+1. The one time I couldn't do this was when I was brought in by my 2nd level supervisor to unscrew a department full of contract hires that had lost the capacity to be relevant.

This DOESN'T make sense from the perspective that I seek out late flights on saturated corridors through cosmopolitain cities and get to volunteer frequently for a night on the town in a fun city and sleep it off in a Southwest-funded hotel.

I fly Southwest pretty frequently (sometimes weekly) and I'm of the opinion that they put their front-line people under more than a little pressure. Most of the time, those people respond well to it. When they don't, they do some epic stupid shit. Over the past decade, on the number of times I can count on the fingers…

Deputy Westbrook will not be around much longer.

Indeed, deserved based on the 50% of the performance for 75% of the price of a 370.

That was epic. The weirdly re-purposed spaces before the barber shop and harsh fluorescent lighting lent an Eli Roth vibe to that caper.

Cut Crack + Carload of BaybayKids - Crash + Ice Cream - Nudity (three kids and a steady diet of junk food—just keeping it real) = WINNING.

Two words: Director's Cut.

Last Thursday in the SF Bay Area we had a minor morning rush hour disaster when a fire disabled our backbone transit system. Like everyone else who couldn't blow off work that day, I was in my car crossing the Bay Bridge. Because of fairly skillful traffic metering (and low demand—sort of like a Snow Day in June),…

An interesting metaphor for what that guy has been doing his entire life...

Alien was my introduction to a vast global cultural mellieu that ruined me for movies smaller than Ridley Scott's epic visions (though there are a million good reasons to embrace smaller movies, even though Blade Runner is also in my top 5) and skewed my taste in art to HR Giger and the surreal landscapes beyond.

Riverbank DOES actually have a strong Floridiot vibe to it.

I have a waay better Riverbank Corvette story: I was at a good friend's bachelor blowout in Riverbank. Host hires two strippers. This was the night I learned that "stripper" is a word for "prostitute who doesn't stand on street corner." OK so that was interesting.