Can Jack Bauer save the Amish?

Isn't it just the best when something in your actual life coincides with the TV world? Of course, it is. Like when the guy on that show Herman's Head would wear Ohio State sweatshirts or when we found out Johnny Utah was a former OSU quarterback. Or maybe when the Keaton family resided in Columbus and Dad worked at Kenyon.

You celebrate. Yay, people in Hollywood are aware of our existence! Or can at least read a map!

So when the bad guy on Fox's "24" decides he's going to release some deadly chemicals because the stubborn-ass President isn't caving to his demands - he naturally chose Kidron, Ohio as the town to destroy!

Now, we have to wait to next week to see if Kidron gets crushed, but there are some slight factual inaccuracies. Kidron was listed as a town of roughly 30,000 people. Maybe there are 3,000 people in Kidron - if the flea market is going good during a spring Saturday.

Mostly, blowing up Kidron would just kill the Amish. Seriously, you can't get through the town without getting stuck behind about 20 buggies.

Perhaps Rupert Murdoch has decided its time to wipe out these technology terrorists with their lack of zippers and electricity. Well, you got me Rupert, now I've got to tune in next week to find out the fate of the Amish. And maybe even the Mennonites.

Or it could be late and I need to go to bed.

Top 5 worst movies of 2009

Top 5 worst movies of 2009:

(Disclaimer: This has nothing to do with movies made in 2009. These are movies I've watched in 2009 that were not good.)

1. Armageddon
Sure, it was made in 1998, but I watched it tonight. Holy shit this movie is bad. In every imaginable way. Isn't there some kind of limit on montages in a single movie?

2. In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale
Ray Liotta plays an evil wizard who is not a mobster. That guy from Snatch is in it and he kicks a lot of ass. And it's almost a complete rip off of Lord of the Rings. Gee, but other than that...

3. Lucky You
Drew Barrymore and that Eric Banna guy attempt to commit career suicide while learning to play poker. Wait, can Drew Barrymore actually commit career suicide at this point?

4. Jumper
Young Darth Vader travels through time with same annoying look on face. Samuel L. Jackson wears wig. Phil sleeps.

5. Premonition
Sandra Bullock sees her hubby biting the big one, repeatedly. Over and over and over. Freaking again and again. to the point where you hope he finally just dies.


Not bad movies of 2009:

Be Kind Rewind
Mildly amusing if slightly cheesy.

Traitor
Needed another big twist at the end, but many things blow up.

Co-Ed Confidential 2: Sophmores
Cinemax rocks. Actual line "Oooh, you're getting an extra big tip for that!"

Man, I wish

I would let myself blog about work.

Because it's unintentional corporate hilariousness.

As it is, all I can offer is this:

There was a meeting, which came right after our other meeting about the next meeting and he/she/transgender totally said XXX and that was just downright hypocritical cause last week he/she/transgender said YYY and I don't know why he/she/transgender would say that other than he/she/transgender is borderline retarded.

And you'd think the threat of looming layoffs would make the other he/she/transgender work a bit harder, but NOOOOO and then there was a total clusterfuck and that reversed all the projects until it turned out the clusterfuck was just sort of a minor clusterfuck, so we resumed.

And then we had a meeting about it. Totally hilarious. awww, man. I totally saw THAT one coming. I should punch that person in the face.

And DTV transition.

Scene.

Here's how you know you have good co-workers...

shortly after your little German machine spins out in the driveway at work, stalls and refuses to restart in -3 degree weather...

- one coworker drives right by you, goes to your floor and tells everyone "some idiot in a red car is parked right in the middle of the entrance!"

- After you call in and ask for help to push your car out of the way, they respond by rushing to the window to watch and take pictures on their Iphones (like above.)

No, no, my car is FINE. thanks so much. went out at lunch and started right up.

jagoffs.

On another VW GTI note, on one of the days the temps reached single digits, there was a slight malfunction with the GTI. Namely, I made the fatal error of attempting to put down the driver's side window. Now, what happens is that my window freezes into the door frame, but the little engine for the power window is not so easily deterred. It just goes ahead and rolls that damn window down, whether that window is attached or not.

Eventually the window thaws a bit and then falls into the door. Of course, it's never quite on track and won't roll back up.

So, I got to drive around in 8 degrees temps with my window down for a day. Fantastic.

anyway, I take the VW to my mechanic and he says "Hopefully, we can just put the window back in and it won't take too long."

What he meant to say was "This will be the easiest $136.57 we ever make."

A little lax

on the blogging.
Or so I've been told.
Repeatedly.

I know, I know. Really, there just hasn't been that much to report. 2009 has been filled with, uh, not too freakin' much.

But I'll try better. I swear.