Hambeast at work

I certainly don't have the most glamorous job in the world, I drive the employee shuttle in the parking lot at Mercy Hospital. I love my job, I really do. Occasionally, however, I want to physically hurl someone off of the shuttle. Most of the time, the person in question is simply too fat to consider such a feat. One woman comes on the shuttle every day, takes out her cell phone, and just yells at her kid to clean his room before she gets home. It's the same conversation every day, and it doesn't matter if she's the only rider, or if there are 20 people, she will yell, and everyone else will just sit in stunned silence. It's a pain in the ass, because nobody wants to tell her to just shut up, but you know everybody is thinking it.

Today, this lady came back from lunch and called for the shuttle to pick her up in the parking lot, no biggie, they park about a quarter mile from the door, I wouldn't feel like walking either. On the way to the stop the shuttle dies, and I have to sit there for a few minutes trying to get it going again. It stops reliably working pretty much whenever it gets over 70 degrees. She keeps calling me on the intercom thing in the shuttle stop and yelling at me to hurry up. Not asking, not wondering what the hold up is. Yelling. Keep in mind, I'm roughly 40 or 50 feet from the stop. She could probably walk to the shuttle in about 10 seconds with minimal effort, but no. She feels the need to continue pressing the call button like the waste of matter that she is.

I really do love that job, but some days I just want to drive the shuttle directly into a few people, like today

Outlaw Jeph Loeb

Because of school I've been lagging in my comic reading, I finally tackled a stack I have sitting on my desk lat weekend, and I've got to say, Jeph Loeb is batshit insane. As I probably mentioned previously, I was never really emotionally attached to the Wolverine character, but Jesus, what the hell is he thinking? Wolverine, Sabertooth, Wildchild, Feral etc... decendant from alien wolf people!? I'm aware of a little suspension of disbelief you have to put up with in comics, but seriously? Really!? Come on, man. Why are people paying this man money to do anything other than hit himself in the head with a sock full of change? I can only hope the rest of the Marvel Universe isn't as screwed up as this, or I may have to make the leap over to the clusterfuck that was DC's Countdown.

Wolverine: Origins

Not quite sure how I feel about this movie, at all, really. I'm trying to not nerd-out on it and hate it because of some of the liberties they took with the story (which wasn't really fantastic by itself). It was certainly badass, and I'm thinking that's how I'm going to remember it. Not as a great movie, but an entertaining one. Hugh Jackman is pretty much the only person I can envision playing Wolverine, though I think it would be amusing it they actually portrayed him being as short as he is in the comics. Liev Schreiber did a fine job playing his part, but I didn't really feel like I was watching Sabretooth.

My only actual complaint with the movie is why the hell were they fighting in the civil war. Last I checked Canada wasn't part of the Union. Oh, and what the hell did the do with Deadpool. I honestly don't care about pretty much everything they did to him *except* the optic blasts. He can teleport (with a little technological help), healing factor is there....but optic blasts? Also was there really a need for the katanas to be *in* his arms.

Also the teaser after the credits pissed me off, because they are setting up a Deadpool movie. Don't get me wrong, I'll see it, and for the first 20 minutes of the film I enjoyed what Ryan Reynolds was doing with the character, but I know I'll leave the theater after it full of nerd rage.

I'm just glad I'm not a gigantic Star Trek fan, I enjoy the original run of the series, but I don't worship it enough to leave the theater pissed next weekend.

The Room

I don't know why I own this. Every time I see the movie it's like a 90 minute lobotomy. I am speaking of The Room, which easily ranks as the worst thing I have ever seen, and probably ever made. I'm not stranger to bad cinema, I have seen every Ed Wood film, Manos: The Hands of Fate, and basically every episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000. I think it's safe to say I know my shit, and I do mean "shit." The Room is shit on a whole new level, it doesn't just suck, it ruins my hope for the human race. I can't justify why it even exists, if only to torment me. It proves there is no god, and if there is, (s)he is a cold and uncaring god.

That being said, you absolutely must watch it.