Fact: I'm Having a Bad Day, Craigslist, Movie Preview

Today has been especially brutal. The countdown to the last day of work is at 3 days. I actually have and should be doing work to leave one of the projects I've been working on in somewhat reasonable shape. I'm not saying I'm unhappy about leaving, gotta make that paper right? But what irks me is that as I ride off into the sunset, I'll be leaving behind a project that never really got off the ground, partly because I couldn't justify finishing it at my current payscale and partly because the government might be the slowest most painful entity to have to deal with. Also in my wake will be a number of recommendations, including what type of personnel will be necessary to step into my shoes and complete this project. Short of saying "give me a promotion/raise" I really believe that it will take no less than 2 but no more than 3 people in varying roles/responsibilities to get this done, all being paid significantly more than what I'd been exploited into doing for the past 4 months. The bitch of it all is that as much as I'd like to leave the company high and dry on this absurdly important project with a deadline over a month past, I actually like the people I've worked for/with and couldn't bring myself to do that. When I think about what I've done and how much of a struggle it has been living on next to nothing with no benefits, I want to pack my shit up and storm out of here with both middle fingers in the air. Unfortunately, unlike TDX, I'm not one to make a scene when resigning/getting fired. I looked for this new job purely out of necessity, and somehow managed to get lucky with a livable salary/benefits and big firm experience/training to put on my resume. Sadly though, I've come to enjoy blogging, and although most of it is usually disjointed ramblings (much like this current diatribe) I enjoy writing it and don't really give a shit if you enjoy reading it, and I won't be able to do it once the almighty billable hour takes over my life. Anyway, Friday is my final day here, and apparently I've hurt people's feelings over not making a grand announcment that I will be leaving but you know what, I probably couldn't muster anything that wasn't overly sarcastic or offensive. I don't think I can say "I'd stay if I could" (Read: I'd stay if you fuckers paid me enough) any more than I already have and any potential offer they could have made was still way off from even making me slightly consider staying. I guess I'm a little bitter.

My sincerest apologies for that rant. Once I get going it's hard to stop. I started off today on my usual internet scan, metsblog, woot, espn, AoF and Upper Decker. Shockingly there was new content on AoF that wasn't my own. Kudos to TDX for at least pretending to give a shit. I then moved on to looking for a place to live on Craigslist. This bored me rather quickly so I racked my brain for ideas for AoF. I thought about a commentary on Craigslist and remembered that DGD and Ms. DGD had mentioned that the personals were funny/disgusting. So I figured that there would be some fodder for posting in there. Boy was I wrong. 90% of posts were spam, and the other 10% were some combination of silly, desperate, or depressing. Funny and disgusting they were not. Hell, I even perused "Casual Encounters" and came up empty. There we're talking 99% spam, and 1% old "swinger" types, that are probably spam as well. Who tries to lure people into giving out email addresses and what are they even doing with them? I considered venturing into the realm of investigative journalism, but that urge quickly passed. I think the funniest personal ad was titled "Fat Chick Looking for Fun in the Sack"-35. Oh yeah, 35 year old porkers, that's right up my Allie, I mean alley. What I did notice is that no one posting on Craigslist knows how to spell worth a damn and more gay guys post than anyone else. I highly doubt any of this is real or ever works. I'm pissed I wasted my time on a bad tip. Maybe you'll find some entertainment value in there, but I surely didn't. I tried to link Craigslist but I'm guessing you can figure it out. My work decided to block it.

What I finally settled on was merely alerting you to the fact that there a few movies in the works that I am looking forward to not having time to watch. For those of you who are fans of either Happy Madison productions - Grandma's Boy, keep an eye out for Strange Wilderness. Not only is Kevin Heffernan in it (Officer Rod Farva from Super Troopers) but throw in Steve Zahn, Justin Long, and Jonah Hill and you've got a pretty funny cast all around. I think the movie is about a failing nature show that in an effort to save itself from cancellation, decides to document their hunt for bigfoot. The 80's produced much more absurd plot lines and my guess is this cast will turn in a funny performance that will likely be ignored by the general public.

Also keep an eye out for Broken Lizard's (Super Troopers, Beerfest, Club Dread) next movie Slammin' Salmon, about a retired boxer trying to make a comeback. Michael Clarke Duncan plays the boxer, and Cobie Smulders does something - plays the hot girl/love interest is my guess. Personally I've enjoyed Broken Lizard's work, granted a biased opinion, and admittedly their movies are not for everyone. But I'm looking forward to seeing what they do next. (Before Super Troopers 2 or Potfest).

Lastly Kevin Smith is back at it again, and this one doesn't sound like it's going to be anything like Jersey Girl. (Sorry man, that movie was just plain bad.) The title of this one is "Zach and Miri Make a Porno" and it stars Seth Rogan (the cop from Superbad, the degenrate friend from 40 Yr Old Virgin, and the star of Knocked Up) and the blond bookstore girl from 40 Year Old Virgin - name escapes me so I'm going with descriptors (Elizabeth Banks - I broke down and looked it up in my search for pictures). C'mon it's a movie with porno in the title. And Jason Mewes (Jay) has a supporting role. This promises to be more like Clerks than Jersey Girl. My guess is that there will be some underlying love story with witty dialogue and provactive undertones.