Archive for July, 2004

I’ll admit, I popped when they opened the curtain on monday on Raw during that horrible Diva search and behind it was Kamala The Ugandan Giant. I was a mark for him back in the early days and I’ll admit to you, I miss seeing him on my TV. I was surfing the web and found this interesting interview with the man who played Kamala. It sucks that he got the shaft when it came to a paycheck. I hope Vince payed him well for his appearance on Raw this week at least!

I had been wondering if Perry Saturn was working anywhere these days as it has been awhile since I heard anything about him since his departure from the WWE. Well, turns out Mr. Saturn is a bit of a hero. He had been shot in the neck when saving a woman from being raped! You can read the story here. It is nice to see a good story come from the world of wrestling for a change, and better yet that Saturn has recovered from the surgeries, and will be able to still work.

Tonite at the Fireside Bowl:
SINCE BY MAN
THESE ARMS ARE SNAKES
7pm start

My two favorite new punk rock bands together at the same show! It is a dream come true I tell you! Who is with me?!!

Friday nite after work, Lady Combustion and I went down to the Lyon’s Den for the last ever Punk Rock Friday show. I haven’t been there in a few months so it was nice to go back. Destroy Everything played, which it being the band of my beloved Klowns, was the sole reason really that I went. Well, not the sole reason as I did spend many a fun, drunken, evening at the Den for those punk nites. DE played first, which in and of itself was a travesty seeing as how the bands that followed them were quite inferior. I didn’t watch the second band, we were in the bar area in front talking to people. Some band from Pittsburgh that was all girls played their brand of sleazy rock/metal third, and Vicki played fourth. Now I’ve seen Vicki a few times, and was always entertained by their gimmick of playing in their underwear. This time they wore these naughty nurse outfits, and since said outfit more clothes than they typically wear, the show wasn’t nearly as good. You don’t see Vicki for their musical talent, for honestly, they have none. You see them for the gimmick, and they are killing their own gimmick with the additional clothes, leaving the audience to have to listen to their sub-par tunes. It wore thin halfway thru their set for us. I drove a very drunk Cheddar Nines and his lady home and called it a nite.

Saturday was pinball league finals. It was an endurance test that’s for sure, the thing went like 9 hours. I won my first fight, lost my second, and then lost my third one. Had I not blown the shot to start tour the mansion in TAF for my final fight, I likely would have won, then been elimiated in my next fight after that. With as little playing as I’ve done in the past year, I really did alright this season and can’t really complain. It was a fun time for everyone. I had 4 games break down though, which sucked. I fixed one yesterday but have 3 left to look at and who knows when I will have time to do that, maybe in the winter.

Yesterday Koz was in town and we went to Potbellys for the traditional 4 course meal. After that we played some pinball, fixed the one broken game and then we, along with Lady Combustion, watched a couple DVD movies. We watched They Live, and the new uncut version of Trainspotting. I did go to Best Buy yesterday too and I got the new Highlander 2 Special Edition, and found for $6 each, C.H.U.D. and the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre Special Edition! I couldn’t pass them up for such a cheap price.

Today it is back to the grind at work. Tonite I am going to a White Sox game with MAC. Tomorrow nite I have to pack some mailorders and hopefully work on some reviews for the website, I’m way behind!

Today I went and got an Ipass. For those who don’t know what that is I will explain.

See, here in lovely IL, we have these pieces of shit knows as Tollways. On these things, you get to pay for the privilage of sitting in traffic. Not only that, they actually cause MORE traffic cuz you have to stop at these fucking tollbooths and cough up the dough. Often times, in front of you will be some fuckwit who, even though he/she knows they are on a tollway and thus must pony up some cash, will wait until they are at the booth to start and look for some change to feed the booth! Unless you have to endure this, there is no way you can imagine the frustration.

The Ipass is a gimmick that lets you pass thru a special lane without stopping and then they just charge you for it, thus you won’t have to stop and wait for the retard in the SUV who doesn’t know how to count to 40 in change. The lady combustion swore by the Ipass and told me I should get one and I was resistant but I finally caved in and she was right, they do save you some time and frustration. I’d rather not pay at all cuz I think that tollways are bullshit, and a ripoff, but since there is no way to cheat the tolls, and I have to pay, this is a better alternative to what I was going thru on my commute to and from work every day. On top of that, I don’t have to worry about always making sure I have some change in the car.

I just installed the new version of MyIE2 (now called Maxthon) and now the links in my blogroll don’t show up when I am viewing my blog! They call that an improvement? It worked (and still works) in the old version, how did they fuck it up?!