Random Thoughts for February 16, 2010

Hey, haven’t done one of these in ages... so without further ado:

• Due to my overwhelming curiosity, I had a friend from “down under” send me some vegemite. I didn’t know what to expect. Well, I opened the package and discovered a tube of what looked and tasted like semi-solid, gritty snot. Apparently you’re supposed to eat it on buttered toast. No thank you.
  
• One of the ads rejected by CBS for the Super Bowl was for a men’s gay dating website. It featured two guys watching a game who simultaneously reached into the potato chip bowl, brushed hands, and then began making out. I saw it online. It was actually kind of funny, but it was severely low-budget.
  
• Speaking of ads, I didn’t see that Tim Tebow ad when it aired, and I refused to watch it this morning on the internet. Who decided that we need to have a political agenda rammed down our throats every possible minute? I half-expect the pepperoni on my next pizza will spell out GOP.
  
• Somebody told me that you had a boyfriend, who looked like a girlfriend I had in February of last year. It’s not confidential. I've got potential.
  
• I thoughtfully got myself some ice cream on Saturday and naturally put it in my freezer. Apparently the landlord had turned my fridge down to “less than 1” on the scale of 0 to 10, 10 being coldest. So when I went to have some ice cream, I discovered it was very soft. I didn’t want to waste it, so I ate the entire container. The end result is, I got a very nasty stomach ache. What a disappointment.
  
• You know what’s a cool word? Vomerine. It’s descriptive of those teeth found in primitive vertebrates that are not attached to the jaw, but descend through the palate. If that’s not a recipe for a nasty bitten tongue, nothing is.
  
• The song “Both Ends Burning” was written after a drunken, late-night Taco Bell run.
  
• It snowed today, which is why I’m thrilled to now live in an apartment. I brushed off my car, and by the time I got back to the window I started on, it was covered again. I hate winter.
  
• Another cool word is lozenge.
  
• I had to correct “red eye” in a couple of pictures the other day. It’s part of the job, but I felt a little like when Rudolph’s father put a lump of clay on his nose. I left a little red around the edges to symbolize their inner demons.
  
• Sometimes I wish I had one of those cool three word names, like James Fennimore Cooper or Andrew Lloyd Webber. I’ll probably need a cooler middle name than “Louis”. Maybe I should just try to get a nickname thrown in there, like Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. I’d be interested in hearing your ideas on the subject.

Well, that’s about all I’ve got for today. I’ll post more often, I promise.