supercrap weekend
2004-01-31 - 9:37 p.m.

The freakin' Superbowl can suck my ass. I've had it, man. Enough already. I usually can ignore it, but this year it's being held right here in Houston. It's everywhere- the radio ads, the hundreds ov parties (MTV, Maxim Magazine, Jock-O-Rama Inc., they're all in town throwing parties and filling up resteraunts and strip clubs (I saw a billboard that announced that most ov the strip clubs in Houston are open 24 hours this weekend. Heh heh. I don't know what to say about that, but it amuses me)). You kan't drive anywhere without a traffic jam, kan't go anywhere without it on the t.v. and radio, billboards- everything! I'm in hell. Maybe I should try to profit from it- buy stock in Hooters or something. I don't know. It all started the other day- Monday I think (or maybe it was last week). It had been boiling under the surface, but I was successfully ignoring it up until this point. I was at work, and this crazy- eyed horse toothed woman came up to me and told me her son was stuck in our restroom. I went to the restroom, where this squat, toad loking man with a cowboy hat was talking to his son through the door. His son was squalling loudly. He said "He can't get the door open". So I tried to instruct to him through the door. I was telling him how to unlatch the lock (which would work in the exact opposite order ov how it was latched) when he said it's too dark to see. I told him where the light switch was, but he couldn't find it. The taod cowboy said "I don't think he locked it". Now, our doors are the kind you just push down on- kind ov like the ones the dinosaurs figured out how to work in 'Jurassic Park'. You have to have a code to get in from the outside, but you just push it down from the inside. So I punched in the code and opened the door. He came out bawling, and I closed the door and was fixing to make my escape, when horseface says "He didn't get to go- can you let him back in? When he went in he forgot to turn on the light and got scared". So, I opened the door again (and made sure to turn on the light). I finally started to walk off, when horseface say "Wait- what if he can't get out?". This kid has got to be at least 6 or 7, but I wait a minute to see if he has any trouble (there was always the chance that he could somehow manage to flush himself down the toilet, and I wouldn't want to miss that). While we're waiting, the toad cowboy says "So, who you unt to win?". I had no idea what he was talking about (tho I thought for a second he was talking about his son's struggle with natural selection. I didn't think it would be a good idea for me to tell him who I was rooting for in that paticular contest), and it all went downhill from there:

Me: "Win?"

Horseface: "He means the Superbowl"

Me: "Ummm... Who's playing?"

Toad Cowboy and Horseface (incredulously): "You don't know who's playing!!!!"

Me: "..."

Toad cowboy: "It's the Patriots, man. They's gonna win- you mark my words"

Me: "O.k."

They both stare at me like I'm retarded. Their son has trouble opening the door (I think he's actually trying to push up on the handle instead ov down). I open the door, and out he comes. His father tells me "He's gonna play in the Superbowl someday- you mark my words!"

Me: "O.k."

I get away as fast as I can. Ever since then, I've been noticing Superbowl Mania everwhere. It's a nightmare.

But on the good news side- I'm freaking legal now!! Hell yeah- my vehicle registration has been out since August, and I finally got it renewed. So no more holding my breath every time a cop passes (well, I still do it because it's become a habit, but it's not necessary anymore). It feels very nice. I rented the movie 'The Dark Half' the other day, just kind ov on a whim, and it was pretty good. A supernatural thriller, worth the price ov a rental. It's about a writer who used a fake identity to write violent crime novels under, and when he decides he wants to write higher class novels, tries to 'kill off' his fake identity. People around him start dying, and it looks like he's the one killing them. Ov course no one will believe him that his fake personality has come to life and begin killing people (and then there's these blackouts he keeps having...). No good movies have come out in quite awhile, but some should be out soon. The 'Dawn of the Dead' remake (the original was written and directed by George Romero, who also directed 'The Dark Half') actually looks like it might be o.k.. That comes out soon. And 'Hellboy'- man I kan't wait for that. 'The Punisher' looks baaaad, but it kan't be worse than the old Dolph Lungren one. I'll probably see it. I went to Half Price Books today and bought a video with 2 episodes ov 'Babylon 5' on it for $1.00. I got it for the episode 'Grail' which features one ov my fav actors David Warner in it. The show was pretty good, but not good enough for me to collect all the episodes. Not like Mystery Science Theatre 3000. The Sci-Fi Channel broadcast it for the last time today. I have most ov the episodes taped, and they're coming out with them on dvd (slowly), but I still wish they would keep showing them (even tho they haven't made a new episode since 2000- it's all reruns). I love that show. Not too much else going on I guess, so I'll close it down now. take care...

cd(s) listened to during the composition ov this entry: Chemlab - "Burnout At the Hydrogen bar"