"On priests and puppy dogs," or "Hilary Attacks!"

It's been a couple weeks. How've you been, one or two possible readers? Hope you're well. You know, it's always awkward trying to make a blog post when you have ten people standing in front of you printing, waiting for a class to get out or using the stapler.

One of those places I'm never 100% sure what to do is at the base of an escalator, right next to the entrance for the escalator down to the next floor. If I'm going down and walking right onto the next one, I always find it amusing to judge whether or not I should just barrel through or let a person who is walking up go in front of me. I usually just barrel through because I'm more important than all the other sheep walking about. After work yesterday I was the one walking up as somebody was coming down from the next level, this priest I've seen around campus during my PC Depot days. I'm a good deal away, but he stops, smiles warmly, and waits for me to step into the escalator first.

This isn't a commentary on religion or my rather atheistic views on life, but really, I don't think anybody other than a priest would have not only stopped to let me through when he could have easily gone ahead of me, but been happy to do so. I guess my only semi-point is that it bothers me when people bash priests, because they're almost exclusively damn nice people. It made me feel a little better about stuff after a horrible day of work.

There was this jerk at the grocery store later on, though. I'm standing in line at Dominicks, and having neglected to pick up a cart, I'm carrying a huge, heavy load of food in my arms. Usually this is when the people in front of you scoot their stuff forward on the little conveyor belt, put up the yellow divider and let you put down some stuff. But this well-dressed guy and his hollow-headed well-dressed girlfriend turn, make direct eye contact with me, look at the food in my arms, and look back at the cashier. I guess it's not the SOP or anything to scoot your food forward to make room, but these people had their food in the middle of the belt all spread out, and they lookedright at me, so it got on my nerves a bit.

The cashier rings them up, and the belt opens up, so I move in to put down the load of food that's buckling my knees. I'm thwarted, however, by the WDGF. She was previously leaning onto the counter, and she didn't move, even though their food was bagged and her WDBF was in the process of paying. I stand there for a few seconds, dumbstruck that she won't get her ass out of my way. Eventually I get ticked to the point where I lean over and say "excuse me, could you move up so I can put my stuff down?" She turns, looks me up and down, gives me that kind of "I'm better than you" frown that makes you want to throw a salami at her, and goes back to leaning. The WDBF gives me that "back off" look.

I admittedly wound up holding the line up for a bit when I uttered "You unbelievable bitch" and the WDBF tried to get all up in my face about it (coming hilariously close to knocking the WDGF down), but I didn't mind.

Man, this has been a long post about nothing, hasn't it? I also totally forgot what the "puppy dogs" thing was going to be about. So uh, how about the T-Hilary, huh? She's lashing out trying to attack anything Obama could have potentially messed up a bit on. It's amusing how he's not lashing out at her. He's, you know, confident in himself.

Oh, and Blu-Ray won the format war. Toshiba is officially ending HD-DVD production. Universal and Paramount have announced they're going Blu-Ray. Next up... digital distribution kills Blu-Ray.

Obama/Clinton Debate: There really are better sports announcers than Michael Buffer.

7:10. You know, without bringing personal views on politics into it, I really do think Hilary Clinton is a terminator, sent back to kill James Cameron.

7:16. Why the hell don't candidates look at each other when they're talking? When one is talking the other will look intently at them, but the one speaking never makes eye contact with the other, even when they are referring to the both of them. It's one of those things that weirds me out about politics.

7:19. Obama is taking a black marker to take notes, while Hilary is using a red marker. This only supports my theory of terminator Hilary.

7:24. They're sharp dressers. I'm digging the T-Hilary's dark red shirt and light blue jewelry thing. She also just used the term "nibbled to death," and I can't help but picture Hamtaro nibbling on a kid until they die from overwhelming adorableness. Shut up. Hamtaro is delightful and you know it. Don't judge me.

7:29. You can see the sparks shooting between them. Also, this is at the Kodak Theater (current home of the Academy Awards), instead of Wolf Boy cutting in when one person is speaking too long, they should really just have a pit orchestra kick in with a "STFU" queue. Christ, are there commercials in this thing? I have to take a wicked yes.

7:35. Oh, wait, DVR, I can pause this.

7:41. Hey, it's Jason Alexander in the crowd. Still bald as ever. This is like a boxing match, shucking, jiving and juking. And a wail, you gotta, jump jive and wail.

7:49. Blitzkrieg is pushing Obama to make a personal jab at the T-Hilary on stage. He's literally pushing him to do so. I am so sick of this sensationalist bullshit that has infected the media. If they start bickering, then hey, fun fun, but I hate it when the mediator intentionally tries to start it.

7:54. Here come the direct jabs at each other. To not use the boxing cliché,

8:12. "Now, I don't want to be judged on my husband's accomplishments, so let me list off everything he did well while he was president." Rob Reiner is in the crowd looking pissed off for some reason. I thought they're supposed to be jolly.

8:23. Obama talks about something he differs from Clinton on. The WB stops the next question and says to the T-Hilary "That was clearly a swipe at you." Okay, look, CNN. Cut this shit out. This isn't about your news network getting more ratings, it's about education people on the candidates. Knock off this creating conflict crap. At least they don't have sound effects over everything (though they caved and are now doing that during their normal shows).

8: 27. Best mis-statement ever: "Since the American invasion of Rock." Topher Grace is not amused. Also, he has a stupid name.

8:33. Woah, shit, Obama comes out swinging. And Jesus, 'Lil Blitzie is being a dick.

8:42. Uh-oh, here come questions about sex and violence in Hollywood. If either of them say ANYTHING about the government stepping into film distribution/censorship, I swear to God, I'll vote republican. Okay, Obama only hinted at stepping in a bit with marketing and who products are marketed to, but that's still more than I want.

8:54. T-Hilary: "I agree with everything Senator Obama just said." Post-teen Wolf: "That means it's B.S., right?" OMG. The two have been really friendly today, genuinely so. It's good to see.

8:55: SkyNet goes online. Three billion human lives end. The survivors of the nuclear fire will call the war Judgement Day.