Rants

My one and only registered domain is for the Barndoor Fan Club. It started as a lark on Geocities. After a while there I decided to go ahead and register the domain using Yahoo Domains. Then later I graduated it to a different web host because I kept bumping into Geocities bandwidth allowance for free sites. The domain expires on February 15, 2003, so I figured I would renew through my current web host and keep it all in the family. I contacted them on January 15th and authorized them to transfer and register the name for 2 years for me. 3 days later, my charge card was billed. A week later I did a whois and it still listed Yahoo domains as the tech contact and the expiration date was only 2004. A couple of emails later it is still the same. I guess tomorrow I will have to call on the phone…

I know I was probably a little naive to think that they printed up those World champ T-shirts in the final 2 minutes of the game, but come on HSN. Today, if you wanted, you could purchase hats, shirts, pennants, etc. that proclaim the Bucs or Raiders as Super Bowl Winners. The game wasn’t for another 24 hours. I checked and if your chosen team loses, they will not ship the items and not charge your credit card. Nice of them…

My first BlogFodder and it sounds like a question from some sort of physc test. Would you go back to the Dallas Book Repository and tap Lee Harvey on the shoulder? Would you prevent Hilter’s birth if you could? Would you go back and talk Judas out of ratting out Jesus? Would you go back and ask Betty Sue to the prom instead of chickening out? How pathetic are you? But I guess it is a matter of degrees isn’t it? I mean, I do hit the backspace key to go back a letter or two to correct a spelling….so why not something else, just a little more monumental?

It was listed in my Netflix spreadsheet as my having rented it back in May 2000, but could not for the life of me remember seeing it. The write-up sounded interesting so I borrowed this movie from a co-worker and we watched it again tonight. 5 minutes in to it I remembered the movie and remembered why I didn’t remember seeing it, we only watched about 5 minutes of it back then. Right about the point where Kirstie Alley effects a Minnesotian accent. This time we stuck it out and frankly we were right the first time. Great cast, but totaly wasted here. I have now seen most of these so called mockumentaries and if you have seen Spinal Tap, stop there, the rest pale in comparison.

Used to be that what you looked like didn’t much matter if you were a musician, if your music was beautiful, that was all it took. Look at Mick Jagger (then or now) or Merle Haggard. The 4 mopheads from Liverpool were in need of serious dental work. But now with MTV, etc. you have to look good to make it now a days.

The latest Rolling Stone magazine came in the mail and there on the cover is a picture of Shania Twain in a cheap trash looking outfit set on stun. The verbiage reads, “Shania Twain. She knows what you like…” Boy howdy. We want good looking women, scantily clad, singing just to us. I’m as susceptible to this as the next man. I’ll never forget the first time I saw her (I think first) video where she is wearing that red dress singing about boots or something, I watched a lot of CMT waiting to see that again, and I don’t really like country music.

I’m as guilty as the next for bringing on the death of ugly singers. And I’d like to apologize.

Is this really the sixth time this show has run? And this time, to spice it up some, we have the guys vs. the gals. It could have been worse, they went through a lot of other scenarios before picking that one:
Top 5 Rejected Survivor Team Ideas
5) Koreans vs. Iraqis
4) Almond Joy Lovers vs. Mounds Lovers
3) BMW Mini Owners vs. Ford Excursion Owners
2) Democrats vs. Republicans
1) Letterman Fans vs. Leno Fans