I'll Make Your Head Ring...

So, I'm enjoying a nice, 70's soulesque Sunday morning brunch before I start excavating my place in search of floors and a kitchen table when I stumble upon a Baaaahflo News article entitled, "Surviving a layoff How to manage in unemployment and find a new job", which was written by a local reporter. Considering that I just survived this experience, I was curious. Typical networking and "getting your priorities straight advice" was offered but so was this gem:

For those who are unmarried, but have an employed, insured significant other: “Wedding bells should be ringing in your head at this particular moment,” Lewis Mandell said.

Mandell is a professor of finance at UB. Is he fucking kidding? Let me get this right, if you're dating someone and your source of benjamins runs out, you're supposed to enter a legal entanglement to stave off hunger and the bill collectors? What if you're single and don't have this option? Do you start working for an escort service instead? I'll bet if Mandell were asked to consider the escort service option, he'd probably give it some thought. If Mandell was quoted correctly, what an incredibly ignorant thing to say. I'd rather starve than be tied down for the wrong reasons.

"Freedom"

I saw this image a few days ago on channel 4's Web site. What's wrong with this picture? If it's meant to commemorate Memorial Day, the graphics person is either on crack or a jokester. Doesn't this look like somebody's under siege rather than free? Sieg Heil!

Speaking of...I hate Elizabeth Hasselhoff, yeah I know it's ...beck, but she's a Republican crotch who's nothing but a former reality star married to a football mook. I was never a fan of Rosie O'Donnell's but I'll take butch over bitch anyday. See the final showdown here...

My Walter Mitty Dream

If you know me well enough, I'm a nerdy librarian who enjoys intellectual property issues. I wish I could figure out how to get down with an IP oriented career without a lot of extra schooling as I'm over obtaining way too much education for very little in return. I'm really good at busting misuse of copyright and trademark. Maybe I could be an IP criminal clearinghouse. I could cuff and stuff places around here big time but if I'm not getting paid in full, why bother playing Pepper from Police Woman?


Anyway, as the Sabres grapple for the Stanley Cup, the infringers come out of the woodwork as evidenced by this Baaaahflo News story. Sabres gear started selling like mad when the sloppy pizza eaters figured out that Da Bills were worth jackshit back in November. The linked article offers clues so you don't buy a forgery. Here's my favorite, "Another tip-off is spelling. The league has confiscated more than a few Sabres items labeled “Sabers.”" Ha-ha! These Bud Light swilling losers and street thugs trying to make a buck can actually sell misspelled items? PT Barnum's adage of a "sucker is born every minute" is entirely too true.

I'm nursing a cold so I'll watch the Sabres prolly soil the bed. I don't have a good feeling about this series.

Garden of Eden Lock-down

There's nothing better when TV parlance comes to real life. Case in point, yesterday's five hour search for a despondent Iraq War veteran with a gun in Eden, NY. It started around noon when the man's sister called police to report that her brother was armed and sounded as if he might kill himself. About 60 police officers from three agencies began looking for him. At around 1:30 school officials were notified of the situation. Rather than move the children, the media and school authorities notified parents that they should pick up their kids. Of course, the rumor mill kicked in and false reports of the distressed man being in the building started. A school official was quoted in the paper as saying, "We have a building full of kids with cell phones,”. Okay, rewind, what's wrong with that sentence? Those little brats were allowed to get their chat on? I thought the media and the school were doing the notifying. Nothing like letting the kids run the show! I left work yesterday afternoon and heard the "lock-down" term being bandied about as it always is in these situations. I always thought schools were prisons where you suffered through the bullshit of forced socialization. I couldn't wait to get out. I never thought the prison lexicon would be so commonplace--especially in light of Virginia Tech.