sometimes, you can find something so freakishly juxtapatory (is that even a real word?) that it strikes you as hilarious.

and so, with that, i present strindberg and helium.

enjoy.

tonight i’ve got plans to go see some scary stuff with jen, naomi and corey. i will look such the ladies man. though really, is that so different from any other day?

poorly tailored shirt, my ass.

at work today, i didn’t get a profit sharing check. No one did. according to management, this is because we didn’t turn a profit for the third quarter. now, what really sucks is that back when i had my review, (you know, the one where things turned kind of nasty) i was told that i wasn’t getting a raise, but that i was going to be added to the profit share pool, which is like getting a raise, but somehow this was actually better. so by some jacked up logic, getting no money is better than getting a raise. i’m not really sure how that works, but i know that a raise would help me pay my bills, and this doesn’t.

ahhh. sweet bitterness ensues….

the next time you think your life is completely and utterly useless, just thank your lucky stars you’re not the lame-o that had to create
jar-jar binks porn.

a small sample for those not too disturbed by this:

You are the Low-Fidelity All-Star. You were born
with your cool, and it’s totally natural. You
run the gamut from Hipster Supreme (only they
can ingest as much coffee as you) to the geeky
hipster (Mario Kart, anyone?).

What Kind of Hipster Are You?
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You’re Geek Chic. Offbeat and with a thumbful of
calluses, you spend most of your time catching
Simpsons reruns and sucking down raspberry
Jell-O. However, you’re still a hipster,
you’ve still got your own style, and you
probably dig the Velvet Underground’s “Who
Loves the Sun?”

What Kind of Hipster Are You?
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it’s always kind of weird for anyone with any sort of pride in their company to see a rival shut down. Broad Street always had some animosity towards my company, but i always saw them as a really good specialty roastery. i’m not sure what’s going to happen to the crew over there, but hopefully they’ll stay in the roasting game.

is there anything they don’t know?

yesterday, corey and i went to see i <3 huckabees…i can’t remember the character code to make the little heart, so the less than and 3 will have to do.

it was a really great movie, absolutely hilarious in parts with a crazy kind of existential presentation of arguments providing a lot of interesting dialogue throughout the entire thing. couple that up with some bizarre special effects as the people are talking about deconstructing and reconstructing and you get a really nifty film.

i reminded me a lot of a wes anderson kind of movie, except it was a little more cerebral. i don’t see that as a bad thing.

corey and i went to louisburg today. there’s not really a lot going on there, but it was a nice drive for a pleasantly weathered afternoon.

tonight is the multiparty option and there’s no telling what we’ll actually end up doing.

the state fair….rocked. the demolition derby was everything i thought it would be and more. we saw just about every possible food imaginable, offered in one of two ways: Fried (e.g. cheeseburgers, twinkies, candybars, and yes, even banana pudding) or on a stick (e.g. alligator, porkchops, and yes, even banana pudding again…)

corey, julie, tim and i all had a really great time. tim paid money to see a giant rat, while the rest of us were content to just see him telling us how big it was. apparently, the rat wasn’t sad looking at all, even if it was kept in a dumpster. while the rat didn’t completely fill up the dumpster, it was pretty big…

we also were tempted by seeing the snake woman and worlds tiniest woman (29 inches…) but realized later that they might not have been everything you would have hoped for after paying 50 cents each to see the smallest (and apparently most depressed) horse.

as for rides, we rode the zipper, where i’m pretty sure our cage was missing some bolts…we also rode one of the two ferris wheels, an the crazy mouse. throw in some pygmy goats, mutant humongous rabbits, and a glimpse into a milking parlor, and that pretty much sums up the outing…