I realize how quickly this site is turning into Cody's Wacky Public Transportation Adventures, but I will share another bus story anyway. Today, when I got on the bus, I sat down in front of two individuals who were having a rather animated conversation. After just a few moments, I gathered that one of the guys was planning to beat someone up. I'm no expert when it comes to assault, but this guy had concocted a really well thought-out plan. He knew where it was going to happen (in front of a convenience store), how he was going to start it (shove the guy into the bike racks), and how long he had before the cops would arrive (30 minutes). I was so impressed, I think this gent should go to work for NASA as the chief planner behind the space shuttle trips. If he did, we'd go to Mars in a month, it'd cost $78, and when we left, all of the Martians would have broken ribs.
Sadly, like most of the other bus riders I meet, he was a little unhinged. Every few minutes, he'd shout out a completely nonsensical description of how badly the other guy would get beaten. His favorite was, "I'm going to beat him so bad, you'd think he was selling something!" Selling what, I wanted to ask. Red blood cells? The need for urgent medical care? Anyway, as the talk continued, I got swept up into the mania and began conversing with the guy some about the big fight. When we reached my stop and I got up to exit, he put his hand on my shoulder and said, "You have a good day in class, young man." Overwhelmed by emotion, I replied, "And good luck to you beating that guy up." It was a good start to the day.
Valentine's Day is coming soon, and tomorrow will feature my own inept attempts at romance. In case anyone out there could use a few hints, I will now borrow a few words from the love master himself, Barry White. As Barry put it, "There's only way day to treat her right / to love her good / to buy her fancy cheese / and then grate that cheese / and put the grated cheese on tortilla chips / with some jalepenos on the side / Serving up the love nachos, bay-buh / It's Valentine's Day / and you gotsta gotsta eat up." I really have nothing to add there.
Posted by Cody at February 10, 2005 7:14 PMTrucky is the luckiest woman in the world.
Posted by: Danza at February 10, 2005 11:36 PMQuestion: I work with Carlos Jacott and he always wondered what your web site was all about. He always assumed you were making fun of him, which he fully endorsed. So he didn't understand why you got pissy when he questioned your site to that little pissant from USC on Noah Baumbach's site. NB told him that you complained to whoever it was that did the Baumbach site about Carlos' posts to the kid from USC ( the one who couldn't take a joke about his alma mater), the ones where Carlos wondered why anyone would bother to put up a website about him. For the record, CJ is a latino kid from NY who enjoyed making a couple of movies with his friends and hated every other job he ever had. So, why so sensitive Cody?
Posted by: GUY at February 12, 2005 8:53 PMWell, in his post on Noah Baumbach's site, Carlos mentioned suing me. Reading something like that, it's hard to tell if it's a joke or not. I've had friends sued over web sites before, and I didn't want to join those ranks. I was just doing something fun and amusing, but I wasn't going to risk bankruptcy or anything like that for it. So, maybe it seemed like overreacting, but I'd seen situations like that turn very ugly before and I didn't want to jeopardize anything.
In retrospect, the best course of action would've been to check with Carlos about what he actually meant. I had no way to do that then though, nor do I have one now. If he contacted me and said he was cool with the whole thing, I would be open to bringing the site back up.
Also, I have no idea what you're talking about with the USC stuff.
Posted by: Cody at February 12, 2005 10:05 PM