before i launch, i'd like to say i hate the whole google/blogger partnership. i certainly didn't like being forced to create a google account in order to access my blog page.
what a week. ate out a couple of times because my hands were too damn cramped up from editing i perform for 8 measly bucks an hour for the glorified elitist university. first place, taco bell. order got fucked up--two times. i saw and met the kid who was preparing it. he was high as a kite. given his demeanor, it was likely on the herbal stuff. i could have done something but being i know what it's like to work for a large employer, doing the grunt work for a pitiful amount of money, making the whole scenario akin to slave labor, i let it go. hell, i'd have to be high as well to work in fast food. besides, the young kids working there are friendly and don't give adult visitors that "ok hurry up and order" gaze. second place, KFC. home to the "we have jacked up our prices and reduced our portions by 25%. home to the "ok hurry up and order" gazers.
call me old fashioned. i like things to stay the same. both places change their menus too often and fill up the space with massive pictures of supposedly mouth-watering food that doesn't look a damn thing like the real deal. so many visuals overwhelm me. just make a list of what you have and forgo the obnoxious photos, please. anyone remember the movie with michael douglas, falling down? remember the scene where he walks into a burger joint, places an order, sees the "real deal" and demands they make him a burger that looks like the ones in the picture? they refuse until he pulls out a semi-automatic. i love that scene! while i don't support putting guns in the faces of fast food workers, it would be nice if people would refuse the food until it is cooked as advertised.
sigh. all of this just peeved me off, making me think "i need people" to be doing this cooking shit for me. i'm sick of being poor. sick of living in a society that still doesn't really address the issues of poverty. it is fucking DRAINING. and it doesn't help when you live in a city that has few jobs, most paying poverty wages and housing (ownership and rentals) that continue to skyrocket while local city officials think the answer is to build more apartments (cram 'em in like sardines) and "affordable" housing. by that they mean housing that starts around $135,000. still too rich for those making $8-$10/hour, wouldn't you say?
hey, i was published this week. of course it was without permission. a local publisher recently launched a new publication. he had advertised for local freelance writers a few months ago, to which i applied--twice. first attempt, he claims he never received and asked me to resubmit, which i did. despite his promise of "i will get back to you", he failed to do so. just for the heck of it, i decided to check out his rag, er mag. as i read through the "from the publishers desk" section, i noticed words that sounded familiar. i glanced down and saw my name attached to them. the bastard had used a portion of my cover letter/application, whereby i was offering my thoughts on why i believed his publication would be useful for our community, all without my permission! i called the number in the publication, left a message. the publisher called me back and gave me what was essentially a line of shit. first he tried to insist he had the right to use and publish any e-mail that came to him, without permission. lawyers told me that, he said, to which i said "you need to get yourself a new attorney." i said that was a private e-mail i sent you in response to a position. i was a potential employee seeking work with you. do you really think if i were to apply at a local employer, they could use my information as they saw fit for business purposes? hell no!
at first he tried saying he received so many e-mails, he didn't remember who i was. oh but wait, then he vaguely remembered me. then suddenly, WOW--he remembered who i was. he then tried to butter me up by saying "well i had planned on using you but i didn't see a manuscript". he said there was no attachment (amazing how his memory suddenly came back to him, eh?). i said "of course there was no attachment. i sent you a writing sample at the end of the e-mail, as i noted in my opening paragraph." i then said "if you really were interested in me, i would think you would have simply sent me an e-mail, saying no writing sample was included." he also continued his sleazy sales attempt by saying "well i thought i was doing you a favor. you had such nice things to say about my idea i thought people would read your words and say 'wow, what a nice lady she is.'" to that i said "i don't need you convincing people about how nice i am." please. what an i d i o t. but i will give him this--he sure is good at making shit up on the fly. he will go far in publishing.........
what he did was obvious. he used my words to promote his publication. i said as such and said "can you understand how that feels? you failed to keep your word in getting back to me after i applied but then used my words anyway to promote yourself? that falls under the definition of sleazy to me." he apologized--profusely, he said. but i still didn't buy it. he had a smarmy energy to him. i may be a crabby, disgruntled grump, but at least i am real. i don't try and manipulate my way with people with sleazy tactics. but what can i say? he's an editor, a publisher, a salesman. that's how many of them are. the last one i worked for was very much the same way. give you a smile while lying through his teeth in some fashion. and, like this guy, full of excuses.
as i hung up he said "please make sure and read my publication again". i laughed and said "ha" or some such brilliant word.
so what's up in the news department. i'm too lazy to post links, even though i know those draw my readership. you'll just have to google this stuff yourself this time. rosie o'donnell has now come out of the closet--again you could say. this time about 9/11 and what really happened to the WTC buildings. is it a publicity stunt or her own truth? a bit of both? likely it is her own truth that she is handling in such a way as to keep her publicity in a positive or at least respectable light. also in the news is a revisitation to an old story--about the kid from alaska who, in 2002, paraded across the street from his school with a "bong hits 4 jesus" sign. it's going to the supreme court tomorrow. the headline is hysterical. "'bong hits 4 jesus' case goes to high court" jay leno would have a good time with that one. terrorist mastermind KSM is said to have been responsible for planned attacks on the Plaza Bank in Washington State in 2003, according to the Pentagon. only thing is, Plaza Bank didn't open until 2006. ah, what prolonged torture will do to a person. oh well, it's all ok. it will all get covered up or explained in some way. reading all of this ongoing shit has made me realize it's too heavy for me to carry. i have my own life to focus on. it's a world full of lying pigs for sure oh but wait, we cannot use the word pigs anymore now because it may offend the muslims. google that one too. if you find nothing, look it up on david icke's website. politically correct insanity only furthering the move to censor us all, irregardless of how brilliant or stupid we may sound.
we watched the first season of "weeds" on dvd. i have mixed thoughts on it. there are real issues for sure, but it seems most of the emphasis is on fucking others and getting high. maybe that's what they have to do in the subarbs to stay sane? i guess if i lived in that mold i'd be insane, too--just in a different way than i feel i am now.........the best part of the series is the theme song. and they all live in little boxes made out of ticky tacky and they all look the same.
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