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I want to see

Is anyone else looking forward to seeing the movie Transporter 2? I am, I liked the first one and I'm expecting to like this one. Sure, they say it was a crappy movie, and this one is sure to follow. But it looks really good. Plus I like Jason Statham, he rocked in Snatch and had a great role as Handsome Rob (Which of course was named after me for obvious reasons) in The Italian Job.

Do you remember Aeon Flux from the somewhat good'ol days of Mtv? Remember those days? Head bangers Ball, music on music television, ah back in the day. Well something great was around then, a cartoon show that had short cartoons. I can't remember what the show was called but Bevis and Butthead first appeared on it.

Well anyway, Aeon Flux was on the same show. Each episode was about 10 minutes long, it was about a spy who would defend the innocent against a great corporation, who was really controlling everyones life. One of the great things about the series was that the main character dies at the end of every show. Usually very brutally at that. Charlize Theron plays the main character and from the trailer it looks damn good.

Doom, is this going to suck or what! I don't ever remember having a team of people right behind me. I'm sure it will be intertaining, but im not going hold my breath. I know The Rock will play a good role. He seems to do a good acting job in the wrestling ring (yes it was all fake and planned. Sorry to burst your bubble). Plus, he did a good job as the Scorpion King, HA! I would rather see a movie about Quake, which was made by the same folks that made the game Doom. That game would scare the shit out of you some times.

Lots of good movies coming out this fall. To bad I still have to see all the summer movies. Looks like I'll have a long blockbuster "Q" for awhile.

Pricey

My heart goes out to the folks that live in the upper part of the Gulf of Mexico. New Orleans and the rest of them got hit with a huge hurricane and is probably now under a massive amount of water. It's sad to think of how much damage New Orleans will take from this. It's practically a bowl on the surface of the ocean, and a 25 foot wave would fill the bowl. Just think of all the dead bodies that are already above ground will now be floating around. Yikes! Thank goodness there is no true "T" Virus. We could have a true zombie movie then.

One thing that is going to piss me off is the hole oil fiasco. They love to have a reason to raise the oil prices. A hurricane, a bad snow storm, someone that farts in arizona and makes someone's eyes water. It just sucks. The president has said he is going to open up his reserves to ease the price of gas. I really don't think this is going to save anything. Any reason Exxon can find to raise the price they will. And that means that Rob (yes I speak in third person) will have to pay more for his 30 minute drive to work.

The Living Dead

I love zombie movies. There is something truly scary about the un-dead coming to suck our brains out that fascinates me. I remember seeing the first Dawn of the Dead back in the 80's that scared the bejebus out of me. Thats when it all started for me.

Now while I do give kudos to the old versions of the living dead movies I'm going to list my favorite modern day movies that do the living dead theme.

1. Night of the Living dead (The 1990 remake of the classic that is shot by shot on the ball to the original)

2. 28 days later (virus that turns the living to walking dead like things)

3. Dawn of the Dead (a great remake of the classic. If you haven't seen either one you should)

4. Resident Evil (A movie adaptation of a game by the same name)

5. Resident Evil - Apocalypse (The second chapter of the game, I hope they do the third and keep going)

6. Shawn of the Dead (Dark Comedy of the tale of dead coming to life)

I listed these in almost order of my liking. Night of the Living Dead will forever be the be all tell all un-dead movie. Its a must see. 28 days later did a great job on doing the un-dead but lacked in the dead part. They go on and tell you that they aren't dead but just taken over by animalistic drive for blood. Dawn of the Dead is exactly what it sound like. Wake up and folks are walking around dead and hungry for brains. It tends to get slow at parts but well worth the watch. The Resident Evil entries are great. They follow the game made for playstation and do a damn good job at it. If you never played the game you may find the movies a bit hard to understand. Shawn of the Dead is new movie that tells the same tale. Guy needs to save his girl and mom and there's some comedy in between the scary parts.

I know there are great classic movies out their but after so many times seeing them they get repetitive. If you haven't seen any of these movies listed above you must be from a different planet or your just chicken to see great horror movies.

Picture Show

So I'm watching The Rocky Horror Picture Show and remembering when we would go out at midnight to watch this masterpiece. Talk about the good'ol days. My friend Justin and I would meet up at about 11 at night, pick up the regulars that went with us and looked for "virgins" who had yet to see it. Then drove to downtown Cincinnati to watch this move in an old run down theater and chant the lines at the screen while folks that really loved the movie played out the parts in front of everyone in the place. And lets not forget the best damn dance ever, the time-warp.

I still remember the last night it played at the Skywalk Theater in Cincinnati. I think I still have the T from Pic_ureshow I stole from the sign. The place was packed and it was a miracle we got in. The line went from the door to the stairs to the street. There was something about it then that made this movie something to behold. It was funny and erotic at the same time. the people, the acts, the smell of day old popcorn. It's really to bad that it all had to end. I don't even know if it still plays in town. I would hope so. It was such good times.

Susan Serandon played such a great part. I don't think she has ever played such a great slut since this movie. Barry Boswick went on to play the mayor in Spin City and did a great job at that. Oh and Meatloaf. Was he not the best meal you ever seen? I think the best part of the movie was Eddie made his entrance from the freezer. The guy that played Rocky (The Creation), Peter Hinwood, was a model and has since retired from show business and is now doing antique sales. Talk about a mental mind fuck. This was it.

Huggins VS. Zimpher

What do you do when you have a "dream" for a university? Well if your Nancy Zimpher, you fire everyone you feel threatened by. What do you do when you feel that your students are not receiving the best possible education from your university? You fire the most winningist Basketball coach in the universities history. Just like Nancy Zimpher is doing today.

If you don't know who either Bob Huggins is or Nancy Zimpher don't worry. It's not that big of a deal that you don't. But, if you live in the Cincinnati area then you live under a rock. Bob Huggins is the head coach to the University of Cincinnati Bearcats. He was hired in 89 and has won more games than any of the other coaches that he replaced. So when he found out this week that he needs to make a decision on which he wants to do, either be fired or resign by 2 o'clock today it was a surprise. It shocked the hell out of everyone in the area. Especially him, when he found out by a reporter while at a convention in Vegas.

Back earlier this year he made a bad mistake about driving after getting drunk and was caught by the fuzz. After the news of that came out the Ms. Zimpher told him that this kind of actions was not acceptable. She said that she would not renew his contract and that in the 2 years that remained would be his last.

But all is not bad. In the whole situation he will come out a bit ahead. If he accepts that he will be fired he will receive 3 million dollars for UC breaking his contract. But along with it, he will receive a bad mark on his record. If he leave on his own he will receive 2 million and maintain his almost sparkling record. What's a dude to do? I would take the 3 my self. But then again I don't have a house that runs that amount in just taxes and running costs.

Regardless of what he does he will be missed. His face was UC, when you said the Bearcats that is the face you thought of. He recruited some of the best players in the game and helped them move on to be great members to society. But non of this matters when your Nancy Zimpher. Only that your name is on the sigh instead of the schools. She changed the score board from The University of Cincinnati welcomes you. To, President Nancy Zimpher and the University of Cincinnati Welcomes You. How swell is that.

Wrong side of the road rage

This morning I woke up in a pissy mood. I have been on a fast pace recovery from a cold and woke up last night coughing my lungs out at 4:30AM. Since I didn't want to wake my wife up with my lung problems I left the room. this makes matters worse because then I really wake up. So I go out to the living room and have a sip of 4 hour old Sprite I had sitting by my seat that I was to lazy to take to the kitchen. Everything seems to be well after that, but it definitely put a damper on my mood when I woke up.

So I'm driving to work listening to Pete Yorn - Musicforthemorningafter, trying to calm my crappy mood. And this dick head in a Audi gets on my ass and will not budge off it. It's not like I'm going slow, I like to go fast. So I'm pushing 85mph and this guy is on me like stink on shit. So I just forget about him and let him do what he does and hope that I don't have to slam on my breaks and have his face slam into my rear windshield. If I could have gotten over to let him pass I would have. Being that today is when all the evil spawn return to the CSLC (Child Storage and Learning Centers) commonly known as school, the roads are busy.

Well I get to a point where I need to get over for my exit and I do so. And by this point I normally would be livid, screaming and shaking my fist at this ass muncher. But being that I'm in an already quite, homicidal mood I don't. But I do look over and what do I see. This guy flipping me the big F-U! What the shit! I'm the one that should be pissed not this ass hole. If he was in such a freaking hurry he should have passed me. But instead he rides my bumper for 14 miles.

So what do I do? I roll down my near limo tented window and blow him a kiss. I figure that if he is that pissed there is no way he is going to take that gesture as funny. Which, I was right. Oh man he got pissed. He started to swerve his car in a act to hit my car and force me over and all I did was laugh at him. I was in no mood to mess with this guy and thought I should not pull over because my head is so clear right now I would probably rip his spine out and beat him with it.

Next time asshole. when you see the white Malibu with dark tented windows and Apple stickers on the side. Pass me, because the next time you may find your self on the receiving end of my boot in your ass.

Have a good day.

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Mini Me

If you watch Big Brother 6 and have a dislike of the "Friendship" or "Coven" then you should like this pic.

Image came from here

If you don't watch Big Brother I suggest you do. It is such a good show. Nothing like the other reality crap they force down our throats. This is exactly what it should be. People plotting against each other while still smiling and lying to each others faces.

This guy was Eric. Or as some of the "Family" called him Cappy. I like to call him dick head and my friend Rhonda likes to call him "Walking Penis"

what ever you call him he was a tool. And what made it worse is he reminded me of my wife's ex-husband.

Stress

There has been some happenings in my family that has kept me on edge for a few weeks now. This could be the reason that my shoulders, neck, and back are so tense. It comes and goes, and it's always in my shoulders. That alone makes me think that I am under some stress. They say that you carry your stress in your shoulders. Who says this? The folks that make the money talking about why you feel like crap.

When I leave my desk I leave the work there. I don't take it with me, or worry about it while I'm gone. It doesn't matter if I leave for lunch for for the day. I leave the work at work. This makes it possible for me to think of other things. Like female midget Jello pudding wrestling, or what the cost of being so damn sexy is. Well yesterday when I left, I felt fine. But as soon as the thought about how I'm so damn dangerously sexy came to mind. My shoulders and neck tensed up. Why? Why wont this go away?

I wonder if the way I lay in bed has anything to do with it. I tend to lay on my side and use my arm as extra support for my head. And this all starts on that sholder of the arm I use.

It's not like I have other things on my mind. I don't think I'm dwelling on any certain point in my family life. I just want my neck to stop hurting so I can get back to doing what I do best. Nothing. Or, as my wife say. Sitting on the sofa.

Google it

I found this while bumming around on the Internet. This is a tool that I'm sure most of us will want and should use. Click the link to be taken there.

Here is the link

Enjoy!

Gaseous

What the hell is up with the prices lately. I know its not that bad. But damn! $2.70 a gallon. At least I drive a Chevy Malibu. It gets somewhat decent mileage and doesn't cost an arm and leg to fill up. Well it didn't, up until the prices of gas went up. A full tank normally runs me a $25 bill, but now it my run me 40. I have been trying to put gas in it when it gets to about a half of a tank. It's cheaper and makes me think I'm getting better mileage. I filled up at lunch and it cost me 18.06 for a half a tank!

It could be worse. We could be living someplace in Europe. In Switzerland, when I was there it was about 1.24 per Liter. Thats roughly 3.8 liters to one gallon. Think about it. We still have it good. $2.65 per gallon or $4.74 per gallon. So quit your belly aching! It could be worse.

I heard on the news that if you were really worried about gas prices to buy a moped. Who's gonna do this? in a country so damn stuck on air conditioning. A place where people think that 92 degree weather is a heat emergency, we're all gonna die! And you tell them to get a moped! Like hell they would get one. It doesn't have A/C for craps sake! And on top of that it gets 100 miles to the gallon. We cant have that! We have to buy and drive Hummers and SUV's that drink the gas like its double sugar Kool Aid.

I really want a hybrid car. One that runs on half battery power and half gas power. That would be nice. Fill up once a month. But what I really would want is one of those hydrogen fuel cell cars. Now that would be the shiznit! How cool would that be? Fill up with hydrogen and exhaust water vapor. Thirsty? go for a drive. Only down side to the whole hydrogen ideal is the exploding part. Remember the Hindenburg?

Almost New Information

One of my pet peeves is when someone has to tell you something over and over and over again. Take for example, someone comes to you and tells you about a certain action that person enjoys. Be it cleaning the bathroom to masturbating to midget porn. You file this info in to you way under used brain to recall later. But you never will have to recall it because, this person finds the need to remind you of it every freaking day. Like you would care, but they continue untill they re-hash ever damn aspect of it. This could be quite distrubing if it happens to be about midget porn. Unless your into that kind of thing.

By the time you hear it for the tenth time you are wanting to shoot your self in the head. This seems to happen to me almost every single day. I have to hear the same damn thing over and over. What can you say to someone like this? You can't really tell the person off if its someone you care about.

I guess you could say: YO DUMBASS(gotta love the dumbass), YOU TOLD ME THIS STORY FIFTEEN HUNDRED TIME NOW!

Of course, this could start up an even worse story about how many people they have beaten up in the past for telling them to SHUT THE F**K UP. And that story alone has been told more times than a cheap hamilton hooker has given five dollar blow jobs. Or how they will tell you how they are going to take action against you for not being tolerant. OH NO! I'm not being tolerant! Get over it.

I guess it could be worse. I could end up standing in line at some crappy fast food restaurant right behind a soccer mom and her brats that just lost a game, and found it necessary to reward the entire team of evil spawns to a burger. Now that will teach them the value of winning. Giving them a reward for a job crappy done.

Soccer

What is it with parents when it comes to this game. I used to live in a part of town that was right down the road from a soccer field. During the spring and fall, this road is always jam packed with soccer moms in their groceries getters and mini vans. All the vehicles have a damn soccer ball on them like some proud badge of honor. As if to say, yes, my child is a slave to my hopes, dreams and ambitions.

I wonder how many of those kids wanted to join soccer. How many actually went to their parents and asked. Mom, Dad, Can I join soccer. Don't take me wrong, I know that there are a lot of great soccer players and on the rest of this planet soccer is the great past time. But here in America it seems that if you really want to keep your kids busy, put their asses in soccer.

I'm not talking about school sanctioned clubs. I'm talking about the kids league, the young boys and girls. If you, as a parent was thinking, hey I'll put junior in a sport. Why the hell did you choose soccer? Why not Baseball? or maybe Football? And no, not the english football which I believe is in fact soccer. I'm talking about the good'ol true American past time of Football. You know the type I'm talking about. Bears again the Giants! Now thats a game.

Well I have a theory of why parents are not putting their kids in junior football. I believe its because they don't want little junior getting hurt. Well get over it parents, they are going to get hurt either on the field or on the playground. And when it happens all your going to do is bitch about how it should have never happened because your kid shouldn't have been running on real grass or it was the other kid being to mean on the field. I call this kind of crap the pussifying of the american youth. Why not just put the kid in a hamster ball. That way there will be a protective barrier around the kid at all times.

Another thing I think is making our kids a bunch of wimps is in many clubs there are no winners or losers. We all had fun so why keep score. I say keep score and when you win. Tease the hell out of the losers. Make them feel low. It will stay with them for awhile. And hopefully, when they practice again the sting of loosing and being teased by the other team will make them work harder. And not be the Cincinnati Bengals of the sport they're playing.

30 Candles

Today is my wifes birthday. Of course you dont want to ask her about this day, she will only scream and run away. This morning I asked her how it felt. She said soft and furry. This was her feable attempt to skirt the question. So, I rephrased the queston. How does it feel to be thirty? She looked at me with fire in her eyes and in that moment I felt my head try to explode. mental note, never ask her that queston again.

I remember when I turned thirty. She kept asking me if I felt old. If I felt like I was thirty. What it was like to know that I'm closer to middle age. If I dared to ask her these burning questions I would be hung by my toenails and beat with a bamboo stick. How fair would that be? Not very. I like to be beat with bamboo while being hung by my toes.

Tonight when she gets home we are going to dinner of her choosing. I havn't decided if I want to embarrass her by getting the serving staff to sing her some crappy song. I'm sure she would likely kill me if I did that. But it would be priceless to see her face.

If you want to send a special birthday messege to The Wife, you can do so using this email link. birthday@cucucachoo.net. I'm sure she would love to hear from everyone.

Down a path

Who would have known that I would end up being a dark lord.

SWEET!

Coffee

Well here I am sitting at kidd coffee in Mason, OH. Boy do I love this place. So friendly, clean, and cheep. The prices are great for the quality of coffee that you get. The price of a large anything (except for you plain'ol coffee) is 3.80. So while you can get a grande coffee from your local starbucks, for the same price you get a large at kidd. Plus, the flavor and taste are much better here. The drinks have some taste and you don't have to load it up with sugar to get the taste out of it. Not only is the coffee better, they are very friendly here. The family that owns the chain believe that if your nice to people when they come to your store, they will come back. A crazy thought that has been lost over the years.

So as I sit here I'm listening to WOXY. Brandon over at Down With Pants, reminded me with his post about WOXY with his thought about online radios. If you don't know about WOXY it's a great radio station that started out as a commercial free air radio but then sold its broadcast tower and frequency band to go full time online. It almost didn't work with them as they found that the cost of operating this was mucho expensive. But then some blessed soul come around and gave them a grant to continue with the broadcasting. They really became famous when Dustin Hoffman chanted over and over their catch phrase, 97X BAM! The Future of Rock an Roll in the movie Rain Man. Yeah, this is the same station.

I miss them as a radio station. The crap that is now on their old station is your normal crap that MTV tells everyone to listen to. If you still haven't gone there go now.

Well, as much as i would love to sit her in this great place, I can't. My lunch hour is just about up and i need to get back. To bad i cant telecommute. I would be here every damn day. Free WIFI!

Victory Gin

I have a secret to tell. This is a deep and dark secret that only a few know. But after reading this you also will know my tale.

I love Big Brother. This whole show based on some Orwellian ideal just tickles me pink. The secrets, the lies, the mending of minds to think the way you want them to think. Its just so GOOD. To bad there isn't a room One Oh One or some greasy Victory Gin and powdery Victory Cigarettes. That would prove to be a rating booster. Although, just to create some animosity toward the house mates they make some people eat only peanut butter and jelly for a week, and sometimes longer. I would like to see them ration the shaving instruments. See how long the women would last without being able to shave there legs because the blades have been dulled down by the men.

Last night on Big Brother 6, the house guests voted off one of the most powerful players Kaysar. Kaysar, is and would have been the best player they had in that house. If they didn't evict him so soon. It was smart to evict him, but so early in the game I think was a mistake. In my opinion they should have gotten rid of the girl Janelle. Before you start yelling at me, I do like Janelle. I just think she should have been the one to go. She just isn't as strong as Kaysar was. He is just to good at playing the game. When he was HOH he executed a plan so well thought out that there was no stopping him. He shook that house up and pissed everyone off. It was great.

So there ya have it. I like to watch summer reality TV. Does that make me a bad person? I think not. It could be worse.

I could be watching Can We Dance or some shit like that. Im not even keen on that INXS show looking for some unknown singer so they can release a new album so it can bomb. Not really saying that all the singers are bad. I have seen the show and some of them are pretty good. I personally don't have a favorite. But what I have heard is much better than American Dumbass.

I just think that this whole media ploy from INSX is a joke. I never really liked them back when they were around and I don't think they are going to have anything to offer with whom ever they choose. Get over it guys. Your doomed to play road house bars behind a fenced wall. And your groupies are going to be bar flies looking for a moment of second hand fame.

Of Mice and Family Guy

I just found out thru imdb.com that there will be a Family Guy movie. Yes a movie. It looks like it will be released this fall in around September.

How freaking cool is that! Not only did they bring back one of the best animated shows in all of time but they are making it a movie. The title that imdb has it listed as is, Family Guy - Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story!

Another thing I just found out that makes me happy, is that Apple has finally made a 2 button mouse. This mouse looks almost like the pro mouse except for the little nub in the center. This nub is the scroll that allows 360 degrees of movement. There are no buttons on the mouse. It uses a touch sensor like that of a touch pad to determine which button your pressing. So if your press with your middle finger it will know that your pressing the second mouse button. Also the thumb and finger grips that were on the pro mouse are now programable buttons.

It's about time Apple has done this. The first thing i did when i got my iBook was to attach my wireless two button mouse to it. The whole single button thing was driving me crazy! To right click you had to hold down the ctrl key. What the shit is that about.

So it looks like ill be buying a new mouse for The Wife. She has been buggin' for a new one. She can't stand the single button pro-mouse either. I make her use it because It's my little way of torturing her.

Just my way of saying I Love You. Here's a new mouse. Now go and cook me a chicken pot pie.

I'll be in trouble when she sees this.