Bleacher Report: 2014 Winter Olympics: 5 Strangest Stories from Previous Games

Good evening. I decided to bless the kind folks at Bleacher Report with some of my smooth words. Check it out, click the link below.

2014 Winter Olympics: 5 Strangest Stories from Previous Games

Trade Report: Superior Spider-Man Vol. 1

The trade I read this week was:

The Superior Spider-Man Vol. 1:  My Own Worst Enemy

Writer:  Dan Slott
Artists:  Ryan Stegman and Giuseppe Camuncoli

This version of Spider-Man has an interesting twist. it's Peter Parker's body, with Otto Octavius's (Doctor Octopus) consciousness running the show.

January Misses

Man, am I glad to be officially done with January! Mother Nature was COLD BLOODED during the first month of the year. Your furnace wasn't the only thing pumping out heat last month (you see what I did there?). There was noise being made by veterans and rookies. Let's see what you might have missed. You're welcome.

A.D.D. Report: Konichiwa, Stern-sie

We are about to witness the departure of NBA commissioner David Stern and I, for one, am glad. All these analysts have been very kind in their words about him, but I will not.

I've seen him introduce different basketballs for really no good reason. I've seen him eliminate the wear or compression tights (and let's be real, it was only because the NBA wasn't making money off of it seeing as they didn't make them). I saw him add an age limit provision to entering the NBA. It stated you couldn't declare for the NBA draft straight out of high school. The timing didn't make sense because it came after Amare Stoudamire and Lebron James won back to back Rookie Of The Year awards, who were both straight out of high school .And at the time, some of their best players were straight out of high school (i.e. Kobe Bryant, Kevin Garnett and Tracy McGrady). He also introduced these non-flattering sleeved jerseys. He also nixed the Chris Paul trade to the Lakers. To add insult to injury, he then approved a Chris Paul trade to the Clippers, with whom the Lakers share the same arena. Stern good riddance, no Green Day.

Black is the New Orange: 10 Ways Working In a Restaurant Is Like a Jail Sentence

Welcome back to the blog formally known as Conscious Residue (TBKACR for all you hip cats). If you've seen one episode of MSNBC's Locked Up, you've seen them all. Each prison has the same cast of characters and cliques. It's a bunch of individuals confined to a large secure building, forced into a "family" with people who, under normal circumstances, they would probably never intermingle with. Most prisons force their prisoners to wear identical uniforms. Every inmate has an idea of how long they should be there, but not actually sure what their actual release date is. Blah, blah, blah...I could go on, but then this would just turn into a post about a shitty repetitive reality TV series.

My point? I worked a shift at my second job (a restaurant) last night. As I looked into the security camera and buzzed in for entrance into the back door, walked past the vatos in the kitchen, into a sea of people wearing similar variations of the same color outfit as me discussing the time they were scheduled to leave compared to the time they thought they would actually leave, I thought "holy Shawshank, Batman, this is a f*cking prison!" I started to feel less like I had just entered the back of the house of a dining room, and more like I entered Em City from HBO's Oz.

At first I thought this was merely exaggeration born through the fact that I was giving up prime Saturday relaxation time, I mean I do have the option of leaving at my own will, I'm not stuck here. The more I thought about it, the more correlations I found between prison and my hospitality based work place, with the people and attitudes within the environment. Here are the 10 most prevalent.

WacGyver: Episode 2-The Golden Triangle

Episode 2 is FINALLY here!  Listen, enjoy, and have some fun!

Unfortunately, episode 1 is down for now, but we are working on getting that back soon.

Click the link, and start the show.

WacGyver: Episode 2 - The Golden Triangle

Trade Review: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012) Vol. 1

The trade I finished this week was:

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles vol. 1:  Change is Constant

Story by: Kevin Eastman and Tom Waltz
Script by: Tom Waltz
Layouts by:  Kevin Eastman
Art by:  Dan Duncan
Published by: IDW

So, what's up with these new Turtles?

I had heard a lot about this new TMNT (the cool kids use initials) book.  Mainly that it was a hot title, with single issues and reprints selling out everywhere.

My kids are currently going through their TMNT phase, so I picked up this update last April at C2E2 (Chicago Comics and Entertainment Expo.  2 C's, 2 E's).  I finally got around to reading it this week.