10 Broken Things – Customer Service

There are some things which we know to have created for a specific use, but because they seem so innate to our purpose, we do not know their origins, for we have simply forgotten as to why we ever did it in the first place.
Early on, someone created ‘customer service’.    And, surprise; they didn’t [...]

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The Emperor’s Glove

So, the King of Pop is dead.  The news wires, entertainment rags, Facebook, Twitter… all major orifices of social and mass media are spewing surreal and awkward praise for Michael Jackson as his borderline Gacy meets Hughes lifestyle is ignored for fear of admitting that, we, as a culture, worshiped a pedophile.
I’m sorry, but making [...]

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Rob Thomas vs. His Fans – A competition of sad.

I really don’t know what to make of this, but if you go to Rob Thomas’ Myspace, you can leave a message for him via phone, and it’ll post a voice mail to the page.  I’ve listened to a few, and yes, they’re all perfectly sad examples of popular fandom.  And then I laughed, and [...]

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Come Cry With Us: Delta Airlines

Yesterday, a massive storm system pushed through the southeast, forcing  Hartsfield Atlanta International Airport to ground all outgoing flights and hold all incoming.  Fine.  I get it.  Sometimes you simply can’t fly.  And being that Delta owns Hartsfield’s major operations, we all knew that yesterday would be disastrous.
So, Bess and I were able to call [...]

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Oh, sorry.

I’ve been in Florida visiting the folks with the girlfriend.  Watching the news, loving that each time they show protesters in Iran, there are more, and more.  Kim Jong Il is probably pissed that his  nuclear reindeer games have been overshadowed by Iran’s ongoing implosion.  Oh, wait, he is, apparently, because he’s threatening Hawaii.  Sort [...]

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The further thumbing/dumbing down of a nation.

http://www.lgtexter.com/
That’s right, a texting competition.  In its third year.  On a national stage.  I want you all to marinate in that for a bit, because, well… this sort of goes along with a commericial for the Washington Post I heard this morning on the radio, y’know, the ones that say, “Today in the Washington Post,” [...]

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Thanks for celebrating my birthday, Iran.

I woke up Sunday after a particularly long night of birthday celebration with friends to find that Iran had just slipped into the throes of revolution.  Without waxing historical on the possible outcomes for the Iranian people, I do hope this whole thing gets turned right side up, with Ahmadinejad face down in the ground, [...]

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Can we just all get together on this whole North Korea thing?

This article, in its brevity, is disturbing enough.  If there’s one thing the world should be able to get together on, is preventing this little nutjob from lighting off a nuke anywhere other than his own country.  Can’t we accidentally light one up in North Korea and make it look like an accident?  Like a [...]

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29

I’m getting old.  Last year, I ran through my own terms of denial like a knife through hot butter:  “28 isn’t old, it’s mature!”  “30 is the new 20, my testicles will work forever!”  “As long as you dumb bastards keep wearing Uggz, old will be way cooler than young!”  And so on.
But it’s time [...]

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Me vs. Everyone: Air Travel

I realize it may get boring (as the girlfriend pointed out several times yesterday), but I do take a pretty consistent ‘army of one’ stance when it comes to things we’ve accepted as status quo in society.  I don’t particulary think convenience is an excuse for things being the way they are, and my God, [...]

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