I just checked the Ten-Day Forecast.
Well, at least it warms up over the weekend, before we get our next snow hit. This is good for a couple of reasons, the primary one being that I’d hate to miss out on another Saturday shift. Also, rent is due by the 5th and I don’t have a cent put aside towards it yet (and car insurance is due Tuesday! Eek!).
I did have both Monday and Tuesday nights off, and I’d planned on going down to my parents’ house in Columbia for a nice home cooked meal (as opposed to PB&J or Chef Boyardee), but if it snows, that’s sort of out the window.
Son of a …
Speaking of Futurama, lately I’ve been throwing the discs in the DVD player, selecting “play all” and listening to the audio commentaries. Very funny and informative - it’s usually a group of five or six actors, producers, writers and directors doing them. David X. Cohen is on all of them, Matt Groening on many, and John DiMaggio, Billy West, and others round out the group.
Apparently, according to Cohen, at one point, John DiMaggio (the voice of Bender, the greatest robot of all time) offered to dress up in a Bender suit and bicycle around L.A. as cheap promotion. DiMaggio said “No I didn’t! Bite my shiny metal ass!”
Anyway, point: DVD commentary tracks = ze good!
From USA TODAY comes this tale of an incompotent suicidie:
Police said Juan Manuel Alvarez, 25, lost his nerve to kill himself moments before the speeding trains approached. He stepped away safely and watched in darkness and drizzle as a southbound train slammed into his abandoned Jeep Cherokee. That train derailed and jack-knifed into a northbound train.
Alvarez “was intent at the time on taking his own life but changed his mind,” Glendale Police Chief Randy Adams said. “He exited the vehicle and stood by.”
Police found Alvarez wandering near the blazing wreck, where 400 firefighters struggled through heavy smoke and mangled iron to free screaming passengers. Alvarez, who had stabbed himself and cut his wrists shortly before the crash, was remorseful and cooperative, Adams said.
“He was very distraught and upset and realized that he caused a major disaster,” Adams said. Alvarez, who lives in Compton, Calif., was arrested. He was expected to be charged either Thursday or Friday with manslaughter or murder, Adams said.
Last night on the Don & Mike Show, Buzz Burbank (aka The Best Radio News Guy OF ALL TIME) mentioned that police now believed Alvarez had motives other than suicide for parking his Jeep on the track. I wasn’t able to find anything confirming that, but I thought I’d mention it.
Here’s what really sucks, though. How hard is it to commit suicide? I mean, christ, go to a fucking gun range, rent a gun, put it to your head, and pull the trigger. If you want to kill yourself, go right ahead and do it - but why - why - put other people’s lives in danger? I mean, it’s fucking selfish as hell.
But the bit Burbank mentioned got me a-thinkin’. I mean, why do people commit suicide? Because for some reason they feel pain, right? The world doesn’t understand them, everyone is out to get them, little green men keep sticking anal probes up their rear - or is that last only me? Oop! So doesn’t it make sense in a sort of twisted fucked up way that Alvarez might do something to inflict harm on other people so that they would feel his pain, and perhaps in some sort of crazy logic-funk empathise with him?
