Do I Have a Life?
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I just read a note on a few of my friends' Facebook accounts. It's one of those memes where people copy the content from another friend's note, leave the questions, and replace the answers with their own.
This one was a list of 240 films, ranging from Disney cartoons to VERY R-rated comedies. There's nothing terribly off-the-beaten path there, just a bunch of different films someone came up with (the list is below).
Now, I generally speaking have no problem with people filling out these questionnaires. They're silly, fun things to do when you have time on your hands and/or work you don't want to do. I personally don't do them often, but that's not because I'm particularly against them.
I do have a problem with this one, though.
My New Nigerian Friend
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Susan is one of my Facebook friends from my hometown that I haven't seen or talked with for at least 15 years. I met her when I was in sixth grade, when we were both Munchkins in a high school production of Wizard of Oz. She's a couple of years younger than me, and as we grew older we ran in different circles, so weren't what you'd call close in high school, and we completely lost touch after that.
It's only through the almighty power of Facebook that we're at all connected today, and even at that we've had little chance to really catch up with each other and reminisce about being Munchkins and stuff.
That said, you can imagine my surprise when I got an instant message from her today:
Dave is Ha-Yooge in Australia
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Belgium is next!
This one will require some explaining.
In early 2009, a story floated around the internet about a young woman in Sydney, Australia who was desperately searching for a man she fell in love with during a brief encounter at a cafe. Seems she was trying to use the 'net to find him, and was hoping the fact that she had the jacket he left behind might lead him to her.
In Honorus Metsus
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They're in, so I must write
For the first time since 2000, my New York Mets are in the playoffs.
It's hard to believe it's been six years since they got knocked out in the first-ever Subway Series against the Yankees, but that's how time works nowadays.
I'm halfway ashamed to admit I didn't watch all of that series on TV. But my life was a pretty decent-size mess at the time, and any true excitement I had about watching the team was tempered by things unrelated to baseball that truly sucked. I was having troubles in every facet of my person, and it would take several years for me to right the ship, as it were.
SHUT UP DURING THE MOVIE
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I Am Spartacus!
Let me tell you a little story about my recent visit to my local multiplex.
I'm sitting there trying to enjoy the film I paid $9.50 to see, and I begin to notice someone talking several rows behind me.
I try to let it slide, hoping it was a passing moment caused by spilled soda or something. The talk continued, though, at full volume. It was past the point of no return. I turned around, hoping a swift dose of my Look Of Death would pound them into silence.
What I saw, though, numbed my tongue.
It was some young idiot.
ON HIS CELL PHONE.
