My Sick Mind

I see the worst in people. I don't need to look past seeing them to get all I need. I've built my hatreds up over the years, little by little, Henry. I can't keep doing this on my own with these ... people . [laughs] Daniel Plainview - "There Will Be Blood" Today is Respect Your Cat Day or something like that. That's every day around here, but it's nice to know that someone thought to include them in the calendar. The more human interaction I have, the more I respect my cat and animals in general, and the less I have for people. At the gym today, a nearby jackass left 8 45-pound plates on the leg press machine and walked away. One presumes that since he was strong enough to put them on he would have been equally strong enough to take them off. That's the gym etiquette. Loud enough to hear, I said, "Take the Goddamned plates off when you're done!" but he couldn't hear me because he was wearing the Universal Sign of No Self-Awarenes...

So here's the thing. I don't carry a wallet. As Kramer says, "My osteopath says it's bad for my spine." For me, it's just another wasted appendage sticking out of my backside. For years, I've been carrying my ATM card (notably misnamed the MAC card - the "C" stands for "card") and other such necessary cards in my pockets and/or lunch bag compartments for the past 20 years or so. Fortunately for me, I'm the type that always knows where things are and, as Felix Unger says, "I know every item on my person." Can you tell I'm a little heavily influenced by television? I've been happily going along with this method for the past ... 20 years ... until I opened the latest edition of Rolling Stone magazine and found something called the acmwallet . It's a little gizmo that holds your credit/debit cards and has a little money clip for those of us who have a little money. It's made of plastic so it isn't very h...

MIAMI (AP) — A pedestrian wasn ’t in a crosswalk when Cleveland Browns wide receiver Donte Stallworth hit and killed him with his Bentley, according to a report released Tuesday by police in Miami Beach. According to the report, Stallworth told officers he flashed his lights to try to warn 59-year-old Mario Reyes, a construction crane operator who was rushing to catch a bus after getting off work around 7:15 a.m. March 14. Police said Stallworth was driving about 50 mph in a 40 mph zone. They are investigating whether alcohol played a role in the accident. No charges have been filed against Stallworth pending the outcome of blood tests. A police diagram shows that Reyes was hit in the far left lane of the six-lane MacArthur Causeway - not in a nearby crosswalk. Stallworth stopped a few feet away. He flashed his lights. What more do you want? That's the problem with news stories that " allege " that someone did something or count on third-person accounts of someth...

I n line at the store tonight, the guy in front of me started talking to the pregnant cashier about what name she is going to give her baby. "If it's a boy, it's going to be Chase," she said, "After Chase Utley." The guy replied that his wife was in the hospital during the playoffs, and they were stuck for a name. Seeing Shane Victorino at the plate, they decided that Shane would be a good name for their baby boy. I interjected, "It's a good thing So Taguchi wasn't in the game." I got that blank stare that I usually get when I make a comment. A mong other things, I get a kick out of the way products are marketed - particularly pet foods and televisions. They advertise high-definition TVs on regular-definition stations and proclaim that the picture quality is amazing. We take their word for it. Cat food is marketed, one presumes, to cats. Cats however, do very little grocery shopping, so the "Gourmet" tag on the can of Fancy Fea...

Somebody needs to explain to me why it takes 3 days to transfer funds from Paypal to my bank account, while any transaction I make is instantly noted on my account. Why should a purchase occur almost instantly while a fund transfer takes 3 days? Methinks I smell a rat. The guess here is that Paypal wants to hold onto my money for a few days, while the vendor (the transaction) wants their money immediately. In the midst of our financial crisis and "this economy" I think that we need to explore this a bit more and (French) get it straightened the fuck out. Meanwhile, Paypal charges me a "transaction fee." What is that for? If they're going to take 3 days to transfer the funds, I'd like to get something for the money they're sucking out of me. When you sell something on Ebay (the parent company of Paypal) they take a fee to post the listing. They take another fee to post a photo of the item, as though someone would buy something without seeing it. T...