Wow, that was a while ago. Strangely enough I still have that Snoods page bookmarked- actually, it's one in a series of under-appreciated bands (ok, just average local bands that I found on the internet). And what's left of D Plan. How does Travis Morrison go from the awesomeness of 'The City' and 'Back and Forth' to 'Snacktime?' I think the new group dynamic and the stability of having a career are appealing to his fun side more than, say, angsty feelings of post-college inadequacy. Either way, I'm streaming All Y'All as I write this.

Remember how I used to talk about computer games? Yeah, I can't do that any more. Why not? I succumbed to the low system requirements of CABAL...and lost a solid three weeks of my life. I liked the game to some extent, and the fact that it was so new that no one knew exactly which skills to use was bit of a rush, but it became "a solo grind-fest." (thank you, Tex.) I think the story should have been deeper, but I also think a zombie apocalypse would make my day, so...

The point is that I managed to devote all my spare time to the game, which, while then enjoyable, cut into my other important activities, like laughing at the news and criticizing marketing campaigns and applying Monetarism to KoL. I missed those, and when I popped out of the fog went and deleted the game. The immediate vacuum drove me into another game Utopia- but this one feeds me on a slow drip. Like morphine instead of OxyContin.


Why can't I embed a YouTube video? Why do I always end up bitching about Blogger's formatting and Travis Morrison? Why can't I remember that this thing exists when I'm online for the majority of my free time? Why is everyone I know a Democrat who wants to ascribe the last thousand years of history to the Neocons? It's an interesting concept but unless their damn good they'd have tipped their hand and run something or other too efficiently- if you're secretly running the world it makes sense to fail left and right, but to do it all the time makes you an amateur. Tiger Woods hits balls into the trees on occasion, sure, but the proof of his humanity is shown when he chips in accidentally.

I hope that makes sense to someone, because I lost my train of thought while rewriting it. Oops.

I set up a Twitter account. It's got a convenient system by which is causes me physical pain when I haven't updated lately; by 'physical pain' I mean 'phone vibrations' and by 'convenient system' I mean 'checkbox on the website which might or might not work.' It ought to work.

Um, obligatory obscure lyric post... Here:

I know how to run a business
And I can make you wanna buy a product
Movers, shakers, and producers
Me and my friends understand the future
I see the strings that control the systems
I can do anything with no assistance
Cause I can lead a nation with a microphone
With a microphone
With a microphone

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