Messenger Puppet

At the quicky mart across the street:

Morton Tomato Sauce with Meat Loaf TV dinner. Think about it.

PI lawyer accident checklist at the gas pumps. Actually, a good marketing idea, since everybody who does this or this and walks away ends up in their parking lot to talk to the cops.

At Circle K – Michelob in aluminum bottles

Our new aluminum bottles gives consumers what they want — cool packaging to complement their image and style. This sleek and sophisticated bottle fills the need for beer drinkers in certain settings like upscale bars and clubs.

Rick Leininger,director, Michelob Brands, Anheuser-Busch, Inc.

STFU and give me a longneck glass bottle like Magnum PI drinks.

Stupidest Excalade ever. Sorry, no camera. This POS had a tinted windshield. Not the blue green tint from the factory, the 65-80% opacity black/grey window film. I couldn’t see the driver or out the back window, which you can do through the windshield of car with the rest of the windows tinted. I am in favor of people indulging their own stupidity, but jeebus! Our street lights are for shit out here to begin with and this fuckhead wants to make it less possible to see who or what is in front of him?

Either one might have your name on it…

Iraqi soldier dies of poison near Mosul

TIKRIT,Iraq, June 1 (Xinhuanet) — An Iraqi soldier died and 12 others werehospitalized after they ate poisonous watermelon near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, a statement said Wednesday.  “An unknown driver of a truck full of watermelon gave late Tuesday poisonous watermelon to Iraqi soldiers on several checkpoints spread along the road from north of Sharqat to Hamam al-Alil town, near the northern Iraq city of Mosul,” US-Iraqi liaison office in Tikrit said in the statement...

It’s hard to master words you never use. When you’re homeschooled, this would include words like *friend.*

Because you don’t have them.

This report The Swift Report: Home-Schooler Misspells ‘Friend’ in National Spelling Bee
has particular resonance for me. I got a “graduation” and “commencement” announcement for Buzzkill’s oldest. Apart from a couple years while in Califonia, he has been homeschooled from day one. A bunch of homeschoolers are getting together in a VFW hall in Diebold Ohio to celebrate their many years of exclusion from society. Good luck coping, now that the real world, with all its faults and temptations is calling.

Lack of societal skills/oversheltering is one thing. What pisses me off is the lack of ambition this kid left Jesus Memorial Pretend High School with. Parents are college grads, Skippy, the dad works for Emperor Gates. So, the family is not Cletus and Brandine. The kid is going to now try to get a job fixing computers to save money to *take classes* at Praise Jesus College of Faith Based Science. This is about the same path to success that his Aunt Milquetoast took, which is to say, dead end job and no degree, here I come.

Now, I am no stranger to an utter lack of a long range plan coming out of reality-based high school. I knew I was going to college and that money made the choice of college pretty clear. Obviously, a big public university, where I could be anonymous while I adjusted. I figured that between the beer and sexathons, I would find time to figure out what direction to point my life. But I at least knew that now was the time to go exploring, in a situation where I would not be overmatched or overwhelmed. .

I suppose it’s OK that this kid is going to get his feet wet gradually. Still, if he had been to reality school instead of virtual school, he could be hitting the ground running, instead of his long range plan being to mark time living with mom and dad until God gives me a career path and tells me to take a wife.