Anywho!
*note: I was not high, stoned or whacked out on goofballs! **Also note: I'm not having a mental break down nor have I gone retarded... well not completely.
Friday, August 11, 2006
How the summer ate my friends.
Over the last couple of weeks, I have noticed that there has been a lack of Blogging and Commenting done by many of my friends. So that got me wondering, "Where did they go?!" I figured I ought to do some research. First thing I noticed was that I don't have much of a life. Especially since my roommate Nat and most of my other friends had all gone to the Sault or away to where ever it is they are. Thus leaving me with a lot of time by myself and a lot of time on the computer. Therefore, I check for new blogs and comments frequently and added new ones to my own. The next thing I noticed was that when I left my apartment, it was strangely warm outside. I was totally unware of this since I live in an air conditioned apartment and my work is too. So in discovering this "heat", I looked around and noticed this bright light coming from the sky. And then it hit me..."Oh yeah, it's summer" See I never realized this for I haven't had the chance to indulge at all in any of this season this year, mainly due to extreme amount of hours that I've been working. So in realizing that, I noted to myself. I REALLY don't have a life. But then I also came to the conclusion..."Hmmmm, maybe because it's summer, they have better things to do then to write little quips on the computer" And then I thought "Nah, the damn sun ate them up" Well I say to you sun "DAMN YOU!! DAMN YOU SUN!! YOU GIVE ME BACK MY FRIENDS!!! WHY DID YOU HAVE TO TAKE THEM AWAY!! THEY WERE MINE FIRST! STUPID JERKFACE JERK! FINE! FINE! BE THAT WAY! And then that's when it started to chase me. I managed to get away but now I have to look behind my back and sleep with one eye open.
Anywho!
*note: I was not high, stoned or whacked out on goofballs! **Also note: I'm not having a mental break down nor have I gone retarded... well not completely.
Anywho!
*note: I was not high, stoned or whacked out on goofballs! **Also note: I'm not having a mental break down nor have I gone retarded... well not completely.
Monday, August 07, 2006
That Tennis Serve is an Ace!!! Oh and BEERFEST!! **UPDATE
New movie with Jon Heder (Napolean Dynamite) and Billy Bob Thorton. Looks like Anger Management met Hitch and gave birth to this. Anywho, looks like it could be quite funny. All I have to say is wait for the best tennis serve I've ever seen.
New Movie
Super Troopers + Beer = Possibly the best movie about beer ever. (Excluding Strange Brew)
The guys from Super Troopers are at it again with this one about an underground beer drinking competition. BEERFEST!!
Looks like they have a chance of redeeming themselves after Club Dread. Fingers crossed. Here take a peek!
Beer Fest
**Update**
Remember when I mentioned Borat? Remember me mentioning him on Conan. Well, I found a video that highlights said interview. Oddly enough, there is no reference to Hkrum but the rest is sooooo funny. Enjoy!
Borat & Conan
New Movie
Super Troopers + Beer = Possibly the best movie about beer ever. (Excluding Strange Brew)
The guys from Super Troopers are at it again with this one about an underground beer drinking competition. BEERFEST!!
Looks like they have a chance of redeeming themselves after Club Dread. Fingers crossed. Here take a peek!
Beer Fest
**Update**
Remember when I mentioned Borat? Remember me mentioning him on Conan. Well, I found a video that highlights said interview. Oddly enough, there is no reference to Hkrum but the rest is sooooo funny. Enjoy!
Borat & Conan
Friday, August 04, 2006
The Great Nerd Debate (oddly, not including me)
I'm going to make this seem as nerdy as possible including making myself look equally as bad, just by the way I write this. NOTE: I'm not a nerd during the Great Nerd Debate, I know I was just as shocked. Anywho, let me set the scene.
I've been recently helping out at yet another store in my district. I arrive at "The Block", (that's Blockbuster, or work, to those who aren't hip), for my evening shift. As I entered the store, I'm greeted by "Comic Book" Andy and by newcomer to said location, "Ultimate Critic" Jer the Shift Manager. NOTE: The stuff in quotes is not part of their real names or do they refer to themselves by those names. Now at this point I'm slightly confused, for I was unaware that Jer was working the day shift. So I talked to them for a bit and find out that Sheila, who I thought to be working the shift, was indeed there and was in the backroom. I head back there and talk to her and the two other coworkers that were back there.
In returning to the front of the store, there is a customer who is wanting to rent "V for Vendetta". Which is a pretty good movie, but that isn't what we are here to discuss. Anyways, as I'm doing some tasking at the counter, Andy is ringing the customer through, to which the customer asks "Is it any good?" Now Andy's response could have been a simple: a) "Yeah it's not bad", b) "Yeah, It's really good" or c) "It wasn't very good". However, Andy's response is, "It was alright but it could've been a lot better. Have you ever read the graphic novel? (comic to those who don't know what a graphic novel is), cuz if you've got time you should!" Unbeknowst to all of us, the customer apparently is into comic books. And this triggers the "Great Nerd Debate". The customer responses with some comic jargon and facts that I didn't quite catch due to a phone call. However, when my attention returned to opening remarks of the "Debate", Jer is also involved in the Debate. Now this "Debate" is more a discussion of who is best for which role in whatever comic based or video game based movie. Also discussed were movies yet to come out, movies that were good, were bad, how they could've improved, director's that could've made things better, as well as anything else you could possibly imagine. Now you may be thinking, "Wow, I'm really surprised you weren't involved with this Kyle?" The truth is, I did add a few remarks to the discussion, but all I added were facts that were to either correct or help out a flustered participant. After 10 or 12 minutes of listening to these three shoot back and forth with names and ideas, I had to get away. I just couldn't handle it, it was too much nerd-esterone in one confined area. So I head to the backroom to where my other coworkers were and state "Don't go out there!! There's a Nerd Debate going on!!!" After hearing their laughter, I added that I just had to get away from it for it has been going on for 10 minutes.
Following a 5 minute break in the back, I figure it's safe to go back up. I open the door, only to see Jer coming to ask me to give him a hand with something. As I head back to the front, Andy and the customer are still in discussion about something comic related. With Jer finishing telling me what is wrong, he jumps right back into the circle without even missing a beat. Like he had Vulcan ears that picked up everything that was said. While I was tending to my current task handed to me, the phone rings, and rings, and rings. Neither employee stops their train of thought to answer the phone. Sheila, from the back, had and transfer the call back up to the front, right to the phone in front of Jer. Again the phone rings a few times before someone takes the transfer. I've been back up at the front for approximately another 10 minutes, 5 since the phone incident. Now finished my recent task, I head, no, speed walk to the back room to get away from the High Council of Nerds that had formed before my eyes.
As I returned to the back, I again, inform my coworkers of the Fellowship that is developing elsewhere in the store. To give them and you a better idea of what was happening, I mentioned a scene in "Clerks 2" In said scene, there is a debate of which is better: Star Wars or Lord of the Rings. That debate climaxed when one nerd gets so worked up he throws up. I was afraid that a similar situation was forecoming.
Again after a few minutes away from the Three Wise Men Of Comic Lore, I return to the front only to see a sign of closure to this war of words. This sign, the customer is actually near the exit door. He had only been in the store for about 50 minutes. 40 of them discussing and debating all that is comics. He wishes them a good day and off into the sunset he went. Horray the end of the debate and all things nerdy!!! Oh wait, it's not over. Jer and Andy aren't done. They continue to talk about some more topics. 6 o'clock rolls around and that's Andy cue to clock out, for his shift is done and finally so is the debate.
Yet, I was fooled again. Jer, still on his high Unicorn of Comic, starts asking me things about comics. I leave my answers brief as to not elaborate. Another hour of comic book discussion and at 7 o'clock Jer's shift came to an end. And with that so was the debate, discussion and questioning of all things comic.
Sorry if this bored you but I had to tell someone. Oh and the official time of length of the debate. 1 hour and 41 minutes.
I've been recently helping out at yet another store in my district. I arrive at "The Block", (that's Blockbuster, or work, to those who aren't hip), for my evening shift. As I entered the store, I'm greeted by "Comic Book" Andy and by newcomer to said location, "Ultimate Critic" Jer the Shift Manager. NOTE: The stuff in quotes is not part of their real names or do they refer to themselves by those names. Now at this point I'm slightly confused, for I was unaware that Jer was working the day shift. So I talked to them for a bit and find out that Sheila, who I thought to be working the shift, was indeed there and was in the backroom. I head back there and talk to her and the two other coworkers that were back there.
In returning to the front of the store, there is a customer who is wanting to rent "V for Vendetta". Which is a pretty good movie, but that isn't what we are here to discuss. Anyways, as I'm doing some tasking at the counter, Andy is ringing the customer through, to which the customer asks "Is it any good?" Now Andy's response could have been a simple: a) "Yeah it's not bad", b) "Yeah, It's really good" or c) "It wasn't very good". However, Andy's response is, "It was alright but it could've been a lot better. Have you ever read the graphic novel? (comic to those who don't know what a graphic novel is), cuz if you've got time you should!" Unbeknowst to all of us, the customer apparently is into comic books. And this triggers the "Great Nerd Debate". The customer responses with some comic jargon and facts that I didn't quite catch due to a phone call. However, when my attention returned to opening remarks of the "Debate", Jer is also involved in the Debate. Now this "Debate" is more a discussion of who is best for which role in whatever comic based or video game based movie. Also discussed were movies yet to come out, movies that were good, were bad, how they could've improved, director's that could've made things better, as well as anything else you could possibly imagine. Now you may be thinking, "Wow, I'm really surprised you weren't involved with this Kyle?" The truth is, I did add a few remarks to the discussion, but all I added were facts that were to either correct or help out a flustered participant. After 10 or 12 minutes of listening to these three shoot back and forth with names and ideas, I had to get away. I just couldn't handle it, it was too much nerd-esterone in one confined area. So I head to the backroom to where my other coworkers were and state "Don't go out there!! There's a Nerd Debate going on!!!" After hearing their laughter, I added that I just had to get away from it for it has been going on for 10 minutes.
Following a 5 minute break in the back, I figure it's safe to go back up. I open the door, only to see Jer coming to ask me to give him a hand with something. As I head back to the front, Andy and the customer are still in discussion about something comic related. With Jer finishing telling me what is wrong, he jumps right back into the circle without even missing a beat. Like he had Vulcan ears that picked up everything that was said. While I was tending to my current task handed to me, the phone rings, and rings, and rings. Neither employee stops their train of thought to answer the phone. Sheila, from the back, had and transfer the call back up to the front, right to the phone in front of Jer. Again the phone rings a few times before someone takes the transfer. I've been back up at the front for approximately another 10 minutes, 5 since the phone incident. Now finished my recent task, I head, no, speed walk to the back room to get away from the High Council of Nerds that had formed before my eyes.
As I returned to the back, I again, inform my coworkers of the Fellowship that is developing elsewhere in the store. To give them and you a better idea of what was happening, I mentioned a scene in "Clerks 2" In said scene, there is a debate of which is better: Star Wars or Lord of the Rings. That debate climaxed when one nerd gets so worked up he throws up. I was afraid that a similar situation was forecoming.
Again after a few minutes away from the Three Wise Men Of Comic Lore, I return to the front only to see a sign of closure to this war of words. This sign, the customer is actually near the exit door. He had only been in the store for about 50 minutes. 40 of them discussing and debating all that is comics. He wishes them a good day and off into the sunset he went. Horray the end of the debate and all things nerdy!!! Oh wait, it's not over. Jer and Andy aren't done. They continue to talk about some more topics. 6 o'clock rolls around and that's Andy cue to clock out, for his shift is done and finally so is the debate.
Yet, I was fooled again. Jer, still on his high Unicorn of Comic, starts asking me things about comics. I leave my answers brief as to not elaborate. Another hour of comic book discussion and at 7 o'clock Jer's shift came to an end. And with that so was the debate, discussion and questioning of all things comic.
Sorry if this bored you but I had to tell someone. Oh and the official time of length of the debate. 1 hour and 41 minutes.
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