Random Thoughts and Ramblings #180
The last two days have been pretty good. I've been in a funk lately (anyone who's talked to me lately knows this, unfortunately) and the last two days have just been outstanding. We got a ton of things in the cooker right now. No, no, can't say what just yet. Let's just say that the fall book will be an interesting one. :-)
I was reading Fort Wayne's newspaper today (The Journal Gazette) and I noticed a story about a man who tried to blow some pipe bombs so that he could rob a Meijer in town. Well, he also did the same thing in a town in Ohio and in South Bend apparently (he was found guilty on all of them I'll assume that he did it). I just loved how they wrote the article in such a way that he was a victim of circumstance. "Angry, depressed and overwhelmed by debt, Thomas B. Hansen told a judge in Allen Superior Court on Monday how he planned to rob the Meijer store on Illinois Road in 1999 by detonating homemade pipe bombs outside two credit unions to divert the police. Minutes later, Judge John F. Surbeck sentenced Hansen to 24 years in prison..." Aww, cry me a river! Listen, I have to pay bills too, I can get pretty down in the dumps and all of that but I'll be damned if I would ever think of blowing up a credit union to rob a store. And I damn sure wouldn't use that as an excuse "Oh please have mercy judge, I was depressed." Give me a break. He did the crime, he ought to do the time. I also thought the parents asking the judge to be lenient was a nice touch. Please... if I did a crime, I would hope my parents would want the judge to throw the book at me.
The newspaper making him out to be some kind of victim makes me sick. See why I hate the media so much?
You know what I don't understand? Why people get into such messed up relationships. I was talking to a friend of mine today and she told me that her boyfriend (or whatever he is, she says it's complicated) flipped out because she took a different route home so she could stop by work (he assumed that she was going to another guy's house). She also told me that he doesn't like her hanging out with her guy friends. Wow... Yeah, this sounds like something healthy and kosher. Most of my friends are female. Whoever I date in the future is just going to have to deal with it and trust me (wow, that's a wild concept!). It's not like I'm hooking up with them. Notice the word "friends." Also, I have to do things on the air and on stage that most girlfriends wouldn't be happy about. Again, they'll have to deal with it. I'm not changing my life just to please my mate, not on something like that anyway. I dump my friends for no one and I don't sacrifice my job performance for anyone either.
Apparently my anti-smoking rant ruffled some feathers, especially from this one girl in particular (I also posted it on my myspace page). Look, it's not that I hate smokers because, well, I don't. All I said was that I believed it was a disgusting and unhealthy habit and I would never date anyone who smokes. Never did I say that I wouldn't even associate with smokers because I do daily. Want an example of why I hate smoking (note that I said "smoking" and not "smokers")? I went to the Papa Roach concert at Piere's on Saturday (it rocked!). It was supposed to be a non-smoking concert, which made me think "hmm, maybe I won't have to put up with smoke haze for once." WRONG! 3/4 of the people there were smoking. My eyes watered, I got a headache, the smell was horriable... that aspect was just a horriable experience. Honestly, it almost made me throw up. Who honestly wants to be in all of that crap? Now, let's pretend that you're trying to eat in a restaurant. Would you really want to sit next to a table where someone may be smoking while you're trying to have dinner? Yeah, that really gets the appitite going.
That's all for today. Until next time...
--Jonathan
I was reading Fort Wayne's newspaper today (The Journal Gazette) and I noticed a story about a man who tried to blow some pipe bombs so that he could rob a Meijer in town. Well, he also did the same thing in a town in Ohio and in South Bend apparently (he was found guilty on all of them I'll assume that he did it). I just loved how they wrote the article in such a way that he was a victim of circumstance. "Angry, depressed and overwhelmed by debt, Thomas B. Hansen told a judge in Allen Superior Court on Monday how he planned to rob the Meijer store on Illinois Road in 1999 by detonating homemade pipe bombs outside two credit unions to divert the police. Minutes later, Judge John F. Surbeck sentenced Hansen to 24 years in prison..." Aww, cry me a river! Listen, I have to pay bills too, I can get pretty down in the dumps and all of that but I'll be damned if I would ever think of blowing up a credit union to rob a store. And I damn sure wouldn't use that as an excuse "Oh please have mercy judge, I was depressed." Give me a break. He did the crime, he ought to do the time. I also thought the parents asking the judge to be lenient was a nice touch. Please... if I did a crime, I would hope my parents would want the judge to throw the book at me.
The newspaper making him out to be some kind of victim makes me sick. See why I hate the media so much?
You know what I don't understand? Why people get into such messed up relationships. I was talking to a friend of mine today and she told me that her boyfriend (or whatever he is, she says it's complicated) flipped out because she took a different route home so she could stop by work (he assumed that she was going to another guy's house). She also told me that he doesn't like her hanging out with her guy friends. Wow... Yeah, this sounds like something healthy and kosher. Most of my friends are female. Whoever I date in the future is just going to have to deal with it and trust me (wow, that's a wild concept!). It's not like I'm hooking up with them. Notice the word "friends." Also, I have to do things on the air and on stage that most girlfriends wouldn't be happy about. Again, they'll have to deal with it. I'm not changing my life just to please my mate, not on something like that anyway. I dump my friends for no one and I don't sacrifice my job performance for anyone either.
Apparently my anti-smoking rant ruffled some feathers, especially from this one girl in particular (I also posted it on my myspace page). Look, it's not that I hate smokers because, well, I don't. All I said was that I believed it was a disgusting and unhealthy habit and I would never date anyone who smokes. Never did I say that I wouldn't even associate with smokers because I do daily. Want an example of why I hate smoking (note that I said "smoking" and not "smokers")? I went to the Papa Roach concert at Piere's on Saturday (it rocked!). It was supposed to be a non-smoking concert, which made me think "hmm, maybe I won't have to put up with smoke haze for once." WRONG! 3/4 of the people there were smoking. My eyes watered, I got a headache, the smell was horriable... that aspect was just a horriable experience. Honestly, it almost made me throw up. Who honestly wants to be in all of that crap? Now, let's pretend that you're trying to eat in a restaurant. Would you really want to sit next to a table where someone may be smoking while you're trying to have dinner? Yeah, that really gets the appitite going.
That's all for today. Until next time...
--Jonathan
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