Things I Have To Stop Doing

Man, I have got to stop listening to the radio. It’s depressing. Living where I do in Sunny Southern Utah does have its advantages, I’ll admit. High culture is not one of them. Here’s the choices we have on FM Radio; Oldies Rock, Light Pop, and Country, with playlists that change about once a decade. (And yes, I know all about satellite radio, but I don’t get that in my car.) But really, I thought if I had to listen to one more rendition of the Kinks singing Lola (el-oh-ah-lay lowww-lah) I’d drive the car off a cliff. A few months ago I switched to the AM dial to see what was on. I found Oldies Rock, Light Pop and Country with an interesting addition, talk radio. We get all the top names here: Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Dr. Laura, Michael Savage, and a couple of local guys. I’ve come to the conclusion that no matter what they say, there’s really only two messages there, and they are:

1.) Libruls are (choose your adjective: bad, stupid, selfish, unpatriotic, traitors.)
2.) George W. Bush and the Conservatives are (choose your adjective: good, smart, giving, patriotic, loyal.)

It’s depressing. I guess it’s time to dig out my old Joni Mitchell tapes.

Here’s another thing I have to stop doing, playing Marbles. It’s a very addicitive game and despite the fact that it’s a java applet which makes it slow to load and its kinda crashy after thirty or more games I have really been enjoying it. I can take a stress break from work to get in a couple of quick games. I can even have another browser window open in the background in case someone walks into my office while I’m playing. But a very strange thing has been happening to me lately while I’ve been playing. For some reason I’ve been channeling Pauly Shore’s voice in my head. I’ve only seen once Pauly Shore movie in my entire life and that wasn’t my fault. It wasn’t! It just happened to come on when one of my kids was over visiting and it ran in the background while I was busy with my domestic duties. I wasn’t even watching it, ferchristsake. Can you imagine how annoying this must be?

“Oohhh,” the Pauly Shore voice says. “Lo-ook at all the pretty pur-pu-lie marrr-buls. Line them up for seventy-two marr-velous marr-bell-ie points.” If Chris Seibold doesn’t post another really cool game pretty soon, I may go mad. Mad I tell you! And it’ll be his fault.

Stay tuned.

CKS/BL tridiot rating: 117.84