Yes, I can! ...Write a blog entry about something other than current events! I can and I will!
It's true, you know.
First, I will make a statement about future events. (See, I'm sticking with my promise.) Here's a prediction: with a black president, we will start to see steadily increasing numbers of minority-group Republicans. Why? Well, as people feel less disenfranchised, they generally become more conservative. Everyone's saying this is the beginning of the end for the Republican Party, but I say it's just the opposite. I'll check back with y'all in about a dozen years.
And nooo, of course I don't have any citations for my claims. I said it because it makes sense to me. Things that make sense to me are automatically true. Accept it!
(As an aside (and by using the word "aside," this is automatically not an official part of the post and therefore isn't held to the restrictions defined above), how did Proposition 8 pass in California? How did that happen? In that prototypically liberal state? More like a state of confusion, I say (see what I did there??).)
Switching gears, here are some random thoughts that I've made note of in the past couple weeks...
- When heard on the radio, Seth Rogan sounds like he is at least 50 years old.
- Speaking of radio, I swear that every time I come across a rural pop/rock radio station, it's playing a Savage Garden song.
- Chocolate Axe sounds like a horrible idea. I'm assuming that it came into existence via focus groups of women who said that they like chocolate, and then a boardroom of men who determined that women must therefore be sexually attracted to men who smell like chocolate. Next up: buffalo chicken eau de parfum for her.
- The mayor of one of the towns near me is a stripper. Yes, a stripper and a mayor. Simultaneously. For real.
- Many people hate them (one of my high school English teachers especially seethed over them), but I think that parentheses can serve as wonderful tools in prose. They're like 3-D glasses for written word! (Just make sure you don't wear them where they don't belong, or else you'll look rather silly and you'll probably get a headache.)
1. Poor Seth Rogan.
2. I only like the "Oooooh I want you I don't know if I need you but oooooh I'm dyin' to find out" Savage Garden song. And I hate the "I wanna stand with you on a mountain" song.
3. I'm kind of intrigued by Chocolate Axe...
4. Central Illinois is so klassy.
5. I am the queen of parentheses, and I've never been chastised for using them. Your high school English teacher is a buffoon.