BPloG

Under Pressure

So we are approaching the four month anniversary of my last post, and I figured I had better write something soon or else my account might deactivate or some shit like that.

First of all, to those of you who crap on me for not writing more often, F off (I love that expression . . . I think it is actually more forceful than the otherwise crass "fuck off"). Just be thankful that you have a job and a lifestyle that permits you to jot down your personal thoughts and inane observations on an almost daily basis.

Just kidding (sort of); I appreciate that people want to read each other's random thoughts, and I do try to check everyone else's blog occasionally (it takes exponentially more time to post on one's own blog than to scan a few other people's blogs). A stretch of being very busy at work kept me from writing, but, in fairness, I also just sort of let it slide.

All that out of the way, the other reason I don't write very often is because I don't have too much to say. Before the Mets season started I wrote about them a lot, but now that they have become a constant source of humiliation for me, I really don't want to talk about them. Provided the G-Men continue to play well, I guess I could write more about them. Perhaps I will do so.

I could write about politics, but, much like the Mets, the current climate in politics nauseates me. I've always believe that, notwithstanding significant disagreements with this administration on policy, there were at least competent people running the show. Now I don't even believe that. I mean, Mike Browne, are you fucking kidding me? The guy spent six weeks as an intern for disaster relief for some volunteer fire department in West Bumblefuck Oklahoma and now he runs FEMA? All because Bush used to do blow with a friend of his? Jesus. Who's running the treasury? Some crackhead who used to shine Bush Sr.'s shoes? Are we going to wake up one morning to find out that America is broke because the crackhead went on a binge and spent all the money in the joint checking account? Are we? Seriously, it should scare the shit out of you that the guy running the FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY is a moron, and got his job as a favor. Any chance we might have a FEDERAL EMERGENCY that needs to be MANAGED? Hmmm?

So, you know, politics is out.

What else . . . . arbitrary updates from my life? People seem to like that:

1. Meaghan and I just moved in together. Our landlord (who we have not met, only corresponded with via phone and email) is Carol Potter, who starred on TV's Beverly Hills 90210 as Cindy Walsh.

Ian Ziering does the gutters.

2. IKEA is amazing, and will certainly report increased profits this quarter on me alone.

3. I am just short of my one-year anniversary at work. I still don't know what the fuck I am doing most of the time, but, all in all, I must admit that this first year has not been too bad.

I guess I could also write about other non-political current events. One thing comes to mind, probably because it touches the area of law in which I practice. Delta and Northwest filed for bankruptcy protection yesterday, within 30 minutes of each other, and they say it was a total coincidence. That is some bullshit. Filing for bankruptcy is not liking stopping in at the bank, or dropping off some shit at the cleaners. Delta didn't just stroll down to the Bankruptcy Court to file, and bump in to Northwest, "hey, Delta, how are you?" "Good, good, just filing for bankruptcy protection and seeking hundreds of millions of dollars in emergency financing." "Yeah, yeah, so are we, so are we." "Well, see you later."

Bull.

Everyone and their mom knew that Delta was going to file, and Northwest was MAD dl about the whole thing. I guarantee you they had all their shit ready to go a week ago, and were just waiting to push the button once Delta filed.

Incidentally, not a bad strategy, since now they only get half the press for filing for bankruptcy, when they would have gotten all of it by going first, or waiting a few more months.

Well, those are my random thoughts for the day. I'll try to write a bit more often, and a bit more coherently, for the rest of the year.

posted by Brian G. @ 5:07 PM