Heather sent me this bad boy.

Freaking brilliant.

Tonight I was thinking about Empire Records; specifically about the blinds in Joe’s office. When closed they had a message in big, bold letters; “Work”. That got me thinking about Empire Records in general. I can’t believe the Internet hasn’t agreed on a specific day to be Rex Manning Day?

I’m a sucker for dogs acting like dogs and people and animals running into walls and windows. This has both.

This quote was both too good to pass up and too long for our random quotes section in the upper right. It’ll have to be now rare ’short’.

What’s great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca Cola, and you know that the President drinks Coca Cola, Liz Taylor drinks Coca Cola, and just think, you can drink Coca Cola, too. A coke is a coke and no amount of money can get you a better coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking. All the cokes are the same and all the cokes are good. Liz Taylor knows it, the President knows it, the bum knows it, and you know it.

- Andy Warhol

I had the following email exchange last night with a total stranger:

Heather Baswell: Merry Christmas Andy!!!!!!! What are you doing?

Me: Being decidedly not someone called Andy. You have the wrong email address.

Heather Baswell: Well are you hot?

Back in college Rob used to hold a weekly event during the old Wednesday night South Park / Man Show line up. Girls were welcome to stay for South Park but were made to leave during the closing credits because for those thirty minutes a week, at Rob’s house at least, pants were optional.

I was reminded of this by a text message Rachel sent me today

Sitting at McD’s playground, a mom just jumped up and ran into the structure, yelling at her son to “put his pants back on this instant.”

Along those same line, the good folks over at Improve Everywhere do an annual Subway No Pants. That’s the underground trains, not the sandwich shops…that’d be weird.

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Just some random news:

• I spoke with my friend Melanie last night.� She says she has lots of photos of the cactus incident that I’ve never seen.� She says she’ll make copies.� If she does I’ll post them here.� I also found a few more things from the story that I need to post – an email and a newspaper clipping.
• Here’s my new catchphrase: “Well, monkeys are pretty forgiving.”
• I’ve reunited with a long lost friend, S-h.� I’d forgotten how much fun she is.� Her new catch phrase is “Foods Papa.”

That’s it.

“It’s like accidentally shooting yourself in the foot; you just want to avoid doing it.� It’s like accidentally falling off a cliff.� It’s bad, real bad.� You don’t want to do it.” – S the Trainer.

I’ve changed jobs at work and this has required me to go back into training.� I’m still a team supervisor just for a diffrent client.� Training is always boring, always frustrating.� This time is no exception.

Here are some highlights:

• A was wearing a Bob Marley t-shirt today.� Someone saw her shirt and started talking about Mr. Marley.� A asked who Bob Marley was, not even realizing that she was wearing a t-shirt with him on it.
• Class started at 2:00.� C asked for a smoke break at 2:07.

I’m sure there will be more stupidity to come.