Friday, February 27, 2009

On My Tonsils And Obama's Budget

Where have I been? You are probably asking yourself this question while eating your Multigrain Cheerios. Well, since you asked ...

I had my tonsils out. To answer your next question, no, I am not five years old. For certain reasons, it became necessary to remove my tonsils at the age of thirty-two. If I were five, it would have been a hell of a lot easier. For a thirty-two year old guy, on a scale of 1 to 10, the pain is roughly an 11 for two straight weeks. It's the worst sore throat you've ever had for that two weeks. However, the surgery did what it was supposed to do and my quality of life has improved tremendously. And that's that.

More importantly, how is everyone enjoying our new president? I'll tell you what: if I had the opportunity, I would open mouth kiss him.

I'd like to link to Five Thirty Eight about the ridiculous press conference surrounding the unveiling of Obama's budget yesterday. Just to show how bad the press is at doing their job. Also, the next time someone talks about a left-wing bias in the media, please laugh in their face.

Labels: Barack Obama, tonsils

Sunday, February 22, 2009

The iTunes Game

I'll have a longer post in the next couple of days that will discuss my long absence from this site. In the interim, let's play the iTunes game (inspired by the inimitable Matt Tobey):

Number of Songs: 10,579
Number of Albums: 1413
Most Recently Played Song: "Soft," Kings of Leon
Most Played Song: "Mine's Not A High Horse," The Shins
Most Recently Added Album: Tonight: Franz Ferdinand, Franz Ferdinand

First Song Alphabetically: "A-Punk," Vampire Weekend
Last Song Alphabetically: "Zurich is Stained," Pavement
Smallest Song Numerically: ">1," Steve Burns
Largest Song Numerically: "99 Luftballons," Nena

Shortest Song: "Fingertips (Who's Knocking On The Wall?)," They Might Be Giants
Longest Song: "A Long Day," The Polyphonic Spree

First Album Alphabetically: A.M., Wilco
Last Album Alphabetically: Zooropa, U2
First Band Alphabetically: A-ha
Last Band Alphabetically: The Zombies

First Ten Songs That Pop Up On Shuffle:
"The Shot Heard Round The World," Ween
"Get On Top," Red Hot Chili Peppers
"Human Touch," Bruce Spingsteen
"Not About Us," Genesis
"That's How Strong My Love Is," The Rolling Stones
"This Is A Recording 4 Living In A Fulltime Era (L.I.F.E.)," De La Soul
"Bye Bye Baby," The Commitments
"A Day In The Life," The Beatles
"Only The Good Die Young," Billy Joel
"The Jello Fund," The Lemonheads

Labels: iTunes