Come Again Another Day

Is there some sort of rule that states it must rain the hardest during my lunch hour, especially on days I don't bring my lunch to work?

In related news, there was a Tornado warning for Orange County this Tuesday. That's because God is punishing the the conservative evangelicals for spreading their evil. What? If Pat Robertson gets to do it, I don't see why some rant blogger should exercise greater restraint.

Holiday Cheer

Yesterday was the Sunday before Thanksgiving, and as I drove the family home from dinner, my brother cycled through radio stations looking for music. Our local "soft rock"/adult contemporary station has begun playing Christmas music. Exclusively.

Out of Fashion For 300 Years

I cannot wait for the fashion trend of men wearing undersized/tight/women's jeans to be over. There are many reasons for this:

1. I don't need to see your underwear.
2. Or your buttcrack.
3. It adds shape to your hips, which is feminizing.
4. There's no room for your junk, so you either look like a girl or or you look like a girl with boy parts.
5. Only the person(s) you're bumping uglies with needs to know if you manscape. Or wants to know.
   

I thought sagging was a dumb trend (let's all pretend we're wearing diapers), but this particular trend is outright offensive.

On "Fantasy"

This is exactly how I feel about the Harry Potter series. Don't even get me started on the glut of vampire bs on TV right now, and may Twilight and its fans die a horrible fiery death. At least J.K. Rowling isn't a terrible writer whom I might have criticized in the 6th grade.

This trend is like taking the game of golf, adding grooves upon which the balls are meant to travel (all downhill, of course), and calling it golfu. Then, we expose a fan of the actual game of golf to constant golfu advertising and gossip sites and tween girls constantly giggling about the latest golfu star. Just, no. All involved should be shot.

I'll Admit to Dropping Him as a Baby

Brother:   My toes are cold.
Me:         So wear socks.
Brother:   I want toe warmers.
Me:         They're called socks.

Can you believe the law considers this one an adult?

Fair and Balanced

Most mainstream news media producers feel the need to present both sides of an issue, no matter how ridiculous one side is. This can lead to a shifting of perception of moderate towards the radical argument, because by attempting to maintain the appearance of impartiality, the mere presentation of an argument can legitimize that argument.

The primary function of news media is to generate advertising dollars, but the naïveté of the public cannot be overestimated (I present to you as proof the existence of the Birther movement in the United States), and it irritates me to have extremist viewpoints aired by mainstream news media for the obsolete purpose of appearing impartial. Or perhaps for the purpose of airing ridiculous viewpoints as entertainment.

News can be reported to me in a "boring" fashion. Perhaps it's simply the result of my formative education centering on science, but context, sources, and sometimes even reasoned conjecture are the types of additives I prefer with my news. If the news must be entertaining, the producers should hire writers to throw in some dry humor, and maybe I'll even watch the commercials.

Hey baby.

Hi there! I'll use a (very slightly) different color and font to distinguish my posts from Super Z's. I chose purple because it was the least eye-straining result of my random mouse flailing. I chose the font "Georgia" because I loved listening to Laura Harris say "jyor-jyah" over and over in Dead Like Me. I could watch her talk for hours.

It just hit me how culturally prescient Beavis & Butthead were. While watching some old clips (over a decade old!), I found it eerie how well their "yeas and nays" have carried forward to align with the music that is and isn't popular today (at least in terms of LA-area KROQ rotation). Consider:

• Love of Nirvana, RHCP, Metallica, Tool, the Beasties, and most of the other 90's era rock that's still hugely successful today.
• Disdain for the late 80's/early 90's mascara and hairspray rock (see: Poison) that... er, hasn't aged well.
• Their discerning taste wasn't limited to rock, either - they were down with Snoop Dogg and even with Lady Miss Kier shakin' it (Groove is in the Heart - really!)
• Another revelation that blew me away was that they loved themselves some Radiohead - not just the crunchy Creep, but even Fake Plastic Trees. (Yes, Beavis and Butthead were into Radiohead two albums before 90% of their massive current fanbase had even heard of them.)
• They knew instantly just how bad Vanilla Ice was. (C'mon, some of us - er, you - had To The Extreme on cassette tape. Admit it!)
  

I leave to you the task of analyzing precisely why Beavis & Butthead's musical taste has proven itself so canny and enduring in the long run. (In my head, it was kind of a chicken or the egg argument, except exponentially more horrifying.)