doz’s dementia

I went to see The Clone Wars on Friday, last time I make that mistake. The only reason this movie exists is make George Lucas more money and to sell a TV show so he can sale more toys.  It’s a movie aimed directly at children which is really sad because it insults the intelligence of children.

Let’s start at the beginning. The movie starts not with the familiar fanfare and scrolling text, nooo. It starts with a newsreel and a voice-over telling what happened.So already I have a bad feeling about this ( that line is also never in the movie.)

There are Snoopy Droids, the damned annoying battle droids. They’re supposed to be fighting machines but they are the most ineffective pieces of crap machinery ever and they’re supposed to be funny, but are just plain annoying.

We are introduced to Ahsoka Tano who is sent to be Anakin’s padawan.This young girl is supposed to be a padawan who I’m guessing has grown up in the Jedi temple. Aren’t they supposed to teach respect and protocol at the temple. She comes out of the boot with attitude and total disrespect for her Master. She’s sarcastic toward Anakin with inthe first two minutes of meeting him which earns her the nickname of “Snips” so of course she has to come up with a nickname for Anakin. She calls him “Sky Guy”. Seriously do you think if Luke had started calling Yoda  “Yo Yo Dude” that Yoda would have continued his training? Yoda would have bitch force-slapped the insolence out the presumptous little fucker.

Jabba calls his son “Punky Muffin”. The Frickin’ Hutt crime lord callls his son punky muffin in the prescence of outsiders…

Of course the Jedi and his padawan do no better in Naming the baby Hutt “Stinky”…

Ahsoka caliing R2-D2 Artooey… The first time I heard this I just thought I heard it wrong, but no, unfortunately I heard it right the first time.Why would you take The shortened form of R2-D2 and add an extra syllabel to come up with a girly annoying nickname? RS should have shocked her annoying Padawan ass.

Frank Oz doesn’t do Yoda’s voice, but the guy who does it did OK.Anakin, Obi-Wan, and Padmé’s voices were done by other people also.

Obi-Wan and Count Dooku have wooden beards better suited to tikis.

Look I know they’re just movies, but damn why not take the time to make something that a t least resembles the predecessors. The Prequels weren’t even this bad. George Lucas isn’t making movies for Star Wars fans he’s making movies for himself. If this had been the original Star Wars story  there would have never been a trilogy.

I’ve rambled too long I know But I was really hoping for something fun and a good story. I got neither. I won’t be watching the TV show either.

I promise.

I stayed home today because I wasn’t feeling well

Things went well at work last week. The Alabama papers and other papers in that group were pretty good so I made my quota. I really hope this continues because I really enjoy my job. Why wouldn’t you love this job I get paid  a good amount to skim through newspapers on the PC looking for keywords and checking little boxes, while sitting in an air-conditioned office, listening to music and podcasts.

It’s amazing what people want to know about. One of the orders we have is for pictures of accidents involving cranes,or window washer scaffolds and a few other things. Another one asks for accidents involving tractors, not tractor-trailers but farm tractors. Sure we have the orders for companies and celebrities and such but there are some weird ones out there.

I am moving to Alabama next week.

Well not in  real life but in my work life. I’m switching to reading Alabama papers starting next Monday. The Georgia papers haven’t been producing the hits per hour that I need in order to make quota. I talked to my my supervisor today and we both agreed a change might be good. She said I was doing well, that I was a good reader and that she didn’t want me to get frustrated and give up. This has the added bonus of  the Alabama papers only being 20 clips per hour instead of the 25 I was going to have to get to for my quota on the GA. papers.

Saw the Dark Knight on opening night. AWESOME movie. To bad they’ll never be able to make another Batman movie with The Joker as the nemesis again.

That is all. Goodnight Mrs. Logsdon wherever you may be.

Listening to podcasts is a big part of my life. I spend many hours a day listening to this free content and have actually had coversations with some of the podcasters. The awesome thing is that many of these podcasters are also authors and give the books they are writing or have written away as free podcasts. Hell some even give away a free PDF of the entire book!

Tee Morris from TeeMorris .com is doing exactly that with his next novel and so is Phillipa Ballentine from Chasingthebard.com . They are doing this to promote…Well I’ll let Tee explain that to you:

So If you could please help these two fine folks out, that would be awesome. You’ll like their books and podcasts.

I appreciate it and so will they.

It will be ending 7/20/08. You can still get it on iTunes.

Well here I am on the last day of a four day weekend feeling somewhat rested. On Friday I went out to eat with Sparky, Pam , and Deon. Sparky and I went to see Hellboy II: The Golden Army. The movie was good, but the notification from the 70 year old usher about the the theater next door getting a 3Ddigital projector was something I didn’t need to have shouted in my ear for ten minutes. I didn’t need to knmow that they had lost the projector or that they were leasing it for two years with an option to buy or that all the movies coming out in ‘09, 2009 that is ( like I didn’t know he meant 2009) were going to be in 3D digital. I can read this stuff in the papers if I wanted to. Don’t send this guy in anymore it’s damn annoying.

Another thing that was annoying is that it took 16 hours to get the iPod touch 2.0 update. Apple should have known knew how popular this stuff was going to be especially when they were releasing the iPhone 2.0 worldwide. It would have made more sense to release the 2.0 update a few days before. Next time use your head Mr. Jobs.

Mighty Muggs are so freakin’ AWESOME. Of course I’m getting the Star Wars line! I already have Chewbacca and Darth Vader. Don’t buy them from Amazon if you can help it because they charge 3 times what they cost in stores.

A friend of mine has been accused of 68 counts of rape and is currently in jail. No it’s not Sparky but it is someone I have known for a very long time. There aren’t a lot of details yet but, it just doesn’t make sense to me that he would ever even be suspected or accused of such a thing.

I remember vividly when we were school kids seeing him walking on the opposite of the street as we walked up to our grade school. We weren’t friends back then but I did know of him. My Mom helped tutor him in reading when we were in grade school.

I remember being in DeMolays with him and hanging out with him at different parties and things.  I remember how no matter where the hell we were didn’t matter if we were in Bumfuck Egypt there was always someone there that knew him. Always a big goofy grin and hilarious laugh.

I believe he is innocent and will continue to believe so. I just can’t believe he would do anything like this.

Ignorant Fucktard #1:The I.F. in the pickup truck who parked next to me in the parking garage last week. There was no damn reason to park that close to me. The fact that you had to get out on the other side of your truck might have been a clue that you were a bit to close. There are seven fucking levels and the top two levels have more than enough spaces so there was absolutely no reason to park with only an inch of space between us. Ignorant Fucktard.

Ignorant Fucktard #2:  (continuation of I.F. pt #1)The judge that denied termination of family rights for Deon’s DNA donors and said that they should be working to reunite the family. You Ignorant FUCKTARD! Shouldn’t you be more concernned with safety of the child than reuniting him with his fucking abusers?  Shouldn’t you be more concerned with making sure the child continues to be in a loving home where he has made more progress in 8 months than he ever did with his”family”?  Obviously to be a judge you never have to have been to OZ. Ignorant Fucktard to the nth degree.

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