Shades of Gray #12 Epic Vacation

412 days….it doesn’t even seem possible. I can hardly believe it. 9,888 hours. That’s over one full year. One year since I’ve given you anything. Well, your wait is over and I know it’s loooong overdue….welcome, one and all, to the excellence in blogging known simply as Shades of Gray.

So ummmm…uhhhh…what’s up?
You’d think that after a damn year I’d have tons to write about, and I do. Too much really. I guess that’s a good thing, means I can actually post several blogs for the first time a while. I’m thinking about top 10 lists and maybe even an “Ask JGray” sort of thing so I’m definitely gonna need feedback. But enough bullshitting, you people came here for an epic vacation!

I had decided that it’s been way too long since my last real vacation after listening to my roommates Mara and Chelsea planning their trip to Florida to see Lee and Drewballs. After many minutes, I came to the conclusion that New York was the spot and that my old pal Joe Johnson would be the lucky bastard that got to bask in my presence. A quick email confirmed what I already knew, Joe was overcome with joy that I chose New York and of course he would take some vacation time as well. There is also a VERY strong chance that Joe wet himself he was so happy, but that’s just purely speculation.

I was partially dreading the trip on the morning I was to leave, partly because I’m not a fan of flying, but mostly because I wasn’t looking forward to what was sure to be the worst security experience of my life since this was the 10 year anniversary weekend of 9/11. I got to the airport and quickly realized that the good folks who run Sky Harbor International hate everyone and want us all to die. You see, apparently they don’t feel the need to provide air conditioning for a giant cement box that sits in the middle of the fucking desert! I made my way to security, hoping for the TSA agent with the most slender hands and wrists, put my bag and contents of my pockets on the conveyor belt then stepped through the metal detector. “Have a nice flight” was all that the agent said to me…that’s it. For 10 years I’ve been “randomly” pulled for extra searching in every airport I’ve been to. From Phoenix to Orange County to Denver to Las Vegas to Chicago to Mexico and back. And just when I expect it to be the absolute worst, it’s easier than ever. After that, I knew it was going to be a good trip.

I’m going to have to break this into multiple parts because I’m running out of time, be sure to check back soon for Epic Vacation Part 2: Vacation Harder!

also can’t forget my pic of the day

Shades of Gray #11

A high speed motorcycle chase is under way through the crowded streets of New York, in the lead are two members of Japan’s notorious Yakuza, a deadly organized crime syndicate known for their ruthless aggression. Following closely and gaining more ground each and every second, his Ducati 1100 EVO SP carving the pavement like your mom through lasagna, our hero pulls a semi-automatic micro uzi and opens fire on the men who raped and killed his woman. The first spray of bullets find their mark with spectacular acuracy, the kind of aim only the most epic of men possess. As the bullets tear through the leather jacket, then tattooed flesh of this piece of Yakuza shit he loses control of his bike and slams full speed into an oncoming city bus, exploding on contact and sending terrified citizens screaming in all directions. As much as our hero would love to stop and admire the demise of his sworn enemy, he knows that one remains and he shall not escape his destiny. Of death. Accelerating down a side alley he sees his final victim leaving his bike and ducking inside an abandoned warehouse in which their final showdown no doubt awaits. As soon as our hero enters the warehouse he is greeted by a hail of gunfire, sending him diving for cover behind what he soon realizes are several large containers of fuel that someone has inexplicably left behind in the abandoned building. “Oh balls” our hero says to himself as a round of bullets pierce the containers, spraying fuel across the concrete floor. He dashes from behind his precarious protection, opening fire and sending his enemy scurrying up a ladder leading to a catwalk high above the ground while explosions rock in his wake, sending our hero shoulder first into a solid brick wall, nearly knocking him cold. Struggling to his feet, our hero forces himself up the ladder, determined not to let his enemy escape. As he reaches the catwalk he is kicked from out of nowhere, sending his uzi to the ground below and leaving him defenseless. Except not. Our hero is a master of all types of hand to hand combat, like Snake Eyes only way cooler. With lightning quick speed he grabs his enemies leg and pulls him from the catwalk, leaving the Yakuza hanging from one arm while being beaten from our hero as he too hangs from one arm. An explosion, followed by an even greater explosion rock the building, dislodging the catwalk and causing it to snap in half, one half crashing to the ground. Our hero manages to pull himself to relative safety and offers his hand to the Yakuza, “Take it!” he yells. As the cowardly Yakuza reaches for his hand our hero smirks, takes the hand away and stomps on his fingers causing him fall, impaling himself upon the twisted metal below. “Psyche.” our hero says before pulling himself together and realizing he only has moments until this building comes down. He sprints through the warehouse, explosion after explosion going off all around him until there is nothing left. Outside the building dozens of Police and Firefighters have gathered, trying to make sense of the damage and shielding their eyes from the flames. “Wait! Look!” one of the Police yells, pointing his finger towards the blaze. Walking slowly through the smoke and ash with a slight limp we see the rugged silhouette of a man whose mission has been accomplished. “What the hell happened here?” an officer demands to know. “Vengeance happened here.” our hero replies, not even stopping to look at the policeman. “At least tell us your name!” the officer says. Our hero turns towards the rookie, weary from battle, and says “They call me JGray.” Another explosion. Guitar solo.

YEAH! Now that’s how you open up an epic summer blockbuster motherfuckers! Welcome back once again to Shades of Gray, the blog that makes your little sister think dirty thoughts and touch herself at night. I of course am JGray and it’s soooo good to be back!

Been doing a lot of interweb reading while at work lately and there’s some crazy stuff going on as usual…a company called PayNearMe has started a payment system that lets Facebook users buy credits for virtual goods for their gay fucking “Farmville” farms at 7-11 stores around the country. I knew people were into these Farmville things (mostly because I get about 93 updates and requests about them every day) but I had no idea people were paying for this shit. As a matter of fact, so many of you brain damaged bastards are paying for this swill that Zynga, the company behind “Farmville”, is expected to make more than $450 million off of virtual purchases alone. DID YOU HEAR ME?!?!?! $450 million on virtual pigs and fucking owls and shit! Or whatever, it doesn’t matter, all that matters is that I am extremely pissed I didn’t figure out how to rip you F-Tards off first.

Early Man of the Decade candidate Professor Mark van Vugt from the University of Amsterdam has used his amazing science brain to determine that men weigh up potential partners almost instantaneously(generally in just milliseconds) based on their appearance because their “ancient” genetic preference for attractive mates leads them to. 

According to research, a woman with an attractive face is taken by men to be fertile and able to continue the family line, appealing to the man’s survival instinct. Prof van Vugt said: “Men definitely have the most wandering eye but it is because they have evolved to pay attention to cues of fertility and one of those cues is facial beauty – it’s not that men are shallow.” “This is something very ancient and a way of helping men find the best mate to produce children.” The man is a damn genius, we now know that we can’t help but check out hot chicks…we have to.

Well, I guess I’ve written enough. Here’s your pic of the day!

Shades of Gray #10

Welcome to Shades of Gray, the blog you know you’ve been missing for the longest time. I of course am your momma’s man, JGray. Soooo much to write about, hard to believe it’s been about a year since my last post!

I was rocking the Stumble today and came across a little gem of awesome I felt I had to share. Magdalena Kwiatkowska is from Poland. I know what you’re thinking, “Oh man, she’s probably a DUMB bitch!”, but I say listen to the facts, hear me out and then make an informed assumption on her mental state.

It seems that the Kwiatkowska family recently took a vacation to Egypt where their 13 year old daughter used the hotel swimming pool quite a bit. Upon returning home the Kwiatkowska’s discovered their little angel was pregnant, and Magdalena, being the brilliant one in the family, demanded compensation from the hotel where they stayed. What’s that? Why would she demand compensation from the hotel you ask? Well silly, here’s why… Moms deducted that the only way her precious could have possibly gotten pregnant is from the swimming pool where she spent so much time. Tourist authorities in Warsaw confirmed they had received the complaint which states that the girl conceived because of stray sperm in the pool. *sigh* It should hurt to be so damned stupid.

Read about Marv Albert throwing down with 50 Cents entourage at the Jimmy Kimmel show the other night and I started thinking, is there anyone more gangster than Marv fucking albert? I mean really… I think Marv Albert is actually black, he may be the blackest man on the planet. Dude is at every basketball game, was arrested for raping a chick in her ass AND biting the fuck out of her back (which he somehow avoided jail time OJ style) and now this. I’m pretty sure 50 cents peeps are trying to cover this whole thing up, not because they’re embarrassed for not recognizing Marv but because Marv bitch slapped every last one of them until they cried. There’s more to this story than the media is letting on people and I’m going to uncover the truth!

Keeping this one short since I’ve been away so long but am definitely going to try going back to the almost daily routine, we’ll see how it goes. In honor of our countries ongoing recession and the disturbing number of people losing their jobs every day (I should know) I leave you with my pic of the day, enjoy!

Epic Road Trip 09! Coachella Fest in California!!

If your going to Coachella tomorrow! here are some things you should keep in mind and also… the 411.

  1. We will be meeting at Del Rio around 8AM (If you dont know where Del Rio is You better ask somebody!)
  2. We will take two cars… Chad Finks and Amanda G’s. They will need Gas money!
  3. We will be staying at my moms house.

BE THERE AT 8!

Things to bring…

  • Booze
  • Beer
  • Camera
  • SunBlock
  • CDs for the Road trip!
  • Mixers for the booze
  • Clothes! the weather is almost identical to AZ but it gets a little cold at night… girls.
  • Snacks
  • Cash Money
  • (Guys) Sleeping bags.

We will Jam the fuck out there as soon as I get back from my epic man run of bad ass things and we will get back sometime sunday night as I believe all attending have to work monday.

If you have questions call me!

– Spinaca

P.S. be prepared to rock the fuck out!

Scorpion Death Battle part .2

It was a cold dark night in the early days of 2009… I was transitioning to a new home… moving in my effects and what not… moving in some pieces of my desk into the new office when I sensed a presence, I was not alone. as smoke started to billow up and build around me the lights started to flicker and dim… I had that feeling in my gut that you get right before some intense shit is about to go down… it was then as the smoke started to clear that my opponent presented himself. looming above me was the stinger and in front of me the claw like appendages of certain death… I wasn’t prepared for this… and this Motherfucker knew this… he was relying on the element of surprise and the fact that I despise his kind and his VERY existence… I found myself face to face with a Giant Scorpion… aka natures perfect killing machine…

Suddenly the support bar for my desk that I was holding had a new meaning… a greater purpose… I was now wielding a Scorpion Battle stick, It was with this weapon that I would protect my life and vanquish my ancient foe… our eyes were locked. we both shared the same thoughts at that moment.. we shared the same truth… when this encounter was done… only one of us would remain standing… I crept forward, he scurried towards me… Engaged in heat of battle I let out a war cry! The Tension between us was broken with the crack of my weapon on his hard armored back. He reared back in pain. my opponent was paralyzed with pain. this was my moment i realized… If I was going to survive this night I needed to end this now! Taking advantage of his moment of weakness I proceeded to bash the shit out of him until his Lethal tail feel from his armored body… I had severely handicapped him, He knew he was in trouble as he started to retreat into my closet… I would not stand for this and continued my assault on this creature of pure evil. as he lay lifeless next to his dismembered tail I breathed a sigh of relief. I dropped my weapon and headed off to the showers to cleanse my self of the scent of battle…

as I headed out I forgot my pair of epic boxer shorts and headed back to the room to retrieve them I was shocked… my fallen enemy had returned from the dead! his now zombified corpse had returned from the dead for some sadistic reason? maybe he still and some sick and twisted purpose in life to fulfill? regardless He would not fulfill any goal except that of perishing again… his tailless body was dragging along the floor seeking safe haven… I picked up my weapon again and began a second assault… and before I continue let me state… If you’ve ever played a video game and you kill the boss only to have him return as a zombie/cyborg/super version of the original boss with twice as much life!!! This was that situation! so here I am fatigued from battle up against a Supercharged Zombie Scorpion…

Fortunately Zombies are slow as hell and I am rather fast on my feet so I made short work of this bastard but It took many many blows for him to finally fall… reduced to dust my opponent was truly defeated now… Once again dropped my weapon and headed off to the showers… Truly a bad ass and master of my own domain…

That is all for now.

vagina in canada

random lil update:

So i’m currently still in buff spending the holidays with drewball’s family. so a couple nights back db decides were gonna hit up his brother brett and see what he’s got goin on that night. Originally the plans were to hang at one of his cousins and just chill @ home and drink a bit. Sounded great, i’m exhausted from tons of garbage goin on so i was gun ho. Turns out brett is going up to Canada for some canadian strip club action. We decide to rock out with brett and some other guys brett “works” with (have no clue why i put quotes there, call it assumptive). We leave with brett and get a round of questioning crossing the border but they let us buy.

So we walk in to Pure Platinum, all eyes in the joint turn to us and we freeze briefly to pop our collars and fluff our junk. They have a first class table setup and waiting right in front of the stage just for the 3 of us, the table next to us was already occupodo by brett’s friends he “works” with.  Immediately upon our ass’s cradeling our chairs we were smothered by a half dozen or so of hot bitches. Throwing themselves on us we ordered a couple pitchers of canadian to start. By that time the owner of the joint came up to us and invited us up to the private buffet for there most exclusive clientele (from what it looked like). i gracefully accepted the invitation while the other boys stayed at our vip table to continue to have poon waived in there faces. in my adventure to this delectable excursion of goodies from every food group, i’m stopped a few times by a mob of girlies to ask about my work out habits, i gave them a basic run down of my daily ritual and reminded them that i was a spoken for man without trying to break there hearts to badly. i remind you titties everywhere.

after wiping my face of roast beef juices and scarfing down my caviar delights i headed back down to the table. i’ll tell you this though, drewballs was setting records with canadian $20’s being tossed into one off the hoes holier than holy holes. brett was doing some sort of buffalonian mating howl, very rough on the ears, similar to a steve urkel in an armbar screeming. finding the boys with a couple sets of titties and a pair of twats on each of there laps i needed to find something to do that wouldn’t be endangering my future with the broad i’m into, she may not love another broads vageen up close and personal with my bathing suit area. the other boys were talking some nonsense of pigeons and making the canadian loonies rain over the whole place.

Right at that moment snoop dog and marc andreessen come walking through the door, a pair for a party that i’ll never forget, but thats for another time my friends. i’ll never forget one of the wisest things anyone ever said to me, canadians aren’t real people. crazy canada.

Shades of Gray #9

Holy flucking schnidt people, it’s been a long damn time. Welcome once again to Shades of Gray, the only blog bringing light into your your dismal little world.

First things first I have to say R.I.P. to the one and only Bettie Page, she was definitely light years ahead of her time and was mad sexy yo. To be completely honest I didn’t even know she was still alive and figured she had been dead for quite some time but whatever.

It’s strange but I haven’t had much to write about recently, everything has been kinda blah.

I did have the opportunity to once again attend the GoDaddy.com Holiday party extravaganza super blow-out 6000 though. That was pretty entertaining. For the second year in a row I was lucky enough to meet the one and only Candice Michelle( it’s my blog dammit and that is the pic I choose, to hell with you!) and of course I couldn’t resist shaking hands with the drunkest man in Phoenix Mr. Bob Parsons, pictured here wiping his ass with a 100 dollar bill. I did stay away from uber-cunt Danica Patrick though, because quite frankly I didn’t want to subject myself to being in the presence of such a shitty bitch. The girl is in serious need of a big-time donkey punch.

I have noticed a lot of gayness going around lately and I just want to reassure you, my adoring public, that JGray will never do any of these purely homosexual and non man like things:

1) I will never blow-dry my hair, the only acceptable times my hair shall be blown dry are if I’m ever standing up to a hurricane or testing jet-packs in a wind tunnel.

2) I will never use Chapstick. Period. My lips could be dry and cracked and wind-burnt like a mother fucker after standing up to a hurricane but I will not use Chapstick.

3) I will never drive a Mazda Miatta.

4) I will never use the term “tinkle” to describe when I must pee. The only acceptable terms will be “piss”, “leak” and on occasion “urinate”.

Thank you and have a wonderful day.

Livin’ the good life

So as most of you know, the events of the past 2 or 3 months has definitely taken it’s toll on me. From splitting up with kelly, the starting on meds, to rolling my car, it’s been a roller coaster to say the least. But there is one thing I do know. The Del Rio crew has helped me every step of the way. Without you guys, I would have had a much harder time dealing with all my shit. I owe every one of you guys the world. JT might be my only biological brother but every resident of the house is my true brother and everyone who spends the majority of their time over there is considered my family.

Since I’ve turned all my shit around, life has been great. I’m pretty constantly contendt with how things are going. But I can honestly say that every minute spent at del rio, is a moment that makes me look forward to the next.

This is my first post so expect more to come but I’m gonna keep this one short.

Shalom Bitches