Falling off the wagon

"What the eff? Long time no post."

I know. I have been slacking on my blogging lately. I haven't really been putting thought to text at all as of late and I'll admit I am starting to fiend a little bit. So here's my weak attempt at a quick fix to tide me over until I finally just suck it up and spend some real time in front of this screen really dispensing my thoughts.

I can't say my lack of posting is a product of being uninspired. Daily I have things happen or hear things that could potentially send me into a tirade of a six-part blog post. Lord knows that today's world doesn't lack for blogging topics. What I have been lacking is ambition. Historically, that's a common affliction with me this time of year. The days are getting perpetually more dreary and cold and most of the time I would rather just hide from it than take it head-on and keep functioning at near-peak performance. Unfortunately, obligations keep me from just hiding away so I often find myself just kind of coasting along, doing what I must but nothing more. For a while now, writing hasn't made it far enough up the perceived "must do" list to merit my dedicating oh-so-valuable do-nothing time to it. That's beginning to change.

Excuses, excuses I know. But were it not for excuses, I wouldn't be blogging while I should be working.

Here's what's on my mind for those of you who don't care but read blogs during your do-nothing time like I do:

1. I'll be glad when the election is over. All this incessant talk, much of which I participate in, is really hurting my head. And the chain email thing really is out of control but I still help to perpetuate it even though I have no idea why.
2. There are some bands out there that should have quit while they were ahead. I suppose when the only thing you've done for the last 20 years is make music, you don't know how to stop. AC/DC should not be producing new albums, neither should Metallica (though their new one is leaps and bounds better than the one that preceded it, it still blows) or Korn (especially now that they're missing half the original band members).
3. Hard rock bands should NOT cover hip-hop songs. The term "shorty" or some ebonicified version thereof should never be uttered over a shredding electric guitarist. Nor should the term "lovely lady lumps" ever be uttered, period.
4. Digital TV is still worthless where I live. It's like watching a scratched-to-hell DVD of network TV programming.
5. Free markets cannot exist in perpetuity. A free market system works only until the disparity between the "haves" and "have nots" becomes large enough for greed to dictate the use of the "haves'" power at the expense of the "have nots."
6. Sarah Palin not only epitomises hypocrisy, but also embodies the double standard that women are held to. Neither trait makes her qualified to be VP of the USA.
7. The only real beneficiaries of this campaign season are Saturday Night Live and Tina Fey.
8. Moving sucks.

I'll likely expand on some of the above thoughts sometime in the future. Not that any of them are really worth reading about but I don't necessarily write this blog to have it read. I write because I have to...for me. It's my drug and I need to fall off the wagon again.