LOAFIN' AROUND

I eat lunch meat all the time, sandwiches with ham, turkey, roast beef, you know, all the good stuff. But I HATE, and I mean like utterly grotesquely hate, meat with stuff in it. Like olive loaf, pimento loaf, or macaroni and cheese loaf. *shudder* Just looking at it makes me want to vomit. What is with all the miscellaneous foods that are thrown into it? It's like a mish-mash of meat and whatever somebody had leftover so they decided to put it in there. Blah. And I don't like my meats called "loaves" either. Whose bright idea was that? A "loaf" just brings up bad connotations, much like "casserole" does. So basically, what I' m saying is, that if you say you're the one bringing sandwiches to my party, you best be sure I will be checking to see that these sandwiches will not be containing "loaves" of any kind!

Oh, and while I'm at it--bologna??? Yeccccchhh!

McSCREWJOB

I am heartily disappointed in the McDonald's corporation. Wanting some lunch today, I went there and bought some Chicken McNuggets and French Fries, both off the dollar menu, which I consider the best deal in town. But now, the McValue fries, which used to come in a medium-type box, come in a small paper bag! You know, the kind they used to come in before this country nixed the idea of "small" for medium, large, and supersize.

But the problem is: While I'm still paying the same price for the McValue fries, I'M GETTING LESS. What is the deal here?? So now I am the one paying the price for all the gluttonous people in America? McDonald's are toning down they're gigantic portions, which I guess is good for the health of the nation, but they're giving me less for my money. I'm spending a dollar, but they're only giving me 33 cents worth of fries! And instead of a nice box of warm, golden french fries, I was forced to eat them out of a paper satchel. So not only is McDonald's saving money by giving me less, they're also saving money by using only a paper carton, instead of a cardboard one. #$%@!

THE BEST THINGS IN LIFE ARE FREE

I just read that TV Guide has raised its newsstand price yet again, now an issue costs $2.49. Two and half bucks?? Just to find out what's on TV??? This is insanity! Especially when you can find out what's on by watching the TV Guide Channel--FOR FREE! (excluding all cable fees) Okay, okay, I know what you're saying, there are articles in the TV Guide that keep one enlightened on the state of television as we know it. But heck, you could just actually watch the TV shows and learn what happens for yourself throughout the course of the season instead of being apprised by a magazine.


...FOR FREE!!!

EVEN NEWER NEW SITE!

Because YOU demanded it! ...no, not you...not you either... Okay, nobody demanded it, but I just thought it would be a handy idea. The entire timeline of Inconsequential Insanities is now archived in one easy-to-read fashion! Tired of fumbling through the weekly Blogger archives? Me too. Now you have an easier way to look at posts from the past. So point your browser to www.websamba.com/isquared and take a gander. Try it, you might like it. It's better than butterscotch pudding!

I² QUESTION AND ANSWER TIME!

Jen asks: "Why don't you write about something else besides bitching all the time? What's the matter? Too afraid to talk about yourself for once?"

A fine question, and one that I have gotten a few times. The answer is multi-fold, but simple.

A) My life is BORING. What the heck do I have to talk about?? Nothing. Nothing of interest happens to me, at least on a daily, or even semi-daily basis. So how would I manage to fill these pages up? I mean, I could talk about how I dropped my ham and cheese sandwich on the floor, or how I sliced my finger open with a steak knife, or how the drain in my bathroom sink is clogged so much that not even industrial plumbing strength SULPHIRIC ACID can bust through it, but really, are those the kinds of things anybody wants to read about? I know I don't want to read it, and I certainly don't want to write it.

B) You know that everybody thinks about the little things that don't matter, but nobody bothers to give them a voice. Well, I am that voice. I fight for the common man against the tyranny of lengthy album waits, commercials in front of movies, and Jennifer Lopez. And I will continue to do so for as long as things like this continue to happen, dammit!. Will it change the world? No, I'm just a guy with nothing better to do, and I'm comfortable with that.

C) I like writing about miscellaneous junk that comes into my head, which is a lot of junk. Let's take a gander at my post from October 24, 2002 (my third post ever) shall we?

:: Thursday, October 24, 2002 ::

So it occurs to me that I have not said why I am doing this blog. I am new to it but I thought it would be a good idea for a couple of reasons:
1) I have many opinions about things.
2) I am frustrated by many things.
3) This is a good way to vent those frustrations and opinions. It's sort of a catharsis.

So there you see, I did not set out to change the world, but only to give air to my opinions, which are many. You don't have to like 'em, you don't have to agree with 'em, I'm just trying to provide an entertaining commentary on life and maybe provoke some thoughts once in awhile--but only once in awhile, I promise.

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And you can vote for 'Hate It!" if you want, I won't mind. But if you vote 'Love It!' then I'll give you a shiny new quarter!

I hope this has provided a satisfactory answer. Until next time!

SARAH...SARAH...STORMS ARE BREWIN' IN YOUR RECORD SALES...

I hate when a musician/band takes FOREVER to release their next album. You're left waiting, and wanting, and salivating at the mouth for your favorite band's new music. I've been thinking about this because I see Sarah McLachlan on all the usual shows lately promoting her new album. Her first album in SIX YEARS. Six years! That's an insane amount of time. Her excuse is that she had a child. Okay, acceptable, a child takes a lot of care. But still, it took six years to write and release some new songs?? Yes, she's telling me it took six years to write these songs, but I'm telling her, that IT'S HER JOB. That's it. Write some music, write some lyrics, done. She couldn't write 12 songs in all that time? That's 2 per year! That's all! Or go with a measly 10 songs. Heck, write 6 songs and release an EP! In six years, not a few tunes popped into her head that she could have written at some point when the baby was sleeping? It's not like she had a 9-5, M-F job, she could've worked an hour here, an hour there, whenev. That's a heckuva maternity leave.

If I was a fan (which, sorry, I'm not), I would be pretty ticked. And maybe I wouldn't even be a fan after all that time either. If you were 16 when you first started listening to Sarah McLachlan, then you'd now be 22, which is a whole different age bracket. A 16 year old and a 22 year old like way different things. That's lost record sales sista! Gotta keep it fresh! Can't buy baby some new shoes now can ya??