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Hello. These are some things that occur to me from time to time. Enjoy.

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At school today, I was reading a story a 6th grader had typed during study hall. It was about a zombie elf taking over Santa's Workshop in the North Pole. There was a sentence about how the search party went into the Wrapping Room (where one presumably goes to wrap presents) looking for the zombie elf. However, the author misspelled the word "wrapping." He had omitted the "w" and one of the "

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Amy and I went grocery shopping. Looking for a parking spot, we turned our signal on first when we saw a car pull out. The other car coming from the other direction felt that we cut him off and stole the spot. After shopping, we came out to see a wet, dirty dishrag resting peacefully on the rear window of our car. How much did that guy feel that he deserved that spot? Well, enough to go out

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There is a man at the gym who is rather old and rather rotund. I never see him on the gym floor, working out, though. Anytime I see this man, he is invariably wandering around the locker room completely stark naked, with a towel draped over his shoulder. Just walking around. Or there's also this little lounge area inside the locker room with a television and some nice furniture. Sometimes

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I only seem to post occasionally anymore, but I've been busy. Now, I know I said that last time...and it's no excuse...but, well, I'm sorry, alright? That's really all I've got to say. I'm sorry. I can change. I know I can. Just give me a chance.ahem.That was weird.On a night like tonight, I get wistful. I'm in the apartment alone, I'm reminiscing. Why? Well, the high school I

Barry Lutzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12201367134534213175noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31171734.post-20769055876273339222008-12-20T23:14:00.003-05:002008-12-20T23:36:14.363-05:00

Holy shit it's been awhile. A lot of things have happened. Here's the short list:-Got married.-Went on honeymoon.-Got in trouble at work.-Repeat #3, a few times.-School rocks.-Bought a Wii.-Got another kitten.-The kittens fight. -A lot.Getting married was a lot of fun. The rehearsal was...interesting, thanks to a church-employed wedding planner who sucked. She was wearing a black sweatshirt

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I've been in all weekend, taking care of Amy, who's been de-wisdom teeth-ed. It's been a nice little vacation, just a 4-day weekend. I've been watching a few movies I've always meant to (High Noon, THX 1138, White Heat and The Dirty Dozen), along with a few Netflix picks (Vantage Point, Gone Baby Gone and We Own the Night). Avoid Vantage Point at all costs. Over the 4-day weekend, things

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Proper post to follow, but for now, please watch this video I posted on YouTube earlier this evening. And witness. The Power. Of Private. Dancer.And Headband Lady, also known as Groom's Mother. You're welcome.

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A woman with a 4 or 5-year old boy (who was, oddly enough, standing up in the back of the cart), comes up to get a coffee sample."Ooh, this coffee's from Ecuador. Can you say 'Ecuador'?""Eck-a-dor!""In Ecuador, they 'hola!' Can you say 'hola'?""Yes."I wish I could be able to write this kind of gag myself.

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A few weeks ago I joined a gym, at the behest of my lovely. Get in shape for the wedding, that sort of thing. Now, at the particular gym I joined, all new members are signed up for a free session with a personal trainer. The idea is, you get a taste of what it's like, and then they sit you down for the sales pitch. So, when I scheduled a time to come in, they gave me homework: they needed to

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In observation of St. Patrick's Day, I had a few thoughts to put down. Here is why I morally object to St. Patty's Day.1) I understand Irish culture, for the most part. Obviously, since I'm not Irish, I won't get it completely. However, I don't think I need it shoved down my goddamn throat. Yeah, I get it. You're Irish and you're proud of it. I don't care. At. All.2) Speaking of my

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Reason #4765 why I love my fiancee:After being snowed in for about 36 hours, Amy and I ventured out into the open world, down the street to Meijer. While in the store, walking between aisles of Rubbermaid trash bins and wool socks, a ridiculously garbled overhead announcement came on, something that was completely incoherent to those not accustomed to the intricate overhead speaker system at

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I have a lot of things to catch up on: A trip to Nicaragua for which I promised to create a journal and a powerpoint presentation in particular. However, my first priority was to do something with the Flip Video Camera Nick and Hanna got Amy and me for Christmas. I got nagged a few weeks ago when I a) didn't bring the camera home to obtain new footage, and b) haven't posted any of the

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This afternoon at work I was in the bathroom and I saw someone at the urinal peeing, only his arms were resting on the separators that stick out of the wall. If he were driving and instead of peeing, talking on the cell phone, hands-free would've been completely normal. But in the bathroom, this is not something you see everyday, which is why I took notice. However, it was kind of refreshing

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A few updates:Amy and I started Weight Watchers last Thursday, and I wouldn't say I hate it, but it's a little rough for me. Usually what happens is that I'm starving throughout the entire day as I try to use up as little points as possible, and then after dinner I have about 10 points left that I roam around the food-areas of our apartment trying to use up. I bought a Nintendo DS last week,

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This is meant to point out the inherent smart-alecky quality I have that I can't really get rid of. At work last week, a woman was looking at the coffee bins and asked the following question:"Where is the Sumatra from?"Now, in my mind I kind of know what the answer is that she's looking for, but before I can answer, I give her a very matter-of-factly answer:"Sumatra."She scoffs a little, looks at

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I suck at updating things. But here's something I have to get out of the way now:That's Lucy. She's nice. Moving on.I know it's been a while, but dammit, there's not a whole lot that's new. I haven't seen anything in the theater since Eastern Promises, and while it was amazing, I kind of missed the bandwagon writing about it. Work's been stressful lately. I'm slowly meandering into the

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A few weeks ago Amy and I went grocery shopping and had a blast. We had three amazing things happen to us.The first thing happened at the deli counter. I was taking care of that, telling the woman what I wanted and how much, and Amy was waiting at the shopping cart, about two feet behind me. While the woman was slicing our final selection, I got a phone call. I step back and tell Amy to take

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It's been a while since an update, but here we go.I moved, and it's going well, despite some minor move-in issues.I saw a pretty cool Modest Mouse show, had some good times.Black Swamp was pretty fun, despite the lack of good shows and a lot of rain.Yesterday, however, was very interesting for me. I won't go into a whole lot of details because I feel it may be inappropriate. However, suffice it

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Amy and I have moved recently, and it's been pretty hectic. Haven't had a chance to post anything real. However, please watch this video. It features Michael and Jonah from Superbad on a press junket being interviewed by Edgar Wright, writer and director of Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz.

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For the past few days Amy's been away on business in New York, and for the most part I've been busy enough to keep my mind off the fact that it's to damn quiet around here without her, but today has been quite the opposite. Right now I'm on my fourth movie of the day, and I've only left the apartment twice. I did some laundry, took out the trash and ordered some take-out Chinese for dinner. I

Barry Lutzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12201367134534213175noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31171734.post-65716476914897418472007-06-29T20:17:00.001-04:002007-06-29T20:21:41.392-04:00

Today reminded me of the truly fragile nature of the human mind. At any second, and under the right conditions, any one of us could...just...snap. And we would be lost, adrift whatever we got lost in in the first place.I'm sitting here watching a movie, halfway through a bottle of red wine. How did I get here, in this frame of mind? You be the judge.Today was a weird shift for me - a mid.

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I've been living in Columbus for about a year now, and recently I've been reflecting on the course of events that occurred over the past year that have led to now. And it seems that more has happened within the last month and a half than has happened over the other ten and a half. Over the last year I moved to this city looking for a job related to the degree I had just obtained, only to find

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Apparently I provoke a lot of anger at work, without really even meaning to.Here's the scene: in the back office there's a series of computers, each one meant for a different department. The offending ([unreasonably] offended?) party was sitting at his computer, and I went to sit down at my computer, seeing that there was a box in the way of where my legs would be, had I sat down. So I moved

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At work yesterday, an older man wearing a baseball cap adorned with an American flag approached my coffee and began telling a younger-looking woman, presumably his daughter, all about the different coffees, and about coffee in general. I came over and asked there was anything I could help them find, and the man regales me with his story."You see, I've worked for Nestle for 25 years, so I know

Barry Lutzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12201367134534213175noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31171734.post-88114922290771457222007-05-22T16:54:00.001-04:002007-05-22T17:13:02.016-04:00

It occurred to me the other day while shopping at Best Buy that I should avoid smiling and saying hello to children while I am not at work.Because, you see, at work, saying hello to children that are tagging along with their parents is like saying, "I'm really not even trying to sell you something, but if you bought something, gee, that'd be nice."But a bearded man in his early 20s (but I do get

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Hello, sorry to break the tradition of the last three or four posts, but I actually had something to say. You see, something very good happened to me the other day.I got engaged. A woman actually agreed that spending the rest of her live probably wasn't such a bad idea after all.Amy, seen here, has agreed to take part in this on Wednesday. I made dinner (Baked, breaded chicken, lemony alfredo

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Hey all. I know this is like, the third video I've posted in a row, but hell, it's pretty damn funny. And this was directed by Bob Odenkirk, of "Mr. Show" fame. I will soon be writing a real post, because there's one in order. But watch this for now.

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Not a whole lot needs to be said about this clip. Just watch it, and you'll understand.

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The following is an old 8mm short by Sam Raimi, starring Bruce Campbell. They did a lot of this kind of thing in high school together, and all of it was this slapsticky. It's actually pretty funny and entertaining. It's only about 10 minutes long, so enjoy. It also features Sam as the Nazi General.

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After a near-collision on 270 the other day, I've come back to the idea that my brother and I used to toss around: we are becoming a minority of saneness in the world, and it will become our undoing. You see, as we became increasingly convinced that we are fast becoming the only sane people in the world, it will convince other people that we are the ones that are bat-shit crazy.You see, here's

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I got the itch recently to actually do what I went to college for, which is education. So, in an attempt to foster that itch and bring it to fruition, I had the lamest day ever yesterday. I went to a teaching job fair.It was called TeachOhio and it took place at the OSU stadium. Allow me to run through my day.So, I get there, all decked out. Tie, nice shirt, the works. I've got ten resumes

Barry Lutzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12201367134534213175noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31171734.post-73336382242152405282007-03-29T23:43:00.000-04:002007-05-09T18:01:15.953-04:00

Amy talked to her dad on the phone yesterday, and she shared with her this story:Apparently, at the local Wal-Mart, a kitten was left by the owner - just left there, abandoned. Sad, right. Yeah, that sucks. Well, it's a good thing that Amy's dad friend stopped by and decided to take it home, because otherwise the fine people would have PUT THE KITTEN IN THE TRASH COMPACTOR.Why the compactor?

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This post has nothing to do with anything, it's just a funny story someone told me a while ago.So, some of you may be familiar with the Einstein Bagel chain. I'm not sure if this still goes on, and I'm pretty sure this may be a good reason they may not do this anymore, but at the Einstein Bagel stores, they bake all the bagels there in their ovens. If a timer went off for an oven, and there

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I was thinking the other day about how, back a long time ago, a lot of people were excited about the future. They looked forward to a time when we had hovering cars, automated homes and cleaner ways of living. Prime example: I loved those Looney Tunes cartoons about the "house of the future." They were my favorites because they seemed relevant to me at the time. It was, "Wouldn't it be great

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A few weeks ago, I went into Best Buy looking to buy The Comedians of Comedy on DVD. The website had quoted the price as being $14.99, so I was pretty excited. I saw it on Netflix and it was hilariously funny. Well, I went there and the sticker price was $24.99. This being unacceptable, I asked a floor associate to check the price for me, and he pulled up the Best Buy website on the floor

Barry Lutzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12201367134534213175noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31171734.post-53184981738311688882007-02-27T16:18:00.000-05:002007-05-09T18:01:15.954-04:00

I think I should start posting about all my dreams. They all seem pretty out there. Take the other night, for instance.I dreamed I was getting a sex change. Everyone was pretty supportive. I went into the doctor's office to get kind of a what's what in terms of medical issues, and he said everything was a-ok to go ahead with the operation. Mom was cheerful, and everyone else was happy, too.

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This is a work-related story, and kind of makes me feel violated and creepy.So, earlier today at work, I said hi to two women, probably at least 45. I smiled, as I always do when greeting customers, and immediately one of the women flips out."Oh, my god, how cute are you!""Oh, uh...thanks. Thank you."She turns to her friend and says, "isn't he just as cute as a button? Aw, and his eyes sparkle

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This is for those who have followed the career of Sam Raimi, director of the Evil Dead trilogy and also the Spider-Man trilogy.Thou Shalt Not Kill...Except (also called Stryer's War) is a perfect example of the saying, "everybody's gotta start somewhere." But that's not to say that this isn't entertaining.This flick is about a Vietnam vet, Jack Stryker, who gets injured and gets discharged to

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And now, the stunning conclusion to the most epic trilogy since Star Wars Episodes I-III. This morning I've been pretty busy, actually. I've updated my Record Nerd collection (link to the right!), my DVD Aficionado list (again, link to the right!), and I've been catching up on this. I think it's all to get my mind off of the most fucked-up dream I've had lately from last night.This perfectly

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It's always a good time when my brother Nick comes up to visit. We go record shopping, comic shopping and just hang out. Basically, we do everything I usually do by myself, only when he's around, it's not entirely pathetic. First off, here's a list of everything I "acquired" over the weekend.CDs:The Beach Boys - Pet SoundsFilm School - S/TDavid Garza - OverdubHowlin' Maggie - Honeysuckle

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This is all going to occur in the order it all happened.Okay, so last Wednesday was Valentine's Day, and Amy and I thought that it would be nice to go out to dinner. There's this place on Broad Street we haven't tried yet called Tumbleweeds, so we decided to try it. Since it was really bad outside on Wednesday, right after that snowstorm that crippled Columbus, I called to see if the place

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The other day at about 6:20 a.m., I am getting in my car and recognizing how ridiculously, unbelievably, unabashedly cold it is. I am also remarking at how I don't have gloves. Thus begins my intrepid expedition to find gloves to wear.I finally got some today, after going to two Targets, a Meijer, an Old Navy and finally a K-Mart. Why are winter gloves so fucking hard to find? What is it

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This is the first in a series of Collegehumor.com original shorts featuring Michael Showalter of "The State," "Stella," and so on interviewing his friends. This first one features one of my top 3 favorite comedians ever, Zach Galifianakis. Watch it and vote for it.

Barry Lutzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12201367134534213175noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31171734.post-79269210430032268162007-01-13T20:07:00.000-05:002007-05-09T18:01:44.277-04:00

I realize this is a little late. However, I feel that as I film enthusiast I owe to at least myself to make a top ten list from 2006. So, here are my ten favorite new films from 2006, in no particular order. You'll note that, although I'm sure there are a bunch of movies that made every other list, I didn't see them and therefore I won't be talking about them at all.1. Slither: At once a

Barry Lutzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12201367134534213175noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31171734.post-86461165115890751442007-01-11T08:59:00.000-05:002007-05-09T18:01:15.956-04:00

You know those HeadOn commercials that everyone was sick of? Where they just said "Head on: apply directly to your forehead," three times in a row, without any pause whatsoever?And then, they changed it up and made it pause halfway through, and then had someone come on and express that although the have a certain distaste for the commercials, they rather enjoy the actual product?Well, now

Barry Lutzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12201367134534213175noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31171734.post-18831985011921356252007-01-10T18:03:00.000-05:002007-05-09T18:01:15.956-04:00

Ah, crap I'm bored.It's my first of two days off. No Netflix videos coming my way. I just sent away Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter, so I'm awaiting Comedians of Comedy: The Movie.I went to Best Buy, Half Price Books and Target.At Target, I bought a Star Wars Lego set, and put together a Chicken Walker while watching "Cowboy Bebop."I even took a nap for an hour. It's times like these I miss having

Barry Lutzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12201367134534213175noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31171734.post-22706436032548344162007-01-08T21:52:00.001-05:002007-05-09T18:01:15.956-04:00

Ha. Knew you'd read it if I titled it that.The whole OH-IO thing, the whole "Columbus shutting down for the game that's in Arizona," the whole "Wear your Bucks gear to work," yeah.It's all trite.Here's food for thought: I'm willing to bet that more people of voting eligibility will be watching the game tonight than voted in the last election.Do stores close early when something important occurs?

Barry Lutzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12201367134534213175noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31171734.post-52641047685509360902007-01-08T19:59:00.000-05:002007-05-09T18:01:44.277-04:00

I apologize for the hiatus. I've been too busy/too lazy to do anything about this. But I come offering one of the most interesting movies you'll hear about.Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter is, essentially, a 70's grindhouse flick made in the 2000s, with all the highs and lows inherent within. There's the original idea, the incredibly low budget, the "glorified home-video" feel, the over-the-top bad

Barry Lutzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12201367134534213175noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31171734.post-57036700003086161702007-01-05T19:16:00.000-05:002007-05-09T18:01:15.957-04:00

Well, it appears that this is the 100th overall post. To celebrate, I am going to jump right in and do what I started this blog to do: complain about shit.One of the things that irks me at work is the snootiness of customers when it comes to samples. The mindset is that, "I'm owed this, I expect this, and when it's not here, there's a problem I feel I am the person to bring up."Another problem

Barry Lutzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12201367134534213175noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31171734.post-44831549199106531562006-12-20T18:54:00.000-05:002007-05-09T18:01:15.957-04:00

I regret that "Family Guy" came back from the dead. Why do I say that? Because of a recent interview in which David X. Cohen, one of the creators of "Futurama," was revealing some information about the newly resurrected television show. HE was revealed that it would be aired on Comedy Central, and that this run would take place two years after the original run. He also revealed that the shows

Barry Lutzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12201367134534213175noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31171734.post-91113100262498258672006-12-13T18:20:00.000-05:002007-05-09T18:01:44.277-04:00

Of all the TV shows adapted into movies, this has got to be in the top 5. It certainly is one of the most inspired, at any rate. You know there's a movie based on hit show "24," simply because the show is fucking amazing.Sorry, I just like that show a lot.Anyways, the origin of this movie stems from the production of the television show. When Stephen Colbert, Amy Sedaris and Paul Dinello were

Barry Lutzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12201367134534213175noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31171734.post-71099723371481840482006-12-13T17:51:00.000-05:002007-05-09T18:01:15.957-04:00

Today was going well. Work was good. I was selling a lot of coffee - at one point, someone walked away with four bags of coffee, all of which I helped them pick out. I felt good.And then when I got home I got pulled over. I was keeping up with traffic, and just happened to be the last one in the line of cars. Sure, I was speeding a little, but what are the odds? I know I can't contest the

Barry Lutzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12201367134534213175noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31171734.post-34745085098500733172006-12-11T13:54:00.000-05:002007-05-09T18:01:15.958-04:00

The other thing I decided to do on the trip, while seeing a lot of businesspeople with the bluetooth thing in their ears was to get one and wear it all the time, without having it connected to any phone.My idea was that I would just start talking to no one at all, and as long as I was wearing the earpiece, no one would think I'm crazy. How fun would that be? To just make up a conversation with

Barry Lutzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12201367134534213175noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31171734.post-7023996413630117132006-12-07T20:51:00.000-05:002007-05-09T18:01:15.958-04:00

Holy crap I am tired. The only reason I'm even awake is to wait for my pizza to get here so that I can go to bed, sated.I had a long, long day. Today was the day I took the trip out to Rockville, Maryland to learn how to use a new piece of equipment to make my life easier.I awoke this morning at 3:30, to prepare for my day. My flight was at 6:15, but I'd never been to the Columbus airport, so

Barry Lutzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12201367134534213175noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31171734.post-86127221535694791702006-12-02T19:19:00.000-05:002007-05-09T18:01:15.958-04:00

I've come to the conclusion that, when I strike it rich doing whatever it is I will be doing to strike it rich, and I become a millionaire, I am going to donate heavily to Troma Films. Maybe even finance a feature. Or be in one. Basically I'm obsessed with Troma.

Barry Lutzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12201367134534213175noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31171734.post-6788880037771702672006-12-01T18:43:00.000-05:002007-05-09T18:01:44.278-04:00

This is further proof that my parents have had the biggest impact on my movie tastes. For those of you not aware, UHF is the movie starring "Weird Al" Yankovic, in which he plays the over-imaginative George Newman who gets a chance to manage a short-wave television station.Not long into the movie, you understand Al's entire being. It opens up into a near shot-for-shot remake of the beginning of

Barry Lutzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12201367134534213175noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31171734.post-70476642008090761242006-11-29T14:58:00.000-05:002007-05-09T18:01:15.959-04:00

It's been a busy weekend. I was in Youngstown for Thanksgiving, and back in Reynoldsburg the very next day. I turned 23 and got a thumbs-up on my job at work thus far.Thanksgiving was fun. As per usual, my family drank a bunch of wine and got silly. After we ate, Nick wanted to go throw a football around outside. Since we were both...silly with wine, this turned into about an

Barry Lutzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12201367134534213175noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31171734.post-90968090798047880292006-11-21T17:21:00.000-05:002007-05-09T18:01:44.278-04:00

This is a first for this blog: an actual, first-run movie review. You see, the thing is, ticket prices are ridiculously expensive these days, and if there's a movie I'm only kind-of interested in seeing, I'm perfectly content to wait until Netflix, the wonder that it is, sends it to me wrapped in love and a waxed paper sleeve.So unless there's something I really want to see, I don't go to the

Barry Lutzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12201367134534213175noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31171734.post-17963422957686165042006-11-21T16:43:00.000-05:002007-05-09T18:01:44.278-04:00

One of the most impressive things a movie can do is to make the audience get behind the bad guy. It worked ridiculously well for Mel Gibson in Payback, one of my all-time favorites (which is coming out with a drastically re-cut version after the new year).In Thank You for Smoking, you really get behind Aaron Eckhart as he talks his way into making a sick-child group seem evil, getting cigarettes

Barry Lutzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12201367134534213175noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31171734.post-15322747425419687352006-11-21T16:35:00.000-05:002007-05-09T18:01:15.959-04:00

It appears that, in two weeks, I will be taking a day trip to Maryland for work.I will fly out in the morning to attend an 11 a.m. meeting, and then fly back sometime after that is done.Why, exactly, is this happening? Well, there is some new technology available to us (the company and the coffee area I maintain) that will help smooth out the ordering process. Everything will be computerized

Barry Lutzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12201367134534213175noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31171734.post-47959759984018821032006-11-16T16:54:00.000-05:002007-05-09T18:01:15.959-04:00

Amy found it in her fortune cookie. That is all.

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If it's one thing I enjoy in movies, judging from the past few movies I've seen, it's stripped-down stories contradicting heroic generalities.I reviewed Dirty Harry and said it was about how being a cop isn't all it's cracked up to be, and how you can't always be a hero.In The Twilight Samurai, we see a man both satisfied and dissatisfied with his own position, and how unwilling he is to be a

Barry Lutzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12201367134534213175noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31171734.post-29636904334004428392006-11-14T19:34:00.000-05:002007-05-09T18:01:44.279-04:00

Without a doubt, my favorite cop movie of all time is Bullitt, starring Steve McQueen. It is a movie that I watched with my father some years ago, when he got a copy of it on VHS. A while ago, I got it on DVD and have watched it several more times, absorbing more and more each time.I bring this up because of its similarities to today's subject, Dirty Harry, starring, of course, the Magnum

Barry Lutzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12201367134534213175noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31171734.post-56885005240786534282006-11-13T20:55:00.000-05:002007-05-09T18:01:15.960-04:00

I'm having a lot of frustration at work recently. The holidays are coming up, and it's the perfect opportunity to get my sales back up to where the should be, as opposed to where they have been while there was no one in my position taking care of everything.I have a store manager who is complaining about bad comps (how the sales are doing in comparison to last year's sales at the same time), but

Barry Lutzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12201367134534213175noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31171734.post-63566508858453709142006-11-11T19:01:00.000-05:002007-05-09T18:01:44.279-04:00

I don't care what you have to say about Tom Cruise. We all know he's lost it somewhere along the line, or he's always been nuts and has been hiding it ridiculously well all these years.The fact is that he's a great performer. Put him in a Jerry Maguire and he'll make your date cry. Put him in a Last Samurai and you want to start taking sword fighting classes. Put him in a Collateral and you

Barry Lutzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12201367134534213175noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31171734.post-78460854995001075582006-11-09T20:54:00.000-05:002007-05-09T18:01:15.960-04:00

Go here for the article I read, but it appears as if "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip" can temporarily forget its threat of cancellation.I can't tell you how thrilled I am, and Tim no doubt will be, at this news.As a user called El Fuego on the Ain't It Cool News website put it, "Hey, if 'Joey' lasted 2 seasons, this deserves at least that long. It's not perfect, but it's better than most of the

Barry Lutzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12201367134534213175noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31171734.post-50501202470482312342006-11-09T20:09:00.000-05:002007-05-09T18:01:15.960-04:00

Hey people. As I continue to add and play with the new Blogger Beta template, of which, by the way, I am a fan, I want to direct your attention to some things. One of the things I added recently was a site feed to The Onion Radio News. Click on the links and it will take you to a page to listen to a roughly minute-long radio news story that is perpetually the funniest thing you've ever

Barry Lutzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12201367134534213175noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31171734.post-34127216644713232052006-11-09T19:26:00.000-05:002007-05-09T18:01:44.279-04:00

I decided that eventually it would be time to put my zombie fanaticism to an end, and that I would need to transition into another genre I can call my own. I, of course, am doing this no time soon, but I thought it would be good to get some fresh film in there somewhere. Thus, The Hidden Fortress.As one of Akira Kurosawa's classic and seminal samurai films, Fortress sounded like it would be a

Barry Lutzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12201367134534213175noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31171734.post-47382640087538493062006-11-08T19:58:00.000-05:002007-05-09T18:01:44.280-04:00

I'm going to start off this section with a movie that very clearly shows a portion of my film tastes with Bride of Re-Animator.For those of you not familiar, this one is a direct sequel to the movie Re-Animator, starring Jeffrey Combs as Dr. Herbert West, a man very interested in...well, eliminating death. The original was a great flick if you enjoy 1980's special effects and lots of blood. Dr.

Barry Lutzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12201367134534213175noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31171734.post-45082261251693620582006-11-06T20:49:00.000-05:002007-05-09T18:01:15.960-04:00

This isn't something I normally do, but I thought that it would be something at least mildly entertaining, just like the rest of this blog.Relationships, as the cliché goes, take some work. A lot of this work hangs on communication. You have to learn how to communicate effectively.This means that, not only do you have to make sure you verbalize your thoughts and actions clearly, but you also

Barry Lutzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12201367134534213175noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31171734.post-33234474605800854442006-11-04T16:10:00.000-05:002007-05-09T18:01:15.961-04:00

So I had a crazy work dream last night. Usually, work dreams consist of the inane things I have to do. If work gets really stressful, I have work dreams.Last night, however was a work dream of a completely different sort.I was standing behind the counter at the coffee roaster, roasting coffee, helping customers, etc., when all of the sudden who should come up to the counter and ask about a

Barry Lutzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12201367134534213175noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31171734.post-67917569011174183882006-11-01T14:00:00.000-05:002007-05-09T18:01:15.961-04:00

Things we do, watch, listen to and say stick with us over the years. Things that are important to us ingrain themselves into our memory no matter how long ago the memories are from.Eric Matthews, a musician, just released a new album in a long time, and it's very good. I then ordered the album of his that I remember from 1995, about 11 years ago, on Amazon.com. It was my brother's and I

Barry Lutzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12201367134534213175noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31171734.post-16088515236480171302006-10-28T10:20:00.000-04:002007-05-09T18:01:15.961-04:00

In celebration of my promotion, I took Amy out. To dinner. Not "took out" in the sense that I assassinated her.We had a nice night out. We went to Texas Roadhouse, where the hostess was indeed five hostesses, all pretty inept at their one singular job. We called ahead for a 15-20 minute wait, and since our ride to the restaurant was inadvertently about 10 minutes, we expected another 5

Barry Lutzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12201367134534213175noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31171734.post-66481889495536957572006-10-25T20:26:00.000-04:002007-05-09T18:01:15.961-04:00

If you've talked to me lately and asked me about work, no doubt I'd have told you that I am working in coffee and am filling in as a temporary coffee buyer until the official one is chosen, which I am applying to be. I would also have told you that as the temporary coffee buyer, I've been responsible for maintaining the inventory, making sure it's properly stocked and looking good on the

Barry Lutzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12201367134534213175noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31171734.post-1161527022666377702006-10-22T10:19:00.000-04:002007-05-09T18:01:15.962-04:00

Okay, so I've been watching a few movies today, and I'd like to do an informal poll of sorts. What I'd like you all to do (and by "all," I of course mean, like, one of you), is tell me what your favorite cop movie is, and tell me why it is such.I'll start it out. My favorite cop movie is Bullitt, starring Steve McQueen. Throughout the whole movie he's just really calm and collected, he's just

Barry Lutzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12201367134534213175noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31171734.post-1161297339980545452006-10-19T18:13:00.000-04:002007-05-09T18:01:15.962-04:00

At work, during the lunch hour, I see a lot of different types of people in from their respective workplaces. Some are from the Staples or Babies 'R' Us stores nearby, while others are more business class.Today, there was a particularly odd businesswoman in getting a cup of tea.She was young - maybe mid to late 20's, blonde and pretty darn attractive. She was wearing one of those dark grey

Barry Lutzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12201367134534213175noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31171734.post-1161217560318714762006-10-18T20:25:00.000-04:002007-05-09T18:01:15.962-04:00

In relation to a recent post about Dane Cook ruining America and the comedy business within it, Tim and I have formed a cadre of heroes dedicated to foiling Dane Cook's plot to lower our collective comedic standards to near-Blue Collar Comedy depths.With a mission statement this emphatically important, such a collective needs a proper name. We haven't got one yet. We wanted to have a name whose

Barry Lutzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12201367134534213175noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31171734.post-1160780474457720982006-10-13T18:47:00.000-04:002007-05-09T18:01:15.962-04:00

If you know anything at all about me, you know that I enjoy irony in every sense of the word. Usually, I enjoy irony if it means something is funny. For instance, I have an aunt who is a staunch vegetarian. My mother chewed her out for pushing vegetarianism on my brother and me when we were smaller. All our lives she has been a vegetarian. So, then, a few years back in the beginning of

Barry Lutzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12201367134534213175noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31171734.post-1160621207934811212006-10-11T22:17:00.000-04:002007-05-09T18:01:15.963-04:00

I've been pretty busy at work. I have officially taken over the coffee buying. That said, I still have to apply for the job.They way things are right now is that it's officially me and one other person working coffee. We had another person, but she's just left for bigger and better things. She was doing the coffee buying un/officially until someone was actually hired. So now that she left,

Barry Lutzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12201367134534213175noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31171734.post-1160432834413330932006-10-09T18:24:00.000-04:002007-05-09T18:01:15.963-04:00

What a useless holiday! Only banks and government offices are closed. No schools are closed and they certainly don't close retail businesses. What the hell? Only third graders celebrate it with ships made out of construction paper.Also, what an offensive holiday. We all know that Columbus raped and killed the natives, right? We're all caught up on that little tidbit of history, aren't we?

Barry Lutzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12201367134534213175noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31171734.post-1160309691503085682006-10-08T08:09:00.000-04:002007-05-09T18:01:15.963-04:00

I decided it was better that I cancel my Facebook account. Why? Mostly because I was tired of receiving invitations to about 8 million groups I don't really fucking care about.The group invitations have an option where you can send it to specific people, or just everyone on your friends list. I was invited to a group relating to a fast-food chain I've literally never heard of before.I was also

Barry Lutzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12201367134534213175noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31171734.post-1160107719909878802006-10-05T23:54:00.000-04:002007-05-09T18:01:15.964-04:00

This has gone on long enough. It is time to stop now. I know you think you're funny because Best Buy stocks about twenty copies of each of your albums, but it's a lie. No one is buying them. So, I reiterate. Please stop. That's enough.Dear Dane Cook fans:Please stop encouraging him. Buying his albums as joke-gifts for other people is making him think he's successful. He cannot sense the

Barry Lutzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12201367134534213175noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31171734.post-1160018814950905712006-10-04T23:24:00.001-04:002007-05-09T18:01:15.964-04:00

I sometimes think of adding a "III" to the end of my name.Jeffery William Lombardi III.It in no way is accurate, but I think that it would make me seem more WASPy, and therefore, make me more successful in life.

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I subscribe to Gmail's services. It's a great email service - easy to use, lots of space, a spam filter.Speaking of spam.There's this little feature that kind of reads what is in the subject or part of the body of an email, and then gives me a link to go to related to whatever they pick out. For instance, my brother Nick emailed me his wishlist, as his birthday is fast-approaching. In it, he

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Okay, so if communion means drinking the blood of Christ, does that mean that followers of the Christianity-based religions are all vampires?And, since the majority of Americans are followers of said Christian-based religions, that means that the majority of America are vampires!Furthermore, since there seems to be such a problem with the separation of church and state in this country, that means

Barry Lutzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12201367134534213175noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31171734.post-1159838595771191962006-10-02T21:17:00.000-04:002007-05-09T18:01:15.965-04:00

Indeed. As you may have noticed, I have changed the template, in my opinion, drastically. I took Tim's advice and pretty much copy-pasted someone else's page source into my own and made some of my own changes. Took some gifs down, changed a few colors. And, of course, made the header say "Jeebus Loves You."I aim to change the template for my last ten tracks played in my iTunes, but the

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I just watched Reanimator earlier today, and about five minutes ago, I decided to search for Jeffrey Combs, the actor magnificently portraying the creepy Dr. Herbert West, in the Internet Movie Database website.Go here for what ultimately came to my attention.That's right, George Wendt will play the Vice President of the United States of America.Finally, this is the next movie coming to me via

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On Thursday I worked my first shift in coffee. It was a closing shift, and I was by myself. It was quiet, I knew what I was doing, and I wore normal human clothing, as opposed to the chef coat, chef pants and hat that causes me to look like everyone in the prepared foods area.When I got home, I realized I smelled like coffee. It was glorious. People asked me questions, to which I knew the

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Today is my day off, and it's been an amazing day off.Last night I worked from 3 to close, which should have been 11 p.m., but was rather 11:45. I was working in the chef's case (read: deli) which is way easier and quieter than pizza. I also learned how to use a deli slicer. You know, those big "back and forth" ones that could potentially sever a finger. However, the cooling system underneath

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I am sitting here now, after coming home from a very long, insanely stressful night at work, drinking a very large glass of wine.Work was awful tonight. I feel like I was brutally raped repeatedly, and then peed on. Like, the smelly yellow variety.Sorry, I don't usually get graphic like that in type. But tonight was just awful. Fucking retarded white people.Note to all of you out there: if

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I would like to try and change this up a little bit. A color scheme, a few neat pictures, maybe a different font. I am utterly clueless when it comes to html.When I look at the template for this thing, it's all one big clusterfuck of html code. I pretty much have no idea what any of it means. I feel so retarded.

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Okay, this is how my brain works.I was just watching TV, flipping around. I caught the local 11 p.m. news, and there was a special report on about the E. coli-infested spinach scare. Everytime they referred to the "tainted" spinach, I giggled like a thirteen year-old."Taint" is nothing other than a funny word. It should only be used in the funny sense from now on, if only to keep people like

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This did not all happen in the order I'm telling it, just however I feel like it. Deal with it. Beyatch!I just got done today with my two-day orientation/brainwashing at work. Two months after I was hired. Interesting strategy. My favorite phrase is "that's below the line." What this means is that, in terms of workplace appropriateness, there is a line that is used to determine what is

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I recently realized, while watching The Fixx perform on the mainstage at Black Swamp Art Festival, that the majority of pop songs are about these three things:1. Doin' it.2. Wanting to do it.3. Not getting the chance to do it, for various reasons.

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Number of story-damaging, completely unrelated cutaway scenes, a.k.a. number of times someone said "It's just like that one time when...": 6Number of "purely reactionary and retrospective because it's popular and current" gay jokes about George Takei: 2Number of outdated jokes of the same nature about Michael Jackson: 1

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I was driving home yesterday, and it happened to be during rush hour on 270. It took me about an hour to travel from Dublin to Reynoldsburg. Here's a word of advice:If you're traveling, and traffic is insanely backed up, and you suspect it's because of an accident, it's okay to think, "Someone had better have fucking died. There had better be body parts sprawled across two of the three lanes."

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Since I've graduated, all I've had is work. I've had work and classes and homework before, which is a tough balance, but rewarding. Now, I am doing something completely unrelated to my degree for 8 or 9 hours a day, and then coming home. It's a little depressing sometimes. Hanging out and being with Amy is a lot of fun, and we have great times together, but this isn't what I'm talking about.

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"Hey, remember us, guys? Guys? Remember? Do you remember us? Wait, come back! Oh...." - The cast of Jackass: Number Two

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A few days ago Amy and I invited a couple of friends over for dinner, which meant that the entire day leading up to dinner was to be spent cleaning the apartment and getting things needed to make dinner.Among our stops was Target. I wanted to go there to buy some wine glasses.A brief note - if anyone wants to talk about how the roles of men and women in relationships have not evolved or changed

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