< Spew It Forward!: 01.07


Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Humpdayalooza

"The great challenge which faces us is to assure that, in our society of big-ness, we do not strangle the voice of creativity, that the rules of the game do not come to overshadow its purpose, that the grand orchestration of society leaves ample room for the man who marches to the music of another drummer."

-Hubert H. Humphrey {1911-1978 US Vice President}
Tuesday, January 16, 2007
Snow, again. Trump spews, again.

1. I hate snow. This has been the longest six inches has ever stuck around my home. Last Wednesday it snowed, a lot and six inches in three hours and then, this morning it snowed about three more inches just in time for the morning commute. I fell - twice. The bus slid around - twice. I gave up and came home and promptly napped. Sure, it can be pretty, but it's awful when it happens, we're a hilly area, many slopes, many hills, many roads closed. Ugh.

2. Donald Trump is a sad, pathetic, screeching and hysterical wannabe man. Give the bitch a Midol suppository, asap!

3. Time magazine naming "You" as person of the year was an awesome tribute to our cyber power, what little there is and then I saw some elitists media types scoffing at the very idea, there were more far important people and issues, apparently more important than "YOU" in their eyes. Need they forget, those elitist media types, that at any time, during any minute of any particular day that "they" are "me's", "him's", "her's" and a couple of "hey you's" and yes they too are "YOU's".



The first night of big snow, the next day, twilight a few days later and today, shoot me. :)

[I'm in the midst of a move and still working a lot, I'll be back...]

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Wednesday, January 03, 2007
Full Moon Spew

This is just a tip but if you're going to steal a cell phone from a kid at my local Park n' Ride, don't.

Some dude attempted this tonight, right as I was getting off my bus to await my next bus. It was all very exciting. I didn't see it happen, what I saw was the local police tossing some dude in the back of a squad car and then I turned to see if my bus was coming when I heard a muffled pop, pop, pop and um...pop. The cops were tazing the shit out of the dude and he still managed to get out of the car at which time 3 cops tackled the phone theif to the ground and tazed his sorry ass 4 more times. About 7 cop cars in all arrived to catch a theif, a theif that wanted to make a call, that, I assume, he never made. One thing is for sure, he will get one phone call later.

Full moons bring out the best in everyone. One of the cafe employee's didn't show for work this morning causing a massive chain reaction of pissed off bosses, pissed off employee's who had to cover for the offenders ass. My boss didn't even confront the little shit when he did arrive. On the other hand, after I was assaulted by a very pissed off customer for having to wait for her precious f'n mocha while the late employed continued his trend of lateness after his lunch, I ran behind the counter to take orders sot that the barista could make the drinks (all this during my lunch break which I was already 1/2 hour into)argh....dudes, I sell books, not Latte's, it was not good. I took the offending barista into the cafe office and asked him where, for the love of God, was his love for his job???

I listened to a massive line of bullshit and said straight up that I don't play games, when you fuck up...you let everyone down and then I made him read the note left by the pissed off customer and said "that's the last customer you'll ever piss off on my watch, if your going to work here, find some love for your job dude, or leave." He stared at the ground and promised never to mess up again and can I just say...I dig when air gets blown up my ass...no, really.

As the kid left when his shift was over, I walked up to him shook his hand, empathized with his school/work/family drama issues and said "find the love, dude. I'll see you tomorrow at what time?"

"7 a.m., I promise" he said.

Another blast of air in me bungholio.

And finally a note to those returning books after the holiday. Do note that we know how old the book is, bestsellers from 1985 just won't make the grade, or say Katherine Hepburn's autobiography in hardcover "but it's brand NEW!"...sure it was new when it came out 1991, perhaps the customer overslept, fuck if I know but that book stank of garage sale find "It's looks new, I'll return it for cash...without a receipt...yeah, that's the ticket!" Assholes. Three people tried this today, it was insane. Stop, please. Thanks.

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