Public Service Announcement

The video below if from last summer. Short backstory; the toy geeks were nattering about toys that a friend of mine makes, Onell Designs (look at the links to the right). So I did what I did with one of his $8 toys and a Chogokin (vintage japanese diecast toys. Think Godaikin in America) because someone was arguing about the value of the 8$ figure. Seriously, if you're in a hobby where people don't bat an eye at buying $500-$1000 toys just shut the fuck up about the $8 action figure and buy it already.

Fun Fact

I'm currently living in a house with no bacon. The AC and I finished off the last of it Monday night and there simply isn't anymore. Not in the fridge. Not in the freezer. None. This fact isn't so fun after all.

Compensating?

I was at lunch when I saw the construction workers parked way out at the edge of the lot with their cranes parked in the "up" position. What's with that? Is that like showing off or puffing out their chests? Is this Wild Kingdom and it's their way of showing the lesser animals how tough they are so they can eat in peace without having to fend off scavengers? Perhaps they're filming another cell phone commercial showing how many bars they get?

It was probably a bitter David Hasselhoff

I don't understand, can't KITT just lock his own doors or ejector seat the perp?

Mr Rage

The guy in the cubicle next to me tends to swear at his PC a lot. I find it hysterical and sometimes need to leave for a few minutes or I'll crack up. Just now he hit the keys pretty hard and followed up with "you son of a fucking bitch" but delivered with such venom that you'd think it personally wounded him, or slapped his woman.

Update: as of this typing he's dropping more bombs!

I should also add that he's a 'Nam vet. I see a day very soon where he's belly crawling down the rows of cubicles looking for "Charlie".

Camping Out (In)

The Asian Cowgirl and I were supposed to go camping last weekend. Now she’s been and she loves it. I hadn’t been since I was 7, hated it, and decided never to go again. She convinced me to go, we got all the equipment, and finally our schedules allowed it. I was actually pretty jazzed to finally go camping and enjoy it, but due to injury she wasn’t able to go which was really bumming her out.
Being the amazing boyfriend that I am I wanted to do something camping like for her so we fake-camped Friday night. I called her and told her to tell me when she was almost home and not to come in the house. I met her outside and everything in the house and in my car was ready. We hopped in my car and went to Prospect Hill to grill dinner, make smores, and enjoy the view and awesome weather. After that we went home where she saw that I had moved stuff out of the dining room and set up the air mattress*, sleeping bag, and hung the lantern from the chandelier. Now we couldn’t tell ghost stories around the campfire (since the landlord would have been pissed about a fire in the hallway) s owe opted for the next best thing; watching Ghostbusters.
And what camping trip would be complete without a good old bacon and egg breakfast in the morning?

*Cats HATE the battery powered self inflator for the air mattress if you were wondering.

You have no one to blame but yourself.

What's with these people that watch awful movies and TV shows then take the time to write about how awful they were? Some movies are just terrible, and you only have yourself to blame for seeing them. This is why we have movie trailers; so you can get a glimpse of how rad/shitty a movie is before you go and see it. People often complain about the Fantastic Four movie or Daredevil*. You know what retard? They looked utterly horrible which is why I didn't see them. Alternatively I saw the trailers for The Dark Knight which looked great, and you know what? It was the bee’s knees. The system works!
I work in a comic book store and people are always complaining about those movies, well why did they see them? How could you not tell how shite they'd be? Hasn't Hollywood burned you enough that you now know what to stay away from? You only have yourself to blame for seeing them. "It was on cable", "I didn't pay for it", none of these are excuse for watching shitty movies, and certainly no license for you to complain to me about them. I didn’t make them, and I didn’t see them. I was smart enough to avoid them so don’t punish me by talking about them to me. Have you noticed it's always the same people complaining too? They just don’t learn.

*Working in a comic book shop I hear people tear on these often.

Been a long time since I blogged and rolled

Hey all,
I'm not dead I swear. See? I'm typing so I'm not dead. It's been a busy summer. I have a new job, well I have a job after being happily unemployed for 7 months. Things are good.
-Bacon Ace