An Incomplete and Annotated List of Things That Annoy Me
1. Fortune cookies containing not fortunes but aphorisms. I demand to know I will one day crush my enemies.
2. Mass emails irrelevant to me beginning with the disclaimer "Hey everyone! Sorry for the mass email..." If you don't do it, you won't have to feel "sorry".
3. DVDs encoded in such a way that the volume for the title screen is ten times louder than the volume of the actual show/movie.
4. Corn chips too wide for the f______ jar of salsa. Not sure why I'm more upset at the chip than the jar, but I am.
5. Locals who get irked at tourists for not knowing their way around a particular place. I'm patient with tourists in Times Square, I expect the same thing when I go abroad, thank you very much.
6 (new!). "Holodeck malfunction" episodes of Star Trek.
7. Spelling one's name "Thom" instead of "Tom" or "Robb" instead of "Rob". Yes, this includes Thom Yorke.
7a. Extraneous final Es. "Olde", "Shoppe", like that. Last names are exempt, but only because changing is a hassle. In other words, I only condemn Thom Yorke for "Thom", not "Yorke".
8. Those f______ Charmin™ ass-bears.
8a. "Cute" corporate mascots in general. Is it any wonder our society breeds serial killers?
9. The letters "c" and "q", which really have no right or reason to exist.
10. Capitalized prepositions and articles in titles (arrgh!). Also: over-zealous use of commas/apostrophes.
11. Fascism (aside from the uniforms).
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July 7th, 2011 - 14:16
YESSIR on #6. Incidentally “Marc” is short for Marcus. I hate when people use pretentious spelling of their names, but I love coming UP with pretentious spellings, to laugh at. “Marque”. “Ahrvidde” (that last one is kind of weak but I guess that’s the point).
I’m also a little prickly about people using first or middle initials (Brian K Vaughan), but not as much as I once was. I can see it, when a person has a relatively common name and doesn’t want to be confused with someone else. For example, there is a monster named “Marc Bryant” (Google it) who seriously has me considering the “Marque” spelling. J Marc Bryant just doesn’t have much ring to it.
July 7th, 2011 - 15:49
Oh my dear Lord that is such a good one, about including middle initials/names in one’s credits. It’s so Victorian and pretentious! Then again, I am Arvidde, I don’t have to worry about people confusing me with someone else…
July 7th, 2011 - 18:03
Just found out the News of the World woman spells her first name “Rebekah”. Atrocious.
July 8th, 2011 - 10:06
I don’t know who that is. I have a couple of “Rebeccas” whose birth certificates read “Rebeckah” though.
Another name peeve/peeve in general. Fans who refer to characters by the first name of their secret identities.
It’s not Captain America. It’s “Steve”.
It’s not Batman. It’s “Bruce.”
It goes beyond peeve, it creeps me out.
Full names to differentiate different incarnations of characters “Steve Rogers”, “Bruce Wayne” I can live with, but I can’t brook any further familiarity.
Shudder.
July 8th, 2011 - 22:14
If I met someone who spelled their name “Rebeckah”, I’d be tempted to pronounce the last syllable as if I were hocking a loogie.
Soooo creepy, about being on a “first name basis” with one’ favorite super hero! You know what *doesn’t* annoy me, Mark?
You!
July 10th, 2011 - 08:13
Regarding #1:
…in bed?
July 11th, 2011 - 18:35
Awwwww!
The irony of you misspelling my name in this conversation is the highlight of my week.
July 11th, 2011 - 18:39
Doh!
July 11th, 2011 - 18:42
Matt: Kung-fu Lincoln!
July 13th, 2011 - 21:31
My big pet peeve lately is misuse of myself (and occasionally yourself). It is like a disease.
From an email the CEO sent to all customers of the photo site I use: “The entire Phanfare team is joining Carbonite including myself.”
Nearly every day I hear some colleague say something along the lines of “Myself and Jim will work on this…”
With you on #10, too. If something is addressed to my family, we aren’t the Sweetser’s…
To add to #3 – How about DVDs that don’t let you skip the previews to go along with this?
With #4 – I usually dump the salsa in a bowl. Can’t say this one really bothers me. I do hate the designs on pasta sauce and peanut butter jars, though, because they always have that bump below the mouth of the jar where the contents get trapped and are damn near impossible to get out without just sticking your finger in to scoop out.
July 14th, 2011 - 00:32
Prego is the worst! I hate those bas-relief tomatoes underneath the rim! Die, Prego!