News Archive - January 2006

   

1-30-2006

Well played, sir!

Friday night I had a chance to go see B.B. King live in concert up in Utica and it was a blast.  The man is freakin' awesome.  If you ever get a chance to see him live, take it.  It doesn't matter if you are a fan of the blues or not, you'll enjoy it.

It was also fun to get back to Utica and see a little bit of the town.  I hadn't been back in a few years.  We even hit an old haunt for a beer before the concert.  Good times.

1-25-2006

Nobody wants to get their ass beat to a soundtrack.

Remember a while back I was asking around for  a song called "Attitude" from a British band called Hardknox?  Well, I finally broke down a month or so ago and bought the album off eBay.  I've had it for a while but didn't think to upload the song for some reason.

Anyway, even though none of the fans of the site (both of you) helped me out, I'm going to post it anyway. 

Bitches...

Hardknox - Attitude

1-25-2006

What do you think this is, Hooters?

The latest report from the "We Study the Obvious" group says that 62% of US college students have been sexually harassed.

Um...yeah.  Probably on a weekly basis.  We used to call it "going to a kegger."

When I worked at IBM we had to go to a sexual harassment class for "sensitivity training." You know what I learned from that class?  Just showing up for work in the morning could be considered sexual harassment.

Why Verizon Sucks

As if you need another reason, how about the fact that they, along with other telecom companies, charge an excise tax on all cell phone calls.  To support the Spanish-American War.

I really like this quote:

"When you say it's a federal excise tax, you know, most of the time, oh it's the federal excise tax," said Laura Merritt of Verizon Wireless. "And that's just understood that it's a tax you pay. Where exactly those funds go is something that's a mystery to all of us."

Yes, Laura, it's a huge mystery.  It's also like the mystery of why I'm paying $40 a month for local "service" to your shitty company.  Verizon, besides the fact they may be the anti-Christ, charges you several dollars a month in taxes just because they can. 

And so does every other local phone company, just because they can.

Wholly Fuck!

Christopher Penn is dead.  I always liked that cat, probably better than his brother.  Watching Kevin Bacon "teaching" him to dance in Footloose is a classic movie moment for anyone that grew up in the '80's.

Man, it's sad to see him go.

In Other Entertainment News...

Pixar and Disney finally buried the hatchet and merged, permanently.  I don't know if that's a good or bad thing, really, but it definitely put another couple billion dollars in Steve Jobs' pocket.  As long as the creativity that Pixar brought to movies like Toy Story and The Incredibles isn't pissed away by Disney things should be okay.

And The WB and UPN networks are being merged together by CBS and Time Warner, forming The CW network.  It's going down this year and come fall it should be up and running.

Not sure what this will mean for some of the shows I watch on The WB now but one thing I'm hopeful for is that "Veronica Mars" will get picked up for a third season and I'll be able to see it.

Fingers crossed that "Smallville" will get picked up.  Long shots, but I'm also rooting for "Supernatural" and "One Tree Hill" even though the latter will be shifting into that gray after-high-school area that did in it's predecessor, "Dawson's Creek."

But, I have hope for it...after pining away for Sophia Bush, this season I've been wowed by the hottness that is Hilarie Burton.  Please forgive me for not recognizing sooner...

1-24-2006

Part of me is proud...and let's just leave it at that.

Today's Luckiest Man Alive award goes to Dominic Monaghan who just scored one of the hottest broads around.  Good on ya, mate!

1-7-2006

I must say, you're my kind of stupid.

If you are a nameless forum rat or email spammer you better watch out, it's now a federal crime to "annoy" someone on the Internet if you don't disclose your identity.

Our government is so out of touch with technology it's not even remotely funny anymore.  I wonder how they expect police or the FBI to investigate this type of crime?  And it's like the FCC indecency rules...they can't say exactly what's wrong but they'll know it when they see it.

And just how are they going to enforce a law like that when, say, a poster from Kyrgyzstan posts annoying crap in a forum hosted in Ethiopia but read in Iowa?

Does this mean that I can now sue the Mormons or Quakers or whoever the fuck those nameless protesters are that wave their "No war in Iraq" signs at me on the corner of Green St and Aurora?  They annoy the piss out of me and, seriously, they could cause a traffic accident.  Luckily this isn't Pennsylvania or there would be a 36-car pileup on that corner every Thursday night.

Hey, let's sue somebody!

A Macomb County, Michigan woman who was shot and paralyzed by police is now suing the city and several officers.  Apparently she led police on high-speed chase that ended with her on the front seat of the car with a gun in her hand.  Police shot her at that point.

I agree with this article, I think the police should be sued. 

They should be sued for not being better shots.  This woman was nuts.  She doesn't add anything productive to society, now she's paralyzed and in a wheelchair adding even less than before this incident.  If there was any wrongdoing on the side of the police it was that they didn't shoot to kill.

If a woman is driving at speeds up to 110MPH and has a gun in her hand when police finally get her, whether she shot first or not doesn't matter, double-tap!  Unfortunately, they missed...even with the shotgun.  Fuckin' police, they need to get their shit together.

LANT

Supposedly being the lead singer of a shiftless band has ruined Fred Durst's career as an A-list director.

Scorsese, Coppola, Durst, Spielberg.  Hmmm...which of these doesn't belong? 

Durst, you're a piece of shit...and my name's Bob in case this post annoys you.

1-6-2006

I'm thinking you weren't gifted with a lot of intelligence.

In a new poll released this week half of US adults believe that most members of Congress are corrupt.

In other news, only half of US adults answered a recent poll on corruption in Congress.

Welcome

Yes.  Welcome to 2006.  It should be an interesting year.