Wonderfalls

Have oddles of blogs that I want to post here… but since I posted to Aimee’s blog about how she should watch Wonderfalls, I figured I should post my love of this show here.

I found it by renting the first disc from Greencine. I figured it was going to be good because it was on Fox and didn’t last a season (see: Alien Nation, Brisco County Jr, Firefly, Keen Eddie and others…) It lasted FOUR episodes and the boxed set contains unaired episodes- bringing the total up to 13. I bought it as soon as I had the scratch to from Amazon.

Thirteen episodes of one of the best sitcoms (actually find it interesting box set says 13 but they’re credited with 14 on IMDB).

The set up is fairly simple- a 20 something slacker, Jayne, in a retail job in Niagara Falls who in the first episode finds that inanimate objects (with faces- has to have a face) talk to her. These objects (like a wax lion, a brass monkey, a chameleon and the snake on a t-shirt) tell her to do stuff. The animals are cryptic enough so that she’s able to misinterpret them.

It reminds me of Quantum Leap but oddles better. I liked Quantum Leap because Sam went around doing good and trying to make people’s lives better. However I stopped watching it because a) they started contradicting themselves and came up with stupid science and b) Sam and Al were really just two dimensional. Sam was good and clean, Al was a little less nice and horny.
However Jayne just wants to get on with her life- without talking critters. In fact one of the four episodes that aired showed Jayne talking to a nun about things. Jayne does NOT accept that the animals have her best interest (or others) in mind when they order her to do stuff. Jayne frequently questions the voices… as do the few others, like the nun, she tells about the animals. We never know why after her ‘sode( what her folks call a fainting spell/ ‘episode’ in the first episode) the animals talk to her( though one does say they talk to her because she listens)… but that’s not the point- the point is they try to get Jayne to do stuff, she sometimes tries to go against them and interesting and fun stuff happens.

The rest of the cast is equally amusing- her over achieving family who all have names that go together ( save hers)- Darren- her doctor dad, Karen- her author mom, Sharon- her overachieving lesbian sister, and Aaron- her theology brother who doesn’t believe in god. The other regulars are: her mouth breathing boss, her best friend a sista girl and a guy who works at the bar with sista girl- who’s Damaged Goods but he and Jayne have CHEMESTRY.

It has a very wry sense of humor as Jayne has to take orders from inanimate objects, deal with her overachieving family while being an underachiever( they all live together- she lives by herself in a trailer park), her mouth breather boss and try to hook up with the cute guy.

It’s really good stuff That said I’m a bit glad I didn’t find out about it during it’s 4 episode run because it would’ve killed me to have fallen in love with it as I fell in love with the first dvd and then have had it cancelled because Fox is EVIL.

The mighty sucking sound...

...coming from Ma. is not Mitt, but me.

I suck, my life sucks and people in general suck. I refer not to the people who read this blog but at this point in time- there are 6+ Billion people on Earth. I would be surprised if more then 20,000 don't suck.

I had a bad day. I just have felt crappy all day... Work was crap. Life pretty much crap( though I think i've said that before here).

I planned to right the above BEFORE I got home...
...and when I got home, my bathroom sink overflowed due to a) leak and a) stuffed drain. So I have NO clean towel to use tomorrow morning... as I had one towel on the floor, which was sopping wet and one towel hanging up which I then used to sop up the water that was on the floor.

Bleh.

Mighty MEs!

HowManyOfMe.com

There are: 2,223 people with my name in the U.S.A. How many have your name?

Not sure if I'm tnat surprised about how many mes there are... I think the fact that my last name is suppose to be more common then my first( 15th most common last name to 54th most common first name) seemed odd as I've know others with my first name but not that many with my last name. Though there are 800,000+ people with EITHER my first name or last name in the U.S.

Random Fun!

It's time for the The Euphemism Generator which promises "Hit "Reload" for ENDLESS FUN."

It gives such wackiness like


You give me five hundred dollars, I give you the negatives, and no one has to know you were burping the lizard.

Then, I had to sit next to some crazy guy on the bus who was apparently unleashing the Polish tin hose.

Every morning, he woke up toggling the smurf.

As the kids say, she was passing the wife's leather vector.

and of course after reading all these...

I feel like soiling the wax manual.

Work.

This week at work has been awful and I’m not sure if it’s going to get better or if instead of playing sims Tuesday and Wednesday I should look for a job…. Well actually I know I should look for a job instead of playing Sims Pets, the question is WILL I be able to shelve Sims Pets after getting it.

The snowball of ick, started when Assistant Manager S. left the store last week. I thought S was flakey but it a good way. She was amusing and not a hard ass, and so I was a bit sad to see her go. Not more then a bit as I really would prefer not working at the gift store and so haven’t made too many connections there. However, because she left there seemed to be a shift in the power structure. It’s not that they promoted someone to her Ass’t Manager slot it’s just…
Well before this there was a manager- who tries to be the “nice guy”- M, S who as I said was nice and lenient, letting people get away with stuff and then there’s Ass’t Manager L. I like L but others don’t. She’s anal retentive, which I can deal. I like knowing what’s expected of me. I know where I stand with L and what’s expected of me.
Others, however, don’t like L because she’s the “enforcer”. Since M likes to be nice, he gets L to do his dirty work and discipline others. And without S there, perhaps there’s not enough balance between M and L.

On Monday, one of my co-workers wasn’t in “uniform”. Our uniform is the company polo, kakis and our badge. She had unzipped hoodie on OVER the polo. L pointed out this was “wrong”. The co worker got bitchy, pointing out that she was cold, and that NO other manager had a problem with it… And to be honest S. often wore sweatshirts as she ran pretty cold herself- but S sweats at least were ones that had the logo on them. L pointed out that this worker wasn’t in uniform and this was bad… And I think it was pointed out that the company allows you to wear shirts UNDER the polo, but that the polo has the corporate logo- which people have to see.
The hoodie wearer ended up leaving rather then take the hoodie off. And if if she was a bitch, then my other co worker that day was warrior princess bitch as she told L that NO ONE liked her. That L was hung up on all these rules that no one cared about.
I tried to be nice to L because I know that M is a twit so I offered to pick up food for her at the mall, which I went to for break as I needed a break, and got her a chocolate something because I know chocolate helps make things better.

Last night things proved that my manager is a stupe. He tried to find out where everyone was as he hadn’t seen one of the people who was suppose to be working. One of my co workers pointed out that there was a communication problem at the store. This got M pissed. He got defensive… and later asked me if I felt there was a communication problem. Thinking about Monday, I decided to be diplomatic and say a little bit and use an example OTHER then Monday. I told him that the receiver had a habit of going to break whenever he wanted, and thus people sometimes weren’t sure if he was around. I felt this was a ‘safe’ example as I wasn’t attacking M, and I felt that it was a “given” that the important thing about changing break time is letting someone know- 90% of the time no one has had a problem when I’ve wanted to change break time, they just want to know where I am. Apparently M doesn’t take criticism well because he countered that the reason people have complained about the receiver is because people don’t like the receiver… Now yes, people don’t like the receiver but that doesn’t mean my point wasn’t valid; it just means the next time he asks for my opinion I’m less likely to be truthful.

I also found ironic that he later proved my point about lack of communication as there was a sleep over last night and he told all of us that campers from now until Nov. get 10% off. However he didn’t tell my co-workers that there were campers last night- just when they came they would get 10% off… Worse IMHO was that when asked, and I forget why I asked just glad I did, I found out that he hadn’t told the museum person in charge of camp ins that the campers get 10% off. I say worse because if we want to bolster business by giving them 10% off… they should know this.

We’re having a meeting on Monday. I am dreading it. I also am kicking myself because at the top I mentioned how I’ve tried not to form any real emotional attachments at work… however my two nights off this week will be spent with co workers- the first is because L. is giving a speech for her doctorate and wanted people there… Since I’ve been supportive and nice to her, she likes me and invited me. I feel I should go, so I will. The other night… well before I know about L’s event; I have a lonely co worker. He moved here from the Seatle, and doesn’t know anyone outside of work. He’s dropped hints to me a good bit that since he recently stopped drinking and he doesn’t know anyone he just stays home watching movies…. Because I’m either a yutz or a mensh( or both) I finally broke down and invited him to go get wings with me as I’ve been getting boneless wings about once a week at Wings Over Brookline and wanted to share- esp. as Wings is really a take out joint so doesn’t sell beer and I know he doesn’t drink so I figure that would be a good way to go get food with him and not have to worry about me drinking in front of him.

EBGames Sucks!

This is a rant to let people know that EBGames sucks. Perhaps they suck more that they were taken over by Gamestop but they did a very good job yesterday of making me lose it.
I pre-ordered Sims Pets from EBGames because they had an “exclusive” unlockable of a bandit cat- that I instantly wanted. I love cats. I’ve been drooling over this expansion to Sims 2 like no other expansion- more even then the Pets expansion for Sims 1.
Even on my vacation to Ca., every so often the idea of the “countdown” to Pets was in the back of my mind.

So I planned most of my week around Pets- getting my game ready( won’t bore you with how I did that) and reading on forums what’s going on and what info has been leaked. I was off Tuesday, so I popped by EBGames as Pets was SUPPOSE to be out Tuesday but I had heard that Tuesday was actually the “ship” date and that it would be “released” on Wednesday. EBGames confirmed this, so I then called them yesterday morning to find out around what time they got their shipment- as I didn’t want to bother them. I was told that they’d have their shipment by 3PM and planned my day accordingly.
I got there at as close to 3PM as I could. They had Sims Pets for me, and Justice League Heroes, HOWEVER this is where it goes south. When I ask them for the code, the guy ringing me up tells me that they’re out of it.
I’m like WHAT???!!!??? I retorted that it wasn’t even 4PM, how could they be out of the code already?
He responds that they got the code weeks ago and had been giving it out to people.
This made my blood boil. I told him that I had been giving them money for like two months and visiting the store and at NO POINT did anyone give me a code. I also want to mention at this point that a friend’s spouse works there; a person who I told him ages ago that he’d better make sure I got the code, and he seems surprised himself that EBGames got the code… The guy ringing me up reconfirms that they got the code awhile ago and have been giving it out.
I told the guy ringing me up I didn’t want Pets any more. He asked for my credit card. I told him that I paid CASH and I wanted cash back… OH and did they have the poster for Heroes or did they give that out as well? They had the poster… so I kept Heroes… though I’m sad to say that the poster didn’t make it home. Basically I was sooo angry and there was a fence on my way back home- so poster met fence and that was that.

I have ordered Pets from EA with my $15 coupon- with shipping I saved about $10; though I’m now going to have wait another week or so for Pets- during which time I can’t really play Sims. The story ends a bit better then I feared as a) wiki has a list of most/all of the unlockable items in Pets- and b) another Sims website put the code that I SHOULD’VE gotten from EBGames. So yeah, game taking like 5 days more to get to me… but I will have the bandit cat (the EBGames pre order) in my game. And I’m looking more forward to a star furred cat- as that’s one of the fur patterns I got on Wiki.

ugh!

It's been one of those days/week that I just find EVERYTHING annoying.

Life just has a habit of pissing me off... You know what I mean?

Just in a bad patch. Not sure what will get me out of it. Hope Sims Pets- which comes out this week, will...

though of course would be better served looking for a real job instead of hacking arround on the computer.

Who's Next( and more...)

The situation with N. Korea and Iran( and don't forgot Iraq) has been making me think of Tom Lehrer's Who's Next song...

The lyrics to Who's Next-

First we got the bomb, and that was good,
'Cause we love peace and motherhood.
Then Russia got the bomb, but that's okay,
'Cause the balance of power's maintained that way.
Who's next?

France got the bomb, but don't you grieve,
'Cause they're on our side (I believe).
China got the bomb, but have no fears,
They can't wipe us out for at least five years.
Who's next?

Then Indonesia claimed that they
Were gonna get one any day.
South Africa wants two, that's right:
One for the black and one for the white.
Who's next?

Egypt's gonna get one too,
Just to use on you know who.
So Israel's getting tense.
Wants one in self defense.
"The Lord's our shepherd," says the psalm,
But just in case, we better get a bomb.
Who's next?

Luxembourg is next to go,
And (who knows?) maybe Monaco.
We'll try to stay serene and calm
When Alabama gets the bomb.
Who's next?
Who's next?
Who's next?
Who's next?

The main reason I post this is because of N. Korea- whom I'm not sure if they have the bomb, but frankly I don't care if they do...

HOWEVER geek that I am, I thought it was funny when Reed Richards this month quoted from the same album- but different song- he quoted from Wernher von Braun.... and now so shall I( for the full effect of the song for my geek brethren who perhaps know not of Tom Lehrer)

Gather round while I sing you of Wernher von Braun,
A man whose allegiance
Is ruled by expedience.
Call him a Nazi, he won't even frown.
"Ha, Nazi Schmazi," says Wernher von Braun.

Don't say that he's hypocritical,
Say rather that he's apolitical.

"Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down?
That's not my department," says Wernher von Braun.

Some have harsh words for this man of renown,
But some think our attitude
Should be one of gratitude,
Like the widows and cripples in old London town
Who owe their large pensions to Wernher von Braun.

You too may be a big hero,
Once you've learned to count backwards to zero.
"In German oder English I know how to count down,
Und I'm learning Chinese," says Wernher von Braun

Mistrust

I’m tired but I wanted to blog about my boss as I had a conversation with him a week or two ago which made me feel unclean and that he was a complete s.o.b.

About a week before this conversation I was told that my manager had a “my space”, then about a day later he tells me HE’S heard that I have a “my space” page. I tell him that I heard it the other way around and he admits to having a myspace. I check it out, without telling him I’ve checked my space out for him… and then later it’s brought up again that he has an account and he admits the reason for having the account.
No, it’s not what I thought to be “hip” or meet people… but to check up on his minions. You see a bunch of the teenagers who work at the gift store have my space accounts and there are areas that you can’t go unless you’re a member- so he joined up to check on them. In the same confab, the boss admitted to firing someone for posting on my space that they were at work and how DULL it was.
Now I will admit that I think a person who logs in at work and complains about work on a semi public forum is sort of asking for it- but at the same time my boss was going sniffing for it. I don’t have a really good none techno image to create about this- I just feel that what my boss did was a bit dirty and again I feel that he’s not all that trustworthy.

If you think I’m over reacting or letting my rebellious nature( I hate bosses so ergo whatever my boss does must be scummy) color what he did… but right now I’m glad I’ve never told anyone there my blog or livejournal handle- though I did admit to him I had a live journal… I told a ½ truth and told him I only got it to comment to a friend’s lj, I didn’t tell the full truth and admit that since then I started my own lj- as I don’t want him to use anything I say against me.

Uncly

I know that uncly isn’t really a word (thanks spellchecker!) but I’m using it because I felt uncly on my vacation- and if aunts can act aunty (which spellchecker accepts as a word) why can’t I act uncly?

I felt uncly primarily because I enjoyed myself best while hanging out with my 3+ year old nephew. We started Sunday having ice cream for breakfast. See during dinner the night before, when he wanted MORE ice cream sis promised him ice cream for breakfast- which sounded like a pretty good idea to Uncle Drew, so I had some ice cream with him (his Dad was parental supervision) and then the three of us hit the hot tub. It was also nice later that day, when he wanted company for Cinderella that we reached an agreement. The rest of the adults were talking and I had seen Cindy with him the day before- so I let him know that I’d be willing to sit with him IF he let me read the paper; he didn’t seem to have a problem with this- though I do wish we could’ve traded one of the three showings of Cindy with the Jungle Book.

But what really made me feel uncly was the atom bomb of attention my older brother set off. You see I, and the rest of the family, knew that sis was preggers. What was unknown until Friday night was my brother had planted his seed in his gal pal. I had known that they were trying since my younger bro’s wedding but hadn’t really heard anything more about it--- so I wasn’t really surprised about the news, just hadn’t known that all systems were go. Or that she was Jewish. Not saying it matters to me one way or the other, but I know it does to my mom (who wants me to meet a nice Jewess now that I’m ‘ripped’). So my mom was all aglow with being a REAL grandma (as sis is my step sister). Likewise I’ve told my bro to let me know when he’s told my dad- as Dad has wanted a grandkid for a zillion years- girl preferred as we have a boatload of boys in my family.
And speaking of girls- aforementioned gal pal has TWO daughters already. She has decided that the girls will like Uncle Drew because a) they like comics and b) they like games- and she knows I work at a game store.
As I’ve already emailed Evan, this woman is a mundy and so doesn’t know WHAT comics her kids read- but plan to bring her kids something when I met them on Turkey Day… so my (step) sister has a family, my brother has an instant family with a 10 year old daughter and (soon to be) blood of his blood.

Ok now the family photo( minus my older bro and his gal)
Back row clockwise- Younger (step) Bro’s GF, Step Father, Nephew, Bro in Law, younger (step) bro, my mom. (step) sister and ME.


That’s it for now. Back Later.

Weird Al's new songs...

That's how I roll... White and Nerdy



And Virus Alert


Too bad there's no vid for Canadian Idiot... guess you'll just have to buy the cd/dvd.

Had Enough ??!!!??

Love this commerical



Actually what I really love is that there are at least 1/2 dozen of these on youtube for several different gop/dem match ups.

Spread the word- we've had enough.

Ugh...

As I was fasting I ended up reading this article in USA Today.

It talks about how on the JEWISH DAY OF FORGIVENESS, Jews should forgive Mel Gibson. Which I thought was funny because it's not really a day of FORGIVENESS, but a day of ATONEMENT. Heck the author starts out by calling it ATONEMENT before he goes on the forgiveness track. The diff is that, WE ATONE for our sins and only G-D can FORGIVE. It's not like I called my Dad up and apologized to HIM for not Honoring him( as the commandments tell me to), if I were to atone... I'd tell G-d herself that I was sorry.... and hope that She would forgive me.

The next thing that really struck me, and I feel a need to blog about it, is this sentence "While official Jewish leadership (I have no idea what most Jews actually felt) perceived the film[Passion of the Christ] as viciously anti-Semitic, Gibson and millions of other decent and moral people in this country felt it was a deeply spiritual experience."

First the italics are mine to illustrate the author is NOT A JEW, and while he might be able to say "some of my best friends are..." it's clear he hasn't asked them what the deal was. Because they, like me and some of my NON Jewy friends, can tell you one of the big problems of the New Testement and Passion is the fact that Jesus' death is blamed on the JEWS and not the Romans who actually killed him. Jesus is arrested and put in a pool of rabble. Pontius Pilot then lets the Jews pick ONE prisoner to free. According to the New Testement he then tries to get them to free Jesus and when they won't, he tells everyone that it's on THE JEWS heads that Jesus is dying.
Jews objected to Gibson putting that line in the movie so... Gibson cheated. It's in the movie, but NOT sub titled. So if you're a stupid christian you can claim ignorance... but Gibson can't. He left it in on purpose.
Likewise, I am told as I never saw it, all the jews in the movie were straight from central casting... ugly with great big hook noses.

I suggest that if you want to read more about how anti-semitic Passion plays in general and Gibson's movie in specific was hateful to go to this website.

It just pisses me off that on one of the high holiest of days for Jews, that USA Today would publish something ATTACKING Jews for getting angry at Mel. The only thing scummier than Mel and his Dad( who's a holocaust denier) is someone DEFEBNDING Mel for being a bigot.