Greatest Hits, Part Two
Posted by brainforthought in Uncategorized on December 29, 2011
Hello everybody. Next up in Brain For Thought’s countdown is one of my favorite, yet least popular, posts. So F you and read it.
I’m sorry. I’m just cranky from working the week after Christmas instead of sitting in my sweat pants and having a one person Reese’s Pieces eating competition. The piece today is “You Should Be Patient”, which I wrote early on in the blog. Just reading it takes me back to those ambitious days of trying to crank out a post a day, and not exactly understanding what constitutes a gerund. Ah, memories.
So grab a friend and enjoy, “You Should Be Patient”
You Should Be Patient
By Warren Arnold
Being patient is hard, but good things happen when you are. Some would call having patience a virtue, but I don’t quite understand why, so I’m patiently awaiting a better explanation.
I do believe it pays off to be patient. Patient people wait in line for the movies, while impatient people cut in with their friends and make you wait longer. But the joke’s on them since it’s a Katherine Heigl movie.
You can take a turkey out of the oven when the little red popper pops, or you can leave it for two more hours to get it crispy and dry, the way I like it. And while this resulted in a nasty family-wide fight which some say ruined Thanksgiving, I like to think it saved us money on Christmas.
You could clean up behind your dog in the park, or you can be patient and wait for it to turn hard and white and attach googily eyes, so that you have another tiny citizen in your scale model of Omaha.
If you’re late for work and lose your car keys, just calm down and be patient, and soon, you won’t have a job to go to.
If you hook a fish in a lake, you could reel it in and eat fish, but if you’re patient and leave it on the line, a bigger fish will eat it, and a bigger fish will eat that fish, and so on until you catch one of those precious whales your dad chose to go save instead of watching you grow up.
You could meet a nice girl at 11PM and go back to her place and have sex, or you can be patient and wait until midnight when she turns eighteen and you don’t violate your parole.
If you’re patient and don’t answer collection calls for your credit card debt, then eventually, they stop calling and come to your house. Then you’ll have a chance to try out your bear traps.
You might buy a monkey and get tired of it’s monkey attitude, but if you’re patient, it will grow up to be a gorilla.
However, it is possible to be too patient.
Like letting someone waste your time by patiently listening to their boring stories without rolling your eyes and yelling “Whatever!”. Even if their boring stories are called baptisms.
You can wait on a bench in the mall while your girlfriend shops, but if you wait too long, then you realize that you don’t have a girlfriend…at least not the one you want.
You can wait for tensions in the middle east to calm down and gas prices to drop, but if you wait too long, then gas is $14 a gallon, because those prices aren’t going down, dummy.
So being patient does pay off, for if you hadn’t patiently taken the time to read through this, then you would have went outside and been mauled by the tiger that escaped from the zoo and is roaming the streets of your town. It should be in the news tomorrow.
Greatest Hits
Posted by brainforthought in Uncategorized on December 27, 2011
Hey gang,
I thought I would take this time between Christmas and New Year’s to look back at where the blog has been over the course of 2011 and share a couple of the more popular posts. I started brainforthought.com in March and so many people said things like, “Who the hell do you think you are?” and “That old blog won’t amount to nothing! Now you get back to mining that coal, young lady!” But the blog has been very fun and I’ve picked up some blog pals along the way.
In addition, I was very proud to have a piece was picked up by Splitsider. So kick back in your robes and slippers and enjoy Please Reset Your Password.
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Despite Its Ups And Downs, You Have A Good Marriage. Celebrate That.
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Merry Christmas, Movie House!
Posted by brainforthought in Uncategorized on December 23, 2011
Hey everyone!
I have a bunch of new followers, so I just wanted to take the time to say hello and I hope you’re all having a great holiday season. If this is your first time here, make sure you check out “Please Reset Your Password” and “What Happens When I’m Bored”.
Oh, the caption for this post? I watched It’s a Wonderful Life last night and I won’t stop driving my girlfriend nuts by yelling “Merry Christmas, movie house!” every three minutes. But anyways, I’ve been delinquent in posting due to a massive writing project that finally wrapped, so I’ll get back to posting the high culture comedy you have all come to expect.(You should’ve rolled your eyes at this. If you didn’t, you probably have Krankauser’s Syndrome which prevents your eyes from reacting to poorly crafted jokes)
So let’s talk about what’s in store for 2012.
I will probably do more posts where I write from a first person account instead of always doing lists or pre-planned material. Won’t that be fun? So you’ll get random thoughts like “Hey, if George Bailey didn’t save his brother and his brother and his brother didn’t save that battalion of men in WWII, then should George have been stuck in some sort of Nazi hell?”
You guys are so lucky.
Also, in the works will be more videos, but freshly made and hopefully, a new web-series to boot.
Again, you’re so lucky.
Seriously, Frank Capra missed the boat. I want a Bedford Falls Nazi hell-scape!
So thanks to all of you who follow and comment and have a great rest of the year!
Warren
PS If you truly can’t get enough of me, though, I’m always doing something stupid on Twitter(@warreng76)
Reasons People Don’t Like You
Posted by brainforthought in Uncategorized on December 12, 2011
1) You started a countdown clock for Chipwrecked.
2) You were so excited when your menstrual cycle synced up with the other girls at work that you handed out “Flow Buddies” sweatshirts.
3) You chose Banana Pudding Day at the cafeteria to finally squeeze that softball-sized cyst on your back.
4) You built a scale model of Carlsbad Caverns, by using boogers that you wiped on the bottom of your desk drawer.
5) You give scalp massages at the urinal.
6) You wear a shirt that has an arrow pointing to your crotch and the phrase “Too Big to Fail”
7) Even though you only needed 99 of 101 dalmatians to complete your wardrobe, you use the last two for an extra pair of Crocs.
8) You steer every conversation to the time you met Jon Lovitz.
9) Every time you fail to earn a piece of Trivial Pursuit pie, you claim the game is biased towards “non-whites.”
10) You hold up the line at Wal-Mart by writing a check, five minutes after you maced everyone for an X-Box 360.
11) You discover a magic mailbox at your lake house that sends letters back and forth through time, but instead of cultivating the love of a lifetime, you keep sticking your dick in there asking for a temporal hand job.
12) You co-wrote the song “Moves Like Jagger”
13) You own a dragon T-shirt.
14) The thing you remember most about 9/11 is that you scored three touchdowns in flag football.
Remarks That Herman Cain’s Speechwriters Had to Remove From His Withdrawal Speech
Posted by brainforthought in Uncategorized on December 5, 2011
As we all learned on Saturday, Herman Cain dropped out of the Presidential race. Here are a few lines that his speechwriters decided should probably be left out:
- I lied for thirteen years and THAT doesn’t qualify me for political office?
- Have you seen her? Guys am I right? High five!
- Now the U.S. will never learn my secrets for making the fourteenth best pizza in America.
- Maybe I’ll just run for president of Bekibekistan.
- Herman Cain doesn’t like “pulling out”.
Two Sisters, A Thriller
Posted by brainforthought in Uncategorized on November 29, 2011
In addition to The Fates, Sam Martin and I also made another St. Louis 48 Hour Film. This time, we received the genre of Thriller. The rules also state that the following things must appear in the film:
Character: Either Ashley or Ashton Brown, and they must be an expert at something
Prop: There must be a photo of Mom or Dad
Line of Dialogue: Someone must say “Have you ever seen anything like it?”
A bit of behind the scenes info, this was shot during the day, but we made it seem like night by putting up black trashbags around the house. So we had a lot of black plastic soaking up sunlight, in St. Louis, in June, with movie lights everywhere. A very sweaty day.
So here you go, a little Thriller movie called Two Sisters:
Live Tweeting Thanksgiving
Posted by brainforthought in Uncategorized on November 23, 2011
- Just arrived at Aunt Carol’s house. Ready for some T-Givs! #foodcoma
- Bringing new GF Sarah to meet the fam. #pressure
- Aunt Carol’s dog, Roscoe, jumped on Sarah. Muddy paws. Sarah upset.
- She’s fighting back tears. Hang in there trooper! #hero
- It’s the fam! Theyre excited to meet S. She’s still upset about muddy dress.
- Sarah trying to joke it off. Jokes lame. Blank stares from fam.
- She’s still going with the jokes. Let it go! #deadhorse
- Wow. Now doing Roscoe impersonation.
- Why does Roscoe have a Scottish accent? He’s a beagle. Kids like it.
- Boom! S nails the end with an Occupy Wall St. joke.
- Both Dems and Repubs can laugh at that one. #buildingbridges
- Women take S to kitchen. I’m off to watch some football, y’all!
- Megatron TD just killed my fantasy team, The Pigskin Poopchutes
- S is trapped in kitchen. Aunt Winnie won’t stop talking about her psoriasis. Here we go.
- Cousing Freda sees her psoriasis and raisies her a boil on her inner thigh. #gauntletthrown
- Great Aunt Gladys brings down house by unveiling her new, high capacity colostomy bag. #gameover
- Dinner time! First the prayer! So much to be thankful for this year!
- Uncle Ray taking prayer in weird direction this year.
- Keeps thanking Lord for the show King of Queens
- Still praising the work of Kevin James #HaveyouseenPaulBlart
- Asking God to smite those who gave poor reviews to Zookeeper
- Prayer over. Just bought King of Queens Blu-Ray for Uncle Ray’s X-mas. #amazon
- Food’s on! Buffet style! Get in line or get left behind!
- Everything has a weird color to it. #somethingswrong
- Oh great! Aunt Carol went vegan. Everything’s made of tofu!
- Even the turkey is tofu! How’d they do that?
- Tofu is the turkey meat, turkey bones are made of carrot sticks. Stuffing is bean sprouts.
- Cousing Richie has an announcement!
- I have this year as the year he comes out in the family pool! #yourefoolingnobody
- Not coming out, but says he’s opening a shop that only sells afghans. That has to be worth some money, right?
- Sarah having a great time. What a great day!
- Sarah forgot the dessert in the car.
- Look out for Roscoe!
- Dress torn. Underwear revealed. Sarah locked herself in car.
- She’s upset. I can hear the Michael Buble blaring from here.
- Grabbing to-go plates and saying goodbye to fam!
- Let’s do this next year!!!!!
- Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!!!
