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And of course, I got four copies of this, one to each of my different email addresses

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The early ’70’s leitmotif of the vehicular mayhem subgenre of action drive-in flicks are Motown muscle cars reflecting anti-social behavior at the hands of maniacs. Of course the vehicles in question are phallic and powerful extensions of man, automotive swords cutting a swath through backwoods America.

Full review of “Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry” (1974) is here.

I’m sure you all thought of my riduculous MCI encounters when you read about WorldCom, right? Well, hey, they sent me my calling card earlier this week. Despite all my attempts to make them go away.

An article of mine has been published in LineZine. Check it out here.

Boombox museuem here.

I heart the Internet.

I posted my ChemLawn experience on a local community bulletin board, and asked for recommendations for other providers in the area. So far I’ve received three messages telling me to go organic, to plant fruit trees and rip up my lawn, etc. Despite having been doing the online thing for 14 years, I actually forgot about that Internet thing:

Q: I need help with X
A: Why are you doing X? You should be doing Y.

Whether it’s about photography, movie watching, relationships, hardware, software, or lawn care, there’s always folks online who feel this is their best contribution to your life.

They are talking about the Southwest seat occupancy deal on the morning news show now, and the host referred to “people of size.”

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New word: blogeur
Definition: someone who knows enough to setup a blog account on blogger.com but couldn’t figure out radio userland or movable type or whatever to save their life. Their blogs are amusing and sometimes interesting, but they won’t ever end up as guest bloggers on boingboing (say), or be interviewed by someone from the press, or be asked to hang out at a blogger f2f. They probably still use old terms like f2f.
Note: not to be confused with blogby.

Full-disclosure: I am a blogeur.

Beware Trugreen/Chemlawn
I’ve had them doing a regular lawn treatment for a while. However, once in a while I’ll get a call confirming some scheduled appointment and ensuring the timing is okay. It turns out this is an upsell, but they are very sneaky about revealing this is an extra charge service. I finally complained to the BBB, and to the California dept of consumer affairs (or something). The BBB, a toothless organization if ever there was one, merely forwarded me a printout of the Chemlawn email – that said they don’t do this, they practice good sales, and they’ll take me off their list of calls.

So, today, I get a call wanting to make sure that tomorrow is okay for a specific treatment. We discuss watering and mowing or not mowing before or after. I have no problem with tomorrow (why should I?) and agree. Then they call back and confirm that tomorrow they’ll be coming for a cost of $89. Ahem?

The ridiculously evil sales tactics continue, and they didn’t take me off their list. I am pretty unhappy about this. I’m looking for another provider right now.

I don’t know why this amused me, but it did: on the plane to Tokyo about two weeks ago I saw a guy with a book entitled “Japanese for missionaries.”

From the clothing and nametags that he and his group wore, the fact that they were missionaries was obvious, but there’s just something Mad Magazine-esque about the book title.

If you live in the US, you can find the demographic profile of your neighborhood here. I live near Upper Crusters! And people who are likely to shop at Ann Taylor and watch NYPD Blue.

Now I know how to open up the awkward dialog when my neighbor’s dog craps on my lawn again.

Pinochle.
Pinochet.
Pinochle!
Pinochet!
Pinochle!
Pinochet!

Lotta steam in the press recently about Southwest Airlines and their policy towards passengers who require a second seat. Their response is here. I like the first paragraph which attempts to clear up any mistakes in the press, and uses a “lot” of “quotations” in the “text” – it’s very funny if you read it in a quotey voice in your head. And of course, anything legalese and bureaucratic such as airline policies is always worth a laugh. I also like their repeated use of the word “checkin.”

Looks like some sea lion got on the tarmac at SFO.

I returned from Tokyo to find that my credit card company had phoned me (“urgently”) here at my house to verify my perhaps fraudulent usage in Tokyo. Well, if the usage was valid, then I wouldn’t be at my home, would I? So they suspended my service. Anyone got a suggestion for a decent credit card company?