Yankee Tag Blog

So, if you’re not previously familiar with my Mexicana horror story, let me catch you up: they lost my bags on October 2, 2007 and after telling me they found them five separate times, have yet to actually give them to me (now they’ve “unfound” them again). This is the most recent e-mail I’ve received from their customer disservice department:

Dear Nathan Kagey:

We finish the looking for your luggage, infortunattly we can not found it, then I need you will send me to my attention, for certificated mail the next documents:

1) Original Bag Tag

2) Original Tickets of your travel Sacramento - Phoenix - México - Cancún (included ticket of UA and MX)

3) Original Boarding Passes (included ticket of UA and MX).

4) Expenses Receipts of your articles included inside in your lost baggage.

When I will receipt this documents I can do an offer about your lost baggage.

I will hope your answer,

Jaime Suárez López

Yeah, I bet you will hope my answer. Now look, I’m a decent guy, I understand luggage gets lost. It happens. But after a month, I would expect a resolution. Now they want me to send my bag tag (which I showed them when they failed to return my bags, and then again when I filed my claim), my “Original Tickets of [my] travel Sacramento” (which is perfect since they were paperless tickets), my original boarding pass (I’d like to meet the person who saves his boarding stubs for a month…), and by far the best request: “Expenses Receipts of [my] articles included inside in [my] lost baggage. Are you kidding me? You think I saved the receipts of all of my belongings? I don’t know how they do things in Mexico, but here in the US of A we call receipts “garbage”. And we throw them away.

Oh, and by the way, I did hope my answer five days ago and no response yet…

Bastards.

Richard (from St. Ofle) is helping me make “Homophobia is Gay” shirts. They’ll be available for $18. Let me know if you want one. One day they might even be available from the Homophobia is Gay site.

I may have sourced some cop footage. Stay tuned for updates…

Now I need to track down some “radio squawk” sound effects.

So I’ve had this idea for a movie but have hit a brick wall in development. The plan is to make a short “cop movie” where a bunch of cops talk to each other on their radios. The thought is that all of these cops use their “cop lingo” like, “I have a 217 in my sights at the corner of 5th and Adams,” or, “I need a 57 as soon as possible,” or, “we have a 819 developing over here.” Then I’d put subtitles to the whole thing. The catch would be that the subtitles would be wildly inappropriate (what, you didn’t know that a ‘217′ is a ’sexy eight-year-old boy’?).

The problem is, I don’t know how to go about making this. I can’t picture any cops being really cooperative and I don’t want to rip off other people’s cop movie footage.

Any ideas? copmovie@yankeetag.com

I’m trying to come up with funny shirt ideas for a new website.

If you have any, send them to me at: shirts@yankeetag.com

If I like it, I’ll make it for you.

I saw this quote I liked on iGoogle this morning:

“A friend is someone who will help you move. A real friend is someone who will help you move a body.”

I’ve been listening to this interesting podcast for awhile that is put out by the FFRF.

Freethought Radio

It’s pretty interesting (and refreshing) to hear intelligent people skeptically discuss religion and politics.

I caved. I now have a blog and a website. I’ll try to update it as infrequently as possible.