Fuck Homeland Security

I went to the DMV today to get my Illinois drivers license.

My NY license, Lease, and social security card together did not give Illinois enough proof that I was who I said I was. I also had to have my high school fax them a transcript.

Now I'd think that the transcript would be to verify that I could indeed read and write and had gone through Drivers education.

no.

It was to prove my age.

The proof of age I had to present when I started kindergarten was mom saying "Yep, he's 5". Which is the same proof I had to offer when I first got my permit.

In a post 911 world security is too overrated. Having to call 1000 miles away to bother a person on their day off just to provide a second opinion on my age is just annoying. But apparently making it move difficult and annoying to move around our supposedly free country is keeping the terrorists from winning. Because the terrorists want to take away our freedom.

Finally

Last year a friend of mine suggested that I apply to join Mensa.

So I went and took the test. I was told results would be in within a month. I patiently waited the month. No answer.

Two weeks went by. No answer.

Another week. no answer

I call... turns out that while I was trying to decide where I wanted the results sent, I had filled out the paperwork with my street address and my mothers zip code. I gave the organization the correct information. I was assured that results would be sent to the correct address.

Two weeks, No Answer.

Another two weeks.. I forgot about it.

10 months later. I get an email asking me to renew my membership.

I guess I passed the test.

The joy of Brothers

I do not get along with my stepfather. I know most people who have step parents don't get along with them at first, but usually after the first 20 or so years things sort of even out. Not in my case. Part of the reason.. he's a rascist homophobic republican with a degree in agriculture. I date a black girl, know a few show tunes, vote independant (or democrat if I must) and have a degree in theater. Gee, I wonder where the conflict comes from.

So as stated in a previous posts I have begun a new career. Unfortunately it is not in my preferred career field, but it pays better and gives me the opportunity to sit in a truck and write bits between sales calls.

So I'm at New Employee training and talking to my mom. Who is obviously stifling laughter. When I ask her what's going on she tells me the following:

"Your little brother just went up to dave and Went: "You know how you're always saying Kris is worthless and will never amount to anything? Well now he's making twice as much as you do and he just started... and he's got benefits too.. hahahaha"

I love my little brother.

yay

just started working again for an actual company for the first time since last April. I've got benefits and eerything.. although they don't kick in for 2 months. but still, first day of work in a while. I guess pissing in that cup was worth it. although the New Employee Propaganda er.. orientation does seem a little much. Ah well. I guess I can deal with 3 days of medulla nullification as long as they don't ask for my soul.. or at least pay more than fair market value.

Grammys

I've gotten over my enjoyment of these awards ceremonies, Oscar, Tony, VMA etc. for the following reason: They are giving awards out to people who write crappy songs. Granted they've been doing this for a while, but you could usually experience at least one surprise, Doubly so the years Guns N Roses won: "I'd like to thank the fucking.. oh shit, i said fuck.." To paraphrase Slash.

It might just be a byproduct of the rise of the neo-con reich, or this year, it could just be a fear of a Janet Jackson like furor. But U2 winning a grammy for their worst album over Franz Ferdinand, Green Day (who finally put out an album I liked), or the Killers just reeks of medeocrity given flesh.

And the Janis tribute.. Who the hell was that honey voiced bitch that ruined bye bye baby? Does she have a career? Does she know her musical heritage, or is Janis just a hippy with a so-co bottle to her? Janis, Louie, Lady Day, These are singers who should never be covered by singers with a smooth voice filled with technical ability and devoid of emotion. Fortunately in this case the hoarse scream of a bald Melissa Etheridge came in to at least make the performance tolerable.

On a bright note for my commentary the Tsunami victim performance was good. A bit off at times.. but made all the better because of it. Ah well, Maybe next year our national musicians can put out more than three or four albums That I actually want to own.

Randomized musings of the eh.

So I can't smoke in my apartment, which I knew before I rented it and it makes sense. (The cold Air return in my apt. runs throughout all three apartments.) So I spend a fair bit of time outside thinking weird things in order to entertain myself. One of the items bouncing around my head is the following:
Is it just me, or do all of the anti-homosexual factions seem to focus on men? My theory on this, which seems to be backed up by half of my e-mail, is this: Everyone loves lesbians. Furthermore, since women make up 51% of the population 2% of the world population has to rely on leftovers or lesbianism to get laid, and there's nothing worse than having to eat somebodies left over meat loaf.

I hate IE

I need to learn to cut and paste my blgo entries using a normal word processing program because IE keeps eating posts. Such as todays, which included some lovely allusions to the superbowl, a description of a local bar and some lovely imagery of my girlfriends gastro-intestinal irregularities. Instead you get this short little post of me bitching.
Oh, and I start my New job on valentines day... So bitching about being unemployed has stopped.

Drunken encounters

So Serwah and I went out last night, as we don't really know anybody in town going out for us consists of us sitting around in a smoke filled bar making snide comments about the drunks around us and kkkk <
But I digress and return my thought process to what I was planning on talking about today. Which is the bar we were sitting in. We paid the $3 cover gladly as I am always happy to support local musicians, even if they are just another local bar blues cover band. However Once we had ordered our drinks I noticed the price difference between New York and Illinois. Namely 3 bucks a drink. So a 50% price increase for my normal drink. We headed to the downstairs bar area which was a bit quieter and less crowded than the upstairs (where the band was on a five minute break). It was quiet enough to hold a conversation in an inside voice instead of "LOUD DRUNK VOICE". At least it was when we got down there, After we were there for a couple minutes the Bartender put on an Allmans brothers DVD and proceeded to turn up the volume well beyond the normal background/jukebox level and into the realms of live band using volume to compensate for lack of talent. Fortunately it was the Allman Brothers band so the talent was there, but there is only so much Allman brothers I can take before either falling asleep or looking for a fight.

Then we were joined by an 40 ish blond Keanu Reeves circa Point Break lookalike. he was barely coherent but jovial and introduced us to his cousin and proceeded to ignore anything said to him, while carrying on both sides of his own internal monologue. It soon became apparent that he A: was Drunk, B: Was looking for a place to crash, and C: Was not at all subtle or bright. However he was entertaining and his cousin bought Serwah a drink just to be sociable. All in all a good evening.

predictions for SOTU address

Since GW gets the podium tonight for his annual address, here are my predictions:
Mention of God, his religion or portrayal of himself as a prphet fighting the evil muslims: 8
Mentions of basing US law on his religious beliefs: 4
Mentions of 911: 6
Further attempts to create an link between al-quaida and Irag in the minds of voters 4
Total use of the terms "Evil", "War on terror", and "democracy": 17
Number of times he couches the failures of his administration in terms of successes: 7
Amount of non-bs in speech 0%