just gets better and better

So my friend had his vehicle stolen(#2 on the list)
Not on purpose or for some insurance scam, mind you, but it did happen. During the Oscars of all things!
You know what's worse?
He was my ride. Know what's worse than that?
Watching him beat himself up over it.

Jaw Clenching Grumpy-ness

Man, this wknd has made me grumpy.
Woke up early to the phone and had multiple convos there.
Then I slept most of the afternoon away. Still haven't had enough sleep.
So I'm grumpy.
I do have an Oscar party to goto tho. Jon Stewart should pep me up.
While looking for that link for Stewart above, I stumbled upon this. Ahhhh, the Daily Show.
So good. So mushy warm.

Skating, The 4 Wheeled Variety

This wknd has made me grumpy.
Buncha shit that I don't wanna get into and a buncha shit that I will get into.
You'll get the gist, don't you worry.

P. slam picked me up an hour+ late.
Got to the Roller Jam a hour and a half later than I wanted to.
Fucken.
Then they were low on skates.
Mother.
I had to wait another 20+ minutes for a pair that fit.
Fuck.

But man, when I finally hit the rink floor.
Whoooooo!
Made my night it did. When I glided onto the floor, the flow was clockwise. The human body was not made to go in circles (or ovals) in a clockwise manner.
It's just not right.
But that didn't last too long and we were back to going backwards in time.
The music was bumpin'. The people were skatin'. In the centre of the floor, the people were dancin'. The crowd was groovin'.

Scoop was cruising around enjoying himself.
Missy Buxom, was attempting to cruise and was having a good time with that. Pigtails and all.
Fry Guy was looking like a wild bushman, rockin' his wild hair and crazy beard. Looks like a hippie unibomber. Looks like Cousin It with a nose.

This was an all ages event which was kinda cool. The youngin's get to hang out and hear some kickin' tunes. Enjoy themselves in a good atmosphere.
The kinda not part was the girls that were too young. They have weird ideas as to what to wear to a Roller Jam.
A sports bra as your top, appealing it is not.
'Specially when it looks like you belong in a midget biker bar and are looking for a wrestle.

We hit up the after party.
It was smokin'.
Literally.
It was at 'The Bike Dump.' It is an after hours spot. Not too big, so it filled up pretty quick with people and smoke. We stuck around for a bit and then mosied on down to Sumhay for some tasty grub.
We chowed down until 3:30 something. In the A.M. Place closes at 3. But we were intrigued by these people still coming in thru the door. Turns out they were a band from El Salvador.

We head on out. Don't know what the hell P. slam is doin'
We end up taking a roundabout way. Takes us 15 or so minutes to get to a spot that shoulda taken us 4.
Weird.

Get home and eventually to sleep.

Roller Skating Jam? Hell Yeah!

So roller party showdown tonight? What time do you work until? If I can get a car, do you think we should stop by Bluebird's party for an hour and than hit DJ CO-OP? We have to wait for Scoop I guess? I'm going to call the resteraunt and see if maybe he can wrap up by 10ish and leave the closing stuff to his minions.

And again because I don't fell like writing this screenplay I will now compose this e-mail in pictures.

Check Ya Later Negro!


~~~~
P.slam I will be there my friend.
Oh yes I will.

Emails, The P.Slam Variety

SUPREME VICTORY!

You need to become an orthodox Sikh cause the Supreme Court says nobody can stop you from caring around your dagger, hell I might become an orthodox Sikh if it means I get a dagger! Daggers are cool. Raphel had a dagger! So in a sense Sihkism is the Raphel of the worlds relgions and since Raphel was the cool turtle with all the attitude that makes Sihkism a relgion with attitude. I have a feeling that Kabbalah and Scientology may no longer be the most popular relgion with the Hollywood Types now that Sihkism has a rep for having totally extereme attitude. Look for Madadona, that girl from Gilmore Girls, the entire cast of the O.C (except for the guy with the GIANT eyebrows) and other celebs to show up at the Oscars with a turban and a dagger.

By the way, what's up tonight? I have an odd desire to see Chappelles Block Party. Do you think it's any good? Also I demand to know why you did not answer your phone last night at 11:00. If you did you could have come to Pemby and perhaps have changed the sands of time and prevented me from making a horrible mistake.

I will now write this e-mail with pictures, just in case you forgot how to read.

Sidebar Update

I got a site feed linked up there under the Menu heading. An atom feed.
Also added a couple more links to some other blogs under the Take Out heading.
I'll go more into detail about the added links (Neighbour, Goose) in a bit.
I gotta shuffle them around and rename a couple.
But either way, enjoy.

Olympic Bronze!

We got a Bronze medal!
Rock!
We got the Bronze in Women's 3000m Speed Skating.
Wooo!
Winnipeg's own (my hometown), Cindy Klassen won it for us.

Last winter Olympics [official], she won a bronze as well.
Cindy is the world record holder and the reigning world champ. But in good Canadian fashion, we like to let other people have the glory sometimes and so we let them win Olympic events.
Once every 4 years is enough.

Unless it is a new event, then we crush the competition (politely) and show them how much fun this new Olympic event is. (see trampoline -> Syndey 2000; trampoline ->Athens 2004 [official]) - yah, I know it doesn't hold up. But after the first few times, we drop off the podium. Shuddyup.
Le sigh.
Anyways.

Congrats Cindy Klassen!

Olympic Gold!

We got a Gold medal!
Rock!
We got the Gold in Women's Moguls.
Wooo!
Jennifer Heil won it for us. Last winter Olympics she finished just off the podium, so it nice to see she made it this time.
Congrats Jennifer Heil!

Article Linkage!

Did I mention that I like venti mocha fraps?

Anyways, here is some interesting articles about patch fixes by microsoft and mozilla (the firefox folks).
Here's a story about the little guy taking on the big guy (from tsn). The shorter version (from espn).
The victors really being the amateur hockey leagues and etc.
Oddly enough, I'm reading up on hockey news and other hockey related stories on ESPN.
Crazy google web clips.

I'd write more, but all that tasty goodness(mmmm, mocha), has made me hungry.
Oddly enough, that link to the mocha frap, is to the Japanese site (in english!). The North American site didn't have anything on it.
Weird.

The Blech!-ness Continues

Luckily for me, (if you call being sick lucky), when I get sick, it is always the same thing. Thus I don't have to expect anything crazy. I always end up with a head cold.

• A gross, phlemy throat
• stuffy-ish nose, with a bit of runny
• crazy-sinus-craziness
• headaches
• ear aches
• hyper sensitive to noise - usually the high end. damn electronics!

The only difference between my colds is the severity of the cold and the direction that the cold will take. The cold will either start at the top, with headaches and such, and work it's way down
OR, the cold will start at the bottom with the throat and work it's way up.
This one started with the throat.

Now I get to drink lots of chai.

Blech!....

....I am sick.

Venti = Good...i

Yah, yah, I know.
shuddyup.

I was saying to some people how I'm gonna do this, now I'll tell those same people again on my blog. They are after all the only people that read this sumamabitch.
Thingy at top with very past due post right underneath.
Thingy will have a link to very past due post so you can catch up to the current day and stuff or something.
Yep, that is my explanation.

I mean it this time, unlike those other times that I said this.
Seriously.
I mean it.
Honest!
Scouts honour or ....yah. Ask a scout. They most likely will honour that statment or anything for that matter. With how they are scared of being raped. Not by me specifically, but the world in general.
Yes, the world.

So remember that apartment that I moved into and didn't tell you about?
Yah, well, I moved out of there.
Went back home, I did. Only for 2 (two) months. Then the big move out west.
Getting spurs and everything. Not THE spurs, but a set of spurs.
ka-ching, ka-ching.
ka-ching, ka-ching.
^[that's the spurs on my shoes, not the ka$h register of the kkk.]

So I kinda loopy. Haven't really slept all that much in the last week or so. My breakfast today consisted of a venti mocha frappacino from starbucks. By breakfast, I mean an hour ago. Now instead of both of my eyes wanting to close and put me into a deep sleep, I have only 1 (one) eye scheming against me in that fashion.
The lack of sleep has caused me to go out in search of caffeine. Thus the starbucks cravings.
Many caramel machiatos later. (triple shot, extra caramel, extra vanilla).
Grande and up, of course, of course.
I am now still tired, but quite able to mess with peoples minds. The logic behind my sentences is sooo skewed.
It's great.
Ask around.

Got this Brugo Mug.
Been testing it out for Cinamon Stick. I guess it keeps it warm for awhile, but I'm not sure yet. Everytime I get a drink, it is never hot enough. I even asked for it to be extra hot once.
Don't know about the sips either. Just a tad bit small for me. But then again, I ain't a coffee drinker. Haven't tested it out with cold drinks yet. Should go out and do that.
Mocha Frap would be tasty right about now,
Mmmmmm, Mocha Frap.
Venti......soooo tasty.

In other news, I'm discovered Pink Floyd.
Not that I didn't know of them before, just that now I have a much better appreciation of there stuff. Really good for my state of mind. Just get lost in the music.
You ever listen to the Dark Side of Oz?
Think I'm gonna have to burn me a dvd with Dark Side of Moon as one of the audio tracks. Would make things oh so much easier.

define sarcasm.....

as given br Prof. P:

Prof:

Sarcasm: From the the Poly-Malay words Sars Chasm, meaning the Chasm between areas where SARS can be and cannot be found. Due to degradation over languages and time the words Sars Chasm, slowly has become blended together, and in todays English is now one word, with a different meaning, yet still some what related to the old connotation.
Today sarcasm, means laughing at anothers misfortune. The history to this meaning dates back to the SARS crisis in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 2003. The city officials at the time (one possible being Cardinal Offishal, who was believed to be the head official or offishal) decided to boost the sinking image of the city by hiring late nite American funny man Conan O'Brien.
As was his typical routine for his late nite act he would open with a monologue wit subpar material. Not funny by most standards. But laughter was usually reached due to the idiocy that O'Brien would actually think that it would incite genuine laugh. During his Toronto shows, he did not change his routine, and many people laughed at the expense of Mr. O'Brien. Some laughed so hard that they were hospitalized. And since SARS was mainly found in medical areas in the city some people from this shows contracted SARS and became ill. Hence the explanation from the old meaning to todays.
Sarcasm: laughing at Conan O'Brien attempting a lame joke, and ending up in a hospital with SARS. From laughing in a place that had no SARS and now being in a place that has SARS.
there you go. I didn't spell check it.

Sent at 1:50 AM on Friday

*editors note: Cardinal Offishal = Kardinal Offishal

Panzer The Non-German Variety.

I got Panzer Dragooon Orta for the Xbox last week or so.
Finally got around to playing it. Good game so far.
Got my ass handed to me by the first boss tho.
Tried it again this morning and made it a little ways to level 2. Or episodes, whatever it's called.

Had a Mocha Frappacino today. About an hour ago.
Wasn't very good tho.
The chick did a bad job making it. Doesn't have much flavour and for some reason the 'essence' of the drink is settling on the bottom like mad crazy quick.
Just added some of my friends caramel macchiato to my mocha frappacino.
Looks a little better.
Tastes more like an iced coffee beverage now.
No longer a frappicino, but an iced drink it becomes!
How do you fuck up a drink at Starbucks?
That's all you do there. Make drinks.
Wtf!
Honestly now. At least she didn't put whipped cream on my drink.
Bastards.

Yah, I'm a little wired.
Only reason I'm even posting this is because watching my fingers as the move across the keyboard is kinda tripping me out.
Yay for coffee!

It's Official!

I have no soul.

I was leaving Safeway. Was getting a hot bbq beef sammich (it's cold outside!)
A guy had just exited, so the 1st door was open.
Got to the 2nd door just as it was closing.
AND
it continues to close, almost walked into the sucka.
I'm like: "wtf!?"
Look around, step back a little. A step to the side.
The door opens and I walk thru.
Think it only opened cuz a guy was walking into the store thru the door right next to the exit.

So here you go, I have no soul.
Or at least one not compatible at safeway.

People Need To Be Shot

Get to my doc, about 10 min late. Missed my bus you see.
Get there, receptionist is like: Well you're late, so you are gonna have to wait until all these people are thru.
M: How long is the wait?
R: I don't know.
Cow.
Even tho, I know that if I was on time , I still would have had to wait for all these geezers to go.
You'd think I was in Dr. Kevorkians' office or something. With all the stench of geezer surrounding me
So about an hour and some later, I get called in.

Doc: So what can I do for you?
Moi: You told me to come back!
D: AH right, a follow up. Jump on the scale.
Which I do.
M: I'm the same as last time. I didn't gain any weight.
D: Thats good. People get fat and then they have trouble getting rid of it.
M: You told me to gain weight!
He then takes my blood pressure, which is good he says.
Doc: AT least you stopped drinking. Not getting drunk and all that.
M: No I didn't! I actually drank more between these last visits than the ones before these ones.
Some other nonsense and then we are done.
D: see you in 2 mths.

This all took about under 10min.
Bah.

Later that night: <--(said in 60's Batman voice over)
[cue Batman segue music]
So it's about 8pm. I call up Best Buy.
M: Do you guys have any copies of Layer Cake?
BB: Let me check
He puts me on hold. A few seconds later, 'click'
Fuckers!
Like I need another reason to hate Best Buy.
A&B Sound doesn't have any copies, but Future Shop does. So I decide to go there and I can check out best buy, since they are right next to each other.
I run thru the mall (Polo) and check out HMV and CD Plus. At CD Plus I pick up Old Boy.
Great Movie. Awesome revenge flick.
Run over to best buy. Ask the guy
M:Do you guys have any copies of Layer Cake and Batman Begins: Deluxe Edition?
BB: Lemme check.
So he goes to the computer and looks it up. 3 copies of LC and 6 of BB:DE.
We go to the wall of dvds. Nothing. Checks the sections that they could be in. Nothing.
BB: One second, I'll go check in the back.
Now it's about 10 to nine. I see snatches of him now and again. He keeps saying hold on.
Comes back to me.
BB: Sorry. We can't seem to find either of those movies. The computer says we have them, but they aren't out front and we don't have any in the back. The other guy that was helping me look says he saw only one copy of Layer Cake.
M: But I guess that one is no longer there.
BB: Yah, sorry.
M: Guess it's too late to go to future shop now.
BB: Is it 9 already.
M: Yah.

Seems I do need another reason.
Bastards.

Maybe I should move to Florida......

Then again, maybe I should hope for more hurricanes. I've always wanted to learn Greek.
Idiots.

Arrr! Maties. What Happened To Them Thar Action Movies?

This was originally supposed to be posted on the 19th of September

So I was watching Predator on tv the other day.
good action movie.
It sucked me right in. Captivating it is. More so than Sneakers.
Weeell, maybe not. But on the same level at least.
Which brings me to this question: What happened to the action movie?......Arrr!

Part of the blame goes to Bruce Willis and the rest of the cast and crew of Die Hard. Actually, it goes to the people who rip that movie off. Ever since then, all action movies have an everyday joe who has to have emotions and problems.
Fuck that.
Aye, they should walk the plank.

Predator is a classic action movie.
If you don't like, then my friend, you don't like action movies.
It has Ahnold, at his best. Seriously, I think his accent got worse as his career went on.
It has a bunch of 2 dimensional characters that are expendable.
It has Apollo Creed! And it has a kick ass villain.
There be explosions and shoot outs and some nifty effects.
More importantly it doesn't have a bloated over complicated story. No stupid twists and turns. No stupid surprises. And no hero who is bogged down by emotional problems that are only there to give the story a cheap ass heart and to make him relateable to the audience.

How does it make Bond more realatable when he feels sad that he had to kill another bond girl. Oh yah, that happens to me all the time when I go abroad and do a broad. They always end up being on the villains side. Damn those villains for making me kill this girl whom I just slept with.
Now unless you have a shit load of stds, as we can safely assume that bond has, unless he is genetically engineered by Q to be immune to such things, I don't think people have to worry to much about having some random girl dying on them.

I remember when Bad Boys II came out.
People didn't like it that much.
Why? I have no idea. The only movie that entertained me more that entire year was Pirates of the Carribean.
That's some pretty esteemed company, I must say.
It did what it was supposed to. It was everything the first movie was, except more.
More action, more comedy, more chases and more explosions.
Michael Bay knows how to blow shit up.
It was formulaic like you wouldn't believe, but that's fine. It helps the movie more than hurts it.
I went to the bathroom during the movie, something I rarely ever do. Once a movie starts, there is no leaving until it ends.
In this case though, I knew that nothing important was going to happen and that I had some time and right I was.
Only problem with the movie I had was that some of the shots in the movie were only there because they were in the first one.
Bah.

If you haven't noticed, there be some talk of the sea throughout this piece. If you be asking yourself, why?, then I got an answer for ye.
I originally started this on "Talk Like A Pirate Day!"
Why is there such a thing, you ask.
Well, ummm, because. That's why.
If you would also like to participate in such a glorious event, then you might want to brush up on you pirate speak.
And don't worry, we haven't forgotten you crazy Germans.

Thanksgiving Weekend

So this wknd was Thanksgiving Weekend.
A time to eat, spend time with friends and family and eat.
Eating is good.
Many things that we can all be thankful for.
Health, wealth or food, maybe even the simple fact that you are breathing.
Some things are close by, others far away. Some seem far, yet are quite possibly the closest things to you. You just haven't realised it yet.

Friends.
The only reason that I am sane as I am. Also the reason I am as insane as I am.
I have a bunch of things that I am thankful for.
Some of which I won't mention here, mostly because they be mine and I am wanting to keep it that way.
uh huh, uh huh.
But they know who they are.
I'm thankful for them, so go away world. They are not for you.
*shakes fist
Then there is the whats.
They don't know what they are, or do they...
Either way, I'm thankful for them as well.

But here is something that I am thankful for that I will share with you. Soemthing that happened on Thanksgiving Sunday oddly enough.


Bart Bartell.

Flightplan

I just saw Flightplan.
What, the fuck!
The movie blows.
The first hour or so is boring as all get out.
Then it kinda almost gets interesting........if it wasn't so stupid.
This is one of those movies where the problem could be solved with a kick in the head.
Well, almost. The movie isn't what you think it is.
Well it is, but then it isn't.
Lemme just say the flick gets good (almost) once they get to Canada.
That's right. Canada.
Of course, why the FBI would be in Goose Bay, instead of the RCMP, I don't know.
Don't even get me started on where the fuck a squad came from. I'd say watch the movie and you'll understand, but that means you'd have to watch the movie and I wouldn't want to put that burden on you.
Supposedly there was some controvery over some nonsense.
.
Jodie Foster was annoying. Annoying as hell.
Which I guess means that she is a good actress, cause I wanted to kick her head in so many times. Peter Sarsgaard, looked sleepy or shifty eyed even.
Sean Bean was his good intense usual self. Erika Christensen was pointless and the sexy stu was like a sexy version of Sarah Jessica Parker. Except with much better lips.
Oh my.
The sexy stu. So lovely, those lips. Just lovely, quite lovely.
Kate Beahan. Needs more close ups.

SJP comes up, I think only because 1 of the trailers had her in it.
Oh, did I mention that there was 15min of trailers.
Yah, there was.
Jarhead being the only good one. The rest were boring. So much so, that I cannot remember any of them, other than the one with SJP and Craig T Nelson. Oh, it had Rachel McAdams too.
Mmmm, tasty.

Speaking of trailers, here is a good one. (read more about it here)
It is something rare. A good trailer that intrigues you, yet doesn't really give anything away.
Is good I tells ya!

reviews yet to come:
40 yr-old virgin
hustle & flow
constant gardener
+ some movies I watched on dvd.

The Deal

Why, hello there!
Long time no see. How have you guys been doing?
Whatcha been up to?
Me?
Not much really. I did have a nasty case of the no-posties(tm).
Not as bad as some people, but nonetheless.

Here's the deal.
See, no matter how many teachers say that I'm a good writer, (as you can see by that smooth transitition), I'm not going to like writing. The worst part is the starting.
Can't start a paper or a story or a post or anything, really. Not even if my life depended on it.
If something is already there and I can expand on it, then great, but starting from sratch, this I regualarily despise.
Once I get over that bump though, I'm usually fine. Then I can go on and on & on + on.
The other problem is that I cannot write the words down fast enought for my mind. My mind races around like a maniac and if I slow it down too much to write it out, that train of thought is derailed. The train can be put back on the tracks, but if I don't feel the writing bug, forget about it.

Which brings me to why I haven't updated this sucka.
I wasn't in the writing mood. I just couldn't sit in front of a sceen and put my thoughts on it. I couldn't even put my thoughts on paper. Which is how this post orignally started.
The other problem was that my thoughts just didn't translate properly, from deep speak(tm), into words.
I tried to write but it just wan't happening, Couldn't type for the life of me. The moment I sat down to type something, my mind would just blank.
Writing on paper wansn't any better either.
Random stuff was being put down a litlle but not enough to expand on to make coherent writings. If what you call what I write coherent.
Some bits + pieces were typed up though. Not enought to be posted mind you. But it was something.
So, I decided to take a step back for a little while. Let the urge to write come naturally, not force it.
Lots of shit flying around and I was having trouble sorting it all out.
But now my mind is a little bit more at ease.

So updates should be more forthcoming.
I got some movie review that have been started, which I'll try and get up over the weekend. Also some of those bits + pieces I mentioned, will be expanded on until they are nice chunks and, ahhh, fragments, (thank you thesaurus). So some of them might be slightly out of date. I'm looking at you action movie rant......

So to all those who were wondering where I was, all 3 of you, I am here.
Who would have thought that having a ridiculously early shift at work would be so helpfull.
So there you go.
That's the deal.