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• 3.18.03, 7:39 pm - Eh, It's a Livin', Part II: Again, not that bad. I've started a second part-time job as the manager of board operators at WOI Radio in Ames. For those of you who know Dan (i.e. all of you), I'm taking over for him at the end of month. (No, Dan isn't leaving ISU, but he is leaving WOI.) I'm moving to an apartment in Ames next weekend. Many of you will be getting an e-mail with my new contact info. (If you want the info but don't get a message, e-mail me.)
So, Phase One of my evil plan to replace Dan with myself is nearly complete. Of course, it's kind of difficult to move on with that because I'm already in the middle of an evil plan to replace Sean.In other news, you may have noticed the About Me page now actually exists. The Links page is still coming, as well as a couple of other things moving around in my brain. (The doctor says those are the jelly beans I stuck up my nose when I was in 4th grade, but what does he know?)
<war rant>In other other news, you may have noticed we're almost at war. Yay!</war rant>
By the way, that was War Rant...not Warrant.
• 3.11.03, 3:36 pm - My Bombs are Bigger Than Your Balls... er, Bombs: The Pentagon has now detonated the largest "conventional" weapon ever. It's called MOAB, which is an acronym for some scientific sounding name, although the Defense Department affectionately refers to it as the "Mother of All Bombs." They say its main purpose is "psychological." Apparently they hope that by exploding the largest non-nuclear weapon ever in Florida (yes, Florida), they'll make Iraqi soldiers wet themselves with fear.Is it just me, or is there just the tiniest bit of irony in trying to coerce a country into getting rid of weapons of mass destruction it uses on its own people... by blowing up the biggest non-nuclear bomb ever made on our own soil?
And as if the U.S. hasn't brought enough adversity upon itself by picking fights with North Korea and Iraq (not to mention pissing off the rest of the world by picking a fight with the latter), Bushie has suddenly remembered that there was another country in the "Axis of Evil" that he talked about in last year's State of the Union address. The administration now says it's worried about Iran's nuclear program and that it may have to do something about it in the near future.
I told myself when I started this website that I wasn't going to make it a soapbox for anti-war protests, but this is really starting to bug me. I'll try to focus on other stuff from now on.
To that end, be on the lookout for some new pages coming soon.
• 3.9.03, 12:30 am - I'm a Celebrity, Get Me a Beer: With this dated entry as certification, I hereby make a prediction that within the next year, there will be a reality show wherein a gay guy will choose a mate from a pool of suitors. It might be The Gay Bachelor or Gay Millionaire or Are You Gay?, and it could be on any network (most likely cable or The WB, although I wouldn't count out ABC, Fox, or even NBC), but mark my words, it will happen.Not that there's anything wrong with that. My point is that reality television is out of control. By summer, 40% of primetime programming will be reality TV. Survivor 28, Big Brother 136, American Idol 92, Married by Fear Factor, The Surreal Millionaire, Are You a Celebrity?, Meet My Cops, Who Wants to Watch Me Brush My Teeth?, and Celebrity Will: Who Inherits Mr. Rogers' Fortune? will all be on the air by June.
It might not be so bad if the shows were actually any good, but now so many crappy ones are going on that are just badly produced. Surely, a show like The Bachelor would do a thorough background check on the guy they choose to be their star. In the newest installment, set to debut this month, the producers originally chose Adam Firestone, (yes, he's related to the founder of the Firestone tire company...great-grandson in fact). Certainly if you were going to choose someone like that, you'd want to know a lot about him. Everything was going according to plan until the producers asked Mr. Firestone if he wanted to be the next Bachelor, when they were promptly informed he was married with four children. How in the hell can you miss something like that when going through your selection process?
Undeterred, the creators just hopped one branch over on the Firestone family tree and recruited Adam Firestone's younger brother Andrew, who is apparently a social retard, because there's no way he shouldn't be attached to someone with those looks and as much money as he must certainly have.
Of course, no reality show will be as captivating or heart-pounding as the new offerings brewing over at CNN, Fox News Channel, and MSNBC. Each network is reportedly making plans to follow American troops as they proceed to invade an exotic Middle Eastern country. Survivor: Iraq (the working title of Fox News Channel's version) promises to have a shocking twist ending.
• 3.3.03, 10:31 pm - Eh, It's a Livin': Actually, it's not that bad. I started a part-time job with KCCI-TV today. It's in the engineering department. I'll be mostly responsible for dubbing tapes and running a studio camera during the 5,6, and 10pm news a few nights a week. Now I just need to look for another part-time job to bring in a little more income, and then an apartment. Until then, I'm living with my grandparents in Urbandale.Don't know much else... other than it's March now, which means spring can't be far away. I'm actually not complaining too much because this winter could have been worse.
And Happy Birthday to my sister Holly.
