Absent minded

October 23, 1942-November 4, 2008

I had a rant, that pertained to something about something Michael Crichton wrote...but then while Googling for his picture (at work no less), my computer caught a nasty virus. So I T had to steal it and fix it...and then I forgot what the hell I was going to bitch about, so I have to put this picture up, if anything, because my computer fell ill while looking for it.

Holiday Shopping

"What the fuck is wrong with everyone today?"

I went out shopping today with my young daughter. We went to a large clothing store first. It was packed and against my better senses I went ahead and went in. I didn't find what I was looking for but I found a store full of idiots that were nothing short of just plain rude. No issues, I wasn't trying to purchase anything to deal with that, but, I noticed how rude people were being to each other and the only thought I had to that was "Tis the season."

Something about the Christmas season turns all shoppers into massive assholes. This is the season for being nice and giving and what do you have? Everyone that shops turns into a megajerk while out in public. No wonder kids are such assholes, look at their role models.

I left there to head to a large store that handles electronics and games. I browsed the gaming area with my daughter. The people there, teenagers included were infinitely more polite than anyone I came across in the clothing store. That struck me as odd. I made my purchases and left and as I drove out I had to wade through the traffic of a large (and popular) retail chain of stores, one person flipped me off because I didn't let them cut in front of me so they could hop lanes and get a nice parking spot. Huh. She was a fat pig that needs the exercise, so in the end perhaps I did her a favor.

The holidays are here, along with the asshole shoppers and they won't go away until all the New Years sales are over...

I will get my shopping done during the week so I won't have to see these people any longer. I think their behavior is ridiculous and adolescent.

What the fuck is wrong with people during the holidays?

Vocal driving

"The car is you...you are the car..."

There are many places that one can venture to if they really want to see just how stupid the average person is (go to the grocery store). While driving you encounter far too many.

You want to talk on your phone, fine. Play with your radio, fine. Mess with your iPod, fine. Pick your nose, fine. Just keep traffic moving. Don't stop in a place that you shouldn't stop. Like...a passing lane. I followed a forest green Buick. On the road we were travelling on there were a lot of left hand turns, hence a lot of passing lanes. Ahead of us was a truck with a trailer and ahead of that vehicle was a school bus. Both turning left. So, the Buick swings into the passing lane and me and the 20+ other cars behind me start following suit...until the stupid bitch locks up her breaks and stops right in the middle of the passing lane. I could see cars behind me veering onto the shoulder to prevent hitting the car in front of them. All the while I am cussing this idiot out in front of me. She wouldn't pass that school bus until it was turning. It DID NOT have it's stop arm out, it was perfectly legal to pass that school bus, but she wouldn't pass it.

I finally passed and and gave her the New York wave while shouting a few choice words at her. She looked at me like she had no idea what was going on. She was clueless. I wanted to rip her head off. She should have her license pulled, she almost caused a 20+ car pile up in good weather, I am Minnesota, and in a couple months this bitch will cause that 20+ car pile up and kill a bunch of people.

Then have no idea what happened.

What do you know?

"What were you sent to protect?"

I understand that not all information can be shared with everyone. My only issue with this is that when you ask about something you aren't supposed to know you are typically offered a stupid lie about it or you are nervously told "don't ask".  I prefer to say and have said to me. "Yeah, I know what is going on, but I can't tell you. When I can, I will."

If you have to lie make it sound intriguing like "According to the confidentiality agreement I signed I could be beaten to death by midgets with clubs if I tell you." Or. "Circus freaks will tie me up and dangle me over the lion pit if I tell you."

It irritates me that when (for the most part) people get a juicy tidbit of information that they know no one else should have they flaunt it. The "I know what is going on and you don't" attitude. How petty of a person are you if you act like that when you are trusted with information that, in the big picture, doesn't mean jack-shit.

If you know where warheads are, how to hack into government computers, and all the secrets of life on earth...then you can cop an attitude. You know some serious shit, you will probably get killed for knowing it. Have fun before you die. If you know petty shit, really, does anyone care?

Genes

"Why do you give them faces?"

Why are there different races? Didn't we all come from Adam and Eve...and since Eve was created from Adam...do you see what I am getting at?

I don't know what to believe anymore. There have been other things that have made me question what little faith I have in my readings of religious literature. This is yet another. I don't like to believe in evolution, and I don't think I really do, but I am believing less and less in creationism now.

I don't know what to think anymore, but I really don't think that the races evolved to be so different if they are from two parents one of which was created from the other.

Hooked

"You aren't playing by the rules."

Another Saw movie is due out soon. They are getting painfully redundant, but I am hooked. I will want to see it. I have to know what happens to the FBI agent who has already survived a trap.

I hate that I will want to see it. They are getting to be ridiculous gore fests...and while I can appreciate those, this isn't what these movies had started out being. These started out as elaborate traps constructed to teach a lesson...and while there are lessons to be learned, (Follow his rules, dammit.) you can't help but wonder if the writers are all just sitting around trying to one up each other with the ridiculously gory ways they are offing people in these movies.

Spoilers. Stop reading...unless you don't care....

Now, Jigsaw...he had a plan. He wanted people to appreciate what they have. Their healthy life. He lost his baby, got cancer...etc. His life was shit and he realized when he had a good life he took it for granted. Now he wishes to force others to appreciate what they have.

 

This new guy...the pudgy cop. He's got me wondering. I think he needs to be motiveless. He does what he does because his sister was murdered, but, I think to round out his character they need to remove all motives from him. He does this...because he can. Having a motive almost makes it acceptable. And if you look at Costas Mandylor, he looks like the pudgy accountant next door and without that John Wayne Gacy creepiness. He's a guy you'd sit and have coffee with. You wouldn't fathom for one moment anything bad about this guy who looks like an insurance salesman with four kids and a mortgage. SO. Giving this guy a motive to be a nut job just kills his character. Show him going home to his kids, the surgeons kid (watch the movies for that reference, kiddies) and his plain, yet loving wife and show his life to be peachy keen. And when he's caught, no confessions, no breakdowns, no crying, no mental defects. He just shrugs. "Hey. I did it and I don't think I did anything wrong." Of course that won't happen. He will be killed and it will be a happy ending right? Maybe when they make Saw 436 it will be. Until then, I will watch all 435 Saw movies...because I am hooked, dammit.

Watch Slither

"Jesus Christ Jack, let me get right on it."

I have erased my posts that contain anything about work and workmates.

Slither, the movie. Go see it.

Just in case they read it...and if you are reading this, you can just wonder what I bitched about before deleting the posts.

Slither, the movie. Go see it.

Our mortgage company is staffed with assholes. No wonder no one wants to pay for their mortgages. After talking to them I want to let them foreclose and try to sell the house in this market. The woman I talked to tried and tried to push me to give her dates, I didn't. I gave her nothing. I have lawyers. They can talk to that bitch.

Slither, the movie. Go see it.

The back of Nathan Fillions head in this photo is incredibly straight...

Slither, the movie. Go see it.