"Devil's Night" written by Vincent on estrip.org

Category: goth

10/31/07 12:41 - 47ºF - ID#41899

Devil's Night

Yea

I'm trying to do some schoolwork and in a perfect world I should be watching the original movie "The Crow" Tonight. Not the shitty ass greedy Hollywood sequels. It's sad that the made 3 of those "other" one's.

Makes me thing of a time when being goth was original and not some dumb thing that is sold inside a mall...

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Location: Youngstown, NY

Category: dating

10/26/07 01:01 - 47ºF - ID#41809

late night pickup

So with a long night @ the NU library working on my Accounting Theory homework a woman in the row of computers drops a bunch of papers. I turn around and pick them up not thinking much about it. Well as they are kicking us out of the place we start talking as we head out to our cars. After about 15 minutes of conversation in the cold we exchange numbers. She's working on her social work masters @ UB but comes back to NU since he did her under grad here and likes the cozy small campus.

So we're most likely going to see Saw 4 in the near future. I'm not sure if anything is going to come out of this but at least I got a nice ego boost. I just wonder if stuff like this that falls in my lap can be a possible negative since it skews my "game" in the sense that I'm not as extending/outgoing when I'm out hitting the scene?

She's quite cute to say the least :-)

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Category: gambling

10/25/07 10:26 - 48ºF - ID#41803

Indian Casinos

This is why going to any Seneca Casino can be a even more risky proposition than already being at a disadvantage to the house

Right or Wrong with this guy, you have NO Recourse if something happens to you when you're in there. Just keep that in mind if someone smashes your car in the parking ramp or worse... You're not in the NY state and barerly in the US for that matter.

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Category: zombies

10/19/07 08:07 - 71ºF - ID#41709

Zombie Walk on Elmwood

My friend Marv finally posted some video on Youtube of his annual Zombie Walk.

I think this kid is going to be scared for life. The Second Vid is pretty funny, especially in the beginning. Marv is leading the procession and is always a bit loud.

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Category: media

10/16/07 01:18 - 52ºF - ID#41669

Fox (Faux) Business Channel

What a B-day present a new business channel. All I can say is I bet there is some real seismic drama erupting behind the scenes involving the two flagship hotties of the top 2 business channels. I can only imagine Erin Burnett

is saying about Alexis Glick

Those two links should illustrate what Rupert is really after. From what I saw today basically it is totally dummed down news given by "hot chicks." They have taken it to the lowest common denominator. Everything they have done so far is to "talk down" to the viewer. When I was 18 I was challenged to figure out what they were talking about and move my level up to theirs not to hope they lower themselves to mine.

I'm sure if Rupert could have those chicks appear topless like page 3 in those tabloids he'd do it in a heartbeat. So in that sense it's ironic that a conservative media outlet puts first and foremost "hot chicks;" What kind of family values is that trying to portray?

CNBC has the High Net Worth individuals and for the time being I don't see them going astray except for some eye Candy. The problem is what are they going to do when Murdock takes the Wall Street Journal the bible of American business to the Junior College Level from the current MBA level that is written? What will the professors make their students read for class projects at that point? That is what is really going to cause the next business downturn, bad business journalism NOT SubPrime Credit Crunches...

Oh, I should give full disclosure I'd take Alexis over Erin any day!

Fuck, his plan is working already ;-)

mrmike writes at 08:50:19 10/19/07 - Comment #26580: I'm with Josh on this one. Fox will be fine. For all the reasons he stated plus perhaps the most important one of all, monetary backing. A new network of any kind has one big need and that be money: startup costs, etc as well the lean times to get you through before advertising dollars truly kick in. Uncle Rupert should be able to keep this from being an issue.

joshua writes at 10:25:49 10/16/07 - Comment #26346: Actually I think FBC will be very successful.

The strategy behind the launch of FBC was to focuse more on a "Main St." approach rather than a "Wall St." approach to things. This to me is a completely ignored marketplace for viewers. People who are interested in economics and investments typically are among the class that can afford to bother. Trying to gain viewers by taking a more common approach is a winning formula in my eyes, but of course all of that remains to be seen.

The hot chick formula for news is old. Like my brother stated, this is a well worn tactic to try to gain viewership for news programming. Gotta give it to PBS though - they've always had thoroughly ugly people do their news for generations!

Of course this journal entry was primarily written to try to rip Fox and Rupert Murdoch, so the discussion of the channel was secondary anyway. I'm amused at the anti-FNC contingent that thinks their news sources are white as snow. I could go on and on about the hypocritical nature of that position, much of which is willingly ignored. I have to say, this is too cliche to bother writing about.

jason writes at 09:44:16 10/16/07 - Comment #26337: If you turn to CNN, or for that matter most networks and their spinoff channels, you will see plenty of gorgeous women too, the most famous one of all being Robin Meade. The media people I know worship her. She gets fluff pieces in trade mags. Rupert is far from being a pioneer here.

Now, most people aren't going to do what you did, and learn everything they can about the markets. They have their professional handle it, if they have any investments at all. The cynical part of me thinks the programming that exists today is made to reinforce the barrier between the "investment" class and us regular folks.

leetee writes at 09:09:51 10/16/07 - Comment #26336: Happy Birthday!

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10/15/07 12:41 - 50ºF - ID#41656

South Florida #2 !

The University of South Florida Bulls are #2 in the Nation! Wow is all I can say. Actually I've been wearing my old USF hat that I bought 7 years ago around town. What is cool is it's the old logo and no one can call me a "bandwagon jumper" Since my Mom lives in Sarasota for most of the year I adopted the Tampa Bay area teams. Back in the day USF had a campus in Sarasota, New College. Although they regained their independence as an institution last year it's just amazing to see a school that had 2,000 students 48 years ago become a national power in a sport.

It's just good to have other outlets for my sporting requirements. After last Monday I'm glad that I have had my heart associated with a team that won a Super Bowl, Go Bucs! Watching the game today although not entertaining as the Monday night game, did provide an outlet for sports legitimacy.

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Category: going out

10/14/07 12:50 - 53ºF - ID#41641

last night

I must say although most baseball purists were not fans of the late game I absolutely loved it. To me there is nothing cooler than a sporting event being live @ 1am in the morning. When I was sitting at the bar with my friend B.B. last night at Frizzy's it was a blast. That place is so much fun for some reason. It was also great to run into a couple of (e:strip) peeps which just made it an even better time.

So what happened after the Sox imploded? We ended up on some bar on Englewood! Don't ask, I would blog about it but I do like to keep myself from appearing to be a bitter dude...

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Category: dating

10/06/07 05:15 - 78ºF - ID#41522

99% of CL personal ads is Failure

Well a couple of days ago I took a page out of the DC Craigslist Personals playbook and posted an ad myself. It was basically m4w 31 with an extra ticket to Matthew Good at Club infiniti last night. What blew me away is that someone actually responded and was excited to go and open to me as a person.

So after a few emails and text messages I met her after work at Infinity and had a really enjoyable evening. She's pretty cool but to be honest I didn't feel "fireworks." At some other level I was pretty blown away that even through a anonymous system the prototype to the type of woman that I attract responded. Although the difference is that she is pretty quiet and reserved a role that I am usually filling. So to be the person in the relationship doing all the talking, decision making and such I'm not too sure I'm up for having the majority of that kind of responsibility.

But I cannot count this as a failure at all. I'm just using that title as a tribute to the song that is going through my head. Actually it work out as planned. I wanted to share the show with someone cool that appreciated his music. It worked out as hoped actually, but the show being sold out did help I would imagine.

Needless to say it was a great show. Matt Good is all that I would imagined to be in person. Plus it was cool to run into briefly (e:Pyrcedgrrl)

;-)

99% subject line courtesy of Matthew Good's album Hospital Music