The Connor Chronicles Volume L

Normally when I get back from LA I try to get a Chronicles out within 24 hours. It’s kind of like a therapy, a cleansing of the mind if you will.
Ok, let’s face it, it’s flipping stress relief!

However, this time I’ve been back 6 days already. However, in the world of LA, this would be considered right on time.

You want March Madness? I’ll give you March Madness….I’ll introduce you to the people of Sony Pictures. No matter what happens in the NCAA’s over the next few weeks it can not compare.

You tell me whats more mad…a grown man who say’s flipping or a number 15 seed beating a #2?

Come on, whats more mad….hitting four 3’s in the last minute to overcome an
8 point deficit or ordering desert wine to take home on someone elses expense account? I wish I were making this up!

Ok, you want the topper…you want the big one? Here ya go. Whats more mad?
Three teams from the ACC in the final 4 or the below scenario.

The folks at Sony Pictures insist that their product, and by product I mean production film of movies not released, scripts about to go to production, full digital copies of movies set for release, they insist that this stuff live on a network that can be accessed without any security. No ID & No password required.

Get on the wire & have at it! It’s yours go nuts baby. Hello, Sony Pictures I’d like you to meet your sister, Sony Music. You know the one who has been decimated by piracy. At least Music required at least one person to purchase an album before it ended up on the net…..these guys are saying come & take it!

True story, Minority Report was delayed by a year because the script was stolen & Spielberg had to rework it. It was all over the net.

Here is the irony though. I can walk on the Sony lot and get access to anything. However, to get into the building where the computer guys work (and nothing else is stored there), I need one access card to get into the parking lot, another to get me into the elevator and have to slide the second one again to get into the room.

These idiots wont protect their entire product, but god forbid you try to get near their pocket protectors!

Flipping idiots!

Sony Japan announces that they will cut over 20,000 jobs across all Sony companies by 2006. Sony Pictures takes this to mean….”We have money left in this years budget…instead of off setting off losses, let’s by everyone new flat screens, computers, cell phones & blueberrys”

Yeah, that’s a good idea, not that they use any of these things.

By the way, the flight out there started off with a bang. I actually had business class. Sitting next to me a women who has a thicker mustache than Magnum PI. Within 30 seconds she spills her orange juice on me. Barely apologizes. It was amazing.

This of course was topped on the flight home by the fact that the 2 seats next to me were occupied by 4 people. 2 adults and their 2 toddlers. This was a barrel of laughs. By the way, how do I get Coca Cola off of leather?
Of course this was the last row of the plane…..last row means last to be served a drink……where the flip is my Amstel!

Arghhhhhh

Let’s talk about Isbelia. She is one of the 3,000 Sony Pictures IT people.
Yet they get nothing done…someone please explain that to me?

Well, Isbelia has a nice enough body, but she is clearly the daughter of seabiscuit. Long face, teeth bigger than business cards….again, it sucks being perfect…..and the thick Spanish accent. Of course she thinks she is the greatest thing to men since bachelor parties.

My boss & I met 2 other (one was semi-normal) people from Pictures for drinks at the Marina on Monday night. Beautiful night, enjoying it, beer is cold. Then Isbelia & Alan (more on that in a minute) join us. After 20 minutes I wanted to drown in the Marina.

Thick Spanish accent & everything SUCKS. This DRINK SUCKS. THIS FOOD SUCKS…THIS PLACE SUCKS. Come on, put on your best Spanish accent and say it!

Of course Alan (by the way Alan, the 70’s called & they want their hair back..are you in a Bee Gee’s cover band?….guys like him make me happy I’m
bald) just left his wife and kids to be with Isbelia. He also has a brand new Porsche that he doesn’t know how to drive. Um, can you say mid-life crisis?

Lovely time at the Hotel. Didn’t get a king size bed, AC didn’t work…it was
94 degrees on Monday (leather jacket & 94 degrees I must have smelled like roses)…..and they didn’t give me a key to the mini-bar. Word is SCA after reviewing my last expense account requested I not get a key to the min-bar.

Ok, more on LA at a later date….other items to cover.

I’m sure I’ve shared in the past how we share the floor at Sony with the Mailroom. I’ve joked about these clowns going postal. Well it happened, yes the guy who held his grandmother hostage for 7 hours & fired off 100 rounds worked in the Sony Mailroom.
Lovely, just flipping lovely.

Tom’s second Happy Friday @ KC Moores is this Friday. Instead of showing up
3 hours late he will simply be skipping it all together this time. Not sure who is going.

Pat Hunt moves into the apartment upstairs next week. We are putting new carpeting down…..Yes, extra padding.

Can someone please tell me where I was for Mo Mc’s birthday? There were 2 bathrooms (both unisex), 1 toilet each. With about 200 people…..um do you think there were lines?

70’s music was huge at this place (Alan would have loved it) but everyone danced like Cedric the entertainer in that bud light commercial.

Tomorrow is the first day of the tournament & you know what that means. If you need anything from me, you better get me early in the day. With each passing game I will become more & more useless. By the end of the day I’m about as useful as Mike Haggerty at a family wedding…..oooooppppppsssss, never mind!

Ok, some very important announcements.

Don’t forget on March 27th we have the fund raiser for a new gym floor. I hope to see you all there. There are 2 NCAA games that night and we will have a big screen to watch them on (we will be raffling off the TV as well) and the price for beer will be right & benefiting a good cause. Music of course as well.

In addition I have some $100 ½ & ½ tickets available. Let me know if you are interested.

Also, before I go please see below for an important message from Mary Ashton.

Hope you all had a Happy St. Patricks Day.

Happy St. Patricks Day Big Irish.

As always, until next time, stay safe.

Later,
Dan

From Mary Ashton

Hi everybody, hope everyone is doing well. I just wanted to tell you all that the 2nd annual Tommy Ashton 3-on-3 basketball tournament is coming.
It's on Saturday, May 8th.

If anyone wants to play, it's a great day. All the proceeds go to the St.Sebastian Parish Center. You can have up to 5 people on your team, and it is $125 to enter. If you do want to get a team together let me know where I can send a form to (if you haven't already received one).

I am in charge of gathering the staff/volunteers for that day, so if you do not want to play, but want to be part of it, let me know that too. We need people to do things such as sell food/refreshments, sell raffle tickets, sit
at the door for player registration, etc. Since it is a very long day, we
will be doing shifts this year (maybe 2-3 hour time spans).

Pass the word on to anyone you may know of that may want to play or help out that day. And of course, there will be a party to follow at one of our local Woodside bars.

Hope everyone is doing great, and hope to hear from you soon.

Mary

"My karma tells me, You've been screwed again! If you let them do it to ya, you've got yourself to blame! It's you who feels the pain! It's you who takes the shame!"