getting a friend stoned and forcing him to eat an entire box of wheat thins, case races, beer bonging bloody marys (with ice and pickle)…the allegations go on and on my friends.
Jon’s latter years in college showed some prospect as he took up playing the bongo with his friends Jim and Ruger. He quickly became the entertainment of the town on Friday afternoons at College Street Billiards FAC shows. Unfortunately only a few gigs later did the two fun haters of the band decide to cut their losses let Jon walk down the alcoholic road alone. Maybe it was the baby talk, maybe it was his old man walk, or it could have even been his purple polo shirt and white gym shorts, we may never know what pushed his band mates over the edge.
Luckily Jon was able to salvage a Bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Iowa (yeah, not much) after the tornado of the Roogs band left Iowa City forever. He packed up his belongings and headed back to his hometown of Killwaukee (Milwaukee to the layman). How do you make the most of an English degree from a Big Ten University? He began selling office furniture. Every day he somehow manages to overcome his alcoholism and has literally become the Furniture King of Milwaukee. That’s just the beginning of his successes in Killwaukee, he also knows all the bartenders by first name and they all know him as the weird drunk guy. Lucky for him a nice young Philippino peanut has helped him settle down a little and keep him from urinating in other peoples refrigerators OR freezers but that is another story for another time (look for a posting on August 1, 2009).
Lucky for us he hasn’t lost touch with his good friends, although Ryley has gone softer than usual and can go months without being seen or heard from, his other friends keep a close tab on him.
These videos recently surfaced from the dangerous streets of Chicago. One week ago today Jon was spotted at a Jim and Ruger version of the Roogs band at The Irish Oak Bar near Wrigleyville. On pace with history, he had a few too many and stole the microphone for this performance of The State Song.
After a boastful performance he continued into his stooper and was spotted “dancing” and scaring young women throughout the bar.
Here are a few more shots of Jon and friends at The Irish Oak:
I’ve spent A LOT of time this week uploading photos to Picasaweb (http://picasaweb.google.com) which is going to be the new home for my photo hosting needs (free). It’s got some pretty impressive stuff built into that will allow you to set permissions and sort photos by who’s in them…of course you have to tag the people in them in order for that to work. Fortunately it also has a bit of face recognition magic built in and suggests that a group of faces are a certain person, uncheck the ones that don’t match and one click to tag like 20 photos.
Unfortunately I uploaded 46 photo albums and in the neighborhood of around 1500 pics, most with multiple faces in them. Clearly it’s going to be a while before the tagging is complete, I hope to get some photo albums/events posted over the weekend but I haven’t even started to get videos posted. I’m pretty sure I’m going to use YouTube for my videos. Again, it’s going to be awhile I think I’ve got about 125 on the old site,
Long story short…www.HawkeyeTom.com is your home for the same stupid shit for a while longer. Hopefully in a month or so I’ll get enough on here to make it worth switching over the domain to here.
HawkeyeTom.com has finally undergone a revolution. I'm not done re-posting all the old stuff but I'm working on it. As soon as I get caught up with the old I'll add some never before seen tailgating and party pics from the past couple years. Any special requests for old stuff let me know and I'll post that first.
