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The original plan was to go shoot some photos with a friend of mine, but we ended up at a comedy club instead. Don’t ask me how or why, it just happened that way.

And, as it turns out, I’ve only laughed so much once before, in NYC. You see, Mitch Hedberg was the headliner. Totally different style from the slick, Seinfeld-esque comedy you’re going to get from most other comics.. You, know.. ‘What’s the deal with…’ He doesn’t do that. What he actually does is this: Keeps his eys closed most of the time, looks down most of the time with his hair in his face, and spews about a million one-liners out at you over the course of an hour: ‘ I just bought a house, and they told me it had 2 bedrooms in it. I think it is up to me to decide how many bedrooms it has. This is a bedroom, it just has an oven in it.’ It might not sound funny now, but let me tell you. His signature monotone and delivery system will fucking kill you. Unless you’re uhm.. of rather less intellectual capacity, as one of our companions seemed to be, who just didn’t seem to get it. At all. And when it was over, he needed to (loudly) vocalize these feelings, which none of us agreed with. So then we played Quake. Which makes everything all better.

Online sources have reported that Apple has laid off anywhere from 25 to 50 employees.

That’s terrible! As many as 50?! Wait… didn’t Gateway just announce like 3,000 job cuts? And Compaq, like 3 billion?

Hrm.

Oh, no. No, no, no, no no.

NO.

Interested in why you can’t quite put your finger on what makes a McDonalds hamburger taste different than any other in the world? Then check out this excerpt from ‘Fast Food Nation’, Why McDonalds French Fries Taste So Good, and you’ll be amazed at what lengths people go to in order to make a processed food taste like its real counterpart. [via Camworld]

It’s guys like this that give Southern California a bad name.

So in a relaxing turn of events, my parents have delightfully taken our 3-year old for the weekend, leaving my wife and I to relax in the mountains. Part of said relaxation plan included a night out downtown last night, with J&SBSB part of the plan. I’ve gotta admit. It was a really funny movie. Parts of it were retarded, parts of it were fucking hilarious, and parts of it were kinda along Naked Gun lines, but all in all, an entertaining movie. I’d say my favorite scene included J&SB wrongfully thinking they had snuck onto the movie set they were trying to disuade, but in fact had found their way onto ‘Good Will Hunting II: Hunting Season.’

“Somtimes you have to make a safe movie, then you make an arty movie, Matt.”
“And sometimes you make ‘Reindeer Games.'”
“Now that was uncalled-for.”

Really great stuff in that scene, more than I’ll even try to go into. I just wish Jason Lee had been a bigger/better part of it. He’s always been my favorite. Too bad his scenes as Brodie were simply re-hashings of old Brodie sayings from the one movie he was in. I also don’t understand why Judd Nelson was mentioned as one of this movie’s stars despite the fact he’s in it for nearly 4 minutes.

And on another movie note.. I’d also recommend going to see ‘Ghost World’ at an arthouse near you. It’s playing at The Mayan in Denver. Very engrossing, and I’m told the comic book is good, too. It stars Thora Birch of ‘American Beauty’ fame (the dark one, not the ‘American Pie’ one) as a deadpan teenage girl inbetween high-school and whatever else (an apartment and job in the working world for her increasingly distant friend from said high school). She latches onto the unlikely character played by Steve Buscemi and proceeds to unwittingly ruin his life. If you see this film, please let me know what you think her getting on the non-existent bus at the end means. I think I might know, but don’t want to spoil it, at least on the main page.

Some interesting political commentary I came across in last night’s reading of ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’ (‘The Restaraunt at the End of the Universe,’ to be exact):

The major problem – one of the major problems, for there are several – one of the major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them.

To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem.

Yes, Mr. Adams. People are definitely a problem.