if your manner of speech is any indication of the workings of your mind, then it's a wonder you can even tie your shoes

allow me to digress just a touch so that i can examine a phenomenon that i can't stop coming back to... on friday night, fate brought me, your faithful servant, to a college party... this in and of itself was a bit bizarre as i'm not in college nor have i been since the roaring 90s... also bizarre was being probably the third oldest person there next to the big man and legend, but i could handle it because every time the captain and i go to concert, it seems the only ones older than us are the parents who've been coerced into accompanying their children...

what was weird, to me anyway, was the fact that later on in the evening, after a few beverages had been consumed and while i was openly mocking the wasted kids (e.g. everyone there), i heard from a distance the record "under the table and dreaming" by the dave matthews band... now i'm not ashamed to admit that i'm a big fan of said group - to a point... things get touchy for me with dave and the boys after their third record, "crash"... plus i saw them before they were the biggest band in the world in a small venue, then also saw them play a stadium after they were the biggest band in the world, which was not terribly fun...

but i'm digressing again... the point is, i went into the room in which the record was being played and examined the contents... everyone listening/singing along to "best of what's around" was not a millisecond older than 22... which means that when the record first came out/i was first listening to it, the oldest person in the room was in grade school...

i find this fascinating even though i'd bet that you don't... sure, i listened to the beatles and the rolling stones and even (gulp) def leppard, among other bands when i was in college and never even thought about it... and if i hadn't gone to that party on friday, i wouldn't be thinking about it now either... and you know what? if you're asking yourself what in the hell my point is, the answer would appear to be I HAVE NO IDEA! i just think its funny that those wasted kids were so into that dave album instead of some more current shit like the white stripes or modest mouse or something else that rolling stone told them was cool... or, i'm just coming back to one of my favorite topics to obsess over - the fact that i'm getting old...

oh well, sorry if i wasted your time... the party was sort of lame, but i saw some truly entertaining sights, not the least of which was several young women pissing off of a third floor balcony simultaneously... oh those kids today...

i'll leave you with a joke, complements of one of the funniest guys i know, young james:
what's got nine arms and sucks? def leppard! harharharharharharhar...

stay tuned for another diatribe about my beloved celts, who, contrary to rofo's opinion, are going to lose tonight... lates.