In your face universe!. Even though I didn't miss the character one bit, I did call the return of Starbuck on the ever more excellent BattleStar Galactica. Heres how a recent conversation at work went.

Me: Yeah, I don't know. I don't think Starbuck is gone for good. I don't buy it.

Co-worker J: Well, I read on-line that the actress (Katie Sackhoff) wasn't happy on the show, and they wanted to write her out.

Me: Really? Still, very mysterious death for a simple character write-off.

Co-worker: No way dude. You are wrong. Only seldom listened-to super geniuses and the like would think that.

And...scene.

And yes, i realize how ridiculously geeky it is to be blogging about BSG, and to refer to it as BSG. But I called it, so in your face universe!

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say theat the new Will Ferrell movie is going to suck. I havent read any early stuff on it, so maybe thats not really going out on a limb, but I just saw a commercial that broke the cardinal rule for comedy advertising. They showed that retarded guy from Napoleon Dynamite throwing something at Will Ferrell. A short look at the track record of movies that depended on "throwing stuff ads", ie "Dodgeball" and the worst excuse for comedy ever "Benchwarmers", gives you an idea of what were looking at here. I sense desperation in the quantity of advertising as well. They've had ads on TSN and Sportsnet, during the programming, which can't be cheap.

Plus its a fucking figure skating movie. You know its going to be half jokes about weird uncomfortable positions and stuff. I just think you can't make that Jon Heder guy funny without a wig, or some crazy make-up or something, or have him playing a total retard. Prediction: craptacular.

I was just at the liquor store, where I was again stunned by the useless slugs that were lucky enough to get a job there. As if it wasn't galling enough that these cash register jockeys have a fuckin union, now they apparently don't want the work. Here's how my last trip just went down.

Girl in front of me in line: Yes, how late is this store open?

LC SLug: Ten o'clock most weeknights, eleven o'clock on fridays and saturdays.

Girl: Really!? Thats great!

LC Slug: Well, were trying to get it changed because its not fair.

Girl: They're changing them all to eleven?

LC Slug: Nah, were trying to get ours changed to ten because its not fair because we're the only store open that late.

This is where I come in cause I can't believe my ears

Me: Thats just another hour to make money.

LC Slug: Well, not really with the wages they're paying.

Ignore the fact that these are some of the most overpaid employees anywhere in the province. Ignore the fact that the job is EASY. I know, I worked security at a liquor store for a while, so I know how "tough" it is. They deal with drunks. Big fucking deal. The poor teenage assholes working at the 24 hour Subway have to deal with nothing but drunks for hours at a time and they get paid fuck-all. These UNIONIZED positions at the LC start at more than 10 dollars an hour to stock shelves and use a cash register. IT MAKES NO SENSE.

Now, I was referring to the store being open and therefore having another hour in which OUR COLLECTIVELY OWNED BUSINESS could make more profit, which, according to the government (who run the LC for those who live under a rock) is a good thing for everybody. But does she give a shit? Does she give a flying fuck about the bottom line of the business she works for, that we all "own"? Of course she doesn't. She's more concerned with some kind of infantile sense of fairness, as if business and other factors weren't the cause of the store being open. If the store is open at those hours, then they are obviously profitable, thus isuring the continued existence of the cushy over-paid cash register job.

She did realize what she said though, because she kind of looked away embarrassed. She said nothing at all when I asked her: "Its too bad you can't go start your own liquor store huh?" She stared at the fucking counter and bagged my beer like the mindless dipshit she was and surely is.

People, some has to be done about this totalitarian liquor distribution system. I mean, free trade, what a fucking joke. No international tariffs, but the N.S. and N.B. Government are still hitting each other with tariffs for beer? Death to the NSLC.

Gimme some feedback on this people.