165 thoughts on “Black Metallic”

1. my commute is WAY too far – bed to computer. at least 5 steps.
   about the only bad part is that i prefer to go out for coffee – i have to walk a whole block.
   …which is something ppl frown upon whilst wearing a bathrobe….
   ~spoonie

2. I’m in Orlando Fl, btw…
   We’re getting as bad as LA.
   Avoid I-4 during rushhour at ALL COSTS!

3. Ah, commuting… what fun. When I lived in the Phoenix area, it used to take 90 minutes to drive 13.5 miles (all surface streets back then). When in San Diego, the ride was 45 minutes to go 7 miles. I now live in south-central New Mexico and my shop (that place where I go once in awhile to get the hell outta the house) is in El Paso (the armpit of the planet), Texas, about 75 miles away. I usually make it in under an hour.
   God, I love LA, but you can keep the traffic!

4. I hate having to commute. I live just across the bay from S.F. and it takes a good hour to use BART to get into the city. Of course that doesn’t include the drive to the Bart Station another 15 minutes on a good day or the walk from the station to my work another 15 minutes. Why in the Hell did I move here? Don’t even think about driving your own car, I don’t know anybody in their mind that would want to sit in the biggest parking lot in the BAY area.
   Thanks for letting me rant and rave, I feel better now.

5. Hey, BART is a blessing, and you don’t realize it till you don’t have it. I would never even THINK about driving my car into the city during commute hours. I loved taking BART because I could read, sleep or do some work while commuting.
   Granted, that I was sitting in a seat. 🙂

6. California baseball? It is too laugh. let the trash-talking begin as my White Sox start their road to the AL Championship.

7. I have friends who tell me my hour commute to work isn’t so bad. Well, compared to their commutes that is true. What bugs me about my commute is that I have to drive 1/2 hour to public transportation (the PATCO Hi-Speedline Rail, er something like that)and then get on that for another 1/2 hour sitting next to some person who hasn’t bathed since the other Bush was in office. I would rather just drive my car into work -it would take about 20 minutes, mostly due to traffic- but parking is a nightmare. Even if I manage to find a spot under a few miles from work I’ll end up paying about $16 – $20 an hour for parking.
   As for baseball, of course I’ll be cheering for th Phillies but when I look at it realistically, I don’t think its going to be a fantastic season. Hope I’m wrong. Well, my true love (as far as sports go) would be hockey. So go Flyers!

8. Joseph, you didn’t understand me.
   I was talking about *real* baseball, National League-style.
   Not that AL, designated hitter bullshit.
   I’ll trade you the Angels for…uhm…a pack of gum and 3 dollars.
   Come to think of it, keep the money and the gum.
   🙂

9. *****ATTENTION*****
   STAND BYE ME, ON ENCORE MOVIE CHANNEL MARCH 4th,8th, 16th, 20th and 28th!!!!!!

10. White Sox?
    What-ever.
    Oakland A’s all the way, baybee. Ain’t no two ways about it.

11. Tired of the commuter drive? Want to impress the neighbors? Scare the dog? Look really farking cool?
    The future is almost here. Sometime in the not to distant future you will suddenly stop in the street, look up, and shout “The future is here!” at the top of your lungs. But not now. It is not yet the future. But it is coming.
    http://www.solotrek.com/mjet/index1.html

12. Oh, and whoever thought they saw Uncle Willy on Invisible Man was right. He played a bad guy who messed with people’s dreams so they’d be unwitting suicidal hitmen.
    God, I loved that show.
    Which reminds me, BART is pretty neat. Fairly handy, it is.

13. I understand the pain of commuting. I live near Washington, D.C. Try going 15 miles in an hour. I do that now each way taking an hour. I used to live about 30 miles away from my job… I had to leave the house by 7:30 if I ever thought of getting to work by 9/ 9:30.
    Oh, and the Yankees are the best!!! Okay, I don’t really watch sports and I don’t really live in NY anymore, but I have to be happy that my hometown team is pretty damn good, right? Don’t hold it against me that my now hometown team is the Redskins….

14. Go Packers.
    Oh wait. Baseball. Hmmmm. Gotta go with the Red Sox here.
    Then the Cubs.
    I’m a glutton for punishment when it comes to baseball.
    So Wil, are ya comin down to “the Q” for any of the Dodger/Padre games? 1st one is 4/12-4/14. It’s Padres Magnet Schedules weekend!

15. You root for the Red Sox, yes you ARE a glutton for punishment…
    But, as they way down at the park, ‘hope springs eternal.”

16. Hey Wil ! I definitely would like to see you perform in that show; you were talking about “this season”… how long is that in months ? You see, I live in Germany, and that is definitely NOT in or near the City of Angels…(talking of commute…) but I’m planning on coming to the States this summer (most certainly end of July), so I’d like to know if the show is still playing then. It would be cool if you could let me know about that ! ! !

17. I live in a place called “chester”. Bible belt conservativeville USA.
    Anyway, the traffic here is never bad. Worse in the cities of Richmond and Petersburg which aren’t that far off.
    Guess, I’m lucky.
    Last time I was out I ran over the damn bushes as I pulled off at Burger King.
    Brilliant…..

18. Someone saw a penis on Invisible Man?
    …or do i have my euphemisms mixed up?

19. Afraid I can’t sympathize with the commute. At least you have a job, which you LOVE, Wil. You have said it yourself. Lucky Bastard.
    Me? I would just settle for a job. Been out of work in the SF Bay for 10 months. Gimme the commute, gimme the stress, gimme a JOB.

20. At the moment I live in a city that is so small that you can drive from side from town to the the other in a full 30 mins yes it’s that small here.
    -I However soon i will be moving to a new city that it slowly catching up with L.A’s driving problem and population.
    Oh fun! but I want it to happen, I am going home.
    So although Commuting sucks-
    Commuting Realy sucks!
    The positive choice is that you get more things to chose from for movies, entertainment, Food so before you complain about how far it is to drive make a list and notice how many types of bussinesses there are between each one including food.

21. Rawk Mr. Wheaton.
    Catherine Wheel, Ferment is among the best records in the history of….best records. Great to play really loud while driving the pacfic coast.

22. -Hockey- Go Stars!
    -Baseball- Go Rangers- although i don’t watch them much
    – Football- Go 49er’s sorry Tx the let me down way too much.
    that’s my sports take- thanks

23. Wil,
    Here’s a little love to help make the rest of your day better too.
    Star Trek TNG was my favorite Star Trek, but *gasp* I never hated Wesley. Then again, I didn’t hate Jar Jar Binks either, so my taste may be questionable.
    I found wwdn on a cafepress newsletter link, and came here because I was bored. But, ya got me hooked. I’ve now spent enough time wandering the site that my company would be embarrassed to be paying me for it (if they knew), and I now think that you are undeniably cool.
    So hey, that should make anyone’s day better, right? To know that yet another person has basked in the glow of their coolness? Yeah… it’s all good!

24. Man, I sure do know what you’re talking about with that commute. Why, every single day I have to get up and go all the way down the stairs to my office. This wouldn’t be so bad, but the coffee pot is all the way on the other side of the house, so it makes my commute a lot longer.
    Yes, Virginia, there is Telecommuting.
    And it is goooooooooood!
    I believe this is part where I’m supposed to say something along the lines of “Neener, neener, neener,” but I’ll refrain out of kindness, ’cause that’s just the kind of gal I am. 🙂

25. I’m definately in for a fantasy baseball league. And hopefully my team won’t suck this year like it did last year. Just gotta hope the pitching doesn’t fall apart, the offense should be just fine (although I’m still mad at Juan Gonzalez… leading us along like that…)
    I completely agree about the AL not being real baseball. 🙂 I guess it helps that I root for the OTHER New York team.
    Yeah.. anyway. Back to work.
    -metsfan

26. Someone said “Catherine Wheel is awesome.”
    Shouldn’t that be ARE awesome? Trivial, I know, but they’re a collective body, not a single.
    Ferment rawks, all their early cds rawk, and even the later years definitely have some gems, but #10, Fripp, on Chrome, is one that, and I can vouch for this… making a tape of that song over and over and falling asleep to it every night for like, the last 8 months… nothing beats it. pure heaven.

27. Baseball?
    My favorite team is, um, the Bad News Bears…

28. I completely, wholeheartedly sympathize on the LA traffic thing. Pico has been an absolute nightmare lately, and I’m this close to taking hostages during my morning commute.
    “Black Metallic”: great song. My CD of that is scratched though. The humanity.
    Oo…live theater…

29. Me too, NFLgrrrl.

30. Mrs. Veteran:
    Those slogs over to the coffee pot are killer! 🙂
    Getting my cat to stop sitting on my keyboard is really a drag. (But, having her help me find new keyboard shortcuts in Adobe Aftereffects is pretty cool…)
    About this time last year I was filing a story via email from a ship in the middle of the south Atlantic ocean. Hell of a telecommute!! There’s a “neener” for ya.
    :-p

31. for one my Jun: everybody in here is either a freak or a geek… those like u and i are the freaks.
    2: how ’bout fantasy wrestling? that’s more my thing…….. or basketball, if that’s not ur thing.
    oh and…
    C: i heard somewhere that u gave up acting wil b/c u couldn’t get any more parts………. please say it ain’t so!
    Peace, love, and bubble-gum,
    Ronda LOU (now y’all kno my real name)

32. Well, I readily admit that I am a freakin’ wierdo, but my husband doesn’t want to travel 3,000 miles just to see one show. No matter how cool or funny one of the guys in it is. So, Wil, unless you’re going to come to Dragon Con (oh please!), I’m going to throw my vote in with Synchronicity. Umm, do what he said.

33. Let… them… play!
    Let… them… play!
    Let… them… play!

34. I’m with Spoonie… roll outta bed, go to the computer, and I’m at work. Well, I do have to feed the dog and let him out ’cause be pees on everything if I don’t…
    I do NOT envy those of you who have to commute. Not one bit.

35. Traffic here can be bad. Savannah is a smaller city but it has more than its fair share of moronic drivers. People that block the opposing green light; people that cut three lanes for a left turn; and let’s not forget the famous Abercorn St.
    As for baseball, I much prefer watching NL over AL. My teams in order: 1)Braves 2)A’s 3) Any other NL team 4) Any other AL Team 5)Yankees.

36. LA is beautiful. Would I live there? No! Its Beautiful though. I like the buildings. Hollywood is even better. Being so close I have seen tapings of That 70’s show. Who’s line is it anyway ummm and the Wayne Brady show. I live the perfect distance from everything. The staples center, Dodger staduim, Paramount, ABC studios, NBC studios, Sony Studios, Disney hell, Magic Mountian. AND All the famous stars tape where I live. Star Trek even taped were I live. 🙂 I love SIMI AND CALI!! OH AND GO DODGERS EVEN THOUGH THEY SUCK!!

37. SpaceWriter: Heh! I had to banish the cats from the office, unfortunately. For one thing, my power supply fan ground to a halt one day from cat fur sucked into the intake.
    As for the commute, hell, where I live there’s no place more than, say, a 20 minute drive max. My friends from the bay area say that what we have here can’t even be called a “commute.”
    I’m sure my trek to the coffee pot must come close, tho’, even if it’s not somewhere in the mid-Atlantic. lol!

38. Intersting tidbit of Dodgers history for DaleJrBlueEyes and the rest:
    “The term ‘Trolley Dodgers’ was attached to the Brooklyn ballclub due to the complex maze of trolley cars that weaved its way through the borough of Brooklyn. The name was then shortened to just ‘Dodgers’. During the 1890’s, other popular nicknames were Ward’s Wonders, Foutz’s Fillies and Hanlon’s Superbas.”

39. yay i’m gonna have to watch Stand by me every night it’s on t.v.! i just hope they don’t take out everything.

40. I can totally commiserate with the commuting. I thought that my hellish NYC commutes of 1.5 hours on a cushy train, across 30 miles, each way, were over when I moved to Vancouver. Silly me. During the summer it takes me 1.5 hours to go 12k over the Lions Gate Bridge — damn tourists! Of course the tourists who cause this headache are also the ones contributing to my paycheck — I work for a vancouver tourism company. Oh and I’ve learned not to listen to talk radio. You get all riled up and then nearly get in an accident because you’re yelling at the radio.

41. My work compute?
    20 minutes.
    Oh and that is both ways.

42. My work compute?
    20 minutes.
    Oh and that is both ways.

43. My work compute?
    20 minutes.
    Oh and that is both ways.

44. I used to listen to “Democracy Now” just to get the Liberal slant on things, but Amy Goodman’s “reading” of the News was just too biased for me and an Insult to Jornalism.
    Amy Goodman’s biggest theme is that she hates George Bush; Just gets boring after a while. She cant even say his name without an obvious disdain in her voice.

45. I also have to agree about the American Leage/Designated Hitter. It just ruins the game and minimizes the role of the manager as a stratagest. Its just bad marketing.

46. Giants fan? Really? You know me, Wil. It’s all about the A’s

47. Dammit Courtney, I was just gonna say that!
    –NT

48. That’s right, Maverick.
    A’s are in da hizouse.
    I am so NOT ghetto fabulous.
    But the A’s are. Have you seen the Coliseum? Gad, but that concrete&spilled soda goodness is bracing.

49. I have more Cubs tickets in the bleachers than I know what to do with.
    There’s no cooler place in Chicago than Wrigley Field on a Friday afternoon…

50. I used to live in downtown los angeles last year. my commute to USC was 5 minutes there and about 25 or 30 back. I only lived about 2 miles from school too

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