One of the greatest shows ever, Arrested Development, is being cancelled. I suppose I knew this day would come sooner rather than later. But it was still a shock.

I am now officially completely disillusioned with the entertainment habits of American TV viewers. Yes its true I like my fair share of stupid TV: Beavis and Butthead, Punk’d, The OC, etc…but I can also recognize a brilliant comedy when I see one.

I heard that its being replaced with a reality show about midget porn stars, with regular special guest appearances by Danny Bonaduce and Mark Hamill.

Yes, American television viewers are that stupid.

I never thought I’d say this, but I’m defecting to Canada.

I’m reading this book from the same author of “Socrates Cafe.” It’s called “Six Questions of Socrates: A Modern Day Journey of Discovery through World Philosophy.”

It’s a rather interesting book. So far I’ve read something in depth stuff about the Navajo culture and the Japanese culture. But I bet you’re wondering what the six questions are right? I can’t spoil it…you have to read it yourself.

So I’m hoping to bring some enlightenment and excellence to my life. Or at the very least learn how to ‘melvin’ death.

I can’t express enough how overjoyed I am to see that Beavis and Butthead has returned to TV. Not only on MTV2 but I saw them on Comedy Central as well. It takes me way back to my days of being a college freshman, living away from home for the first time. Much simpler times those days were. Jello shots, 5 o’clock vodka, intramural basketball, alternative music, football games and skipped classes…

It’s also nice to see television once again playing quality programming that is completely not based on reality…

You know I’m really surprised that people even visit this site anymore. The writing sucks. And quite frankly it’s even boring to me. But people will come…ok - sorry about the cheesy movie line. But it is my home state after all, and its not like I haven’t used the occasional movie quote now and then.

But seriously, some people still come here almost everyday. Some people drop by weekly, some are more rare than that. And I just don’t understand the attraction.

I hope you all realize just how obsessed you are with me.

In the past 5 years I’ve been to a lot of concerts. And I do mean a lot…had I not spent so much money on tickets, parking, beer and occasionally food at these shows, I probably could have a nicer car in my garage, or at least a larger savings account at this point. The latter of which I could really use right now, but I digress.

But do I regret spending all that money on what will essentially be only a glint in my aging memory? Fuck no!! The fact of the matter is that kicking it at awesome concerts has been one of the only things keeping me alive….

I’m thinking of this becuase of about three reasons. One, there is good show going on right now, as I type, that I’m not at - anyone who knows Dropkick Murphys knows what I’m talking about. Second , one of my favorite bands, Staind, just announced another show coming to my area in Nov. Hopefully I will be able to go to that one. Third, last wednesday I attended an incredible show from Green Day and Jimmy Eat World, which was my second great show in as many weeks.

Its a good thing I bought tix for both shows a long time ago, because if I waited I wouldn’t have been able to go to both. So previously, I was thinking that Staind was the loudest concert I was ever at. Seriously my ears were ringing for at least a couple of days. But last weeks Green Day gave it run for the money. But Staind was outside and Green Day was inside, so I guess Aaron Lewis and the boys get the nod on that call.

So on Saturday, I found myself at a college tailgater, someplace I never thought I would be at again. Well not in this state at least. It was just as I had remembered it. It made me long for the days of books and big-breasted co-eds. Life was a lot simpler back then. You could live off of checks from the government under the guise of “getting an education” and you rarely had to work more than 20-30 hours per week. Oh, I guess you had to show up for a class every now and then.

But back to the tailgater, it was a great time. Don’t be surprised if you happen to come across of pictures of me doing a beer bong somewhere on the internet. That was actually the first time in a while (a few weeks) that I have actually had a beer. I was doing good at not drinking, and I was actually losing weight too. Of course its a lot easier to do those things when you can’t afford food or alcohol.

But I thought I could take a break from my straight and narrow path to enjoy a saturday evening with some friends.

I haven’t been inspired to write much of anything lately. So today I was wondering what I could say to get back on track. Then I realized that it is my nature to make simplistic observations about the world that most people either don’t think about or don’t want to admit too. For instance, how come its perfectly okay to ask someone a question like “why are you such a quiet person?”, but to ask someone “why are you such a loud person?” is taken for the most part as offensive, or un-pc.

Why is that? It’s a perfectly honest question. I, for one, being a part of the quieter crowd would really like to know the answer to this question.

So this is my nature. To make observations without taking sides or being malicious or being overly enthusiastic. You might say that its just information gathering.

But anyway, in light of this affliction, I felt like I should share my observations with others, so that they may be enlightened, or at least have something to read for a few minutes. But I would ask that anyone who reads them to not take them too seriously, because as I said, they are just observations from one man’s point of view.

So I guess I’ll call these little segments “Moments of Delirious Clarity”.

We just might learn something.

So I’m watching Weezer perform last night, and they went into Say It Ain’t So, so I stood up from my chair to really get into it, and all of a sudden a bottle of Miller Lite falls from the sky right into the seat directly to the right of me, bounced of the chair and shattered on the concrete below. Fortunately the seat was empty. It was of course empty because I had also purchased that seat a few months back until the person who was to go with me, cancelled (fucker). I therefore sold the ticket to a scalper outside the door right before I went inside.

So I do believe that I just saved someone’s life. Or at least from serious head trauma. I never thought I had it in me.

But back to the show, how spectular it was to see two of the all-time greatest bands in the history of music perform on the same stage for just under four hours straight. I thought going in that my first live experience of Weezer might overshadow my third time at a Foo Fighters show. But Dave Grohl was not to be outdone. As good a band as Weezer is, they just don’t rock like the Foo Fighters. Of course Dave could have cut back a little bit of the chit-chat, as he likes to have extended ‘conversations’ with the crowd. They could have easily played three to four more songs if he had just shut the fuck up. But he’s the man, and its his show so my opinion doesn’t really matter.

But anyway, whenever the Foo Fighters becomes defunct, and lets hope thats not anytime soon, look for drummer Taylor Hawkins to be heading his own band. He sings one of the songs on their new album, In Your Honor (that’s the album name, not the song. I don’t know what the name of the song is), and he also performed it last night. And that guy has some talent.

Speaking of drummers, even the drummer for Weezer got to sing a song last night too when he sang on Photograph. Although I guess his mom never told him that vertical (not horizontal) stripes on your shirt make you look tall and thin…and I think it was one of the same shirts that my mom bought me in third grade. But that is the geekiness of the band, and you have to love them for it. Every member of Weezer sang at least once, which I thought was pretty cool.

So I can’t even think of any words to further explain how awesome this show was. There is truly nothing like a live concert to take oneself away from the world for a few hours. It almost feels like one of those TV commercials for Calgon, you know the ‘calgon, take me away‘ ones.

But now I’m back into the real world, which truly sucks.

Okay, so I just got home from the best concert ever, Foo Fighters and Weezer, but instead of talking about that right now, I feel that I have to say something about this instead. I just happened to notice this little headline on the sidebar because Iowa is my alma mater, and a great university it is. However I feel a little ashamed of it at this moment because of this ridiculous article.

Why on earth would someone believe that the pink color of the opponent’s locker room is in any way demeaning to women or homosexuals? I mean this is basic psychology, not sexism. I mean let’s get to the root of the sterotype here. The stereotype is that the color pink represents women or homosexuals, right? So by arguing against a pink locker room, you are in fact supporting the steretype, verifying its legitimacy. Hence you are enhancing and perpetuating the very same stereotype that you are trying to abate. It makes no sense.

Now, the opponents of Iowa may argue that it is demeaning to them. After all football is a game for physicality and not passivity, which is what the color pink is meant is make them. And if some of the players on the opposing team happen to be women (it has happened) or homosexuals, then and only then, would this arguement be correct. But only to those particular people, not to a gender as a whole.

So the death threat that this law professor received was ignorant. I will agree with that. No person deserves that. Instead this professor deserves to be simply ignored, because SHE-IS-A-MORON. Now I don’t doubt that certain groups of people face negative stereotypes everyday. But I don’t believe this law professor is one of them. Instead of trying to fight a silly stereotype that she believes may have kept her from getting that extra $10,000 that a man would have gotten in the same job, she should try to keep rapists, murderers or child molesters off the street. Or at least something more constructive.

Perhaps by focusing on things that really matter, your ‘gender equity‘ will be acheived, or at least moving in the right direction. I don’t see people at Northwestern University arguing that it is demeaning to men to wear purple uniforms. And I do people purple is also another color that is generally steretyped with women.

Bottom line: a color is a color, a game is a game, and if you have a problem with that, than maybe you need a new profession. Or a new life, because you obviously fell off the track someone along the way.

I reviewed the last of my entries here and realized that I actually haven’t written anything since September 5th. That was a long time ago. So what have I been doing? Here’s a quick breakdown:

• Been working at a job for the last month or so that is completely mind-numbing. Seriously not a challenge to be found in the entire building. But at least it keeps me busy, and at although it is still only a contract job, I am almost assured to get a regular position. Although I really hope that I’m not deparate enough to do that.
• Been waiting for the season premieres of my favorite shows. I have the calendar marked for Alias and Smallville next thursday. Arrested Development already premierred this past monday. My rating? Funny as hell as usual…although the best episodes usually don’t come from them until about mid season. This might be the last season that I, or anyone else for that matter, watches Alias. The pregnancy issue with Ms. Garner has already taken its toll, and we haven’t even seen a new episode yet. I guess all good things have to end sometime.
• Trying to lose weight again. It seems I go in this cycle about every 2 months or so. I gain 10 lbs…I lose 10 lbs…seriously….this can’t be good for my body. But lately I’ve realized that none of my clothes fit me anymore. Nothing was more telling than when I bought a jersey for my basketball league. I ordered a large, which I figured would be plenty big, because I usually buy mediums. However it was rather snug…so either I’ve gained more than I’m aware of or they just don’t make larges that large anymore….
• Last Friday I spent an excruciating number of hours at a bar which features country music…however the party I was with insisted on staying until close. I’ve never been more happy that bars close at 2am…I spent the next 12 hours straight listening to Slipknot just so I could feel right again.
• My fantasy football team is 1-0-1. I’ve scored the second or third most points in my league in two weeks, but have one fucking tie to show for it. I just happened to play the team with the most points in the league. Ties should not be allowed. Seriously…what the fuck is that?