January 4, 2010

Happy New Year!  Glad you’re still with us.  Last week, I posted nothing but pleasantries.  Now back to the stuff that gets under my skin.  Here now…

Even More things I’d be happier without…

• Bands that find their singers on youtube.

• People who are either too stupid or too lazy to completely remove ALL the snow and ice from their car before they hit the road.  They are obstructing their view, and anyone driving behind them has to contend with blowing snow and chunks of ice.

• When media outlets hang “gate” onto other words to denote scandal.  Iran/Contra- gate, Monica-gate, Tiger-gate, Holy-crap-the-VP-just-shot-an-old-man-in-the face-gate.  Look, Watergate was called that because of a break in at the Watergate Hotel.  If the scandal of the week didn’t happen there, drop the suffix.  It’s just lazy writing and lazy thinking. 

• The fact that there still isn’t an “Arrested Development” movie.

• People who can’t like complete a like sentence without like you know like using the word like like 20 times. Like-like-like-like. 

• When my girlfriend reads this blog, then gives me the stink-eye because of that crack about helping her pick shoes by holding them behind her ears.

• Supertramp.  Except for School—I still like that song.

• The women in line in front of me at the grocery store who got into an argument with the cashier over an expired 25-cent coupon.  If I had any change in my pocket at the time, I would have just given her a damn quarter, just to keep things moving.

• Anyone who likens a political opponent to Hitler.  As Bill Maher pointed out, the only person that should be compared to Hitler is Charlie Chaplin, but that’s really more of a facial hair thing.