Friday, May 16, 2008
Wells/Olsen outtakes
A bit of housekeeping...here's the link to my PSW piece on Wells:
Benny Olsen and Zach Wells were dishing out some really entertaining stuff this week on the topics of environmentalism, home ownership, and life in certain MLS cities...I couldn't fit all of it into today's PSW piece so here's some of the more memorable extra quotes:
"Actually before I got traded I was going to vow to live in Manhattan, maybe share an apartment with some friends from high school and try to make it happen, but then I got traded. In Houston you definitely need a car, and some air conditioning."
-Zach Wells, who first lived in Hoboken and then Jersey City as a MetroStar/Red Bull before moving to the sprawl+traffic mecca of Houston, Texas to join Dynamo.
"That’s when you know you’re in trouble, when [the media are] talking about your environmental skills...He won’t let me turn the A/C on, it’s hot as can be in our house, he’s like, ‘no bro.’ Seriously, it’s news to me. I know he takes the metro, that’s just because he doesn’t have a g*ddamned car."
-a droll Ben Olsen, on the topic of Wells' blossoming environmental awareness.
"Well, I mean my parents were hippies, and my brother is pretty conscious – that’s definitely part of it. I think having a car in a big city is just a burden. I did have one in New Jersey and parking, getting dinged up and all the extra surcharges and everything else, I just figured I’d get rid of that burden, grab a bike, use the metro. You can basically get to everywhere and plus, Ben’s been pretty selfless about us using his car whenever."
-Wells, explaining his outlook as well as his transportation ace in the hole.
"Zach’s place is flooded right now, it’s been flooded three times with all these rains – I’m down there with a f*cking Shop-Vac and the big fans. We’ll see, it might have to all come up. I’ll have to take him to dinner or something."
-Olsen, discussing the less-glamorous side of being a landlord
"They replaced every pipe down there, we can’t find the leak. We keep patching sh*t up and then it rains, and you step on the floorboards and water just comes right up through, it’s a nightmare…And we’re actually saving that water out of the shop-vac and we’re putting it into the tub."
-Olsen again, giving us all the dirty details. And yes, that last part is a joke.
Benny Olsen and Zach Wells were dishing out some really entertaining stuff this week on the topics of environmentalism, home ownership, and life in certain MLS cities...I couldn't fit all of it into today's PSW piece so here's some of the more memorable extra quotes:
"Actually before I got traded I was going to vow to live in Manhattan, maybe share an apartment with some friends from high school and try to make it happen, but then I got traded. In Houston you definitely need a car, and some air conditioning."
-Zach Wells, who first lived in Hoboken and then Jersey City as a MetroStar/Red Bull before moving to the sprawl+traffic mecca of Houston, Texas to join Dynamo.
"That’s when you know you’re in trouble, when [the media are] talking about your environmental skills...He won’t let me turn the A/C on, it’s hot as can be in our house, he’s like, ‘no bro.’ Seriously, it’s news to me. I know he takes the metro, that’s just because he doesn’t have a g*ddamned car."
-a droll Ben Olsen, on the topic of Wells' blossoming environmental awareness.
"Well, I mean my parents were hippies, and my brother is pretty conscious – that’s definitely part of it. I think having a car in a big city is just a burden. I did have one in New Jersey and parking, getting dinged up and all the extra surcharges and everything else, I just figured I’d get rid of that burden, grab a bike, use the metro. You can basically get to everywhere and plus, Ben’s been pretty selfless about us using his car whenever."
-Wells, explaining his outlook as well as his transportation ace in the hole.
"Zach’s place is flooded right now, it’s been flooded three times with all these rains – I’m down there with a f*cking Shop-Vac and the big fans. We’ll see, it might have to all come up. I’ll have to take him to dinner or something."
-Olsen, discussing the less-glamorous side of being a landlord
"They replaced every pipe down there, we can’t find the leak. We keep patching sh*t up and then it rains, and you step on the floorboards and water just comes right up through, it’s a nightmare…And we’re actually saving that water out of the shop-vac and we’re putting it into the tub."
-Olsen again, giving us all the dirty details. And yes, that last part is a joke.
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