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QUOTE OF THE WEEK (OR SO)
"Everybody needs my nose, but no one knows my needs!" --Robyn Hitchcock

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Hi, I'm Phil, and this is my crappy website. I still haven't quite decided exactly what kind of website this is going to be, but for now I think I'll make it a sort of weblog-rant type thingy. Just so you know, I hardly remember anything about HTML so this site is going to suck.

I suppose I should tell a little bit about myself. I'm 27, and I live in San Diego with my girlfriend, Julie. Until last month, I worked at Sears, but I got fired for reasons that are too stupid to believe: the store manager (who never liked me) found some of the cartoons I had drawn in my book, said he found them "offensive", and I was fired the next day. He wouldn't even give me my drawings back! When I get a scanner, I'll post some of my other drawings on this site. Anyway, collecting unemployment is great. I get to sit on my ass and make stupid websites!

Currently, I am trying to sell my car, a '99 Pontiac Sunfire, since my girlfriend and I are planning to move to the east coast (we currently live in San Diego) so I can be famous. I placed ads in both The San Diego Reader and Auto Trader but I didn't get even one phone call. So, on Memorial Day, before driving down to Pacific Beach, I put these two signs up in my car's rear windows:

I happened to get a really good parking spot, between the ocean and P.B. Bar & Grill. It must have worked, because when I got home that night there was a message on my answering machine, a chick interested in the car. Hopefully she will buy it. It's amazing that a handwritten sign written on the back of a package from a $3 pool float got more reaction than $60 in classified ads!

Today I was finishing up cleaning the inside of my car, and I found change under the seat. $2.66!! Woo hoo! I'm rich!

Recently,  all  both of the people who look at this website asked to me add some pictures, so for now I've made a Temporary Picture Page.

You know what sucks about being unemployed? Having friends who still work. A few hours ago I found out about the Odd Art Show tonight in Hollywood. Oderus Urungus from GWAR was going to be there showing off some art, plus a few bands playing including Green Jell� (they did the "Three Little Pigs" song and video in the 90's), who I didn't even know was still together. Oh yeah, and it's free! Unfortunately, I wasn't able to find anyone who could go on such short notice, since everyone either has to work, has finals, or is sick. I didn't want to drive to L.A. by myself, so I'm stuck here.
On the other hand, I did see something funny a little while ago. I was waiting to pay for a bottle of water at Savon Drugs, and the old lady in front of me was writing a check, but she was unsure of the month, day, year, and the store she was shopping at. Someone left a door unlocked at the home!

Last night I went to a WCWA Wrestling show. These guys put on a pretty good show. They had some interesting gimmicks, such as "Paco & Chuey, The Drunken Luchadores", who come out with a bottle of tequila, and will blow a whistle while pouring it down fans' throats. Anyone who's been to bars in Tijuana will know what that's all about.
I had my own fans there, a group of guys who liked all the stuff I was yelling at the wrestlers. They took some pics, and I'll post them when they email me.

Spike Lee is a frigging moron. He is suing Viacom over the deicsion to change the network TNN's name to Spike TV. According to court documents, [The Smoking Gun] Spike apparently believes that when ever anyone hears the name "Spike", they instantly think of him. I'm thinking he's either broke or has a new movie coming out, and he needs some free publicity. It's only a matter of time before another famous Spike gets a similar idea. In fact, don't be surprised if you see this article in the newspaper in the next few weeks:

THE ARK (AP) - This afternoon, backed by his lawyer, Mr. Optimus Prime, Spike Witwicky announced his intention to sue Viacom Entertainment. "TNN's proposed name change to 'Spike TV' is a direct attempt to capatalize on the name of Spike Witwicky, famous for being one of the first humans to befriend the Autobots when we first came from Cybertron" said Mr. Prime. "Everyone knows Spike. I don't know one person who hears the name and does not instantly thinkof the matching yellow boots and hard hat" said Witwicky's close friend, Mr. Bumble Bee. A spokesman for Viacom, a Mr. Megatron, feels that the case is easily winnable for his side, and was quoted as saying "It's over, Prime!"

Looking for the story about the jar of Eddie Vedder's water I tried to sell on Ebay, and all the crap that happened that week? I moved that stuff to it's own page: The Legend of the Eddie Vedder Surf Water --Phil, 8/4/03

One of these days I will update this page again.

I'm going to do a major revamp of this site in a week or so, but right now I have to write about something disgusting I saw today. I was at the In & Out Burger in Carmel Mountain, and I saw this fat chick wearing a pair of the shorts I usually see on cheerleaders: the workout type with something written across the butt. This girl's said "cutie" but it was obviously false advertising. Her ass was bigger than mine and she had more cottage cheese than [enter good analogy here]. If I wasn't with my girlfriend I would have gone up to her and asked "Where did you get those shorts?", and when she answered me, follow up with "I ask because I didn't know they made them in my size!"

Today was supposed to be my unemployment hearing, since Sears appealed the decision to pay me unemployment. I was nervous about it, even though I knew I had a pretty good chance of winning. Well, I was nervous for nothing. Sears didn't even show up! Not my old manager, not their lawyers, nothing! What a bunch of dumbasses! Not only that, it looks like they lied on a document to the court. They claimed that [actual quote] "the only person with first hand knowlege of the termination is on vacation until the 18th" and that no one else had first hand knowlege. This is complete bullshit. The manager of the store, Rick Rico, who both found the "offensive drawings" (see first entry) and fired me, is not on vacation. He has been there all week, and he was off today. My old department manager, however, is on vacation, but he had second-hand knowlege at the most. If this is who they were referring to, I am interested in knowing how they claim that the person who performed the firing does not have first hand knowlege of it. If that's the case, then I guess I don't have first hand knowlege either! I'm interested in knowing what any of you think about this!

I'm doing my part to help out during this blackout:

eBay item 2340906245 - Blackout 2003 Bottled Water

I've been f@#$ed by Sears yet again! Check this out. Last night I was at the Sears that I used to work at for "Friends & Family Night". As always, they had a drawing for a prize, this time a Home Theater System. The store manager, Hector "Rick" Rico, pulled out one name, said something to the person standing next to him, then put it in his other hand and drew out a second name, which he awarded the prize to. I had a feeling it was my name that was drawn out originally, and an employee standing behind Rico confirmed this for me. When I confronted him about it, he said he was told I was being rude earlier in the night, and that's the reason he didn't give me the prize. He then told me to leave the store.

Well, that makes no sense. If I supposedly was being rude or whatever, why wasn't I asked to leave the store earlier? Why did no one say anything to me? I wouldn't have even known about this, or been asked to leave, if I hadn't confronted the manager about the drawing in the first place. Not unlike most things that include my run-ins with Rick Rico, this doesn't make a damn bit of sense. I've lodged a complaint with Sears corporate office, and hopefully I won't have to go to court to get my home theater system.

If you agree with me that this guy is an idiot for this, let him know!

Rick Rico, Store General Manager
Sears #1758
210 E. Via Rancho Pkwy.
Escondido, CA 92025
(760)737-5200

The store information is public knowlege, availible at sears.com and other websites.

I called Sears National Customer Relations about the above incident, and now I am waiting to hear back from the district manager. The person I spoke with on the phone today told me that Rico now claims the contest was only open to current associates, which is complete bullsh*t. As far as anyone knew, the contest was open to anyone there for "Friends & Family Night". There was even another manager taking and reviewing the entries for this "scavenger hunt" (you had to find the answers to questions throughout the store). If this was for associates only, no one filled him in about this. Apparently Rick Rico himself also forgot about this detail when he was telling me the reasons he drew another name.
This is all such crap! I hope he loses his job over this.

Julie and I have moved to Auburn, Alabama, where she is from. We're going to stay here for a little bit while we save up money and figure out where to move next (my vote is Vancouver, of course!). The trip out here was pretty fun. We visited the UFO Museum in Roswell, NM, which I'd been wanting to see for a while. We also visited a stupid roadside attraction somewhere in Arizona called "The Thing". I'll put pictures up soon (and by soon, I mean probably never).
You know, I really thought I had more to write here, but I can't really think of it right now. Who knows, maybe I'll actually do another update soon.

I found out today that Sears is attempting to reopen my unemployment hearing, even though they didn't even care enough to show up the last time. So now on Oct 2nd I have to call in to the hearing. The first thing they're going to decide is whether or not Sears had a good reason for not showing up the first time, which of course they don't. (Look up a few entries for that story.) This is just getting ridiculous! If they don't want be to get unemployment so bad, why did they fire me?

Today was supposed to be the day for Sears' 2nd attempt at appealing my unemployment decision. Since I'm in Alabama, I was instructed to call in. Once again, I was ready with all my evidence, and once again NO ONE FROM SEARS FRIGGING SHOWED UP! This is getting beyond stupid. I am now convinced they are doing this on purpose, trying to cause me to go insane. Little do they know I'm already there. Hmm...any lawyers out there know if I can sue them for mental anguish?

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