Harry Ellis

With the arrival of the new Die Hard movie (which by the way I will end up seeing no matter what because its DIE HARD!!!!) I started thinking about some of my favorite things from the original Die Hard Trilogy. One of my favorite secondary characters has to be Harry Ellis, you may remember him from such lines as “I negotiate million dollar deals for breakfast, I think I can handle this Eurotrash”, and “Hans booby, baby”. He also hits on John McClaines wife infront of Mr. McClaine and at one point is wiping Cocaine residue off his nose.

The reason I like Harry Ellis is because he is the epitomy of that guy. If you don’t know what i mean by “that guy” I ask you to immediately navigate away from this blog and never return. If you dont know about “that guy” you are “that guy” and this highly enjoyable blog is not for you. The beauty of that guy is that as annoying as he is, his value cannot be measured, his presence immediately makes every other guy in the bar that much more attractive to the ladies. In fact sometimes it is even acceptable to get drunk enough to become “that guy” for the night to make your friends better. So tonight go out and if “that guy” hasn’t shown up to the bar by 11 O’clock feel free to have a few more sodas and take on that role for the night, your friends will thank you in the morning and when they do tell them it was the wonderful advice of ChinChin that made you do these things.

Here’s to Harry Ellis, a.k.a “that guy”.

The NBA draft

I am writing this not sure when it will be posted because I will be on an island with no electricity the next several days but here is the deal. The NBA draft is coming up and as a Sonics fan (if you are one of the few who admit to it anymore) this is a huge reason to drink. The draft can go one of two ways, the sonics make the obvious move and draft either Durant or Oden (whoever Portland leaves us) and you will want to celebrate the future of our franchise so why not get a jumpstart. The alternative is that the sonics will draft Spencer Hawes (tell me this doesnt have Seattle boneheaded move written all over it, overrated white center, local kid, the next Jim McClvaine). In this case you will NEED to drunk so you are numb when the end of Basketball in the Seattle area hits us. Regardless the outcome, here is to the NBA draft.