Out of Town

I do apologize to my faithful reader(s?) for not posting anything recently. Truth be told I've been working a lot of overtime to make it possible for me to skip town for a while. Now that my hard labor has finally accumulated enough I am going to get the hell out of dodge. This is going to be an experience for me as I am using an airline I've never flown with before. God help those poor poor bastards. I do have a couple points to make today not on that subject though. One- after 7 bottles of diet mountain dew, you get fucking scary wired. I was at work sounding like an auctioneer for a solid four hours. Two- it is actually not a bad idea to talk to your boss about a lack of undergarments in certain situations. This I will let you think on for a while. Three- it is ALWAYS a bad idea to call an air marshal a douchebag. This I did not do myself, but to my glee got to observe. That's really all I have for now, further updates as events warrant!

Greatness on a bun

I just got randomly sent this link by a coworker, and am I ever glad I clicked. This may very well embody my exact feelings on life. I myself am trying to lose weight (and actually doing rather well I hear), but this...this is what I love to see; people actually living life a little and every now and then doing something for themselves. Also, the repeated trips to the doctor help stimulate the economy! Win all around!

The Friendly Skies

There is something to be said about the travelling public, especially those in airports. It is my firm belief that when a person's status in life turns from "Citizen" to "Passenger" they immediately lose about 60 points of IQ. I would like to reaffirm this by sharing with you some of my airport stories. My first story comes out if Reagan National Airport. This video has some incredible footage of stupidity on the parts of both the TSA and a certain passenger.


The things I want to draw your attention to...first at 0:35 you can see a TSA officer acting like he's going to beat the head of the other officer in. I'm all for some fun in the workplace and shenanigans with coworkers, but there's passengers right there for fuck's sake!
At 1:00 you can see a woman being escorted out of security by yet another TSA officer. God, this lady is a bitch...see how she's screaming at the poor guy for something he has no control over? I hate the TSA, I really do. The management there makes such stupid rules that the officers have to follow with no representation for changing them or making their workplace better. It is management there I have a problem with, not the individual officers getting shit on by the public. Remember that next time you fly goddammit. Anyhow, I digress. At 1:55 or so, the woman is now engaged in a debate with airport police. The officer should have shot the bitch. She is then digging for what I have found out to be her SECRET SERVICE credentials...Secret Service...really...you're really going to do this lady? So, the heated debate goes on until at 3:12 where the woman's KID STARTS RUNNING AWAY FROM HER! This I found to be priceless. She can't even control her goddamn kid, let alone her baggage through the airport. That shit is awesome. She later went on Dr. Phil and bitched about this, kinda like this woman. WTF is going on at Reagan National? Both of these incidents come from there...

My next submission deals with a quote. I swear to god, I actually heard this come out of someone's mouth at an airport as her defense for why she should be able to take a bottle of water on a plane.

"Water is not a liquid"

...what? Did I just hear that right? Let's try that one again.

"WATER IS NOT A LIQUID"

I think there's something crazy stuck in my ear...because last I checked, water is THE liquid! Sweet Zombie Jesus on a Pogo Stick! How the fuck is someone actually going to use this in their defense? This is staggeringly stupid! The TSA officer just stood there dumbfounded for a bit, awestruck by what has just happened in front of him. I wanted to beat the woman with a metal detector...hey, now I understand the guy from the first video!

There are so many other stories we all can tell about the airport and I would love to tell you all of mine, but that would simply take too long. Instead, I am going to leave you all with this, what I think all of us should keep in mind when we travel.

A Time of Worry

I'm getting a bit worried about our state of affairs here. I saw on one of the major news stations (MSNBC or CNN, not sure which) that the current unemployment rate for South Carolina is at 10.4%. Over 1 in 10 people there are jobless and that scares the hell out of me. Good hard working Americans are losing their jobs all over some douchebags in the housing market trying to make a quick buck. The only reason this doesn't drive me to the point of rage is that I subscribe to the idea of for there to be evil, there must be good, and vice versa. This makes me believe that the evil bankers are balanced somehow by the existance of good people in the world. Problem is that the good people are rarely the ones with money or power. I just want to see honesty in the world again. I want to see men and women helping each other get by. I know there is still love out there, I had a friend of mine prove that recently. I won't go into details but just know that even in these troubled times, love will find a way.

Titanic

This was just too good to pass up...

The Best Page

So I was putzing around the interwebz and happened to come across this raving lunatic...dear god he's fucking hilarious...and right on many many things! I also would like to mention that today was very productive. I got a lot of work done on that truck featured in the video on my second post. I'm not sure if I have any good images to show you today, but let's see...I'll just do a google image search for two random ass things...let's try chicken, and hemmingway.


There you have it, folks...you can find absolutely anything on the internet, even if the two terms have nothing in common, somebody's made the connection.

BEWARE!

Yeah, so a friend of mine and I decided that those sneaky fucking dolphins are up to no good, so we gave them a more fitting name. That's what they do, y'know...they steal your gold when you're not looking! Sneaky fuckers!

I got bored

Yeah, you know you love it

Enjoy

Why I love my country

I do love this nation of ours dearly and not just for all the freedoms it affords. I love the culture, the landscape, the food, the diversity, and the throaty American V8. I chose the name of my blog for the images it conjures in my head. The iconic 8 cylinder is the epitome of all that this country holds dear. It's loud, uncompromising, powerful, beautiful, and the product of men and women who just wouldn't settle for second best. The engine can take you from Niagra Falls to the Napa Valley, droning down each and every mile of highway with the wind blowing through your hair, sun on your face and all around you the best folk the world has to offer. This is my happy place. This is where I feel at peace.

The All Important First Post

Here it is, the year 2009, and I'm finally getting around to this blogging thing. I'm not really sure what direction I'm going to go, probably just going to be a diarrhea of the brain, taking the shotgun approach to saying something intelligent. I'm not going to give out any information regarding who I am at this moment, but I will say that I am male, and I fucking love girl scout cookies.