You shouldn't have settled for Super Saver shipping.

Things never end well when I pay for shipping. My DVDs get lost in a warehouse in Kentucky, there are apologetic e-mails, and it's nothing but work, work, work, all the time.

They're back-ordered. Clovis has been sulking about it for days.

Bastards! They SWORE they had some in stock.

They're lucky I had bacon at lunch.

Does this sound right?: a Board member arranges for music & photographer for an event for us (we ask him to make the calls to them, but arranges all details without including us in $$ discussion), bills get sent to us (as is right as it is our event), but additional services were requested by Bd. member (again, we are not involved in the discussion), again vendors are told just to bill us (a little sketchy since we never were a part of this), AND, the real kicker, product from the vendors is given to the Bd. member, NOT us.

no, this is not right. Call the vendor back and say that there was a misunderstanding, you only wanted A & B, not the kitchen sink. Also, please deliver the product directly to us, as to to inconvenince the board member. Thankssomuch'kaybye!!

and, for the Pink Gingham Junta -- [link]

What is the worst ad song ever? [link]

The big winner, submitted by dozens and dozens of you, is Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, which used Iggy Pop's "Lust for Life" in a series of spots. As my reader Andrei put it, "Nothing says maritime comfort like a song about shooting up junk."

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Third place, with yet another slew of responses, goes to Mercedes-Benz's use of Janis Joplin's "Mercedes Benz":

"I've always wondered about Janis Joplin's 'Mercedes Benz,' which I always interpreted as a song critical of capitalism and materialism through the tragedy of poor people asking God in despair for the ultimate upper class status symbol which somehow will erase the pain of poverty. When Daimler started using it to sell Benzes, I felt awful. I still do. Joplin did drive a Porsche (which makes the next lyric—'My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends'—a possible self-criticism). Then again, she probably vomited in it."

If I had any say in how we do stuff here, I would do exactly as Vortex suggest, but as I don;t and I only have 3 weeks left here, I will pass the buck and the information on to someone else. jackholes, all of them.

I only have 3 weeks left here

oh, fuck 'em then. did you like the pillow?

Uhg. Well, they certainly are making it a lot easier to be happy about leaving, aren't they?

Last night I started watching the DVD set for s2 of Chappelle's Show. They have Charlie MurphYYY telling more stories on it, and it is hysterical. I recommend the DVD to all for that alone. (Seemed like the set at Best Buy was somehow bigger than the one being sold at Borders, so be warned.)

"Rick wants to go to the abyss. In fact, he dwells in the abyss. . . . And he wants company."

The pillow is cute, but the only pink in my house is in my kitchen.

right before I was going to be, I happened to flip to comedy central and saw Dave doing an hour of stand up. HYSTERICAL. Oh, and for those who wonder what's going on with Dave, he's been showing up at small comedy clubs in LA, just doing an hour or so on current events. So, still into comedy, but maybe not into the commercialism.