BREAK UP 08: New York Subway Lovers are dunzo

So sad!! You all remember that craziness, right?

The New York City Subway Romance Heard Round The World is now over...

The original site. (Image below is what the dude created in order to find the girl. Check out the site.)

The news I heard.

Stranded on Virgin America: is this a silver lining?

They give you paper to make paper airplanes (while you wait 9 hours for your real airplane).

Dear Virgin America: We've been waiting at the airport for my plane for 9 hours. Love, -Geoff

To any Virgin America customer service representative:

My colleagues and I are stranded at the airport. We're a group of business colleagues on our way across the country for business meetings. We should be sleeping soundly so that we're fresh and ready for a full day of meetings with a key client.

Instead, we are angry. We are cranky. We are delirious and delusional. We are pissed off.

Apparently one of your BRAND NEW planes had a faulty battery. Apparently the only replacement for that faulty battery was 300 miles and 9 hours away from our departure city.

Ok so before I complain too much, I do want to say that the gate agents were so nice and kept us up to date with as much information as was provided to them. They also did try to rebook everyone on the last plane of the evening, but we were three of the poor saps that didn't make it onto that plane.

But back to my complaining... We were forced to wait for Virgin America to figure out how to resolve the situation. Virgin America was not able to resolve the problem quickly or efficiently. So here are my questions:

Why was it that there weren't spare parts on hand and at the ready at one of your hub airports? Why was it that you flew in a spare part to an airport that's 40 minutes away from the airport where it's actually needed? How/why was the battery delivered to an airport that you don't even service? Why don't you make it common practice to provide more than a $10 voucher for stealing nine hours of our lives? And why is it a business traveler now knows so much about the intricacies of a Airbus A320 airplane battery? Really... Is this necessary?

We want our nine hours back. We want to see substance behind that suave facade. Before we book another flight with Virgin America again, we'll think twice about how much it's really worth.

Your potentially ex-customers,
-Geoff (and the two colleagues stranded with me)
Passengers on the ultra-delayed VA flight 462 and stranded at IAD for 8 hours and counting (on 7/22)

Weeds - Season 4 - Episode 6

Ok, first: congrats to Ms. Mary Louise Parker on her Emmy nomination. You are most definitely the most Outstanding Lead Actress In A Comedy Series! And woot! woot! for the entire show being in the Emmy's Top Ten Comedy Finalists.

Enough about all that. I had a few laughs during tonight's episode, but first I want to say: what was with the repeated use of the dreamy-I'm-awestruck-in-love effects they used twice?? (once w/ Silas and Rad's mom; second time w/ Doug and MirMex) It was weird, disjointed, and just not on par with what you'd normally expect. Did the editor take a day off?

Now for the fun:

LOL moment #1 - Shane the stooge "$130. Keep it up."
LOL moment #2 - Cell phone pic of Maria MirMex

Lastly...
Who is this lady that's trying to move in on Silas?! The Wacky Wack poster is MINE!!

If that wasn't enough to make your blood boil, look what you can expect in next week's episode:




P.S. Isabelle got so skinny!

My friend Miles lives in Angola

Pop quiz: without doing a Google Maps search, could you point to Angola on a map?

My buddy Miles can. His company shipped him off to Angola to save the world or something like that. ;-)

Here's what his first day was like (read more about it on his blog, Machimbombo Madness -- where "machimbombo means 'bus'"):

"In my list of first impressions I'm tempted to look for similarities with Brazil, but it's honestly more as if some distant planet had tapped into Brazilian TV and became addicted to their soap operas, food, and culture, but somehow just couldn't get the portuguese accent quite right. ... The people everywhere with whatever they have to sell on their head, in their arms, tied to their back and walking through traffic... The constant hum of construction and deadlocked traffic... That's what this place is like. It is total chaos here, and for the short amount of time I've been here, I like it."

Weeds - Season 4 - Episode 5

Amazing. I swear that everytime I watch this show I don't think it's possible for it to get any better; every time I'm wrong.

This is the first episode in a long time where I can remember laughing out loud as much as I did.

(Favorite scene - "Nancy saying grace" around the dinner table.)
(Favorite hair - Silas Botwin w/ lab goggles.)
(Favorite pistol whip - ...enough said.)

If you don't yet watch this show, you should start. If you do. How much do you love this sh*t?!

Manhole covers are different in every city

Case in point.

(Who's' water do you think tastes better?)