19 May 2006
death has struck here at the smith home. . .in the form of a new
goldfish. the wife called him "brownie" since he was the only brown
fish among 4 other true "gold"fish. to some who are hyper sensitive and
walk about with a heavy chip on their shoulder this may seem like
fish-racism, but to those able to use common sense, there is no other
way to describe the difference between a brown goldfish and a gold
goldfish other than to use color designations. ok, so now it has become
apparent that i have a chip on my shoulder about people who have
tattoed the race card to their foreheads (so that they don't have to
keep pulling it out). so let the conspiracy theorists have their fun
with this. the brown one died and the four gold ones still live. did
they gang up on him and check him vigorously into "the glass"? did they
hold him against the filter until he gave up? or did someone at the pet
store set him up? the truth may never be known. . .but what is known is
that the warrior child has now witnessed death and didn't like what he
saw. his plan was to keep the dead fish in the tank so that maybe it
would make him feel better. seeing my sons tears of anguish, i knew it
was up to me to pull the plug. .er, lever and release the carcass to
fish sheol. before i flushed, my son asked me "what if he starts
feeling better?" i promised him that if the fish starts feeling better,
he can come back to our house. i just hope this doesn't cause any
regression in his potty training.
i saw an advert on tv tonight for the academy of country music awards.
who thought this up? i must confess that my taste is music has colored
my opinion of country singers and that my comments from this point on
will probably be construed as prejudiced (why not through that label
on?), but it won't stop me (mainly because of self-induced sleep
depravation). the very title "academy of country music" is perhaps the
biggest oxymoron i have heard in months. perhaps it is the only academy
they could get into. . .or maybe they just haven't graduated.
please, before you flame my inbox, i realize that a lot of these people
are probably very intelligent and just pretend to be un-educated to
appeal to the masses. kind of like "professional wrestling".
ok, i need sleep. since i'm sure i will regret posting this later, let me apologize in advance.
more later. . .
peace and java
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