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ridiculosity
01/29/2010 = 09:51 AM

Yes, still alive. Thanks for asking.

If we have anything left of our tax return after rent and bills and things, we might get a new computer.

If.

"Balls," said the Queen; "if I had 'em, I'd be King."

That was the British version. The Yiddish version says, "If my grandmother had balls, she'd be my grandfather."

"British" and "Yiddish" rhyme, but other than that, not much in common.

They don't even mean the same thing when they say, respectively, "Oi!" and "Oy!"

So I'm sure you've been wondering what other ridiculosity has been crossing my mind of late. I am here to oblige.

Why does Burger King insist upon making what appear to be deliberately lame television commercials? Do they want us not to go there?

Oh, you meant serious ridiculosity. Sorry. I'll come in again.

The other day, I had a cupcake (coffee-and-doughnut-flavor, from Retro Bakery on North Durango, if you care) that was so existentially good that I suddenly and completely understood what Jimmy Webb meant when he wrote the song MacArthur Park.

Unfortunately, I got crushed under the weight of all those adverbs, so I can't remember what I decided the meaning was.

I think I thought it might have been a metaphor for the creation of the universe, but I probably need another cupcake to be sure.

Anyway, no other news as such. Mostly, I am jonesing madly for Facebook and for everyone else's blogs.

I feel very isolated.

This, too, may be existential. Something to do with the human race and our need not to be alone, from stupid stuff like comedians who ask, "Did you ever notice ..." to see how much in common they have with their audiences, to the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.

Sorry. Feeling a little introspective because of JD Salinger dying.

Or maybe because of the sucky Burger King commercials.

Tags: philosophy

drinking: nothing
listening to: nothing
ipad: yeah, no