Random Thoughts

It's Monday. It's late. I can't sleep. What better time for a fresh round of random thoughts? As always, real thoughts, really random:

I think I saw a popular local writer at Trader Joe's yesterday. What's the appropriate response when you see someone who may or may not be famous? You can't just go up and ask them, can you? This is why there should be a law making famous people wear name tags at all times for the rest of our benefits.

If someone wearing a costume is disguised, is someone wearing normal clothes considered "guised?"

Every other time that I tell someone I'm originally from Alabama, I hear in response either: "you sure don't sound like it" or some lame joke involving a fake Southern accent. No one would do that kind of thing if I were from, say, China, because that would obviously be offensive. So, what's the difference?

Has anyone else realized that Daylight Savings Time doesn't actually save anything? It doesn't change the amount of daylight we get, it just pushes the light from the morning to the evening. Whoever coined the name was just lying to us.

The other day someone asked me if I knew where I'd spend eternity if I died today. He was pretty surprised when I told him I was already dead.

Last week, I flipped by American Idol and saw some guy singing a Bon Jovi song to a very unhappy looking Steven Tyler. Isn't that like wearing a "coca cola" tee shirt in hopes of impressing your bosses at the Pepsi Company?

What we're doing in Libya would have been much easier if we would have done it two weeks ago. I'm just saying.

Speaking of which, can the world please agree of a unified spelling of Qaddafi/Gaddafi/Kaddafi? I've never seen the Q, K, and G used interchangeably before and don't think a homicidal madman deserves to be the first guy to pull it off.

Why is it that in Tennessee I can buy bananas year round from Costa Rica and pineapples year round from Hawaii, but no one sells crawfish, even during the height of their season, because they only live near the Gulf Coast?

By the way, I now decree that "Andrew" may also be spelled starting with an E, Q or X.

Why does the U.S. have a Midwest but not a Mideast? And if St. Louis, Missouri is the Gateway to the West, does that make East St. Louis, Illinois the Gateway to the East? If so, why would anyone ever move East?

With Japan in the mess that it's in, does Fox have to pull all of the Simpsons episodes involving Homer screwing up at the nuclear plant?

Speaking of which, every time I think I'm unlucky, I need to think of every Japanese person 75 or older who've lived there since birth.

Why is it that the songs that get stuck in my head are never ones that I really liked in the first place?

There are three kinds of people in the world: those who can count and those who can't.

That's all for now.

I'll be back soon.

Xndrew.