from the ether

South Jersey was declared a natural disaster area for farmers.

Yes, another reason to hate Rutgers. (Although, it's odd to me that I'm not seeing this reported elsewhere yet.)

Apparently Joss Whedon is in talks to create a new show for fox. I tend to agree with the commenters (found down at the bottom of the article) that Whedon seems to be unable to get out of his abusive relationship with Fox.

I hate those damn Bee movie promos on NBC. Turns out that NBC may have paid for them -- crazy.

Apparently in Spain the maximum sentence that can be served for terrorism is 40 years. So it's a bit odd that these guys got sentenced to 40,000 years.

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Today is my last day at this job.

This colored my thoughts as I took my final stroll to 7-11 to get my lunch. Most likely, I'd never again walk through this neighborhood -- a bad piece of Brunswick sandwiched between downtown and Douglass.

And more than likely I'd never again browse that particular 7-11. I've always had a love-hate relationship with this particular chain, more on the hate side than the love. I'm from Hoagieland, you see, so my first allegiance has to be to Wawa. 7-11 pales in comparison. This 7-11, though, has been good to me. It provides me with coke flavored slurpees, ramen, and chips. It has a strange collection of magazines for sale (tattoo mags right next to civil war mags). The candy selection is definitely weird, featuring all sorts of reject sugar. And they sell Americone Dream, Colbert's ice cream flavor. What more could I possibly want from lunch at a convenience store? (Well, Wawa sandwiches for one, but ultimately you can't have everything.)

I will miss dodging mourners coming out of the warehouse church's daily funerals. I will miss wandering past C-Town and all its associated customers. And of course, how could I not miss the gaggle of strange old men who hang outside the liquor store?

Ah well.

ether (I'm a crazy posting fool edition)

"They're words that do their job in the most sullen, sarcastic, passive-aggressive way possible, and they totally get away with it!"

Boing Boing provides both plush guts and pancakes in a can. Way to go.

The news about the upcoming strike is absolutely killing me. Of course this has to happen two days before the day I have tickets to the Colbert Report. Damn it, damn it, damn it. I hope the strike gets worked out on monday or tuesday.