I know that all of my readers (that’s right, all three of you) have been wondering where I’ve been and why no updates in months. Well coincidentally shortly after my Iron Man review work became incredibly busy to the point where I was regularly working 50+ hours a week leaving me tired and stressed regularly and therefore uncomfortable trying to write anything remotely creative.
So now that my project is pretty much wrapped up and a regular 40 hour work week seems like it’s par for the course again and my stress vanished quicker than the theatrical release of Postal (yes it was released in theaters, look it up if you don’t believe me), I can get back to doing what I love, writing. Now a few things of note have occurred in the months of Marvel Movie reviews and my absence due to work, but I have kept notes of things I want to touch on, most of which is stuff I’m sure no one even remembers. So I present you with…
New Old Stuff
Sharper Image Self Destructs
Like many people, I really detest Sharper Image. They regularly took mediocre-to-cruddy merchandise like a $40 CD player, put their name on it and then charged $250 for it, and then rich assholes would buy it thinking it’s top of the line shit. Now if they were just doing this to sucker rich people, that would’ve been fine, then I’d just be upset that I wasn’t in on the scam, but clearly they thought of themselves as legitimate. Another great example to this fact is that a few years ago an independent study was done on home air filters. This study found a few inexpensive, “no name” brand models to be incredibly effective, and that the Sharper Image ones were absolutely terrible. Sharper Image then sued the study group. Fortunately nothing actually came of it since they had no grounds, but the papers actually were drawn up and delivered.
Patrick Swayze Diagnosed With Pancreatic Cancer
Now I’m not a Swayze fan per say. His being in movies I’ve watched has been coincidental, but I’ve always found him to be entertaining. On top of that he has always seemed like an easy going and fun guy. A fun note is that the story was broke by the National Inquirer who had one hell of a scoop on their hands but instead of just reporting it as is, they over embellished/lied about it, further insuring that they will never have any credibility as a legitimate news source. For any one reading this who doesn’t know, the National Inquirer reported that he was diagnosed and projected with only 2 weeks to live. Several people close to Mr. Swayze, including his doctor, his agent, and his mother, immediately came to the media to say that it’s no where near that bad and that at this point the cancer is minor, was caught early and is responding well to treatment. In any case, at some point in the near future I will be toasting the man’s life with a double feature viewing of Steel Dawn/Red Dawn. Wolverines, indeed.
Anotherdarkhole.com Officially Laid to Rest
The site is completely down, stripped away to an error page. I’m partially interested to see if someone else picks up the domain name years down the line. On the plus side I still have all the articles and what not saved on my hard drive for reflection. It’s only in retrospect now I realize that in paying for the domain service I was technically a self published writer for a time. Thanks to Caleb, the Rubicon, SNM, Pimp, everyone who’s ever visited even by accident, and everyone who in any way influenced anything we did. My only regret was that we never got to do a Random Celebrity Random Showdown featuring the Wall from American Gladiators, which was included in our list of events for the sole purpose of making a joke about the original Siren, who was deaf.
Rick Flair Retires
When it comes to wrestling, he truly is The Man! Yes greats have come before and will yet keep coming, but no one, absolutely no one will match the legacy that is Rick Flair. And on a personal note, my introduction to him was through absolutely amazing feuds with one of my personal childhood favorites, Ricky “The Dragon” Steamboat. Wrestlers today can only hope that their best matches can be as good as Flair and Steamboat’s worst ones. Thank you, Space Mountain for giving 100% every time you stepped in that ring. Wooooooooooo!!!
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Sharper Image is on my death list. I've been following the entire sharper image ordeal for sometime now. The air purifier really destroyed them. However, when they filed for BK and voided all their gift cards, I became really ticked off. I work for a company that manages and tracks gift cards, and I've been following them on my blog. The word on the street is that they are going to keep the "sharper image" name around and sell their goods to best buy, target, etc. Estimated revenue is about $1B, If they are going to make that kind of money, I believe they should pay every gift card holder back. Chances are they are not. So, I'm starting a revolution. If you're a gift card holder and you want your money back. Find me and we'll talk. They are holding roughly $25m in gift cards, according to sources. Who knows?
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