I must have a “Kick Me” sign tattooed on my forehead or pinned to the back of my interview suit or something.

I had a job interview on Wednesday that I thought went pretty well. The interviewer and I had similar interests and backgrounds, we had a few laughs during the interview, I successfully answered his semi-trick Excel question. All in all, I thought I did well. As I was leaving, he said they wanted to make a decision by Friday (today) and that he’d call me “tomorrow” (yesterday).

And that triggered my bullshit detector: “I’ll call you tomorrow.” I’ve heard that before from interviewers from years ago who still haven’t called. I hate “I’ll call you.” Hearing it shook my confidence.

Well. He hadn’t called by 4:30 yesterday (surprise, surprise), so I went ahead and called him on the theory that you can’t lose a job you aren’t getting anyway and it’s better to be aggressive than to sit waiting for the phone to ring like a girl who put out on Prom Night. I got him on the phone and he apologized for not calling me sooner, said he was waiting for a call back from … someone … and could he call me back in half an hour?

Parry and riposte. Damn. What else could I say? “Sure!”

Well. Half an hour came and went with no call. 5:30 pm came and went with no call. The first half of today came and went with no call. Half of this afternoon came and went with no call. So what the hell, I called him again at 4:15.

Parry and riposte again: “Hey, can I call you back in five minutes?” That was an hour ago, and now it’s the end of the workday — and work week. And what do you know? He hasn’t called.

I hate interviewers like this. This is the second one in two weeks who has pulled this on me. I hate it because it’s disrespectful. I can understand why they do it — nobody likes confrontation or to deliver bad news — but it’s rude and uncalled for.

Treat me like the professional you’re supposed to be. I’m a big boy, I can take the bad news that you don’t want me — but just fucking give it to me, don’t keep me dangling from a phone wire waiting for it to ring.

Treat me with some fucking respect, please.

GraceDavis is the rockin’est worst nightmare Dr. Laura ever woke up from screaming. In honor of her birthday today — and in thanks for her major pimpage of Beth’s Avon Breast Cancer Walk — I offer the following haiku:

It’s GraceD’s birthday
Fifty years young today-ay
Blow out the candle!

(Fucking seven syllable line haiku bullshit…)

From Center for American Progress

Gooood question.

Here’s an old picture of me that I just stumbled across. Halloween, circa 1986. This was at the office, and at lunch the company held a party for us at the hotel across the street, to which we had to walk, passing a construction site along the way. Lemme tell ya, those construction workers were pigs with their whistling and yelling at me! I felt like a piece of meat! ::sniff::

Here’s several examples of the idiocy of Fox “News,” the “Fair & Balanced” White House propaganda organ and right wing “news” source of choice:

First: Sean Hannity.

Second: interviewing Matt Drudge.

But the third is the doozy. Sez Hannity: “You have a huge, blockbuster story that is up there now … and you pick up AP, Reuters reporting … When will the mainstream media catch up to Matt Drudge?”

Drudge runs a story he picked up from AP and Reuters, but they have to catch up to him. This is “news,” Fox style.

I especially love the headline: “Fox Facts – Liberals plot to take back America.” Ooooohhhhh, aaaaahhhhh!!! Look out, the scary liberals are coming!

You’re damn right we are. It’s a real fact.

Video at onegoodmove.

I shaved my head during my weekly shower today. It’s soft and smooth like a baby’s bottom after shaving (my head shaving, not the baby’s bottom shaving), and Beth noticed it when she was kissing me goodnight.

“Oooh, you’re all soft and smooth,” she said. “Want me to give you head?”

I’m prone to redundancy. I answered the question that didn’t need answering: “Yeah!”

And so Beth starting rubbing my head with both hands, stroking and caressing and rubbing all over while she went “Oooooh” and “Aaaaaah” and made sexysexy noises.

“How’s that feel, big boy?” she asked.

“Not bad,” I answered. “But I thought it would be… Well, wetter.”

And then she licked my head.

Well, since the MSM won’t cover it, I’ll just join the BlogStream Media in covering it here in the blogosphere, and maybe eventually the anti-Bush, unfair, unbalanced, left-leaning, liberal, commie pinko MainStream Media will catch up.

Let’s talk about the Downing Street Memo, a highly classified British memo that indicates that President George W. Bush decided to overthrow Iraqi President Saddam Hussein by summer 2002 and was determined to ensure that U.S. intelligence data supported his policy.

The Downing Street “Memo” is actually a document containing meeting minutes transcribed during the British Prime Minister’s meeting on July 23, 2002 — a full eight
months PRIOR to the invasion of Iraq on March 20, 2003. The Times of London printed the text of this document on Sunday, May 1, 2005, but to date US media coverage has been limited. This site is intended to act as a resource for anyone who wants to understand the facts revealed in this document.

The contents of the memo are shocking. The minutes detail how our government did not believe Iraq was a greater threat than other nations; how intelligence was “fixed” to sell the case for war to the American public; and how the Bush Administration’s public assurances of “war as a last resort” were at odds with their privately stated intentions.

Read the rest of it at The Downing Street Memo.

Let’s Awaken the Mainstream Media. We need to get this story out there.

Comments on two movie previews I’ve seen recently:

I’ve never understood the whole “Angelina Jolie is so hot” thing. Frankly, I’ve always found her to be a little freaky and think she builds every performance around her poor abused lips. But after seeing a preview for Mr. and Mrs. Smith, I think I get it. She looks, well, hot in it. And the movie looks good too. Crap-bad, but fun-good.

And Angelina’s ex, Billy Bob Thornton, is in the new remake of The Bad News Bears. I can’t make a call on how the movie will be, but Billy Bob is perfect as Buttermaker. I can’t wait to see this one.

Two celeb-type observations:

1. Jennifer Lopez vs Ben Affleck in Gigli
• When Jennifer Lopez is the better actor, you’ve got problems.
2. Newly anorexic Lindsay Lohan vs perpetually anorexic Paris Hilton in paparazzi photos
• When Paris is the fat one, you’ve got serious problems.

Improv Everywhere stages a U2 roof-top concert in New York.