I'm back!

Phew! Can you smell that horrible stench coming from Cyberspace? Yup. That's my blog - getting stale and, as Nacho Libre would lament, so "a-stinky." I figured it was about time to say something, so here I am saying something. I've actually been doing a lot of nothing lately, spending my last summer vacation before the hell of doctoral studies breaks loose in my life in about a month. More on that later.

I think this blog is going to be dedicated to GOOD vs. BAD. So, here goes -

GOOD: Al Gore's new movie "An Inconvenient Truth." Yes, the world may actually be coming to an end this time. GO WATCH THIS MOVIE!

BAD: Nacho Libre. The movie was... a-stinky... Not even a cameo by Uncle Rico could have saved it.

GOOD: The new, extremely mellow CD by Alexi Murdoch, "Time Without Consequence," coming to an IPOD near you.

BAD: Britney Spears' new look... I call it "Country-Trash-Milkjug" ...

GOOD: The elipsis... better than a period, a comma or a dash... light and crisp and no aftertaste...

BAD: Insects... I went night Geocaching with my wife last week and had 42% of my blood drained out by some kind of cosmic killer mosquitos. The bites simply won't heal and seem immune to calamine lotion and hydrocortisone. I look like I have the pox all over my legs.

GOOD: Geocaching, the most postmodern of games. Check it out at geocaching.com

BAD: Old age. Man, my eyesight is getting worse and worse. And my hearing, and my memory, and my baldness... hmm... what was I talking about?

GOOD: George Bush... that's right, he's good! He stands for truth, justice, and the American way! USA! USA! USA! USA!

BAD: Iran, Iraq, Afganistan, North Korea, and of course, France. These countries all stand for the opposite of what we stand for, and therefore they represent lies, injustice, and the Un-American way! BOO! BOO! BOO! BOO! BOO!

GOOD: Irony - you can say one thing, but mean something else. This confuses some people, but for others it's fun.

BAD: Robots - they are coming and they will not be happy. Remember this!