July 25, 2004

FrankFiles 5.1

Metallica has allowed a camera crew in to watch them as they’ve undergone therapy. They say that the camera was what forced them to be real to each other. The movie is out now and is supposed to be really good. Question: Is a kinder gentler Metallica really what we want? Will they now be singing about group hugs and how much they love their parents? Go back to being angry alcoholics, dudes! Man up.

If I touch my thumbs together and my middle fingers together, making a circle, that shows you how big of an electrical outlet I recently worked on. I made sure it was off.

Imagine this scene: A doctor was operating on a man’s testicles and made a mistake. He got pissed and ended up cutting the whole thing off.

How do you let a person who is surrounded by chaos know that it will get better? How do you not pile on, but also, not get latched on to? I guess it’s all about boundaries.

Saying that blind patriotism is stupid is not anti-Americanism. It is simply using ones brain, and not blindly following the patriotic, flag waving, sheeplike masses. Being blindly anti-American is also sheeplike, and stupid. Think people! We come into this world with our eyes closed. Hopefully we might open them someday.

Wouldn’t it be fun if there were Hot Lesbian Action Figures?

Martha Stewart is pimping her products even though she is guilty as hell, and rich as hell. She called a press conference to tell people to continue buying her products. Count me in. Where’s the nearest K-Mart?

On my brother-in-law's website he talks about Michael Moore’s movie as an opinion piece. I agree. But why are they calling it a documentary? It aint.

Prisoners at a Federal Penitentiary, found a door open so they went on a beer run-several times. They thought that it would be ok because they came back. They were wrong.

Lance Armstrong.

A sci-fi fan in China has had plastic surgery to give himself ears like Star Trek's Mr Spock.

A Australian man who called police after his marijuana plants were stolen is to escape charges.

A Romanian man launched more than 100 court cases after he fell in love with a judge.

A cat burglar who succeeded in breaking into an art gallery through a skylight and lowering himself down on a rope had to call police for assistance when he couldn't climb back up again.

A driver caught out by a speed camera pulled over, broke it open and stole the film.

A German company that offers alibis for love rats who want a fling on the side has proved so successful that it is now expanding abroad.

A judge in America is reportedly facing the sack after using a penis pump while trying cases in court.

A New York woman reportedly fended off her husband's violent sexual advances by setting him on fire.

GLOC:
“I want a car that goes fast and gets really shitty gas mileage.”
-From Robocop.

“There is not a truth existing that I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.”
-THOMAS JEFFERSON, letter to Henry Lee, 1826.

“But when I tell him that he hates flatterers,
he says he does, being then most flattered.”
-WILLIAM SHAKESPEAR, Julius Caesar

“Woa to him that be alone when he falleth,
for he hath not another to help him up.”
-BIBLE, Ecclesiastes, 4:10


Posted by Frank at 11:42 AM | Comments (14808)

July 17, 2004

FrankFiles 5.0

Hello again everybody and welcome to the FrankFiles. I am back, and foaming at the mouth as usual. Hah!

I decided early on in the trip to Vegas, that when someone we met asked me what I do, I would say, “I’m in gay porno’s” but my lovely Wife talked me out of it. I think I would say my name was Bolt Rockne, or Lance Steele, or something.

Remember this always, dear readers: The first thing you do when you get your hotel room is to check and see if the alarm is on. Especially if you are on vacation.

Does everybody remember the psycho crew-cut-kid from the third grade?

How many people want to see Catwoman regardless of how bad it is?

Yes, I have a new job now. Yay! Instead of being the guy that brings restaurants their dish-machine chemicals, I am now the guy who pulls pumps out of wells and then fixes or replaces them.

Not having had a new job in a long long time, I found the experience interesting to say the least. After the second day some things struck me. Now, the term “Alpha-Male” is not one that I have ever really given much thought. However, upon my entrance into this new workplace I couldn’t help but feel that, I, was a second “Alpha-Male” prowling onto the savannah, and that eventually the two of us would either become boys, or butt heads. I was going to enjoy the fireworks no matter what the outcome.

Picture this: Well-muscled, well tanned, hard-hat, chew, country music, steely-eyed, no-nonsense, sharp-as-a-tack, swearing, driving the “rig”, good ol’ boy, from Lake county.

As of Friday afternoon, you, my constant reader, will be glad to know that we are heading down the road of becoming 'buds'.

All of this is very interesting to me, because, the dude I was once would have been intimidated as hell by this guy. Now, I believe there is a mutual respect established very quickly among guys, and I am not even sure how, only that is occurs. There are other guys, guys who have been there for months, who have clearly not been able to establish this respect. Again, interesting.

Van Halen is having a reunion tour with Sammy Hagar.(???)

On an unrelated note, David Lee Roth has given up show-business forever and has decided to become a paramedic.

Cassini-Huygens Saturn orbital is now sending back incredible pictures.

Mark Wahlberg is hooking up with HBO and making a series about a Celebrity and his entourage or ‘crew’. I for one, find the subject of ones ‘crew’, to be slightly amusing. One’s posse just seems so comical and pathetic. Do people really need a crowd of yes-men and women around them at all times? People do.

Martha Stewart is going to spend five months under house arrest. Talk about re-decorating. Poor, poor house.

In an article on the Middle East, Fareed Zakaria says this about Israel, a possible Palestinian state, and the ruling of the International Court in the Hague:

“(Sharon) A hard line Likud general who built most of the settlements in Gaza has now pledged to destroy them..Why?”

“He has recognized that there is no alternative. Israel cannot remain a democracy and rule millions of Palestinians against their will indefinitely.”(it’s about freakin’ time)

“As the occupation of Gaza draws to a close, Arafat is losing that status (as freedom fighter) and being seen for what he is-a corrupt autocrat.”(woah)

“As in Iraq, success will not depend on the military mission, but on the follow-on phase of nation-building. Let’s hope Sharon will learn from the mistakes of his friend in the White House.”

As I have said before, all you have to do is read the papers to know that Dubya is an idiot.

But first let me attack some of the arguments that Michael Moore made in his movie, and no, I still won’t give him my hard earned money.

According to MSN’s Christopher Hitchens a Liberal:

“To describe it as an exercise in facile crowd-pleasing would be too obvious. Fahrenheit 9/11 is a sinister exercise in moral frivolity, crudely disguised as an exercise in seriousness. It is also a spectacle of abject political cowardice masking itself as a demonstration of "dissenting" bravery.”

In other words Michael Moore is either lying or just wrong about some of the claims he makes.

Dubya, however, looks as idiotic as ever...

“I would never, ever, do to another human being what those people have done to me.”
-Wife of a 9/11 victim when asked by the BBC if she wanted revenge.

“If I had a choice, I wouldn’t be gay.”
-Old friend

...Alright, those of you who are tired of me smakking on Dubya, may now log off.

For the rest of you....
Here are some quotes from an article on the ‘Senate Intelligence Committee Report’ in Newsweek magazine:

“ ‘Lets keep in mind the fact that this war’s going to happen regardless of what Curve Ball (Ahmad Chalabi) said or didn’t say,’ he (the CIA) wrote ‘The Powers That Be probably aren’t terribly interested in whether Curve Ball knows what he’s talking about.’ ”

“...the 500-page Senate report, which lays out how the U.S. intelligence community utterly failed to accurately assess the state of Saddam Hussein’s programs for weapons of mass destruction-and how White House and Pentagon officials, intent on taking the country to war, unquestioningly embraced the flawed conclusions. In startling detail, the bipartisan report concludes that the CIA and other agencies consistently “overstated” the evidence that Iraq possessed chemical and biological weapons, and was actively re-constituting its nuclear-weapons program. Hampered by a “group think” dynamic that caused them to view all Iraqi actions in the harshest possible light, the committee found, U.?S., Intelligence officials repeatedly embellished fragmentary and ambiguous pieces of evidence, making the danger posed by Iraq appear far more urgent than it actually was.”

“Asked whether Congress would have authorized an invasion had it known two years ago what it knows now, Senate intelligence-committee chairman Pat Roberts, a loyal White House ally, said bluntly, ‘I don’t know.’ ”

“The report itself points to examples of possible political meddling, especially on the issue of whether Iraq had ties to Al Qaeda. Some U.S. intelligence analysts complained that ‘the constant questions and requests to reexamine the issue of Iraq’s links to terrorism [were] unreasonable and took away from their valuable analytic time.’”
-From the article ‘The dots never existed’, by Michael Isikoff.


Posted by Frank at 12:07 PM | Comments (8443)

July 08, 2004

FrankFiles 4.9

Vegas Rocks. And without gambling, too!

My new job Groundwater Pump and Well starts Tuesday.

Training the new guy pretty much sucks. But I am glad they have a replacement. Hopefully I don’t have a guy like him training me.

When problems arise at my job now, I don’t care. Yay!

Pauli Shore can be seen for twenty four bucks. Shakka Kahn can be seen for sixty five. That says it all.

Britney’s Mom is terrified because her darling daughter is about to be married with no pre-nup in sight. Props to the penniless guy who not only drops hammer on little miss Spears but when the divorce happens, three months or so after the wedding; HALF!!!

Goodbye Momma Hazel. You shall be missed. Say hi to my Dad. I know you missed him as much as I.

“If there’s no after-life, I’m gonna be pissed.”
-Me

Bye until next time.

Posted by Frank at 05:07 PM | Comments (9234)