Our Humble Beginnings

In case you don’t know Nick:

   I first met Nick Powell three years ago in Tarkington Hall. We didn’t really know each other or spend time together until our spring semester of 2010. It was just recently however that we actually started to interact with each other. Nick is a guy who within five minutes you grow to love him. He has a unique sense of humor and a great outlook on life. Although when you are talking to him he is obviously smarter than you( don’t fight it, I don’t care who you are, he is smarter) he doesn’t make you feel like you are inferior. He’s not condescending, arrogant or rude. One of the best qualities about Nick is his inability to say “no” to a drink. I’m not talking about going to the bars and being kicked out because we’ve had too much, just a simple relaxing drink. Many times in the last few weeks I have often finished one of our blog sessions with a “wanna grab a drink?” Every time to my delight and amusement he replied with a “where?” and then a resounding YES! I believe we share a common love for comedy, although at times it seems I have to work much harder to achieve success than he. Nick reminds me of George Costanza from Seinfeld. I will say however that I find Nick to be much brighter, interesting and even funnier, which is quite a compliment coming from me. I enjoy conversing with him as he often supplies viewpoints I had not even fathomed. He has become a very good friend and I am very excited to be undertaking this project with him. If you sit down with him one on one for more than five minutes you will know exactly what I mean. Now before you start to think I am getting mushy all you need do is tune in for some of our blogs and you will quickly notice I am anything but mushy. I simply wish to provide credit when it is due.



In case you don’t know Alex:

   As the story goes I met Alex freshman year of college. I won’t say I really knew him then; however I do remember some spectacular intramural experiences involving him soaring and diving to catch a Frisbee in an Ultimate Frisbee tourney. I would say we really met Spring of 2010 and it is to then I will project my memories. Alex is one of those men that takes up a room. Sometimes he smashes you against the wall but for the most part his presence just radiates throughout. Holy cow does this sound homosexual (not that there's anything wrong with that). Anyways, Alex is what I call a storyteller he has lived and done the adventures or misdeeds others scoffed at. Alex takes you for who you are; whatever your troubles he has the bags and door and will escort, wherever it is you’re trying to get.

    I also am not going to sugar coat it, Alex is loud. He is the man at the bars that everyone else not in his party is pissed at. Yet for those that enjoy his presence the uproar is cacophonous. He is not embarrassed by himself and is perfectly content to carry on. You know stuff is going to go down when you are with Alex. If it is him defending a woman’s honor or merely yelling at the nearest douchebags, you are assured that the results will provide a tale of humor for many nights. And I firmly believe that Alex has the best intentions in mind, others just don’t know how to appreciate or accept his methods of going about them. When something catches Dehr’s attention he goes all out. Whether that is working out or just having a great time, he persists even when the crackling of lightning suggests the end is nigh. Dehr is his word, if he honestly commits, he does it. His recent pact to not eat McDonalds for a month comes to mind.

Our Intent & Purpose

     It was a Thursday night at 9:30 pm and we were enjoying some drinks with our friends at the Neon Cactus, Purdue’s largest bar. I look over and Nick was fist pumping to some Jason Derulo song or something and it was at this point that I realized he and I needed to write a blog. He was obliterated and the cactus was not even half full yet, and once more, IT was 9:30 pm…<Its here that I must interject. While I may have been on the train to obliteration, it was purely cause our group was playing a drinking card game and for some odd reason decided to pin practically every drink on myself>. I brought the idea up with Nick the next night at Jakes and we both seemed to think it was a great idea. Several days later and “Necessary Amusement” was born (I must give full credit on the creation of the name to Mr. Nick Powell) We’re both completely different people. Nick is in nuclear engineering with a 3.9 g.p.a, and I’m an aspiring cop with a 2.6 in law and society. Two completely different people with basically the same sense of humor, different walks of life, and different friends for the most part. We do enjoy each others company and humor and we thought we could make this blog work and make it entertaining. And yet we boil down to the same ingredients. A man just trying to chase his dreams and the woman close by.

    If you’re like the two of us you have your favorite websites that you visit several times throughout the day. We soon get to that point where the same old websites become just that, the same old websites. There’s only so many times a day we can stand getting on fb, or espn, or texts from last night, or charloutte rouse(ladies). At a certain point you're hitting refresh on face book, you've looked at all the photos, and it would just be nice to have something else to look to from time to time. No one has commented on your status yet, so you should probably wait before posting another one. Something else to read and be entertained by when we’re sick of face book. We’re hoping our blog can fill that void and provide some entertainment and humor. Mainly we want to use it as kind of a distracter. You’re sitting in class obviously bored, statuses aren’t updating on facebook, so come take a look at our blog, read some of our opinions, perspectives, observations, leave some feedback or your opinion. It will give you something different to do instead of the same old same old.

Basically we want to cover in our blog a variety of topics such as:

everyday habits

phones as a means to everything

personality vs. looks

being public conscious

dating stories

bar stories

judgments

can girls really just be friends with guys

breakup tactics

lying, when and when not to…

things men do but won’t want to admit

and other classic yet somewhat older stories you can find in our ‘archive section’


     Along with these topics if you check our margins you can find interesting polls to take throughout the week and helpful links that can quickly guide you to other often visited sites. In addition to these features we also have a calendar set up listing all the major Purdue sports times, opponents, dates, and locations, as well as Sunday/Monday Night NFL Football schedules, 2010/2011 movie release dates, etc. After the first few postings we will be accepting guest writers.Throughout our blog please leave feedback or comments as we are always looking for new and interesting topics as well as ways to improve.If you think you have a funny story, comment, or blog topic you can email Nick or myself and if we post it you will get full credit.

     Obviously some of the things that we feature in our blog will be happening to us from week to week, things we see, things we hear etc, again check our archive section for real examples of what we mean. A lot of our material will be about the bar situation as we have several under 21 readers. Some things we’ve learned, some do’s and don’ts about the bar scene. Plenty will be written about topics other than the bar scene, although the majority of our blogs will discuss items and topics concerning college life. Our aim with this blog is not to capture the writing style of Hemmingway but merely to share our thoughts and stories as seen through our eyes. We have spent a lot of time and effort in making this blog a reality and we truly hope you enjoy reading.