Sharpies

I'm in the process of packing up all my belongings so I can move to ... um... somewhere I guess. I stopped by Wal Mart yesterday to pick up some packing tape and markers. I used the self-checkout since it was open and had no line. The weird checkout computer came up with an error message which summoned the checkout helper and kept me from doing it all myself.

According to the nice lady, the system requires verification that the purchaser is over 18 in order to purchase Sharpies.

Is this a drug thing? Is there an epidemic of sniffers out there? The only other possibility I came up with is that there are tons of people marking up desks and things in schools.

Does anyone know anything about this?

I'm going to sniff all of these markers just so I can find out for myself.

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Idiocracy

Thanks to the folks at The Onion AV Club for announcing the release of Mike Judge's new film Idiocracy.

I've done just a bit of research on the history of this film. I must say I'm very intrigued to see it. Not just because Judge's previous film Office Space is one of the most dead-on chronicles of modern life ever to appear on film.

Keep in mind this film was supposedly finished two years ago, and it hasn't even been given a theatrical trailer or any advertising yet.

I see two strong possibilities here: Either this confirms my Brazil theory that any movie that accurately satirizes bureaucracy will be interpreted by the bureaucrats responsible for releasing it as a direct attack on them, or this is truly such a smoking turd of a movie that it couldn't get past the studio that brought us "Garfield: A Tale of Two Kitties" and "John Tucker Must Die."

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WOXY.com Puts in 2 Weeks Notice

Well the fun just doesn't stop.

I stopped by WOXY.com just a few minutes ago to hear some decent music for a change. Turns out the reaper seems to be at their door right now.

After a few years of webcast only operations, it seems that they couldn't find a way to make it work financially. I pretty much saw this coming a while back, but it still doesn't make me any happier.

Read more here at their website.

Give them a listen now while you still can.

The Contrarian Perspective

Over the past couple of years, I think it changed my perspective on the news to start every morning with different perspectives.

Every morning, I would wake up at 4:45am to the clackety-thunk of the CD changer on my alarm clock engaging. I would turn on the BBC news on the Dallas PBS affiliate and that would be the background noise while I got ready for work. I could tell it was time to get out the door when the news would end at 5:30 and "Sit and Be Fit" would come on, an incredibly depressing show where a smiley older woman would show you how to exercise when you can't stand up anymore.

After I drove to Kilgore, I would switch from the overnight Beethoven Network classical music feed to live broadcasting with my introduction from 6:00 to 6:01 when I would switch to about 3 minutes of live BBC radio news. Then I would print out the morning's AP headlines for me to read when the BBC reader would kick it back to me.

After 2 minutes of AP headlines, I would introduce the first piece of music, start it up, and try to stay awake until my next break.

I have a real distrust for the mainstream news. I'm particularly sensitive to it when I'm using my own voice to read news which I can't verify with my own eyes. Even if it wouldn't really change what I would read, I felt the need to use the internet to find different perspectives.

Disinformation at disinfo.com is one of the best sources of contrarian information I've found in the past few years.

An example of what I mean by contrarian: On Pearl Harbor Day last year, they had links to stories from writers who either theorized that FDR was behind Pearl Harbor or that he purposely left Hawaii open to attack to pull the US into the war.

The best thing about the people who put together Disinformation is they don't seem to take it all seriously. It is a great place to find out what the underground is saying about the news, and one link may flatly contradict the next.

Now if you really want to end up paranoid and confused, I recommend the Jeff Rense website at rense.com.
This is a great place to find out about what is going on with Chupacabra, bigfoot, aliens, strange unexplained diseases, global conspiracies, and other weirdness. After a few hours of sorting through this stuff, you may never believe anything ever again. Of course, if any of this nonsense turns out to be true someday, you can tell the people listening to you mumbling incoherently on the street that you knew about the truth behind cattle mutilations years before anyone else.

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