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Half Assed Weekend – May 15
Posted by Simple Dude | Posted in Uncategorized | Posted on 15-05-2011
As mention in my last post, I played basketball on Friday afternoon with some coworkers. This may not be too unusual for many guys but it is for me. I don’t play basketball. I never have. I have played lots of different sports in my life but basketball was not one of them.
And as expected I was not very good. In addition to not being very good, I was the second oldest dude in the bunch. And three of the five other guys are at least 7 years younger than I. You can probably start to see why this whole proposition made me a bit nervous.
The saving grace was that I was not the oldest dude there… and the one who is a couple years older than myself is also not a big basketball kinda guy. So we guarded each other.. thank God. I am sore and stiff enough as it is (not in a good way) so I can only imagine how things would have gone if I’d been stuck guarding one of the guys in their mid 20′s. At the of the day, we WON… no thanks to me. And the best part was a the free drinks the losing team had to buy for us that night.
As typical of Minneapolis lately it’s been a cloudy, rainy, all around shitty weekend. So all I have to write about is another crazy page in that goofy catalog I get.
Today I bring you..
I snapped this with my camera phone, which is why it sucks – as do most of the pictures I post here. But I think you get the gist of this thing. It’s a metal “tree” with posts that stick out for you to slide beer bottles onto. And there are LED lights on the end of those posts that will alternate colors, lighting the bottles in red, blue and green for a nice festive, white trash look.
By the looks of it you couldn’t use wine bottles, or anything else. Just beer. I’ll bet cheap beer works best – that’s just my opinion. Maybe Old Milwuakee or Busch Light.
So as I always do with these stupid catalog items, I have to wonder… who the hell is buying this? Have any of you seen this in a house? Unless it’s a frat house I just don’t get it. If I brought this thing into our house, the Lady Friend would probably throw the bottles at me.
SD
It's breathtaking!
Posted on: May/15/2011@2:33 pm
Nice bottle tree. Chicks dig them. You have an award waiting for you at Random Girl. Try to contain your excitement. http://randomgirlblogs.blogspot.com/2011/05/good-bloggers-pay-it-forward-award.html
Posted on: May/15/2011@2:55 pm
It is kind of scary that people do actually buy this stuff. But after my blog telling you about the aliens and drunk lady down the street I can see where the market would be. Glad you're still in one piece after all that contact sporting! haha.
Posted on: May/15/2011@3:21 pm
Wow, I can answer your question. The people in my family buy these things.. and yes, they are as redneck as you can find them…
AmberLaShell Rants
Posted on: May/15/2011@3:47 pm
I am pretty sure that "tree" is a designers worst nightmare. That is garish in it's lack of taste and appeal. Wow…you really do come across some winners!
Posted on: May/15/2011@4:08 pm
I actually bought one but here in Michigan we have a bottle deposit and I couldn't afford to give up the extra money so I used mayonaise jars. I found if you leave some of the label on the jar it has more ambience!
Posted on: May/15/2011@4:20 pm
A house in my neighborhood has one in their front yard. They used all blue bottles, so it's more…classy?
Posted on: May/15/2011@5:27 pm
Is it me, or is there something strangely perverse about that tree? I feel like it's lower section is in triple offence position jutting those pistols in my face saying come on baby suck on this!! Yeah, it's probably just me. Never mind.
Posted on: May/15/2011@5:29 pm
Is old Mil or Busch classy enough to come in a bottle even?
Posted on: May/15/2011@5:49 pm
I suspect that the beer bottle tree is coveted by the bachelors. No woman is letting her man bring that shit into the living room.
Posted on: May/15/2011@8:44 pm
I have seen this advertised but not displayed in any yards. I would hope that anyone who buys this is ashamed enough to put it in their back yard!
Posted on: May/15/2011@9:16 pm
If I ever see that in a guy's house, I'll leave so damn fast all he will see is a cloud of dust.
Posted on: May/15/2011@10:03 pm
You got an award over the half-assed weekend
in my most recent blog Here 
Posted on: May/15/2011@10:50 pm
I have bestowed upon you the Versatile Blogger Award! Please stop by here to pick it up! http://www.myhusbandateallmyicecream.com/2011/05/versatile-blogger-award-take-2.html
Posted on: May/15/2011@11:44 pm
haha.. If they weren't beer bottles I'd totally rawk that lamp in my room! Maybe…
Posted on: May/16/2011@12:20 am
Sounds like something Barney would love.
(That was a How I Met Your Mother reference.)
Posted on: May/16/2011@7:02 am
If it cant take wine bottles, I dont want it. Thanks anyway
Posted on: May/16/2011@12:40 pm
I now need a bottle tree for my house.
Posted on: May/16/2011@5:39 pm
I can only imagine how gross that bottle tree smells. Nothing like a bit of stale beer warmed up with a light bulb to make you want to lose your lunch.
Hey, did you know that basketball was invented by a Canadian? – G
Posted on: May/16/2011@6:49 pm