Sunday, February 27, 2005

Do you have Keys?

Master Toad:"I hope you have your keys on you."
Other Driver:"Why?"
MT:"I locked the doors to your Jeep."
OD:"I do."
MT:"Damn."
OD:"Why?"
MT:"I was trying to lock your keys in it. I was gonna let the air out of your tires, but they're big. It would have taken a long time."



My now Defunct XBox

Is done. I took apart the darn thing and cleaned the lens and it still won't work. I was looking up some helpful shite and I found all these sites that explain how to mod your xbox. Clear cases, LED lights, and all that. Oh well, I did beat Mercenaries after all...(One of the reasons I wasn't posting much in the last weeks. I'm making up for it by designing an even more kick-ass Main Page.

Saturday, February 26, 2005

Weird Shite, a new message cup, and Brian, the Hardest Pizza dude on the Planet

Some random weirdness to fill in a lull in the area of specific weirdness:

Query: Why does my car smell exactly like pizza, and not old, musty pizza?
Response: You did not remove the pizza you returned from a customer FOUR DAYS AGO.


Check our the rims on this Golf Cart. Maybe I'm related.

Also, check out the walls in the dude's garage. Man knows how to spend his dough. You can't take it with you. They tipped me 8 bucks on 3 pizzas. nice.



This is Brian. He may be the Biggest Badass ever to work in a pizzeria.


Ladies, I hear he's single. (Just for the record, Brian posed for these shots. In all reality, he's just some normal dude.) Ladies...


You may have never played Pocket Tanks before...


But trust me, this is not normal. The result of a Dome Protect/Jump Jets combo.

BTW, if indeed, you have not tried pocket tanks, I'd suggest it. There's a fully functional demo for free to download from Blitwise.

Lastly, for now, I know I said it was dead, but much like Steven Segal, You just can't get rid of them:



(The response to this amazing work of Genius? A disgusted, 15 year old female "You're SO weird!")

My work here is done.

AMF

No Title

I once asked Kilgor why the hero in Vanishing Point did what he did.

"Because," He said, " It was the end for him. He was done."

I just watched "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" and I just wnat to know "WHY?" I know why. I just don't understand it. When it's my time to go?

Tooth and Nail, MOTHERFUCKER! TOOTH AND NAIL!!!

I'm sorry! [I'm not sorry]

For all those who want me to post more (I know, you're all nice enough not to say anything) SUCK IT! I've been busy with web shite and um, other stuff and the news of Hunter's death is really bothering me, an dthere's not much else to friggin' say right now, okay?

*or is there?*

Greetings, Corey. I meant to say it a long time ago but, um, I forgot. I hope you have a good time working for the facist Walmart. Man, that was lame. I want to be all like, "I'll miss you, my compadre, I hope I will meet you under a brighter sun, and a paler moon." But dude, you know we worked together. That was it. Besides, you might still work at the Talayna. I don't even know.

*Aside from not knowing what the hell I'm talking about*

I love Flickr.

* And then...*

NO and then! YOU PAY NOW!

WTF?

Thursday, February 24, 2005

Masthead Teaser

COMING SOON!

Wednesday, February 23, 2005

Those other blogs...soo much bull

Just kidding. I like other people's blogs, they make me happy. Like Mimi Smartypants, or George! I even think I found the infamous Maddox's Blog. It's here, to make the links less confusing. I guess he's not a pirate anymore, but I still am! Look at his profile, if you can find it in his crappy layout. his picture makes him look like a gurl! Pretty eyes though...[not]

My new masthead is coming along, but not being a pro photographer and not even really having a studio is slowing everything down. It's going to have a pirate theme, and hopefully the digital editing will be at a minimum, I'm getting ready for JPG's next topic.

I'm also going to add a flickr badge to my page, I believe. Is it over there yet?-------> I'm not sure if I'm going to post website stuff there, or just my own pics. Probably both. Is there even a difference?

I'm sure this is old news, but Paris Hilton's Sidekick got "hacked" into, and now all famous people's phone #'s are all over the web. Tonite I heard the DJ on the radio call one of them. It was friggin funny. He told him that he "did it" with Paris, and that he had herpies. The other guy just hung up on him. I guess you had to be there. Friggin Rizzuto.

I had nothing to do with this...

I swear, for the record, I had nothing to do with this...

Tuesday, February 22, 2005

Rum

I like Rum. That's it.

Self-help for the Self-absorbed

I'm pretty much dropping the message cup thing. You can get to the gallery here. It's also under stuff I did, and Archives. I dunno. There might be more, but I'm not making it a regular thing. Even the guy from Spamusement is slackin...I've done a little work around the site too. redid Kimba's Masthead, uploaded my Flickr account. Next: My masthead. Think Pirates!

Monday, February 21, 2005

That Guy, the one from the bathroom...at Buffalo Wild Wings.

Okay, I'm going to try to be charmingly specific about what happened at Buffalo Wild Wings saturday night, so that the google adsense robots will hopefully change the ad at the side of my page. Johan, Jimmy and Joel ( yes, all the names start with a J, even the made up ones) went to Buffalo Wild Wings after they got off work at a resturaunt on Saturday. BWW basically a sports bar specializing in chicken wings. Fried chicken wings. Chicken wings with hot sauce on them. They actually have twelve different "signature sauces" with which to cover your chicken wings. I am a freid chicken wing freak. I love fried chicken wings in hot sauce. Okay, enough of that crap, I'm telling a story over here.

So we're at BWW and no one is there. For about 12 minutes, anyway. After that an obnoxious drunk wedding party showed up and totally stole all the servers and help. (that's typical, the service sucks there anyway. But cmon', 12 sauces!) After we gorged on hot wings, I got up to go to the restroom and wash the sauce out of my ears and off the back of my neck. That's when That Guy walked into the restroom and announced himself with a mighty "HELLO!"

Not one to be put off by something odd happening, I replied "What's Up?" while waiting my turn at the cleaning trough.
"Wow!" He said, "Nice hat!" remarking on my horn, and patting it at the same time. Strike one. I proceeded to ignore him and wash my elbows and chin. Later on, back at the table and waiting for the second round, I relived the story to the guys. Weird was the general conjecture, but all of us had been in a wedding party before, so we know that nothing is to be entirely unexpected. Except someone not showing up...

Polishing offf the second round, and waiting for our server again, some random drunk wandered over to our table. He introduced himself as _____ (That Guy) and then he noticed me again.
"Hey! You're that guy! The one with the horn!" (Now I know how hellboy feels, and strike two.)
After that That Guy asked us our names, starting with Joel. As expected, he replied "Joel." Then he asked Jimmy his name, and much to my shagrin, he announced it was in fact "Carl." Damn. I was gonna say "Joe" but I had to concentrate on not laughing. at least he didn't follow it with "Brotononolewski." I would have busted a gut. So I told That guy theat my name was Toad and Johan said his name was Johan, and That Guy totally Bought it. Then he noticed I was wearing a Clutch shirt.

"Is that your nickname?" He slurred.
"No, It's a band."I replied.
"A kickass band." Agreed Johan.
"Thatsh the besht nickname eveerr!" Unfortunately it was during this amazing discovery that our waitress returned with the check.
"Hey, [server] Cara, can you think of a better nickname than Clutsch?" she replied with the most patient of get-outta-my-way-you-drunk looks that she could indeed not think of a better nickname. Then there's me, with my cynical, irritated, I am Jack's endless desire to knock this guy out so I can get on with my own business ass.
"I can think of a better nickname..." I noted as I put my Carhartt on. "How about Jimmy?" I grinned, threw twenty bucks on the table and left. Before I got to the front door I heard, all too late, "Howsh about Carl?"

Hunter S. Thompson...

He's dead. He shot himself in the head. Another one of my personal heroes gone. I'm not going to change the button on top of my page, because the bastard shot himself.

Back when I was just getting around to getting my diploma in high school, I was just getting into a little recreational drug use. This is about the same time that "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" came out in theaters. Who was this man? This lunatic running around public wacked out on ether and LSD? It was the most bizarre movie I had ever seen at the time. It inspired me, because if Hunter could get away with it, maybe someone else could. Maybe, I could do what I wanted with my life, and actually enjoy it.

I bought VHS copy for all of my friends, just in case I wanted to watch it at one of their houses. Later on I learned that Hunter was actually alive, and Johnny Depp spent like six months living with him to get the role right. I always wnated to go meet the man, shake his hand and look into his eyes. I can't do that now. My God, he shot himself. 67 years of drinking, drugging, and smoking. I guess it was just time to go. I don't know. I can't kill myself, it's anti-survival, so I'll never understand. You know how I feel about the whole death thing.
So anyway, Fly Free Brother. Drinks are on me next round.
AHSTYMF

Wednesday, February 16, 2005

Annoyed

Getting busted by the cops after taking your last delivery (twice, because the address was wrong, Brian) for an illegal lane change and $8oo worth of other bullshit is annoying... but seeing the Bandit take it to the smokies is at least a comfort. That and the Rum. And what the cops didn't confiscate. I'll tell the story, maybe, on my death bed.

Monday, February 14, 2005

Doce

Dooce has changed her masthead. Again. That's in as many months. Which is good, I change ours every month. For the main site. you think I'm going to do 3 a month? these are quality mastheads, people. I'll have a new one for Kimba soon hopefully, and I think Fussy inspired me to redo mine, with a theme. Spades night is ON! And I'm going to golf now. All are invited be there by 3:30, we'll be there at 4pm.

AMF

Wednesday, February 09, 2005

704d.style.com

I heard that in order to be an artist you need to go to school. To be famous, like DaVinci, Rembrant, and the like. Well, in typical 704d style I say...(all together)...FUCK THAT! Who taught DaVinci, anyways? What did they even have to teach back then? Crop rotation? Physics? Rennaissance theory? We did talk a little about education at the bar tonite. I came to the conclusion of 2 things: 1, I do not need to go to school to be taught. I am a student of life, and if I can recognize the importance of learning something, then I can teach it to my damn self. Hello, internet. This is my website. I created it, maintain it, and have done all of it without any technical schooling. The other one...(well I was at the bar, hold on...)2, um...something about continued education as a means of avoiding a real job, or something. hell, make up your own No.2, I don't care. Assuming that I don't meet anyone famous, I will never feel inferior to anyone else ever again.

Deffinately annoyed an having nothing to show for it.

I don't know what the hell is wrong with my airbrush. It has a stutter in the emission, like someone the lights on and off. I had to return the wireless remote that I rigged up to make last months insurance payment. I don't care, since I cannot use the damn thing anyway. It seems to be the compressor, but I don't know anyone that has one, save Phil at the shop. We all know that ain't going to happen. Man, I'm pissed.

I was at the liquor store the other day, and captain dork took too long to check my I.D. versus the real me. Then he told me I gained weight. It's one thing to be a dork. Nothing wrong with that. It's another thing to affect me with your requisite dorkness. Be a dork on your own time, loser. I'm a paying customer.

Did I just say loser? I'm sorry. This is a tender subject for me. You see, without my goatee, I look like I'm about 17. This would be very helpful if I was into banging young chicks, but I'm not. I am into adult activities, and FUCK YOUR I'M-IDing-YOU-AND-IT'S-AWKWARD-BECAUSE-YOU-ARE-OLD smalltalk. I've heard it all before. You think I haven't?
I didn't even shave off my goatee. I always get carded unless SEE THE HORN? DO-YOU-GET-IT-NOW? AS IF EVERY LIQUOR STORE IN MISSOURI IS A BODEGA.

Work time.
AMF

Monday, February 07, 2005

Postcard from the edge

A little backstory: Back in the day on a show called Liquid Television there was a short called postcards from the edge, or something like that. It showed all these bizarre photos and had the voice of a seriel killer narating. He sounded like a serial killer anyway. I've got some photos from the weekend, but I have long forgot what the hell really happened. So I'm just going to make something up. Without further ado...
Postcards from the Edge
Dear mum,
I was on stakeout last night.

Ran into an old friend.


She said we had to make a delivery:

So we stole a truck.

We found our contact,


But had trouble with the bodyguard.


So I created a distraction

Made the drop.


She stayed behind to erase their memories.


So I left.

I visited the cat lady, but she was asleep.


So I stole her newspaper.


The end?




Sunday, February 06, 2005

A Dream:

I just woke up from a horrible nightmare. I had gone back to work with my former employer after he talked me into just making a delivery one day. WE worked in the basement of my old house instead of the shop. It took all of five minutes before he renigged on his word and had me do a bunch of stupid shit. And he wanted me to silk screen a bunch of photocopies. Why? he didn't want to spen money at a printer. So instead of paying 10 cents a copy, wh was paying like 2.00. THat prompted a screaming match wherein My mother showed up and I began cussing at her. Realizing this was not normal, I proceded to wake up and THANK GOD (after a minute of where the hell am I ) That I don't actually work there anymore. One day the post traumatic stress will be gone as well. I hope. I'm going back to bed.

Thursday, February 03, 2005

Ghost in the Shell

has there ever been a movie that moved you to tears? Think for a second or two. I...I remember crying during Mel Gibson's "We Were Soldiers", but I was drunk, so that doesn't count.

Battle Box

Yesterday I spent my day off playing disc golf with my friends and generally slacking off. Played some GTA, drank some beer and whiskey, and the like. I fully enjoyed it. One of the games we play at disc golf to divert our attention from what we should be doing is called the Battle Box. Here are some pictures of golf and THE BOX. They're from last year. Basically you square off in the box, shake hands, and the person who stays in wins. It's a mixture of grappling, Sumo, and good old American football. The rules are simple. Initiate a handshake, and upon release, go at it. You cannot place a knee on the ground for leverage, and there is no striking, biting, or gouging. Just push the other guy out of the box. Or throw him. Or fling him. Or whatever.

I didn't play much last season due to the ridiculous amount of energy spent doing simple tasks at the sign shop and weight gain stress on my lower joints. I did not want to blow a knee out. This morning, however, I woke up sore as hell. Okay, realistically, this afternoon I woke up sore as hell. My legs and groin and shoulder are still sore, and I have Mike prints* on one arm. I boxed Gnu twice, and Kene once. Man, I felt really good. I lost to both of them. I'm not used to having to move my new mass in the box, but I'm learning fast. I could have beat Gnu the second time around,(best 3 out of 5) but I pulled a Mike Martz and tried a new technique for NO GOOD REASON. Kene had me beat squarely with a 3-1 score. Next time it won't be so easy.

I think My arm is sore, because for no reason throughout the game [disc golf] I would scream at Kilgor,"You Bastard! You fool! You liva solong! Why you liva solong?!!***" Then I would try to karate chop the shit out of his upper back as hard and fast as I could. He claimed to enjoy this very much. I think he was really afraid. Later on, after hole 17 there is this big field in view of the parking lot that you have to walk down. kind of a big hill rather, with a volleyball court or two. This is the last place to take out any unspent aggression or shenanigans. I took a couple of cheap shots on Kilgor and scored, and got a little too bold. I remember getting him in a full nelson, and taking him to the ground, but then he was laying on top of me with me on my back and I couldn't breathe very well. He pretty much stayed there, resting, till I had to tap out. It never even occurred to me to try and flip him over. I was going for the throat by that time. Gret fun.

I was told tonight that Talayna's in O'Fallon will be closed on monday and tuesday effective immediately. That's the last step before going out of business. Cecil's was like that, and so was that other place. It doesn't matter, I'm going to Mr. Goodnuts next week hopefully. I'm sick of pizza.
Special shout out to analraM. I hear she's checking in on the site tomorrow. I tried to give her some stickers, but I can't GIVE the damn things away.

The google program is going so-so. I cna't tell you to click on every ad you see every day, or I would. I did get 0.69cents**** from one click yesterday. So if it was you who clicked yestarday, good work. >;-) Keep it up. I guess that's it for now, but let me just say, that I was drunk. When I posted about that dream. Waaaay drunk.

*Mike prints, or to be "Miked" is when an opponent in the battle box grabs the arm so hard in an attempt to leverage their opponent he/she** leaves bruises. It is a poor technique, frowned upon by all boxers
**No girls box. This is not a rule, just a fact
***Super Milk Chan commercial that Adult Swim plays too much
****There is no cents sign on keyboards anymore. who approved that? we got $, &, @ and , but no cents sign. Who uses anyway?

A dream:

I had a dream last night or this morning or whatever. I was sick, but I was dead tired. The kind of tired that you would rather pee in your own bed rather than get up kind of tired. (For the record, that is how I felt in the dream, not EVER in real life.) so I went to the toilet, and hurled. I hurled like I never hurled before. But I was so sick that I didn't have the strength to get up out of the toilet. So every time the bowl filled up I started to drown and had to hold my breath, over and over. Between breaths, I reasoned how long I could do this for, How I could keep it from happening again, and hjow long it was going to be until I gave up and sucked water.
Well, to be honest, knowing it was a dream in the back of my mind, I sucked water first. I wanted to know what it would be like to drown, or to die. I have heard before it was very peaceful, and I would like to know peace, in a textbook form.

However, finding death much to my disliking, I decided I would literally flush again and drag my sorry ass out of the toilet, if only to pass out onto the cold bathroom floor. Unfortunately, I found myself unable to get up, the very life energy sucked out of my muscles. It was only my own sheer will that allowed me to push the plunger again. I heaved a wiegh that was not only unimaginable, but completely a figment of my own mind, fear, and inferiority complex (sp?) in order to stay alive. I was fighting for my very life. I won. I wanted to live.

I woke up aware of what happened, and there was no shaking, high heartbeat, or anything. I guess I just wanted to sit throught it...

I AM SURE NOW

Wednesday, February 02, 2005

I want money! (cha-cha-cha)

First day of adsense= (dun dun dun) 1.02$! Boo-Ya!

Tuesday, February 01, 2005

How I sold out ( a little )

SO I'm sure you have noticed the google ads. I haven't sold out totally. Google said that I can keep doing what I do, and they'll try to help support me in their way.
We've been around for six months now, and that means I 've only got six months to figure what to do about server fees and such. So I'm going to see how well these ads work out. I'll put some on Kimba's page if I make any $ in the first week. The cash is solely going to go to the site, unless there is a lot of extra dough to spread around. I've got a mind for some T-shirts, I need my own computer AND photohsop AND an apartment... 704d.com gets paid per click so... Yea, who am I talking to? I gave up on the free ipod.
Tonite was hell at work, just like the good old days. It was funny to see everyone freaking out and all the drama. I'd like to say exactly what went on, but the walls have eyes, Yo? Let's just say that I made almost as much $ waiting tables as I did driving... (not.)

I sold out. (on my terms)

I'LL explain why and how when I get back from work. You can see to whom ------->

Yarg!