First black woman executed in U.S. since 1954

this is the first headline i see when i come into work today, and to be honest, it just turned my stomach. why? one might ask. because WHO CARES WHAT FREAKIN COLOR SHE WAS!!! there is no single thing in this country that absolutely disgusts me like our inept media constantly making every issue a race issue just so they'll have something to talk about and get people all riled up.

and then there is the "honorable" Jesse Jackson who spent his time in jail for protesting the death of this woman. now please don't read me wrong, i'm not saying that rev. Jackson is a bad person, i just question his intentions. was he there because he believed that this lady was not guilty? no. was he there because he believed as a Christian that it was morally wrong to take a persons life? no, because if that was the cause he'd be flying around the country protesting executions all the time. was he there because she was a black woman and he knew in his arrogance that if he was there that it would make it a media issue and he could get his face on tv again? well.....kinda how it seems to me. and i wouldn't be surprised at all to have seen Ted Turner down there paying his bail, just to get him out where he could make more news for CNN to report.

this woman was obviously guilty of murder, there was no question of her guilt, whether or not she deserved to die? that's not for me to decide. but i question those people who protested her death. do you think that this person was fit to be free in society? she had murdered her childhood friend in 1981, and while in prison she met her lesbian lover, who she also murdered and that is the murder she was executed for. would those of you ACLU protesting people want her to live in your small town?? i'm thinkinnnnnnnnnnn......no

each day i find myself growing more and more tired of this country's media spending more time trying to incite race riots than reporting news. don't get me wrong, i'm not so blind and stupid to believe that there aren't still racial problems in this country, that's not what i'm saying. what i AM saying is that we have enough problems in this country the way it is, do we really need to take issues that aren't racial issues and turn them into racial issues just so the anchors at CNN don't get bored???

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AND NOW....
a report from the cubes...

Have you ever had one of those days when you just wanted to take a ball bat to you bosses head? I'm having one of those days. Here's the situation... I came into work about 10 minutes late today, as traffic was backed up harder than a rest home after a nice bowl of Horkin Fiber chunks and my boss jumps my ass about being late. Now, this isn't a big thing, I apologize and go on about my merry way. But, this isn't enough for Herr Bossman, he continues to rant and rave for another 10 minutes. This from the guy that routinely shows up around 9 or 10 in the morning, takes 1 1/2 hour lunches and spends the better part of the day discussing fantasy football with his "boyz". And he wonders why I don't have a problem with coming in 10 minutes late?!?!? What the hell ever happened to leading by example? You know, the boss comes in 5 minutes before everyone else and leaves 5 minutes after? The boss dresses nicer than anyone else and takes pride in his employee's dress as well? Not this tool, he ditches off all his managerial duties on myself and one other employee so that he can find out who traded who or who is on the IR for this weekends game. But, I get paid to deal with it and I do, every damn day. Maybe one day, I'll save up enough to buy that ball bat.
Just another day in the cubes. Back to you....

Thanks for that report...it was brought to you by Horkin Fiber Chunks. and now back to your regularly scheduled rant.

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well, here i am. day 3 of unemployment, and i don't mind saying, it's pretty alright. i wake up when i feel like it, i can sit in this wonderful chair all day long in nothing but my mickey mouse boxers. the only downside is, the wife for some reason didn't think it was a great idea for me to quit my job. i suppose i should have maybe mentioned it to her first. i knew she was a little irritated last night when she locked me here in the basement with just the cordless phone, and told me i couldn't come out until i'd found a job. and now, i'm still here, and the battery is now dead on the cordless phone, so i guess i'm screwed. i'm hopin maybe she'll lob me down some food eventually. that or let the cat come down. you could cook a cat on a hot processor if you really wanted to, you'd just have to do it in small portions.

it's really not so bad down here, i just noticed that even though there is no toilet down here, there is a floor drain over in the corner. hold on.......yip, that worked. ok, i think i'm set, except for the no food or water thing.

WOW, i just got a really strange email. i was bowling last night, and when we were done we were shooting pool in the back room. well, apparently after i left, there was a bizarre accident. apparently one of the guys was walking behind another guy trying to do a jump shot, and the butt of the cue went straight up the guy's nose. and unfortunately, by the time the ambulance had arrived, the poor guy had suffered a severely bruised ulna, which caused a blood clot which went to his brain and killed him. damn, usually pool isn't considered a contact sport.

now i know you're wondering "how could you be locked in the basement and bowl last night?". well, some things just can't be explained.

jan 11.01 version 1.01

INTRODUCING a new member to the palace staff. the one and only Phelan will be submitting his thoughts from time to time to add a little different perspective. so WELCOME you pudgy lil thing you, and i look forward to hearin from ya.

jan 11.01

since i didn't have to work this morning for the first time in around 9 years, i decided to head out on the town one last time before locking myself into the basement. headed to a bowling alley to shoot a lil stick, and there she was. yet another example of todays teenage "work"force. a pleasant young lady with an attitude larger than the titanic. after they had the nerve to request an ID and 10$ just to get the pool balls from them, she then proceeded to tell me after i inquired about the increase in the price that "it's always been that price!!! i've been here 3 years and it hasn't changed!!". all i could do was look at her shocked that you would talk to someone that way. i just wanted to look back and say "you know, i've been drinkin longer than you've been old enough to have a job, i've been shootin pool here for 7 or 8 years, and it's probably been 3 years since i shot pool here, and after talking to you it'll be another 3 years!"

but i didn't, instead i just looked at her for a second, and waddled off to my waiting pitcher (i had john rocker waiting in the 3rd stall from the left in the ladies room).

i thought maybe this would pass, but the more i thought about it, the more i realized that it wasn't just her, it was more just a representation of the teenage "work"force as a whole. when i go into a grocery store, quickie mart, or "fast" food store and there's some 16 year old kid leaning on the cash register talking about the rave they were at last night with a coworker, i can actually feel my eyes roll all the way around into the back of my head in sheer terror. because i know that when i get up there to talk to them if they even acknowledge my existence, then they'll treat me like i owe THEM something and that i should be grateful that i've had the opportunity to be waited on by them. i guess it just means i'm getting old, but i just can't understand kids these days who believe that the world is owed to them. i suppose it must come from growing up in a house where they're taught that. in a house where when they get into trouble mom and dad find a tv show or a song or someone else to blame the whole thing on because they KNOW it couldn't be their kids fault......but....that's another rant......

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Music NEWS

in the next two weeks or so, the band Rusty Needle Tatoo Parlor will head to the studio to record their much anticipated first album. according to Rico, it will be a short 4 or 5 song EP depending on how things go and how much time they have. They will be recording their original song, Walking The Splitline as well as Manic Jester, Elive, and Purgatory, and possibly a few suprises. The release is slated for the next month or so if all goes well.

as for my band, streightjacket, we've still only got one freakin song, so the album will be a while.

jan 10.01

opening time, so bring your whiskey or beer. today marks the first day of the rest of tha w|z's days. i decided today to quit my job and stay at home and write stupid little commentaries for a website. plus i've decided that with the stupid prices of gas, i need to get into the business of drilling for oil. i'm not yet sure how that will happen, as there are no oil rig dealerships in the area, but with my new found extra time, i'll be able to search the yellow pages. even bill gates has to kick himself in the ass at the gas pump thinking "damn...i'm in the wrong business".

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i decided the other day that the gas companies were making too much money, when "the skinny kid" and i were driving around the other day, and stopped for gas, and were able to watch sports center on a little TV built into the pump. so, when the season starts next year, you can bet that we'll be gathered around that damned pump, with the george foreman grill plugged into the cigarette lighter, cookin some burgers and a cooler of lite in the trunk. for what i'm paying these people for gas, they owe me a few weekends of entertainment. maybe we'll start a trend, people will stop going to the bars for football, and start headin to the local quickie mart.

the only drawback to my plan is that the TV only seems to work while you're actually pumping gas, but i think i've even figured a way around it, i'll just turn on the pump and run it into the street, pay for it at the end with my credit card, and then claim credit card fraud and sue egghead.com. i'll get to watch some good ball, and make a few mill off of egghead.

i'm done