My Sick Mind

When I post a high score on the Yahtzee game on my Sony cell phone, it tells me "You Played Like a Real Pro!" Geez, I didn't even know there were professional cell phone Yahtzee leagues. But, if I need to use steroids to compete, then I guess I'll have to pass. Yahtzee, I'm guessing, is best played either stoned or drunk. In that case, count me in. Conversely, when I post a low score (because, I assume, I am not drunk enough) it tells me that "you need to practice some more." I interpret that to mean that I need to use more Southern Comfort and less cranberry juice. Practice makes perfect.

On Tuesday, we are being subjected to yet another money grab by the entertainment industry. The re-packaged versions of the Beatles albums that were originally released in the United States are being re-released on CD. That's right. Never mind that the albums have already been released, albeit in their British forms - that is to say, their intended forms - and I suspect that anyone who wants them has already bought them. But the good folks at Capitol Records have seen fit to suck some more money out of erstwhile Beatles fans with another set of CDs. Capitol ripped us off back in the 60s when they re-packaged the original Beatles albums for sale in the U.S. Old habits die hard, and this one has more lives than Freddy Kruger. Here we go again! But wait! these are DIGITALLY REMASTERED - LIMITED EDITION - PRESENTED IN MONO & STEREO . Mono? What year is this? Do I want to regress back to the glorious days of mono? I have a CD player in my car, an MP3 player and a portable CD play...

One of the ancillary effects of my trips to the world's greatest city is the opportunity to not only feel good about my own life, but to remember how fortunate I am to be where I am and not someplace else. A simple visit to a fast food restaurant can provide much more than calories, cholesterol and saturated fat. If I sit there long enough, one of the less fortunate creatures among us will wander in, and seeing me alone with a bag of food, approach me for a handout. If you are the heartless type, you would be likely to tell them to get lost or get a job, but the part of me that believes "there but for the grace of God" always reaches into my pocket. When I see them walking out with their own bag of food I know that for at least a little while, there is a person who isn't hungry. Their hunger returns though, and their fate is not always in my hands, so it is likely that their needs are not always being met. What I think about as they are walking out is that the world i...

There is a lot of junk on television. I'm not talking about the programs, although there are enough of them to qualify. The junk is the stuff going on around the programs - icons, crawls, shrunken screens - all sorts of things designed to distract us from the program and make us pay attention to what else is on, rather than what is on now. Several years ago, I purchased a 32-inch television to replace the 21-inch one that I had. Partly out of rebellion to a failed marriage, and partly because I wanted a bigger TV. (OK, mostly because I wanted a bigger TV) I could do what I wanted, and I wanted a big TV. Sure, it's not big by today's standards, but it was big then. Little did I know that the 32-inch screen would soon become 21 inches, with the advent of modern technology that does little but make me yearn for the good old days - not the married part - just the TV part. I'm trying to watch the news on CNN Headline News (the middle 'N' stands for News ) but ...

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