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Hey facebook!

Yah, I get the point. Damn, lay off.

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Know your customers: Hollywood video now offers a “Stoner Movie” Section

With the rise of On Demand video, an overall lack of new movies I have no interest in seeing *cough* and the fact that nobody I know works there any more, I have little interest in going to Hollywood Video any more. With the desolate wasteland that the area is, it’s only a matter of time before that whole corner of Cass & Grosbeck on the west side of Mount Clemens becomes a complete greyfield anyways.

But I digress, I found myself there recently. Apparently, they’ve pulled out all the stops to cater to their customers (since nothing else really works) and have decided to have a wall section dedicated to movies to watch while you’re high. No doubt a large percentage of movie renters here come stumbling in grabbing random comedies and popcorn, sour patch kids, etc.

The word “High” got half cut off, but you can still make it out.

Livin the High Life at Hollywood Video

Livin the High Life at Hollywood Video

So props to Hollywood Video, even if it is the direct result of stoned customers not being able to find the movies they’re looking for and the staff being completely sick of helping them. Good stuff.

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Levi Johnston’s Nuts

If you are viewing this though RSS or Facebook, go to http://www.cruzweb.net/2009/10/06/levi-johnstons-nuts/ you’ll really want to see this video.

In case you don’t recognize the name Levi Johnston, he’s the fine and upstanding young man who Sarah Palin’s baby’s baby’s daddy. A move that one could only assume would usually would result in a lot of screaming, name calling, and the throwing of blunt objects before a long weekend of cooking up meth.

Despite all of this, Levi has turned this into something positive for himself. Instead of being stuck as the grandfather of a dingbat, Levi has gained:

• National Media Attention, with interviews on many tv shows.
• A trip to the 2008 Republican National Convention
• His own issue of Vanity Fair.

And now, the coup de gras of the whole thing: An endorsement deal, with a commercial, for Wonderful Pistachios. And it is glorious. It seems that the mockery of Palin continues to polymorph and evolve into new fantastic ways.

Check out the video.

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Livonia’s Glenn Moon: Even Jesus can’t help but to Facepalm

Vermin Supreme giving an interview during the 2008 primaries

I can’t believe this went so long without me noticing it. Being involved in politics for as long as I have, I’ve seen some really screwball candidates. But at long last, I think I may have found a candidate who is even more absurd than the infamous Vermin Supreme.

Now, to Mr. Supreme’s credit, he can form coherent sentences in the manner in which the average Joe would say such things…he just says stuff that we would never say. But hey, he was running for president of the United States (and one of the few people I’ve ever met who was also a fan of Imperial Emperor Norton I). Livonia City Council Candidate Glenn Moon on the other hand, not only says things that no mentally competent person would ever say, but he says them in a manner in which prepositions are completely optional and has invented his own nomenclature.
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Some site Updates

Sorry for the lack of updates, the stupid php image security error locked me out again for a while.

Anyways, I’ve made some changes to the site that I’ve been meaning to make.

First off, I’ve added excerpts to the pages so that it doesn’t take so long to load the homepage. In with all that means that there is a “Read More” link where I choose to cut them off, so you don’t have to scroll through stuff you don’t want to read and the site loads much faster.

I fixed the “Currently Rocking out to” section of the sidebar so it no longer breaks when a band name or song name has a – in it. The band name is no longer bolded but I’m sure you guys can figure out which is which.

I’ve actually put things in my calendar, so you’ll know how to stalk me appropriately. As if Twitter and Facebook updates weren’t enough. Now if I ignore your calls or something you’ll know why.

I’ve added a new section called “Word on the Street”, it parses the latest 15 twitter posts using the hashtag “#Detroit”, so you can see what people are talking about. And for the record, trying to put an RSS feed into a Wordpress page is quite a pain. All the options out there are widgets, which serves me no purpose. When I found something that worked I still had to hack the plugin to get it to work right, but alas, all is well. They link right to the twitter status’, so any links in the tweet themselves don’t work (yet), but it’s a start.

I’m going to start working on some more real content soon, so keep watch for that. Till then, any questions comments or suggestions can be made by contacting me.

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A bomb at work? Oh the folly!

Viewing this on Facebook or through RSS?? You won’t see the video, check out the post online at at http://www.cruzweb.net/2009/08/13/a-bomb-at-work-oh-the-follya-bomb-at-work-oh-the-folly/

Just when I think life can’t get any weirder, on Tuesday a cop comes and knocks on the door at work. I was politely, but bluntly told that someone had reported a suspicious package outside of the office (which is a Credit Union building), and that as such I must evacuate immediately. Without much fuss I headed outside with the rest of the flock as per instruction to see what was up.

The police were on their radios trying to get it all worked out.

From one of the other building employees, I find out that the package that has caused all the ruckus is located right in front of a building, under a tree. So I scope it out.
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Detroit de Burgundy: The Worst flag ever discovered

For the longest time, I was convinced that the city of Detroit had the worst flag ever concieved by man. It’s an ugly mix of various parts of heritage centered around a city seal that leaves much to be desired. Due to the fact that the flag is so horrendous, most people haven’t known what it looks like. Very few places in the city have the balls to actually fly the thing, which I’m sure is a combination of shame and avoiding the question “what the hell is that flag out front”.

As you can see, the city desperately needs a new flag:

The Flag of the City of Detroit

The flag is divided up to represent French, British, and American rule over the city surrounding the city seal. There’s also some latin words, representing the mottos of the City of Detroit: “We hope for better things” and “It will rise from the ashes”. Despite the fact that the motto represents a fire from the 19th century, that motto has proven to become more and more true over time, sadly enough.

House of Burgundy Coat of Arms

As I said before, I was convinced that this was the worst flag ever concieved by man. It’s as though it was designed by committee, everyone had their own idea and nobody could decide, so all the ideas made it in. Putting the terrible city seal aside, it looks like an awful patchwork of scattered history. Nobody ever could be proud of this flag. However, history has proven me wrong: another flag exists that upon first glance one could assume that it was the inspiration for Detroit’s.

However, it does not.

It represents the flags of the territories of Charles the Bold of Burgundy. His flag was based on the family coat of arms, which we can assume was so absurdly elabourate as to distract the opponent in battle with an array of flying colors and as such, gain the upper hand. You can see it to the left. Tell me you can look at that and not be distracted?
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The Disturbing world of Facebook’s “Speed Date” application

The internet is a funny place in many regards. The anonymity seems to continue to disappear as people get more comfortable with their online profiles, and people are exposing the weirder sides of themselves at a rather alarming rate.

Along with this comes with the internet creeping into our every day lives. Now that social networking has brought our personal thoughts, political opinions, and the mundane details of our lives into the view of others, we’re looking at our friends in a different lights.

Somehow in the midst of all this, is the Facebook application Speed Date. Somewhere between an e-Harmony account and trolling Myspace profiles lies the logic between this application: look at a random bunch of pictures and quick profiles, see who you like, and contact them. All the while, not looking like a total creep in the process. Oddly enough, I can’t remember when or why I added this app, but I know it only started paying attention to me after I got a girlfriend and as thus, kept trying to hook me up with weird local girls.

But the weirdness doesn’t stop there. The whole point of Speed Date is to find someone to hang out with (at least), right? So it makes you wonder why some word their profiles and likes the way they do. Let’s explore some of the “matches” Speed Date has sent me and encouraged me to “send a flirt” to.

Here’s a handful of local girls that “teh interwebs” thought I might be interested in. Really.

Let’s see what’s behind door number one….
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