heres a new one by Giant Drag, which used to be a duo, but i guess annie was serious about kicking bro out.

anyways i dont like this video

in fact its the perfect example of the video being way worse than the song

even though they tried so hard

to be exactly like all the bad vids of the 80s.

and annie looks like shes trying to cop lauren rockets look.

i dont blamer.

but if i ever got captured behind enemy lines and they shoot me up with it
in hopes that i will give away state secrets

and after they beat me and fail at their mission

and as the blood continues to drip down my face
and my head pounds from over stimulation

i hope the ringing in my ears sounds like this

fine!

mary writes: my boss [at a small company where i can’t even check gmail at lunch] asked me to sign my contract by tomorrow morning. on Friday i hear back if i get a job at ABC. i don’t know whether to sign it so i have rent money fo shizzle or not sign it, leave and hope i get the ABC gig.

i dont know what to do because it’s just a matter of TWO days but i’ve pushed signing the contract as long as i could. thanks. ps i want you BADLY.

theres an old saying “a bird in the hand is better than two in the bush.”

however theres an older saying that goes, “if the bossman wont let you check your gmail then youre not working in the ideal workplace.”

so id tell your current boss this, “When I make a commitment to someone, I want that commitment to be rock solid. I want my boss to know that i am serious about the job for as long as we have agreed to work together. And I want to work in a place that really understands me, and a place where i can grow. Therefore I’d really like just a few more days to sign anything.”

I know your boss might feel like he’s given you enough time, but if you say “Monday you will get your answer, i promise.” then what can he do? cant fire you.

he could pout, but whatevs.

only if he literally cries are you in trouble.

so i say delay the process till you see if ABC is really interested. and if you like ABC better than where you are at, then jump ship.

one thing you should know about this world, only the bloggers are loyal. everyone else is out for themselves. other thing you should know: the world is crazy right now. you should look out for your best interests.

be honest. be a good person.

but most of all be good to yr self.

ps nice dirty feet

place was more packed than ive ever seen The Vista, and this was a monday night

now im as big of a Quentin fan as youre gonna find, i have kill bill 1 and 2 posters on my wall, and i went to Pulp Fiction with stacy goodner on the day it came out.

and i gotta say, i wasnt really feeling this one.

way too long. someone needs to edit my man. and i dont say that as someone with ADD

i used to have a teacher who said “the only thing better than a really good short story, is a really good long story.”

but some stories are fine being 2 hours. they could have easilly trimmed a half hour outta this bitch and really gotten the nitty gritty of the climax down.

instead it got lost in the haze of the tarantino stuff. whatever that stuff is.

i know im gonna sound like a Company Man, but the LAT review by Kenny Turan hits the nail on the head (or bashes the nazi with a baseball bat). when i left the film my date said whattya think and i said “reminds me of an underfed thoroughbred horse – great legs but a saggy middle.”

and sure enough thats what Turan said too: “Despite nods to notions like Jewish revenge and the power of cinema, the director has paid so much attention to the film’s peripherals he has neglected to provide a center worth embracing. You can raise B pictures to A picture status, as Tarantino has made a career out of doing, but giving them A picture value is not so easily done.”

with that said the acting is superb. especially Christoph Waltz, who plays The Jew Hunter, a villain so creepy and scary not by his actions but by his intellect. a subtlety that when Q is on target is what makes him shine.

but spaghetti western is what he wanted in this film, so thats what he got. C+

the dodger fans that we sat near were funny, knowledgeable and for the most part well behaved.

of course they booed anyone with a cubs hat or jersey, and only one of them whipped a balled up hot dog wrapper

but at the end of the night there were fireworks and they let us out in the outfield grass to roll around and enjoy it all

it was actually pretty amazing.

of course before i left, i cursed the left field bleachers with bees, and today it all came to fruition.

its an ongoing feature called Ask Tony

close yr eyes, think of a question, then think of a better one

and shove it in the lil box below.

man would i love driving this ice cream truck

one of my favorite summers was when i was in college and i was an ice cream man guy for Bimbos Ice Cream in buffalo grove, mundelion, and the north west suburbs of chicago.

but to drive around a huge city like LA would be a piece of cake because one of the problems about ice cream mandering in IL is you have to drive through endless amounts of cornfields to get to the towns where you have a permit.

here in LA you can drive around anywhere and you just have to make sure to look out for gangmembers, petty thieves, and mudslides.

i got hit up all the time back in the day for weed and coke and even baseball cards, but i kept it simple: just ice cream and popsickles.

yes id flirt at a hot mom once in a while, but i was lucky that summer and i had a nice young college girl to think about on my long drives home.

after id get all that ice cream truck stench + sweat from the 100 degree temps washed off, id drive out to park ridge and mess around with my lovely who was getting in her last hurrahs before getting hitched.

i saw her on facebook the other day and i sighed cuz she looked pretty much exactly the way i expected her to look, 76 years later, and i saw she had the last name of her bf at the time, so it looks like sowing her wild oats didnt ruin her future.

and in a way im glad she never tracked me down, or let on that she had found me.

but if you have baby that was one of the best summers ever. mostly due to you.

Birthdays today:

* Laura Crane has birthday today.
* Kimmy Richardson has birthday today.

Birthdays in the next week:

* Stacy Johnson turns 39 on Fri, Aug 21st.
* Sara Seinberg has a birthday on Fri, Aug 21st.
* Klara Nemravova has a birthday on Fri, Aug 21st.
* Bobby Solomon turns 27 on Fri, Aug 21st.
* Alicia Witt turns 91 on Fri, Aug 21st.
* Nick Denton has a birthday on Mon, Aug 24th.
* Angela DiOrio turns 35 on Wed, Aug 26th.

Birthdays in the next month:

* Mark Terrill has a birthday on Sat, Aug 29th.
* Jason Shellen has a birthday on Sun, Aug 30th.
* Themiya Meemaduma turns 22 on Mon, Aug 31st.
* Michael Schneider turns 36 on Mon, Aug 31st.
* Edward Padgett turns 56 on Wed, Sep 2nd.
* Jennifer Garnick has a birthday on Wed, Sep 2nd.
* Charles Hornberger turns 39 on Thu, Sep 3rd.
* Desiree Loranger has a birthday on Thu, Sep 3rd.
* Kyle Bunch has a birthday on Fri, Sep 4th.
* Michael Kross has a birthday on Fri, Sep 4th.
* Brian Gross turns 34 on Fri, Sep 4th.
* Trevor Thon turns 25 on Sat, Sep 5th.
* Joshua Bradley Minton turns 34 on Sat, Sep 5th.
* Brian Gasca turns 28 on Sat, Sep 5th.
* Anil Dash turns 34 on Sat, Sep 5th.
* Matthew Mills turns 25 on Sun, Sep 6th.
* Jason Sutter turns 33 on Mon, Sep 7th.
* Don Frances turns 38 on Mon, Sep 7th.
* Matthew Chokshi has a birthday on Mon, Sep 7th.
* Asher B. Garber turns 39 on Thu, Sep 10th.
* Adam Mossbridge turns 41 on Thu, Sep 10th.
* Kestrin Pantera has a birthday on Fri, Sep 11th.
* Robert Takata has a birthday on Fri, Sep 11th.
* Azalea Lee has a birthday on Fri, Sep 11th.
* Douglas Arellanes has a birthday on Sat, Sep 12th.
* Beth Shapiro turns 34 on Sat, Sep 12th.
* Johnny Woo has a birthday on Sat, Sep 12th.
* Jason Fiber turns 40 on Sun, Sep 13th.
* Ramie Becker has a birthday on Mon, Sep 14th.
* Mike Atherton turns 37 on Wed, Sep 16th.
* Krista Phillips turns 23 on Wed, Sep 16th.
* Mariann Brooklyn turns 51 on Thu, Sep 17th.
* Eric Ulken turns 32 on Thu, Sep 17th.
* Stephanie Hughes has a birthday on Fri, Sep 18th.
* Casey Duffy turns 23 on Sun, Sep 20th.
* Dave Summerfield has a birthday on Sun, Sep 20th.