Knocked Up!

Bubbles and I went to go see Knocked Up yesterday. C-Fresh had no interest in seeing it and boy did he miss out. I expected a sweet little romantic comedy with some funny parts. Whoa! I was laughing out loud during this movie. It was more like the first 1/2 of 40 Year Old Virgin rather than (insert name of generic romantic comedy here)_________________. That said, it was a bit on the clunky side. It was filmed in the same way Fat Actress was. That whole sort of improvisational, conversational way where they are given a basic outline then the actors run with it. Also, there was really no reason given why she would forgive him and take him back, it was implied. . .but very loosely and as an afterthought. I can forgive that though since this was one of the very few movies that made me laugh so hard I snorted through my nose a few of times.
P.s.
To the lady eating the candy in the crinkling wrapper. . .JUST FUCKING OPEN IT ALREADY! Crap! How freaking long can it actually take to open up one damn piece of candy?

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My Mama Said

Now my mama ain't the only one to tell little ole VinnieG he is a winner. B. Kitty says so too. Don't believe me? Well biotches go here for the proof yo!

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Future Ex Husband Friday

As an homage to my geekiness this week's future ex-husband is Seth Green. I fell in lust with this little man during his Buffy the Vampire Slayer days as the lycanthropic Oz. What a little cutie he was, and still is.

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Thanks Ohio

Dear Ohio,

I would like to thank you very much for entrusting my social security number to a twenty year old intern. I am so thrilled that you thought it was a good idea to let said intern take my name and social security number out of the office only to have the device storing my information stolen. I look forward to many fun evenings guessing "Who is pretending to be me today?" or the "Guess what's on my credit report this month!" game. I do think that maybe we could make this even more fun for your residents though. Why stop at leaking out your taxpayers names and social security numbers? Why not add in our checking account numbers too. That would be real fun. I am so glad that you went out of your way to make sure that I had stuff to do this summer. I can think of nothing more exciting than standing in line at the credit reporting agencies to file a fraud report.

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Cafe Conversations

A common habit of customers is to come in and say "I want two smalls." We have taken this to mean two small coffees but we still ask because you never know what some people are thinking. Last night a lady comes in and orders two smalls so I say "two small coffees right?".
Lady: What the hell else would I be ordering
Me: (slapping the coffee down and ungraciously saying) $3.10.
Lady: (looking at the coffee) What's this?
Me: Your two smalls
Lady: You didn't do anything over at that machine (she pointed at the espresso machine).
Me: You said two smalls and I asked coffee, that's what this is. . .two small coffees.
Lady: I want the one with milk in it that you use that machine for (she said like I was an idiot and why the hell couldn't I read her mind).
Me: Fine, two lattes, $6.40.
I then head over steam up the milk while thinking to myself what a bitch this woman is. I finish the drinks and put them in front of her and wait for her to dig out her money.
Lady: These are hot.
Me: Yep, lattes come hot unless you say you want them cold.
Lady: Well that's what I want (again with that attitude that I was the stupidest person in the world).
Me: (feeling really bitchy at this point) so what you really want instead of the two small coffees you ordered are two small iced lattes. Did you want anything else in them? Any flavor, or anything like that?
Lady: No
Me: did you want the 2% milk? If you want a different milk then you have to tell me now, otherwise you will be getting 2%.
Lady: Whatever
Back I go to the machine and made them. She pays goes gets a straw sips then says "There's no vanilla in here, and this isn't soy"
Me: Nope, there isn't. That's why I asked you if you wanted anything else in them.
Lady: Well I do.
Me: Then I have to charge you for two new drinks this time (I said blandly because I was over this whole situation).
Lady: forget it then

I am still wondering where in the hell these people come from and how they function in daily life.

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Getting Hot In Here

Alright, it is over 90 degrees here and it isn't even noon. I figure if I post some pics of some real hotties then maybe the weather will seem a bit cooler. . .or I just want to post some gratuitous man flesh.

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Green Bean Salad

The side that I made for Sunday's dinner was a green bean carrot salad that I loved.
3/4 lb green beans (topped and tailed or a good quality frozen green bean thawed).
8 oz carrots (cut into thin sticks)
1 medium red onion (cut into thin slices)

That makes the basis of the salad. Cook the beans in boiling water for about 4 minutes then then rinse under cold water and drain thoroughly before adding the carrots and the onions.

2 tbsp olive oil (extra virgin)
1 tbsp red wine vinegar
2 tsp either sun dried tomato paste or canned seasoned tomato paste of your choice (I used the Italian garlic kind).
1/4 tsp superfine sugar
salt and pepper to taste

Mix all this together in a sealed jar and shake it up and pour on the salad and mix in. I chilled it over night with the dressing on and it tasted fantastic.

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Weekend Continued

So after Pride on Saturday we did the whole hippie CommFest thing which I mentioned briefly before. The first thing we did was to knock over any aging hippie, skater-angst kid, and over the hill the punks in our quest to eat. Stupid us only had a muffin and coffee first thing in the morning before wandering all over Columbus. Finally we had too much greasy carnival food so we wandered the booths and people watched (a lot of random tattoos and gratuitous body piercings). None of us were all that big into music so we said to heck with it and took off around 7ish. C-Fresh and I napped then off to see Shrek 3 (1 and 2 were better movies but this one had more laugh out loud moments. It would have been so much better if it weren't so freaking preachy!). That night I prepped up dinner for Sunday so that way C-Fresh and I could do our round of open house visits and shopping before heading to Dungeoun Mistress' for our Sunday geek fest (and I am to embarrassed to even tell you what that was so I'll leave it up to your fertile imaginations and keep it clean ya'll). I think dinner was a hit, at least that is what everyone told me. I made a green bean salad and stuffed veggies. I'll post the recipes later that way D. can give me advice on how to spruce them up.

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Fly Away

Kenneth always seems to find the hottest men. Dang, I am in lust with these flyboys. . .almost enough to get me airborne again!

p.s.
Kenneth, I always go to you before TMZ!

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Back Now

Back home now from my busy weekend down in Columbus. Friday night I got down there then C-Fresh and I went to the store to get food for our gathering on Sunday and I got some of the food put together then off to bed. Saturday was Pride and Comm Fest. The parade was, well, a pride parade. Probably about what you'd see at any other pride parade around the country. It was kind of fun though because this was the first pride event that Dungeon Mistress and her mother Mamacita had been too. We then moseyed on down to the little festival where I had to wait about ten minutes to use the most disgusting porta-potty ever. Good thing I carried my travel pen size insta-disinfecting spray. It was fun though aside from that. Well, except for the really bad comedian they had performing right off. He was like a parody of a really bad comedian. Oh, I do want to say one thing about the parade. . .to the drag queen doing Mary Katherine Gallagher (you know. . .Superstar!) YOU ROCK! That was the funniest freaking thing I have seen in a long damn time!

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Off For The Weekend

Well, I am out of here for the weekend. Down to Columbus I go to take part in the Pride festivities. Have a great weekend ya'll. . .

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This Will Piss You Off. . .

. . .or at least it should



Is this actually true? If it is then WTF?

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Why?

Why oh why did the automatic coupon machine at the grocery store spit out 5 coupons for different kinds of cat food at me? I didn't buy any pet supplies at all. Okay, so I did buy several (6) cans of soup and some bread but does that automatically qualify me as being a crazy cat guy? Great, so now Giant Eagle totally has me profiled as some lonely man who does nothing but eat soup and knit sweaters for his cats.

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MeMe

I was tagged by Wayne for a MeMe and this one is simple, just list eight things about myself. I am not going to tag anyone for these because I am not a fan of them (neither is Wayne btw) and I always feel guilty tagging people to do these. . .Sorry if that makes me a huge spoil sport.
1)I am the youngest of 2 children. My brother is 6 1/2 years older than me
2)My mother is 6 1/2 years older than my father. My father is 6 1/2 years older than his brother. His brother is 13 years older than my brother. 13 years is the age span between my mother and all her siblings. Do you think my family is cursed with all the 13's and 1/2 of 13's?
3)I would rather read a book than go to a club, have coffee with friends rather than get drunk at a bar, and ride a bike in the park over going to an amusement park.
4)I have read David Eddings' series The Belgariad every summer since I was 12.
5)When I was in third grade I got in trouble because we had to draw pictures of what we wanted to be when we grew up. I split my paper in half and said I wanted to be a French teacher by day and a Chippendale by night.
6)I usually know exactly how much the cash option would pay for both the Mega Millions drawings and the Classic Lotto drawings. What can I say? I'm a white trash savant.
7)I really want to get a full back tattoo but I am way too scared to actually follow through with it (I want either a huge dragon or some sort of mandala. . .)
8)I don't really like dogs.

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I Hate The Mall

I hate the mall where I get my hair cut at. It isn't that it is an ugly or rundown mall. . .quite the opposite in fact. I hate the fact that along every aisle through the whole mall there are more cell phone retailers than necessary. That alone isn't enough to make me hate the mall. What I hate are the desperate sales people who harass me as I walk from one place to another. I was about 45 minutes early to get my haircut so I wandered to the Starbucks to get some coffee and do a little shopping. On the way I was called out to by three different salespeople. I did what I always do and politely said no thanks and kept moving. On my way back a particularly persistent salesperson hopped in front of me and said "Hey buddy, can I ask you a question?"
This was one of the people that I had already said no thanks to so I just curtly replied "No," and kept moving. Evidently that wasn't quite enough of a hint because he persisted by saying "Wait a sec, I just have a question for you,"
I had had enough at that point. I told him once politely, then again firmly. His chances were all used up. So I asked him "Do you not understand the meaning of the word no? I told you twice no and I'm not going to tell you again so back off,"
That did get his attention and he told me "Don't talk to me like I'm five," at which point I responded "Then don't act like you're five," and proceeded to walk away. It was gratifying to hear a woman pushing her baby stroller by start laughing at the jerk.
It takes a lot to make me lose my temper but once I do it usually isn't pretty.

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Harry Potter

I just read D.'s post about HP and I have to say that as a thirty something year old man, I am way to excited about this book coming out. And yet I am. I am also in the process of rounding up some people to go see Harry and the Potters and Draco and the Malfoys (yes performing TOGETHER) on July 25th at the CPL. I can't go by myself because otherwise I would be that creepy old guy that hangs around, but if there are a few of us then we can all be creepy together. I may have to pull a trick out of Amy and D.'s hat and be wearing my Quidditch robes underneath a jacket (hope it is cool that day). Anyway. . .is it July 21st yet?

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Cafe Conversations

Every now and again at work we have customers who can be truly stupid. . .beyond the ordinary that is. We have a membership program where you pay a fee and save 10% all year on all your purchases. Some people love it some people hate it. On Saturday afternoon K. asked a guy if he was using his membership to save 10%. He replied "I don't have that card, it is an invasion of my privacy."
K: Okay, that'll be $1.55
Customer: You know they track you with it don't you?
K. Well, you don't have to put any information down, just keep the card and you are anonymous.
Customer: They can still profile you and track your card. . .blah, blah, paranoid privacy mumbo jumbo. . .rhetoric. . .blah, blah.
You get the idea. Finally he gets over his rant and asks K. how much he owed. After she told him he paid. . .are you ready for this. . .WITH A CREDIT CARD!

He blathered on for a good two minutes about his purchases being tracked and being profiled and losing his privacy only to pay with a freaking credit card. Can he really be that dumb?

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Happy Father's Day

Dad's. What can you say? They are each one of a kind. We were talking at work today about our father's and how each of them have a "thing". You know, that one thing that they always do, say, complain about, don't say, whatever. . .they all have a thing. My dad's thing is shoes. Not buying them but telling my brother and I to wear them. No matter what we did as kid's our dad would always yell at us to "Put on some God D***n shoes". It is amazing what can happen to you in my dad's world if you don't have shoes on. It runs the gambit from electrocution to losing parts of your foot from doing something so simple as ironing. Laundry? Heck, that required steel toed boots lest the legion of harm that could befall one be diverted. I'm sure it drove him (and probably still does) nuts that my brother and I both hate shoes and don't ever wear them unless absolutely necessary.

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R.S.V.P.

I take part if a few email campaigns (tell my senator to support this not that, stop big oil, WTF about Iraq, the usual suspects) supported a few different Websites. The other day was the first time I have ever gotten a response from my Senator to an email I have sent out. Okay, it does help that I know have a democratic senator (who I voted for needless to say) who actually has a lot of the same views I do, but still it is nice to get that acknowledgment. That was one of the things that ticked me off about my last senator. Fine, you don't feel the same way I do but You represent Me and my taxes pay your wages. The courtesy of a reply is not too much to ask for. Heck, this is the email age and all he needed to do was have an automated response. Anyhow, thank you Sherrod Brown for your reply it is greatly appreciated. If you were wondering, my email was to encourage the senate to oppose the nomination of Dr. John Holsinger to be Surgeon General of the United States.

P.S.
here is the reply from my senator

Dear Mr. (VinnieG):

Thank you for contacting me to express your thoughts on the nomination of Dr. John Holsinger to be Surgeon General of the United States.

The Surgeon General, as "America's Doctor," is expected to provide non-biased and scientifically-accurate medical information to the public. There is concern that some actions and statements made by Dr. Holsinger bring into question his ability to adequately serve all sections of American society. Particularly, statements he has made about gays and lesbians trouble me.

I am a member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, which has jurisdiction over this nomination. I have expressed my concerns to Committee Chairman, Sen. Edward Kennedy, and I will certainly consider your views if Dr. Holsinger's nomination reaches the full Senate for a vote. Thank you again for contacting me.


Sincerely,
Sherrod Brown

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Future Ex Husband Friday

I have resisted using him as a FEH for fear of the cliche (that and I have trouble spelling his last name) but in honor of him being named People Magazine's hottest bachelor I present to you this week's FEH Matthew McConaughey. And just what makes him so sexy in his opinion? Well, according to Askmen.com he had this to say:

He told Entertainment Weekly: "I like sexy people, and I think being yourself is sexy. Being myself and being as good a man as I can be is sexy.

Hmmm, the body of a god and the abs of steel really don't hurt either, now do they?

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