Bleedin' SHAME!

It seems that my original Podcast that I posted here some 21-or-so days ago that was hosted on MegaUpload.com has *EXPIRED* and was deleted form their servers. And of course I didn't save a copy to my hard drive 'cu I thought it would be there at MegaUpload.com FOREVER. Unfortunately, it seems that I uploaded it without signing in so it was an Annonymous Upload and was deleted after 21 days of inactivity.

HOWEVER! here SHALL be a new and improved Podcast with a permanent location and even an RSS feed-thingee so you can add it to your iTunes or whatever type junk and download it automatically! Won't that be keen?

Regarding The Fantastic Four Movie

I read over and over again very negative "Advance Reviews" of the new Fantastic Four movie. How The Fantastic Four deserves better. How this film is downright INSULTING because it's so bad. How it just doesn't live up to The Grandeur of the comic.

But most of these negative reviewers who think so highly of The Fantastic Four have obviously never *read* an issue of The Fantastic Four, because as a rule The Fantastic Four was pretty much crap. It's been on the verge of cancellation more times than I care to even think about, getting sales numbers sometimes lower than comics such as Wonder Man and/or Peter Porker, The Spectacular Spider-Ham.

Re-reading al the older issues (thank Gawd for The Essentials collections!) you can see that despite it having en a revolutionary new turn in comic-format storytelling, The Fantastic Four was little more than a poorly written re-hash of a Soap Opera mixed with a B-Movie of the 60's. The tradition of The Fantastic Four is to have overly melodramatic posturing combined with contrived plot devices and semi-technical mumbo-jumbo.

Not that this is a BAD thing; the melodramatic sci-fi mumbo-jumbo is EXACTLY why I adore The Fantastic Four! I love that it's campy without trying to BE campy. It's SUPPOSED to be Plan Nine From Outer Space!

So really, I'm not sure what these reviewers were expecting from a film that's based on out-of-date sci-fi concepts and old plotlines from episode of Doctor Killdare; that's EXACTLY what we're getting, only on THE BIG SCREEN! And I think that's prety darned cool!

Bad Night

4 hours of non-stop, back-to-back ANGRY, HUMORLESS customers. Usually I get a break here or there with somebody who will chuckle at something I say or at the very least calm down and realize what an ass they're being... but tonight, no such luck.

On my last call before lunch, I couldn't hold back any more and unleashed my Powers of Sarcasm on a customer.

First of all, this guy TOTALY deserved it. Every third word out of his mouth was a Two-Dollar Swear-Word, and the other two-thirds of his words were littered with the two-bit garden variety swears (Damn, Hell, Bitch and anything else you can hear in yoru average Family-themed Sit-Com). And he was one of those guys who directed every curse at *ME*, personally, instead of at The Company.

And his issue? He can't turn up the volume on his TV. HE KEEPS GOING ON AND ON FOR 20 MINUTES ABOUT HIS DAMNED VOLUME AS IF I HAD PERSONALLY BROKEN IN TO HIS HOUSE AND STUCK MY GENETALIA IN THE TURKEY AT THANKSGIVING DINNER?!?!?!

He deserved both barrels of my sawed-off Sarcasm.

So we finally come to a slight break in his 20-minute rant (Which had gotten more and more abusive as the call went on) that went a little something like this:

"I f#@king pay you S#!theads a lot of money for this piece-of-S#!T MOTHER F#@KER, I want it F#@KING fixed, F#@KING NOW! I AM PISSED OFF!!!"

I put on my most sypathetic tone and started agreeign with him. "Of course, sir I completely understand that you are indeed concerned... you've been cursing at me for nearly half an hour now. And I understand that this is an extremely urgent situation; you can't hear your TV at quite the volume level that you would like to! And sometimes our lives degrade to a point where Television is the most important thing, right? It's obviously VERY important to you, sir... you've been reacting to the low volume during a Pauley Shore movie as if it were someone threatening to kill your loved ones! Let me send a technician out right away to turn up the volume for you, sir... it's the least I can do".

And yes, I *actually* said all that. Plus some other stuff I can't quite remember. I was in The Zone!

ANd now I have to go and log-in to the phones again :(

Eats & Walkies

Today I ate: Roasted Chicken Leg/Thigh combo, some corn and some stuffing. An Italian Chicken Salad Low-Carb Wrap (pretty damn good even if I do say so myself). And when I get home? Who knows.

Walking today was cut short by the amount of rage I was feeling; only walked for 20 minutes. 2,453 steps according to my cheap-ass Pedometer. I wonder if I can find something that will convert "steps" in to real distance for me?

**edit** MATH HURTS! Since there's 5280 feet in a mile, and my average step is right around 2 feet, I'm gonna estimate that there are 2,640 steps in a mile for me. Does that sound about right? If so, it sounds like I walked nearly a MILE during my lunch! WOOT!