List Time;

Here's a list of things I've observed over the last few weeks that occurred to me might be blog topics. Most of them don't really have enough substance to actually fill a whole day's blog so I decided to pile them all together into one long list of things that I've noticed.

Bumper Stickers, OK, the election is over. If you drive a Ford Expedition or Lincoln Navigator we all know that you support W. If you drive a 1988 Toyota or VW, then we all know you voted for Kerry. No need to be redundant, especially since the NEXT election is right around the corner.

Bicycle Helmets; Yes, you look oh so euro-suave making the two mile bike commute in your $180. Lance-in-Paris replica helmet (or whatever helmet you happen to wear). I applaud your social responsibility in not splattering your grey matter all over the streets where the rest of us drive. Helmets are good --on a bike. So when you get to the coffee shop or the office or the grocery store or wherever you're going, take the damn thing off. Here's a tip: wearing your helmet anywhere but on your bike you look like the kid who rode the short bus to school and liked to head-butt the lockers. Everyone will still be able to tell that you ride your bike, your pants are rolled up and you smell a little funky.

i-pods are not destroying our youth. I had the ipod back when I was in school 20 years ago, we just called it a walkman.

If you were an art history major and now you're working at a coffee shop three years after graduation, it isn't my fault --a little less attitude with my double espresso would be nice.

If you work in an organic grocery store you are not morally superior to everyone else. I guarantee that (insert color here) hair dye you use was animal tested and it took two cattle and a whole family of kids in a sweat shop somewhere to make those jack boots you wear. Give it a rest Gandhi.

This probably isn't real big outside of university towns but here's a suggestion to an observation I've made: I think it's great that you have a lot of opinions about the war and everything but f you aren't a vet and haven't been to the gulf don't go around telling people how the soldiers feel about things over there. I'm a vet but I'm keeping my mouth shut since I haven't been there.

Patchouli smells worse than BO. Go ahead and stink but don't try to cover it up with that shit. I feel like I'm at a Dead show.

Drum circles. Why?

I understand the mechanisms of supply and demand about as well as anyone, but if you're an oil company and you raised the price I pay for gas and oil, supposedly because the availability of crude oil is curtailed by a storm or a war or a cranky middle eastern country, I want you to explain to me why the fuck your revenues went up 350%!

And with that happy little thought I think I’ll say good night.