Watched Top Gear off and on this past year on the BBC channel. Its a great show – love it. I just forget to go to that channel enough. Its about 3 guys who aren’t really friends but have huge personalities and go into competitions with different vehicles. I’m not describing it more than that – you just have to trust me that its damn good.
To my surprise I found there is an American version of that same show, with 3 different guys as hosts, on the History channel for some reason. WTF this show has to do with history – I couldn’t tell you.
The Americans Top Gear sucks. Don’t even waste your time and please don’t hold these losers against the show if you have never seen the British version yet. The American guys are too young, too gay, have no personality, and the competitions are lame – the whole show sucks ass.
Hollywood could fuck up a wet dream.
Listened to the local “progressive” radio station for about half an hour today. I was stuck in traffic and bored and annoyed with the local country and rock stations. So I scanned for a bit and ended up on the Lightning 100 station. I have to say that the music was good – even though I didn’t recognize a damn song out of the 6 or 7 that they played. But it was a nice change. I went ahead and punched the shortcut button to save it as button number 5, so I can find it again. Maybe I need to expand my horizons a bit and start listening to new music. You know, get out of that comfort zone for a bit.
Have you noticed that the section in the grocery store that has the oatmeal is getting bigger? There seem to be a whole lot of different kinds of hot breakfast cereals now. There is regular oatmeal, rolled oats, cut oats, quick cooking oatmeal, and instant oatmeal. And there are a dozen different flavors, with everything from freeze dried strawberries to date and walnuts added for your convenience and fine dining pleasure.
Hunting for turtles is not a big activity in these parts, but I saw a show on one of those educational cable channels about guys in Louisiana going into the swamps and catching a variety of critters. They killed a bunch of those large swamp rats and ended up trading a bunch of those for some snapping turtles. Then they went and made some turtle soup. It was interesting. I think if I had to choose between swamp rat and snapping turtle, I’d have to go with the turtles.
Last year I kinda ignored Halloween. Didn’t feel like going to party and such. This year, with a long weekend of partying, it seems I can’t escape the invitations. So I guess I need a costume so I can go out and and scare some people this year. I’m thinking about being a Zombie – I can’t start simple and refine the look for the ultimate gross out. We even have a zombie walk here every year – I think it happens in September. So I can get double duty out of the right costume.