I got an email from Amazon today with the subject line: “Last Chance For Free Super Saver Shipping” or something like that. In the body of the email it had a table of categories with a picture of one item that fell into that category.

This was one of them and I found it amusing in the sense that I would classify this movie more of a teenager/early-adult movie. That’s Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix if you can’t tell.

Not that I give a shit. I just think it’s really incorrectly categorized. I think that even the characters in the movie are like 15 years old. Granted in the grand scheme of things, I would consider 15-yr-olds as kids but not when it comes to rating movies. Kids to me would be more like: Up, Ice Age, Never Ending Story and the like.

Oh well, no big deal. Just something that popped into my head.

Made my visit to GameStop to see about getting my disks for Infamous and Batman:Arkhan Asylum. The guy clerk was pretty friendly about it.

He asked for my receipt stating that he didn't believe me but he wanted to see who the salesperson was.

I jokingly asked, "So, is this a recurring issue lately?"

He said, "Well, we do have a new person that started and I bet it was Emily."

I said while handing my receipt over without looking at it, "You know, it was Emily!" I knew this because I remember making it a point to stare at her name tag which just happened to be very close to her cleavage. I made sure to check her name as she was very nice, enthusiastic and overall helpful in helping me make my game-purchasing decisions.

He chuckled. Apologized profusely and got my game disks.

I said, "It was no problem" and went on my merry way. All was good.

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I stopped by my local Game Stop store last night. I purchased three previously-owned games. They are running a special, “Buy 2, Get 1 Free” on previously-owned games. I purchased Infamous, Batman Arkham Asylum and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare. I just got a chance to open up the games and it turns out I don’t have the disks for Infamous and Arkham Asylum. WTF?

I sure as hell hope there is some way to match my cases with the game disks. Otherwise, I will be quite mad at spending $70 for plastic cases!!

I don’t think there should be a problem but who the hell knows with stores these days. We’ll find out about 10am.

I received Dave Chappelle’s Block Party or here DVD in the mail from my Blockbuster Total Access membership.

I don’t know how long ago I added it to my queue but I know I expected it to be good. I must say, it wasn’t. First, it wasn’t what I expected. Second, it just wasn’t worth the postage.

I like Dave Chappelle. I thought he was pretty funny with his Chappelle’s Show on Comedy Central.

I think this is a case of what many comedian-type actors have experience. It’s something like “I’m so popular and funny right now that I can do anything and people will like it.” It happened with Mike Myers, Chevy Chase, Eddie Murphy, Rob Schneider, and Larry the Cable Guy. They just don’t know when they should stay with what made them famous to begin with. Explore other avenues but don’t give up the bread and butter! Chappelle should have stayed with his “millions” show.

Old story but still going strong. The tagline from Tennis:

Serena Williams, writing a blog for globalgrind.com, says she was given a disproportionately large fine for her U.S. Open outburst and is accusing ITF officials of biased treatment.

Article at Globalgrind while it lasts

I left a comment on the article page so I won’t rehash it here.

This from the other day at Dallas News but continues. Donnie Nelson, the Mavs GM is quoted:

“What I can tell you is that Tim was not involved,” he said. “He’s 30 years old with a wife and kids. When the situation started to escalate, he left the property immediately. Certainly we’re working with authorities and our security folks to get to the bottom of it. But this is something that’s way, way, way overblown.”

Article here while it lasts

Donnie is a dumb ass. He always has been. I agree that the press has overblown this story but they always do when it involves a pro athlete. See Tiger Woods. Again without going into my rant, I think one of the comments on the article was “What the hell is a guy with a wife and kids doing eating out at 3am in the morning?” I’ll add, “With another male and three females AND without his wife and/or kids?” I don’t give a shit who you are but I think there should be worse problems for him when he got home…from his wife!! Perception is key. As Donnie said, “Innocent until proven guilty in this country,” but not in the wifey’s eyes! His wife should Lorena Bobbitt him. LOL!

From CBS11TV:

AT&T Says Usage-Based Data Price Is Coming

Article here as long as it lasts

I’m not an AT&T cellular customer but to me this is just wrong and bad for business. The problem is that customers won’t make a stand and will still pay the fees because they don’t want to do without their little iPhones and such.

The real simple solution albeit probably expensive for AT&T is to just make sure your equipment can handle the product(s) you are selling before you sell them.

I’m a Sprint customer. Yes their customer service typically sucks ass and charging a one-time fee to add a new phone is utterly ridiculous (especially when AT&T sim cards pop in and out of phones without any charge) but they have a pretty good SIMPLY EVERYTHING plan at a good rate. I don’t use the data a whole lot other than email and email attachments through my Blackberry Curve 8330 but I think it still is a decent plan. Maybe if, when, the iPhone moves from AT&T exclusivity or a very comparable phone makes it to the Sprint line of phones, then we’ll be able to see how good the EVERYTHING plan really is.

Either way, I just think it’s sticking it to your customers to have tiered charges. Do it with Internet because different people have different needs but with cellular I think it should be a one-size-fits-all kind of deal.

It’s shit like this that makes me a blubbering idiot. I’m tempted to see if I can find the TV show to watch but why do I want to punish myself?

Kill or Be Killed. I remember seeing this when I was a wee little boy. Just like wanting to be Bruce Lee, James Ryan could have been a good second option.

I remember in this movie that James Ryan would make this noise when he would “flip” over his enemies. It was kind of like Chevy Chase’s character, Ty, in Caddyshack when he was putting multiple golf balls on the green for practice while having a conversation with Danny Noonan.

He also had a weird way (to me) of crossing his arms. Instead of overlapping them, he would cross his arms with his hands under his arm pits.

Anyway, as a little kid, it made an impression on me. Good thing they came out with a sequel called Kill and Kill again.

From the Dallas News:

Fort Worth teen files civil rights complaint, says volleyball coach benched her over pregnancy

Article here while it lasts

I really can’t comment on this other than something like is she not only stupid for getting knocked up as a teenager but very ignorant for thinking that she should continue to play volleyball while pregnant. Now, I can see that maybe she could have been the water girl or the girl that towels the floor after some sweaty player hits the deck but an actual ACTIVE player? Get real, stupid!

It’s obvious that she has no cares about the child she is carrying. She wants to seem responsible enough to want volleyball scholarships but she wasn’t responsible enough to make her baby’s daddy wear a freaking condom or just not have sex at all?

Up yours girlie! She should be ridiculed. Not for being pregnant as a teen (that’s like normal these days isn’t it?) but for being absolutely and completely stupid! Do you think scouts would actually extend any scholarships to you when they would know you are/were pregnant around signing time? They are not going to put their hopes on a single mother [they made no reference to a responsible father figure stepping up] when they could take a back seat to the child’s needs, as they should.

Somebody McFly her!

Hello, McFly!