DOLLARS AND SENSE

Yesterday while buying some stamps from a stamp machine, I put in $10 and got $2.60 back in change. I got some quarters, a dime, and TWO SACAJAWEA DOLLAR COINS. What is the deal? I had no idea that coin was still in circulation! If you can't already tell, I hate that coin. Why did the US Mint feel as though we needed a coin to substitute for a dollar bill? And the thing is, NOBODY ever uses these coins. Nobody. My brother, who works in retail, told me he has never seen one spent. All those customers, and not one Sacajawea coin. Here's why: because it's not practical. When you buy something, you're not going to rummage through your pocket/change purse and pick out those coins, you're going to pull out your wallet/billfold/money clip and take the money from there. For example, if you buy something that's $15, are you going to take out $12 worth of bills and then dig around for your $1 coins? Or are you just going to take out a $20 bill and take back the $5 in change? Yeah, I thought so. And another reason why you don't see them very much is because when people get them, they keep them. I got rid of mine in a hurry today because I didn't want them, and the cashier was glad to be getting them, not because they're easy to take as currency, but because HE MAKES RINGS OUT OF THEM.

This bright idea must have come from a Mint employee who had recently visited Canada and thought their dollar coins were the cat's meow. And somebody else there must have visited Europe because the new colored US $20 bills look suspiciously similar to their currency. Hey, why stop there? Spain has holes in the center of many of their coins, can we get an order on some of those too?

THE 203rd BLOG POST BY MATT MACDONALD

I find it kinda lame that they're advertising Kill Bill as "The 4th film by Quentin Tarantino." Since when do they start advertising movies based upon the number of films a director has directed? They don't say "Gangs of New York: The 22nd film by Martin Scorsese" do they? It just makes you think, "Gee, Tarantino first directed a movie in 1992, and let's see...it's now eleven years later, and...what?! This is only the fourth movie he's directed?!"

But don't hold it against him. You see, he was busy making awesome cameo appearances in films like Little Nicky, Girl 6, and Destiny Turns on the Radio. *snicker*

LIVING IT UP IN THE DOLDRUMS OF DAYTIME TV!

I briefly saw a little bit of this new show called Living It Up! with Ali and Jack. It's your typical daytime celebrity interview interspersed with banter type of show. But this begs the questions: Who are Ali and Jack? What are their claims to fame? And how did they finagle this own show? This was bothering me, so being the diligent blogger that I am, I looked up the info on the show's website.

Ali's biggest claim to fame has been the two seasons she spent on In Living Color. She's also guested on The Tonight Show and Seinfeld, and made numerous film appearances (although nothing big). Plus, she's a writer. Wow! A cast member on In Living Color?? A whole TWO seasons even! Let's see, that show was on like, what, 10, 12 years ago? I have no recollection of her whatsoever. Does any of America??

Jack is hyped up as an "Emmy Award-winner, anchor, correspondent, attorney, father, husband." That pretty much explains it. He's done everything, yet no one's ever heard of him either.

So why? Why do they get their own show?? It boggles my mind as to the mediocrity of these people. Their banter means nothing because does anyone care about these people?? I don't think so. It looks like they just threw some random people together in the hopes that people will like somehow enjoy them. Oh, I hope so! Please America, if for nothing else, Ali and Jack desperately need the fame!

And another thing--I have waaaaay too much time on my hands.

JESUS!

Does anybody else find it disturbing that Jesus Christ has a profile on The Internet Movie Database? 'Cause I sure do. I mean, duh! He was born like 2000 years before there were even cameras!

GOT SODA?

I like Chocolate milk. I like Strawberry milk. I even like Banana milk. So why, might I ask, do I not like regular milk? It's all right I guess, but I don't drink it unless I have a supply of cake or cookies or brownies nearby, in cereal, or in a white russian. It's just got a neutral taste, kinda blah. And don't you DARE give me skim milk! That stuff is like water and milk mixed together. Gross. It was always forced on me in the Elementary School cafeteria, thereby scarring me irrepairably. These days kids can just get a soda in a machine. I remember back in the day when our school got a juice machine and how that was the coolest thing ever. Of course, you couldn't just go get a juice any time you wanted, you had to wait until the day was over and then some teacher would stand there doling out the drinks. What's the point of having the machine if you can't just drop a dollar in and get a drink whenever you want? The sweetest drink in that machine was Yoohoo. That was da dopest yo. Or so our young minds thought. I never had the option of getting soda back then. I had to drink milk dad blame it! Yet I drank copious amounts of soda at home and I turned out all right. What a ripoff! Kids today abused the power of the soda, drank too much, gained too much weight, and they're taking the machines out. Well, what did people expect to happen? Kids losing weight and having sparkling white teeth by drinking soda all day? No sir. Force the milk on 'em again!

I just started off writing about milk and then took a huge tangent. But I guess what I'm ultimately saying is, give me a nice, sticky sweet, sugary, calorie-loaded, fatty, carbonated soda over a glass of milk any day!

*Note: This post was not certified by the FDA.*