October 2006 Archives

• Shout wipes are the best, because I am a foodtard, who can't seem (still) to be able to throw food into my gaping maw with efficiency or accuracy.
• Burritos. Mmm.
• I've noticed that college students these days NEED a healthy disrespect for authority. Baaaack in myyy day (insert gramma creak here), part of every class was deconstructing the authority of the author, his/her agenda, context, advisor/mentor/nationality history, etc. Now college classes (the ones I've had lately) are just...boring acquiescence. Feh. Somebody, please, throw a metaphorical tomato or something.
• Contemporary fiction/commentary, in that self-conscious Dave Eggers vein that uses lots of commas, like I do here, and creates a sense of camaraderie with the reader through sly references to under-the-radar pop consumer phenomena like Shout Wipes to set up these ironic self-aware meta-reflections, substituting feckless navelgazing for "content" - that's really getting on my nerves.
• Cingular sucks the big one.
• I am starting a new gaming craze called Sudon'tku, where the player looks at an empty grid, yawns, and decides whether to pick up their drycleaning today or tomorrow, and then takes a nap.

I know funny spam-quoting has been done to death, but I couldn't help but giggle at the gook in this spam I just got:

Air Conditioning has a lot to answer for. [...] My disclaimer: don't follow these instructions. Who on earth decided to invent this word?

I guess lately I've been of the opinion that Canada is too big. for god's sake there are just a few spoils in the fridges and some darkness. What can you see from up there in the dark I ask?

Mr. SpamBot brings up a good point about Canada. And how Canadians see in the dark. It's my opinion that they must be of hypervisual acuity in order to avoid the elk and Celine Dion and the fast-moving nocturnal glaciers.