Yet another sighting of the_firey_water in a BBC comedy! So back when The Office first came out on BBC America, I laughed when I saw a chap that looked remarkably like my friend, the_firey_water.Well, I just got s1 & s2 of Little Britain finally from amazon.uk and lo and behold...FYI: Here's a reference photo in case you you doubt my doppleganger claims!Taken at a WWE Monday Night Raw in Chicago back in 2003

Open Google Earthtype in 4.815 162.342You aren't so LOST anymore.

I received this email today from the same seller (see yesterdays post). Yet another guilt trip bordering on harrasment.Email #4hi cory i sent you the 3 emails wishing to do a mutual withdrawel of the neutrals. please contact me to discuss doing this together so we can both keep our 100 percent feedbacks.as i said my healths is not good as well as my mind. i just also remembered that i even wrote you saying you sent too much money. i forgot you bought 3 not two.doesnt that also show you you have a good person here. lets help each other please alan 323 650 2345No shit...your mind is not good? Well fuck me, I wouldn't have guessed. Considering I sent the guy an email the night of auction end taking him up on an offer to pay extra to get a third menu thrown in because I had not won that auction...I don't see how that is so much an indication of how good a person he is, just how fucking forgetful and unorganized he is.Nevermind the fact that he still has yet to spell my name correctly. That's irksome to the nth degree.I'm pretty much resolved to stand by my feedback, and as the_firey_water suggested...leave another feedback about 4 harrasing emails.ADDENDUM:So I got all ramped up over this issue that I finally decided to fire off an email to him.Response #1Alan, Please do not contact me again regarding this matter. I am well within my rights to leave a nuetral feedback on this auction. The feedback in question is not malicious in anyway, but is factual. You did not have the item on hand at end of auction and delivery was late due to that fact. I did not receive the same experience that your other buyers might have, and I am within my rights as a buyer to leave feedback accordingly. Nuetral feedback does in fact NOT count as negative feedback and you are still at 100% positive, so your point on that issue is irrelevant. I am not new to eBay. Although I have only 30 positives in total, you will note that they date back prior to 2000. My feedback stands. I do not appreciate being harrassed and put on guilt trips. Please do not send any more inquiries on the matter or I will forward all materials to eBay for an inquiry into harrassment after the sale and leave a feedback followup to indicate such actions.----Note puncuation/capitalization and the lack of descriptions of my handicaps.

So, I've been a purchasing fool on eBay as of late, and bought several items...most of which were sent out the same day. You see, at auction end, I get on PayPal, because most intelligent people use that service now. Anywho, right before 4th of July weekend, I won an auction for some vintage tiki menus (circa '57 and '62). Actually, they were just prints from the original, but hey, I'm not arguing. They are tough menu's to find. Anyways, I won it on a friday and sent out a money order that next morning. Come to find out, in an email six days later, that the seller did not even have the items on hand to give me. Gave me a story about how the guy that does the printing was out sick and it would be a few days. Sorry, didn't know kinkos only had one employee. Well, a few days turned into two weeks before he finally shipped them. So when it came time to leave feedback, I did. Because I have the fucking right to leave any damn feedback I wish. So I left a neutral remark stating "Item not on hand at auction end & waited over a week, good quality item though". I figured this was fair, considering the guy was auctioning things he didnt even posess at the time. Anyways, so this guy sends me three damn eBay emails in one day, pleading with me...Email #1"hi cory at the top of your feedback page you will see a link called feedback forum if you then go to feedback desputes you will see how we can remove the negative and bring me back to 100 percent the comments however have to remain. will you help me with this?????? i will in turn work with you on your feedback that i have not given yet! again this means alot to an old sick man alan gorsky 323 650 2345 in los angeles call me or i will call you if you send me your number. i am a good person here not a bad person who fools people on ebay. look at all the people who have been happy with my look at their good feedbacks."Email #2"hi again we can start a mutual withdrawel process with ebay. which will bring back my 100 percent but will not take away the 2 neutrals. will you work with me on this?? we cant undo the past but you can help me with the future. you dont get 197 positives by hurting people. i was trying to do good for you by getting you a fresh one rather than a bent one. i made my printer do a rush over other work. you wrote me back that it was ok, send it out as soon as you could. i did send it out asap.i was in the next days mail after i got it back from the prin i am a sick person and rely on ebay for my mental activity,my legs are all crippled up not for the meager money it makes me. please work with me and i will work with you on your feedback also before i reply to yours. if you want i will call you at my expense to discuss getting a mutual withdrawl and explain the process to you.send me your phone number. keeping my good word on ebay is very important to me. alan 323 650 2345 god bless you"Email #3"hi i am very sad you gave me a neutral that was not fair to spoil my 100 percent i asked you if it was ok you said it was ok. the last one i had was wrinkled and i didnt want to send it. i rushed to the printer to get you a fresh one so as not to send you a bad one. you said it was oky. a neutral is as bad as a negative. you are new to ebay and i had 197 positives i will ask ebay to modify it will you go along with that if i start the process.???? i have very bad nerve damage in my legs and count on ebay for keeping me active in my house. i try so hard to make everyone happy. will you help me here.alan"I guess because he's a cripple I can forgive the fact that he doesn't capitalize anything or complete words and runs guilt trips on people. And relying on eBay for mental activity? I'd suggest a good book over eBay for that. And let me assure you, what I paid for them vs. the price it probably cost him to do a batch print job is probably a steal...not "meager money".The nerve. Or lack of. And I'm pleased he thinks just because I've only had 30 feedbacks left that I am somehow new to eBay. Even though they date back to 1997, and his only back to '03.Anyways, I'm debating whether to just back down and let the guy have his 199 positives, or to stand my ground and stick by my nuetral feedback. Mind you, if you respond with comments on what I should do, I most likely won't give a shit...but you're more than welcome to leave them anyways.

By the way...is it evil of me to root for the aliens? Watching them vaporize people sort left me feeling warm and fuzzy inside.

Taken on my trip to NYC with the_fiery_water in 2004.

Fire, Explosion Rock St. Louis Gas Plant Suspicious man seen leaving Praxair shortly before the fires broke out.Call the tips hotline if you have any information.

I was watching the trailer for A Sound of Thunder, and something hit me...Notice anything about one of the characters??Metalunites are apparently in the time traveling safari business in 2054.

I'm very jealous of fezabel and cariadwyn living in Chicago now, for the simple fact that it seems this summer there is a great deal of tiki events going on there.King Kukulele and the Freaky Tikis play at Trader Vics June 15th as part of Tabu Tiki Nights.Gala-Tiki Exhibition & Party at DvA Gallery June 18thand Exotica 2005 July 7-10Not only those events, but they do have the nice Hala-Kahiki in River Grove and Chef Shangri-La in Riverside, Tongs Tiki Hut in Glendale Heights, and of course the old standard, Trader Vic's downtown to dine at anytime of the year. I thought I read somewhere that Rock-A-Tiki Lounge was closed

Back from Vegas late Saturday night and have been working on uploading all my pics. More than 500 to go through. I'm too lazy to do a full write up tonight. I'll leave it at "had fun, enjoyed the scenery, whatever I made on table games I lost on Kentucky Derby bets, slots and roulette".Anyways, here's my favorite pics from the vacation. Enjoy. Panoramic shot from the top of the Stratosphere Tower, our hotel.Another, larger, panoramic shot.The Stratosphere Tower itself.Night time shot of the strip from the Tower Observation deck.The X-Scream ride and the riders view of the Vegas streets below. Scary shit.Insanity:The Ride...truly insane!The Venetian HotelVenetian's hotel check in lobby.The Mirage, with its volcano in the foreground.Erupting volcano.Much like Doug's LJ username the_firey_water...a picture of the fiery water.The bronze lion in front of the MGM Grand.The Paris Hotel casino entrance under the Eifel Tower replica.The Paris Hotel lobby entrance.The new Wynn Resort Hotel.Elaborate cieling hangings over a restaurant lobby a floor below. Odd window dressing in an upscale clothier inside the Wynn's shopping area.Another odd window dressing.In front of the Luxor.Within the pyramid.The fountain show in front of The Bellagio.In front of Ceasars Palace.One of the smaller, shadier casinos along the strip. But they have a neat sign.No Jesus Juice for me at Madame Toussauds.My best Elvis impersonation. Having a jumpsuit and greased hair would improve on it greatly.The last image of Vegas.More photos of my Vegas trip here.The rest of the crazy Madame Tussauds photos will be put up tomorrow if you're too lazy to click the link above to see them.

Spike Jonze commercial for Adidas featuring vocals by Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

Final Star Wars Ep. 3 trailer playing exclusively with the movie ROBOTS. I'm getting a little more excited seeing that the rating is set as PG-13 and Lucas admitting that this one is not for the kids.

At the end of tonights NBC SNL:The First 5 Years special, they played two promos for the upcoming The Office series. Check out the link to see some of them for yourself. I must say...this looks very promising. I imagine that they're going to rely heavily on Steve Carell to carry the show seeing as how most of the other actors are unknowns. But he has the talent to do it.

This is the first time I have heard of such a thing until I saw an entry about it on the IMDB trivia page for the Matrix (3rd from the bottom)Apparently, a woman by the name of Sophia Stewart claims that she was the original creator of the Matrix (as well as the screenplays for the Terminator trilogy). She's filed suit claiming that Warner Bros. and the Wachowski's stole her work to create the Matrix trilogy.She claims that her original work, dubbed 'The Third Eye', was submitted to the Wachowski's in response to an ad they placed looking for a science fiction piece to create a comic book. "She further explained, 'I created an epicwhich is a body of work that you can get six or more movies from. The Matrix is a derivative of The Terminator. The Matrix comes from the future part of the epic.'"Thats all interesting. Hmm....why the fuck didn't she pipe up about this back in '84 when Terminator was orginally released? Or hell, in back in the late '90s when Matrix preproduction was begining. Why didn't she go to the mainstream press and make her allegations known? You can see all her legal documents at this fansite. Ignore the over use of ebonics that the webmaster thought would be cool. If you want to hear Matrix fan talkback on the issue, Matrix Explained.com has a huge forum dedicated to the subject.It sounds bogus, because from reading portions of her so called "essay", its doesn't really correlate with The Matrix, and from hearing her speak on it...she sounds freaking looney. But, it does make you think a little about why the Wachowski's were/still are so reclusive.

More for fans of British sci-fi and Martin Freeman & Mackenzie Crook (Tim & Gareth from The Office)...Blakes Junction 7. A short film where the rebels from the Blake's 7 series stop by a service station on the M1. Mackenzie gets all dolled up to play the part of female baddie Servalan. Sadly, the link only points to a trailer, not the complete short film.

Amazon.com has the world premeire of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy movie trailer. From the looks, they did a really great job with the effects and especially the casting!

Laugh if you must, but damn can this white boy dance.

Interesting...ebaumsworld now has a toolbar to deliver content and links. Sadly its only for IE, not for Firefox.

From Animal Planet's Pet Star show...one incredibly smart parrot. Probably more intelligent than Mario Lopez and the judges panel.

The Semi-Remarkable Folding Hat. Not the hottest product out there, but damn near indespensible as say, an iPod.