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Another John Bobbitt?
Well Pete...maybe you weren't wrong. With this recent jump in women hiring hit men to kill their husbands....maybe having them going back to lopping off one of our dangly limbs, is something they should go back to doing!— August 9, 2009 2:47 p.m.
Helping the Homeless
I'm always polite when I turn them down for money...but one homeless guy sitting outside the old Corvette Diner, threw a jar at my head. I was ready to go over and kick the crap out of him. Yeah, Pete, I've heard stories about people doing that, and they aren't really homeless. I hate when a driver will give the guy money, and the light turns green, and I'm stuck behind the two idiots as they're having a "thank you so much" type of conversation. But sattin, I'll tell you a similar story to your own. This guy Dan I played racquetball with, is one of those goof balls that bought a house cheap in Temecula, but worked in Poway and then complained about the drive! Anyway....he had a ritual of going to a McDonald's for breakfast in Temecula, and he said the homeless guy out front was very nice. He asked for money, and when you turned him down he just smiled and said, "Enjoy your weekend," or some such thing. No snide comments or anything. So he decides one day to give him a dollar. When he gets into McDonald's to pay for his breakfast, he realizes that he gave the guy a $10 bill, instead of a single. He still had enough to pay for his breakfast, but he was bummed. The line was long, and by the time he got his food...he's walking to his car. The homeless guy yells and runs over. He had two bags of oranges and he said, "I bought you a bag. The Farmers Market across the street had a really good deal, and you gave me enough money to buy some vegetables and fruits at a good price. So I bought you a bag of oranges to take home." My friend was so overwhelmed by this. And he also liked the fact that the guy didn't just go buy booze, but was really buying food that he could use.— August 9, 2009 2:43 p.m.
Movie Pet Peeves
MOVIE PET PEEVE UPDATE: I saw this the other day when Minority Report was on. Tom Cruise gets video up that shows his boss committing a murder that was pinned on someone else. Everyone at this dinner party sees the boss put on the mask (to kill the lady). And they all gasp and scream really loud. I hate that!!! I like it better in a movie like 6th Sense. They watch the video of the mom poisoning her daughter. And nobody else in the room says anything. You see some of them look at each other. You see the fathers face drop. And the same happens when he confronts his wife about keeping the girl sick. People are in the background, but they aren't screaming and carrying on.— August 9, 2009 2:35 p.m.
None
PP (pun intended)...that's disgusting. And the problem with that is...if you are trying to get revenge, you probably don't have access to their bathroom. Anyone ever hear the great Bill Cosby album "Revenge"? He has a great story about a kid that threw a snowball, hitting him right in the face. He saved a snowball, and waited until summer, when the kid would least expect it. He pretended to become best friends with this boy, even sharing a soda with him and NOT wiping the top of it before taking a sip. He ran into the house, opened the freezer.... Only to find his mom threw the thing away months earlier. So Cosby went outside and spit on the kid.— August 9, 2009 2:31 p.m.
Plant Singers, Big Cheese
I was absent the day they did the science of sounds in outer space. I have a friend that complains about things like this. When a sci-fi movie shows a space ship, and you hear it's jet engines fire up. Or, just the fact that there's fire at all, on some planet or asteroid. But, if you start breaking down science-fiction films...would you be able to enjoy a man flying with a red cape? Or an alien that heels people with his finger? That would be no fun.— August 9, 2009 2:28 p.m.
A Lively Senior Moment
irish...I like your idea for license renewel every year after age 70. That sounds good. And, I'd want the DMV to be REALLY strict with those drivers. If they are going 45 on the freeway, they should immediatley flunk the test. The argument that younger drivers cause more accidents is one of those bogus statistics. Of course it's true. But that's because you have enough teenage jackasses out there, doing crazy things in cars. And obviously, when I'm 70, I don't want to lose my license. Or if my wife turns 70, or anyone in my family, etc. But by the same token, if I turn that age (or any age), and start mistaken the gas for the brake, my license should be revoked immediately.— August 9, 2009 2:23 p.m.
X-Fest Takes a Rest?
And everyone knows that cases are settled all the time for that very reason. It's why so many people still aren't sure about whether Michael Jackson molested kids, and he settled for $20 million. $3,000 is a drop in the bucket. But Jay...I'll tell you this right now. Defending Ken is going to be a losing battle. I've had friends in bands, that told me the exact story, about how a quote got turned around and wasn't what they said. I had one friend start insisting he read back the quote he was going to use. That person once said "Uh...that's not what I said," and was able to correct him. But, had they not have him read it back, it would've went to print wrong. I've had bouncers at clubs tell me horror stories. I had a reliable source, at one of the biggest clubs in town, tell me about him going in and fishing for a story when ownership was changing, even making waitresses cry with talk about them possibly losing their jobs. I had a bar owner at another place in the north county, tell me he did a story saying his waitresses made something like a thousand dollars a night on tips, which was completely wrong. The list of things I've heard (from reliable sources) is endless. Obviously, if we write a story about a band and they don't like it, we hear from them. I did a cover story on Pyschotic Waltz, which had been featured on the Reader 25 years earlier or something. The piece was positive, but one idiot in the band hated it, and went on the warpath. But think about it. Why does it seem that 75% of the things Ken write about, end with people saying they were misquoted or that the story was wrong? It just makes no sense.— August 9, 2009 11:22 a.m.
Lindsay White
For Lindsay being a Dylan fan, she should've responded with "It ain't me babe...no, no, no, it ain't me babe." It is nice to see when some music writers get a quote wrong, they own up to it.— August 9, 2009 11:10 a.m.
Hiring a Hitman
That, was the epitome of "Freudian slip".— August 8, 2009 6:44 p.m.
Military/Flag News Stories (and yes, Michael Jackson)
I'm not sure if Deal is black or not, but his quote was that he was a "great African-American success story." Uh...yeah, not so sure about that one. and storyteller, just for a bit of clarification, he WAS NOT injured in the fire in his attempt to entertain me (or us). He was doing that while being paid millions to film a Pepsi commercial.— August 7, 2009 5:13 p.m.