kybearfuzz: (Dreaming)
In the dream I was still in college at Berea. I had been home for a few days, and when I returned to campus I stopped off at a small café run by a woman named Millie. I had stayed there for a couple of days, maybe even three or four, just hanging out. I’m not sure why. Millie was a very sweet lady and I got to know her and a bunch of other regulars, one was named Sarge. Sarge was an older man. In my time there, Millie had given me three T-shirts, some of which were bright and glowing. I had put them in my backpack. When the café had closed each night, I returned the dorm and slept there. On my last day at the café, I was told that Sarge had passed away. I was there to comfort Millie. Millie at some point was dancing while she was cleaning up when two female friends of mine had come in to get me. One of them had told me that Sarge had seen his death coming, that he had a procedure where he saw the blood clot break up in his body and move on a screen.

It was time to go back to the dorm. I was supposed to meet someone for a class or some thing in the second floor of the Draper building later that night. As we went outside, I had to find my shoes among many that were left outside the café. I guess I had taken them off. I found my gym shoes, only to realize that I had worn them in a hurry and they were not the usual pair I would wear. It indicated to me that I had been gone for sometime and had not planned on being out very long, as these were the shoes I’d slip on to get the mail.

I crossed the street after going down a very steep staircase to the sidewalk. I ran to the Draper building. I went upstairs and heard someone call to me. I passed out as I turned around and woke up in a room naked. My clothes and backpack were gone.

I stumbled around and tried to leave the building, and as I walked towards a certain door I felt someone’s hands on my butt covering them. I turned around and saw a man in a suit top telling me that I couldn’t go in a particular room as there were children eating dinner in there. I begged his pardon, as I remember they were children in the building, and went back to my dorm to get clothes.

When I went back to the dorm, I could not remember the electronic lock code to get to the stairwell to my room. I was going to piggyback on someone going in before I was stopped by a resident assistant. He told me he was sorry to do this, but it was the rules. Apparently, I had been documented as having been out of the dorm for several days, an apparent campus infraction, and I was being taken to the police department. I tried to explain to the man where I had been, but was told to be quiet and get in line.

The line was full of rough characters, just yelling at each other and pushing each other around. There was one woman in the group, a girl name Stacy who I went to college with and worked with at the campus library. Everyone kept apologizing to me, but I kept following their direction. We got on the bus, with me and Stacy in the last row. An older man with a mustache was in charge of the group and sat next to me.

On the drive over, a roughneck with red hair and a thick earring sitting in the front row, kept turning and giving me grief. I had no idea who he was, but he seem to know me. He made some negative remark towards me, and I told him that I didn’t give a damn what his opinion of me was. A young black female student in his row turned around and told me to let it go, or be quiet. The man next to me told us both to shut up.

Unsure of what was happening, I did what she said. When we got to the police station, everyone got off the bus. I wondered if I’d get a jumpsuit to wear. we were handed small cards, typed with our names and our violation. I found mine in my stack and pass the rest along.

We still in line to get our mugshots, which involves holding the little card next to our face. A Young female guard or officer took my card, read it, and handed it back to me, giving me her condolences. I read the card while I stood in line and my charge was sacrilege, but it was spelled "SACRALEGE."

On the back of the card was a notation for everyone to take it easy on me as I have been home because my father had passed. I then woke up.
kybearfuzz: (Grrrrrrr!!!!)
I've posted in the past how I am the admin for the Cincinnati MovieBears FB group. I usually post a date/time for a movie on the third Saturday of each month. Then I coordinate a group dinner afterward. I'm not a planner, so this takes some effort for me. After years of doing it, it's not so bad, but I always feel a bit of anxiety in the process.

Some time back, I stopped posting polls to decide which movie we see. I quit doing it after a group of us ended up going to a movie that none of us had voted for in the poll. People love to vote, but the large majority rarely attend. Now, I select a movie that came out in the last couple of weeks and just throw it up to the group.

This morning, I posted an outing for "The Nun" for Saturday. Within an hour, I got this comment posted by a group member:

"I saw The Nun last weekend and the movie is terrible."

ReallyQueen


Okay, opinions are like @$$holes, we all have one and sometimes they stink, but I don't see the point in adding this comment for everyone to read. Coordinating this stuff is hard enough with my schedule without some smart@$$ queen putting a negative connotation to the event. I always question when I am about to add something snarky to the web, often deleting a comment as it's not worth adding to the drama of the world.

This time, I replied to his missive, asking, "So... are you suggesting that I cancel this?"

The wiseguy responded just a few minutes ago with this following:

"I’m just saying The Nun sucks, haha. I have a wedding that evening so I won’t be there either way."

So.. you were not planning on going, you just decided to warn everyone that the movie is bad so they won't go.

Dick move, douchebag... dick move...
kybearfuzz: (Mark at 43)
I usually don't watch any "reality" TV shows. I think they have wrecked TV for the most part for years. TV seems to be recovering a bit these days with more interesting sitcoms and dramas. However, despite my usual dislike for it, I have watched "RuPaul's Drag Race" since the beginning because I find it to be a fascinating window into a particular part of gay life and entertainment.

After eight regular seasons and one previous All-Stars season, the second season of "All-Stars" is currently running. For those who don't watch it, All-Stars brings back queens from previous seasons for a second chance for the crown and the money. This season is fun because it brings back a lot of fan favorites like Alaska Thunderf*ck, Detox, and Alyssa Edwards, as well as known "villains" Roxxxy Andrews and Phi Phi O'Hara. One particular spin is that instead of the bottom two queens lip syncing for "their lives" and the lesser being eliminated by RuPaul, the top two queens perform for "their legacy" and the winner eliminates one of the bottom queens of her choosing. I personally didn't like this twist, but it does create more drama and changes the dynamic in the work room.


In her regular season, Phi Phi O'Hara was pretty vicious to the eventual winner Sharon Needles. Phi Phi blames the editing, but there were things she said that you couldn't have viewed differently no matter how you edit the scenes. She herself admits that she was too aggressive in her season, that it hurt her ability to get gigs afterward, and that she had received death threats and attacks online. She supposedly re-invented herself as a cosplay queen, doing some pretty impressive looks online, and the perception of her seemed to change.

She came on All-Stars to get a TV redemption, proving that she had grown and she wasn't the vicious person TV made her out to be.

While she's not the yelling shrew she was in Season 4, she still seems a bit devious, giving advice to queens that makes them change their minds about how they pursue a challenge, usually to their detriment. Now that the show is being aired, Phi Phi has gone online stating that the show is editing her scenes again to make her the villain.

I was reading her twitter and she's gone off the deep end, ripping on RuPaul and the show overall, promising to skip the reunion show where they crown the queen (which makes me think she gets eliminated at some point). It looks like RuPaul herself has unfriended her. Phi Phi just dropped a new album. She's using the hype to push her new album under her male name. Somehow, I don't think pissing off RuPaul, the unquestionable queen of drag, is a smart idea career-wise, but it looks like Phi Phi is shooting for a real music career out of drag. However, she's definitely dropping hints about the show, so the producers may have a case to sue her for breaking her confidentiality agreement. It's real drama, versus the staged stuff that the show might have made.

Sadly, I was hoping Phi Phi had changed as I respect her for her new looks, but she's coming across as a loon. And I have to admit that I find Jaremi (Phi Phi out of drag) kind of cute, but looks aren't everything.

kybearfuzz: (Comic Book Bears)
I have had a lot of discussions among my comic book-collecting friends and the local comic book store owners about what I have viewed as a decline in the quality of what used to be the most popular comic books. One store owner told me that DC and Marvel aim for a 12-issue or so story-arc so they can generate trade paperbacks, that continuing storylines are too hard to maintain and that one-shot issues are nearly non-existent.

It's one of the things I've done with my own comic is to try to bring back some of that feeling. I generate write standalone issues, or maybe two or three issue arcs, but then back to the single story. It's how the comic books were when I was a kid and I loved it.

Such changes have led to a dwindling of my comic purchases. I have started learning more toward independent comics, horror comics, etc., instead of DC and Marvel.

Today I was reading a Facebook article with a link to Bleeding Cool, a comic book blog, that echoed a lot of the discussions I've had recently:

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2016/01/27/retailers-complain-about-collapsing-marvel-and-dc-sales/

One of the discussion points the article brings up is the decline in the quality of artwork, specifically with Marvel Comics, where it's coming across as cartoonish and manga-esque. I was having a similar discussion with [livejournal.com profile] aceofspace a few weeks ago, saying that the comic art was shying away from realistic styles. One of my comments to him was that I felt the artwork for a lot of comics were ... well... sloppy. Of all the comic book artists out there competing for the opportunities to draw comics, I found it surprising that these artists were getting the work.

Art is in the eye of the beholder, but it was interesting to read such validating statements in the blog.

I've not given up comic book collecting, but the volume had definitely changed. I'll be very curious what the two big comics will try to woo readers back. I do worry if it might be too late.
kybearfuzz: (Grrrrrrr!!!!)

I had planned on going to bed early last night. As I was looking through my emails, I found a fraud alert for my main credit card. Earlier this week, I’d gotten a voicemail about this activity and handled it through their automated system. When I looked at the email, I realized that I may have told the credit card company that a declined charge was authentic, so I phoned the credit card company at 11 PM last night.

It turns out that someone in Florida had locked into my credit card number. I’m not sure how this happens really as I’ve not been to Florida in years, but there it was, someone trying to buy some female diet crap at $49.95. Luckily, my credit card company flagged it and declined the charge, but it did freak me out.

While I was on hold for the next available customer service rep, I checked my current charges online and saw nothing unusual, so hopefully the thief got tired of my card declining and moved on.

As a security measure, my credit card company axed my current card and is sending out a new one. The rep said it should be here this weekend, and I needed a new one anyway as the magnetic strip on the back was getting worn (yeah, I charge everything to it for the points).

The problem is that I was very keyed up last night afterward, which made it very hard to go to sleep. So the creep who tried to use my card did steal something from me besides my credit card security… a good night’s sleep. @$$hole…

Posted via LiveJournal.app.

kybearfuzz: (Angry Cat)
I'm surprised I've not seen more comments about this situation on LJ, but it's been burning up Facebook left and right. The story is here:

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/tipping-pastor-apologizes-687234

In a nutshell, a church group goes to Applebee's and eats. The female pastor apparently is disgusted by the automatic 18% gratuity added to her check, crosses it out, and puts a message on it saying that she gives 10% to God, why does she [the server] deserve 18%? She then puts her total on the bill and signs her bill as "Pastor" and her name. Another server takes a photo of the bill and posts it on the web. As the story goes, she excluded the signature and name of the customer, but the pastor was notified by other members of her "church" and recognized her handiwork on the receipt. She calls Applebee's and supposedly demands they fire the whole staff, but only the one server who posted the image gets canned by Applebee's for "policy violations." Eventually, the name of the pastor comes out as well as her poor attitude. She apologizes for her "lapse in judgment," but nothing else.

Having waited tables before, I can tell you -- it's hard work. And sometimes customers are not the nicest people and putting up with it while smiling is a chore. The pastor is a bitch and I'm not sad she got called out on this. She exhibits everything I find wrong with those who call themselves "Christians."

However, I'm a bit torn when it comes to Applebee's and the firing of the server. As a customer, I wouldn't want my receipt posted on the net, though I have never given them a reason to do that. I think firing the server was extreme. It's bad PR for the company as evident on their Facebook page, the big bad restaurant ganging up on the server and siding with the bad customer.

Any thoughts on the situation? I'm curious.
kybearfuzz: (Old Lady Shades 2)
Last night, I ate dinner at a local Indian restaurant. It wasn't crowded. The only other folks in the main dining room was a trio of young 20-somethings. Young and loud, I couldn't help overhearing their spirited and dramatic conversation.

It seems that one of the young ladies had a cheating boyfriend who had been shagging his ex-girlfriend. She had discovered a litany of undeleted emails on his phone between them and she was alternately reading them to her friends and sobbing during the commentary. All through this I was playing a zombie game on my phone.

Her main goal was "totally" confronting him in public, embarrassing him in front of friends and family for being a cheating loser, and giving herself "closure" in the incident. Naturally, she remarked at the cheating pair would likely get back together now that she and he were over and they "deserved each other."

Eventually, she couldn't stay and apologized to her friends for wrecking dinner and left to confront the boyfriend. The friends continued to comment after she left, the young lady wondering if she should have gone with her. Her boyfriend seemed happy she didn't. She begrudgingly agreed that she have likely been stuck waiting three hours in the car waiting for her. Or worse, be stuck between the fighting pair.

The couple left soon after. I finished myself and went for a frigid walk. I felt sorry for the young lady, but I can't help but be somewhat entertained by such a strange public display of emotion and drama. That sounds evil, doesn't it? It just seemed a bit over the top. I half expected the trio to walk about asking for gratuity for the show. It did ring of Eastenders, I thought.

Happy Tuesday all.
kybearfuzz: (Default)
Last week, I noticed that my work had slowed down considerably. Strangely, given the upcoming holiday, no one had called dibs on taking the week, so I jumped on it. Having no specific plans though, my days have been oddly empty of plans.

On Monday, I headed down to visit family, which always seems to involve drama. Some of it is understandable considering what is going on, but the rest is unneeded icing on a very bitter cake.

As I've written before, my older brother has been diagnosed with terminal cancer. It's spread from his colon and liver now to his lungs. He's been doing chemotherapy with no success and the bulk of responsibility for his affairs and transport has fallen to my sister. I can't sugarcoat it, he's wearing her out and my mother isn't helping because she can be just as demanding on her. We found out Tuesday that my brother's chemo has been ratcheted up to three days a week every other week. My sister is currently unemployed and she's not been looking for a job because there's no way she could work and handle my mom and brother with a job.

I feel guilty for not being able to do more from a distance. The twin tries to help, but mom won't call him for help and my older brother doesn't seem to want to either. The situation will be even worsened when my sister has to go to the hospital next month for a hysterectomy. We will manage, but I'm not sure how yet.

On the lighter side, I had a double-header softball game Tuesday night. We won both games, the last one by a single run, but it felt good. I had some decent hits, so I was happy.

Now I need to do a bit of yard work and such. Looking forward to some good movies this weekend.
kybearfuzz: (Hmmmm Again)
... though not my own.

I have lately been lamenting my single status and lack of dating. Luckily, my work has kept me relatively busy so that I haven't had too much time to focus on it. Tonight, though, I was feeling a tad on the lonely side for some reason. I decided to hit an Indian restaurant for dinner. If I wasn't going to have a date tonight, I might as well load my system with definite date deterrents, like garlic breath and pores that will exude the unmistakable scent of curry.

Seated alone at a booth, I ordered my dinner and opened my sketchpad for some doodling while I waited for it to arrive. In the booth behind me, I overheard the following:

Him: "So are you not even going to smile tonight?"
Her: "Smile about what?"

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