I'm not just ficial, I'm SUPER-ficial.

Americans; by their own nature, are super. So it comes naturally to those within the borders to be superficial. I've updated the blog links on the right side of the screen with a great site for our culture, thesuperficial.com. Sure it's shallow and pig-ish of us to create or enjoy such entertainment from the misery and lowpoints of our "celebrities." It may even be responsible for the decline of of our social values to all new lows. But, it wouldn't be very super or American of us if we didn't take ficial and super-size it. God Bless America.

(*ficial is not a word, so leave this witty theory out of your first date repetoire, unless you're dating someone who doesn't speak english ......Oh, and PS: Britney appears to be following the career path of Axel Rose all the way down to his looks)

Every once and a while when I am listening to the radio and the station is giving its local concert info, they will announce the performance of a cover band. Cover bands are one of the great mysteries to me in this day and age. First and most perplexing is; who goes to see cover bands? If you are a fan of the band that is being covered, doesn't a cover band make you feel like you bought tickets to watch high school kids perform one of your favorite movies in their back yard? Why not just go see the real band or, if they are a broken up band; preserve the memories correctly through the tapes? There is no reason to see a fake band. That's like going to an art gallery to see copies of the Mona Lisa. Second; how does a cover band get started? How can you, as a musician, be content with solely copying other people? I don't know anyone who starts with a dream of sounding just like someone else. Do you have no pride? The whole point of undertaking an art form is to have originality. Even when popular musicians undertake old works, they have their own songs first and add their own touch to old songs to give them new originality. A cover band is just trying to mimic as close as possible. So yeah, I don't get it. Throw me a comment, if you can plead a good case for cover bands.

Is it my imagination, or did there use to be scented garbage bags? Bags sprayed with a special odor containing scent that helped dampen garbage odors? If there was, why didn't it work? If there wasn't, why aren't there? Thats a pretty simple idea to improve an existing product. The problem with a small apartment is that it takes about .2 seconds to attain a garbage smell from a stinky garbage can. I guess its time for me to invest in a can with a lid on it. But, I still wish there were scented garbage bags, none-the-less.

How close are we from seeing one of the members of the "Fart in a Mitten" group attempting to seriously wear novelty sunglasses as real fashion items? I'm all for using styles from previous decades in a modern way but, the new 70's large sunglasses are getting a little out of control.

(Background: The "Fart in a Mitten" group is the name I call the Paris, Britney, Lindsay, Nicole, and Tara group of clones after the amusing video in which Paris was read a peice of hate-mail in which she was described as a fart in a mitten. An entertaining and strangely fitting description. It gets mean at the end, but hate mail isn't written by nice people.)

You know what would be cool? A place where you could get your dog groomed and yourself groomed at the same time. It might already even exist. I know my mom would go there, but I may just have inadvertantly insulted her. The name of the store could be "Turner and Hooch Hair Salon" Okay, that's awful, forget I said it.

Mexican Food is the new Chinease Food.

What is the history of the Dollar Store? Did it used to be a 50 cent store? Did you used to get more for a dollar in the store? Is there any correlation to the average income and crime rate of an area within 5 miles of the Dollar Store? Who created the Dollar Store? Will there come a time when inflation ruins the dollar store business and all you can buy there is 1 breath mint? Is it incredibly funny that someone found this at a dollar store, or is it just me?

This Post Written While Listening to: Dallas vs Seattle Playoff Game.