Today's rant: sports tickets

I have reached the point where I cannot, unfortunately, justify spending the cost of admission to see a sports event.  Let me give you a side-by-side comparison.  In 2023, I saw Lewis Black perform in Vancouver.  It cost me $80 for a front row ticket, $10 to park, $25 for dinner, and gas.  In 2024, I considered going up to Vancouver for Survivor Series.  I decided not to go because it would have cost $145 for a nosebleed seat, and I didn't even bother calculating the cost of transportation.  What the fuck, WWE?  It used to be cheap to see a professional wrestling show.  How in the blue hell did it become cheaper to see a Broadway show than a professional wrestling pay-per-view-premium-live-event PPVPLE?  I cannot even see my New York Mets or New York Giants when they come to town because it costs so fucking much.

If you want entertainment, go to a theater production.  It's cheaper and you will get as much entertainment.  

Today’s rant: thoughts and prayers part 2

Let’s make something perfectly clear:  the 2nd Amendment of the United States Constitution is not anybody’s “God-given right,” and to suggest otherwise is pure insanity.  Instead of acting like a retarded alt-right troll, let’s actually think about it for a minute. Around the time the Constitution was ratified, there were about 800 million to 1 billion people on the planet.  So why would God choose a measly 25 million people to endow through the writing ability of James Madison the right to a keep and bear arms and form a well armed militia on an inexperienced group of angry white men with daddy issues?  Why them and not anyone else?  I’ll tell you why:  we made it up.  I never read the Bible, but I dare you to find any religious text pre-1000AD that says guns are A-OK by your deity’s standards.  You won’t find it.

Ok, so here is the usual spiel:  political assassination is wrong.  That being said… fuck 'em.  I don’t care that Charlie Kirk is dead. 🖕Thoughts and prayers, fuckface. 🖕 In fact, when I first found out he was shot before they announced his death, my first thought was “I hope he dies,” specifically because I was sick and tired of seeing his advertisements on YouTube.  My second thought was “Hey Trump, liberals’ aim is improving.”  Keep in mind, as of the time I am typing this, no one has been arrested or named as a person of interest, so I have no ideas about any possible motive.  I can infer A LOT, but I am not positive.  Let’s face it, I’m probably a horrible person for these thoughts to go through my head, but I am not unbiased.

They’ll probably catch the person within 3 days. I’ll be very surprised if the don’t catch anyone within a week.

Today's rant: Miami

If you are acting like you are trying to stop a war, how stupid do you have to be to say "if you don't cease-fire in the next 50 days, then I'm gonna make my importers pay double for what they bring in from your country, and I'm going to pocket all that extra money"?  That's about as ineffective as you can be.

I went to Miami recently, on purpose.  It wasn't by choice.  I had to go on a business trip.  That was a great choice my team made.  "Let's go to Florida in the summer!"  Everyday felt like I was being constantly bombarded by a sauna.  Imagine opening the door of an air conditioned building while walking outside and having a wet fart in your face continuously.

The people there were, as I expected, way much more aesthetically pleasing compared to me.  I just did not fit in.  I was a 2 in a sea of 9s and 10s.  I was like the mutated brown Froot Loop at the bottom of the box.  At least there was plenty of eye candy.  The nightlife is something in Miami.  At least it seemed that way from the outside.  Lots of loud cars and motorcycles and music coming from those cars, even on a Sunday night.

One of the odd things I saw around Miami were billboards and an advertising truck for Theranos.  Apparently, some supporter of the imprisoned lady who scammed billions of out investors for her shitty blood testing device is self-funding an ad campaign to keep her broken company's image afloat.

It also felt a little weird being down there as they were opening Alligator Auschwitz Alcatraz.  One of my teammates at the beginning of the trip said they may drive through the Everglades.  That idea did not age well.

Update August 16:  TACO. No more ceasefire demand.

Today's rant: thoughts and prayers

Happy Independence Day, patriots.  Hope all of you still have all of the fingers you had at the close of July 3rd.  Statistically speaking, someone must have lost a digit or four, but I can still hope.

I am now thoroughly convinced that there are going to be a lot more political assassinations in the United States over the next 3 and a half years.  And if my previous sentence is not redacted by Blogger, I will be pleasantly surprised.  I tried really hard not to condone violence or destruction of property.  I really did.  At the beginning of the year, I told people that I did not condone the destruction of personal property in the wake of Tesla vandalism, while at the same time admitting that I found it hilarious.  A fake profile on Facebook tried to engage me, to which I underscored that their profile had not one photograph of any human being, but were all MAGA animations.  It's either a Russian trying to stir the pot or some poor old retard who is inept at social media and serves as justification for my belief that Facebook should have stayed in the dorm room where it belonged instead of being make publicly available to everyone.

But now, fuck it.  Let the Tesla's burn.  Thoughts and prayers.  I was not sad that a healthcare CEO was shot in the head, and I'm still not.  Thoughts and prayers.  There's a flood in Texas and people are dead.  Thoughts and prayers.  ...What's that, you bible thumping redhats?  Why are you mad?!  Isn't this your mantra?  Fucking thoughts and shitlicking prayers?  It's just like that cunt Joni Ernst said in her town hall:  "Well, we all are going to die.  For heaven's sakes, folks."  But maybe if I think and pray hard enough, all of this wanton destruction and death will retroactively be undone!  Isn't it amazing?  But seriously, the blood and brains are going to spill, and I am going to sit back with popcorn and a beer and watch it all unfold.

I only recognize two BBBs, and the "big beautiful bill" ain't one of them.  Recognize the Better Business Bureau and the Big Burberry Belt, schmuckos.

Today's rant: names

So apparently, it's ok to start giving places and things new names if they feel like it, just because a person doing it claims to have authority.  Fine.  I'll bite.

Mar-a-Lago is now Mar-a-Retard.

Trump Tower is now Rape Tower.

Trump's pronouns are now she/her/hers.

Elon's pronouns are how nazi/nazim/nazis.