Wow I feel really stupid. Me being a huge Shakespeare fan and forgetting this is the Ides of march. Really I feel dumb. Also I saw over at Blue’s a funny spin on this “All your base are belong to us” thing. I personally did not find the original to humorous. Hence the reason there is no link to that crap. But here is a funny twist on it. And I really felt this was clever. All your Calvin are belongs to us!

That’s it. Beware the Ides of March and all that shit! Also check out the Forum which has become more like the style of my pages.

It’s amazing that when I point out that there is a Forum, that people join. So this is a cheap attempt to pimp my Forum again. And while we are at it let me say “quick look behind you it’s Santa Claus!” Sorry I couldn’t help that. So as I said last time I would like to replace the GuestBook with the Forum. I won’t eliminate the GuestBook right away, but it’s something I would like to do. I think so much more can be done with the Forum. It’s more interactive than a GuestBook. At least that’s how I feel about it.

I also have a movie recommendation. If you have not seen The Contender yet, make sure to go out and rent it. It was an excellent film. I highly recommend it. The whole point of the movie is the trouble a woman gets into after she is nominated as Vice President. Joan Allen plays the woman and does a superb job. Gary Oldman sneaks in the movie playing a McCarthy-like asshole who is out to get her. There is more to it than that, but you just have to see it. I think a lot of it deals with how out of control Political Correctness has grown.

I also loved Jeff Bridges as the President. He was wild. Bridges would scream out loud just for effect. Goofy. Still a great movie.

What in the hell does look busy really mean? The reason I ask is I just heard the M.O.D. ask the bellman this. The bellman was sitting in the chair to the left of me doing nothing. Me, I was sitting here surfing the net. Now the bellman had nothing to do, as long as the kid does his job correctly. And the guy on tonight does a good job. The M.O.D. was a newbie, first time up to bat. To me saying “look busy” is the same as the kid telling Neo “there is no spoon.” Ponder that for a while. Then move on to the next paragraph.

I do understand the concept of looking busy. If “they” are going to be gracious enough to pay us, we should at least look like we are earning it. And that’s really what it boils down to. “They” would sleep easier knowing that we at least pretended to look busy. There is a defiance in not looking busy that must scare “them.” That is the only rational reason I can say. Well that I can say not being a manager. Now from a manager’s small point of view, it would be better for the employee to punch out and go home if they had no work to do. A manager looks after the interests of themselves (first) and then the company (second).

I’m sorry but that’s really what it comes done to. It’s us against “them.” The managers that have bought into the hard line corporate thinking. That have become nothing but corporate shill’s. It’s the ones that start out at the bottom and work their way up, and then forget where they came from. It’s those managers I hate the most.

As usual I’ll ask for some outside explanations which can be sent to @hotelblues.com.

Today is the Birthday of a guy I know named Kevin Rindfliesch. He has many nick names and alias’s for a guy who isn’t a constant troublemaker. Every year around this time I ask him “does getting a year older bother you?” And he always shrugs and says no. The shit doesn’t bother him.

So I wish him a happy B-Day and I owe him a beer.

Hopefully today’s headline will be some kind of indication to as what is ailing me. Or you could listen to this news bulletin. Really I have pinkeye. The contagious kind. So you all just caught it by looking at the site. It’s a top secret Perl script. Kidding.

Hey I heard from JP and don’t worry I’m all about confidentiality. I wouldn’t have stayed in business as long as I have if I did things differently.

I’m going to keep this short. I have to go and put eye drop medicine in. Now that really sucks.

One final note here is a page that TheChampion.org missed that you people should check out!

Well I had Adrian explain what’s wrong with the kids these days. That’s right below. No teachers have sent in their explanations. I am a little distressed by Adrian’s “its just fucked up kids.” I really would like some really smart guy to tell why all this has to happen.

A good bud of mine named Saddler sent in this link that leads to Salary listing for teachers at my beloved South Beloit High School. Here’s how much my favorite History Teacher/Football Coach made in 1999-2000. Sorry Mr. Peterson I couldn’t resist. The website Thechampion.org will let you look up any teacher/school in Illinois.

And I don’t want any of my high school readers teasing the low paid teachers. That would be mean. If you do a little searching you will even find out how much the Superintendent makes. Or you could click here.

Ok I think I caused enough trouble for this morning.

Here’s what Adrian had to say about “kids these days” and remember he’s one of them:

Hey Turk, I read your most recent article. Damn right the kids are screwed up. I happen to be a kid living today, so I see it all the time. But I don’t think its the parents. I had a shitty upbringing, my parents tried to do good, they made me what I am, but my parents were MEAN to me. I think its just fucked up kids. And its not the games, because for the last 12 years of my life I have played Tekken 1, 2, 3, Tomb Raider 1 and 2, Resident Evil (I have all of them), Quake 2 (just bought it yesterday), Doom, Perfect Dark (my fave), and Goldeneye. Yet I don’t feel at all like running frantically down the main hall at my school toting the biggest friggin’ gun I can wield. I think its just stupid. I think its just fucked up kids.

Makes me afraid.