Eponym taken from Greek

Over my vacation once again we, the collective, get into a discussion over something stupid. However it has me thinking... Have you ever cut your self and asked someone for a "Band-Aid"? If so you may be guilty for brain washing. Band-Aid is the Band-Aid brand name adhesive bandages. And you might think what's the big deal, but what if I do not have a Band-Aid I have Next-Care? Not a big deal I know what you mean and will get you what I have. This is really not the issue.

The problem I have is the constant branding of everything in our lives. Now, I like marketing and I will most likely be a Hippocratic in most of what I say, but like Private Joker "I think I was trying to suggest something about the duality of man, sir." It's a Carl Jung thing. Anyway, the shirt you wear, it's Ralph Lauren or Polo no longer the red one. The streets we drive on, is it Michigan, 421, MLK? Why? I guess in a way we Identify more with names then numbers, but that is not true 88 is NASCAR's favorite son, 99 is the circuits biggest cheater and no one like the 24 car. What it really boils down to is money and how much the people buy this crap. We are told through tradition and marketing what is acceptable. Just like it is fashionable to hate Jeff Gordon the 24 car, but we should clap every time Dale Jr. takes the lead. when did this happen. Or how about Terrell Owens and Chad Johnson, selfish and whiners, but when Bret Farve holds everybody on the line weather or not he is coming back we give him a pass. He has won only 1 ring and has had almost all of his records broken. Maybe Payton will fall under the same category. The difference is the marketing of each player, Favre has good PR because he is open to the media and played Monday Night Football the day his dad passed and Terrell Owens was doing sit-ups in his front yard wanting more money.

I remember my first stop still anime...

But theses guys go for the gold. Mine was in summer enrichment class and Craig Middle school and I used X-Men figures.Drunks Guys with a lot of time

Paid internet

I know that most everyone pays for their internet through a provider. I saw this on you tube and do not have any support that this video has any merit, but the idea is very scary you may have already watched End of Sex and Porn. Do not let the title fool you. Check out this website Net Neutrality

Shane B-Day weekend

A lot happened this weekend, Saturday was my friends Shane Birthday and
we had our trophy contest. The idea is each one of my friends builds,
on the cheap, a trophy and we compete in a poker tourney to win said
trophy. This time I was victorious against Troy with pocket 7's. Troy won his and mine well, has to rescheduled.

Sunday,
took my mother to the hospital right after we got to church. She is
fine, nothing was wrong she was having pressure on her heart and was
just a scare more then anything. I was also called to Arlington HS on
Sunday. The light system went down and I had to go before 6:00 because
they had aperformance that night.

It seemed I was looking forward to the work after this long weekend.


good times.

Watch this video from Break.com. This guy is nuts.
http://www.break.com/index/office-worker-goes-absolutely-insane.html

Top Ten Film Lists

I was on a friend’s blog and he had posted some of his all time favorite films, for that minute. His tastes change depending on mood, time of day, weather… I was going to post some ridiculous comment, but decided to ask myself why do people always ask what is your favorite film/ films? Is there some extrinsic value we place on these opinions, that we can derive if you’re educated or a date rapist? Or maybe we are so pretentious that we think Steven Segal films are less art then an Agnès Varda film. The point is we are, conditioned with these stereo types and they tell us Dogs Playing Poker is low brow and Michelangelo is fine art. I say screw that if Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure is your cup of tea then, “Party on dudes” and “Be excellent to each other”. I shouldn’t be ashamed that Eliminators is in my “top ten of all time”. I have my reasons why it should be there and that is all that matters, but when I tell people about this piece of American Cinema they laugh and ask what the hell that is. Of course, it could be the fact I call it American Cinema.

Birthday Party

May 30th was my birthday party and I hosted a small get together at my place. Overall I would say it was a success, with good drinks and good friends, some of which I had not seen for a year. However, there was a little drama on my 29th and I still have possession of the convented tourney trophy and like Carl E. I am still in the chase to the race! Later I will post some pics from the party. On a side note the rest of the weekend went well, in fact I went to the new Fogu De Chao restaurant and Fireside Brew House and both were spot-on.