Hello true believers! I'm back after a brief blogging layoff and ready to aim my crosshairs at the music world once again: I am so sick of these songs with amateurish lyrics. I cite the Puddle of Mudd (two Ds, cause that is so much cooler) song "She Hates Me" where the words are "Met a girl/thought she was grand." Now seriously, when was the last time you met someone and called them 'grand'? Not since 200 years ago. Are these guys living in Victorian England? "Jolly ho, that delightful lady is so grand!" Puh-lease.

And how about the new JLo song "Jenny From the Block." Lyrics are: "I used to have a little, now I have a lot/I'm still Jenny from the block." Are both these songs dealing with the most childish rhymes or what? It sounds like Dr. Seuss or something. Or the Missy Elliott song "Work It" (previously proclaimed the dumbest rap song of the year by me), which says "Love the way my ass bump bump bump bump bump bump/keep your eyes on my bump bump bump bump bump/and think you can handle this ga-dunk ga-dunk dunk" (yes, those are the actual lyrics, I looked them up especially for you the reader). Now I like non-sensical lyrics as much as the next guy but wow that's extraorinarily stupid. It gets worse too: "Why you act dumb like ughhh, duh/so you act dumb like ughhh, duh/and the drummer boy go pa rum pum pum pum/give ya some some some of this in a bun." What?! If all rap is is ryming words that aren't even words but just sound alike, that's not very skillful at all.

*note* I don't listen to this music, I just hear it in passing and prefer to rip on it like the jaded listener that I am.

In the realm of disturbing things:

Eegads!

80s flashbacks abound!

Now that's surreal.

I can't get my stupid title to work still; this is very irritating.

While reading the classifieds today, under General Merchandise was this ad:

OWN A PIECE OF IRAQ BEFORE BOMBING! 2 OUNCES. ASKING $200.

Now, can I ask exactly what a piece if Iraq is? It's an entire country, so what piece of it are we talking about? It's not like the Berlin Wall where you could actually take a physical specimen of it. Is it a portion of the land this person is selling? A building? A person? What is it??? Is this guy expecting a nuclear holocaust so that the country of Iraq is wiped off the face of the earth? Because it'll probably still be around even after being racked by bombing so you could technically still get a "piece of Iraq." (It'll be in pieces anyway) And who would pay $200 for it? I have half a mind to call this person up and ask but I probably won't because I don't like talking to strange people on the phone.

Upon eating some Tostitos brand chips I noticed an advertisement on the bag for the "Tostitos Fiesta Bowl." Why does EVERYTHING have to have a sponsor these days, I ask? All the college Bowl games have them, nearly every arena or stadium has them and many TV shows are "Brought to you by..." I think it's a sad world when you have to say that you're going to the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl, not just the Fiesta Bowl. Sure, it costs a lot to build a stadium these days and maybe the extra income from selling the naming rights comes in handy, but doesn't it lose all the flavor? Imagine how it would be if Wrigley Field was called Burger King Field. It would be LAME that's what it would be.