GBU: Week of 4-28-06
GOOD
The Peevery
Genuine and comically mundane. Plus, you've gotta love a site with "Suck It" as its tagline.
Gas Prices
(Soapbox Alert) In the land that invented the all-you-can-eat buffet, we've forgotten how to push back from the table. Fortunately, the only thing we like stuffing as much as our face is our wallet. Having to pay to play is the only way we will ever take energy consumption seriously. Who cares if a few oil company CEO's get fat (fatter) in the process? Call it an education subsidy.
BAD
Jennifer Aniston This one trick pony has the acting range of SCUD missile. Dud after dud, poor heart-broken Jen has apparently become Hollywood's favorite charity case. Note to Nerdy Squirrel: No more Rachel flicks.
Guilty for secretly appreciating an unseasonably warm April in Cleveland that I know is most likely the result of global warming. Goodbye frostbite, hello melanoma.
Battery-Operated Devices
First, get your mind out of the gutter. Second, my name is Crunchy, and I'm a junkie.
I spend 2-3 days a week rummaging around airports, hotel rooms and coffee shops, wild-eyed and desperately jonesing for an outlet in which to re-charge my computer/cell phone/iPod. My toys make traveling to places like Grand Rapids a little more bearable, but the need for juice is a relentless monkey on my back.
Those Goddamn Fucking Assholes who wait in line for 20 minutes to get up to the security checkpoint at the airport and then, THEN decide to start checking their pockets and unloading their crap. It's like they're suddenly surprised to be there. "Hey asshole, I I've got a plane to catch!" Please tell me it's OK to begin executing these fuckers.
UGLY
The New Cars
With no Ric Ocasek and no Benjamin Orr, this is basically Todd Rundgren fronting a cover band (the same guy who was the cover dad for Liv Tyler for so many years). Why on earth would anybody give a rat's ass?
Normally, this would just be BAD, but whatever sin (greed, pride, vanity, etc.) it is that has compelled TR to do this just seems UGLY to me. Why Don't Cha Stop?
P.S.
Things I should have done this week but didn't:
Tell the knucklehead across from me on the plane that his headphones weren't plugged all the way in to his laptop, so instead tolerated the tinny soundtrack to some movie he was watching.
Go to physical therapy. I just hate having to listen to anyone who wears a sweatsuit to work. Walking is overrated anyway.
Raise holy hell with the front desk staff at the Kansas City Radisson when, arriving back after a 14 hour day (capped off by an extremely contentious four hour meeting), was told that the bar and restaurant closed at 11:00PM (ELEVEN O'CLOCK!) and there was no place in the hotel to get a drink.
Learn how to use Movable Type (this blog software). I'm beginning to feel like a passenger flying the plane.
Comments
With you more than anything on Aniston. Nothing that woman has EVER done justifies her A-list status. That woman is as boring as a bale of hay.
Posted by: nicole | April 28, 2006 10:17 PM
Throwing poo is a clear violation of Poop Etiquette.
Posted by: Peeved Michelle | May 2, 2006 03:12 PM
NIC: I'm considering going to collect my $8 back... South Park-style.
PM: Hopefully we can settle all this without getting the damned lawyers involved.
Posted by: Crunchy BC | May 2, 2006 08:04 PM