Eh, It's Something to Do

So I'm on break now, and I feel like there should be a lot of pressing issues that I feel the need to tell you all my opinions on, but oddly enough... I got nothin'.

Nothing that would fill a typically-too-long edition of this blog, anyway. So I decided that I'm just gonna toss in some random thoughts about things that are on the usually-occupied mind of an academic like myself when it suddenly becomes unoccupied by a semester break. Hey, it works for Larry King...

As I missed the final season of "The Sopranos", I'm loving the fact that A&E is showing these episodes now on Sunday nights and reruns on Sunday mornings. Yeah, it's edited but I can get past all the "forget yous" that should have a different f-word in there, so I'm pretty happy about that. However, during these episodes, they run tourism ads for California. One of them was kinda cute, saying that the life is soooo hard out there and it's all these celebrities on the golf course or in the hot tub. The other one almost made me physically ill. I honestly don't remember anything about it, other than the fact that it ends with The Governator and his wife at an outdoor cafe table, and Schwarzenegger laughs and says, "You'll be back..." Enough. We get it. You were the Terminator. Quit being a caricature of yourself...

Reading the NY Daily News today... there's a nice story about how economic times are so tough right now that a family making $135,000 a year can't make ends meet because they have 7 kids and, well, NYC is an expensive place to live. While I certainly feel bad for the plight of this family, I wonder if they know how much tougher it will get for them if Obama becomes president and their taxes go up because their $135,000 income makes them "rich" in the eyes of Democrats...

Aaron Heilman sucks. I'm just sayin'...

Speaking of baseball pariahs... the MLB Players Association is actually considering accusing baseball owners of collusion because nobody will sign Barry Bonds. They DO know he's been indicted, right? Who wants to sign a guy who will get booed everywhere he plays (including at home) for half a season before he has to go to court and (hopefully) from there straight to federal "pound-me-in-the-ass" prison? At a time when most baseball fans believe that the union is tainted with their "look the other way" policy regarding steroids, why would the union suddenly stick up for the poster boy for steroids like this? This just PROVES that they don't care. Obviously the union's next move will be to sue the Giants for ridding AT&T Park of any sign that Bonds ever played there. And them I'm sure the NFL players union will sue for collusion if nobody signs Michael Vick upon his release from prison...

The Raconteurs have a new album out. Haven't heard any of it aside from the lead single yet, but I take it on faith that Jack White is a friggin' genius so this will soon be in my expansive CD collection...

Saw a couple trailers for "The Dark Knight" last night... this is gonna be GOOD...

Stephen King was giving a speech at the Library of Congress last week and he said that if you can't read, "then you’ve got, the Army, Iraq, I don’t know, something like that.” Am I offended by this remark? Yeah a little bit, considering my brother-in-law is both in the Army and most certainly LITERATE. But am I gonna flip out and tell you all to boycott buying or reading Stephen King books? Nah. To each his own; if a remark like that pisses you off to the extent that you wouldn't buy one of his books, that's cool, but we have more pressing problems in this world. And besides, I've never read any of his books and I'm not really interested in doing so in the future, regardless of what he says about our troops...

And lastly, went to the new Quaker Steak and Lube tonight for dinner. It's a little bit out of the way (past the mythical hamlet of "Lakeland"), but it was well-recommended by a classmate of mine, and it lived up to its billing. They make their own lemonade (or Lube-a-nade), and although it doesn't have the "Kiwi/Crack" flavor that Charley's has, it was damn good. Now I'm not usually a wing guy, but I had their honey mustard (boneless wings, makes them so much better... thank you, "Mr. Boneless Buffalo Wing Inventor") and they were amazing. And that's about as far as I'll go with chicken wings as far as hotness. Even a timid amount of heat bothers me, so you're never gonna see me asking for the Atomic wings that you have to sign a release form to eat because they are ridiculously hot. All in all, nice place... I highly recommend it.

And that's all for this time around. Maybe soon enough I will have one solid topic to rant about...