This morning I had to make a bi weekly trek from my home in the southern most region of the St. Louis area to north St. Louis County (90 mile round trip). During this trip every single thing that horks me off on the rooad happened. These are all things that I belive should be CAPITOL crimes. Let me share my morning with you.

1) Cell Zombies! A cell zombie is a person that shuts out all external stimuli the second their cellular phone touches their ear. Today one of these morons drifted into my lane at 65 miles an hour with less than a car length seperating us. I wanted to rip her arm off and beat her to death with it.

2) Traffic Monitors! A traffic monitor is one of these waste of stem cells that feels it is their responcibility to enforce the the speed limits. They do this by getting in the passing lane, and set their cruise control at or right below the speed limit (usually while pacing the cars in the other lanes). I was trapped behind one of these morons for 17 miles of my commute.

3) Dog F#$kers! These arguments for abortion allow their dogs (usually the lap variety) to roam free about there car. A majority of the time the dog plants themselves on the owners lap and paw at the steering wheel and/or window. The dog owner then pays more attention to the dog than the road. I was nearly side swept by one of these waist of space.

4) Gappers! These self important wastes of space will close the gap between themselves and the car infront of them as soon as they see a directional that indicates some one needs to get into this space.

5) Punishment Lights! These are stop lights that are on a set cycle, causing motorist to have to stop, idle and waste gas while absolutly no one else is at the light. I hit a half dozen of these obsticles this morning.

Thanks for letting me vent and I hope you got a chuckle from this.

Well as of today I am back to being Mr.Mom. After working for a Convience Store/Gas Station for the last six months, I quit after having a stellar work review. Now you may ask yourself, 'Why would he quit if the powers that be gave him a glowing review'. It's because they wanted to give me a 25 cent raise which is still about a buck and a half shy of what my peers at other companies make. Add in the fact that my forty mile round trip comute meant that half my check was going into the gas tank and a third of what was left was going to day care, leaving me with 80 to 100 dollars a week.

So I'm back. I'll be here a lot more often working on the show I'm editor for and hopefully adding a few more editorships.

I love the Looney Tune cartoons (Bugs, Daffy and the whole crew) but for some reason I can't stand Tom and Jerry and I should at least like them. Both were directed (for the most part) by Chuck Jones, both deal with similar themes (cartoon violence) and both deal, for the most part with animals acting like humans. For some reason I would rather watch paint dry than watch T&J.

The same things go for some more recent TV shows. House for example. I loved Hugh Lowery in all the incarnations of Black Adder. I love the concept of a disabled, obnoxious, Doctor, but for some reason I find the show boring at best and annoying at worst. Same thing goes for Lost, when I heard all the pre show buzz I thought, "This is the show for me", but after half a season I wished the whole show would get lost.

Here my question to all of you: What shows did you think looked good on paper, but after viewing them you found they just weren't your cup of tea?

And by the way I won't slam anybody's opinion here and I hope every one else follows suite.

Well I started a new job this week. I am the asst. mgr. at a convience store/gas station. That's right I am basically a clerk. Kinda funny considering I just became the show editor for Clerks. I feel like Dante Hicks.

Don't worry though I will still be here on TV.com, just not as often.

Have you heard the news? There was an earthquake in Southern Illinois Friday morning (at 4:47 a.m.) People felt it from Atlanta to Milwakee and from Philly to Denver. Some historic small towns in the IL/IN areas sustain minimal damage and there have been 15 aftershocks and one other earthquake over this past weekend. The first earthquake measured 5.2 and the second was a 4.8.

Now your probably saying to yourself, "Gee, ssimonds1 really knows his earthquake s#$%." No, not really. It's just that ALL the local news programs, since the morning news on Friday till the noon news today, has had at least three stories per newscast on this one subject. Everything from "What is an earthquake?", to "Do you have (enough) earthquake insurance." thru "Possible scams related to earthquakes."

ENOUGH ALREADY. We get it. The earth moved. Nobody died and some old buildings may or may not have been damaged. St. Louis sits on a major fault line (duh). I almost expect the evening news tonight to start with all the reporter gathered around a dead horse with chains and baseball bats. Surely something else newsworthy happened this weekend.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K80CIQPwruU&feature=related

Sorry but I had to rant