Haha I forgot I wrote this

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Whenever I buy something for someone off of their registries, and the retailer always has a few lines to fill out for the complimentary card note, I never really quite know what to write.  For the amount of space that these cards give you, it’s not like I can be thorough with my words of encouragement and congratulation, really leaving me to write something boring and unoriginal.

But in the case of my friends Carolyn and Joe, there’s no such trepidation.  They already know how I feel about them, so there’s no need to put some corny congratulatory lines, when a classic wrestling quote would be more than sufficient.

Because when the day is over, very little is really better than having a good laugh, sometimes.

YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES!

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There’s nobody I look forward to seeing more when watching WWE right now than Daniel Bryan.  Which in itself is really ironic, considering a year ago, I didn’t really like the guy at all.  He was a boring U.S. Champion, and I wasn’t the least bit bothered when his match was cut from the Wrestlemania card last year.

All it took was a heel turn and belief in the word “YES,” to make the mega-superstar we have today.

I don’t know whose idea it was for him to focus his character around the word YES, but it’s incredible how forcing it in peoples’ faces at first ended up turning it into the biggest chant since “GOLDBERG” or Steve Austin’s “WHAT.”  Admittedly, at first, I still didn’t care about the character when he won the WCW title, but the further Bryan embraced the heel turn, the more entertaining the YESes became.  When a barely conscious Daniel Bryan started chanting YES while on his back, after winning a match by a cheap disqualification, I officially became a Daniel Bryan fan.

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The Target in the ghetto

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When Jen wanted to get a case for her new iPhone, the closest place to try to look for one was this one particular Target that was probably the only thing open on a Sunday evening.  It’s not a Target we go to at all, really, but at the time of the decision, it was the closest thing available, and I kind of figured, it’s a Target; you kind of know what you’re getting when you go to one.  However, this particular Target is kind of located in an area I’d like to classify as “urban,” or fuck it, ghetto, so it was going to be a conflict of which factor wins out – the ghettoness, or the clean and tidy branding of Target.

Well, the parking lot pretty much answered it from the get-go, because there was trash all over the place.  Discarded fast food bags, Sprite bottles, cups from a variety of fast food dives; pretty much the norm found in any ghetto area.  But that was just the outside, surely the inside of a Target would bring some normalcy back to the situation.

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Georgia’s new licenses suck

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Can we say, overdesigned?

Recently, I had to renew my driver’s license.  Having seen a few people with the new format already, I dreaded doing such, and I had hoped that mine would be sort of grandfathered in some clause stating that I would get the old format, since that’s how my first Georgia license was like.  Unfortunately, that did not turn out to be the case, and just the other night, I got in the mail, my new state-issued Georgia driver’s license.

As hard as it is for some people to believe, I am a graphic designer, and therefore I do feel that I have a modicum of authority when it comes to judging the way things look.  That being said, I really, really dislike the direction the state of Georgia has gone in their drivers’ licenses.  It’s like there was a list of security features they wanted to incorporate which is fine and all, since security is very important when it comes to state-issued identification.  But when it came to executing the design of the new licenses, they simply fell, face first onto a steaming pile of failure.

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The sad modernization of Family Feud

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Steve Harvey is a pretty funny guy.  I haven’t heard much of his actual standup, but from what I have heard, he’s pretty good.  Good enough to where he’s a pretty familiar name to most people these days.  But quite frankly, not even he can really save what has become of the once popular game show, Family Feud.

I used to love Family Feud, back in the day it was hosted by Richard Dawson.  My parents speak very little English, but even they enjoyed watching Family Feud.  I have a lot of fond memories actually watching Family Feud together with my parents and sister, like a real, stereotypical family.  The questions were basic and general, and just about anyone watching at home could have a fighting chance if they were remotely third-grade educated, or had been simply living for a while.

When I have lunchtime workouts, I’m running on the treadmill at right around the time when today’s Steve Harvey Family Feud reruns are running on what used to be TBS.  I used to watch ESPN, but for a channel that’s supposed to cover all sports, they can’t seem to not stop talking about NFL, NCAA football, golf, or NBA.  It’s almost as if they’re resentful that MLB has their own network, just like the NFL and NBA has, and does whatever they can to Rosa Parks the shit out of baseball coverage.  Needless to say, Steve Harvey Family Feud episodes are a lesser evil, and I’ve been watching them for a few weeks now, prompting me to finally post something about how much it sucks and how wrong it is these days.

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Initially amused, wondering if I should be offended

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I’m not exactly sure to what this is, but it was sitting on the black and white printer at my work.  At first, I lol’d because being an equal opportunist when it comes to finding amusement in racial stereotypes, I found amusement in this crude adaptation of a chink.

But then it dawned on me that this was sitting on the printer, and that a user in the office had sent it to the printer, meaning someone in the office found some humor in this kind of tasteless art.  The thing is that there aren’t a whole lot of people in my office, and only one other actual Asian person, whom I’m pretty certain they don’t have access to this printer, since they’re on the other side of the office.  But the thing is, although I find it amusing, I realize that the wrong person at the wrong time seeing this would trigger all sorts of shitstorm involving racism and other negative connotations.

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