Old Fool

October 31, 2007
Listening: Black Crowes, “Thorn In My Pride”
One of my alltime favorites. Great, great song. Sure, a Zeppelin rip off, but there was something about the feel of this song, the serpentine pseudo religiousness, that just got to me. Wonderful track.

Andy Rooney is a doddering old coot.

My IPod speakers just shuffled off this mortal coil, so its time to get some new ones. Oh well. I have one working one, so I can listen to podcasts pretty well, but music comes through pretty crappily. Not the end of the world.

The Boston Red Sox, the only baseball team that matters (to me), won the World Series by sweeping an outmanned and outgunned Colorado Rockies team, 4 games to none. Yoo fucking hoo. You would think, given my harping upon the Red Sox here, I would be over the moon with joy. I’m really not, though. No one extra will be fed or clothed with the Red Sox as world champions.

I liked this team, though- Dusty and Ellsbury and the Dice Man. Papelbon and Okajima. The Big Schill. Becks. Papi and the Bad Man. Big Mike Lowell. Youk. Lugo and Coco. Even the Talented Mr. Drew. A fun team to root for. I’m happy, but not over the moon.

I’m back working after two weeks of vacation, in case you couldn’t tell. Is my cynicism showing?
It’s just been work-sleep-work-sleep since Monday, which is why I haven’t been posting. As if anyone on Earth reads this besides me.

Sigh.

Democratic debate last night. I didn’t watch it. Apparently, most everyone went after Clinton, which is the obvious thing to do, since she leads everywhere this side of Mars. I’m still an Edwards supporter, in general. I like Kucinich, too, but he hasn’t a snowball’s chance in a blast furnace. Neither does Edwards, either, really. I will vote for Edwards in the primary, and then Hillary, assuming she wins the nomination. Whatever Hillary’s flaws, she is still yards better than every single Republican candidate. The only one who doesn’t make me throw up in my mouth is Huckabee, who I could live with except for the fact that he actually doesn’t believe in evolution, if you can believe that. That’s kind of like not believing in the sun.

Romney is just too weird and psychotic, Giuliani is just plain psychotic, and John McCain drank the Kool Aid.

I don’t have a problem with Obama, necessarily. I just think there are a large number of Americans who will never, ever vote for him-too many for him to win. But if he’s the nominee, I’ll certainly vote for him. He’s way, way better than every single Republican, bar none.

Happy Halloween. Feh.

What a stupid holiday. I don’t have any holiday spirit, or warm, good feelings, or anything, for
this holiday at all. Or any holiday, really.

Just another sociopath, blogging for no one to hear.

“Banana Phone” rules, though. What a great song. I love “Banana Phone”.

Story on Marketplace about a wannabe singer named “DaVito” who wants Starbucks to sell his CD reminds me of the Hedberg joke about leaving his CD in stores. “ ‘You left this behind, sir.’ ‘No, I did not. That is for sale. Please alphabetize it.’”