I just wanted to say hi to Ericka who signed the GuestBook the other day. More of you should learn from her example. I have talked to Iggy in the last week so maybe I can get Iggy to write up another rant. Here is what Ericka had to say:

Hey Buddy! I was online checking out some info for school and I had to drop you a line. I haven’t seen you in a while, but I know that you have been busy with your new job and all that traveling. We will still have to get together for a few drinks and philosophy when you get some time. My birthday is coming up and I might throw a party. If I do I’ll contact you, otherwise if I don’t contact you it isn’t happening. Still love your site! Your friend, Ericka

You can count on me being over for drinks. I just don’t know when I can get back home. As soon as I make it back you guys will know.

I was really pissed after seeing the Blair Witch Project. I had first heard about at Blue’s News which covers games like Quake 2 and such. And those guys over at Blue’s are usually right on the money about anything. If you like First Person Games you have to check them out. Any way, they had mentioned how they saw Blair Witch in New York when it was being previewed and they said it was really good. And I read either at Blue’s or elsewhere on the net how it was kind of like a Hitchcock movie. Meaning that it didn’t show any gore like most movies these days. It scared you through the suspense as the story played out about these three college kids who were doing a documentary on this supposed Blair Witch. The kids go missing and their footage shows up a year later. It was sounding really good from what I read.

And then there was the special the Sci-Fi channel ran which was a pseudo documentary about these kids going missing and it showed some background on the legend of the Blair Witch. The Sci-Fi special was ten times better than the movie. The movie did not explain what the Blair Witch was. It didn’t show any of the fake material the Sci-Fi show did. The Sci-Fi show had stuff on a guy from the forties that killed a bunch of kids and said the Witch made him do it. It showed some clips from a 70’s hippy occult guy who explained the back story on the Witch. Which the movie does not cover. I was really bummed. American Filmmaking has gone down the shitter.

Which (excuse the pun) brings me to Bruce Willis’s movie The Sixth Sense. Excellent movie, no doubt about it. It did to you what Blair Witch was supposed to do. It scared you with out excessive violence and gore. Besides that, the ending will have you surprised. It blew me away. It was the kind of thing that just shocked the shit out of me. I did not see it coming.

So there you have it. The witch sucked stick with the sense.

Great to see you back working at the good ol’ Hotel! I promised you I would hit your site. but no ranting here today. I am extremely excited to see that your smiling face will be greeting me as I come in the door half dead from lack of sleep! (Please refrain from the philosophical conversation at this time in the morning ok? hehe) At any rate, it sure is good to see you back behind the desk! But I do have one question for you…Why aren’t you updating your page on a regular basis? I do think that maybe it would be great to make the Hotel Blues News a place of sweet smelling roses, brimming with lots of love and happiness about our Beautiful hotel. This would be a nice way to please our Higher up authorities…and show them that not everything about the hotel is all that bad. (Hold on a minute while I go check my pulse. something is wrong here) Okay am back. blood pressure a little low…seems like I have a fever. not sure…Better go make an appt with the dr…On that note I am calling the paramedics now…Talk to ya later buddy!

A few of you people that use Netscape have told me you couldn’t get the quiz to pop up when the site loads. So in punishment for using Netscape and for the fact I can’t figure out how to get the thing to work by clicking a link I give you the results so far: When it changes I will let you know.

Q: If I change the site what should it cover?
(of 4 respondents)
25% Don’t change a thing.
0% Do game and movie reviews.
0% Make it a Starfleet Command website.
25% Do a ass kissing corporate suck up page.
0% Who wants your opinion. Close it.
50% I hate pop up windows!!!

I like Star Trek. I dislike William Shatner. The William Shatner Acting Simulator is a hoot. It will make you cry, it will make you laugh. You get to make fun of William Shatner, what more could you want?

On the left you may notice the little logo thing that flashes the NEW Hotel Blues. And right above this post it says Hotel Blues everything but hotels. What does this mean you may ask? Hell I don’t know either. I have been debating for a while a little reworking of the place and this is just the beginning of it. I can’t figure out what kind of look I want to go for. So if anyone wants to contribute ideas to the new look and design of this site drop me a line or talk to me at work or at home.

Now just because I say “everything but hotels” doesn’t mean I will totally forget the nature of this page. I have been kicking around the idea of doing a memoirs thing of my experience being a bona fide corporate lackey. I have a few things I want to cover, I just have to get my ass in gear.

That’s it. I have to get ready for work. The quiz thing is over. This is how it ended:

25% Don’t change a thing.
0% Do game and movie reviews.
0% Make it a Starfleet Command website.
13% Do a ass kissing corporate suck up page.
0% Who wants your opinion. Close it.
63% I hate pop up windows!!!

Thanks to Ericka for agreeing with me about the annoying pop up window. And a sarcastic thanks to Iggy for voting for the ass kiss page.

This really hasn’t got any thing to do with the hotel biz, but this is too classic to pass up. Pizza Hut has reportedly agreed to pay 2.5 million dollars to Russia for permission to paint a giant Pizza Hut logo on the side of the spacecraft. I mean, come on, who the hell is their market base for this one? Martians? Read the full story. Here is a snippet:

He refused to name the exact price. Company officials had wanted to use lasers to shine a giant logo on to the surface of the moon, but they started looking for an alternative promotional idea when they learnt that the image would have to be as big as Texas to be seen by earthlings more than 380,000 kilometers (238,000 miles) away.