i am a lineman for the county

the title of today's blog comes to us courtesy of glen campbell's singularly shitty song, 'wichita lineman'. im having to listen to it at work right now. this song. IS. SO. BAD. it should become a mascot for really truly genuinely shitty songs.

the fourth most popular story on cnn.com right now is that britney spears's sister is pregnant.

time named its person of the year today, vladimir putin. runner up was al gore, third place runner up was j. k. rowling.

cnn.com, i know you're not listening. but incase you are.

BRITNEY'S SISTER = PREGNANT = NOT NEWSWORTHY = NO ONE FUCKING CARES.

time, i know you're not listening. but incase you are.

J. K ROWLING = 3RD PLACE FOR PERSON OF THE YEAR = YOU ARE MOTHERFUCKING KIDDING ME.

choral hymns + marimba = bad and wrong

there's a stereo radio playing where i work, its usually turned to either 99.9 KBFL, "the music of your life". if i'm unlucky, then its turned to KTTS (country) instead.

occasionally a patient asks if they could bring in a cd to put in, and the nurses say 'oh sure' and i cringe. i cringe because historically, this is a bad idea. some of the worst music ive ever heard has been brought in by patients.

and so here we are at work listening to dry hymns + piano, or for the sizzling opening track, dry hymns + marimba. this sounds like a homemade tape, but it does beat the quality on the last tape a patient brought in, which was 'folk about the plight of the school-teacher'-type novelty stuff, if i recall correctly.

on that last occasion, the heavens intervened and the stereo, posessed through what i can only attribute to divine intervention, attempted to eat the tape.

can a stereo eat a cd? this choral stuff is a cd. god i hope a stereo can eat a cd.

of course it could be worse. one time this douche brought in 'los lonely boys' and we had to listen to a couple of loops of that crap.