- Terry Gilliam
- Wim Wenders
- Paul McCartney
- HBO
- A lot of holiday music
Things I Never Really Liked
- U2
- Battlestar Gallactica
- Michael Bay
- Teen Pop
- Celebrity gossip, unless it's funny
- The Rolling Stones
- 80s music, unless it's ironic
- The dulcimer
- Ryan Adams
- Bryan Adams
- Adam Sandler
- Sand
Things that Make Me Smile
- Taking Joe Henry's music from Jesus's Son and reading a random blog outloud with it. My wife discovered that with properly placed pauses, you can create your own episode of This American Life.
- Let's face it, Joe Henry's entire catalogue today.
- The kids, natch.
Things that Shouldn't Exist
- Kevin Federline
- E!
- Any further editions of Survivor. They smell, we get it.
- Platypuseseseses. I don't even know how to spell them.
- The em dash. Seriously, why do we need more than one?
- Puffins. Personally, I feel penguins are just fine.
- Radio programming directors
- Other drivers
- Tiny, tiny women driving giant vehicles with which they need a booster seat to drive
I wholeheartedly agree with many of those. However. I can't live without the em dash. I respectfully submit that it be deemed Dash of Choice.
ReplyDeleteWhat do you have against puffins?? Totally uncalled for.
ReplyDeleteMy point exactly. Puffins are totally uncalled for.
ReplyDeleteGotta agree with Mrs. Weasel. Em dashes are the dashiest! Take away the em dash from a poet and it's like taking the scalpel from a surgeon.
ReplyDeleteAlso can we add Mini Rolo Bites to the Things That Shouldn’t Exist list? I know, it sounds like what could be bad about mini Rolo goodness. But they are just so wrong! The chocolate to caramel ratio is totally flawed and they just make you pine for the real thing!
I'll admit to choosing the em dash purely for economic reasons. It's longer, therefore, more expensive. I do see its merits—that is I understand how it effects lives and livlihoods—and wouldn't want to besmirch its legacy.
ReplyDeleteAs for mini-rollos, is that not redudant? Of course, we live in a world with three sizes of M&Ms. When will the excess end?
You forgot jumbo shrimp. What's up with that?
ReplyDeleteAnd Battlestar Galactica is the bomb. so there