Well done Forum

Congratulations to the cast of The Last Days of Judas Iscariot for their nomination for The Canadian Embassy Award for Outstanding Ensemble, Resident Play at this year's Helen Hayes Awards. Well done guys, glad I got to see it. And well done Forum.

Such Good News

For the past 5-6 weeks, my sister's status on GChat has been www.helpfindrocky.blogspot.com.

Rocky is a 7 year old tri color Australian Cattle Dog who'd been missing. He gone missing, and after 36 days of having his owner constantly out, putting up flyers and posters, and doing everything possible, Rocky was found, and is now home and safe with his dad. Numerous friends and people in the community helped, putting up flyers and spreading the word about Rocky.

I recommend you look at the pages, and read the posts, and look at the pictures of the happy reunion.

My dog Reggie, came to be mine in large part because he ran away from...who he was staying with at the time. He was gone for a couple of weeks, and had been found and kept, luckily, by two dog-groomers. After that we decided it was best if he stayed with us.

When I think of it, and I do, I can't even imagine dealing with if Reggie went missing now. It's hard enough for me, not getting to live with him, and see him regularly. It's so hard every time I go down to VA, for a night or a day or two, and then I have to leave.

Anway, I sort of avoided reading the blog updates while he was missing, because it was a hard thing to think about, and because since I wasn't local, I couldnt' really help anyhow. But now that he's gone...I just think that it's a beautiful thing to read. I hope you enjoy it.

So we all know Meth is bad but...

...but do you have to try so hard to make it seem awesome?

Unbelievable.

Thanks for the link, Geoff.

Whose side are you on?

I'd held of for a while, but I finally started watching the A&E tv show "Parking Wars". To be honest, I don't recall why I had originally decided not to watch it, but it's possible that it's because it's set here in Philly.

Anyway, I enjoy it a decent bit. It's got kind of a playful, Pop-Up-Video type of tone to it.

But whatever, the point is, it pisses me off to watch it sometimes, and probably not for the reasons you'd think. I hate dickheads. Whoever you are, a cop, someone's boss, someone rude sitting next to me at the bar. I just can't stand people who have bad attitudes for no good reason. And most of the time on this show, that's the impression that I get from the people who get ticketed. That's right. Obviously there's some editing and some decision making done by the producers, but it doesn't surprise me at all (especially being set in Philly), how so many people react to, even just the site of a meter-maid (is it okay to say that?...ticketing agent? who knows).

Nobody likes getting tickets, obviously. But there are rules. And frankly those rules are there for a reason. I've gotten' plenty of tickets over my twelvish years of driving, for a variety of reasons. And a lot of them I've deserved. How can you get mad at someone for giving you a ticket for parking in an illegal spot, when you clearly parked in an illegal spot. If you want to try it, and then hope for the best, the most you're allowed when you see that you tempted the fates and lost, is a "Oh...bummer."

Idiot. You know the rules, but yet you think that they don't apply to you?! Obviously, as I said, the producers pick the most...interesting things to put on the show, so there's a lot of people on there getting mad for that reason. And listen, I've had more improper parking tickets on my car, than I imagine anyone else in the city could have. I've talked about it plenty of times; these people have basically two jobs when it comes to checking my car:
-You check to see if the meter is expired
-And you check to see if I have a residential permit sticker, that means I don't have to pay the meter, which clearly, I do, clearly displayed in the proper place.

Yet I've had dozens of tickets left. Getting them dismissed is a process that ranges from a few minutes of my time, to a moderate pain in the ass. And I complain about that when it happens, but you know what, it always gets cleared up, and hey, shit happens.

But when I park somewhere where I shouldn't, and get a ticket, it's my fault because I knew that it might happen.





This past week there was a lot of snow here. Someone posted this picture.

Then people started talking about it, saying stuff like: Jerks, the car is covered in snow, what kind of assholes would give that car a ticket?!

Who cares if it's covered in snow? Is it supposed to be there? If you have a car, snow is one of the things that we have to deal with. Life is harsh sometimes, but that doesn't mean that you're above the law. Traffic needs to move, other people need to park, people need to shop, and run errands, and park near their houses, and do all sorts of things and that's why have parking laws in the first place. Now, if you want to be upset that the parking people were out in force right after a snow, you can go ahead and saw "Oh drat". But aside from that, get over yourself.

People are too mean.

Woohoo!! Consume Obey

Geek's rule!!

So apparently some dude in Colorado Springs, CO robbed a 7-11, and then went and robbed another 7-11 like, a half hour later. What's great is that he robbed them using a Bat'leth. You know that Klingon sword. Oh come on. You know.

Anyway, what's great, is that both clerks....BOTH CLERKS, when they described their assailant, not only knew that it was a weapon from Star Trek, but the BOTH actually knew the name of it. You know, it's hard to move out of the basement, when you're only making $8.25 an hour.