Monthly Archives: August 2007

Hulk Rawr!

I do not understand why people don’t like this film. Maybe they walked into the theater thinking it was not going to be a movie based on a comic book; maybe they expected Ang Lee to turn it into a Hulk Smash-fest. Who knows? Not me. But I can tell you one thing: I’m the only person I’ve ever met that likes this movie. And I’m always fucking right.

Over the past few weeks I’ve seen it on TV and stopped to watch it. My friends all yell in protest. Here’s a rundown of why it rocks. Go ahead and attempt to fight it, you will be ripped to green dust like so many genetically mutated dogs.

1. The Cast

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This cast could not’ve rocked harder. Aussie Eric Bana as supernerd Bruce Banner, although I’ll admit he’s a little too cut for a scientist. The lovely Jennifer Connelly as Bruce’s former sack slave and weepy woman (she cries a lot). Nick “Crazy” Nolte does an uncanny portrayal of a mental genius whose focus throughout the film is both monstrous and sincere. Fucking Sam Elliot, hello? Did anyone see “The Big Lebowski?” The guy’s a genius. Oh yeah he was in Tombstone I hear; and he never shaves his amazing mustache. Josh Lucas as that sniveling turd smell Talbot. I like Josh Lucas; he was a great supporting cast member in American Psycho (one of my favorites), and he plays the power hungry weasel with all the eager, wide-eyed bully-ism necessary.

2. The Comic Book feel

It feels like you’re reading a damn comic book. And what are comic books? Visual representations of a story. Lots of people wrote this off as annoying, but Ang Lee likes to tell a story visually. There is a lot of poetry in his execution, and oddly enough, Hulk is as beautiful a film as Sense and Sensibility, Crouching Tiger or Brokeback. He’s got an eye for landscape. The way the story is told, through moving boxes joined together like a comic book page, is only momentary, and it really keeps the pace of the film by showing multiple angles of the same scene. Neat! Lee also does a great job at making Hulk move like a comic book portrays action. You can almost see the motion lines outside his tree-sized arms as he’s turning dogs into dust.

3. The Actionhulkjob

Hulk smash indeed. Some say a superhuman mutant shouldn’t be able to fly. But Hulk only jumps retardedly long strides with calves the size of submarines. Even if his body mass would be impossible to lift that high and long, I am willing to dismiss the scientific folly for the pure entertainment it gives. Let’s drill down the action in this movie, shall we?:

The Triple Dogg Dare fight.

If 3 mutant dogs the size of my car were headed after my lady, they might have their way with her. But not Hulk; luckily for Betty the huge green bean lover is obsessed with her, so he was already about to split her in half with his mutant cock when the poodle, pit bull and rottweiler show up. This fight is pure muscle and teeth, as these TMNT-style dogs attempt to shred Hulk, or at least make him bleed. I think they barely manage the latter. His violence almost gets Betty hurt, but the brunt of it is focused on ripping a dog in half, punching one in the balls and ripping the jaws apart of another. And they die in a big green explosion of goo. Pretty!

The Scientific Lab smash.

After Hulk cripples the turd Talbot, he leaps from his house to his lab in one single freaking leap, whereupon he continues to make sand out of all the beakers and Bunson burners in sight. Then he launches the gamma machine that triggered his mutant genes out of the 10th or so story window down onto a sad, sad police car.

Toys for Tanks.

My favorite part of the film. Even the all powerful US military can’t control Hulk with tank shells, cluster bombs, grenades, agile helicopters equipped with rockets, and a space-bound jet. Hulk eats green Wheaties, and its obvious, due to the fact that he destroys 3 tanks using only his body and the barrel of another tank; he catches a rocket in flight and bites the explosive head off of it — then he spits it at a helicopter (I wet myself); bullets bounce off him like rocks off of rubber. And to make it better, when he gets pissed off he gets BIGGER!

Daddy didn’t love me.

The final battle is between Hulk and his father, whose mutant genes are severely unstable. He can also change form to different types of energy, so Hulk must battle a human bolt of lightning, a walking mountain and a lake with hands. Dad wants Hulk’s ability, and when Hulk defies him and tries to give it all to him in one blast, daddy can’t take it. The army sends a missile at the bloated water bubble and blows pops to bits. He definitely got a hernia over that one.

4. The Story bzzt!

Hulk is visually attractive and fun to watch, but there’s a real struggle here between Bruce and everyone else, including himself. His inability to show emotion sank his relationship with Betty, Betty’s father wants Bruce dead because of the danger he can cause, Bruce’s own father is hyper jealous of his son’s amazing ability and Bruce fights the Hulk inside of him at every turn. I should get a Pulitzer and Nobel for this shit.

Those are 4 great reasons why Hulk is a good movie. I’m sick of all the people saying “Ryan always grabs his crotch when Hulk is on.” It might be true, but I have 4 great reasons to do so. And now so do you.

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I watched and listened like all of you did, wincing at her words and feeling embarrassed for her. The other part of me laughed at her for being so nervous, forcing whatever words would come into her brain out of her mouth. She had a while to rethink her answer, then she got a second chance on the Today Show. Her second answer was at least thought out by her mother.

So Caitlin Upton, or Lauren Upton, or Lauren Caitlin fucking Upton (will someone decide what her real name is please?), I don’t blame you. You are simply a pretty face with a vapid space between your ears. Those types of goodwill questions don’t belong in pageants. Why do they ask these girls anything that requires more than a moan?  It’s the fault of the retards who thought it was a great idea to ask a pretty teenager about anything happening in her world, country or state. Teen America is dumb. I blame dumb parents who got knocked up by Jimmy the high school janitor.

Who wants a Ms. Teen America that’s anything close to intelligent? I don’t want her to come to my city and speak about how shitty the traffic is or sign autographs for 1st graders. I don’t like the thought of those girls being role models for the next generation. It’s a beauty pageant, not a science fair.  She has left my brain as soon as I turned off the television, and it’s best that way. So continue to carry your head high, Ms. Teen South Carolina. I guarantee you will be remembered for this all your life, but no one will notice you on the street, so it won’t matter.

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Lucky for me, my future wife has not-ugly friends. Tonight I get the wonderous pleasure of escorting 4 lovely ladies out for a night on the town, Ron Burgundy-style! If you’re planning on going out, don’t meet up with us if you’re a guy, because these girls have eyes for only one guy: Jesus. I’ve heard them say it many times.

I think I’m more pumped about the pre-gaming, because I love being able to hear my own thoughts. Don’t get me wrong, I love seeing drunk bitches dance when they have no motor function; who doesn’t? And I can never get over the guy who thinks he has a chance, while he robotically maneuvers behind her just as he practiced in the mirror. However, I do occasionally enjoy the company of others, and finding out how I can make fun of them in public. Call me old fashioned.

Tonight’s extravaganza is a 4-parter: Dinner with Me + Kristin, Kelly + Erica, Kare-bear and drinking, followed by more drinking at KellErica’s place; then the ladies are going to go pick up Lindsay at the airport and meet up with Asian-type girl. Then we’ll all travel to the CosmoLavaSex club and do things that only fiction writers think about. How posh.

If we’re sober enough to remember a camera, you might catch a spot of our luscious lifestyles. Ta-ta

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North Point Mall HCO Case Study

They should die. They should all be flown to an island in the guise of a magical free vacation they have just won. Under that island will be thousands of balloons that inflate and suddenly all the confused North Point shoppers will begin floating through the sky. The ones who have half a brain (none of them) will jump back into the ocean and drown or be devoured by sharks/whales/baracuda/Rosie O’Donnell. Those who are participating in the huge, festering orgy on the island (I added that out of nowhere) will burn through all the layers of Earth’s atmosphere until they hit space. Nevermind that humans would burn to less than bones at this point and would die of suffocation much earlier. The North Point mall-onites have previously constructed anti-burn-to-less-than-bones suits that also allow private parts to be poked through holes, so the orgy is still in full swing (I’m still moving with the orgy thing). Once in space, no one can hear you scream; so the orgy is still visibly the same, except it looks like they’re underwater, and you cant hear them screaming.

Anyhow, the whole point of this giant air balloon-island is to lure the North Point mall-onites to one place and have it sent off into space. Step 2 in my plan is to coordinate my hate of their existence to all the major nuclear missile holding countries via my blogs, then, after hours of preparation, I will finally have my revenge in a moment of sheer joy, when all of the world is united in firing megatons of nuclear bang sauce at the island, destroying the stupid balloons, all the sand, palm trees, crabs, messages in bottles, Coach purses, designer shoes, silicon boobies, liposuctioned abs, bleached hair, fake tans and whitened teeth out of the goddamn motherfucking cockjuggling sky.

Fuck North Point.

Welcome back kiddies. I hope you arent too angry at me because of my large hiatus from the blogging world. Not that I consider myself a part of the blogging world. I just type my frustrations out and you fuckers read them. Thanks for reading my shit. On to the hate.

So I’ve had a little over three months to get comfortable at North Point HCO. I’ve actually accomplished quite a bit of work here. I do still miss the easy days at Arbor Place. This new store is anything but easy. I’ve had angry conversations with other managers where we all agree North Point is the bane of Atlanta. It seems even my boss agrees I have the worst fucking position in the state. Yay for me.

The worst thing about any retail position, or most jobs in general, is the clientele. But retail is unique. We fold clothes constantly, all day, just to see it destroyed by some fat lady or an Asian. Granted, its their job to shop, and its our job to clean up; its part of the gig. However, why the fuck does being rich correlate with being messy? It surprises me, but the rednecks can make less of a mess in a week than the rich bitches of Alpharetta & Co. can make in 30 fucking minutes.

It has its ups too. Its very slow during the week. Even when we do good business its this weird, slow trickle from about 3pm on. This allows for us to get shit done. The supposed theory on this is the fact that there is no movie theater inside the mall. This keeps patrons (or shitheads, whatever) away from my store, which allows me to not hate certain humans. I could care less anyway.

So lets get to the meat of this post. Lets talk about the customers who blow so much cock that shop at my store. Most of these people act like they’ve spent the past few years having their asses wiped for them with toilet paper made from Jesus’ hair and spoon fed dodo scrambled eggs (yes, the extinct bird, they’re that rich). I wonder how they get up in the morning, or for what reason. It must be something along the lines of “…eh, I’m tired of sleeping and dreaming about boning 13 supermodels at once with all 13 of my cocks…I guess I’ll go to North Point HCO and kick over their tables.”

This one guy, some motherfucker he was. Its actually a two day span that he made me want to fuck his face with a chainsaw strap on. Okay, I know I’m here to help the customer; the customer, however, has to respect that I’m a human being and there should still be manners in place. For example, when I’m on the phone, dont fucking talk to me. Trust me, I’m perceptive enough to notice you standing over my shoulder, and I’ll interrupt my conversation to do whatever you need. But this prick, this bag of wrenches, he completely crossed several lines. Alright, so I’m on the phone up in Dudes 1 and this 40-something guy comes up behind me and pokes me, i mean jabs me with two fingers and asks “hey where can I get some jeans.” So I fucking point him around the corner because he wants the jeans with zippers; apparently his fingers only work to poke people, not to fasten buttons near his penis. I get off the phone and head towards the cashwrap and the phone rings again. Of course, none of the kids who work for me know how to answer the fucking phone, so its always a manager scrambling to get it before the 12th ring. I’m on the phone again and the same douche man comes up behind me again and pokes, no jabs me again. At this point I seriously want to hit this man so many times with a glove taped with scalpels on it. I dont really like being touched by people I dont know, and I especially dont like being touched by some 40-year-old crisis victim who’s in Hollister shopping for jeans. Go to Calvin Klein you child molester skank.

So anyway, he jabs me the second time asking for a place to try them on, and I barely stay on the edge of my “Not a dick | Total dick” line and I tell him “its over there” in a tone that makes cactus shrivel. It kinda sounded like you’re telling someone your name for the 38th time, and they just havent been listening. He buys the jeans and goes home, his date probably made fun of his how his penis looks when he wears them and he brings them back the next day. Well suprise I’m the guy who returns the jeans. I remember him of course, so I do the transaction as damn quickly as possible. After I give him his receipt he asks me if I have a bathroom he can use. Of course I say no. So he turns on his smartass amplifier, but mine is much larger and more expensive. He says “So how do you go to the bathroom when you need to go?” to which I reply “I go in the bathroom in the back, which is not for customers.” Those who know me can imagine the smug smile on my face and the mental face smashing I just gave this queef sniffer. He scoffs: “Well, come on, cant you just let me use it?” He sounded like he was going to buy his way in. I would’ve definitely taken $50, but he would’ve just lost $50 and still had to piss. I said the professional thing “No man, its not for customers.” It seemed to shut him up so he was off.

This is just a single example of the type of bullshit I get to put up with daily. I’ve resorted to old school methods to keep my visuals in tact. Sensoring hangbars together (which still doesnt keep these rabid hounds away) and slicing my form clothes with razors. These fucks dont quit, and their offspring are just as bad.

Legions of 16-year-old girls clogging the walkways in my store with a ridiculous likeness to their 45-year-old counterpart mothers. They even have matching credit cards; how sweet. They pile up on clothes to try on, and they dont buy any of it.

Those of you with retail experience know that this leads to catastrophic amounts of “go backs” where we basically put that shit back for them. It is by far the largest problem at NoPo on an operational level. Anyway, they spend 30 minutes destroying my store and they buy 1 tank top. All I really want to do is threaten them at the door with handfulls of sensor pins. If you bitches dont spend at least a hundo in here, I’ll have to resort to putting toilet water down your throats. Toilet water that I’ve already used.

My clearance walls are literally on the floor. It looks like the wood shelves got AIDS, and they’re puking their cotton guts out all over the place. These bimbos just hurl shit everywhere; their halfass attempt to put the clothes back in the wall consist of them balling it up and shoving it as far back as their newly manicured hands will allow. Absolutely no courtesy from these girls, who’ve probably never been told “no” in their lives. Unless they asked their mothers to cut off their allowance.

North Point isnt without its trash. There are still occasional bitches with redneck roots walking in, and my days at Arbor Place has made me an expert in spotting them. This one girl, she crossed a handful of lines with one disgusting transaction. She attempted to return 4 items: a pair of shorts, a bikini top, a bikini bottom and a polo shirt. The polo had no tag, so after further examination I noticed a stain, plus it smelled like she fucked a bottle of perfume. I refused the return, citing the stain, but she claimed that was the reason for her return. Allow me to elaborate on the stain: it looked like a 2-inch wide cum stain with a single grain of rice trapped by the goo; it was probably Chinese food. This bitch claimed the stain was on the shirt when she bought it, to which I replied “that didnt come from this store, plus it smells like perfume.” She reluctantly accepted, and the other items had tags so I didnt question further; but motherfucker, I should have.

After I gave her the refund and she left with her goofy pseudo gansta whiteguy boyfriend, I started sensoring the shit and by some mean curse of God I noticed something horrible, something haunting on the bikini bottom. It’s something that I never fucking think about because I hate throwing up in public. And lucky for me, I never have to fucking think about it because I dont swing that way. If I ever do have to fucking think about it, I always wash my eyes out with soap. It was fucking dried period blood. Right there in the crotchal region of the bikini were a few disgusting, disease-causing, festering spots of human waste and a promise of non-pregnancy. Fucking bitch, I hope your boyfriend ejaculates blood next time you go down on him and it squirts out of your eyes.

With customers like these, who needs children? It’s just as bad as babysitting about 200 kids a day. Kids who are capable of shitting, crying, bitching, screaming and saying “no!” Unfortunately I cant spank any of these kids. Well, I probably could but they’d have their lawyers chopping my hands off at the wrists within a day. So I hope you can all understand what goes on here at NoPo. It’s the same as any other, except its worse.

Fuck North Point.

First post, I promise to make this entertaining. I’ll start with a list of things I like:

  • Kristin Williams, 99% of the time. Also we’re getting married.
  • My job. It’s fun, easy and beats working in a mall.
  • UGA football. I went there so I’m bias.
  • Braves baseball. I live in ATL so bias again.
  • Movies that don’t suck. I’ll make a note to write a list so you’ll be as like minded.
  • Music. I like lots of music. I am always looking for something new to listen to. What a stupid cliche.
  • Magazines. I collect many different ones. Don’t ask me why.
  • Video games. Yes, I’m a 25-year-old video game nerd. Don’t like it? Find me another hobby.

Okay, great. Now it’s time for a list of shit I don’t like.

  • ATL traffic. Nowhere else I’ve been turns a 20 minute ride into a 45 minute practice in not smashing my car into another.
  • NBA. It’s just so gay.
  • Whiners and complainers. I’ll end up posting lots of complaints about them. Just you wait.
  • People who can’t take a joke. My jokes are harsh, so adjust accordingly.

That’s enough of that. I already feel like a retarded first time blogger. I’ll get better, I promise.

I will be posting my old HCO blogs, because I have no material currently (can’t you tell?). Feel free to laugh.