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News/Rants Page "Live at the moment, the present. Use what you learned of the past. The best of the past. Who cares about the future. Live now." - me
3/07/2008: "Jobless" since January 25th. Still am. Picky about what job. It should be a career and it has to pay the huge bill load. Maybe HVAC but the pay initially is bad and some days will be 12 hours. Fast food is a no-no. I laugh at the financially-irresponsible people who told me, get a fast food job for now. No. It’s degrading to a good resume. The pay rate, I’m better off staying home. I might try this work at home marketing thing. It’s not for everyone though. The income could be substantial in 2-4 years and I will build my way to purchasing my dream home out west in 5-6 years and putting my son through a good school district NOT in Ohio. 1/21/2008: "Martin Luther King Day". This blog may piss people off but get off your politicial correct (PC) horse. What a waste this holiday is, it's been 40 years and this day still exists so our lazy government can have a day off but the people that matter have to work. I love the white people - namely democrats because, oh my god, democrats are for blacks! - jump on the bandwagon and support this day. I am NOT against him so put your stupid "you're racist" argument away. I do have credits to talk them. They leave their poor excuse for neighborhoods - which should be destroyed by fire or bomb because these rape and crime pits have no hope for revival - and come into quiet 75% white, 25% black subdivisions, spray-paint stuff and destroy property. There's good black people out there, from CEO's from the ones that mind their own business to ones that just work, come home and feed the wife and kids. I hope the holiday celebrates the good ones rather than the ones like in Linden that are doing shit that is in the Metro section of the paper everyday. 1/17/08: Saw my friend from college. Well, I wouldn't call it college. It was 9 months and it didn't land me an enjoyable radio gig that pays for life. He into the same stuff I am, writing and recording stuff. I and he both are doing it for free but someday someone will hear us and/or we'll get traffic for advertising which many people are cashing in on. Some making it and not having to have withdrawals for taxes. Federal taxes feeding a failure of a war and Medicare and social security which will be sopped up with the 1946-1964 born crowd and illegal immigrants of which the losers should be denied of and denied of respect. I hope to collaborate with him and do some shows like we did at OCB. We made shows not for recognition but for the love of it. 1/11/2008: "Junk Mail and Road Fever"Junk mail. I'm going to shut down my 5 year old yahoo account, clinton984, early. Now that 80% of my important stuff is moved to my new address. I just got to transfer my important saved emails, like Sarah and I conversing February 5, 2006. Mostly all the stuff that comes to my address now is junk, even with spam settings turned on and everything that goes to bulk is automatically deleted, I still get junk about 12 inch penises (who cares), work at home (I'll be looking for something like that in a few years but I want legit crap), time shares (what the hell is that), life insurance (I'm 23, have enough bills, and don't care), and other crap. This fucking idiots and losers peeled my address over the years. Never again. Spam and junk mailers should be imprisoned. They're clogging up cyberspace - a word that fucking sucks but I am using it for now - and they are possibly a security problem. Fake emails trying to get your info, I am not dumb enough to fall for it but I hope my family and friends are the same way. I've grown tired of the ID too. I imagine people trying to decipher the 984. Is it 1984 without the '1' or is it September 1984. It sucks and I have a email address now with just my first name and no numbers because some fucking jackass too clinton1 through clinton999. Book wise, I finished reading, Road Trip, by Tim Cahill. It's good, not great. A brief book that is 278 pages but manages to cram the trip into the last 170 pages. The first 100 pages are stuff leading up to the Guinness Book trip from the tip of South America to the top of Alaska in just under 24 days in a then, brand new 1987 GMC Sierra. The first 100 pages are skip-worthy or read fast. Two pages are of the United States, the biggest country in it, and only one highway is mentioned, US 77. The last half of the trip is put into thirty pages. Seeming like he wrote 240 pages and then got anxious and wanted to finish up the book quick. In comparison, Neil Peart's book I just read Landscape & Drums is 120 pages longer and smaller text and seems more complete. I just would've hoped Mexico through Alaska would've been covered better. I recommend it to read but don't pay too much for it. In the winter, it could be a 2-4 day read and is brief. 1/08/2008: "Fresh Air Rules. Centrail Air Sucks" Now, onto fresh air. The temp reached 68 degrees yesterday, so I opened the windows. You wouldn't believe how fresh it got inside the house. It actually smelled like it did when we toured the house January 3 and moved in February 23-4 before our smelly asses and furniture moved in. It was a lovely smell and I miss it back in the days when our house wasn't over cramped with shit people gave us. I also shut the central air furnace completely down because it sucks and I hate it, so it could only mean one thing. Central heat is not healthy. You may say change your filter asshole. I did. I know for fact (from the office where it's always running) and home, central heating sucks. The house is made up of "manufactured" air and air that could get you sick and you're heating a 13 foot cathedral ceiling wasting money. I vow next time, no central air. Baseboard heating for heat and window units for AC. That way you could shut off rooms you're not using. Central air is waste of money. Not efficient, especially not the Bryant piece of shit I have. Not blowing hard enough (because it has to come out 8-10 vents. It just sucks and I vow, "never again". 1/04/2008: "Wretched Excess" My mom taught me that word. It means “overdone”. That’s what the local TV media is and that’s why I read the newspaper instead watch TV news. It’s alright but if you watch it every night. Well, I hear it from the other room as I am reading Neil Peart’s book at 11pm. How many times does Chris Bradley (who is wretched excess at weather) need to do the forecast? “It’s just 11 in Newark . Bundle up. Wow, -2 wind chill” or something of that nature. Mike Davis doesn’t tend to drag like Chris does. They make too big a deal of the weather but the other two channels NBC 4 and ABC 6 are probably just as nutty as 10TV at weather, maybe more. Jim Gynael, great weather guy, does the weather and doesn’t come off as wretched excess and is a little smarter at it. Now, that’s one thing. Here’s another. The OSU-LSU BCS (too many initials for you?) game this Monday. Guess what? The sports guys are there at least a week in advance. Guess what? The FUCKING anchors are going to be down there too. Overdone much? There are complaints about the prices of flights down there and god forbid you have 16 hours to drive there. How do they get there? It’s wacky tobacki, which by the way, my fully bearded hero David Letterman came back from a break because of the strike, used that word last night and said it was the first time he used the word “tobacki”. Love Dave, one of my childhood and even now, heroes. My parents and different-network-but-same-town as Letterman, Conan O’Brien. Back to the sports. Not only are they down there but they’re probably going to have several specials, especially game night. Do they ever run out of stuff? By 6pm Monday, the only place to go would be through their colon into their body with a camera. A Lewis Black reference but yes, it’s overdone. It’s a game. How much are you going to analyze a game before it happens. Part of it, you can blame the assholes who put this game 6 days after bowl games should end, New Years Day, still some 40 days after the regular season ends. Rust much over time? OSU has 51 days off between the beat down of Meatchicken and this game. Fifty-fucking-one days of coverage. I think I’m going to run to Utah until the 8th, well maybe the 9th, to avoid the still drunk assholes. I pity those who have to drink too much. Don’t get me wrong, I’m for drinking but do you need to pound 15 light and watery beers. What I do is drink real fast, something non-light save for Miller Lite which surprisingly packs alcohol and when I get buzzed I slow down and eventually after 5 max, I stop. I don’t know how I drank 11 beers a few years back, which broke my record of 10. Seems nutty. 12/27/2007: "Myspace sucks." Now onto Myspace, it's annoying as hell. Maybe because I'm not popular and I don't give a shit, all I need is my sons attention but nearly 100% of the messages and comments I get on here are chains, advertisement, spam, and crap from bitch-ass girls wanting me to visit their shitty webcam site. How boring is it to watch a girl rub herself when you don't get any at home. So who cares. I'm only here to meet people from my schools anymore and family members from the girls' giant family's, whom I love and always have a good time. Myspace stinks, not a "place for people" but a place for predators, rednecks, the girl's screwed up past, and advertisers of SHITTY websites. Go away. 11/18/2007: "Reasons of poor health and IT part 4 of 4 again" My health has been tired and I have been neglecting some of the house projects and I think some of it comes from depression. Work is at fault. How healthy is it to get up at 7:20 (which is probably later than most but...) go to an office, breathe air that is manufactured and contains dust, and sit on your ass all day. It's tiring to sit around all day rather than some people who can drive to sites or can take off early or people who do labor work (which I now prefer if it werent for the extreme cold and hot weather here during Al Gore's global warming period that started in 1993 hehe). Stuff at home influences it too, I don't have it easy. My boy is easy and advancing at a double rate but everything else is not easy. The "construction assistant" job is getting old and tired too, I want to be site superintendent soon. IT is in 1998. What boring times in music. The first 3 years in the 1990s were great. 1993 was beginning a slide and 1997-8 is mostly forgettable. The 2000s start tommorrow, I except a handful of good songs a year and that's it. 11/11/2007: "IT part 3 of 4 and Post-Caffeine Addiction XM's IT is in September 1986 and the music of couse is sailing through a good period. I wish I was in my 20s then instead of now and anticipate this coming out instead of the fucking shit 1995 and ahead. Well there is some good stuff but most is UTTER trash. In 1986, pop was great, country was great, jazz was great, R&B was declining by had good times. The 90s start on Wednesday at 6AM (?). I'm looking forward to the first 4 years maybe 5 then 1995 starts a shitty era of music. You can blame Jive Records and the grunge music rip-offs. My health, which bottomed out on Tuesday after I stopped my caffeine addiction, is getting slightly better, I guess. Still have headaches every now and then and will find out if I'm tired as hell at work tomorrow. 8-5s are killing me and once I get google advertising down, I'm done with office work in 5 years. A construction site superintendent job is not a bad idea either but I have alot of learning.... 11/07/2007: "IT (part 2 of 4) and DETOX" We're in September 1979 and funk and disco has saved music. Piss on disco all you want, it's better than the same old classic rock and folky-like and oldies-wannabe soft crap that 1970-74. Theres more than 10 disco songs out there. Funk and R&B improved pop too. I started seeing this bits and pieces in 1975 and moreso in '76 and 1976 was the best year in music since the late 60s. Dance reaching the pop charts improved the pop into the fabulous 80s and new wave. Rock was on its way down in the 80s. Pop is coming back. IT is getting solidly good again and there is 15-20 more days of IT, literally. It's awesome, if you don't know what it is go to xmradio.com/it. 24/7 for 35 days for 80 years of music ('20-'50 are brief) to give you an idea how much they play. I had a bad bout of depression yesterday that is somehow completely gone today. It's like a roller coaster, comes full blast, goes away completely. Some things are contributing to it, like the sudden blast of cold after having all those hot days. Too sudden. Gas heat is not cheap (CUT THE CRAP ABOUT IT BEING MORE EFFICIENT THAN ELECTRIC). Gas is over $3 a gallon and the president does not give a crap because he is an oil employee. I lack a west vacation or a vacation more than a long weekend for a while. Well, the mass consumption of alcohol and coffee has probably added to it, so I'm quitting both for at least a few days, beer until at least Friday. Haven't had any since Saturday or Sunday and today is Wednesday. I'm going through a detox stage. 11/02/2007: "Halloween, IT (first part of many)" Halloween I dressed up as a woman. I had a wig of 12 inches of black hair. Red lipstick was applied and I had Sarah's tight womans clothes. The pants weren't short at all, which is bad news that I might've quit growing in height (hope not). It was fun, my interest in Halloween was restored after I lost it attempting to trick or treat at 18. I was "too old" and not dressed enough for the arrogant assholes of uppity fuck northern Arlington . Miss the Sandover house but not the neighborhood at all. Now about IT. "IT" is an annual thing of XM playing all the pop hits of all time, well at least the 1920's through now. I goes 24/7, commercial free of course, for 35 days to give you an idea how much they play. A typical FM station has 250-500 songs. The 60s by itself had about 2800-3000 songs. The 40s are good, nothing stands out at all but nothing is terrible. More like background music. 1956-57 start getting good. Elvis, The Coasters, Buddy Holly, etc. 1959 gets really good with stuff like "Mack The Knife" and "The Big Hurt" (psychedlic music rips off this song with the effects). 1960-3 are great. 1963-1966 are the best years of music ever, nearly every song is excellent. 1967 declines thanks to noisy and drugged out music. 1968 and 69 are still good, more mature than 1967. We're 2 years into the 70's and mostly it's boring. 70s was an R&B decade until disco rescued pop in 1976. Pop music went down for a few years to boringness, the late 70s dig it out for good stuff but that's for another blog when we get to that portion of IT. I love the argument "you pay for radio". Well, you pay 4 times as much for cable TV, dickhead. Besides there is ALWAYS something to listen to, not so with TV. Plus, XM are not money hungry like the Disney/ABC (fuck you), and VIACOM's (double fuck you) coorpations that your cable bill is paying for. Music is greater than TV or movies anyday. Morning, noon, night, sober, drunk, stoned, eating, reading, driving, and whatever. 10/15/2007: "Ego’s, Not Buying Music, What Would I Do With More Income" Dad brought Mom's new 08 Accord to work. It's a matter of time before he gets chastised or burned about it. The giant egos of some of the uppers here (not on my end of the hallway but the other end) will think, why the hell is he driving a $27000 sensible car. Oh my god, if it isnt a $70000 car or a $600/month lease or a German car! Well, it works, it won't be in the shop (like some of the cars in our parking lot have), you don't drive a giant ego when you drive it. It's sensible, powerful (new 268HP engine), simple controls. The most exciting Accord in it's class since the 1993 and the one a couple generations before us that had a Buick back end. I'm not going to buy music from 1963, when it's most likely the artist is dead or wastes his money on drugs. If they're dead, I'm not going to support their talentless families or their mooching spouses. Oldies are meant to be downloaded. Actually, download today's music. These fuckers and their record labels are living the rich life while you are just getting by. I tell Sarah this, don't support today's artists. They really don't deserve more money. They'll get their money from dumbass 15 year old girls from Upper Arlington High School . Brats across the river. If I were to make a extra $1-3k a month. Assuming no taxes and there is ways to work and not have the dickheads in DC take your money and give it to Iraq and big oil. Here's what'd I do: 1 Put more money towards the car, pay if off in half the time. I'm stuck in a too-lengthy loan. 2 Likewise with the mortgage. It won't get paid off but I'll be better when I move in a few years. 3 Add a 3rd vacation for the year. 4 Have more fun. What is that? Bars, ballgames, Italian restaurants, driving in the country more often than yearly. I'm having fun with the idea. If I did have a second income. Well, I'm tying to get the girl to work weekends and evenings, since my boy has been enjoyable and more calmer by the day, I can watch him and the good thing is it distracts me from annoying house projects. Stuff between the three of us has been pleasant the last three days. I take my son for a ride and trip to Wal-Mart and/or Home Depot and give her quiet time. She would pay off her accumulated stuff though with the earning. $9 times 25 hours = 225 a week? Not sure. Go to Vegas, play cards, come home with a couple extra grand? Maybe. Enter the Illinois State Lottery and win 108,000,000? Sounds cool. I probably wouldn't quit work. I need something to do but getting up at 7:20 AM would be for the birds. Buy a lodge in sweet southern Ohio and buy a house in Bozeman , Montana . Avoid Ohio in summer like the plague, summer here freaking sucks anymore. I'm not sure if I'm getting old or is it just freaking dry, yet more humid. 10/01/2007: "Accomplished Until There Is More" I am doing good. Sporting a huge haircut, 2 bit, probably took 90% of everything. Shortest it's been since it was bald October 6-7ish, 2005 down in east Ohio . The one in 2005 was a bald head fit in with the highly professional sales job, which required ties and such. I cleaned the basement some more. It no longer looks like a lint bomb went off behind the dryer (that mess came with the house). It's ready for paint. A piece of exercise equipment in the basement needs to go/sell. The grass should be growing soon, it's fucking mild in the morning and hot in the afternoon again, at least it's not over 70 in the morning anymore. Grass as in lawn, not the gooey green you poke smotters (scrambled the letters because kids read this for Christ's sake and my son will be reading this bullshit in 4-5-6 years). I also got a new computer. The power cable failed again (damn Dell and their cheap components and overly hot working stuff) and I decided not to spend another $50 on a new power cable and bump up my plans of getting a new laptop for end of year, now. So I replaced the hot old brick with a new one, just the minimum, not a lot of cash. Just a mp3 machine mostly, 103GB HD, 1024 RAM, CD/DVD Double Layer burner, widescreen (shorter but wider than the old), Windows VISTA, Pentium Dual-Core 1.46GHZ. I am not a computer geek so I'll stop there. Just a mp3 and net machine. I'll test out the goodness of the video card later when I try Microsoft Train Simulator. The Best Buy guy said nay to that game working but he was probably just trying to get me to buy a more expensive machine. I witnessed two other Compaq Presario C700's being sold along with mine. They were sold out when I left BB at 6PM, I think. I got a letter from my higher up buddy in Greenville , Ohio ; a place dumber than fuck so much a 10 year old kid set a fire that killed his mother and destroyed the right half of the duplex. I am not pointing fingers but my buddy is describing the town for you readers and his family, read on…. tank you for your thyme to right me i think we are a ok comunity we even have eh fire and plice deparment we have parcs and greenspace only and we have a spedway gas staciong, we are served by 3 grate hiways, usa 127/36 and ohia 49 121 571 and whatever damb hiway goes thruu are streetz we have a wallymart which is so cool laura is gettin her tooths fixed thx for asking Gerald is in 5th grade at alimentary scool. During evnings we like 2 sit on da porch & drink budd lites and budwizers until da planet is dry of dem cathy or cat we call her cuz her hair looks like r cats is doin ok she is down to only 3 paks a day of marbs dark county is makin us renew are plates plice wont let us drive with expired tags what do dey think were rich? Da home is alright, one of the concete vlocks is missing so the kitchen is low when the dog pises the pee goes under da refridgerator, ill clean it up when fred dies or we move up the food chain the the to that new trailer park off 49 my christler seabring is chuggin the engine that was sittin in da front yeard was put n it lauras dodge dakoder is ok it tilts like mad she spills her beer wile drivin and droped a cigarette on her legs her spider veins look like they have hair lol well that is all u should know from now igotta go my 8 yer old wants 2 smoke wit me 9/27/2007: "Errands" I am ok. Got the garage painted on Sunday. That's a messy, hot, 4 hour consuming thing I'm done with. Seeking more cash. I can pay bills in full but I'm frightened as hell going to Wal-Mart these days and a credit card that is 4 digits often. I barely get anything to eat (OMG crackers)! Moreniche for the most part is a failure but I'm going to try one more method with it this weekend. I got to work on my personal website too. All this text/blogs and noones reading it. Real work at home jobs take time to setup but that won't be until west. It's 8PM now, the season premier of My Name Is Earl is on but shit must get done. Arguing with people who charge my credit card, paying the astronomical credit card bill, mortgage, all this and my bank merged with another bank so the numbers change. The dishwasher is done, I burnt old bills (so you can't read my shit if you happen to dig thru landfills lookin for good shit), renewed library books that were due tomorrow. Saved 5 miles of travel doing it online. Somewhat accomplished. 9/18/2007: "Doin' Alrightt" Seeking to get a portable gps navigation system. It HAS to be under $250, give you route options (sometimes I like to take the parallel US highway rather than the interstate), touch screen, and power adaptor. tomtom and megallan both look good. Amazing that they are affordable. I also need Home Improvement season 7, which is dirt cheap used already. Doing ok, need a few days off to sleep in and tackle two big projects in the house. A third is wrapping up, I need a lot of dirt and I'M NOT GOING TO PAY FOR DIRT. WORSE THAN PAYING FOR FUCKING WATER. Work is alright. I wish everyone was like my kid, all smilie at my presence. A couple people at my office can fucking chill. Don't nick and pick at the dumbest small shit. 8/22/2007: "Decent Day and Football (stop talking about it)" I'm decent today despite being woken by another strong overnight storm. The second in 3 days. Nice but make it happen at 10 or 11PM, not 4 or 5AM while my sleep schedule is screwed up by my exercise program and mattress that has gone way firm. Getting alot done at work, noone to yell at me yet. Wonder if I will because I made the coffee at the kitchen double strong and I saw people whispering (dunno what about). Actually, it was a hit. It was gone by an hour. Not sure of the moody CFO would like it though. I think he is the one who makes the first pot and makes it very weak, like water with black food coloring. Good day so far. Second, STOP talking about football, it's not time yet. Season does not start for 2 weeks. Can we hold off. Noone talks about baseball during spring training or up to the 2 weeks before season starts but yet we hear about football all fucking year. I like it, mostly college (NFL is a clusterfuck and the Bengals and Steelers are both mediocre) but baseball is my favorite and is America's sport. Also the lack of baseball on network tv like, NBC, fox and shitBS, is just disgusting. Golf and tennis and PRE-SEASON football (christ!) but no freaking baseball. Ughh. Com'on, give baseball some love! 8/19/2007: "Fifteen reasons why men have 2 dogs and not 2 wives:" I heard this on Bob Connors on 610 WTVN. I don't know where he found this but here we go: 1. The later you are, the more excited your dogs are to see you. 2. Dogs don't notice if you call them by another dog's name. 3. Dogs like it if you leave a lot of things on the floor. 4. A dog's parents never visit. 5. Dogs agree that you have to raise your voice to get your point across. 6. Dogs like to do their snooping outside rather than in your wallet or desk. 7. You never have to wait for a dog; they're ready to go 24 hours a day. 8. Dogs find you amusing when you're drunk. 9. Dogs like to go hunting and fishing. 10. A dog will not wake you up at night to ask, 'If I died,would you get another dog?' 11. If a dog has babies, you can put an ad in the paper and give them away. 12. A dog will let you put a studded collar on it without calling you a pervert. 13. If a dog smells another dog on you, they don't get mad.They just think it's interesting. 14. Dogs like to ride in the back of a pickup truck. And last, but not least: 15. If a dog leaves, it won't take half of your stuff. 8/15/2007: "Text message (oh wait, "TXT msg")" There apparently is a bill to make text messaging illegal while driving. First of all, if you are text message while driving a vehicle, you should have a swarm of ticks rubbed against your face. You are a extreme danger to society, even moreso than people who make calls on the piece of shits. Second, can we COMPLETELY ban text messaging? It's annoying and (thanks to the freakin rate structures of cell plans - that noone can understand) costs. It's also leading a generation of people who obvious had a pebble hit their brain in the hospital during their birth. They can't fucking spell. Now it's bleeding their ways to t.v. commericals and newspapers, who are typically read by people who have better reading comprehension than my fucking generation and the worse generation below. I'm 22 and I can't tolerate this shit. Why don't you call somebody instead of sending a half assed body of text that noone above the intelligence of Al Gore can read. Or email, at least you have a keyboard in the perfect Qwerty style. Oh, the misspellings are seeping their way to email too. Stop this shit: "u", "r", "ur". Also, use fucking periods. You remind me too much of that shithead family that my gf used to married in. BAN "TXT MSG" NOW! 7/23/2007: "Today sucks" 1. I have a dispute with the mortage company. No word as of update. 2. Two people have 207 dollars worth of disputes with me on Paypal. None are my fault but with no proof, I'll probably lose. I might retain the $70 one as of this afternoon. 3. Still don't have my federal tax check. It's in a lengthy process. 4. $15000 in medical bills still in dispute. 5. West vacation is being disputed. Why don't I just sit in the office for 52 fucking weeks a year. I vow to get out there. 6. Girl is nagging me about my laptop. Use the Wii internet or get a hobby. 7. I got no help with expenses. I'm paying for everything, a house which I was sucked into, a van which I was sucked into. I can't support 3 people with 22k for much longer. Help me. 8. My workplace wants me to lock in for the long haul, send me to education classes. They're paying but it's just too much to think about. They cutting my internet down too because they think I spend too much time on it and personal calls. If it werent' for 1, 2, and 4, I wouldn't have to do personal calls. This day could be absolutely shitty but it's not good either. 7/20/2007: "Columbus radio - a short look (as of post date; to be filed in the upcoming radio section of my site) 88.7 WUFM - Christian Alternative - A fresh sounding station in town. Anything from pop to hard rock to rap with lyrics friendly to the ears of God. I'm catholic, so anything with a positive lyric is a plus. 89.7 - WOSU - classical - I don't listen. Not my thing. 90.5 - WCBE - public radio/NPR/PRI - Diverse music and good programs like Car Talk (Saturday 10AM), Whad Ya Know? (Saturday 11AM), and the down to earth A Prairie Home Companion (Saturday 6PM/Sunday 10AM). 91.5 - ? - AC, mostly 80s - This is what Sunny 95 should be. Mostly 80s with a dash of 70s and 90s and I heard a 1965 Beatles song in there. No currents like Kelly Clarkson, Daniel Powter, and that crap so soccer Moms can be hip. This is the AC station for the "rest of us". No commericals, probably a not for profit but for fun project by Rob Case, the owner of the frequency. 92.3 - WCOL - new country - New country is not my thing, which is most of this station. I prefer the 90s and before 95.5 WHOK. Good air-talent, good at what they do. 93.3 - WLZT - AC/classic hits - Clear Channel stole this former country station from Chilicothe, not fair to them down there and made a station that plays 60s-80s and a small playlist at that. Chuck Gillespie should be a good air talent but I hope this station would change to oldies and give Columbus a real oldies station for the first time in years. 94.7 - WSNY - AC - Columbus' "Lite Rock" station since the early 80s, Sunny 95, was ok until the late 90s but they continue to play currents and the currents have been declining big time in the last decade. Play more 80s and 90s and avoid the crap like Nickelback and Kelly Clarkson. Soccer Mom's trying to be "hip" with Nickelback. Don't need to hear "Bad Day" anymore. 95.5 - WHOK - older country - Plays country from the 60s to the 90s, which is mostly good country (I dig 1980-1996 the most) but is vague but then again, this is FM. 96.3 - WLVQ - Rock - Columbus' rock station since 1977, they play new and old rock but miss alot of new rock and miss alot of classic rock. What's the point. Do you have your playlist size capped at 500? Joe Show is a terrible DJ, not a voice for rock. Put him on Sunny 95. 97.1 - WBNS - Hot AC - The worst station in town. Their high tech studios are cool (been there) but their sound quality reflects the sound of a $10 discman. Put your high tech studios to work and enhance the sound. Now, the music is even worse. You play "80s/90s/Now" but 90% of your songs are "Now". Play too much Kelly Clarkson. PLEASE bring my childhood staton, Oldies B97, back! 97.9 - WNCI - Top 40 - They're good at what they do. They overplay less and have more songs than stations of their type. They could be as shitty as Kiss 107 Cincinnati and Kiss 94.5 in Dayton but they're quite decent at what they do. I don't listen, not my thing. I like about 4 songs off the top 40 charts at any given time. 98.9 - WXMG - R&B/classic soul - Good at it's format but should add funk and funky disco and cover more of R&B. 99.7 - WBZX - Active/New Rock - Great air-talent. Listened to it alot in the early 00's. Music has declined though. They play too much grunge/post-grunge. How many times do we need to hear the same Nirvana, Bush, and Soundgarden tracks. Play more 80s. The playlist is too small. Even play forgotten songs from a few years ago like "Take A Picture" or P.O.D.'s "Southtown". Next blog, I'll go into the 100's and up to 107.9. The winner of this blog, 91.5 for a diverse playlist of good AC songs and 90.5 for a diverse selection of all types of music and good programs. The loser, 97.1 dump this tiny-playlist/non-diverse station and bring Oldies B97 back! 7/17/2007: "shits and complaints" Hello, it's 7.17 (happy birthday to the Hoff, born in the '52), 15-16 days past the halfway point for the year. Stuck here. Wanting to go on vacation but can't leave the house in the routinely 88+ degree weather and don't have a long-road trip vehicle yet, a Mazda 6 which is cool but need to sell because it's not practical. Also her new van is not proven for a long drive yet. 1997 Grand Voyager, with a 115k miles, a minor check engine light (slow wire to the Oxygen sensor or something), and more body roll than Rosie O'Donnell. It's the most fun for a trip but 23mpg rated for the highway, dunno. Also, gas is $72+ a barrel (it was $29 just in late summer '03 - what the HELL happened?) and $3.00 average a gallon but will drop probably next month. Typically drops in August as the driving season wraps up and the little turds go back to school. Plus the motel rates drop and the interstates and US highways only have truckers and a few people on it. I need to cut the routines in second half of '07 too. Work, sleep time, hell even eating is a routine, which is why I am 185 pounds and that is not budging, not gaining but definitely not losing. Like to be more of a home factor to be with my 14 week old. The girl is swamped as she always has a health issue going on. Not threatening health issues on life but just annoying to both me and her. 6/12/2007: "I love it when people tell me how to drive." I just made a casual right turn. I was not screwing anything up by not using a turn signal (nobody waiting for me to turn, etc) but I just randomly turned right without a signal. The guy behind me (who turned also) gave me a finger gesture (not the middle finger, lol) to use my signal. What the hell. I swear the world is on crack. Anyway, the boy is good and other things (relationship, the house, anyone) have improved in the last 3 days. Maybe it's the new blinds. The kitchen isn't brighter than a fucking baseball stadium anymore in the bright of the daytime. Ah, to be 78 days old. 5/02/2007: "Don't like people talking shit about me, how to raise my son" I love how people who don't know me tell me how to raise my son. Well, help out Sarah more. Well I work 46 hours a fuckin week and I have to take care of a house (which is not done by the mother, save for the kitchen every now and then.) Sure dealing with a kid 19 hours a day is work but so is working at my job. Working at the #1 developer company in central Ohio is lots of pressure. I like girls who get together and talk shit about the father. I KNOW HOW TO RAISE MY SON. Just because I don't have a vagina doesn't mean I can't handle shit. The father has got to relax too. Not just the girls of the world who take care of the boys of the world, which is a big job but they are sitting on comfort of their own home and couch. Also love how my significant other tells other people that I do nothing, which starts this crap. Want me to do nothing? Then I'll quit my job, sell my car, foreclose the house, and move to the crime and drug ridden areas of town like Woodland Meadows or whatever that Baghdad-looking place is called. In other news, gas is $3.19 a gallon. The war needs to be stopped or scaled down. Everything is inflating to hell. Actually anything gas is killer. One-two cold months bring on a $279 gas bill. Kill that dick-head Chavez (the cock from Venezuala) too. 4/24/2007: "Love the spring - Monday storm" I was outside last night and saw lightning far off to the north, it was reflecting off the clouds and no thunder because it was 20 miles out towards Delaware (north). At 10PM, I came inside to wash dishes, the flash was getting brighter and was more to the west now, spectacular light show, no bolts, just flashes. At 10:20, it started to sprinkle then rain, the flash of lightnings got brighter. At about 10:22, it started to rain hard for five minutes. One flash(maybe a bolt, didn't see), missed the neighborhood. Good thing the boy wasn't home because it was fucking loud and awesome. Then the lightning chilled and so did the rain. My windows were open and because of the 30+ mph winds, it rained in the house through the western and southern windows. It was 70 when the stuff came and dropped the temp to 66 but I went outside for a sec and it was that real nice post-rain feel. Gotta love spring... In other news, my fuckin knee hurts for the 13th (not sarcastically, I been counting) day. I don't have the time or patience or cash to go to the doctor. You have to make an appointment but yet when you get there and your appointment time has passed, you still have to sit in the waiting room. What's up with that? Oh well. Later ninjas. 4/13/2007: "CBS sucks? and Jesse Jackson/Al Sharpton sucks" Well yeah. suCkBS or CBSuck or CBasS canned Imus yesterday saying they don't know what influence he would have on kids by what he said, oh whatever. Maybe they should create the overrated, overused CSI and create a radio version of it. CBS is out of ideas, that's why they have 50 CSI's and they're on like the 76th Survivor. Besides my idol David Letterman (happy 60th b-day) and Bob Barker/Price Is Right (which is supposely retiring, CBS stinks! They have one night of comedy (Monday?) and it's comedy for 110 year olds, every other night it's one fucking cop or crime investigation show. It's like Discovery Channel + Court TV minus the talent. ABC is almost as bad with all their miracle shows, old people comedy, and more drama. Don't get me started on the cheat on your husband-fest Desperate Housewives. Hopefully the Sopranos will suck all the viewers out of D.H. Sopranos is BRILLIANT and is sad to see it go after 7 seasons unlike shows like E.R. who are devoid of the original cast, yet still goes on. NBC has one gem though, My Name Is Earl. 30 Rock too. Hilarious. The CW channel which is the old UPN/WB with a cooler name but besides Smallville, the shows suck and are for 13 year old girls. Well that's enough, broadcast tv sucks, especially CBS and their radio stuff and Viacom or whatever sucks. SAVE IMUS. Now onto Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, here's a bulletin that caught my eye a few minutes ago: Today Don Imus was fired for calling the Rutgers University basketball team "nappy headed hos". Sure, that was inappropriate, but did the punishment fit the crime? Maybe we should look at the two guys who pushed this issue until Imus was fired. Jesse Jackson says it's a question of morality, and what's right and what's wrong. Just so we're clear: Imus Calling Black Women "nappy headed hos": Wrong. Jesse Jackson calling Jews "Hymies" and referring to New York as "Hymietown" : Right. (Washington Post, 1984) Imus Calling Black Women "nappy headed hos": Wrong. Jesse Jackson having an affair and Impregnating Karin Stanford, then using rainbow coalition funds to pay her $40,000 and purchasing a $365,000 house to keep her quiet: Right Jesse Jackson not paying child support for this child, and not visiting her: Right Jesse Jackson Saying Duke La Crosse Rape Suspects who have been aquitted "deserved the negative attention" because they weren't acting morally by hiring a stripper: Right I'm glad we have someone with strong moral values like Jesse Jackson to make sure nobody makes racist jokes on radio stations! Thanks for showing us what's right and what's wrong Jesse. And who can forget Al Sharpton, another strong moral figure who knows the power of words: After District Attorney Steven Pagones failed to prosecute white suspects for raping a black girl (because evidence showed the story was fabricated) Al Sharpton accused Pagones Himself of raping the girl. Pagones successfully sued him for Defamation. Right But it gets better: Imus Calling Black Women "nappy headed hos": Wrong. In 1995, Sharpton led a protest in Harlem against the plans of Freddy's Fashion Mart, a Jewish-owned clothing store, to expand into a black neighborhood. Sharpton told the protesters, "We will not stand by and allow them to move this brother so that some white interloper can expand his business." Three months later, an armed protester forcibly entered the store and burned it down, killing himself and seven others. Right Thanks Jesse and Al for showing us what's right and wrong. I'm glad we can finally see the light now. I'm glad you guys stopped this guy, and all his charities for sick and homeless children, that will now dry up. Thanks guys! 4/11/2007: "Imus / Rutgers "girls"" My take: Imus shouldn't of probably said those words but the fact that everyone has gone nuts over ONE or TWO sentences is just hilarious. You got your typical Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton coming out (who are probably the two most useless people in politics/stuff next to Al Gore - don't get me started on what a hypocrite fuck he is). Political fucking correctness is ruining this country, sure people can be racist against whites but when someone says nappy hoes (what the HELL does that mean anyway and why is it sooo bad), all goes nuts. Those girls shouldn't go nuts when the fact is they SUCK and they LOST to Tennessee. If they were winners, then we might have 50% of an argument but this is done. Please support Imus and stop political correctness. And about Al Gore, I got some dirt on Mr Green jackass but that's for later. Some might get offended by this blog but there's bigger mouths out there. 8/02/2006: "08.02.06 Been a while" First time I logged in since 06.14.06 Nothin' much going on. Email and myspace causing me problems every now and then. Oh well. I miss vacation where I went 11 states, 4100 miles by car to the west. I found out I like going to the pool everyday (it being 95 degrees, 50% humidity pushes that), so I will go there after 5. I am going broke, so I gotta go. Bye now. 4/25/2006: "Morons..morons...of the past" Well, it's April 25, six months since my old radio station (that I worked at as a sales guy who sold air time) changed from WOMP to Jack-FM in the Wheeling, West Virginia. And I like to note that in the six months, their (probably shitty) future website is UNDER CONTRUCTION still. http://www.wyjkfm.com Now, WOMP's old site was nice, but Jack's new site is still under construction. Now a website isn't life and death but this shows that Keymarket of Ohio is not on the ball and will be killed by Clear Channel of Wheeling. You wonder why noone would call me back or buy airtime. WOMP was badly ruined by Keymarket (supposedly. I'll supply a radio message board discussion link on this, in a sec) and was replaced by a station that might fail too in that market. I drove to eastern Ohio for the first time since I moved outta there December 10th (was cut loose November 15th). Sarah was with me, we visited graves of past on my mother's side, my Mom's old town, my little cousins, and back on topic, I went past the station. The fuckers finally changed the sign in the front to the Jack logo. From October 25th to the day I left town (Dec 10), the old station logo was in the front. Business cards, stationary, pens with the logo on the front took forever too. Rushed, half-assed station move. Good luck John Crawford (general manager) and co. The guy who overbooked his day and never had time to help me with sales or his station. Also, the guy on top of operations (the CEO?) at Keymarket seemed to be a glum faced cock too. Oh my god, arriving at 7:59 instead of 7:45 will sink the station. No, killing a heritage radio station of 29 years instead of improving it, will sink the station. However, I miss Scooter (production/copywriter) and especially Johnny O. (morning guy/pd of sister station KOOL 105). More on the demise of WOMP here My life is better now, hehe. I made a dumbass late decision to get a $510 a month apartment with no utility help but my chick moved in who entered my life after 23 months of no-see and I have a office boy job at a exploding (in a good way) construction company. 4/21/2006: Ye' Old Shitcago (Chicago said real hard) had a farm. S-h-i-t-c-a-g-o. And on his farm, he had some shit. S-h-i-t-c-a-g-o. With a poop poop there. A shit shit here. Something there everywhere, lalalalala. Silly lol. NEED MORE COFFEE. AND CIGS. AND MONEY WOULD BE NICE. Another grumpy outbreak of Sarah, these are starting to happen more. I'm waiting for the day that cars can run on stomach gas. All I have to do is eat Tuna Helper and my car can run an extra 180 miles. 4/18/2006: "Being random rocks" NOW SHOVE THAT IN YOUR VAN WITH THE STOLEN MOTEL 6 TOWELS AND TAKE IT TO THE DUMPSTER. DON'T FORGET TO PAY THE SHITCAGO SKYWAY TOLL BECAUSE THERE IS HEIGHTENED SECURITY BECAUSE WORD ON THE STREET IS YOU HAVE BAD GAS BECAUSE OF BREAKFAST AT WAFFLE HOUSE. SILLY LOL. To put short, probably can't vent on here anymore because the evil family of western Ohio probably views this now. 4/13/2006: "FUCKING Pissed off" Well, I am pissed off. Someone broke into my girl's car and stole her radio. I feel like doing something about it. I miss my crowbar. I'll find this person and beat them until they can't move. Then turn them over to the cops. Nobody FUCKS with my girlfriend or her things. In other news, still getting LOTS of junk mail. Thinking about making my gmail account my main email account. Also, Red's had 5 errors yesterday but pitching was decent. Let's get better boys! And former Reds pitcher Danny Graves (who is an Indian now) who thankfully we dumped a year or two ago gave up a grand slam yesterday. Good job assclown. At least we can't lose anymore games thanks to you. I go now. Maybe a short day. Taking Sarah to her step grandma's funeral later in western Ohio. Oh no, western Ohio. I'll be fine. [2007 note: big mistake this trip ever was, she got hooked on going back to that town again] 4/07/2006: "8:7 AM" Well, we napped all evening last night, for like 5. Woke up briefly, so she can watch Smallville at 11. I ate those fries you can put in the microwave for 3 minutes and have crispy krinkle fries, called Easy Fries I believe. Didn't fall back to sleep until after 2. Woke up to rain and a light thunderstorm (pussy lightning). Would've been nice to sleep in and listen but nope. Hopefully a busy day at work. BTW, sick of the fuckin junk mail. I don't give a crap about porn, ways to win a laptop, or viagra and other drugs. STOP IT. I deleted about 20 junk emails in the last two days. Getting on my nerves. I go now. Have a nice day funkers. :) 3/29/2006 Nothing going on at work, unfortunately. Hate being bored but half the boys are gone and/or caught up. I miss my chicky who is at home sick. :( 2 and a half hours. I love her! Anyway, XM is making major changes. Some good, more bad. The metal channel is coming back but Luna (the latin/cuban jazz) and The Flow (a unique neo-soul station) are going. What for? For two copy cat stations, yet another 90s/now station and another hiphop station. Not the good hiphop either. The current shit that clutters regular radio. Ugh. Still excited about Liquid Metal coming back. Maybe it'll get me fully back into metal. God, do I hate this True ad's. They can lose the half-naked woman and still have a decent ad. 3/08/2006: "March 8 10:23 PM" Well, I am in a good mood and sad mood at the same time. Moved more shit from my parents house to my apartment, threw more shit out. Slow but working process. Ready to bring my old computer back to life and put the annoying laptop to rest for a while. The apartment is clean too and fixed a few things while I have alone time to myself tonight. That comes to the bad/sad mood.... 3/06/2006: "howdy stinkers" I'm happy but have a cold or sick or halfway to it. Bad cough. Maybe blame smoking but only been doing it for 23 months. Besides that, everything is decent. Met Sarah's parents and brother last night. That went good. Good people. Her ex is starting to back off too but I don't trust him but we'll see. He likes talking shit and being mental but 105 miles seperates us and he might be all words and no action. I love my girl though and putting up with this western Ohio shit is worth it. hehehe I shall go. I wonder if their any coffee left... 2/27/2006: "good shit (edit1)" Life is good, I just wish is was less busier. Need a nap. Maybe today. Been a while since I posted something here. The love of my life "came back". I moved a few miles down the road and moved her to me from western Ohio. Also, working 45 hours a week (40 lunch) in da office. It's way better than your typical office job though, hehehe. All good people, some I known for years, it being pop's company after all. Things are all good, except one problem. Sarah's ex husband. He is clingy with phone calls and emails to her. He sure didn't let me fucking talk to her for two years but I allow him to call every fucking day. But worst of all, he constantly shit talks about me. He doesn't fucking know me but he does it anyway. I'm being fucking nice and he keep going on and on with the name calling. I'll live with it but one day, I'll probably put my hand through the wall. Well, I gotta go. Very quiet Monday morning so far in the office. 2/05/2006: "Great day" Was already a great day going up to it but THE STEELERS FINALLY win. Cowher finally got his ring 14 years into coach and big ben got his his 2nd year into it. Wooooooo, I'm going to go because there's noone on and probably noone will be for the rest of the eve. Congrats to my team and nay to the people who jumped on the Seahawks bandwagon because they hated the Steelers. Also, someone special from two years ago has entered my life. 1/22/2006: "HOLY SHIT" There. Got you to click on this. haha. Well I am in total pain with my wisdom tooth. Well, it's taken years but I think the funker on the right side has had it. It's time for it to go. Better hurry and get appt before I get addicted to aspirin or IB's because when I'm not on something, it freakin HURTS. Nothing worse than to have it wake me at 2 AM hurting too at least two nights in a row. Damn, things are getting good and now this. Maybe God sent it so this weekend wouldn't be boring. :P Well while I was napping, the Steelers whooped Denver and are going to the SUPERBOWL! I'll be watching and so should you, evening of Sunday Feb 5. Darned if I know the starting time. Right now, its looking to be Steelers - Seahawks and Pit is blowing everyone away in the playoffs so far but I won't put the WHAMMY on them. Anyway listening to Ron & Fez now and Opie & Anthony earlier. Best talk shows. Howard Stern on the competing service (Sirius satellite) sounds like a bust so far. No Jackie Martling writing for your show, no hope; even on a uncensored medium. Lately digging Love & Rockets, classic 80s alternative. Some of their stuff is accoustic stuff to drift away to, some of the other stuff is almost heavy metal. DOWNLOAD 'DESE TRACKS: Saudade (5:00) Ball of Confusion (7:22) rules, avoid the edit version So Alive (4:17) No New Tail To Tell (3:27) When The Minutes Drag (7:58) again avoid the edit version. Gotta go pop another one. Later stinkers.
1/20/2006: "Good Friday?" What a good day. Weee. Mild again outside. Getting spoiled. January 19th and 20th are supposed to be rock bottom I thought. Well, I'll enjoy it. Worked a different place today, this time in Westerville. 10 miles closer (wow), nicer boss (way nicer) and I worked alone with my headphones on all day finding more music to get addicted to. Been into 80's/classic alternative lately which is the pre-Nirvana type stuff. I'll list some songs later you should download. Probably going to the bar to see pops and his friends, get a pizza and drink a little. No, I'm good with the alc, just need to wash Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday away. Well Wednesday up till 4 anyway. The hockey game kicked ass (the Blue Jackets stunk though) and i walked off a problematic job site. Going to go... 1/18/2006: "Well...stressed out (slight change)" Mommy is taking me to the hockey game, lol. Maybe something to cheer me up. I hope there is NACHO'S at the Columbus Blue Jackets game. The Jackets are not that hot though but we'll see, first game I been to in a while. Speaking of sports, how about those Steelers. Waiting for this weekend and especially waiting for Super Bowl 40, Feb 5. I think they can do it this year. Bank closed at 4PM. Very lame, how do normal people cash checks? 9:56PM Update: I'm still alive haha. Mom got the food and beer price. I feel bad for her because they way overcharge at any game really. 13 bucks combined for nachos and bbq sandwich. If wasn't even that big of a bbq sandwich. The Jackets lost 4-0. Big suprise but good entry for me into that arena for the first time in a couple years. *bad chuckle* Well, I am out of work for tomorrow. I feel like I been cut but someone just forgot to return a call. Oh well, maybe I should stay awake even though I don't feel like it. It's only 10:01. Be good silly gooses. I really hope tomorrow is better, maybe I won't write a shitty blog to waste 4 mins and 40 secs of your time. *wink* byes. god bless. 1/17/2006: "Slightly Edited" Worried as always but tired too. I really need to relocate to a different job site. 6:22 wakings and 52 miles roundtrip drive is going to get to me, especially lately when I have a new problem to deal with on here every two three days. Too much time to think and headphones were banned, so no music. Being addicted to music, I am steamed. Oh well. I really hate writing these blogs about this but it's the only place to vent anymore. Noone to talk to about this. Times have changed sadly. Hopefully they go back to early December when everything was peaceful. Just don't bring the crappy weather that was happening then. I hate the cold. I just miss writing goofy and silly stuff on here and vent about other things like the morons I used to work for over two months ago. A bitchfest for the some of the radio media corporations (like the risky or risque or ris-gay Keymarket) out there is overdue. I gots to go out soon and salvage another ugly day. Have a terrific evening hippies or dudes or Nebraskans (random hehe). 7:37PM Well went to the bar to see what is up with pops & co. I saw Jack for the first time in almost 2 months. That rocks. Jackeroo is cool. Wish I could be 48 and doing well. haha. Pops also talking about Coconut Cove, a beachside motel in the Florida Keys which I been to 5 years ago this past weekend. Well they owe us 90 bucks from another time Dad went down there with his friends. Maybe can go back soon? This is the time. A buttwhoopin from snow is 70 miles away as i type this, rain will change to snow. Well, I like snow but I HATE 30 degrees. Wish I could be at that mile marker 81 in the KEYS right now and just sit there by the beach and stare off to those buoy thingys with the lights on them off of the shore and just think. Things are fine, just a little quiet. Unless someone gets on, this will be an early night. I doubt that special someone will be on anymore. *shrug* But like my friend Woody (miss him) in Casper, Wyoming who is a reverand says, "I'm ok, you're ok". BTW, I'm due there too and Vegas during the 111degree July. So many places to go, so little time and MONEY. Enough now, I go. Have a terrific evening. 1/02/2006: "Mixed bag." Ohio State won by a decent margin (but shoulda been a blowout). Well over 400 yards. I only watched bits and pieces of it though. I napped. It will be a rough few days ahead. It's supposed to get sharply colder here. I also halfway have a cold/sick. Trying to kill it with my many methods but we'll see. Besides that, not too bad, just really bored. Besides sleep, the days off are useless. Oh em gee, in a metal mood: np: Cryptopsy - Endless Cemetary (5:20) later gator 12/31/2005: "2005 Year In Review" It twas a mixed bag. So, lets snap into "boring" mode. It's the switch next to the Air Conditioner. January: Got the XM on January 31. I instantly love it. February: Order Opie & Anthony on the 6th (back when it was a pay channel on XM). Instantly love it. Got into some of the channels. *gasp* disco/funk amongst others. Worked (the laborer job) with Ron Melton, who was a funny dude ("I gotta go drop a load cat, aight?") but was a begger. I couldn't keep food in my car, otherwise he'd ate it. March: nothing of note. Worked in downtown Columbus. That was a fun building. April-May: Anxiety attacks (or close to it) occured every few days. It was a dark 3 weeks. :| Some of the worst times ever. It was a bad reaction between alcohol (didn't take much to aggravate it) and muscle medicine. Seeing a program on TV on the end of the world/yellowstone national park blowing up didn't help matters. (I am a catholic/christian and I resent those fucking people who put that bullshit on TV and internet. Just STOP with "end of times" crap.) The bad period ends mid May and is forgotten when I meet some cool cousins for the first time, Kara and Mike. June: Drove out west to Montana for the 3rd summer in a row. Added some new states, like Texas and New Mexico (i drove out of the way to get these and El Paso, hehe). I miss it. July: Hot hot hot and I was outside for some of it. One day was 94 and humidity. But left disappointed because there werent too much thunderstorms. I love those funkers. I stopped working everyday as of July 15 due to fatigue. The vacation didn't rest me enough. August: Nothing of note, just slacking off and working a few days here and there, mostly Lane Ave and one trip to St Anns for a tenant clean up. I see Kenny on Lane Ave. September: Moved to eastern Ohio on September 24th and started a sales job at the (then) WOMP-FM. Taking this job was a mistake but I guess it was nice to get out of the city for 3 months. October: see September November: Got a new car on the 5th. Was cut loose from the sales job on the 15th by the GM. The GM was never too much help, he was too busy to help me. December: Christmas was usual, lots of unexpected gifts but then again, I hardly put anything onto a list. I get whatever I want during the normal year anyway. I come back to the laborer job on December 12 after moving back to Columbus on the 10th. Sure the job can be dusty and dirty at times but the co-workers are hilarious and the pay is good. And it's not an office job, so you don't see me sucking down coffee's and Jolt Cola's or flinging paper wads at the retarded guy who fixes the computers. Anyway, I am typing this at 11:32 AM on 12/31 (scratch that, many edits are coming, haha). "New Years Eve" is a normal day, only diffrence is it's labeled "New Years Eve" rather than just "Saturday". Sad but true, lol. May '06 bring you love (not lust, you dirty perverted motherfuNker), cash, happiness (depends on the weather), and hopefully an endless supply of purified water. Haha, just kidding on the last part. Bye! 12/30/2005: "Dewy-isms" You drive a 1984 gold Chevy Silverado pickup with over 180,000 miles on it. You drive 80 miles roundtrip for work You blurt out "whatever", "fucker" and "You Betcha" out loud randomly with a accent. You still smoke Marlboro reds like a banshee even after you had a heart attack at age 39. You hang drywall and screw up a few pieces a day. You're addicted to McDonalds. You don't drink but you smoke marijuana. You are Knox County Ohio's version of the Marlboro Man. You can roll joints when you drive. lol You can't spell your name right. Shouldn't it be Dewey instead of Dewy? "You say, I can make that drive everyday with my hands tied behind my back" maybe more.... By the way, Dewy is a goofy co-worker. He is hilarious but still get's his shit done. - me being random and bored 12/29/2005: "Twenty Ninth" It's good today. Except mud sucks at work. I found a new song to wear out, it could kick into my alltime top 10. It'll have to do alot to bitchslap "Kashmir" though, my no. 1. I will play this funkin thing AGAIN: np (which means now playing): Bohannon - The Party Train Sound (8:54) I go now.leave comments of how boring today's entry was. just dont walk in with mud on your shoes. Midnight edit: I napped for 4 hours and listening to XM46. Good stuff. Now I'm totally awake at midnight, not good. Things are decent though and I heard "Kashmir" in my sleep. Roffle. 12/28/2005: "Mixed bag Wednesday" Great day today, working outside in the nicest weather ever (at least for December) 59 degrees. Work was easy. Mud is shit though. LOL, I was in rant mode before lunch. I felt like bashing my old job (the sales job that ended 11-15-05) some more but unfortunately when I got home it was gone. Maybe some day I'll open a can of whupass on KeyMarket of Ohio in this blog thingy maybe for Year In Review thingy LOL, it's fun to rehash old shit like that. Gets the blood flowing and I get work done at work. np: The Who - Eminence Front. Holy shit, it's from 1982. That means I have to be 36 to listen to it.
12/17/07: "Saturday"11:11AM I can't believe this but it's actually good, maybe a little boring. Probably blame the 13 hour sleep (or 14) I had. The pathetic friday ended at 8 or 9 PM. hahaha 12/15/05: "halfway bad day" Well, I lost. hurt my back but alcohol and aspirin is making it better as of this posting. The battery in my XM satellite radio Myfi died today with two hours of work left. I am addicted to music..... ugh. So yea, i'm good now I guess. 6:14 PM update. I realize I only exist to my parents. *thinking face* 11/20/2005: "I'm alive" Whew. I am alive after a rocky and bumpy Saturday. hahaha College football is over, so Saturdays will smoothen out. I have no excuse to slam 6 beers and 3 mix drinks (2 Absolute Citron/lemonades and a bloody mary) until at least the Super Bowl. Haha 70 days to load up on water to combat Monday February 7th's (right date?) hangover. Enough of that liquid stuff, I need a job. I'm thinking, maybe drive truck. I can earn good, see crap (well, I seen crap in 45-46 states but let's make it 48!) and don't have to sit in a cubicle getting more addicted to caffeine and Camel Light breaks and listen to some bumfart boss who gets more vacation breaks than hoo hoo howard stern's 10 weeks a year.Enough for now. I'm turning into Lewis Black. Rant mode off. Steelers lost today though, sonofa*****. 11/15/2005 No job Well, I lost my job. Never made a sale in 45 days. Possible clients fucking blew me off and/or said no. Central Grille in Shadyside, Ohio, could ya give me a goddamn yes or no instead of telling me "I got to read the proposal"? I gave you 13000 follow up calls/visits. Either not in or haven't read the proposal. Where is the proposal? In the bathroom in your "shit stack" of magazines and newspapers. I also felt like the plague walking into places in my professional clothing and asking for appointments in some of the not-so-professional establishments (some of these places were plain bad). Sure that could be a dumb statement but some of these people wouldn't give 3-5 minutes for me asking questions. Once I got the appointments it was fine, asking questions, writing proposals was fun and so were presentations but getting the appointments and asking for a yes or no after the presentations was too hard. Central Grille whirled me around for 4 weeks and was going to try them once more tonight. I wasn't going to get anything in a few days ahead if I stuck around. Many of the other possible sales were shot down too except Central Grille. I was going to get to that last night (Monday) but forgot. If I were to make a sale from them last night, it would be too little too late. It was a tiny proposal. John C is probably relieved tonight. No more shaking heads. He got me out quick and Kathy watched me clean out a already clean desk. Didn't bring too much personal crap into the office like pictures, etc. Gave the office key back and was pointed out. Well, totally awesome, 1000 dollars in bills a month and no income. Got the last check as they told me they're going to let me go. No firing, they "just let me go". Radio is not treating me too good. No openings anywhere except for sales positions. Glad I found out it's not for me sooner or later. Wish the best for Crawford and company. They were good people, all of them. Nice people with a young attitude. No grumpy people. I enjoyed talking to WUKL morning guy Johnny O in particular. We had "wide audio processing" insterests in common. KOOL (the other station in my former workplace) is one of the best sounding FMs in the country and could beat the hell out of CDs and vinyl anyday. If you are reading this Johnny O and would love an honest comment on KOOL, great morning show, great sound, but the satellite feed is pretty repetitive and needs more stuff prior to '65. If you were to open a shift, say afternoon drive, would love to work it (if it could pay the bills).Anyway, would love to stick around in east but it's 500 bucks for apartment and utilities put together. We'll see. Maybe a mistake getting a new car and cell phone but the bulk of the bills is the apartment/utilities. What could be next? Truck driving in 06? We'll see. Any full time radio jobs in Columbus or east Ohio, let me know. Moving here, a 300 dollar mistake. Dont know. More later... God bless, The C 9/8/05: Updated on 9/8 because people take my text too seriously. Nothing going on in my life right now but that will change. I am moving to eastern Ohio for a radio sales job. Good to leave, my time here is up. Why do I have friends but I have to initiate the "hang outs", etc? Noone calls me. I have to call them. No. That's why ties with friends of the past have just been forgotten or just have decreased. Oh well. One older friend from the spring called me (for the first time in a while) but I was on vacation on the busy I-25 in Colorado and probably couldn't handle what was going to be a 20+ minute conversation. Another older 40+ friend who considered me a lost son a while back cut ties with me it seems. I am 3 miles away but it's a relationship where as she is in Latvia and I am in rural Idaho. Not even up for a quick visit? OK. Younger friends wise, I have a one who wants me to be a success and I have one who criticizes my inferior products (computer, etc. It may be a joke and all in good fun but not when I have a move/change in life within 20 days. I have another friend who tolerates the way I am. I definitely am waving a farewell to Columbus. Going to be a tough job but I want to experience the far east before I move west 1 1/2 to 3 years from now. Oh forgot to mention, I know some people in the area in the area I am moving to that I used to hang out with and talk to on the phone but they seemed to cut ties with me unless I initiate a phone call with them. What is with me? PEACE! "Not at war with anyone. How can you have a war that has no people." 7/30/05: Still looking for a radio job but might zone in on one in eastern Ohio near Wheeling, WV. Going for a interview, just need to find a time. It's cheap to live there but a move is still a move. High speed internet is a must when I live on my own. Speaking of radio, my old station I used to work at got sold and changed formats. I would've had only about 4 months left if I didn't get cut April 4. A good friend who was making great time and a living there got cut. So sad because he has potential. Hopefully a Columbus station gets him because he needs to be heard. I met some 2nd and 3rd cousins in May and got close to them but figured out I won't be seeing them that much anymore. They are too busy. It is a family, two parents, two kids (girl 13, boy 12). I get close to people and find out they're too busy. Happened 4 years ago with someone else. I have bad luck. That news knocked me off the mountain-top. 7/4/05: Been awhile since I updated this funky place. My awful depression ended mid-May. Good freakin riddance. Probably was complications from a side medicine (which did not get along with alcohol). Finally on vacation, my precious once-a-year two week vacation. Drove and covered more states and went down as far as El Paso before going north on Interstate 25 and ultimately reaching the destination of southwest Montana. Heading home in a lot more direct North Dakota way. According to pops, ND will be state #46 for me (see map above). Going to find a radio job when I head home because the laborer job on some days is strenuous and on other days extremely boring. I love my family too, just found some cousins. All four of them are awesome but they are busy and I'm not high on the totem pole of importance to them. I plan to find all my cousins (mostly one's under or around my own age.) Age 13 to 16 the best, I can watch them grow. 4/26/05: Well the guy who replaced me at the old radio station sucks. I kinda had the feeling he would. He's got a little more 60's music knowledge than me (duh, the prick most likely lived in the 60s) but HE'S A NEWSREADER not a on-air DJ. He has a monotone robotic voice and he sounds like he is reading from paper on the air. I reviewed his show when I was at the station for the final time on April 16 to pickup/dropoff shit. BAD replacement. He's also replaced THE PAC MAN for weekday evenings too. Lame. Pac-Man is twenty and he's already miles above this new guy. Anyway, I am ok. I have bouts of depression at times but they never last more than minutes or hours at a time. 4/12/05: I lost my job at 1270 WUCO AM in Marysville, Ohio. I was used by management, obviously. I had 4 weeks of NON-PAID training and I finally started December 23ish. Well JUST OVER 3 MONTHS LATER on April 4, I am cut because of a Matt Allen wants to bring an old friend in. Lame. So I get cut because I failed to come in last week to hang out with them for free. Total use. The pro's of this - Forty-seven miles of less driving per week. Job barely paid and barely got hours anyway. Management is nuts. Now for the con's of this - this is the career (it doesn't end though, it just goes on hiatus), I will miss seeing my good friend Chris S. (yes, THE Pac Man) on routine like old times. For Chris' sake, I hope the station does well but I hope the replacement of me bombs. I'm hardly bitter though. It's a teeny bit stressful managing two jobs when one is far away. 7/2004: I graduated Ohio Center for Broadcasting on June 16. Might not be my career for my whole life but for a good portion. Moved back to Columbus back on July 10th. Can't afford the bills and the wacky lifestyle I was having down there. Not much is up with me except I'm single but I been single so that's not new. Bottom line, I can't drink at bars.....yet. 20 is the shittiest age. GENERAL (moving to future radio section of my site): I like radio of most cylinders. I don't really listen to terrestrial radio though unless I'm without my XM MyFi, which is rare. Speaking of that, I also got XM satellite radio which is the future of radio thanks to Opie and Anthony and a huge variety of stations with big playlists. I also have a PC FM transmitter just to show off shit once a while. So, it seems I am doing all cylinders of radio or was until my un-fairful cut at WUCO. I also work part time as a construction laborer for extra cash and benefits but that will end. The Suck list This is what sucks. It will grow as I keep adding stuff. The future - It might not suck (it might be great) but talking about it sucks. Life insurance, "doomsday" (probably all bullshit. how is Yellowstone a potential hotspot when it's the coldest fucking place in the US? ), money, changes. STOP fucking TALKING ABOUT IT! Live in the present and keep God in your life. Winter - I blame you for seasonal depression for every year (save for 2004) since 1999 Viacom and Infinity radio - they suck more than Clear Channel for their patheticly long commercial breaks and they are a big company that needs to be uhhhh shrunk. Smash Mouth - Can I say SUCK loud enough. 30-something year old guys trying to win 13 year old boys/girls hearts. Haha. The covers are pathetic. Leave the Monkees alone. Tim Murphy - The sad joke replacement for me at WUCO radio. Looking for a monotonic robotic voice, you found it On "Your Station 1270 AM,". Jokes on him, he was fired when the station got sold 4 months later. Elitists/Ego's - get off your high horse and shut the **** up, you're no better than anyone else Flip floppers - Kerry was bad but there is a few more. Justice system - Michael Jackson walks free but I get threatened 30 days of jail for trespassing railroad property to watch trains. Michael Jackson is your poster boy authority (Lewis Black is right) - cops seem to nag the innocent Linkin Park and Elephant Man - two atrocious "artists" The Overrated list Now for the overrated list. Right now it's music related but I'll add other stuff later. Rolling Stones - The Beatles were always better. RS's hits are great but dig deeper, they are average. Their two "cream of the crop" albums, Beggars Banquet and Let It Bleed, are boring. Peter Gabriel - Not overrated when we're talking about him by himself but I'm sick of people saying that Phil Collins is trash and wrecked Genesis while Gabriel is god. No. Phil Collins is great and his voice is better. I have backup on that too. I heard all his work while the elitist assholes that trash him heard the "soccer mom hits". Jimi Hendrix - He's good but his blown out because he died young. Sad but true. Still, he's got some great stuff with the Experience. Queen - Freddie Mercury for the same reasons as Hendrix. Bad vocalist too. Nirvana - see Hendrix and Mercury for Kurt Cobain. Alice in Chains was always better but you never hear about Layne Staley (RIP), do you? Did you know he passed a few years ago? Howard Stern - Past his prime. Bring Jackie back or you are finished. Sucking Kerry off last year wasn't smart either. You turned alot of people away including me. Kerry was one of the worst candidates we have ever seen and you supported him. Ha. No suprise now that you're both losers. |