Hello everyone. It’s been a while.I sort of accidentally took July off. I’ve been a little busy with this thing and that.I hope you will forgive me.I’m sure you’ve all been on the edge of your seats, so I’ll just get started…
My friend Rob and I were chatting over Instant Message the other day talking about the cartoons that we used to watch when we were kids. Most of these were the after school cartoons of the 1980’s like GI Joe and Transformers. There is a disturbing pattern that you see in most all of these cartoons.Many of them had a black character, which of course is not disturbing, but the depiction of the character usually was.It borders on hilarious how stereotypical these characters were developed.I probably could go on forever here listing all of the various and obscure examples, but I’ll keep with the more obvious ones. Read the rest of this entry »
At my job I have about 65 clients or so that I work with on a fairly regular basis. Some of them are very nice, some could be described as evil and some are just flat out stupid. Either they’re stupid or just don’t want to put in the effort to think about anything. I could go on and on about the stupid and evil ones for hours and one day I probably will; but today I want to discuss something that some of the nice ones do that really gets under my skin. I’ll send them an email letting them know that I have completed the mundane task they’ve asked me to do for them and while most will reply back with a simple thank you, some will replay back with something like, “you’re a rock star”. I understand they are trying to be nice but to me this is pretty condescending. Don’t talk to me like I’m in 5th grade. Am I supposed to get all excited because you called me a rock star? Am I rock star because I just did what I was asked or told to do? That doesn’t make sense. I’m the furthest thing from a rock star. I’m an Account manager in corporate America. I’m not up doing blow with hookers and trashing hotel rooms on a Tuesday night, I’m sitting on the couch watching baseball. All calling me a rock star does is remind me of how depressing my current occupation is. So please, just say thanks or don’t say anything at all. I honestly don’t care nor do I need your recognition for doing something that could be done by an idiot. Besides, personality wise I much closer to being a folk singer than a rock star. Read the rest of this entry »
Since I am a man of the people, who is here for the people, I would like to do a public service and uncover one of the great lies of our culture. I do this because I feel that it is my duty to keep my people from being mislead and steered down the wrong path. This lie sounds warm and fuzzy and really sweet. It also sounds like the kind of bullshit that people tell their ugly friends so they don’t take a shot of Drano or jump in front of a bus. This is of course is – THERE IS SOMEONE OUT THERE FOR EVERYONE. Read the rest of this entry »
The first thing I want to say is that Hillary Clinton needs to drop out. Ok, it was fun for a while Senator Clinton, but you’re done. I really can’t see any reason for you to still be running. It’s time for you to inform your supporters that they need to now support Obama. All your negative campaigning and racist remarks are doing is hurting your party. Do you even care? I am starting to think that all you really care about is the “Clinton” party and you could care less for this country. If you did care you would be campaigning for Obama starting last week after you got your ass kicked in North Carolina. But you don’t and you’re not. And for the love of God please don’t bring up West Virginia as any kind of victory. It’s sort of like winning Hazzard County and unfortunately for you, Boss Hog is not a super delegate. By the way, Obama picked up more super delegates yesterday than you picked up pledged delegates in West Virginia. Thanks for the memories Hillary, now do your party and supporters a favor and hit the road.
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As I have previously mentioned I was at a wedding a few weeks ago. It was a beautiful event for one of my best friends and I had a wonderful time. I have 3 more weddings (that I know of) coming up before the end of the year that I will be attending and had one that I had to miss about a 2 months due to timing and financial issues. I am not writing a post on my popularity. That would be arrogant and it’s already well documented. I am also not writing about weddings in general. I am actually writing about giving wedding gifts and my apparent ineptitude at doing so. It’s just always been something that I have scrubbed out on for one reason or another. It may have been that I was broke at the time or maybe just forgot; regardless of what it was its kind of sad and inexcusable.
There are sort of a rules and regulations of giving wedding gifts and I have broken them all. It’s one of those common courtesy things they write about in those how to have good manners books. I’ll run down brief history of my ignorance and laziness. Read the rest of this entry »
I have to preface this by saying that I understand how lucky I am. Not only for the fact that I can afford a vacation in Hawaii but that I am able to take a week and half off from work and still have plenty of vacation days left to play with for the rest of the year. Also, I want to make it perfectly clear that I had a fantastic time on the vacation; great food, great drinks, amazing place to stay and a ton of great friends to enjoy it with. With that said, my first 3 days back at work have been pain stakingly miserable. While a normal day at work is bad enough, your first week after a long vacation couldn’t be worse. Your email inbox is slammed, your voicemail is packed and you keep having people coming up to you asking, “I know you’re just getting back, but can you take a look at that email I sent you back on the 9th and let me know if…” or “we need you to put together a spreadsheet and…” or “contact sales and figure out…” or any other number of mundane requests you get at an office job. You’ve hardly had a chance to run through any of the projects that were assigned to you while you’ve been gone and new stuff is already pouring in. You are out of whack from the time change, exhausted from your horrendous flight home, bloated from all the huge meals, uncomfortable from the sun burn on your neck, it looks like you have dandruff because you’re pealing from the sun burn on your bald spot and your head is still floating in that My Tai you were sipping on (or gulping down) by the pool. This begs the question; are these vacations even worth going on to begin with? It’s not like I have come back to the office relaxed and recharged. I am more exhausted than usual. And all I think about is that for the rest of my life I’ll be getting these little teasers of what life is like when you don’t have to work, but eventually it’s always going to be back to the daily grind. I seriously think the only way to fully recharge yourself is to take a week off and stay at home. Watch a couple of movies, go to a ball game or get some of those errands done you can’t do during the week while you’re at work. Most importantly, sleep in. But even when you do that, the alarm clock on your first day back in the office is going to be a punch in the stomach and your inbox is going to be a disaster. I am not the only one who feels this way. Here are a couple of quotes from friends of mine who went on the same trip… Read the rest of this entry »
Tonight I planned on writing about the #99 movie on my top 100 list, but since the only posting I have in the last two weeks is about basketball I thought I probably should give you an update on some things that have been bothering me lately and also some general catching up.
As I mentioned in my last post I took last Thursday and Friday off from work. Four day weekends are great, but the alarm clock on your first day back to work is like a punch in the stomach. Also in those four days you forget about some of those things that really piss you off about the work week… Read the rest of this entry »
It’s about 10:45 on Tuesday night. I was hoping to write about my 100th best and 100th worst movies but I realized that I still have some work to do on both lists; mostly my top 100. I have seen a ton of movies since I last updated everything and definitely need to make some changes. The reason my bottom 100 is a little more stable is that I see less movies these days than I used to, so I try harder to see the good ones and not waste time with the bad ones. Many of the movies on my worst list were seen while I was in college. We had a black box with every channel and no one taking attendance at our classes. As crazy as it sounds, Tango & Cash was more interesting to me than my Native Peoples of the Southwest class. Anyway, I am working on it and it will be done very soon. Definitely by the end of this week.
In the meantime here are a couple things that are on mind today: Read the rest of this entry »
I have to say that I am very disappointed in myself. Here it is, the second week of my blog and not a single post. I scrubbed out horribly this week. I do have excuses however. I was in Tahoe over the weekend and got snowed in, so I didn’t get home until Monday. Is there anything better than getting snowed in by the way? Nothing you can do but drink, watch TV and play in the snow. Oh yeah, and miss work. Next time I go to Tahoe, I hope I am snowed in for a month. Sorry boss, you helicopter me out of here or find someone else to deal with my clients. Damn snow. It just won’t stop fallen. Anyway, on Tuesday I was stuck at work 2 hours late and by the time I get home I am too hungry and irritated to write anything. I am heading out of town again this morning (Thursday) for bachelor party, right now is all I got. Sill, I need to do better than this.
With that said, I have some exciting news for all of you, or should I say all six of you. I am in the midst of cleaning up my top 100 movies and worst 100 movies lists. Then, a couple times a week I plan on revealing a new movie from each list with a short review. The top 100 list may give you a couple ideas of some stuff to put in your Netflix queue, while the worst 100 list is just an excuse to be silly. I actually enjoy reading over the worst list more, but that’s just me. So those are just a couple of things to look out for. So while I have to cut this short tonight I do have some random thoughts and observations. Read the rest of this entry »
I am surprised neither of the candidates while campaigning in San Francisco wore North Face jackets to get the North Face cult behind them. It is an enormous voter base in this city. When I was on the bus heading to work this morning, I counted 12 pieces of North Face gear. It was all jackets, except for one backpack and one stocking hat. This was a huge percentage of people considering the bus was only about ¾ full. I mean, do they give these jackets away for free with any purchase of large latte? Someone asked me today if I had a problem with North Face, and I don’t. It seems like quality stuff. I even have a North Face duffel bag that my girlfriend got me for Christmas. It’s nice. It fits plenty of clothes and stuff in it. It’s just the sheer volume of their product I see on the streets that baffles my mind. It’s not the meaning of life or what really happened to JFK that keeps me up at night. It’s what the hell is up with North Face that does it. Do their jackets get you high? Some please let me know if they do. Thanks much.
K-Duce