Hello everyone, all four (thats a guess) of you that may possibly be checking this blog still after my two-plus week absense in developing new content. I have some things that I have been thinking about lately that I think may be interesting the you:

1. I make things happen.

If you remember, one of my previous posts concisely defined an immediate goal of mine: buy a royal blue pair of Supra Vaiders.  I have achieved this goal.  How?  Inginuity and devotion to meeting my goals.

HIGH FIVE YA’LL!

2. I like reading but MAN, audiobooks really are the shit!  I drive a lot and have recently been “enjoying” the ridiculous and horrible story or Victor Hermarn.  How about I provide you with some background information:

I was at a business meeting in February with an intriguing possible client.  We ended our meeting discussing books; I had noticed an Ayn Rand book (Possibly “We the Living”, I’m not sure, all I know is I had not read it yet).  I proceeded to discuss how Rand’s “The Fountainhead” had recently made a serious impact on my outlook on my life and the way I conducted my business (if you haven’t read this book, which I’m told is pretty much just a shorter version of “Atlas Shrugged” (no offense meant with that comment), you seriously should consider it).  The client told me that the book “Coming Out of the Ice” by Victor Herman had a similar effect on him.

“Coming out of the Ice” is not, as has been overwhelmingly suggested recently, about an arctic animal dealing with the emotional and physical struggles associated with admitting homosexuality.  Rather, the book is an amazingly raw retelling of the terrifying life experiences of Victor Herman and how he survived hell on earth for over three decades in  Soviet Prisons, Gulags and  even being exiled in the Siberian North while still maintaining some essence of humanity.

Following the meeting I purchased the audiobook on Amazon.com.  Currently I’m 71 tracks deep into the 84 track audiobook and it has lived up to the reputation relayed to me.  I highly recommend it to everyone…so much so that I have posted a free link to the files below.  Please check it, it’ll make you think and even though tons of it is depressing, it’s surprisingly motivating and reaffirmed my faith in the ability of man to embrace his most instinctive animalistic nature while still maintaining a conscious mind.

http://www.scottladue.com/gift5.zip

3. How many of you have ever seen the sketch comedy show “The Whitest Kids You Know”?

I have taken on the challenge of exposing this show and maintaining it’s credibility in light of upcoming events that may ruin their reputaiton.  “The Whitest Kids You Know” was originally on IFC, which was odd because it’s not an independent film, it’s fucking hilarious, and it’s horribly inappropriate.  After the first or second season (Check Wikipedia for the facts, I don’t know them off-hand), the show was knocked off AMC and picked up on Fuse.

SHIT IS HILARIOUS.

It’s like “In Living Color” (not to be confused with the band “Color Me Bad” who appeared in Season 2, Episode 26 of Beverly Hills 90210) except it pushes the FCC like a Sumo wrestler, more so than even Family Guy.

These guys are treading Thin Ice (like that awesome game: “Take the tweaser in your hand and take a marble from the stand, You’re on Thin Ice! You’re on this Ice!).  Releasing this movie  looks to undo three seasons of sketch comedy genius.

The Whitest Kids You Know are behind that HORRIBLE looking movie title “Miss March”.  This is really scary to me…possibly a huge! HUGE! HUGE! sellout moment; BUT I just can’t give up on the guys who made this sketch:

Dude, that is seriously funny.  AND THIS? THIS IS GENIUS! (it’s a short video, just watch it)

ANYWAYS, I’m probably going to see this movie even though looks like it will take approximately 3 years off of my life due to the depression and self-hate it will spur.  I recommend you think about it as well, these people are funny, it’s bound to be decent…right?

4. I came across this site while browsing the wonderful design site FFFFOUND! recently (upon further thought it was actually Threadless.com, but FFFFOUND! is hot and why remove the opportunity for you to check out a wonderful site, right?) and it’s REALLY worth looking into.

The Patrick O’Brien Foundation is a foundation founded by Patrick O’Brien (What a revelation!) to help fund his documentary titled “Everything Will Be Okay”.

Patrick is a New York/New Jersey based creative battling Lou Gerhig’s Disease.  He has a wife, loving family and a newborn baby, as well as a nervous system that refuses to listen to his will.  He has decided to meet the disease head on and film a documentary showing the progression of his disease and how it is continually effecting his life.  This subject matter is depressing and not happy but is WORTH ACKNOWLEDGING and important.  We can’t ignore the horrible effects of disease or the fact that we are could possibly be unlucky enough to come down with this or some other  disease at any point.

Patrick is requesting donations to help fund his film.  I have already pledged $100 and I request that anyone with a heart and any financial flexibility (even if it’s $1) takes the time to at least read over the site and honestly think about making a donation…would you rather have those two Starbucks Venti Mocha Latte’s over helping out his cause? I view it as a donation to someone doing what I HOPE I would have the balls to do if I was faced with this amazingly daunting challenge.

Additionally, to my friends with blogs that people actually read, please consider posting some info about this cause if you support it.  The Press Kit can be downloaded by clicking here; it is also found on the site.

Sorry about the preaching, just please read over the information and make your own decision.

Thanks for reading,

-Scott

This is it.

That’s all.  Love it.

-Scott

Hello friends,

So a friend of mine read my blog the other day…

Yeah, I’m awesome.

He read the post where I offered a download of my favorite album of 2008, but for some reason thought he was supposed to click the “Gift 1″ link in my sidebar.

My favorite album of 2008 is not 808’s and Heartbreaks.  It’s an alright album but not even close to College Dropout…the only Kanye album I truly love.  I offered it because I thought I was going to be a marketing genius and start writing a blog to the masses, advertise free shit in my facebook status, and get a bunch of my facebook friends (Facebook friend = Every person I’ve met over the last 9 years.  I’m one of those people who’ll except anyone’s friend request because I’m into looking at everyone pictures and keeping up on their lives…FRIEND ME IF YOU HAVEN’T YET).

I’ve learned friends, I’ve learned.  I don’t care what will appeal to everyone.  Instead, I will post what I like.  If you like it, you’re probably attractive, smart, witty and a generally great friend, lover and sibling; if you don’t, you’re probably better than me at baking (but if you’re good at cooking you’re probably the shit too, so that isn’t the best example).

Anyways, here’s another gift of shit that I like that you may too.  It’s electronic and hot.

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THIS FILE, ROBERT (and others)

-Scott

I don’t know if this video is played out yet but it has been an obsession of mine for a very long time.  I was browsing a website that linked to this today and thought I HAVE to associate myself to this.  Without further adieu:

I hope this makes you enjoy being alive.

-Scott

I hate this dude with a passion.

Captain Douchebag

This is Dan Hesse, the CEO of Sprint Nextel.  You may recognize him from the elitist ads that Sprint has saturated the market with.  They go something like this: “Hi, I’m a dick whose really rich and marveling at how amazing my product is.  It’s great, isn’t it?  I make phones and phones are amazing.  Look at how rich I am.  I know you’re going through a recession…but not me…see?  I’m wearing nice clothes, I’m shot in “classy” black and white and I am flanked everywhere I go by a soundtrack of classical music”.  I just want to punch him in his snyde mouth.

Here’s a sample:

If you haven’t relized yet this blog post doesn’t have a point; I’m just venting and hoping others who read this blog (there may be one or two people who read my blog, right….right, whatever, I read it) will react in the masses and post their hatred in replys to this blog post.

It feels good to just grab onto some hate and run with it, try it out!

-Scott

I NEED THESE SHOES.

Anyone got a hook up?

-Scott

The other day I was thinking about how cool it would be if only dudes read my blog and I completely ignored the female demographic. Obviously this would be totally awesome, right?
…right…
Ok, so no, it’s not totally awesome. But still, what girls would want to read my blog anyway so here goes nothing:

I was listening to some ridiculously awesome new music today and thought “Scott, you could TOTALLY write a blog post about this ridiculously great shit!”. So I did. Also, could someone please reply to this post and explain to me how to use punctuation to end a sentence within a parentheses and end the sentence outside of that parentheses as well; see previous statement for example, I don’t know if that is correct grammar and it will kill me to look like an idiot every time I post an internal monologue in quotes).

So this is an interactive reading adventure.  Please turn down your speakers or throw on your headphones if you’re at work or TURN YOUR SPEAKERS UP TO 11! if you’re alone (and if you are, you’ll ALWAYS be alone).  Click play on the song below and then delve into the top 10 video games of all time!

(OK, so Wordpress won’t let me upload the song so just hum and pretend you’re listening to it.  I give it to you at the end of the post anywayz)

(This is my personal top 10, debate as you will but since it’s my top 10 you’ll always be wrong when you debate it)

10: Fifa Series- Just a great sports game that is always fun.

9: The Legend of Zelda and Link’s Quest- I don’t even know what to say about this.  A bunch of other games in this season were awesome as well.

8: Mike Tyson’s Punch Out- This game was fun, hard and taught me at an early age about patterns.  This made me DOMINANT at video games. Also, think about the awesome music that plays when Mac trains with the fat dude on the bike.

7: Day of the Tentacle- Again, an early age game on my PC that was hard, which opened my eyes to problem solving games.

6: Guitar Hero 2- Just fucking awesome.

5: Halo 2- My first venture into Online gaming.  I haven’t looked back (Xbox Live gamertag: laduesco)

4: Tony Hawk Pro Skater 1, 2 and 3- It was an impulse buy in high school and helped cement me as a legend in Hubbard Hall because I was unbeatable.  This did wonders for my confidence (seriously…sad, I know).

3: Contra (NES)- Up – Up – Down – Down – Left – Right – Left – Right- B – A  – Select – Start

2: Final Fantasy VII- The most moving video game of all time, I actually teared up.

1: Madden Series- Enough said.

Now download THIS FILE and rock out to what would be the BEST video game soundtrack of all time.

-Scott

Has anybody seen this show “How is your News” on MTV on Sundays?

WOW. Wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow.

WOW.

I don’t know how I feel about this.  The premise seems horribly disrespectable but while watching the show I don’t really feel bad, it seems like everyone is pretty much under control and the show doesn’t exploit the people.  I do believe my DVR will have a lot of these episodes ready to go.

Check out their sites: http://www.howsyournews.com/

I’ve been reading my friends Drew Hoolhorst’s blog Rocket Shoes for awhile now and thinking, “Shit, this is really entertaining, I should blog too”.  Drew and I have a very odd friendship; I think we’ve met in person once but speak probably about 3 times a week for the last 2 or 3 years.  We also share pretty much every opinion so reading his blog is very much like reading something I would’ve written.

But last night I was driving and thinking about blogging and realized, “Man, this isn’t as easy as it seems.  You have to really be vigilant about your surroundings so that you don’t miss out on a great blog post/funny comment/social commentary”.  So Drew, my compliments.  You have made hilarious blog posts that actually stick to a topic look so easy that I have  tried to emulate it.

In an effort to adapt my life to fit into a more blog-friendly environment I created a Twitter account and downloaded the Twitter app for my iPhone.  I’m trying to be active, take funny photos, have funny social commentaries and many other things.  I’m not that good at it BUT I want to learn!  That means I need to follow more people who actually tweet and tweet well!  Follow me and I’ll follow you.

So this post is pretty much my disclaimer about my lack of blogging skill and my shout out to Drew for exposing me to the beauty that Word Press can create.  I’d like to thank all my friends who read this self-indulgent post so I’ve also included a gift .  Click here and enjoy my love, this is my favorite album of 2008; and don’t forget to click on the first gift in the sidebar too.

-Scott

So with all of this talk about Amare possibly coming to Detroit (as well as many other places), I started thinking “Who would I really like to have?  Amare really is one of the gems of the 2010 class that we are supposedly setting up for; why not take him now”?  After I thought about it I realize, I’m not really looking for a primadonna who can’t handle his role on a good team.  That’s what Amare is right?  So who WOULD I want the ‘Stones to get their hands on?  Two names popped into my head; Bosh and Boozer.

Boozer is an odd one.  He is a model citizen, plays great for JERRY FUCKING SLOAN meaning he is amazingly disciplined and a great team player.  He also completely screwed Cleveland a few years ago, mentioned early this year that he’s interested in his upcoming free agency and pretty much has more commitment issues than Tyra Collette.  He also has some injury concerns every year and doesn’t play great D.  On the other hand he runs the pick and roll like a champ an dominates the low-post.  My lovely, amazing cousins are also Jazz fans so I’ve secretly rooted for him for years as well.

BOOOZEERRR: Sporting the Jazz hat

Enjoying Harpring dominance

BUT Bosh is better.  He’s just the shit.  He plays hard day-in day out.  Great offensively and defensively. I actually was thinking about the game tomorrow that I’m going to (against the Raptors) and what would happen if I met Bosh in some random occurrence, what would I do.  I probably would try to pitch him on signing with the Pistons (How sad is that?).  What I would tell him is the following.  I love his skills and the fact that he makes YouTube videos and we’d be good friends if he came here.  That is it.  So Chris; read my blog, sign on with the ’stones where the only rebuilding you do involves AI.  Joe makes the shit happen and the worst team you’ll be on will be in contention to hit at least the Eastern Conference finals.  Get over here.

Chris and I laughing at a really funny joke.

-Scott