Am I contagious?

There’s a phrase that’s gets thrown around a lot at work. It’s “Oh Scotty”. I can thank Ed McIntosh for that. And while it may have been uttered before I started working at Saz’s it seems after I started working there I heard it all the time. What is an “Oh Scotty”? It’s complicated. Some people think it’s when something bad happens but there’s more to it than that. It usually has to happen to you (or me as it usually is) due to very little fault of your own. It also has to be not just bad but ironically bad. And funny, Oh Scottys (Oh Scotties?) are consistently funny. And you have to say it right. No one says is like Ed. Something bad happens, oh say a waitress at the first party you’re running by yourself goes bat shit crazy and starts yelling at the wedding guest over the microphone. When you come back to the warehouse Ed will inevitably be waiting there with a look on his face. The look will be a mixture of shock, sympathy, and thinking that something just hilarious happened. He’ll be at a loss for words, look down to the ground and say “Oooooooh Scotty”. I’ve heard it more then once.
I’m proud to say there hasn’t been that many “Oh Scotty” moments happen to me at work lately and I’m sure saying that is just poking the eye of fate with a stick. That’s not to say there haven’t been “Oh Scotty” moments in my life, just none that were Saz related. But lately I’ve noticed that sometimes the moments don’t happen to me, they happen around me. Let me give you an example.
My friend Sarah works at Caribou Coffee. I’ve been to a couple of Starbucks but none of them have made me want to be a coffee drinker, Caribou does. I love that place and I love hanging out with E there. One day when I showed up I started flirting with one of her co-workers. She seemed nice and she was good looking enough. Then I found out a little more about her. Like the fact that she was still in High School, and only seventeen. “Oh Scotty.” Well I quickly erased any thoughts I might have had in my head because that’s simply a tight rope act that I don’t want to walk.
And before I continue I’d like to defend myself for a second. I’ve been getting a lot of shit at work lately for hitting on underage girls. I’d just like to point out once again that when I heard she was seventeen I quickly backed out. I’d also like to mention that this girl is incredibly intelligent. The three colleges she’s looking at are Notre Dame, M.I.T., and Harvard. Her back up school is UW-Madison so it’s not like we were just talking about HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL or The Jonas brothers or whatever the hell it is high school girls talk about. I didn’t know when I was in high school and I sure as hell don’t know now.
Anyways, a couple of days ago I was talking to Sarah and she really wanted to tell me a story. One night when she was working at Caribou it was just her and seventeen year old (I’m not mentioning her name). They got to talking and Sarah asked 17 if she had a boyfriend. 17 told Sarah that she did but it was complicated. Seeing as Sarah was going through some complications of her own when it came to relationships she was curious as to how a seventeen year old could possibly be in a complicated relationship.
“Well, he’s twenty-six.” 17 responded. I’m going to go ahead and give you a second to let that soak in. Twenty-six! After I got over the same “ewww” factor that you hopefully had I started to think.
“Wow, so I guess we both had the same problem with each other” I half joked to Sarah. But it’s true. Not only was she too young for me but I was too young for her. Oh Scotty.
“This could only happen to you.” Sarah said. I was a bit confused. Nothing had actually happened to me. “If anyone else had met 17 and liked her she would have ended up dating some other seventeen year old in her class but because it’s you of course not only is she dating an older guy she dating one that’s even older than you.” Oh my God, she was right. And it didn’t even stop there. This guy wasn’t just older than me; he was an older version than me. He hadn’t finished college (check), he lived with his parents (check), and he worked a dead end job (check). His may have been in a book store and mine at a catering company but it’s pretty much the same thing.
So watch your backs people. I have no idea how this power works or who it can or can’t effect. And while it certainly makes life more interesting there are definitely days I’d much rather be boring. Of course if I were boring I never would have made it to Chicago…

Liberal Bias My Ass!

Don’t we live in the electronic age? Isn’t that like the thing? Paper is almost obsolete and pretty soon the only thing we’ll be getting in the mail is junk mail, magazine subscriptions, and Netflix movies, right? So then why the hell did I have to drive down to UWM the other day to hand in a piece of paper?
I went to reapply for classes for next semester and was told by my advisor that I had to print out an application and turn it into Mitchell Hall. I went to the sight and looked on-line for an electronic version of the application but one didn’t seem to exist. It seemed weird because the questions I had to answer were pretty basic. Name, address, social security number, etc. it took about ten minutes. But then I had to drive all the way from Germantown to UWM to hand in the form. I figured after I did this there’s be some other things I had to do although I’m not really sure what those things would be. I was wrong. The receptionist took the application, looked at me and informed me I’d be receiving an e-mail in one to two weeks.
Now one of the oldest complaints by conservatives is that college is nothing but a liberal breeding ground. That the staff does nothing but fill the students head with liberal propaganda about how corporations are bad and that Americans should be ashamed for being Americans. I don’t have much to say on that particular argument other than that, for the most part, I’ve found most part my professors to be pretty apolitical when it comes to what they teach. And while I’m sure Will get list plenty of reasons why I’m wrong (please don’t) I still don’t really think my political views have ever been shaped by anything my professors have said. Part of that has to do with rarely listening to anything my professors have said but I digress.
The point I’m trying to make is that if colleges are so liberal shouldn’t that mean their going green? And if their going green shouldn’t it mean that things can be done online instead of in person? Think of all the natural recourses wasted on me driving to UWM. The trees it took to make the paper for the form I filled out. It printed out three pieces of paper, two of which were instructions of filling out the form, one was the actual form. I think I could have figured it out on my own. Then there was the gas going to and from campus. But I wouldn’t be so upset if UWM hadn’t wasted the most valuable natural recourse of all-my fucking time! I mean what the hell? You made me drive all the way out there so I could hand someone a piece of paper and then turn around and drive back? Do you know what a pain in the ass it is to find parking on the east side? If I have to meet with people I’d like our time together to be timed in minutes not seconds. I know this blog is really more of a bitching fest than actual thoughts but damn it I hate driving in this weather. So maybe it's time UWM start doing things electroniclly. If only so that I won't ever have to write another lame ass blog like this again.

A Literary Paradox

Paradox (ˈper-ə-ˌdäks) noun. One (as a person, situation, or action) having seemingly contradictory qualities or phases.

Here’s one for you. I love buying books but I hate reading them. I know it doesn’t make any sense, right? But somehow whenever I find myself at the mall rather than go in The Gap, Abercrombie, or Old Navy (do people still shop there?) I’d much rather kill the time in Barnes & Nobel. I love that place! The music, the coffee shop, the books! And I don’t just mean the comic books, though I do admit that’s usually the first section I go to. However the folks at B&N have the good taste to refer to these “comics” in their true name-Graphic Novels. That just sounds better doesn’t it?
“Are you reading a comic book?”
“No my good sir, I’m reading a Graphic Novel.” Classy. But I’ve actually kind of fallen out of my comics reading phase. With superhero movies being so good and coming out so often, I feel like I’m getting my fill of heroics at the theater. Usually what I find myself reading (or more appropriately not reading) is nonfiction. I watch TV to get away from the world, I read to learn about it. And I think just typing that sentence I’ve learned what part of the problem is. The desire to learn without doing any of the actual learning.
You know the old saying “You should never judge a book by its cover.”? I’m great at that, except when it comes to actual books. When I see a book cover I immediately get excited and want to know all about it.
“How intelligent I’ll look”, I think to myself, “when I can say ‘Well I actually was reading a book on the topic we’re currently speaking about and I can honestly say that…’”
I don’t actually talk like that. The point is lately I’ve found myself hungry for knowledge. And while it would have been nice if I would have found myself wanting to know things when I started college I’ve always been of the “better late than never” school of thought. Just ask my co-workers. The problem I have with finishing books is two fold. 1.) I never seem to find myself in a position where I need to talk about the book I’m reading, and 2.) I usually find myself in a B&N before I finish reading a book I’ve bought and suddenly want to know about things in a new book. I currently own ten books that I have yet to read. Oh I’ve started most of them but have yet to get to the back cover. Here a list.

Yes Man by Danny Wallace
Consider the Lobster by David Foster Wallace
Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay
August: Osage County by Tracy Letts
Angels in America by Tony Kushner
Culture Warrior by Bill O’Reilly (I was in a Super Market and I had nothing to do for an hour, leave me alone.)
American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation by Jon Meacham
Washington’s Spies: the Story of America’s First Spy Ring by Alexander Rose
SCORSESE BY EBERT (a title like that just has to be in caps)
Plain Clothes Naked by Jerry Stahl
Charlie Wilson’s War by George Crile

Two are novels, two are plays, two are books of essays, one’s a memoir, and the other four are nonfiction books on various subjects. And that’s not counting the eight classic books leather bound books I paid forty-five dollars each for. It’s a long story (I bought them because I thought owning and reading them would impress a girl I had the hots for. Ok it’s not that long.) But I think I’ve found the solution to both my problems.
Solution to problem number 1-This blog! Even though when I go out to the bar, which is the only place I ever seem to see my friends, the conversation rarely turns to Washington’s tactics during the Revolutionary War, it doesn’t mean I can’t talk about that here. This is my blog; I can talk about whatever the hell I want. And while that doesn’t exactly make it a conversation I’d love it for people to comment on my writings and tell me what they think.
Solution to problem number 2- Stop going to Barnes and Nobel! Simple enough, I don’t really find myself at the mall as often as I used to. And it’ll save me some dough too. Granted most of the books aren’t that expensive, rarely over 20 bucks (go paperback), it’s still a pretty big waste of money if I’m not reading them. So, my new goal, call it an early New Year’s resolution, is to read all these books. Every single one, in no particular order, well I kind of ordered them in my head but I doubt you’d be interested how.
So do you think I can do it? I do. I think it’ll be nice to sit down and actually find out if I’ve made good purchase or if after getting through the third book I’ll find that my desire to buy books suddenly dying down. It should be fun, at least until I get bored with it and move on to the new thing I’m obsessed with.

To Alcohol!

The cause of, and solution to, all of life’s problems. I got a drunk dial from a friend last night which was kind of fun for two reasons. 1.) It had been awhile since I’ve got one and they’re usually entertaining (unless the call is coming post break up). And 2.) It was only about 12:15 so I wasn’t asleep yet.
We all know how the drunk dial goes. The caller tells you how much they miss you and that they really think the two of you should hang out more. And then they usually tell you a couple of things they shouldn’t. The make sure you know exactly what they’ve been drinking that night and insist that even though they’re buzzing they’re not yet drunk. And then…they do the same thing about three more times. I’ve been there, on both the calling and receiving end. But that’s not what I find the most entertaining part of drunk dialing. What I like is the call you get the next morning.
“Oh my God, I don’t even remember calling you last night.” They say in voice that indicates just what pain is going on in their head. “What did we talk about? I didn’t say anything stupid did I? How did I get that bruise? Oh my God! You won’t tell anyone I said that will you?”
Of course not, part of the secret pact of drunk dialing is that you must use some discretion. Everyone’s going to hear about how half way through the conversation all I heard was a thud and you laughing. And then you being curious as to why your leg hurt in the morning. But I promise not to mention who you said you were secretly attracted to. We all know the rules so let’s remember to keep them. And please let’s try to keep the calls to before 1:00 in the morning. Thanks.

You Can’t Stop The Clock

This blog is supposed to be about my daily thoughts and while I’ve done a pretty shitty job on the daily aspect I’d still like to give you my thoughts. Right now there’s really only one thing on my mind, my dog Samantha. She’s an Alaskan Terrier who we’ve had for a little over ten years. We got her when she was about four. For those of you that don’t know much about dogs (or aren’t that good at math), Sammy’s old. Too old. She has cancer. I don’t know for how long but we found out on Wednesday.
She’d been sick for awhile now and last week she was throwing up and having diarrhea problems. Her energy had also shot way down and there was one night when she was having trouble breathing and we weren’t sure she was going to make it through the night.
We took her to the vet on Tuesday and had her get a blood test. What an ordeal. Because she’s gotten so old her veins have gotten smaller so the doctor couldn’t get enough blood. He must have stuck her seven times before he finally put a muzzle on her snout and, as my father and I held her down, he got some blood from her neck. We got the call the next day. Pancreatic cancer, she also had liver problems and was severely anemic. Dr. Mitchell made it very clear; we’d never have our healthy dog back. There were some medications he could give us but it would be a stall at best. My father had taken the call and decided it was time to let her go, this was a particularly hard call for him to make because he’d always been the closest to Sammy. He was in the basement; my sister and I were upstairs listening. We came downstairs when we heard him hang up, he was crying. It’s weird because I don’t see my dad cry that often so whenever he does it feels…strange. Like I’m seeing something I’m not supposed to.
We decided that we wanted Dr. Mitchell to put Sammy down since he was the doctor we’d worked with since the beginning. He was only working Wednesday and Saturday and we knew we didn’t want to put her down the day before Thanksgiving so Saturday it was. That day is tomorrow and I hate it. I don’t want it to come. It felt so far away on Wednesday. We actually called Dr. Mitchell back to make sure that keeping Sammy alive those three days wouldn’t be cruel to her. Now I wonder if we couldn’t keep her just a little bit longer. I’m not that close to her but she’s my dog man, I can’t remember a time we didn’t have Sammy and life is going to be different when she’s gone. I don’t know why but I thought she looked better on Thanksgiving.
“She looks pretty good.” I said.
“You think she looks good?” My cousin responded. “She’s shaking and weak and skinner than I’ve ever seen her.” I actually appreciated that. I’m not one for sugar coating and Amanda was just telling it like it is. Sammy was sick and her time has come. I was thinking the same thing today when I saw her; maybe we could do it Monday. Then she threw up for the second time today, this was particularly bad because she really hasn’t eaten anything for the past few days. So who am I kidding? Keeping Sammy around until Monday would only be cruel and selfish. I’m going to miss her. It’s a sad but true fact that you only really appreciate something after it’s gone. Or maybe I just want the unattainable.
Sorry that my first blog back in three weeks was such a downer. I promise they’ll be funnier. Chicago really was a blast. But that’s for another time. Right now I just wanted to say goodbye to my friend in the only way I really know how to say anything. The written word.
Goodbye Sammy. You’re a good dog that always made me happy. And I’ll miss you.

Hey I’m Back!

Hey there, sorry I haven’t done a very good job at keeping this thing up to date, I’ve actually been kind of busy lately, which is odd because I don’t remember doing that much. Anyways I’ll try to post some more things up soon but I’m actually on my way out and headed to Madison to check out the Badgers Hockey game. I don’t know much about hockey, or the badgers for that matter but I’m going with my friend Ellen and I haven’t seen her for a while so it’ll be nice to catch up with her.
The reason I’m posting this is because it’s a bright day in the world today. No not because Obama got elected, or that…uh is anything else actually going on in the world? No, the reason I’m happy is because Pixar has released the teaser trailer to their newest movie Up. I’m not exactly sure what this movie is about but that’s ok It’s by Pixar and that’s all I need to hear, I’m sold. I wasn’t big on Cars and I thought Ratatouille was a little over ratted but then the made Wall E. I don’t know if you’ve seen it but you should. It might be the best animated movie I have ever seen. I’ll talk about it more when it comes out on DVD for now, here’s the trailer for UP. I will say this, I’m a little disappointed it’s a regular trailer and not a mini movie like some of there teasers but still, some Pixar is better than no Pixar.

I'm Going To New York

Want to come with?
This isn’t a joke posting. This isn’t a goal I’m setting for myself that I’m going to try to achieve. This isn’t my geeky side letting loose saying, “Oh my God I really want to see this.” This is me flat out saying I’m going to New York to see this show even if it means I have to go by myself. Let me explain.
Will Ferrell is making his Broadway debut. It’s a one-man show called “Your Welcome America. A Final Night With George W. Bush.” Adam McKay is directing it.
Who?
Oh, he’s the guy that co-wrote and directed the movies “Anchorman” “Talladega Nights” and “Step-Brothers”. Those just happen to be, in my opinion, Will Ferrell’s best movies. Ok “Old School” belongs on that list too.
Some people don’t like him but I happen to think that Will Ferrell is one of the funniest people alive. Sure, not all of his movies are winners, but I think Adam McKay really understands how to use his talent to the best of his capacity. He was the head writer of SNL when Ferrell was on and that’s when the two really connected and I still remember going to see “Anchorman” hoping it would be funny and leaving the theater feeling I just saw one of the funniest movies ever.
Here the post in variety that got my attention in the first place.

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117994178.html?categoryid=15&cs=1

Now, I’m sure with a title like that and the people involved it’s going to be a two-hour show of Bush bashing. I don’t care. With these two involved it’s going to be hysterical Bush bashing and I’m not looking for political analysis from them anyways. So to quote Jerry Maguire, “Who’s coming with me?” I’m serious when I say I will go to New York by myself. I don’t care if it means flying there, watching the show and flying back without sleeping for a day. That’s how bad I want to see this show. But that’s no fun. Why not make a small trip out of this? So give me a call. The show plays from February 1st until March 16th, I’m sure tickets will be hard to come by no matter what day it is but we should still try.
Here’s a little of Ferrell’s Bush from the SNL days. If it doesn’t make you laugh then you and I are on a-two a-different a-wavelengths.



I think that sells itself.

Incriminating Evidence

Well it turns out that Steve isn’t the only person reading this thing, it seems I’ve got a fan in the person of Matt Hawkins too. And to that I say “Hi Hawk! Welcome aboard. I hope everything is well with your lovely wife Emily and adorable new son Fin.”
Now you may wonder why all the excitement over the knowledge that Matt Hawkins reads this blog (or at least read it once). Well there are two reasons for that really. One, Matt Hawkins is the coolest goddamn person on the entire planet. And two, he’s my boss and I’ve never been above kissing ass.
You may recall about a month ago I wrote about my discovery of Pizza Shuttle and how awesome it is. In that post I mentioned that I happened to go to Pizza Shuttle while I was on the clock with a co-worker of mine named Eric. Well, on Tuesday I came into work and Eric looked at me and said “Nice blog.” I was thrilled! Had word been getting out on OH SCOTTY? Were people actually reading it? I’d never once mentioned it to Eric so I had no idea how he’d have heard of it.
“You’ve read it?” I asked waiting in anticipation for the praise of my brilliant writings that was sure to follow.
“No” Eric responded, “but I guess Hawk has?” Now I was really confused. Apparently Eric worked at the Renaissance Palace with Hawk on Saturday and was once again brining the food and once again staying for late night aps. As soon as Eric walked in Hawk greeted him saying “Oh here’s Scotty’s friend Eric, they go to Pizza Shuttle together all the time.” Or something to that effect.
It appears that one day I checked my blog on Hawk’s computer and must have left it up or it just stayed as part of his history. Either way he read the post about going to Pizza Shuttle. That’s right. My boss read my written confession of leaving the place I was working to go get pizza and beer. Oh Scotty. Now while at most places this might be grounds for dismissal at Saz’s it’s actually pretty low on the totem pole in terms of breaking the rules. Hawk hasn’t said anything to me about the incident so I’m guessing I’ll live to get fired another day, but it’s good to know that maybe I should be slightly more careful about what I write on this thing. I’m just glad I never wrote about that keg I stole.
Damn it!

Sorry Jaz

Here's a clip from a sketch aired on Saturday Night Live’s special Thursday edition for the election. The entire sketch was a parody of last Tuesday’s debate. I think this part is genius for two reasons.
1.) It’s making fun of the Cubs, which is always a good time, and
2.) It shows how at these debates most of the answers are so prepackaged by both candidates that it doesn’t matter what you ask them they’re going to answer the same way to everything. Really listen to what both Obama and McCain say and tell me you don’t think their answer wouldn’t be similar in real life.

Worst Week, Best Show

Just a quick one today. I think it should be known that I've now seen three episodes of CBS's new comedy Worst Week and I'm ready to declare it not only the funniest new show of the season, but the best. I was afraid the concept of a guy continually screwing things up for him and his fiance as they tell prepare to tell her parents that she's pregnant was going to get old after the first episode, it hasn't. The two episodes that followed the pilot have been equally hilarious. The cast continues to grow as we meet more and more of the fiancé’s family (the introduction of her brother was hysterical). Kurtwood Smith, the dad from THAT 70'S SHOW, shows once again that he's the best there is at playing disapproving fathers. And Kyle Bornheimer, as Sam, the good guy that just want to show everyone how much he loves his fiance and how he truly dose deserve her, holds the show together with his star making performance.
Trust me, any show that features birds that are mistaken for erections, a pacifist superhero named "Peace Mon", and two parents forced to hear their daughter loser her virginity over a baby monitor is worth checking out. It's on Monday's at 8:30 central time, on CBS. It's on right after Two and a Half Men. That show's supposed to be pretty funny too, but my guess is it's no Worst Week.

Comedic Genius Thy Name Is Colbert

I know lately this blog seems to be more of me posting videos made by other people rather than me writing my actual thoughts but what can I say? I’ve been busy. I just saw a video on Facebook from college humor called Don’t Vote. It annoyed me. It was basically a bunch of celebrities (Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire, Jennifer Aniston, Dustin Hoffman, Sara Silverman, and Jonah Hill to name a few) starting off saying how unimportant voting was. They were obviously being ironic, saying things like “Don’t vote. Who cares about your children’s education? Don’t Vote. It doesn’t matter that this one of the biggest financial disasters in American History.” They then go on to explain just how important voting really is and give a website that will tell you how to get registered to vote.
While they don’t make a point of saying it, I’m fairly certain they’re far less concerned that you vote if your vote is going to McCain. What a crock of shit. Maybe I’m just cynical but I’m going to go ahead and guess that Ashton Kutcher doesn’t give two shits about my right to vote. Do celebrities really think they’re helping when the do this? Has anybody ever said “Well Jamie Foxx said I should do it, I guess it’s the right thing to do.” I like most of the actors that were in the video but really, come on, this is just sad.
Which brings me to Stephen Colbert’s video; I put him in a different league than the other stars I mentioned because he’s a political satirist and is obviously making a joke while the actors in the Don’t Vote video actually think they’re making a difference. The PSA section of this video had me in tears, check it out.

Anyone Can Be President

So here’s the trailer for the new Oliver Stone movie W. I have no idea what this movie’s going to be about besides the obvious (George W. Bush’s life) but how much of it is going to cover his presidency and how much is going to cover prior to that? I think Oliver Stone is an amazing director who always makes interesting films even if he doesn’t always make good ones. Alexander, and World Trade Center certainly weren’t perfect films, but that had more to do with the scripts and acting (or over acting in Alexander’s case) then with Stone as a director. He still has a passion to make movies that can be seen in all of his work.
What I like most about the trailer is that as soon as it starts you can tell it’s from an Oliver Stone movie. The quick cuts, the intensity, the music. I think it’s amazing how well The Talking Heads “Once in a Lifetime” fits with the trailer. It’s almost seems like the song was written for the movie. And who else but Oliver Stone would feature a scene of the current commander in chief screaming in panic in one of their films? Most people view Stone as a liberal, and while I’m certain he never voted for Bush I don’t think he’s necessarily going to make a movie that’s going to make fun of him. He directed the movie Nixon which I haven’t seen yet but it’s #2 on my Netflix queue, right after Stone’s J.F.K. However I have two very two conservative friends who have seen it and absolutely love it. That movie isn’t just saying Nixon was a bad person for Watergate, it was saying he was a brilliant man who was also very flawed. I’ll be very disappointed if the movie turns out to be just a two hour long Saturday Night Live sketch.
The truth is I think George W. Bush is a fascinating person. I don’t agree with him on many things and didn’t vote for him in 2004 (I was too young to vote in 2000) but I think it’s amazing how polarizing he is as a person. Face it, 2004 had nothing to do with John Kerry running for president, it was about whether or not you wanted Bush to remain in office. I still remember most liberal’s mantra that year was “anybody but Bush.” No wonder he won. When slightly less than half the nation agrees on one guy and slightly more than half the nation can only agree on the fact that they don’t want one guy but aren’t really sure who they do want then slightly more than half the nation is going to be very disappointed.
This election is still about George W. Bush. Obama’s pretty much copyrighted the word “Change” a.k.a. “Not George Bush” And even McCain’s jumped on the change bandwagon claiming he truly is the candidate for change. I actually can’t wait until Bush writes and publishes his memoirs because I’m dying to truly hear his take on his eight years as president. I also think it will be kind of interesting, and funny, to see if he records his own audio book. Can you imagine listening to him read an entire book?
Will any of what I said above get put into the movie Stone’s releasing on October 17th? I have no idea. The whole things been very hush hush every since he started filming it in Aril. The fact that he’s managed to film, edit, and release the movie in such a quick manner fascinates me. Spielberg did the same thing when he made Munich and I thought that was one of his best movies to date. Anyways that was a very long winded way of saying I’m really looking forward to this flick and I thought I’d share the trailer with you to get your two cents. Enjoy.



One last thing. I think Josh Brolin will do a pretty good job as Bush, but how awesome would it have been if Stone would have gotten Will Ferrell to star in it instead. I know I said that I didn’t want the movie to be an SNL sketch and I don’t. But I think if Stone would have cast Ferrell and gotten a dramatic performance out of him. It would have been pretty incredible and maybe have gotten even more people to go see it. Look how many people went to go see The Dark Knight because they wanted to see Heath Ledger’s amazing performance.

Well At Least We Know It's Not Another Conrad Bloom

Well, Fringe is the first new show this season to get picked up for a full season and I’m happy. So far I like the show. I haven’t fallen in love with it like I have with the other new show I started watching this season, Worst Week but I think it has the possibility of become something great. All the actors do a really good job in their roles and I’ve come to find that with the exception of the first episode it seems you can pretty much watch any episode in any order and not be too out of balance which is actually kind of nice. Heroes is fine I guess but it’s definitely starting to wear thin. Each episode is filled with so many “whoa what was that about?” moments that take so long to get answered, if they get answered at all, that watching the show is starting to feel like running on a tread mill. It makes you feel good but you’re really not going anywhere.
Fringe has some questions that have yet to be answered but each episode is a singular adventure with a beginning middle and an end. I'll be interested to see where the go over the full 22 episodes of the first season. Check it out, it’s a fun time.

Ok, I suck

Only four post in September and five in August? That's not pretty piss poor if you ask me, and nobody did because nobody's probably reading this freaking thing anymore. Not that I could blame them. I'll really try to do better in October. I swear.
If I may say one more thing I’d like to inform you about the funniest new show this season. It’s called Worst Week and it’s on CBS. It really could have been called Oh Scotty: The Show. It’s about a nice guy named Sam who can’t go ten seconds without screwing something up. He recreantly got his girlfriend pregnant and now he has to tell her parents. The name of the show comes into play because each episode takes place over the course of one day after seven episodes the story will move on to a different week with the same characters I think. It definitely has similarities to Meet The Parents (Sam’s fiancé’s family hates him, especially her dad played by the dad from That 70’s Show) but I think it funny enough to get over the comparison and gain its own identity. Check it out, Monday’s at 8:30 (central time) on CBS.



Finally here’s the season premier of The Office. Why? Because it’s great that’s why. Ryan’s return to the office and Dwight’s acknowledgement of the camera after leaving the warehouse in particular had me laughing out loud. I don’t know how they do it, but this show has managed to remain outstanding for four seasons now and it looks like the fifth one should be no exception. As much as I like 30 Rock I think this show should have won the best comedy Emmy because really, it’s in a league of its own.

Pizza Shuttle Kicks Ass!

So Saturday night I was catering over at the Renaissance Place which is right over on Prospect. I brought the food which meant I came to the party late. This sucked because it also meant I’d be staying at the party late. A little tip to all my soon to be married friends. Don’t get late night appetizers for you wedding. It’s a scam. A pretty solid scam, but a scam none the less. Basically the idea is that at about 10 your guests will be so hungry from all the dancing and booze that they’ll want to eat more snacks. In theory it makes sense, but it seems everyone is too distracted by the dancing and booze to notice the snacks are available. Whenever I stick around to clean up after a post aps party (as in “post-dinner appetizers) I find I’m brining back all but four of the sandwiches we put out. And two of them were eaten by me.
Well I had to do that on Saturday and then stick around with a guy I work with named Eric for two hours and wait for the party to end. But I hadn’t gotten any dinner that night, because it all got taken by the wait staff while I was loading the truck. So Erica and I walked to Pizza Shuttle. Yes, on the clock (there are a few reasons I’ve stuck around this low paying job for as long as I have). I’d only been to pizza once before and it was almost a year ago and I was pretty loaded that night if I remember. When we got there an old man in a greeters sash welcomed us and let us in. It was weird.
I couldn’t really see prices but I didn’t care I wanted a slice of pepperoni and a beer. And here’s the best part! The slice of pizza was huge and the beer came in a 24oz. cup. All for about $6.50. That’s hard to beat. Why haven’t I been there more often? I lived on the east side for two years but I feel like I totally missed this wonderful place. My friends and I never thought to go out to pizza shuttle and granted it’s more of a restaurant than a bar but dude! A giant slice of pepperoni and a 24 oz. beer, for $6.50. Don’t make the mistake I did current eastsiders. Get thee to Pizza shuttle today, you’ll be glad you did

ROLE MODELS Looks Extremely Gay

I love that fact that so many raunchy R-rated comedies are getting made. Ever since 2005 with the success of The 40-Year-Old Virgin, and Wedding Crashers, and since America decided to make Judd Apatow and friends the current kings of comedy (good call by the way) I feel that comedies have just been getting better and better. Here’s the trailer for the new movie Role Models starting Sean William Scott and Paul Rudd, I’m a fan of both so it’s nice to see them get a staring role in a movie that should be a hit. It comes out a week after Kevin Smith’s new movie Zack and Miri Make a Porno, could be a good double feature.

Fox Can’t Tell A Good Show From A HOLE IN THE WALL

So I watched that show Fringe. I’d say I’m intrigued if not hooked. I’ll definitely tune in for the second episode but it doesn’t have my dying to know what happens next like the pilot episodes of Heroes, Alias, or Dexter (one for the best pilots I’ve ever seen by the way. That’s not to say that the show wasn’t without its charm. The opening was pretty cool. It had an entire plane get infected with some disease that’ll make your skin melt off. One of the characters get’s hit with a little bit of the disease and it turns all of his skin clear. Weird. And it ended with a pretty cool car chase that didn’t last quite long enough.
The main characters were interesting. There’s an F.B.I. agent named Olivia who we first meet knocking boots with a fellow agent named Jason. They talk about how they have to keep their affair a secret but it’s ok because he loves her. She doesn’t say anything in return. Later she explains the reason she failed to respond is because she’s had problems in the past but she truly does love him. Go ahead; guess how long Jason lasts after that. Spoiler Alert! Not long. I heard that sentence and pretty much knew it was a kiss of death. That’s ok though; the loss of Jason for Olivia is nothing a few seasons of “Will they? Won’t they?” sexual tension between her and Joshua Jackson’s character won’t solve. Which is obviously where they’re going with those two characters. You can tell but the glances they kept giving each other in the first episode. Joshua Jackson’s character, by the way, is a genius who’s on the run from some bookies he owes money to. Peter’s dad, Dr. Walter Bishop, is even smarter than him. In the mid-seventies he used to experiment on “fringe science” involving talking to the dead, and mind reading. Later he got locked up in the loony bin and Peter hasn’t talked to him since.
So in the first episode Olivia needs to talk to Dr. Bishop but the only way to do that is if she finds Peter because only a family member can visit people in the asylum. They work together as a team to find a cure for the skin melting disease but discover a bigger conspiracy may be afoot. One involving one of the largest cooperation in the country (which as we all know are evil) and thus sets off the adventure that will be Fringe. Not bad. All in all I’d give the first episode a solid B. They’ve got my attention. For now, we’ll see how the rest of the show plays out.
But that’s not the show that really got my attention. No, the show that I really want to talk about is a new game show that came on after Fringe called Hole in the Wall. Hole in the Wall is a game show that consists of a contestant standing in front of a pool as a giant Styrofoam wall comes rushing towards them. The only way for said contestant to avoid falling into the pool is by jumping through the hole in the wall. And…that’s it. Sometimes there’s one person trying to get through, sometimes there’s two or three. Oh and in the final round someone gets blindfolded and their teammates have to direct them through the hole. And I haven’t even mentioned the catchphrase yet. Before the wall comes out some talentless host declares, “It’s time, to face the hole!” Maybe I’m just twisted but that has to be one of the nastiest phrases I’ve heard in a long time.
This is what’s supposed to pass as quality television nowadays? This sucks. This is exactly what the show Studio 60 was about. How nowadays it seems like networks would rather appeal to the lowest common denominator than actually try to create something new and inspiring. I’m sure one episode of this show doesn’t cost a tenth of what it cost to make Fringe but so what. Just because you’re saving money doesn’t mean you’ve done something good. I found out that what I had seen of this show what just a “sneak peak”, the premiere episode is going to be an hour long. An hour. This is pretty much just FOX giving us the finger and saying “we absolutely believe that you as the viewing public having nothing better to do with your time then to watch people jump through holes for the next sixty minutes.” Shouldn’t that insult us?
And here’s my biggest question about this show, who do they expect to watch it? I mean honestly to they really think anybody is going to say “Oh my god it’s seven o’clock! Time for Hole in the Wall!” Or that people are going to be talking with excitement about last night’s episode? To me television is supposed to something that millions of people can watch for free and then discuss the next day. I remember everyone was talking when Ross said Rachel’s name at his wedding on Friends. Or when there was a shooting but nobody knew who got shot on The West Wing. Or when Gossip Girl gossiped about a girl on Gossip Girl. Ok I’ve never actually seen that last show but from what I hear it’s pretty intriguing. The point is if we only watch shows that provide mindless entertainment and don’t try to make you think just a little, pretty soon the way of the scripted show is going to be extinct. Genius shows like The Office, and My Name is Earl won’t have a chance because they’re too expensive and no everyone “gets” it. So I posted a video of Hole in the Wall at the top of this entry. Look at it. If that’s all you want from TV then by all means watch. Otherwise let’s pretend like this “hole thing” (get it!) never happened.

Daily Thoughts My Ass!

What a joke! Who the hell is running this blog? Oh crap. Sorry about that it’s been a busy week. If it makes any of you feel any better I have been doing some writing.
I’ve decided to give writing a shot. Professional writing. And while that career choice seems about as practical as actor or professional comedian no one has ever accused me of being the most practical person on the planet.
In mid May I started writing a play called Survivor’s Guilt about a soldier that dies in Iraq and a friend who get’s left behind and now has to deal with his loss. This week I finally finished it. At least the first draft of it. I went to my friend E’s coffee shop known as Caribou Coffee (STARBUCKS SUCKS!) and just typed away. But like I said, it’s only a first draft. I’m going to take some time off now before I go back to it so I can kind of get a fresh perspective on it. In the mean time there’s a 10-page play contest that I heard about in Louisiana that I’m going to submit a play to. The only problem is I haven’t written a 10-page play. That’s ok I have two months, so I should probably get cracking on that. Anyways I’ll try to do better on keeping this thing updated on a day to day basis but as I’ve previously stated I’m great at procrastinating.
But enough about me let’s get to the part you all (oh, who am I kidding Steve’s the only one reading this thing thanks man, tell your friends) came for. My take on pop culture! Well, in my last post I said I was going to watch an episode or two of Heroes second season and tell you about them. That didn’t quite work. You see on Sunday, August 31st I didn’t just watch a couple of episodes of Heroes, I watched all the episodes of Heroes. Who the hell didn’t like that season? I thought it was great. Not perfect, but better than more than half the other crap that’s on TV. Sure Hiro spent too much time in ancient Japan, but that ended up paying off big in when they revealed who the main villain was for the season. And I thought the cliff hanger was great. (Sylar’s back!) So I can’t wait for season three to start it’s looking like it’s going to be good.
Also there’s a new show I’ve deiced to give a try, Fringe. I don’t know much about what it’s about but I do know who it’s from- J.J. motherfuckin’ Abrams. The motherfuckin’s not actually part of his legal name but I think he should think about adding it. I’ve been a fan of almost everything this guy has done. Alias, Mission: Impossible III (far and away the best in the series), Lost. I wasn’t the biggest fan of Cloverfield, which he produced but I admired its ambition. I bought the giant monster in New York I just didn’t buy that anyone would keep their camera rolling the entire time these things were happening. I also wished it was longer. With better characters. And maybe a little more of a plot. The end was kind of abrupt too. And we never really got a good look at the monster.
Ok Cloverfield sucked but everything else he’s done has been gold. Besides this is the man that brought Jennifer Garner to the masses. He deserves not only our forgiveness but our eternal gratitude. The first show he created was Felicity which I’ve never seen but I’m almost tempted to go back and watch just to see if it’s as good as anything else he’s done. Here’s the preview for Fringe.



Damn, look at that thing! Seems like some pretty good special effects for a TV show. I’m also excited about this because I always seem to miss the ground floor when it comes to hit TV shows. Dramas in particular. House, Battle Star Galactica, Rescue Me. All shows that are very popular but I’ve never seen. Well now with this and Heroes and 24 coming back I feel like I’m finally in the mix with some good hour longs along with comedy. NBC’s Thursday night line up, by the way, is still the best night of network comedy bar none. So I’ll let you know what I think. Will it be the next X-Files or simply another Conrad Bloom Until then, have a good one.
One last thing. I think we call all agree that Old Spice is putting out some of the funniest commercials nowadays. This one is my favorite, love that whistled theme at the end.

Slamming Through A Sophomore Slump

It won’t come as much a surprise to anyone that knows me to find out that I’m something of a dork. What can I say? I love pop culture. Super heroes in particular. Ever since I was a kid I enjoyed reading, watching, or listening (my parents had a record player and I would listen to the Spider-Man adventure from the library) about these amazingly colorful characters battle one another for the fate of the earth. So it was somewhat out of character for me to completely ignore the show Heroes when it debuted on NBC in September of 2006.
There were two reasons for this. 1.) I hadn’t really heard that much about the show so I didn’t really know what it was about. And 2.) I had a night class when it was on. Also by the time I got to second semester 24 was back on and as it turns out not even a team of rag tag superheroes is a match for the utter badassness that is Jack Bauer. So even though I heard about how great the show was I completely missed out.

And then came the DVD.

Oh what a marvelous invention these discs are. Allowing entire seasons of television shows to fit in a mere seven discs. Such a thing was thought impossible even a decade ago and if you missed a show you were going to have to hope to catch them in order over the summer. I don’t think they even air reruns anymore. I decided, because I didn’t have a enough time to watch the entire season before the new one came on TV I’d treat this DVD like it was the current season. Let me explain. Most people get a TV on DVD set and watch every single episode one after the other until they get to the end of the season. If an episode ends on a cliffhanger it doesn’t matter because the next episode is just a click away. That’s not what I did. I watched one episode a week.
“You bought the DVD, why don’t you just watch the whole damn thing?” You may be asking yourself. Because…wait for it…I thought it would be fun. Yes, I consider doing something like that fun. And I could now begin to explain why that may have something to do with why I’m currently single but I think we’ll save the blog for another day. (Presumably one when I’ve had more liquor.)
Anyways, come May I finally got to the end of season one of Heroes. Final verdict-Not Bad. I don’t know. It didn’t blow me away like it did for some people. I thought it was good. Well acted, well written, cool characters. It just seemed like not a much happened from episode to episode. What took twenty two episodes probably could have been done in twelve. Still, there was enough good to keep me interested in the next season. But everything I’d been reading said that this new season was horrible. Hell, the creator of the show out and out apologized for it. Swearing that season three would be better and that they’ve corrected their mistakes. I don’t know I haven’t seen it…yet.



Yeah, I bought the DVD. Come on! What did you expect? Only this time I’m going to do things different. You see due to last year’s writers strike season three got cut in half. There are only twelve episodes this time. That I do have time to watch. And then when season three airs I’ll be able to watch it as it’s happening instead of having to wait a year! How awesome is that?!?! (Once again being single comes into play here.)
I think I’m finally gonna crack this baby open on Sunday and see what the hype is all about. And I figured “Hey! Why not blog about it?” Hey it’s my blog I can talk about whatever I want! So in the next couple of days you’ll be getting my opinion on a TV show that’s a little less then a year old how exciting. It’ll only be a matter of time until this blog sets the internet on fire. (Buy ads now, while space is still cheap!!!).
In the mean time here’s something I’ve found very entertaining. There’s a YouTube channel that does hysterical Marvel/DC parodies. There set up like the Apple “I’m a Mac” “And I’m a P.C.” ads (which I love by the way). This one came out two days before The Dark Knight came out and it’s perfect. Enjoy.

Barack Obama: He Completes us.

Here is THE DAILY SHOWS absolutely hilarious tribute video to Barack Obama. I'm not going to use this blog to talk about politics that much, but I do have to say I think McCain's choice for V.P. is pretty ballsie and ingenious. With so many Hillary voters angry over the primaries it'll be interesting to see if Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is enough to win them over.
I also think it would have been kind of funny if McCain's announcement speech would have gone something like.

"You know what? Fuck you Obama! You think you're the only one who can make history? Well I'm picking a chick to be my VP! Oh!! Suck on that one asshole. I hope you got a whole lot of hope stored up somewhere because you're gonna need it now sucker."

This could be why I'm not a speech writer. Anyways here's the video.

A Perfect Video For Radio

So this is one of the videos I was watching on YouTube when I should have been doing something else. Anything else really, because after I watched it I kind of felt like I wanted my money back which was odd because I didn’t pay for anything in the first place. I’d never heard of this band Metro Station before but Will turned me on to their first single entitled “Shake it”. It wasn’t bad. The chorus was stuck in my head for the next couple of days and instead of downloading the song I decided to just get it on YouTube. Big mistake.
For starters when I actually looked at the band I kind of wanted to slap them. They have the distinct look of someone who’s been told by girls all their life that they’re good looking. And they agreed. And then there’s the kid in the red pants. Whenever they cut to him it looks like he’s trying to have sex with the camera. I’m not sure if it was his idea or the director’s but all it does for me is scream “TOOL!!!” In fact that’s what I get from most of this video. That these guys are massive tools. They look like they want to be hard core but when their biggest claim to fame is that one of their members is Miley Cyrus’ brother that’s a little hard to do.
I have a slight suspicion however that fifteen year old girls will find them “totally hot!” I’ve found girls in general seem to be attracted to massive tools. This also got me thinking (as so many things have lately) about my age. Have I already aged out of a demographic? When record labels decided which bands to sign am I the guy they’re thinking about when it comes time for them to take out the pen? No. Probably not. And they really shouldn’t. I haven’t been nearly as into music as I used to be. Not for the past two years. Now when I turn on the radio it’s usually either a CD I already own or N.P.R. Oh my god, did I just say I listen to N.P.R.? No wonder record labels don’t care about what I think.
When I actually listened to the song a couple of times I decided that I liked the “Shake it” chorus but the verses were incredibly lame and I can’t believe…wait for it…this is what kids listen to now a days. I’m saying that already! I’m 24!!! In a couple of years I’m going to be telling kids to get off my lawn. Ok so the music scene is done with me. That’s ok, I can live with that. I have enough CD’s as it is. I just fear that one day movies will leave me too.
That, my friends, will be a dark day indeed.

YouTube won’t let me embed the video so here’s the link.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpU78IeTx_c

The King of Procrastination.

Nobody wastes times like I do. I’ve almost mastered into an art form. It sounds simple, figure out what is absolutely the most important thing you have to do with your day and then wait until the last minute (sometimes after) to do it. But it’s harder than it sounds. For example, you have to be very open minded to the world around you to be a true procrastinator. Turn on the TV; it doesn’t matter what time it is. Turn it on and start flipping through the channels. Don’t think there’s anything good on? You, my friend are not a true procrastinator. A true procrastinator knows that there’s always something on worth watching, or at the very leas more interesting than that thing you’re supposed to be doing.
Sometimes you’re lucky. What’s that? King of the Hill rerun? Jackpot! I actually like this show and I haven’t followed it enough so it’s almost always one I haven’t seen. I might actually make time to watch this even if I didn’t have to do something.
Sometimes you're given something of a surprise. The Worlds Largest Roller Coasters. Hmmm, I’m actually afraid of roller coasters (making my 8th graduation trip to Great America none to fun) but this is actually kind of neat. It shows how the engineers design the roller coasters not only for safety but to try to do something new. They want to be able to really wow the riders. Now when I say this is a surprise I mean it’s something, while I’d never actually go out of my way to watch, if it’s on I’ll stick around. Even through a commercial to see how things end up.
However, more often than not, I find you’re stuck with what I like to call an alternate. As in, maybe in some alternate universe what I’m watching is interesting and will one day make me a better person but in this universe all it’s doing is insuring that the main thing I have to do will be rushed and of poor quality because instead of doing it I’m sitting on my ass watching this. That was one hell of a sentence. Yes, you’ll find this all over TV. Infomercials, The Hills, anything on Oxygen. All of these are things that not only do I not normally watch, but actively avoid. But hey, when it’s two in the morning and you’re paper’s due at ten, suddenly you want to know how you could be a million in just three weeks without ever leaving your home.
The internet is even worse. I’d say in actuality there’s only about three sites I go to on a regular basis www.newsaskew.com. A website that gives up to date info on my favorite director, Kevin Smith. www.aintitcoolnews.com What I feel is the best movie news website (and one of the first) it also has one of my favorite reviewers, a guy that goes by the name Moriarty. And Facebook (I assume you don’t need the link to that one and no what it’s all about. By the way I don’t use myspace. Is it still around I heard Facebook is kicking its ass now. Eh, topic for a different blog). I also enjoy Jenna Fisher’s blog, http://www.myspace.com/pambeesley. The point is, all in all it probably takes me ten minutes to get through all of them. Twenty if I find a particularly long review on Aint It Cool, or if there’s actually something I want to look at on Facebook. But if you think I only spend a half hour a day on line you don’t know Jack about procrastinating. They don’t call it the wide web for nothing. If you want it, it’s out there. And if you don’t really want it, well, it’s out there anyways and it sure as hell beats being productive. Whether it’s watching Simpsons and Family Guy clips on Hulu, watching old Daily Show episodes on their site or God know what on YouTube, if it’ll make me momentarily not have to do my original goal it’s all gravy to me.
I’ve currently moved back home with my parents and cleaning my room has become somewhat of a chore. Suddenly I feel the need to read all my back issues of Entertainment Weekly and all my old Comic Books. Haven’t they been available for years? Of course they have but I had time to read them before, now they’re truly serving their purpose. Distraction. And that’s, I guess what procrastination truly is. Becoming easily distracted by something and then pretending like it’s actually very important. It’s something I have to work on. Seriously it’s caused a lot of problems for me in the past. For example I started this blog at 10:30; it’s now 2:30. In that time I’ve found out that The Dark Knight is now the 2nd highest grossing movie of all time. Beating out the original Star Wars but not coming even close to Titanic. Looked up not only how to spell the word particularly but how to properly pronounce it. There’s two different ways too if you’re interested (another good test to see if you’re a procrastinator). And I went on Facebook (There’s a Calvin and Hobes application!!!) and caught up with a friend.
Ready for the punch line? This wasn’t even what the blog was supposed to be about! I wanted to talk about my DVD collection. Oh well, I can always do that later…

Inauguration Day

Welcome. My name is Scott Heaton.
“Well Scotty I see you’ve got yourself a blog here. Why should I care?” You may be asking yourself. First off, why so hostile? Secondly to put simply, you shouldn’t. I’m no one special. Not yet anyways. That’s not to say that I know that one day I’m destined to be someone whose thoughts are worth reading. It just means that at this point in my life I’m just your average 24 year old with a computer.
Now this may not sound like the most compelling jumping off point but wait, there’s more. You see I feel like I’m at a bit of a cross roads in my life. When I was filling out the profile for this blog I was supposed to write a bit about myself. I thought this was kind of stupid. Why write about myself in the profile? Isn’t that what the blog is for? But when I started something strange happened. I started to describe myself as a twenty year old and I realized that wasn’t accurate. I’m not just in my twenties. I’m in my mid-twenties!
There is a difference. I’ve been noticing a trend lately. People I graduated High School with are now graduating college. And not just graduating, they’re getting jobs. But it doesn’t stop there. Do you know why they’re getting jobs? Not just so they can feel like the time and money they spent on college was well spent. No, they’re doing it so they can pay for things. Things like weddings! People my age, my supposed peers, are getting married! They’ve found someone they want to spend the rest of their life with. Which got me to thinking, the rest of their life (and mine) is getting shorter and shorter by the minute.
I should be used to this by now. I’ve always been the last one to pick up on a trend. In middle school it was Starter jackets (remember those!!!), high school, it was drinking, and you better believe everyone and their T.A. was having sex in college before me. Sometimes with their T.A. Not that it matters really. I’m in no mood, or place for that matter, to get married. But that begs the question-What am I in the mood and place to do.
Watch TV and talk about it. That’s what. I love pop culture. I don’t just enjoy it, as most people do. I consume it. I study it. I keep it stored up in my brain so at any point in time if I come across a situation that in any way resembles something I’ve seen I can say “Have you ever seen that movie/TV show/comic book? This is just like that!” You wouldn’t believe how many girl I pick up talking about The Simpsons. On second though, you probably would. But there’s more to me than that. I have an active social life with lots of great friends. I work at a job where my co-workers are interesting to say the least. And I feel like on the whole I’m a pretty funny guy.
So maybe that’s why you should care about this blog. I’m no one special. Not yet anyways. That’s not to say I won’t be someone whose thoughts are worth reading someday. It just means that at this point in my life I’m just your average 24 year old with a computer. It’s you and me. Just two cool people hanging out talking to each other. I’m assuming you’re at least as cool as me. If you’re not sure here’s a test. I have a drawing in my room of my head on Spider-Man’s body. I also have a similar photo where I’m now Anakin Skywalker. It’s everyday life. It’s something you can relate to. And honestly I don’t think there’s a lot of that out there right now. Can you honestly say your life is anything like The Hills? If you can don’t. I’ve never seen the show and don’t plan to. The point I’m trying to make is that this could be fun. Maybe we’ll end up learning something and growing together. If nothing else it’ll be a great way to kill some time. And in the end, isn’t that really what the internet is there for.
That and porn of course.