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Take a look at this team picture the Spanish Basketball team took before the Olympics, where they got together for a team picture, except where they are all doing that slanty-eyes thing that we Asians all got in third grade from the ignorant bully kid whose dad and brothers beat him at home.

Many on the internet are saying that the Spanish Basketball team is racist. Or Spain is full of racists. After all, many Spanish soccer / football fans routinely make monkey noises at African players from other teams. Whether they are or are not racist, it’s only fitting that the Chinese and Indians are going to eat their lunch while they’re busy making hooting noises at soccer stadiums. Haha.

I have long been considering joining the Comcast Haters club, but now consider me an official member.

It’s not bad enough that I have to pay these jerks almost $200 a freaking month, (not to mention the other $120 bucks my fiance pays) and that my service goes out all the time, (modem failed, weak signal, both in the past month) but do I really have to deal with their shoddy, rude and incompetent customer service people too?

Me: “My channels were out for days at a time because of the weak signal. Can I get a service credit?”
Anthony in the South Bay Comcast office: “There’s no refunds for that. You don’t have a work order for that.”
Me: “Can I speak with your manager?”
Anthony in the South Bay Comcast office: “There’s no manager.”
Me: “Really? I find that hard to believe”
Anthony in the South Bay Comcast office: “Well, there might be one wandering around… no, he’s not here right now.”

WTF, Comcast. You really do suck, as the internet well knows:Check out a Google search for [Comcast sucks]. Or join the Comcast haters group on Facebook.

Oh, and your commercials suck too. Really badly.

Update: After emailing comcast-cares (see comments) I was refunded for an entire month’s service. Thanks, Comcast. You gotta respect that they’re trying, even though some of their front-line customer service reps are still pretty bad.

Seriously, does anyone really give a shit what happens on Lost anymore? Tonight’s episode was better than the rest of the season, but the whole thing is so nonsensical and so lacking in verisimilitude that it boggles the mind. In fact, I’m mad at myself for still watching.

There are two things it reminds me of:

1. My sister Ann used to love to write down her dreams, and then spend 10 minutes detailing every non-sequitur-filled twist and turn. It was so boring, because, as I wanted to tell her at the time, “the only people who care about your dream is you.”

2. Did you ever have a friend or acquaintance who would play that game where they would offer you something, and just as your hand would near that item (say, some candy) they would pull it away and laugh? Then they’d offer it to you again, only to take it away again? And then again? And then they get all serious, like they’ve had their fun, and they say, “sorry man, here it is,” and they offer it to you and then the TAKE IT AWAY AGAIN?

That’s what Lost is to me. Every week.

And the sad thing is that it’s so obvious that there is no THERE THERE. If they had written the story all at once, I could believe that there was some grand design to all of it. But I understand that these guys are writing it as they go. So they just keep making shit up. Adding twists and turns. Generating elaborate but ultimately irrelevant back stories on which they dwell for way too long.

Did you ever see the movie Zoolander, and at the end, Mugatu is screaming that Derek Zoolander’s ‘looks’ are all the same?

Who cares about
Derek Zoolander anyway?

The man has only one look,
for Christ’s sake!

Blue Steel, Ferrari, Le Tigre?

They’re the same face!
Doesn’t anyone notice this?
I feel like I’m taking crazy pills!

That’s how I feel about Lost.