Archive for March, 2004

Chris Benoit is here, and he’s World Champion.

Sunday, March 14th, 2004

Moments ago, Chris Benoit made Triple H tap out to the Crippler Crossface to become the new World Heavyweight Champion. This was an event worthy of considerable celebration to hardcore Chris Benoit fans like Ben Moser and myself. Ben Moser leaps into my arms in spontaneous celebration: Ben Moser and I pigpile ...

Call it, ‘WrestleMania For Chicks’

Saturday, March 13th, 2004

I promised some friends who plan to come over to my place for WrestleMania tomorrow night that I would write something up as a bit of a primer, just a little bit of the story, enough to understand what's going on. Here it is: World Title Match Triple H vs. Chris Benoit ...

You’d think this was a good economy or something.

Friday, March 12th, 2004

This is why I like working on Franklin Street: our office basically shutdown today at 3pm to observe a Chapel Hill holiday, the first round of the ACC tournament, Georgia Tech vs. UNC. The quirky president of my company walked through the offices at around 2:30pm, letting us know that ...

Well, I suppose I never have felt so beautiful.

Thursday, March 11th, 2004

Hey, you know that show Newlyweds on MTV? I hate it. Jessica Simpson pisses me off, and that Nick fellow is a self righteous twit who's lucky enough to have five more IQ points than his wife. And Jessica herself? Not attractive. I don't find her attractive at all, she's ...

Ride on, cowboy.

Tuesday, March 9th, 2004

As far as bloggers go, I'm very very late to the story of Dudley Hiibel. In a nutshell, he was suspected of a crime, and was forced to produce identification by a Humboldt County, Nevada, police officer. When Hiibel refused, he was arrested, and his case is on its way ...

An open letter to the syndicators of ‘The Simpsons’

Monday, March 8th, 2004

Dear Syndicators of The Simpsons: I'm so glad that you edited The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson, and the way you excised all references to the World Trade Center was just great. In case you can't tell, I'm being sarcastic. You stink. Do you really think the awkwardly clipping any shots ...

…or maybe you weren’t.

Sunday, March 7th, 2004

Maybe you were wondering why I don't allow comments on my blog. I'll use the <ol> tag: I care about you; I don't want you to feel obligated to respond to every trite little mindshit I post here just because you want me to know that you're reading me. This article ...

A short list of things that are wrong with my car, so far.

Saturday, March 6th, 2004

The air conditioning isn't fabulous, hopefully it just needs to have the freon charged or something like that. I think there might be a problem with the rear defroster, but I'm not sure. It needs a paint job pretty badly. The odometer reads 8200 miles, since the original dash panel failed about 8200 ...

Be prepared for some serious phoning-it-in.

Friday, March 5th, 2004

The plan is for my man Tom McCudden to pick me up from my office today at 4pm, be incredibly gracious enough to drive me to the Raleigh bus terminal, where I will board the 6pm bus bound for Norfolk. That bus will arrive 4.5 interminable hours later, where I ...

A tale of two meetings.

Thursday, March 4th, 2004

We had our monthly company-wide meeting this afternoon. The fifty employees crowded into our training room to hear remarks from the company's vice president. She quickly worked through a handwritten agenda covering the brand new 401(k) retirement plan, concern about tying up the three phone lines (but we're getting two ...