I find TV Violence Relaxing...

[wednes]

As promised, I checked out Farmhouse last week. I was pleasantly surprised. The violence was not as intense or pervasive as standard torture porn fare. But it was grueling and suspenseful with a strong cast. Steven Weber as a bad guy. Yes, I like it. Like Martyrs, it has an intriguing premise that you won't understand until the very end. Stick with it, because it's a pretty good watch if you like the hard-R-for-violence stuff.

Got my biggest royalty check ever yesterday. This might be the year I achieve my dream of being a thousandaire. Maybe someday, my yearly income will be more than what Mitt Romney earns in 2 weeks. Man...that'd be something.
Speaking of Mittington of Romneyshire, have you been reading about all this shit he got up to as a punk born with a silver spoon in his whiny gob? Beating up a gay kid and cutting his hair? Screwing with a blind man? Gods, what a prick. I don't necessarily believe in electing the president I'd most want to have a beer with--but he can't be an out-of-touch sociopath who lies like the rest of us drink water (which is to say, whenever his mouth gets dry).

My relationship with my day-job continues to struggle. At the end of the month, they are cutting 28 hours of open-time a week. Instead of being open 9-9 M-F and 9-5 on Saturday, we're only going to be open 10-6 M-F. I also hear we will not be doing our usual streak of hiring in the fall. I imagine I'll stay around until the busy season, but it looks like another round of "Please do the work of several people for the same pay you're making now, with less flexible hours and less available support." As you might imagine, I'm not really a fan of that sort of thing. The job market is getting better though. People are slowly getting back on their feet. Let's hope the trend continues.

Comments

[groovesinorbit]

Congrats on the giant royalty check! That's fantastic.

And yeah, Willard's latest revelations have me steaming that people are still sticking up for him and will probably VOTE for him (including a lot of women). What an asshole.

[wednes]

I can't imagine how any poor or middle class person could look at Mitt and say "Yeah, that guy is gonna make my life better. He cares a LOT about people that aren't rich, white, and male."

[groovesinorbit]

Seriously. Everyone who votes for him has got to be a selfish prick, too, or just wicked stupid.

[opaqueplanet]

"Speaking of Mittington of Romneyshire, have you been reading about all this shit he got up to as a punk born with a silver spoon in his whiny gob?"
No! Do you have a link?

[wednes]

Here's a decent article covering one of the main incidents being talked about now. There's also a "funny" story about young Mittingsworth tricking a nearly blind professor into walking into a door to the snickering of a few classmates.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/mitt-romneys-prep-school-classmates-recall-pranks-but-also-troubling-incidents/2012/05/10/gIQA3WOKFU_story.html

[opaqueplanet]

holy shit. People like this exist outside of "Catcher in the Rye". Yuck.

[wednes]

My experience has been that roughly 70% of high school douchebags (both male and female) end up becoming decent people by adulthood. The other 30% refuse to take responsibility for past mistakes, and therefore have no incentive to adjust or amend their behavior in any way.

I know people like this--they reach their 30's or 40's with no close friends, pissed at everything, addicted to one escapist thing or another--blaming everybody else in the fucking world for their problems. Seems like the only way to be that kind of person and still succeed is to start out rich.