Yam Fries and Dancing in the Street at Night

    Hello everyone, it seems to me that I have been sticking to mostly mainstream things so far. Things that everyone already knows about and thinks are awesome. I've decided to deviate from that because I think it might be more interesting to read about more obscure things, correct me if I'm wrong. Of course, this makes it more likely that you will disagree with my awesome things because what seems awesome to me may not be the same things that are awesome to you. I hope you understand and will still find lots of awesome things on my blog, and if you disagree with my personal opinion please try not to get too outrageously upset because it is only one person's opinion after all. We can't all agree about the exact definition of awesomeness and we will each have unique paths to awesomeness, so you'll have to find the things that work to make you more awesome. Remember, like I said in some previous post, becoming awesome is not a spectator sport, so get out there and start being awesome!

Yam Fries

Level of Awesomeness: Yammy

What Is It:

YAM FRIES!!!

Yam fries are like regular fries except instead of potatoes you use yams. I know that wasn't really that hard to figure out. In order to prepare yam fries you must go to a restaurant that serves yam fries - I went to Boston Pizza - and order them. If you are half decent at cooking, which I am not, I assume you would cut up yams in the shape of fries and fry them. There might be spices or something, but I have no idea what they would be if there is. If you have Internet, which you should unless you got your grandson to print out my blog for you, then there is probably a recipe for yam fries online somewhere (eg. here or here). I haven't tried either of those recipes, but the picture looked pretty good. Also, yam fries generally come with some sort of dipping sauce, which makes them twice as awesome. There are probably recipes for that online too. If in doubt just mix rosemary with mayonnaise. It tastes good, and even someone as gastronomically challenged as myself can make it.

Why Is It Awesome: Because they are delicious, and eating delicious food is definitely more awesome than eating terrible, disgusting food. Bonus: yams are vegetables, so they're probably better for you than just drinking melted lard like you normally would. Double Bonus: 'yam' is a fun word to say.

Dancing in the Street at Night

Level of Awesomeness: Dancetastic

What Is It:

^Dance Here^

 Now you might think it is extremely obvious what this is, but you would only be eight ninths correct. The key to dancing in the street at night awesomely is to use music that is audible outside of your own head. DO NOT just start dancing with no music because you will look like a crazy person especially if you are alone (by the way, it is best to do this in groups or you'll probably look crazy no matter what). Also don't dance with an MP3 player that no one else can hear; you will still look crazy. Using a phone that plays music is good; using a boombox is better.

Why Is It Awesome: Because doing things at night is usually more fun than doing those things in the day. And music is cool. And dancing is sometimes cool, although I'm not a fan of dances or clubs, but dancing in the street at night is much better.

Street photo by briantmurphy

Mix Tapes and Mashups

    Hello everyone, it's the night of the 26th. It's already been 2 days since my last post, but I'm watching basketball and I'm tired from playing in a badminton tournament and coaching soccer today, so I'll pick up this tomorrow morning. See you then. Oh, and I'll make it another double post. I feel like this may be quickly becoming a trend.


    Okay, I'm back. Good morning. Well I'm guessing it was just me who was sleeping between these two paragraphs because you probably didn't go to sleep in the middle of reading this post, and if you did I apologize for being so boring. As promised, I will discuss two topics again today. They are sort of related because they both start with M, also they are about music, which also starts with M. Hopefully you find them awesome, and maybe I can share some links to help you waste hours of your time. Enjoy.


Your pal,
Meeky

Mix Tapes

Level of Awesomeness: Toe tappin'

What Is It:

This is a mix tape

Originally mix tapes were made using tapes, or cassettes, but no one knows what those things are anymore. The image on the left might help jog your memory. No? Well it's like an iPod, but you can't change the order of the songs, or get new songs, and you only have like 10 songs. Anyway, mix tapes evolved into mix CD's, and more recently into playlists. For the sake of tradition I will continue to refer to these as mix tapes because this name is more awesome than the crappy new names. Playlists allow for mix tapes of nearly infinite length, but in my opinion mix tapes should be kept to around 20 songs maximum. Mix tapes are a collection of songs by different artists. Generally there is a theme that drives what songs are chosen for the mix (eg. Songs I Like or 18th Century Trance). Mix tapes are often used by humans as a sort of mating signal to attract attention from potential mates. If you have music or a radio you can make your own mix tape (I would definitely recommend this, as it is fun and makes you awesome), but if you are lazy like me you can head on over to 8tracks, where there are thousands of mixes pre-packaged for your listening enjoyment.


Why Is It Awesome: Everyone likes music, and if you don't you should jump on the music bandwagon <- even the wagon is in a band. Of course, some songs are better than others, so wouldn't it be awesome if you could skip all the crappy music and go straight to the awesome music? Yes it would be. You can do that and more with a mix tape! Awesome songs are awesome and lots of awesome songs are awesomer.

Mashups

Level of Awesomeness: Super Combine

What Is It: Like a mix tape, a mashup combines all of your favourite songs, but instead of being combined back-to-back the mashups combines them all into ONE SONG!!! How awesome is that? Answer: Very. But how do you make a mashup? I'll let my friend Sue explain.

Why Is It Awesome: If mix tapes are awesome, which they are, then mashups are a more concentrated form of awesomeness. This topic is one where I think you can best understand the awesomeness by experiencing it for yourself, so I'll leave you with a couple of links where you will find the illest beats. Remember, becoming awesome is not a spectator sport.

Mashup Germany

DJ Earworm    

Bonfires and Thunderstorms

    Hello everyone, it's been a few days since my first blog post. I thought about doing one earlier, but then I procrastinated for a while (days) while I sat around doing nothing. Also it was a long weekend, so I didn't really feel like doing anything. So to make up for the lateness I will cover two awesome topics today. As you can probably guess if you read the title I'll be talking about bonfires and thunderstorms. You may notice it is less anecdotal than I foreshadowed in my first post, but I decided this format is a little more fun for me to write, and I hope more interesting for you to read than just a straight up story from my life. However, I promise I will only write about things that I have actually done or read or seen or whatever, so I don't become a character who is more awesome than myself, but rather a character that is as awesome as myself. This will hopefully allow me to retain the legitimacy of my pursuit of awesomeness while allowing me a little more flexibility in my writing. KK I hope you enjoy, and I'll see you when I get around to another post.

Your pal,
Meeky

Bonfires

Level Of Awesomeness: Fiery

What Is It:

A bonfire looks like this

Bonfire is a compound word made up of the word fire, meaning flames and such, and bon, which is French for good/awesome. So basically a bonfire is an awesome fire. Bonfires come in many shapes and sizes. Generally, the bigger the better. To make a bonfire light wood or other flammable materials on fire, and then sit around the fire you have created. Sometimes the mysticism of the fire will lead to people telling ghost stories or singing. Another use of the bonfire is for cooking. The bonfire is capable of cooking a variety of foods from hot dogs to marshmallows and nothing else. In order to cook these two menu options simply jab a stick into the food item and hold it over the fire until it is blackened to your liking. Be careful not to drop your food into the fire or you will be sad, like this -> :'( The bonfire can also be used as a source of light and heat. If you need more of either just throw something extremely flammable onto the fire and all your troubles will melt away (especially if they are made of plastic and are near the fire).

Why Is It Awesome: Since the invention of fire those with fire have been more awesome than those without, so if you are capable of creating and sustaining a bonfire you immediately become awesomer than those who lack your pyromaniacal skills. Of course to learn the art of fire making it will be necessary to practice. I prescribe at least one fire per week in order to learn and hone your skills. Never made a fire before? No problem. Just watch this video.

Thunderstorms

Level Of Awesomeness: Electrifying

What Is It:

Thunderstorm and lightning. Very, very frightening.

Another compound word, thunderstorm comes from the combination of thunder, meaning the sound that lightning makes, and storm, meaning a severe weather event. Thunderstorms occur when Zeus gets bored and starts throwing lightning bolts at the Earth (see picture of lightning). This produces a loud noise used for scaring dogs and small children. Usually there is rain. Lots of rain. Sometimes it's raining sideways. Afterward, there are puddles, which are also awesome. You probably already know what thunderstorms are. They're kind of a big deal, and hard to not notice. Apologies to those readers who are blind, deaf and lack the sense of touch, but I hope you are enjoying the taste and scent of this post. Anyway, thunderstorms are loud, flashy and can make you wet like a fire truck.

Why Is It Awesome: Thunderstorms are fun to watch, it's like a movie you don't have to pay for. Awesome. First it's sunny and you are happy, then it gets super dark and you get super serious because you know shit's about to go down, then it starts pouring rain and the sky is basically exploding - what with the flashing and banging and such - and then it stops and it's nice again and there's puddles and you are happy because you just saw a thunderstorm and thunderstorms are awesome.

Awkward and Clichéy First Post

    Hello everyone, well probably actually no one will read this, I guess we'll see. Anyway I just started this blog obviously, and I figured I'd get the first awkward post out of the way right now instead of procrastinating on it like I normally would because if I don't do it now I probably will never write it.

Wall of text below (sorry)

    Okay, here it goes. I'm Meeky. My real name is Michael, but I've gone by Meeky for the majority of my life, so we'll just go with that. As you can probably tell I am not very awesome. As such I have made this blog "The Pursuit of Awesomeness", which seems to indicate that there may be awesomeness in the future, or at least that I will try to be more awesome than I have been previously. Currently, it is my intention to use this as a sort of diary, but focusing less on drama and emotion (probably not at all on emotion because that's how I roll), and more on awesome things. Whether that is things I do or see or other verbs that could aid in the pursuit of awesomeness. I may also post about things that have happened in my past, which I feel are interesting enough to write about without putting myself to sleep, so look forward to that. Hopefully by writing this blog I will feel pressured to do awesome things, thereby making myself more awesome. I see this going in one of two ways. Either I do awesome things and then write about them requiring me to do more awesome things so I have more stuff to write about, and this continues indefinitely until I am the most awesome person to have ever lived, or I never do anything awesome and thus have nothing to write about, so both my blog and awesomeness levels crash and burn. I would prefer the former, since it does not result in my figurative death, so I'll have to do something interesting soon to feed the beast that is this blog.

    Next, I apologize for my writing style. It is dry and blunt. If you drink and juggle knives while you read it could help. You will rarely find me using flowery words such as porcelain or purple, so sorry if that is your thing. I hope we can put aside our differences and just focus on being awesome together. Oh right that's another thing. I don't expect you to come to this blog to just read my stories although you are entirely welcome to, that's up to you. My hope is that you will take some amount of awesomeness away from this, and become slightly more awesome yourself. If you are already awesome, which relative to me is probably not hard, then I look forward to hearing your tips on becoming awesome. As of now I have no idea whether or not there is a comments section or a way of providing feedback on blog posts, since I just started this blog and I have never really used this site before. I mean I assume there is somewhere, or else I chose a pretty bad platform for my quest for awesomeness. So yeah, if you have tips on awesome things to do, or how to be more awesome please hook me up, as I am definitely looking for stuff I can do that will help me pursue that ultimate goal. If you have suggestions on awesome things I could post about without actually doing anything, or you want my opinion (I don't know why you would want my opinion) on something I could maybe write about that too.

    Okay, I wrote more than I was intending to, so just to summarize in case you skimmed down to the end of the post. I am pursuing awesomeness by writing about awesome stuff, feel free to leave suggestions and I'll talk to you later. K thanks bye.

Your pal,
Meeky

P.S. I'll work on the aesthetics soon, so the blog about awesomeness is not excruciatingly boring to look at. If you're reading this in this distant future this probably won't make any sense, since I'm sure the blog looks bad-ass by now. Bye for real this time.