Some movie reviews

Isn't anyone gonna post anymore besides me? Well I'll carry this thing if I have to. So I watched Kung Fu Hustle last night at Alex and Randy's suggestion and I have to say it wasn't bad. It had both comedy and and some kick ass kung-fu. At times it was silly and at other times it was kind of a straight up Seven Samurai kind of thing. I'll recomend it but with one caveat: Whereas sometimes you'll be saying "wow!", at other times you'll be saying "huh?". So check it out if you can handle it. On the other hand, skip Sahara unless you're in the mood for some brainless action fare, thats trying to be brainless but not succeeding. Also check out Dave Chappelle live at the Filmore on DVD. Its pretty damn funny. k-bye.

Morning Reading

What is there to say when you can say anything? I can say that Randy went to play some soccer today but couldn't find the palce or was there at the wrong time, or who knows? What I do know is that those movie reviews are slow going. I have a movie review of an obscure little movie that you may or may not have heard of, its called The Empire Strikes Back. It is, possible the best movie ever. Its about a small band of Rebels fighting to free the galaxy from an evil empire. Its about a young warrior learing how to both quiet his mind to get in touch with the powerful forces of the universe and to use those forces to kick some Imperial ass. Its about how the impetuous nature of our youth can hurt the ones we love. And there's even a love story. What its NOT about is some bratty kid whose too weak to fight off the evil in himself, becomes a Frankenrobot, and thereby causes the downfall of a galactic republic, because that would make a crappy movie that you would never want to watch again no matter how many dope lightsaber fights it had. So in conclusion Empire Strikes Back: 6 Stars. Why 6 stars in a 5 star system? Because Empire is a way better movie than Mean Girls.
What else?
I can't think of anything.
Oh Yeah...
This coming weekend. Its gonna be nerdfest. At the Nuart in Santa Monica on Friday night they are showing Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn on Saturday night at the Rialto in So. Pas. they are showing Tron. Can you believe it? Friggin' Tron! This is my plan... I'm going to drive by both theatres before the movie in some sort of disguise and yell "NEEERRRRDS!" out my car window, then go park my car, ditch the disguise and get in line. Ahhh, who am I kiddin, I'll probably be the first one in line.
I wonder if Star Trek fans get all excited like Star Wars fans in the theatre. I know when Shatner's face gets all red and shaky and he yells "KAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHN!" I'm bursting out in applause.
I guess thats it for now, I've given Jeff enough cannon fodder. But I will blog again.

Thanks for the Memories

Hey thanks to all those who came out to the Boat and Chalet for my birthday celeb. You're all Kings and Queens among men...and women. I had a great time was only moderately hungover the next day. I had a nast scare just a little while ago. My iPod that Lauri got me for my birthday stopped working and I started to lose my mind. "Just my luck!" I thought to myself "Just like the PS2" I went to the apple support site on the off chance they might have something useful. As it turns out, it was just frozen and needed reseting by holding down a couple of buttons. WHEW! disaster averted. It occurs to my though, if I get this wound up over my big boy toys, how am I going to deal with real crisis situations, like kids and shit like that. Actually, I think I'm pretty calm in a crisis. I been working in the events business for like 10 years now and have dealt confidently with emergent situations, including medical emergencies. I think I just get pissed when luck seems to swing against me, like when I would get the one ipod out of a thousand that didn't work. Anyway. I'll tell you this. The iPod is one of the most ingenius devices of our or any generation. Its a must have for music lovers. Its like the soundtrack to your life. And having had one, I will never again be without one. If you have the means, I highly recomend picking one up. Heres a serene scene to calm myself down after that little scare.

the invisiblogger returns

the squeaky wheel gets the grease, huh? i don't think so. my computer hasn't worked properly in ages- which explains my blogging absense. and i can only whine to my boss so many times before sounding like, well, jennifer. there's not much to say for myself anyway. all i've been doing lately is living at megan's parents' house. they're camping in glacier national park until next wednesday. i can't wait to be retired.

randy: so mean girls is a classic. i'll have to rent it then. you know, without your disclaimer, i'd bet you'd get a ton of shit over your reviews. good thinking!

lauri: you probably think i have some kind of hormonal imbalance judging by my mood swings over the past couple days. okay, weeks. many apologies... lol. you're the bombdiggity.

alex: whenever i'm watching anything with a high school scene, i can't help but notice all the old ass people in the background trying to pass as teenagers, i.e. prom dance sequence in she's all that.

pete: we're gonna party like it's your birthday. hey you know what i saw the other night? my very first episode of aqua teen hunger force! funny... very funny. number one in the hood, g.

tim: has you cell phone experienced any adverse side effects since you peed on it? is it a camera phone? you should've documented that one.

Change of Venue

So I'm thinking about a possible change of venue for dinner on friday night. Sushi just seems too unweildy and maybe too expensive for such a large group of people. So I'm thinking of our usual birthday haunt, the all mighty Boat, where the beers are tall and the benches are long. Anyone up for that. Is this deal breaker for anyone? let me know? Early dinner at the boat, drinks around town afterward? Maybe some late night Wokano to sratch the Sushi itch? Maybe Bed Bath and Beyond, I don't know, I don't know if we'll have time...

and to the fishes... don't think you'll be spared my wrath. I'll be back for you later.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to a very special boy

I just want to say that i a'm very proud of you. you've grown up to be a very special boy. now lets go get FUCKED UP!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PETE!!!!

Some Movie Reviews...Don't yell at me

Ok so Pete says make with the movie reviews and then insults me because I have no money. Whatever.
Alright so I started watching movies on Monday and I got through 3 mind you there are other things I do during my day besides sitting on the couch feeling my ass grow fat. Nothing really worth mentioning but stuff. Anyway here goes these review are in the form of stars and maybe a short comment or two about the film.

1. Poor
2. Fair
3. Good
4. Excellent
5. Classic

Please people remember these are only my views and I am sure there will be much disagreement over some reviews but try to be nice:

Movie #1: The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension.

So as you can plainly see I hope I gave this film 3 stars. I am sure many of you probably have no idea a film like this even exists. Well if you get a chance watch it. It is a hilariously kooky movie that has some of the most outlandish scenarios you can imagine and has quite a notable cast as well. Check it out.

Movie#2: S.W.A.T.

I am sure most of you have probably seen this cinematic gem on cable or what not. Look it would be easy to bash this movie for the horrible dialogue "You're either SWAT or you're not", highly implausible action sequences and a plot that one can figure out 20-30 minutes into the movie(and that is generous). I mean a high schooler could come up with more meaningful dialogue and at least some twist but at a touch under 2 hours this does have some decent action scenes however implausible they are. So for mindless entertainment or just a good way to waste 2 hours of your life, go with SWAT.

Movie #3: Mean Girls

Now I know this is where a lot of the what the hell comments and what was I smoking comments start popping up. Before you dismiss these movie reviews as trash and come over and try to kill me. Ask yourself two questions:

1. Have you seen this movie?
2. What was it you disliked?

So whatever I don't know what those questions mean but I worked at a video store as you all know and everytime anyone rented this movie didn't matter if it was old people, young people, girls, guys it didn't matter. When I asked what they thought they said they loved it and that in my mind is the definition of a classic when a film can be loved by all ages and sexes. Now sure it is no Star Wars or Citizen Kane or a film that defines a generation but whatever this is just me and my humble thoughts. I am not saying I am right not by any stretch of the imagination.

Well that was it for the first installment that was Monday. I will update you on Tuesday where I kind of cheated but I will explain later. Right now I am going to go stand in front of the A/C cause I am sweating profusely and am in fear of dehydration. I will talk to you all later.

lyrics to the greatest love song ever

I thought I'd drop you easily
But that was not to be
You burrowed like a summer tick
So you invade my sleep
And confuse my dreams
turn my nights to sleepless itch

The name of the Band: Failure

The song is actually still Awesome
P.S. Check out the new post on "The Essays"

Hey Randy...

So where's the movie review? Lets make with the reviews motherfucker. No one's paying you to NOT watch movies all day. Well...no one's paying you either way but still.

By the way, I know where you were yesterday. Pops spilled the beans. You ever think old Pete might like a nice day at the beach? After that tribute and everything Did I get an invite?...It just hurts, thats all.

so far, so good

My week so far has been good. Sunday started off as a good day. I missed out on The Boat with everyone. I didn't think they'd be there allllllll day up until game time. It was a hot day to be playing softball but in the end we didn't lose! I caught some crazy ball for a third out. That was exciting. I think overall the game was fun. Everyone had an individual glory moment.

Yesterday, after work, Sheila and i went to Cost Plus. I still have a gift certificate that i got for my birthday and i wanted to spend it. Of course i ended up leaving it at home.

Today has been an interesting day. There's a woman here from England who is checking everything out for when we are supposed to get audited. I'm not sure what the deal with that is, but, she got mad at Jim and Michael for not having us certified to drive the forklift. haha! I think i did pretty well when it came to my part. Alpana was in the meeting for almost two hours. I ended up walking around with her, so mine was shorter. One good thing i've noticed about my boss these days, he actually lets me talk and answer questions and he'll even direct the question to me instead of answering it himself. He never use to do that. I'm hoping for an above average review this year which in turn i hope for a big raise.

Tomorrow i'll be buying Pete's birthday present. He's a big boy now who deserves a big toy. Ok well it isn't big but its cool. Its an important birthday for him, he's gonna be 25. A quarter of a century old. Jeff asked an interesting question. What do people wish for on their birthday. Well i've made the same wish for a while now and it has yet to come true, so i can't tell you what it is or else it won't come true. I had a weird dream last night. I dreamt that my car was destroyed in a flash flood of sorts. I was beside myself. What in God's name would i do without a car?? i was thinking about it again on my way to work. How would i even get to work? I'd be very depressed, to say the least.

So i guess that's about it for now. I'm just sitting here at my desk waiting for 5pm to roll around. And it seems as though i have some time to go. Oh well, someone blog so i have something to read!!

Its not a lie...if you believe it.

For those of you with disposible income, and a night off, Im going to go out for Sushi and beer on Friday night to celebrate my 25th birthday. Thats right my 25th birthday. Don't question it. I plan to gorge myself on raw fish until the entire ocean feels my wrath. The souls of my vanquished fish will strengthen my soul and I will have command over the creatures of the sea and they will do my bidding in the hopes of abating my future wrath. But to no avail for I will gorge again, until all the fish fall to thier fins and build idols to thier vengeful God.

So give us a call if you wanna come.

There'll be no frustrations just happy crustaceans. Under the Sea.

And Happy Birthday to Jeff. Even though being born on the 23rd is sooooo 5 minutes ago. Its all about the 25th this year.

Yep thats me 25 on the 25th. sweet.

Monday, Monday so good to me

Hey guys what's happening? Why do I always open my blog with a question asking how everyone is as if I can hear a response? One of life's weird mysteries.
So yesterday was a good day. I got to eat and drink at The Boat, I watched the 5-11's not lose, I got drunk at Tim's house and generally had a great time doing all of this. Then on the way home I bought more beer and some Zinger's for Pete then came home and fell asleep pretty quickly. BTW Pete no problem.
Unfortunately today is Monday so it is back to what I like to call now: Trying to find a way into the Rat Race. That right after months and months and months of living outside this wretched 9-5 life we call the Rat Race I am trying to jump in. Still looking for a job haven't heard anything yet. I was going to go to school today and check out the Career Services Dept. but after washing my car and buying a sticker from the City of Arcadia allowing me to park on the street without fear of the meter maid giving me a ticket I was really hot and just plain old worn out. So I will go tomorrow and check it out I swear.
As Pete Alex and Lauri know I have launched an ambitious task to watch all of the movies I own numbering upwards of 120. It might not seem that hard but when you factor in some of the shit I own a bad day could kill me. Which is why I am going to put all the movies in an Excel spreadsheet and then randomly pick. That way it is all chance and... chance favors the prepared mind. So anyway that should be interesting to say the least I will be posting daily to rate the movies I have seen that day and maybe make a comment or two depending on the movie and how great or lame it was.
Ok that is about it for now today I am going to go watch some movies so... I 'll be back. LATERS!

P.S. Jeff I have already worked at Hollywood Video and Blockbuster Video so the whole video store thing has run it's course with me I believe.

Blogging Crew

Here's a good picture of the blogging crew. Weep at our beauty.



For the uninitiated
Starting from the left thats Jeff and Amanda. Then Lauri and me. Tom. Moms. Melanie(Amanda's Sister) then Dave. There's Alex. and Tim and Randy down in front. The disembodied head is Emily. The only Rat Racer we're missing is Sheila :(

If I fall back down...

So I went to Randy's after work. This motherfucker...He has two things for me when I get there. Not having read the blog mind you. Beer and Zingers. What can you say about a guy like that...Thanks dude. I needed that.
Then he fell asleep. Oh well.



We are so trashed right here.

The MOE.C.

I'm writing to all of you guys before I have to shower,shave,sleep,etc. I need to do all of this because I'm working on the OC which is the Hot person show. Why am I workin on it? If you follow the story Marissa and Ryan get expelled from the hot school and get to go to a public school. That's why I get to work it needs to look like a real public school. It is finally acting like a real show (so far). So maybe this is a good thing starting or maybe they will not want me on the show again. It's just extra work but the OC hasalot more student days than 7th Heaven. Yesterday was so fun though My friend Nate and Mahsa wanted me to com to a BBQ at Farrah's boyfriends house. Nice place it was in Canyon Country but still fun with beer, girls, and BBQ. Farrah works at central which gets extras for shows like OC,7th Heaven, CSI, and a lot more! It's so cool to see a person who's kind of a boss get buzzed and act funny and you join in too. We also played a game called Corn Toss which is like horseshoes but instead of horseshoes you throw bags of kernels. Instead of trying to get it around a pole you try to get in a hole. Me and Nate won a couple games then we lost but it was fun. Well I need to get ready. Later!

Time is my Enemy

So much to say so little time...strike that. Reverse it. life is so dull when you work the weekends, especially when you work weekend nights. Last night Lauri was out on the town with my brothers and I was here at work watching the clock. Now everyone is pertying at Tim's, celebrating the 5-11's first non-loss (They tied) and I'm here at work...watching the clock. An hour ago I looked at the clock and thought it read 7:30pm a half hour later I lookd at it and it read 7pm. I misread it. I had to do that whole hour over again. This bites. Actually, its much better than having to actually do real work. If I was at the Ford right now, I might be getting ass raped by an upset patron so this isn't so bad.
You know what I could really go for right now are some Zingers...you know those twinkie like things with the yellow frosting on top? or maybe some hostess cupcakes? Those would be sweet.
You know what would be hoot right now. I could go around the Convention Center and find little things that need fixing all around the building and fill out work orders for them. How funny would it be for the chief engineer to come in on Monday morning to a box full of work orders for bullshit stuff. It would hilarious. especially if you knew the chief engineer. I have the authority, don't think I don't. If I put in work order to have a third storey built they would build that shit. maybe not.
You know what I love about this place? All the cool code names we have for stuff around here that seemingly have no meaning. There is the X-30, which is the exhibition hall. There's the Star Wars lobby outside the lower level conference building. There's the 27 cage for frieght storage. There's the Bat Cave, which is the Civic's master sound tech's storage office. There used to be the I.K. (illegal kitchen) a hidden kitchen built by the stagehands in a cave burrowed under the ice rink (I shit you not!)it was concealed by some insulation that could be puled back like a curtain. But it was shut down some years ago when management stumbled on it. There's the Grey wall, now called the beige wall, because it used to be covered in grey carpet and is now covered in beige carpet. They all have meanings that me and maybe three other people in the company remember. The funnest part is fucking with new people by saying "Meet me in Star Wars" and see how long it takes them before they get lost and ask "Where the hell is Star Wars"
Its now approaching 8pm. I will assuredly be here until 10pm.
I'm goin over to Randy's tonight for sure. I need a fuckin beer man. I don't know why. But that urge just came over me. Maybe it was jealousy seeing Lauri come home all trashed last night? I just be hungover tommorow and want sit on my ass before work, but no! I vow here and now to go hiking tommorow and to take Randy with me. He did, after all, buy hiking boots. Time to use them. But not First Water, someplace exciting and new.(not the love boat either
Well thats it for now. Time may march on but he can go fuck himself I'm just gonna sit here.

Don't piss on me

I've dropped my phone in the toilet before and I'll do it again. But last night was the worst. I dropped the phone in the urinal continued to pee on it, then in mid urination stuck my hand in the line of my own pee and grabbed it out of the urinal. Anyway now my fucking phone is acting all fucked up, and I pissed on myself .

12:30am Fri. Night (Help Us!)

Randy, having drinken (drunk?) too much too fast has hijacked the stereo and is subjecting us to old 70's music like Play that Funky music whiteboy, old Micheal Jackson and Righteous Bros. Currently he is playing a backstreet boys Christina Aguilera Mix. He is only half conscieous but very protective of the stereo. Lauri has abondoned us and we are too few against to great a force. If you are reading this and have the means to rescue us...send help...for pity's sake, send help now!!!

Words of Wisdom

I just wanted to share a poignant quote that a friend of me and Randy's once told me:
"If I can't have it from behind...I don't even want it."
-Dagan H.

Unemployed

Hi everybody, how are we all doing? I am doing ok, I guess. I have been back back now for a week. I have been applying for jobs, posting my resume and what not. No luck. Now it is not as if I had some preconceived notion that I would come back and instantly find a job...actually that is exactly what I thought. Unfortunately for our hero that was not to be. Harsh reality has come crashing down like a ton of bricks and buried me alive. Since home I have applied for at least ten jobs in various IT and education fields and so far I have received one certifiable rejection and a number of submission received notices. No replies or phone calls to speak of though.
I know what you are all saying though:

1. Keep your head up it is only a matter of time before you find a job.
2. You have only been searching for a week.
3. Your expectations of finding a job as soon as you got back were unrealistic.
4. Maybe you are aiming too high.
5. Dude you need a job.

So now after being back for a week I am completely and totally broke with the outlook of attaining a job where income is steady becoming more bleak by the day. Maybe graduating college isn't enough nowadays. I don't know? All I do know is sitting around my apartment applying for jobs and not receiving any offers is seriously depressing me and as much as I don't want to admit it the future as of right now doesn't seem so bright.

Anyway maybe I am putting too much thought into it and I should just relax and let the chips fall where they may. I can't do that though I got bills to pay and no money to pay those bills. Well I am tired of griping about my empty void of a life. So I wich you all a great day and whatever you do...have fun???

The Happiest Place on Earth!

Yesterday Pete and I went to Disneyland. Thanks to my friend Rochelle, we had free entry tickets. And as we all know, tickets for Disneyland are so expensive i can barely talk about it. We checked out the improved Space Mountain. We risked our lives on Big Thunder Mountain. Did our favorites, Pirates of the Caribbean, Jungle Cruise, etc. It was an overall great time. I was thoroughly exhausted by the end of the night. This morning my legs and knees are sore from walking all over Disneyland. We ate so much crap too! It was awesome!

In other news: I haven't blogged in a while. Work is the same. I have to buy a new cell phone today after work. I've been wanting one for a while now but i kept putting it off. This morning my cell phone took a crap on me. Its totally dead. I've had it for a long time so it was inevitable.

I guess that's about all for now. If anything exciting happens, i'll let you all know. Have a great weekend!

oh and...

Randy pointed out to me yesterday that Lauri and Sheila's profiles have over 50 viewings, while the rest of ours have in the neighborhood of 16. Weird.

Brief Movie Review

I saw the new Charlie and the Chocolate Factory the other night. It's like the old one except with a boring Willy Wonka.

I've got the Golden Beer

Yesterday was a strange day. It was definitely the slackerest day I've had in a long time. It started when Randy picked me up from Lauri's at about noon. We got Jack in the Box because Randy only had $4 and that would get him two Jumbo Jacks and two tacos. We went home, we ate, we watched TV. After a while though it was just too stuffy and humid in Randy's apartment and I was still wearing the long sleeve shirt I wore the night before so I had Randy take me home to change clothes. (I love that Randy has a car now...)After that we stopped by Tim's for beer and air conditioning. All this time we were trying to plan a dinner night because it was Randy's turn, but with Randy broke and his apartment in a state of disarray(I'm being generous) the options were limited. I made a judgement call. I called off dinner night, no one wanted to pay for it and no one wanted to cook so it just wasn't the right night. Anyway, so Tim goes to work and we go back to Randy's.

What does one do on a Tuesday night with no agenda and worse yet, no money? What else, you drink the beer in your fridge until something brilliant occurs to you. So we did. Only this beer was special you see.

A few days earlier I had bought a 20 pack of Miller Lite from Rite Aid. When we had opened the sealed box and finished the first row of beer...it was revealed...The Golden beer. By some twist of fate an MGD had made it into our box of Miller Lite. In it's clear bottle, it stood out like a golden ticket. This was no ordinary beer. I would drink it, and it would be good. And it would give me special powers of scheming, like Lauri and Sheila had never experienced. (I also think I'm entitled to a tour of the Miller Brewing Factory.) And then something brilliant did occur to me. For some reason the boys had a gigantic bag of tortilla chips that had been sitting, unopened, in the living room near the air conditioner. I had put it in the cupboard the other day, remembering that it could come in handy at some point. So I thought: wouldn't it be a great idea to go to Ralphs and get two jars of Tositos cheese dip and have nachos for dinner.(total cost for dinner for two $6) Nachos and beer. I've lived on worse. Randy agreed it was a brillaint idea, but we both thought it would be even more brilliant after another couple of beers. So we sat down and started watching Seinfeld.

Here's where the trouble starts. On Seinfeld they were all sitting around Jerry's table eating Chinese food. After a few minutes Randy vocalizes exactly what I'm thinking: "God I wish I had enough money for Chinese food." Actually what Iwas thinking was: "God I wish Randy had enough money for Chinese Food." Randy's a bro but I had paid for the beer we were drinking so I wasn't springing for dinner that night. Well, anyway, you know once thats out in the open nachos just wasn't gonna do it for us. So we stewed and stewed trying to think of some scheme to get our hands on some Chinese food (from Fortune, a two item combo from the local hole in the wall was wasn't going to cut it either.) Then Randy thought of another brillaint idea, the golden beer was rubbing off on him.
Alex, our saviour, our knight in shining armour, Seamus himself, might be on his way home. He's been working his ass off lately and would surely be in mood for Fortune even though he hadn't seen Seinfeld. The only question was would he be willing to front his deadbeat, Grizzly Adams lookin' brother. With a little sweet talking from Grizzly himself, Seamus manned up like a trooper. We had it delivered. We didn't even have to leave the house. My friends, I can say with can say with conviction that it was the best Chinese food I've ever had. There was schezwan beef, Orange Chicken, Kung pao chicken, chicken chow mien and white rice and there was enough for seconds for all. It was beautiful. The rest of the night was spent watching a Japanese film called Battle Royale where highschool students are dropped on island and forced kill each other to the last man. And a little Aqua Teen to top it all off. At the end of the night I was suggested we might think about getting jobs. Randy agreed. It was a wasted day. But it was Life Outside the Rat Race, and it was beautiful.

Drink Tahoe blue

Hello my fellow bloggers. Well I just got back from Tahoe for Mike's wedding. It was glorious. Let me just say we had a good time. We rented a boat one day, we drove around the lake, we gambled, we drank a great deal of excellent beer including Fat Tire. There is a lot of great bars up there. We went to one bar called Whiskey Dicks, I like to say that they lived up to there name but I didn't get a chance to check it out. I did get very hammered just no bitches if you know what I mean.

Randy whats up with you how is it being back home I heard your car is kick ass. Give me a ring lets have a beer.

and speaking of that....

That line from my last post came from the 1951 original version of The Thing. If you want a really good old sci-fi movie here are two of the best. They both involve the atomic age in some way or another and both play on the 50's paranoia of invasion by "aliens" AKA communists. And both are by respected old school director's, the first was by Howard Hawks and the Second by Robert Wise.



Can everyone see the pics this time? let me know.

More Fun With Coincidences

On Saturday night when I could not sleep at all, a strange coincidence was going on pn TV. Jeff Goldblum was in three movies at the same time. He was on Silverado, The Holy Man, and Independence Day all at the same time. AAAANNNND...Kevin Costner was on Silverado and Dances With Wolves at the same time. Its strange to have three movies on at the same time but to have them on at the same time at three in he morning is very strange. A couple of weeks ago, Keanu Reeves was on three movies at the same time, Speed, Matrix Revolutions, and Bill and Ted's Excellet Adventure, but, that was with expanded cable with premium movie channels. The Jeff Goldblum coincidence was on Basic cable with only about 50 english speaking channels, if that.
What is the meaning of this? What was the universe trying to tell me through Jeff Goldblum. Will there be more clues leading down the trail of coincidences? Does the Ultimate truth to the Universe lie in the frequency of Jeff Goldblum appearances? Stay tuned. AND KEEP WATCHING THE SKIES!

An Evening at the Ford

Was the Ford as bad as I thought it was going to be? Yes it was. The producer wanted a 20min seating hold, this was after the lot had sold out, diverting to the universal lot making people up to 40 mins late for the perfromance. The crowd was none too happy when they couldn't go to thier seats. I was shoved into a door by a 300 pound dude with a Russian accent. One of my 12 year olds was also shoved. It was a real civilized group of people. After the show started I had to fight with every person who got up to go to the bathroom because the producer didn't want people walking through the house during the performance. Why all these restrictions you ask? Because they are, against LA County law, and right under the theatre's nose, recording the performance for sale on DVD, without giving the County its cut of the money. SSSSHHHHH! Its a dirty little secret that the director doesn't want to acknowledge because he's a big pussy. Anyway, no one died and the shuttle picked everyone up so its over and I'm $100 richer. It was a good reminder about why I quit in the first place.

As a side note, sorry to Jamandeff for missing them at the Crown. Randy came over to show pictures and tell stories and, well, you know, 9:30 turns into 11 pretty quick so thats how that went.

I'm BACK!

Hello everyone this is Randy letting all know I am back in sunny Southern California. You can all stop worrying and resume your normal lives.
I actually got back last night around 10:30pm. I don't really have much to say at this point I just wanted to let you all know I was back...ummm...I will post later with more to talk about.

I hate the Ford

So, the agony begins. I've just agreed to House manage the Ford on Saturday. I hate that fucking theatre. I figure I'll just keep an eye onthis while the regular staff does thier thing...But, of course, thats not my style. If there is one thng I've learned over the years of managing events its that if you want anything done right, you do it yourself. So I'll be running like a chicken with its head cut off making sure things are getting done. Of course, it would have to be one of the most hectic shows of the season that they want me to work wouldn't it? Okay so I'm sucking it up and making a little money this week end. Okay, its going to be fine. Okay...Okay....

One more thing. The thing about the Ford that no one realizes and no one believes is that there is so much potential to for some one to get hurt. I mean physically hurt. There are so many triggers there its unbelieveable. They sell you unlimited amouts of alcohol for as long as five hours straight. And you are allowed to bring as much alcohol with you as you like. If you don't like the show and want to leave early or have an emergency and want to leave early? Not possible, stacked parking. What if you took the shuttle and want to get back to your car before midnight? Not possible. Shuttles go back and forth between the Ford and Universal city in hollywood bowl traffic. One shuttle trip can take as long as one half hour. Imagine how mad you might get if you were at the back of the line. What if the person next to you has had too much to drink and wants to fight because you looked at him wrong? who's gonna stop him. The 70 year old usher or the 12 year old usher. Take your pick we have both. (i'm not exagerating we have 12 year old ushers) Thats why I hate the Ford.

teenage wasteland

moral dilemma:

the company you work for is throwing a baby shower for a fellow employee. in this particular case, it happens to be a 19 year old dumbshit who you hate. you are asked to contribute $15.00 towards her gift. do you:
a) stick to your guns and say, "no way, man."
b) just give them the damned money and eat tons of food at the luncheon to make up for it.
c) keep avoiding the lady collecting money up until the day of the party and then call out sick.

okay, it's not a purely hypothetical situation. why do stupid broads who accidentally get pregnant get parties anyway? what we should get her: a sympathy card and a pack of condoms.

i'm having dinner tonight at megan and doug's place. she's making a meatloaf. how domestic. starting monday, i'm house/dogsitting charlie in pasadena through the end of the month. that's a long time. oh well, the money they're paying me is going towards my cruise- which is only one month and eight days away. but who's counting?

what an incredibly boring day here at work. yesterday was so bad i left early. but that was kind of lame... i just sat around the house watching oprah and dr. phil. there's two hours of my life i'll never get back. oprah's show was on "how to look fabulous without a fortune". yeah, i'm sure she knows all about that. and dr. phil was discussing folks with ocd. that was actually pretty interesting.

lauri: i thought of you while watching that dr. phil episode... lol. you might like to count a lot or whatever but at least you don't wash your hands 75-100 times a day. one of the doctors on there said vitamin b16 helps.

pete: i heard that a very long engagement sucked. that's too bad. you should've dropped a pipe bomb down the return slot. oh! guess who doug met while he and megan were in oakland this past weekend? they were waiting for a table at the cheesecake factory for lunch on sunday when in walked george lucas. they got a picture together. cool, eh? i'll have megan send it to me and then i'll forward it to you.

alex: showbiz chicks are lame.

tim: i'm happy to see you've figured out the blog. no one talks about you behind your back and you're not the sorry one on the 5-11's. how could you be with your mismatched socks? c'mon.

randy: is your dad going to hang around for a while after your back? that'll be cool. then again, maybe you're sick of him.

sheila: get back to work! bye.

Three Things

So I was watching TV today and I saw a commercial for a shaving lotion that claimed to give you a 52% closer shave. It got me to thinking...How do they know that? Who measures the stubble? Can stubble even be measured once its shaved off? Whose job is it to measure the stubble. Will you meet a guy one day whose job is some sort of quantitative scientist for bic? I don't know. And I wanna know.
Also, I recieved an offer today to House Manage an event at the Ford this Saturday. Its going to be a difficult event with a staff I don't know doesn't know me and I'm not sure its worth the money they are going to pay me. But on the other hand I need the money. What should I do? Take the job and muddle through or keep my sanity and pass on it. I need your advice. Time is of the essence.
Also, remember how I was talking about Star Trek VI the other day? Well it was on today. You know what the best part of that movie is? Chrstopher Plummer (the father from Sound of Music and character actor extrodinaire, also a noted Shakespearian)as Klingon General Chang. Every time he attacks the enterprise he spouts off some line from Shakespeare. "Cry Havok and let slip the dogs of War!" "once more into the breech dear friends." "To be or not to be?" It's great.

Napoleon Dynamite or Mean Girls

Hey guys!! Sorry I haven't written in so long I've been working crazy. But I thought I had to write this down. I think another star might like me besides Haylie Duff. Amanda Seyfried (blonde from mean girls but not the main one). Let me give you a backstory... a couple of weeks ago I went to The ROXY with some friends the bands sucked and drinks were overpriced. But there was one thing good I saw a pretty girl in line two people behind me and I knew I've seen her in something but couldn't put my finger on it. Luckily I pointed her out to Nate and he remembered it was Mean Girls. She was next to me so I had great Eye Candy anytime the band sucked I looked at her which was a lot. So I was leaving and at the door I saw her are eyes locked and I winked at her and continued through the door. That was all I did and thought it was just a little Haha to joke around with my friends (hey i winked at the girl from mean girls hahaha). But monday came and I know it's wednesday but it's been running through my mind. I worked monday on a HBO show called Big Love and Amanda was there. I was more worried at that time than any other time I've been on a show. I've never been sent home from a show by an actress which I thought was gonna happen. The extras were set and we started our first scene. So after we cut the 6th time she looked around saw me and then it happened she smiled at me. I know she might smile if I was but I wasn't. I didn't look funny either. But she might've smiled because I look funny regardless and if that's the case Fuck that Bitch! But I don't think it is. Hopefully I will be on the show again and maybe more than a smile will be exchanged. But I'm also a little worried... What about haylie? Should I forget her and go for Amanda I know Haylie more but I might start to know Amanda and then what happens. Huh?! Summer or Karen? Miss Popular or Miss Ditz? More famous sister or More famous co-star? Napoleon Dynamite or Mean Girls? What should I do?!

I'd like to start my week over, please.

It's 9:05am and i've been at work for 30 minutes. I'm already annoyed, but i've also been a lot worse. I'd like to start my week over, please. Maybe around 3pm yesterday. My lovely staff somehow forgot that they were filling bottles of Acid Stop. Acid Stop is 3/4 water to 1/4 hydrocloric acid. Its not fun stuff to play with, it smells horrible, its corresive, and well you get the picture. Anyways, they forgot about it and it ended up over flowing the bottle and went everywhere. It stripped the gloss off the floor and it smelled the whole building. Not a very easy thing to hide from the boss. I ended up having to clean it cuz the girls did such a half-ass job. It still smells like acid this morning.

And then this morning, they were rinsing out the sinks (three sinks) in the wash area, and they FORGOT ABOUT IT! Water frickin everywhere. It was a river. I had to run and turn off the water. I swear, they are more trouble than they are helping me.

Sheila is in the lockdown room coating right now. She's super thrilled about it too, NOT. Meanwhile, Jim is going around telling everyone my secrets about the fuck-ups. And Jennifer is talking to Amber about going on the next Bachelor. Jesus Christ, help me!

I need something to look forward to after work. Maybe i'll throw a summer party. Tuesday's don't mean to much to people during the summer, only the full time workers. But hey, its summer right? So maybe Pete can get it started and then i'll show up and we can all party. It's gonna be at my apt. i'll get some finger foods. We can make margaritas and cocktails. I'll have a full fridge of beer. We can be inside or outside. How does that sound?...................Or maybe i'll come home and watch tv. So i still need something to look forward to.

I'm sorry Pete about your insomnia. Sometimes you go through some real bad times with that. Well i'm outta here. Even though my staff is older than me, they still need to be baby-sat. Bye!

Testes and Spiderwebs

It is 1:15am here and there are no signs of me getting sleepy anytime soon and you know there is nothing on TV so here I am posting. Not to much goin on today. I had serious insomnia last night and didn't get to sleep until about 4:30am. So I didn't wake up til 11am which I hate. Had lunch with Alex at about 1pm. We went to CJ's and watch some recorded X-Games coverage. Played some PS2. Then I went to Lauri's and Played God of War for like three hours until she came home. After that....AHHHHHHHHHHH you guys really couldn't give a shit could you? I don't give a shit and I lived it. I should have gotten some excercise today so I could sleep tonight, but this goddamn humidity is killin me. Lame excuse, I could have gone swimming.
I tell you what though I would sell you my right testicle for a room air conditioner right now. God never meant for us to sleep indoors on nights like this. I wonder what would happen to me if I threw some blankets over the chaise lounge in the back yard and slept out there? I'd probably end up with a spider web in my mouth. If its worth the teste to be a little cooler maybe its worth a spider web?
I'm glad Randy is on his way home. I can't wait to hear all his cooky adventures in shagy hotel rooms. Were there cockroaches in the bathroom defending thier territory? "I cut you so bad...You wish I don't cut you so bad?" (Family Guy reference for the non-initiated). I can't believe he got a flat, that means he's one tire down and he hasn't even gotten out of Canada yet.
Thats all. I just want to leave you with a quote from Bob Dylan:
"Let me forget about today, until tommorow."

R. Moe reporting from the Road

Hey everyone, wassup? Sorry to hear about your bullshit loss on Sunday. Sierra Madre scoring is some fucked up shit. Sorry. I will be there to support you guys on Sunday. YAY!!
So anyway I am in the town of Fort Nelson right now. It is in B.C. (British Columbia). We are staying at a Super8 motel. Only the high life for us. It does free Internet which is why I am blogging. Tomorrow it is on to Dawson Creek, seriously and then finish the day at Prince George in all likelihood. So we have seen many things and done a few things. I don't want to tell you...sorry...because I want to have something to talk about when I get back that you don't already know about.
We have seen some wildlife and taken some pics of some of them missed some of them due to circumstances beyond our control. We have changed a tire, we have rolled into a gas station on fumes and we have stayed in a shady motel. That was last night in Whitehorse, the capital of the Yukon Territory.
Anyway though I gotta get going. We got an early start tomorrow and I need my beauty sleep. Peace out to all my homies and don't beleive the hype; Canada is kinda lame...

Stupid Crap

So far today we've deleted at least two anonymous comments that actually lead to advertising to something else. Pete did one and i did another one that was really bad. There is an option in the settings to not have our blog public. I think its something we might want to consider if it really gets outta control.

My weekend consisted of drinking heavily on Friday night. On Saturday i went to visit Sheila. On Sunday i took a nap and played softball. Yes there is some controversy about our game yesterday. Yes its very upsetting. We got screwed. Next week will be the big challenge though. We are six members short and we need ten to play. And we are playing the fire department. So i'm going to practice this week cuz its gonna be a hard game. I haven't missed a game yet! And i don't plan on missing a game. Like i commented on Pete's blog, i go into every game wanting to win. And this one isn't any different. I still need some supporters and people to cheer me on though. Go 5-11's!!

My friend Rochelle bought a new puppy. Its a bulldog. Her name is Whinnie. I'm so jealous. Also Amber is having a freakin baby shower here at work on Set. 9th. I won't be here though. THANK GOD! Poor Sheila must endure it though. No one is really to thrilled about this "celebration" it was a poor decision on this teenager's part.

Sheila discovered something a bit shocking. Apparently "Uncle Joe Benson" from former Arrow 93.1 fm is now a d.j. on KLOS 95.5 fm. Interesting huh? But we have noticed that the music is a bit more like Arrow since we've been listening today. Do the d.j.'s really have a choice in the music played?

I guess that's about all for me. I'll type to you all tomorrow. bye!

Controversy at the Plate

So now we're getting junk comments. This is not the kind of attention I was hoping for. Anyway from now on all you administrators have my permission to delete the obvious junk comments at your discretion.
Just a few words on the 5-11's game and then I'm going to let the matter drop. We were cheated somewhere out of three points, and because of those three points we lost the game. The most infuriating part is that no one believes us, except Tom. Not even Lauri. Alex was keeping score and I checked him along the way. Is it possible we made a mistake? It would have been possible for me to make a mistake, yes. I know two things about baseball: Jack and shit, and Jack just left town. But Alex is a sports fanantic and didn't make any mistakes. In fact, HE corrected me on one occasion when one of Ron's homerun's was a double because it was the second of the inning. So there it is, an extremely frustrating situation. Having scored something like 16 runs, the 5-11's still lost the game. With this knowledge in hand I have a dire prediction for the remainder of the season. I'm not going to say it because I don't want to get certain people's spirits down. So thats the end of it. Suffice to say I will not be playing the Role of "manager" again seeing as how I can't keep score the Sierra Madre way.

I want to go to a place where the beer flows like wine

First things first lets forget about the last comment I made. I finally figure this out. Dave's coming over right now he wants me to go to the boat with him. I don't really want to go. Oh well its the boat right. I have to say I'm not really looking forward to the game tonight. I already decided that I believe we're not going to win a game this whole season. Tim's thoughts " maybe we drink to much before the game, am I the sorry one on the team, does everyone talk about how bad I am behind my back, I wish I could hit the ball as far as Ron, I wish I had a Coors light right now" . What Tim says " Well I hope we do win our game today, we might win if we had more players that are as good as me and have my confidence on the field. I think we should all get drunk before the game today".

Not a Trekie

I just want to dispel any rumors of my being a "Trekie". Yes, I like Star Trek. Especially the next generation. Although Star Trek II the Wrath of Kahn is still the best Star Trek movie ever made. But I don't have any spock ears, or speak Klingon I don't own any Star Trek DVD's and I didn't even watch any of the newer shows like Deep Space Nine, Voyager or Enterprise. I can't say I don't go to the conventions because I've worked every Star Trek Convention that has come to Pasadena since about 1998. I just like Science Fiction thats all. Anyway, I've long since stopped hiding the fact that I'm a nerd. I'm a comic book reading, Star Trek watching nerd but I still have a hot ass girlfriend.(with a gimp knee) Now what Bitches!?

"an evil petting zoo?"

lauri and i have a little radio in our office- am/fm, cassette player, the whole nine. it's the most pathetic piece of crap ever. the only stations that come in clearly are in spanish. okay, that part doesn't really surprise me. but the other day, it ate up my special compilation tape. fucker. we sometimes listen to static for hours before it even occurs to us. so i guess we just need it to drown out the silence. at this very moment, we're listening to counting crows' august and everything after. so cross your fingers!

on a more important matter, joseph duncan (the man suspected of killing a boy in riverside) apparently keeps a blog too. not of the "life outside the rat race" variety. one of the "i'm a psychopath child murderer" kind. just for the record: if any of you start saying things like, "my intent is to hurt society as much as i can", i'm notifying the authorities.

and being as though nothing exciting has happened between yesterday afternoon and now- i'm dogsitting after all- i'll move straight to addressing my fellow members...

pete: i didn't realize the extent of your trekkie-ness.

lauri: i can't believe you're leaving me alone in this god forsaken building with all these snicker bar stealing fatties.

lauri's knee: i'm sorry i sighed at you.

randy: please have a safe trip home. we don't want you and your truck found on road dead.

alex: i watched about ten minutes of kill reality last night. what a horrible horrible show.

tim: now i'm just talking to myself.

go 5-11's!!!!

OKAY!

Okay there is a lot of bloggin going on here! We're all just sitting at our computers. Reading each others blogs. So I propose we all get up from our computers and go and get a life.

Drunks in Space

There's only one problem with the utopian world of Star Trek The Next Generation. (besides the silly cover all uniforms) and its that they don't have beer or alcohol. I mean they have it but they don't drink it. THey have a bar on the enterprise its called Ten Forward (like 10-4 but...well you get it.) But at the bar they serve synthahol. It doesn't get you drunk. I don't know about you but if I'm out saving the galaxy, I might need a cold beer to wind down at the end of the day. A little Romulan Ale perhaps like Kirk and the crew enjoyed on Star Trek VI The Undiscovered Country. Is Utopia really Utopia with out a little buzz now and again. If it were really utopia the booze would flow freely and there would be no alcoholism or hangovers.

what's a happenin'...

So let's see what's been happening in the world of Lauri... my knees are stupid. Sheila sighs when i say "i'm leaving early cuz my knees hurt" or "i have a doctor's app. for my knees". It sucks when i don't have proof of pain, like a bruise or cut or something. Ya'll just have to take my word for it. I'm leaving early today to get some x-rays done. That'll be a hoot.

I'm not working this weekend. I have a softball game that i hope everyone comes for. Its at 7:15pm, same place. We gotta win this one...right? I have my game list on the fridge and i put lost next to the games we have played already. Last week we were only down by one. And even at one point we were ahead. We haven't been ahead yet. It felt good. But the feeling soon dissappeared. We gotta do it this time 5-11's!!!!!!!!!!

This morning i was awakened by the sound of the library alarm going off. It's not one of those ridiculously ear piercing alarms, thank God. But it was annoying enough to keep me up. I think this is the second time its gone off since i've lived there.

There is a mystery going on here at work. Ms. Jennifer has had some of her ice cream Snickers stolen from the freezer. Now those of you who don't know Jennifer, she loves her food and she must eat at certain times. It comes down to, IT'S ALL ABOUT JENNIFER. But anyways, she accusing people and she put a note on the lunchroom fridge that says: DON'T TOUCH OTHER PEOPLES FOOD!!! So Sheila and i are wondering, "touch or eat??" She's so lame. Either way she's trying to get her point across and it isn't in a professional way. Now granted, i'd be pretty pissed if someone just ate my food. But then i avoid that by putting my name on things. Maybe she should too. I don't give people any credit for being smart or polite around here.

What should i do this weekend? A friend wants me to go with her to a Hungarian Festival, i think i'll pass. I feel like hanging around and swimming and drinking beer before my softball game. On Sat. i'll probably go visit Sheila while she's dogsitting. Who knows. I do know that i'll be sleeping in, cuz man have i been tired lately. My friend Jeremy left this morning for Iraq. He's in the Navy. He won't be back till March or so. He better take care of himself (no comments please from the peanut gallery). I hope we have a crazy thunderstorm tonight or this weekend. I love the huge thunder heads around. Heck man, if i'm super bored on saturday, i might go storm chasing! Who's with me?? Ok i guess that's about it for now, have a great weekend. Oh and Randy, be careful driving home. Bye!

Batman is Cool

Batman is cool. And this is the best Batman book ever written. Go forth, all of you and read from it...

Also, remember when Batman and Robin were the special guest stars on Scooby Doo? That was sweet.

The Randoms

Just wanted to give the etherial high five to all you Rat Racers out there. We've had two random comments in the last couple days and one guy that says he'll book mark us. The word is getting out my friends. Soon are the days when we will be going through 99 comments per post. So keep up the good work and keep those posts coming!

give me some of your tots...

i've got this friend who lives in sacramento and works for a laboratory that does business with us. anyway, he's one of those people who takes a joke and runs wild with it. basically to the point of killing it. last time he was down here for a visit, we rented napoleon dynamite. and ever since then, it's been one reference after another. thank god that movie was funny or i'd really be in trouble. a couple days ago, he sent me a package in the mail. inside: a burned cd he's been promising me for a month and a napoleon dynamite t-shirt. it's got a plate of tater tots with "give me some of your tots" written around the plate in ketchup. i laughed.

on a related subject, i've been reading articles lately on the current nerd revolution. it's cool to be uncool. in fact, the dorkier the better. so i guess my time is now- thankfully i've never cared much what other people think of me. but i doubt meeting guys is possible wearing tapered leg jeans.

the aforementioned cd that mr. superflous sent: three cheers for sweet revenge by my chemical romance. i give it two thumbs up- or is that rating limited to the big screen? anyway, i highly recommend it. those poor guys are obviously very bitter but it makes for a good album.

lauri and pete ventured out to upland yesterday for dinner night at my place: baked salmon and garlic smashed potatoes. we actually sat around the dinner table like well adjusted adults discussing life and times in southern california. the cool evening breeze was a-blowin' and the beers kept a-flowin'. and so did the conversation apparently because before we knew it, the three of us cleaned up on an entire pound cake that was for dessert.

starting tonight, i'm dogsitting at megan and doug's until sunday. they're going up to oakland for doug's cousin's wedding. she's been engaged three times- to the same guy! and if you think that's weird, doug's the officiant! he has marrying powers for 24 hours after taking an oath or something. so if anyone wants to get married this saturday... anyway, it's just me and benny for the weekend. maybe i'll fill up his little wading pool and watch his splash around in it- that's always fun. lauri said she's coming over to take advantage of the free laundry facilities. then sunday, hopefully i can make it out to watch the 5-11's play ball. they've got to win eventually, right?

from now on, i think my posts will have the same format: a couple paragraphs of my goings on and then a message to each member of the rat race. i noticed that you used this same format, alex. keep reading for your special message about that.

randy: you had salmon last night too? what a coinkiedink! what's up with you and your 'lil bro having untitled posts? oh- do you like our new caption? cuz you wanted a change and i suggested to pete that he use that quote- is that the lightheartedness you were aiming for? and by the way, it's like 100 degrees here. don't believe the weather man.

alex: my format is hereby patented. let's consider that your freebie. of course you were joking about the chicken breasts. and i'm sorry i called you a schizo. have fun on the 7th heaven set.

pete: let me know what you think about a very long engagement. i'm wanting to see it too. that little french chick is in another movie (i may have already told you about it) called he loves me, he loves me not. pretty trippy. your blogging experiment sounds like a terrific idea. i should try my own starting first thing in the morning and with coffee instead of alcohol. then you'll get a better grasp on how our schkemes develop. and lastly, i get the impression you are having trouble dealing with everyone's poor punctuation skills. does that mean i should start using capital letters? my pinkies hate the shift keys.

tim: is it performace anxiety? i'm dying to read your first blog. or as jeff so eloquently put it, "popping his cherry."

lauri: no hard feelings over my comments on the 5-11's. i feel a win coming soon. hey- you know how pete wants you to get a metal knee replacement? they should just amputate and you can get a wooden peg leg! then we'll give you a cool pirate name. arrrgh!

i apologize for my severe verbal diarrhea. or literary diarrhea as it were.

Thoughts in AK

So it's almost noon up here in the great white north. Actually right now only parts are white. Anyway I don't really have anything to talk about but I was tired of watching TV. If I had a car I would take it out the road and go hike; however, it is getting it's oil changed and all the fluids checked for my trip to CA. You know don't want the car to die somewhere between Tok and Whitehorse if you know what I mean. HA, ha, ha...Of course you probably don't know what I mean and that is why I thought that was hilarious. Anyway it is still raining here. It is supposed to clear up on Saturday and then of course I leave on Sunday. Funny how that happens.
Alex you're right I probably would complain that it is hot although looking at the weather it says it is only like 84 or so in LA...not too hot, sport. At least if it is hot I can still go out and do something. In the rain I just get soaked. So we're all excited you love the rain. I personally don't!
So anyway I am going to attempt to print out all these digital pictures before I leave. That way I have stuff to show you guys without having to break out a computer to do it.
Yesterday was my Dad's 65th b-day. We had this Community Picnic at the church which was actually pretty fun. They had this salmon marinated in Teriyaki and cooked on the grill it was the best salmon I have ever tasted. It was really good. Then after that all our family came to our house and we had cake.
Today is my Aunt Susan and Uncle Richard's 43rd wedding anniversary. I think we are going out to dinner or something. I don't know I am just going with the flow here. So that should be enjoyable, right?
Ok well I am out of stuff to bore you with. So I am going to get out of here and do something. Maybe have lunch...yea that's the ticket. Alright peace out homies and remember only you can prevent forest fires!!

Stream of Consciousness

So...Man, I could really go for some popcorn right now. Sure it's nearly two in the morning and eating anything right now would be unhealthy to say the least, but god damn when a man has the late ngiht munchies what's to be done? I got this movie at blockbuster called A Very Long Engagement that I'm contemplating putting on right now. I also got a game called God of War that I want to play but here's the problem: Anyone who's been with Rat Race from the start knows that my original playstation 2 went in the shitter about six months ago and I got a new one (me and Lauri got a new one). I gave the old one to Tom because it worked fine with every game except GTA. But recently the old one really took a shit wasn't working anymore. I brought my tools home form Lauri's in the hopes of repairing it one more time and getting a few more miles out of it. Well... there was an incident and now its completely beyond repair. I know Lauri's thinkin that I got frustrated and threw it across the room or something (I can't fault her logic here) but, no, its just that something got disconnected that wasn't supposed to and I can't fix it. Thats life. It wasn't working anyway. But now I can't play God of War. So I'm contemplating starting French Cinema in the middle of the night. Plus... no popcorn.
Someday I'm going to do a blogging experiment where I write a post every hour and every hour I take another two shots. I want to see my mental decline as the night go on and have it indelibly written into the internet ether. (indelibly and ether thats what we would call oxymoron) But this is not that night.
I wonder should I ever become a famous writer, will these blogs be published and studied over. If Mark Twain had had a blog would we be reading it as supplimental material to Huckleberry Finn? I have a book of Mark Twain's speeches when he was on a lecture tour and they are little more than the oral blogs. Or does the very ease of blogging make it throw away writing. I mean look at most of our posts... we hardly even punctuate. (after writing this I went though and punctuated somewhat.)
Well this little talk has been fun. I don't think I'm gonna put the movie on but I'm not going to sleep either. I don't know what I'll do, maybe read. Maybe I'll drink myself to sleep. Maybe I'll just get up from this computer and start walking out the door and just go on walkabout like the Australian Aboriginals do. Maybe. Who's gonna stop me. You? I don't think so. Ah! who am I kiddin. I'm gonna watch the end of Harold and Kumar go to Whitecastle and fall asleep i front of the TV.

What's up peoples. I just got finished watchin this show called Kill Reality and here's the premise of the show a bunch of reality stars like trishelle from real world, jenna l., jenna m., ethan, and johnny fairplay from survivor, bob guiney from the bachelor just to name a few. All live in a house and make a horror movie written by rob c. who was on survivor and produced by some guy who was on amazing race. Who came up with this!!! I know I say reality stars act sometimes but I can say now NO! because they can't act. I got a horror movie idea livin with all these reality stars and dealin with all their drama. I get so pissed that I'm trying hard to get my acting career started and no talents get in the door because they were on areality show. Is that proof you can act... I don't know? I worked some new show on tuesday called Close To Home and it took forever! Maybe because the director was The JOCK Emilio Estevez. That's all I can say about it I... uh... wel.. forget it. I work on 7th Heaven today tomorrow and maybe friday. So It should be great.

Pete: You write a LOT!!! That's good I guess you do carry this blog I have to say. When are you gonna watch the x-games with me I know they start tomorrow but I would like to plan it out. Your secret ingredient is PIZZA DOUGH!!!

Randy: Enjoy your time up in Alaska. Quit complaining about the weather because you would say it s too hot if you were here. See ya later.

Tim: Write on the blog c'mon.

Lauri: Sorry about the death in your family. Did you play lego Star Wars and if you did how was it.

Sheila: I'm not schizophrenic and I was clearly makin a joke about the chicken.


I will talk to everyone later.

The Nature of Forward Time Travel

Three Decisions...
Turn back and go home.
Continue up to orchard camp.
Go down to First Water.

Each decision brings on even more decisions.

R.I.P.

Like Jeff, I too have had a loss in the family. I discovered this morning that one of my fishies were missing. I searched the filter, the plants, the heater, the rocks and i came up with nothing. Finally, i discovered a bit of remains. He seemed fine last night, but sometime during the night he went to the giant fish tank in the sky. And the saddest thing about it is that i couldn't help my fish (whom i didn't end up naming) fend off all the others while they ate his body. Oh its just horrible! So now my fish tank is minus one. Rest in Peace my little white fishie.

One more thing...

Can someone please change the caption under the title of our blog. It is rather depressing and I can't think of nayhitng right now. If I do I will change it to something good. It is just so sad. Isn't this blog supposed to be a little more carefree and light. Just a thought!

Rain, Rain Go Away

Wassup all my peoples? Probably nice sunny skies there. It is raining here but that is really nothing new. Oh well not much you can do about weather at least not till I come up with my weather controlling machine.
So as you all should know by now I am still in Alaska. If you don't know this you are a bad friend. Just kidding. So back to the rain. The day I came it was raining. But after that it stopped for 2 whole days. It was nice the sun was out and it was nice. Then the rain came. It started Sunday July 24 and hasn't stopped since. I take that back it will occasionally stop. Still it has rained at least half of every day since that fateful Sunday. I mean it is crazy and rather annoying. Again not much I can do so I deal.
We went up Power Creek Road today and saw the new hydroelectric dam. It wasn't really all that exciting unless you are into dams or whatever. It was cool it was a reason to get out of the house. It rained some while we were out there but not that bad I was only a little wet. It is raining hard outside now. I am listening to Chris Isaak drinking a Coors Light trying to remeber what the sun looks like. Anyway so yeah we drove up to the dam I took pictures then we hiked back down the hill which was pretty cool. Good exercise.
So really not much has gone on since my last post up here. I am goign to hike these last few days I am here to maximize my time. I feel I haven't taken as much advantage as I should have. So I am definitely going at least once a day from here on out.
I am glad Tim has joined the blog but I see no blogs from the WordSmith. I am sure when he does it will be memorable I guess. Ok I am glad all you are having fun down there and keeping busy. I guess it will be still a little while before I see you due to the fact I am driving home but not that much longer I guess...? Anyway I am going to go back upstairs and will the rain to go away. Peace out homies keep it real.

Welcome to the Wide World of Blog.

So surprise surprise! The Jeff that responded to my summer movie post is actually THE Jeff of Jamandeff (thier new couple name). Not only that, but Jeff has his own blog now. I'm throwing a link to it on Rat Race. Beware Rat Racers, we are being watched. Beware, Jeff, your secret is out. Perhaps someday we will combine forces into one Super Blog that will reach out and crush other blogs with the power of Ninjitsu and the Force combined!

my life outside the rat race

So if i work on the weekends is that outside the rat race? The rat race is primarily monday thru friday, right? Well that's what i did anyways. I worked this weekend and i had a softball game. The show was Cats, and it was horrible. There really isn't much more to say about it. I did however mess up my knee walking and running up and down the balcony stairs. I almost fell a couple of times. I have a doctors appt. tomorrow so we'll see what's up. Then i had a softball game on sunday which was fun. We lost but i think it was one of our better games. I actually got to second base this time. Its a whole different view over there.
Tomorrow is dinner night at Sheila's. She's a great cook so no matter what we end up having is gonna be yummy. Sorry Randy but we're going on with the tradition without you. Don't forget to grab some recipies while your at home.
I guess there isn't much else to say at the moment. Sheila and i are headed out to lunch soon. Oh i do think that we should archive some of our archives. The list is getting super long and i don't think we'll be reading things from february. Just a thought. Have a great day everyone! Oh and wonderful meal last night Tim!

rat rat rat ratties...

my blogs have been archived it's been so long since i've posted!

whenever lauri and i find ourselves acting in ways that wouldn't necessarily attract members of the opposite sex, (i.e. belching, cursing, talking in our deep man voices) we have to point out how nasty we are by saying, "damn we're sexy". fortunately for her, she can be as putrid as she wants- pete loves her still. i think this story stemmed from the fact that we just polished off some cheesecake that i brought to work. i'm feeling a little lactose intolerant right now.

during our lunchbreak, lauri and i went back to payless to return the mocassins i bought last week. while some of you may be thinking this is a good thing, i was sad. in fact, i would've exchanged them for another pair of equal cuteness but we didn't have much time to putz around. not only that, lauri is in pain today- she has old lady knee or something. hey lauri, maybe you should buy mocs now that they've been pre-approved. although you may want to consider orthopedics?

randy: it's gonna suck coming back home. alaska is sooo beautiful! i'm glad you're having a good time. on your dinner night, you should cook us up some king crab legs. thanx for posting pics.

alex: i was telling megan about your chicken breast comments at shakey's last sunday. she laughed (out of disbelief i think). by the way, your most recent post was confusing to say the least. what was going on? you sounded a little.... schizophrenic.

pete: i'm sorry about your bogus prize at del taco. but that's no reason to boycott those poor little crinkle fries. you won't find those anywhere else. another megan story-- she went there the other day and actually took back some chicken tacos she ordered. she said there were only 3 pieces of meat in one of them! now that's either shitty quality or megan morphing into her mother, i don't know. but she'll be back.

tim: welcome aboard! i tell you what though... i had to come up with a snappy poem on the topic of a healed over butthole before being invited to join the rat race. so with that said, i'm sure you'll have a lot to offer us as a member.

and in conclusion!... guess what i found out this weekend? the anus i used to date and his "ex" (with whom he cheated) are having a baby together. nice. but what doesn't kill us only makes us want to kill someone else.

FUCK DEL TACO!!!!!

I just won a thirty day free membership to gamefly. But of course when I go to the website to claim my prize it doesn't work. Like some kind of fucking tease. I went from having 30 days of free game rentals to having nothing but a fat ass from the 3 fish tacos I ate and giant sprite I just drank. So, you know what...FUCK DEL TACO IN THEIR STUPID ASS!!!