Effluvia

I went to Popeye's for dinner tonight; it was good, but greasy. Now my mouth feels all slick.

To get money for the Popeye's dinner I took several year's accumulation of pennies to the A & P. There, I dumped the pennies into a big change-gobbling machine. Several children came by to watch me change my change. The machine was very noisy. I dumped in over 1300 pennies - and got a tasty chicken dinner!

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Siobhanorama!

Cheeky, cheeky bee!

I wonder why America puts up with Cuba? I suppose it's because for so long Russia was looking over Cuba's shoulder, just waiting for America to start a fight so that the Russians could step in and finish it. The Cold War Russians are gone, of course, and about all they could give Cuba in a fight is advice. Still, I guess America just got used to having a bastion of communism right off the Florida coast.

We all know it can't last forever. Sooner or later Castro will die and some lifelong beauracrat without even a tenth of Fidel's charisma will take over; then the parade of dictators, generalissimos, presidents and kings will begin, just like in every other third world country. Eventually America will step in and a new territory will be claimed. It's about time, too. We need more beach.

But what's to stop America from moving in now? It's not like we don't have a military base on the island already. We've heard for years that there's no food, no jobs and nothing to buy in Cuba - wouldn't this also mean there's no weapons for their military? Just turn those marines loose, air-drop some paratroopers in and have the infantry assault both coasts at once! Let the air force earn a little money with precision bombing runs across Havana, and back it all up with navy boats! End of revolution. We could even call it Operation: Doormat, 'cause they're right at our door, you know? Dirty communists!

It would get better ratings than the Olympics, I bet. And the bragging rights would be incredible? "Oh, your country won a bronze at table tennis? Well, my country overran a longstanding communist menace. But you can get the medal mounted, can't you?"

Speaking of neighbors to the south, do any of you out there have Univision, the Spanish-language cable network. I do! My favorite show is Viviana a la medianoche, which as far as I can tell means either "Viviana on the TV at night" or "Viviana in the middle of the night," I'm not sure which. Viviana is a saucy number who rolls her Rs in a most exciting manner, and she always dresses sexy. She has a musician/sidekick, too, and there's another, very odd character on the show: the mother in-law. I don't know if that's what she's actually called, but she's older lady who dresses frumpy; therefore, mother in-law. The mother in-law is always doing wacky things, like yelling at the audience or quizzing Viviana and her sidekick, school teacher style. It's compellingly watchable for me; it must be a really great show if you can actually speak Spanish.

The Wife and I were both very hungry after work yesterday, so I went to Taco Bell and got a bag full of food. I was really hungry, so I ended up eating a lot of Taco Bell food - probably more than I've eaten in one sitting since college. I had a meximelt, too, and I haven't eaten anything with beef in it from Taco Bell in well over a year.

Needless to say I had a near-nuclear bowel movement after that meal. Thankfully, I was in the bathroom when it happened.

I made a new "Boogie Down" CD the other day; as is usual with these CDs it is full of Eurodance and cover songs from UK radio. I'm rather happy with it, thank you very much.

One of the songs on the CD is a cover of Duran Duran's Ordinary World, done all fast and danceable. It's very good. And while I am familar with - and know the lyrics to - this song I found myself singing "left me in the bathroom of my heart" instead of "left me in the vacuum of my heart," which is how the song actually goes.

I think I like my way better, though. "The bathroom of my heart" sounds like something Trent Reznor would sing about. There's a good album title in there, too, isn't there?

Proudly announcing Hole's new album...Toilet Heart.

On that same CD I put California Love, the Tupac/Dr. Dre tune. I'm not a huge hip-hop fan, but I've found I like almost anything Dr. Dre has produced. Eminem, Snoop Dogg, Tupac, Dre himself....I like these people when Dre produces them, and I think they're pretty much indistinguishable from the rest of the hip-hop crowd without Dre behind the board. The music he works on is simultaneously catchy and funky. It is the antithesis of closeted rap star DMX, whose music is neither catchy nor funky, but merely brutal and sullen.

I'm a Dr. Dre fan! Hell yeah.

So, people, who's the bigger dork: Sonya for raptly watching gymnastics last night or me for downloading a Super Nintendo emulator so I could play Super Mario World on the G3? I think I win that one, but just barely.