scar face

Sometimes when I get real upset or anxious or some other emotion, the scar between my eyes on my brow turns red and is very visible.
My dad had a scar in the same spot that did similar things.
Mine's from a bike wreck.
His earned him a Purple Heart.

'Attle do Donkey

Golden Globe and SAG Award winning, and Oscar Nominated, Eddie Murphy!!!

the criminal system

Mr. Lawyer Dude (see photo) finally emailed me back... he pseudo appologized. I wrote him back with critiques of the way his firm does business and suggestions to correct it. He wrote back and said "thank you".

If I ever do go to court, I want it to be like this, complete with a Steve Guttenberg cutout singing and Ally Sheedy receiving deserved respect.

My blogger name was never truer

A law firm in Nashville sued me on behalf of their client. After speaking to a lady from their office on the phone, she decided I wasn't the J----s -. C-----N they were looking for since I didn't buy a Chevy and then move to Texas without paying for it. The letter had been sent to my mom so I called the office without actually seeing the letter. I asked the lawyer office lady to fax it to me and she didn't understand why I would want to see it if it wasn't me. I continued to demand that she fax it to me. I was like "You're in an office right?" "well, ye-" "and there's a fax machine there right?" "yes but I-" "Then you can fax it to me." I gave her my fax number but she never faxed it. I called back the next day. She said her surpervisor told her not to fax it since it was a mistake. (my mom was able to have someone fax it to me though) I told her I wanted a letter stating that the law office had made a mistake and chose the wrong J----s -. C-----n out of the hundreds/thousands of us that exist. She couldn't understand why I would want a letter stating they made a mistake, and swore it wouldn't show up on my credit report. She also said that they noted on the file that the letter had been sent to the wrong person. I told her I needed a letter anyway stating the mistake had been made. "Well why would you need a letter if I'm telling you that we know it's not you?" "Ma'am, I just recieved a letter stating that I was being sued for $15,464.10. That's a lot of money right?" "Ye-" "Wouldn't you be upset to recieve a letter saying you were sued for that much money?" "Well, yes bu-" "Wouldn't you want a letter to prove that a mistake had been made?" "I just don't understand wh-" "Ma'am, all I'm asking for is a letter. That's not a lot." "Well, I'll talk to the lady in charge and see what I can do."

These are only snippets of the conversations in which I raised my voice and she said stupid things. I also emailed the lawyer that was on the letter and is a partner in the firm. I told him about the conversations with the lady and asked that I recieve a letter stating the mistake and that my mother recieve a letter of apology because of how upset she became when she thought I was being sued. I've not heard back from him. I'm tempted to call and speak with the lady again, but the wife told me to let her make the next phone call because she wouldn't yell at the woman. I'm not sure if that's true. It's funny because I used to be the kind of guy that wouldn't have raised my voice or have felt the need for this letter. I used to trust people and excuse mistakes, but this really pissed me off and I'm not ready to let it go. Not until I get my letter.

Somers Day Makes Me Feel Fine...

Highlights of the Suzanne Somers clip:

-At 23, 39 and 47seconds the other host, Colleen, emits an extremely high pitched squeal laugh
-At 31 seconds Suzanne hits the spoon in the coffee cup and recovers
-From 25-29 seconds Colleen bounces
-At 48 seconds Colleen chortles

edumucation

I'm very grateful for my scholarship and tuition assistance. This semester I have to pay $3 for school. Plus books and the such.
Just this morning I got my grade for my theory class... my teacher called me because I had emailed him saying I needed the grade for my employer. I got an A-... congratulate me. I was really nervous about that class. He liked my final paper, in which I said the Christian Right was killing christianity as a spirituality, and unless the Christian Left brought the focus back to the original intent of christianity, they'd finish it off.
I said that in 3200 words.
This semester I'm taking a research class and a digital design class (photoshop, illustrator and so on). Those are Wed. and Thurs. nights. Then I'm teaching a drawing class Saturdays 10am-1pm. The wife has a hectic schedule this semester too.

We can handle it.

And it actually snowed today! Hooray!

Hear All the Bombs Fade Away

I thought it was 'Here All the Bums Fade Away'... misunderstanding lyrics can be funny.

Happy New Year all.

I'm still waiting for one of my grades from last semester... the final paper was worth 80% of my grade, so I'm a bit nervous, and I have to get a least a B in the class to continue school.

Holiday Vacation was fun. We won $25 on scratchers with an initial investment of $5 that was gift money. It paid for dinner.
We went in the ocean and swam in the pools and lots of Floridian things. good times.

sleepy for meepy

I had Diet Coke too late tonight so I am still awaaaaaaaaaaaaake!

Home Sweet Home

Back from vacation, it's always good to be home. The pbf is setting up our new printer. Woot! The dog is in her super sheddy time of year so every day is blonde dog hair day!

I see the light

My final paper is almost done. It's due on Friday, and I feel confident I'll have it done by Wednesday. My last class is this evening... he owes us a makeup class so tonight is scheduled to be 4 hours (6pm-10pm). Soon, I'll be a free(er) man. We're flying out early Friday morning, so there's debate if we will do anything besides packing on Thursday night. I would like to run around the city on Thursday because I don't have to do anything. I'm thinking I want to go to the MOMA or the Whitney, and to see the tree and windows... stuff like that. Fight the tourists! I find an odd joy being in crowded tourist spots.

Now's the time to hangout with me! Well, I'm busy tonight and tomorrow night and probably packing wed. night, but if you want to run around touristy spots with me on Thursday, just say the word... this is a lame public invite to all. When we get back from Florida next Friday the 29th, I'll be free of work until the 2nd, and free of classes until late January, so it will be a great time to invite me over for dinner and games! (I do have some commisioned paintings to do sometime before classes get started back though.)

So Time announced their person of the year: "You". or Us or whatever. While I'm not sure why Time still holds any say in who the person of the year should be, I do believe they got it right. I'm very interested in seeing how user submitted media changes our cultures consumption. Due to the overwhelming amount of media to consume, will we be more careful in what we choose (ultimately requiring "hollywood" to create better work) or will we be lazier in our choices, consuming anything put in front of us. Viral videos are entertaining and viral for a reason, but even I've watched crappy angst ridden films created by highschoolers on youtube merely because they are there to be watched.

And that's my media rant for the day. I don't mean to sound like "I'm getting my masters and I want you to think that I'm smart," I just really find that intersting and think a lot of you do too.
Okay, spell check's not working, so getoverit.

***edit***
My boss says that it is very decadent for Time to choose "You" as the person of the year, which in his mind is choosing entertainment over politics. I believe "you" is inclusive, being open to entertainment, politics, and other realms.

parties parties everywhere

Tonight is the school-wide holiday party. I was going to skip it, but everybody I work with (via the phone) from other dept.'s kept asking if I would be there and my boss said it would be best if I were... looks bad if you skip. Free b-b-q and booze I guess... It's at Blue Smoke so that's cool.

Seems like every evening thing for work is on a Thurs. night.

I HAVE to start writing my 3500 word term paper tomorrow. it's 80% of my grade, barf.

I'm looking forward to my 1.5 weeks off from work! and my grad classes don't start back until the 3rd week of January, so that's good too. I've gotten a couple of commissions for paintings that I need to work on after christmas. (thanks for hanging my work in the coffee shop Heidi!)

Dreamgirls

Watch this.

Happy Christ

Christmas present shopping=1/2 soul oppression+1/2 joyful giving

Mac and caviar

Tonight I went to a reception at the NY Public Library and ate macaroni and cheese with caviar on top... then I read about the death of God in a postmodernity article on my way home. (at times I roll eyes at myself)

I'm doing too much I think... so do I quite my masters completely or do I just cut back to one class? I WILL get my MFA in the (near?) future.

I told my boss today that I dread coming to work. We discussed things to ease that.

To Make a Man

boop

Big bug

So the pbf and I have been watching the Macy's Parade. When the Big Bird balloon came by the feathers on his head seemed a bit limp and the pbf, in all honesty, said, "Oh no, Big Bird's losing air in his antennas." Yes folks, Big Bird's antennas.

Thanksgetting

Today I got a migraine. I get them occasionally. The highlight of the migraine was definitely barfing out of my nose. I had never done that before-wow it sucked! I'm pretty close to ship shape now. I just got a super high quality digital recorder for work and it's AMAZING! I expect sound samples from all of my faithful readers.

CAPS? REALLY JIMMY?

I KNOW THEY'RE ANNOYING, BUT MY FILM IS RENDERING AND IT'S DUE TOMORROW MORNING... (PUTTING ON CAPS LOCKS DOES THIS THING THAT ALLOWS IT TO RENDER QUICKER)

TODAY, THE TV SHOW 30 ROCK WAS FILMING ON THE BLOCK I WORK ON. (rendering complete... *bling*) I saw Tina Fey sitting in a restaurant eating with her co-star (the girl that plays Jenna). Tina was wearing a bad blond wig and a baseball cap. It was hilarious.
Time to go watch my film and make sure it's actually done this time.

Hugger mugger

I went to a dear friend's b-day party tonight with some more dear friends. The cap off to my glorious evening was being the sole witness to a violent mugging. Huzzah! I had to talk to lots of police and got to witness many police and ambulancy things first hand. I have to say that most of the experience was very different than on TV. I definitely was afraid that the ginormous and scary mugger would come after me, but he ran the other way. For that I am grateful. The police caught him minutes later. Congrats officers! My advice for wannabe star sole crime witnesses:

1) Back away from the situation to stay SAFE.
2) Simultaneous to backing away, try to get a good look at the face of the criminal because YOU may be called in to ID them.
3) When it's over stay around the scene of the crime and answer all of the questions the police may have.
4) Don't forget to tell them about a key piece of evidence until after they're gone (like I did, but they came back).

your space

so the wife has a psuedo myspace that i use sometimes to look up people. I was looking up old high school people and I found MY SISTER! and ANOTHER SISTER and MY MOTHER... wtf?

I also found this old girl from HS... she's married now and has three kids. Her myspace plays the mario song and "girls just want to have fun" as budweiser cans ran down the page.
Here are some excerpts, think of it as a cultural study:

Movies - Shag. Dirty Dancing. Crybaby. Grease
Television - American Idol. Rescue Me. Law &; Order SVU
Books - I hate reading unless it's the newspaper to hear gossip

Eye Color: BLUE
Hair Color: BLONDISH BROWN
Height: 5 FOOT
Right Handed or Left Handed: RIGHT
Your Heritage: WHITE
The Shoes You Wore Today: NIKES
Your Weakness: THE PHONE
Your Fears: BEIN ALONE
Your Perfect Pizza: PEPPERONI AND CHEESE
Goal You Would Like To Achieve This Year: LIVE LIFE TO THE FULLEST
Thoughts First Waking Up: OH GOD ITS MORNING ALREADY
Your Best Physical Feature: MY BUTT
Your Bedtime: WHENEVER
Your Most Missed Memory: MY PAPAW, HIGH SCHOOL
Pepsi or Coke: MT. DEW
MacDonalds or Burger King: MCDONALDS
Single or Group Dates: GROUP THEN SPLIT TO SINGLE
Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea: YUCK
Chocolate or Vanilla: CHOCOLATE
Cappuccino or Coffee: EITHER
Do you Smoke: FAITHFULLY
Do you Swear: MOST OF THE TIME
Do you Sing: YEP IM GONNA BE THE NEXT AMERICAN IDOL
Do you Shower Daily: YEP
Have you Been in Love: YEP
Do you want to go to College: BEEN THERE DONE THAT HATED IT
Do you want to get Married: ALREADY AM BUT NEVER AGAIN
Do you belive in yourself: YEA
Do you get Motion Sickness: NOPE
Are you a Health Freak: NOPE
Do you get along with your Parents: NOPE SHES A FRUIT LOOP
Do you like Thunderstorms: NO
Do you play an Instrument: HELL NO
In the past month have you Drank Alcohol: WHY HELL NO
In the past month have you been on Drugs: HELL NO NEVER
In the past month have you gone on a Date: NOPE
In the past month have you gone to a Mall:' NO
In the past month have you eaten a box of Oreos: NO
In the past month have you eaten Sushi: GROSS
In the past month have you been on Stage: NO
In the past month have you been Dumped: NO
In the past month have you gone Skinny Dipping: NO
In the past month have you Stolen Anything: NO
Ever been Drunk: HELL YEA PLENTY
Ever been called a Tease: YEP
Ever been Beaten up: YEP
Ever Shoplifted: NOPE
How do you want to Die: IN A CAR WRECK AND FAST
What do you want to be when you Grow Up: TOO LATE FOR THAT QUESTION
What country would you most like to Visit: SOME PLACE WITH SECLUDED BEACHES AND PALM TREES
In a Boy/Girl..
Favourite Eye Color: BLUE
Favourite Hair Color: DARK
Short or Long Hair: SHORT
Height: 5'--6'
Weight: NORMAL WITH MUSCLES
Best Clothing Style: TANK TOPS AND BLUE JEANS
Number of Drugs I have taken: NONE BUT I NEED VALUMES ONCE IN A WHILE
Number of CDs I own: TOO MANY TO COUNT I BORROWED AND NEVER RETURNED
Number of Piercings: 1 BELLY
Number of Tattoos: NOPE BUT I WANT A SHROOM ON MY PELVIC AREA THAT SAYS EAT ME!
Number of things in my Past I Regret: PLENTY! DATING THE IDIOTS I DID