Category Archives: true life 2004

hell, see also: other people

Last night Husband and I went to see Dodgeball.

It was a silly movie, so let’s talk about silly things.

My favorite part of the movie was when the woman 2 rows in front of us got annoyed with the woman in the row directly in front of us. The woman directly in front of us was on her phone.

“I’m at the movies. What are you doing?”

This made it difficult for the woman 2 rows up to hear…her own phone conversation.

“I can’t hear you. This bitch won’t shut up.”

Eventually, the woman directly in front of us took the hint from the woman 2 rows up and left the seating area to finish her conversation. This being a stadium-type theater, she had to walk all the way down to the front of the theater and then all the way down a hall to get to the doors to the theater itself. She talked the whole way, and once she couldn’t see us anymore she got louder and louder.

All of this really annoyed a guy right in the center of the theater. He was the only one who actually spoke up and told them to be quiet, which is good because he might not have heard his phone ringing later if he hadn’t.

tragic

Brother’s friend and classmate, Dan Eggers, will be buried with military honors today after funeral services at Arlington National Cemetery. He was killed in Afghanistan and leaves a wife and two small children. Tragic.

I eat cannibals

I was gathering data the other night (seriously. I love my work) and ran across an mp3 of the insipid and annoying 80s hit I Eat Cannibals by the equally insipid and annoying Toto Coelo.

Last night I mentioned to doppleganger Batgrl that I’d had this stupid song stuck in my head ever since I downloaded the mp3. She was much relieved, as she didn’t know why she’d been obsessed with that song all week. She’d even been hunting for an mp3 of said evil ditty, with no luck. I solved her problem (which is only fair, since I caused it via brainwaves) and we all lived happily ever after.

seriously?

I’m wondering if the city could take a little break from poisoning me and my neighbors. Better yet, why don’t they tell us they’ve maybe poisoned us instead of letting us read it in the fucking newspaper. Am I angry? You have no idea.

I particularly like this part of the article:

The city is taking steps to prevent further problems, Baier said. It has distributed new literature door-to-door, advising residents to fill dry pipe traps with water to prevent fumes from entering through pipes. Workers also are ventilating manholes and flushing sewer lines with water.

New literature. They’re distributing new literature. Doesn’t that imply that they distributed literature before? That’s crap. I haven’t found anyone who was notified of what type of work they were doing before they started.

I don’t feel well today (for the usual reasons) so I’m extra-grumpy about all of this and taking it all particularly personally. In actuality, I’m just glad none of the children seemed to have been injured. I have heard several dogs got sick, and in this area that will probably provoke a bigger outcry than humans getting sick. Really. Just wait…