Patience is a Virtue

I'd like to think that I am a patient man when it comes to almost everything except one and that is LOST. Yes, this past Friday I buckled under the pressure and watched the leaked copy of The New Man in Charge, and was generally satisfied. I think they had the perfect strategy for this release since these 12 minutes of footage wouldn't be properly appreciated immediately following the heartwarming denouement. Having us wait a few months to have the small things left unanswered answered was genius--just like the series as a whole.

Thank you!

-a.

PS I will still be buying the Season 6 box set Aug. 24th. So my watching the leaked episode did not detain your DVD sales ABC.

New post?

Too busy to actually post. My time has been eaten up by burning DVD's and painting my WarHammer models.

-a.

See you all next week.

When Black Friday Comes

Yes, the title comes from a Steely Dan song. No, I do not like them. My parents love them and I unfortunately know a lot about them and their music.

Anywho, I may be unemployed but cannot help but celebrate the fact that I do not work in retail. When I did for many years I dreaded Black Friday all year round, especially the week of. I dreaded being yelled at (and feigning interest) because we ran out of Van Wilder in the $5 DVD bins, or the mom's who came in at 10pm looking for Furby--at the height of Furby's popularity!

I just want to let current retail employees know that I feel their pain, and to help alleviate them of that pain I will not be shopping Friday. I'll be one less person for them to worry about.

Unfortunately that elderly woman who yelled at me a few years back because we had only one copy of Jeopardy! for PC will more than likely be searching for something equally useless and in low quantity. Best of luck, gang!

-a.

Heathens rent DVD's too?

I was raised to respect other people's property (a.k.a. the O.P.P. Philosophy) and I have kept in line with those teachings since day one. It probably hurt me more than helped me since I keep all of my CD's, books, DVD's and collectibles in the greatest condition to the point where I make sure my CD's and DVD's are always right side up in their case.

So knowing that about my upbringing it shouldn't surprise you how shocked and awed I am to have DVD's skip that I rent from the library. It really gets my locksmith laid off to be watching an episode of LOST from season 4 and to have scenes in my favorite episode ever (The Constant) skip so badly that the audio and video cease to match up on the disc.

I took the DVD out of the player to see what was going on, and it seriously looks like the people who had this disc under their care prior to me wiped their hands with the disc after a big dinner of KFC. What's worse is that LOST is an adult show so children should be far from these DVD's, so the culprits are from the age of 13 to 4,815,162,342 (<--see what I did there?).

Shame on you who just go all willy-nilly with other people's expensive items, and good television for that matter. I can understand this sort of treatment for a complete box set to Hee-Haw, but not LOST.