2004.02.22 red war will follow my enemies:
i know, i know…it's been a while. blah blah blah…get off my fuckin' back. i've actually been really busy, lately, so i have something of an excuse.
before i get into all that stuff, i'd like to point out my annoyance with nader entering the presidential race as an independent. don't get me wrong…last time around, this guy woulda had my vote if my voter registration wouldn't have been screwed up. but this time…damn it. he knows he's not going to win. why bother? why waste all that time and money to only muddy up the field and make it easier for bush to waltz right into a second term? i mean…it's a tight race, as it is. i just pray that everyone that talks the talk about kicking bush's ass out of the white house makes the right choice on election day. seriously. do not fuck this up for me. i don't like canada. don't make me have to move there.
okay…now i'll step off the soapbox and get into all the retardedly mundane things that it seems populate this "blog"…
last weekend i went up to columbus to spend valentine's day with the girl. we had some nice plans that we ended up scrapping, mostly due to the fact that we can never do anything as planned. we decided to go out and catch big fish and then go home and make a nice valentin's dinner, saturday night. dinner was delicious, mainly because i had precious little to do with it's preparation.
Sunday we ordered pizza from a place that seems to be everywhere up there, donato's. let me tell you…i will never order another fucking pizza from donato's for the rest of my life. ever. first off, the pizza took a goddamn hour and a half to travel two blocks. two blocks. the place is literally spitting distance from the girl's apartment. an hour and a half. when it finally arrived, it was ice cold. they shouldn't have even bothered cooking it, because all that "work" went completely to waste. so i called up donato's, told them i was a little unhappy with the fact that they just took an hour and a half to deliver me a cold pizza. the manager got on the phone and gave me a halfassed apology, saying "these things happen." he said he would make us a new pizza, which i told him i would come and pick up.
when i got there i asked about a refund, since i just had to pick up a replacement pizza which was originally scheduled to be delivered to me. i informed the manager that this was the first time i had ever ordered from his company and that i was extremely disappointed with what they considered an acceptable level of service. he said that i could not get a refund, since he was making me a new pizza, but he would put a credit on the account for the next time we call in. splendid. now we're trapped into eating their shitty pizza again to make sure we get our money's worth. well, after he handed me the replacement pizza and i was walking out to the car, i was thinking "this is awfully small…" so when i got into the car, i opened the box to make sure it was the right thing.
which it wasn't.
grand.
i marched back inside dropped the pizza on the counter and waited for them to make me the right pizza, in the right size. after all this trouble, the pizza ended up being pretty damn terrible. moral of the story? don't eat donato's if they have it in your town.
other than that, i've just been hanging out with billy and the viking. this usually involves lots of beer, pizza and videogames. as always…amazingly exciting.
oh yeah…my review of the probot record is up over at 75 or less. check it out.
brooksie said:
I have to admit it… I voted for Nadar in the last election. I am an idiot. Don't get me wrong, I agree with a lot of what Nadar preaches. Growing up in that "punk" ethic, I have come to disagree and distrust just about everything to do with corporate America which I see as ever encroaching on our system of government. I would like to see some very radical policies to do with protecting our environment, overhauling health care, welfare, foreign policy and countless other topics.
But… I think voting for the Green party or Nadar or whatever, at this time, does not push America any closer to those kinds of reforms. If anything, I think it pushes us closer to right-wing conservatism because we are making it easier for Republicans to take power due to the splintering of any liberal minded voters. I haven't figured it out, but I think there has to be a better way of progressing in this country. One that doesn't do as much damage to our beloved America as this current path seems to try for, perhaps starting with just simple education. Too many Americans are just misinformed or misguided in their political views. Sometimes I wonder if Ralph Nadar is secretly Republican. Seems like it would be a genuis way to sabotage the Democratic party.
Needless to say, I will not be voting for good ole Ralphie this time around.
Oh and Brian, you forgot your misadventures chasing down and thwarting a drug induced purse snatcher.
m@ said:
i have to agree with you two… as much as i like Nader's politics, i think this year is a bad one for him to choose to run. while i don't think his candidacy will make any difference in this state, i'm afraid it will split the liberal/independent vote in other states to the extent that Bush could claim victory where he wouldn't have otherwise. What i wish we could do would be to either a) legitimize the third parties in this country so they would actually have a chance of winning, or b) get Nader to run as a Dem. If Nader ran as a Democrat, he'd have my vote and the votes of as many people as i could talk to.
brian. said:
I was saving the pursesnatcher story for later, mainly because of the Nader and Donato's rants.
paul said:
you guys said "snatch".
brian. said:
We most certainly did. And it's a beautiful thing, indeed.