Author: Teel

Hey there, all you love-struck people out there! And by love struck, I mean you’ve been knocked around by what you thought was supposed to be a good thing and ended up bass-ackwards because of love or the lack thereof. Despair Inc. has a new set of Bittersweets for 2003. Bittersweets, for those of you who don’t already know and are too lazy to click the link, are very similar to the traditional Valentine’s Day hearts with cute phrases on them except with a twist – they have phrases like WANT2C OTHERS ? CALL A SHRINK ? I MET THE 1 ? JUST A FRIEND…

Last year they had similar candies with 17 phrases, and this year there are 37, plus an updated tin! Last year I wanted to order them, but procrastinated until they had totally sold out. This year I’d like to order them anyway. And I think you would, too.

If you live in Greater Metropolitan Phoenix and think you’d be interested in depressing candies for the lonely, I’d like to split shipping costs with you. That, and the minimum order is $9, while a single tin is only $6.95. Oh, and shipping on two is almost as much as a third tin would be (and shipping on four is actually $6.95, strangely, which would divide out to less than $1.75 each). So, err… yeah. If you’re interested, let me know and I’ll put together an order for us, or you can order and I’ll pay you for my share of the despair.

Anyone who wants to buy me a copy of David Blaine’s book, I’ll go ahead and solve the puzzle and split the $100,000 prize with you. I don’t even care if you use Amazon. Get me a copy of the book, and we’ll see how long it takes me to work it out.

I was surprised that after this long it hasn’t already been found. There are a lot of people working together online to solve it. Knowing me and the way I think, plus the experience I have watching David Blaine think, it wouldn’t suprise me if I read the book and knew the answer as easily as I’d read the book.

So, anyone up for $49,975 profit?

If I had the money, I might have already ordered this new shirt from T-Shirt Hell.

Then I would wear it to a showing of Max. Just for kicks.

(I mean, so people would kick me, right?)

To see the screening today of The Life of David Gale, I mean. I realise the screening was in the middle of the day on a Wednesday, all the way in Tempe, but you missed out. Not just on a free movie, mind you.

After the movie, Kevin Spacey came in for about an hour of Q&A.

That’s right, I got to meet Kevin Spacey in person. They wouldn’t let me lick him, but he was friendly and personable, and just as charming as you would expect. Humble, as well. I didn’t bother asking him a question in Q&A, since my questions weren’t on the topic of the movie at hand or how to ‘break in’ to the industry, which seems to be the sort of questions they look for at these things. Still, it was an interesting situation where my sitting in the front paid off in proximity to Kevin and the ability to actually meet him.

So, for those of you who I offered to come along, it’s too bad you turned me down. You really could have asked him anything, they weren’t screening questions at all. Or at least shook his hand. Too bad.

Today I added three new users to the Modern Evil family of users. I look forward to seeing them post. CoupDeFeu, who has been so vocal in our comments, now has access to post in the common areas, and her blog will be appearing soon. An old friend of mine, Mo, (who already has a blog over at lofatmo.com) has also just signed up to post on ME, under the name andalusian; look for posts from him soon! Finally, my little brother Heath has also got access to post, as of today. Heath doesn’t actually read Modern Evil or this blog yet, but he will. I talked him into posting recently. I may be able to talk him into his own blog. We’ll see.