88.5

I’ve been listening to 88.5 for the last four or so months now. For various reasons, when normally I was always adamantly against much radio listening and preferred my iPod to the monotony of public radio, I've figured something out. Driving home from school today, listening to it, I discovered philosophically why I like it: They play one in ten songs I know. Normally this is terrible because I hate change, but it allows me to leave the shores of my comfort, without actually changing anything. Then the one in ten songs that I do know, allows me to, if I become scared of losing sight of the shore, to have an anchor or line to pull myself back from. Yes, or I could totally just change the radio station to something else, but that would take away from the ridiculousness of the philosophizing I just did. Let me be weird, will you?

Logical Disproof

If you had an alligator that’s hungry and want to eat something – and you had an elephant that can typically tromp at some rate of speed and could crush the gators skull or a fat, slow pig, in the opposite direction but equal length away from the alligator and said alligator is going to chase after either the elephant or pig for it’s lunch – as a gator, which one would you go for?

“Well the pig, obviously,” the audience choruses. Right?

So then why does the “greater than” symbol always eat the “bigger one”!? The bigger one would beat its brains out and eat it for lunch. So to conclude, math, as usual, and despite claims of its ‘objective’ nature, makes no sense! Case closed.

One Hundredth!

This is my one hundredth post on here! Woo!

Actually, when you think about it, that's kind of a pathetic number over the course of the last fifteen months or so. And to think, when I originated created this blog, I thought for sure it was only a matter of time until I terminated Xanga and switched over here. So much for that idea.

Sent By Ravens, "Best in Me"

This is a song I've heard in the last week, and for some reason it's really struck a chord in both my life and those I've been around. I wanted to share the lyrics.
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This room is thick with words
a mess a mess
of secrets and thieves
but can't you see that we're all the same
just vessels and we're all afraid

forgive me I don't mean to intrude
you see my hands are shaking too

just settle down, this storm won't last forever
we're built for more than this world
I'm not that strong, honestly I'm not
but you always see the best in me

now I'm naked
at least you see me for who I am
so fragile
I wait with hope that the coming change won't blow us away

forgive me I don't mean to intrude
you see my hands are shaking too

just settle down, this storm won't last forever
we're built for more than this world
I'm not that strong, honestly I'm not
but you always see the best in me

am I something you can be proud of now

just settle down, this storm won't last forever
we're built for more than this world
I'm not that strong
honestly I'm not
but you always see the best in me

am I something you can be proud of now

Christie

New Jersey has a Republican governor!?!? I've never heard of such an absurd thing!