Peruvian Nights and Jamaican Days

I SUCK AT GEOGRAPHY...

So..there was a Geography Trivia Bowl today. Sponsored by the Geography department here. My team got as last a place as was possible. Only attempted 1 question, got it wrong. Boy. I suck. To be fair, I think our questions were more difficult than the other groups got to begin with, on the whole. On the other hand, our friends, all botany people, were on a different team, and they almost won the whole thing. 2nd place. Out of something like 15 teams - maybe more. 'Barassing. The winning team had a guy who seemed to know everything, except the Taklamakan Desert, and looked like E, lead singer of The Eels, but not like MC Honky. If you get that, you get it. If not, don't ask. Seriously. Or at least, ask Google, not me. Alter-egos kick ass. I need to get me one of them. Except I don't think that you can have a famous alter-ego, if your actual-ego isn't famous to begin with.

I cannot believe The Eels were in Omaho not that long ago, and I missed them.

Also, before the competition, I walked in to the little convenience store kinda thing in the union, and the guy that worked there, wiping the counters, looked up at me and said "Hi loser." I stood there astounded and dumbstruck, and didn't answer. It was particularly apropos, as I was feeling like a loser before I even walked in. I wasn't sure whether to say "pardon me?," or to just punch him, or to walk away. He looked at me funny, then walked off. I realized after I had left the store, that he had actually said, "Hello, sir." Man, I'm such a tool. Also, I think my hearing is going.

"Blankness, and darkness
like underneath the leaf,
have settled on me here,
and scraped away the sound."

-Apollo, by Hum.



"I don't think we're good enough yet to write songs that don't rhyme."
-Steve S., my bandmate in Fairly Crass.

Mel Tormé kicks ass. (The song "Too Close for Comfort" just came came on in my random, shuffled playlist of about 1500 songs. So that comment wasn't totally random, but then again, it was.)

-m