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I feel like I am the only person in existence who is greatly perturbed by the proliferation of commercials assaulting us as we wait in a darkened movie theater for a movie that we just paid $10.00 to see. I know I can&#146t possibly be the only dissenting moviegoer, but it sure does feel like it.

I paid that exorbitant price to watch a MOVIE, not a commercial. If it was just one single, short commercial, I might be less upset. If it was an ad not already played incessantly on television, I might be less upset. If it wasn&#146t a bland, tired display of mediocre &#147creativity&#148, I might be less upset. If the movie was FREE, I might be less upset. If I was brain-dead and mild like Dove, I might be less upset. None of those things are true and it leaves me with theater rage. Gordon hates seeing movies with me because all I do is complain about it. But I can&#146t help it. It just makes me so angry and there&#146s nothing I can do about it but sit there and wait for the torture to end. I&#146m a helpless captive to those money-grubbing movie whores. We all are! It drives me mad I tell you. MAD!!!!

(Sometimes I wish I could make loafe a voice journal, because you really have to hear me when I say certain things, it is that much more effective.)

You know what makes me even angrier than being forced to watch (and pay for) these lousy commercials? The audience laughing and taking pleasure in them. I am not kidding. I will be sitting in a roomful of people and those numbskulls will be enjoying those ads, the same fucking shit that they see on TV every single night of their lives. Eating it up like candy. It makes me sick.

Then again, everything is making me sick these days.

I did read a while ago that a woman somewhere was trying to start up a class-action lawsuit against Sony&#146s Loews theaters, but I don&#146t know what happened to that. I don&#146t think anything good has come of it, because ever since I read about it, the only change I&#146ve noticed is commercials becoming MORE prominent and numerous. Maybe I will start my own stupid lawsuit. Not that I know anything about that or would even bother. It&#146s much easier for me to just whine about it.

So anyway.

My sisters like to tease me that I am anti-love. They think I hate all things love. Because I am not particularly sentimental about the subject, whether in music or movies or books or my life, what have you. I am not sure if they are serious, but they couldn&#146t be more wrong. As I said to a friend of mine recently, all I want in my life is love. Everything else is just background noise.

And I am not talking about all that hippy drippy love stuff. Yeah yeah I want everyone to get along and peace and blah blah blah. I just mean that I do like love, that love is pretty much what I&#146m about, and I just don&#146t need it to be all fluffy and pink and saccharine.

THAT IS ALL I AM SAYING.

To recap: Less commercials in theaters, more love for Christa.

The streak had to end, and I think we all feel a little relief that the stress is over. It somehow seems appropriate that the goal to break Boucher’s record was a fluke, bouncing in off a Phoenix player. That whole run really sparked some life into the Coyotes and the fans.

In other sporting news, I was greatly disappointed to see the Packers lose to the Eagles. Very, very frustrating.

It is very cold outside today. The air hurts me. It hurts my skin and my lungs and my teeth and feelings. I sort of like it though because it tastes and smells arctic clean and arctic fresh.

Hey did you all know that I have been in Boston for four years now, and have had loafe for four years?

I feel no different now than I did 4 years ago. Well, I feel older and more tired and more bitter. So I guess I do feel different.

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Oh, and I subscribed to HBO. I do not care what anyone else says, I really like satellite TV. I really really like it.

Let&#146s make that FOUR straight shut-outs by Coyotes goalie Brian Boucher, not three.

That&#146s right, kids. As of Wed night, four straight shut-outs, which has not been done in over 50 years. Tomorrow, he will be going for an all-time (modern era) NHL record against Minnesota. Be sure to watch, it may be history in the making!

This is good hockey and I am loving every second of it.