The last entry got more comments in my comments section than I think any entry so far, which is sort of fun! Since then I've had to control my urge to record every nonsensical song I make up and sing as I walk around my place. Last night I kept singing "it's wasn't really my butt you slapped / no it wasn't my butt at all / the night you slapped my butt" over and over. It might sound lyrically and musically advanced written down like that with slashes in between the lines, but it even drove me nuts after about 2 minutes, and I'm used to getting nonsense songs in my head from myself.
I was just watching Family Feud as I ate my lunch, and I am not positive because I was crunching a chip or slurping some pop or something at the second she said it, but I am pretty sure some lady got huge applause from the audience, during that part where people introduce themselves and what they do, by saying she was the wife of a new york city firefighter. She totally was egging the crowd on with her hands too, in the universal "gimme applause!" thing where you put your palms upwards and sort of jiggle your fingers, you know that thing? I noticed on the first episode of the new Survivor there was some new york city fireman and there was this sort of painful requisite applause from everyone when he said that was his job. It makes me think, there must be some super frustrated firefighters in like, Iowa or whatever. You know they've all tried it out once or twice, they're at a party and someone asks what they do and they go "I'm a Sioux City fireman!" and get ready for some serious applause and "woo!"-ing , but the people they're talking to just sort of look at them like "just say fireman, you ass". Maybe some of them figure it's a tough crowd and try again somewhere else and then give up.
Anyway, my main point is, I know I am becoming an old, broken down man because I watch the Family Feud at lunch all the time now, and sometimes I actually hurry to go get lunch so I don't miss much of it. A year ago, the host was just "beardo from Home Improvements" to me, and now he's Richard Carnes, the guy who made a joke today that I laughed out loud at. That's right, I laughed out loud at a joke by Richard Carnes, host of the Family Feud, how terrible is that eh?
2:09 p.m. - Mar. 12, 2003