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Ch-ch-ch-changes......... This entry was posted on 6/1/2006 9:38 AM and is filed under uncategorized. Quick RANT - GODADDY SUCKS. Do not be fooled or taken in by their come-ons. Get your services elsewhere. Nothing works the way they promise, except of course for their billing department. I apologise for the lost posts and failed subscriber notifications, BUT IT'S NOT MY FAULT. GODADDY SUCKS.
*************************** When business is bad, life can suck. Men especially, (not to be sexist, I swear), seem to measure themselves by their success at it. And while I've never been a real subscriber to that theory, even though my reasons for suffering professionally couldn't have been more legitimate, (my custody fight was sucking me dry physically, emotionally and financially), I still felt stung. When business is good, so can life be. I have almost always worked for myself, and worked hard at intertwining my family and work. It has truly been a fun ride for us all, and that's great. Well, business is good, again, and unfortunately time has gotten tight. And you, dear readers, have paid the most by my lack of posts. (No ego, I swear. I've gotten a lot of "where are you?" emails). But I should be entrenched in my new offices in the next 2 weeks, with assistants, (something I've never had before, but it's that busy....gonna have to learn to delegate responsibility - yikes), and that will free me to do at least twice-a-week posts again. I'll be back out at screenings, shows and events, hearing facts and rumors, (both of which I'll gleefully spread), and having fun again in an industry with which I have always had a love/hate/but-mostly-love relationship. And I will share ALL of that with you. In Rants and Raves. (And personally, I like the Rants a whole lot more, they're much more fun to write....). So a little more patience will definitely be worth your while. Swear. ******************************** Every year I truly enjoy something I will share with you today (and thanks, Rachael B. for getting them to me early).... Drumroll, please.... This year's Darwin Awards - the annual honor given to the person who improved the "gene pool" the most by killing themselves in the most extraordinarily stupid way. As always, competition this year has been keen. And the candidates this year are .... In Detroit, a 41-year-old man got stuck and drowned in two feet of water after squeezing head first through an 18-inch-wide sewer grate to retrieve his car keys. A 49-year-old San Francisco stockbroker, who "totally zoned when he ran," accidentally jogged off a 100-foot-high cliff on his daily run. Buxton, NC: A man died on a beach when an 8-foot-deep hole he had dug into the sand caved in as he sat inside it. Beach-goers said Daniel Jones, 21, dug the hole for fun, or protection from the wind, and had been sitting in a beach chair at the bottom Thursday afternoon when it collapsed, burying him beneath 5 feet of sand. People on the beach on the outer banks, used their hands and shovels, trying to claw their way to Jones, a resident of Woodbridge, VA, but could not reach him. It took rescue workers using heavy equipment almost an hour to free him while about 200 people looked on. Jones was pronounced dead at a hospital. Santiago Alvarado, 24, was killed in Lompoc, CA, as he fell face-first through the ceiling of a bicycle shop he was burglarizing. Death was caused when the long flashlight he had placed in his mouth, to keep his hands free, rammed into the base of his skull as he hit the floor. Sylvester Briddell, Jr., 26, was killed in Selbyville, Del, as he won a bet with friends who said he would not put a revolver loaded with four bullets into his mouth and pull the trigger. HONORABLE MENTION: Paul Stiller, 47, was hospitalized in Andover township, NJ, and his wife Bonnie was also injured, when a quarter-stick of dynamite blew up in their car. While driving around 2 AM, the bored couple lit the dynamite and tried to toss it out the window to see what would happen, but apparently failed to notice the window was closed. RUNNER UP: Kerry Bingham, of Tacoma, WA, had been drinking with several friends when one of them said they knew a person who had bungee-jumped from the Tacoma Narrows Bridge in the middle of traffic. The conversation grew more heated and at least 10 men trooped along the walkway of the bridge at 4:30 AM. Upon arrival at the midpoint of the bridge they discovered that no one had brought a bungee rope. Bingham, who had continued drinking, volunteered and pointed out that a coil of lineman's cable lay nearby. One end of the cable was secured around Bingham's leg and the other end was tied to the bridge. His fall lasted 40 feet before the cable tightened and tore his foot off at the ankle. He miraculously survived his fall into the icy river water and was rescued by two nearby fishermen. "All I can say " said Bingham, "is that God was watching out for me on that night. There's just no other explanation for it." Bingham's foot was never located. AND THE WINNER: Overzealous zookeeper Friedrich Riesfeldt (Paderborn, Germany) fed his constipated elephant Stefan 22 doses of animal laxative and more than a bushel of berries, figs and prunes before the plugged-up pachyderm finally let it fly, and suffocated the keeper under 200 pounds of poop! investigators say ill-fated Friedrich, 46, was attempting to give the ailing elephant an olive oil enema when the relieved beast unloaded on him. "The sheer force of the elephant's unexpected defecation knocked Mr. Riesfeldt to the ground, where he struck his head on a rock and lay unconscious as the elephant continued to evacuate his bowels on top of him" said flabbergasted Paderborn police detective Erik Dern. With no one there to help him, he lay under all that dung for at least an hour before a watchman came along, and during that time he suffocated. It seems to be just one of those freak accidents that proves that "Shit does in fact happen!" Hope you laughed....next post will not be so funny....I actually PAID to see "M:I:III"....what the fuck is wrong with me? (now, be nice....) CommentsDisplay comments as (Linear | Threaded)
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