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...get yerself a brand new motor car!  (More on Styx in a future blog post, btw...)

IT'S A GAS, GAS, GAS!
For the first time since I dunno when, I paid $1.37 a gallon for gas today.  At this rate, I figure gasoline oughtta be free by Christmas, and by Ground Hog Day, '09, the oil companies will be paying US to pump gas!  All the while, the economic "experts" out there are trying to tell me that low gas prices are a bad thing.  Fuck you!

THEN AGAIN...
...these are the same people who went apeshit at the end of trading yesterday on the New York Stock Exchange when they heard President-elect Obama was going to name Timothy Geithner as his Treasury secretary.  The market was floundering before that, then suddenly made a 500-point gain in less than three hours.  I'm not sure, but I believe the one fatal flaw of the stock market is the reactionary nature of it, don't you?  All it takes is some rumor to send all them traders into a veritable tizzy...

AIN'T THAT PECULIAR...
...that my alma mater Raytown South beat last night in the Missouri Class 5 semi-finals?  That would be Raymore-Peculiar High School that the now-mighty Cardinals football team defeated 27-18 on Friday night in the state football playoffs.  The Big Red will now face either Jackson, MO or Hazelwood East (both of whom have worse records than Ray-South) in the Big Show next weekend.  All I gotta say is, beat them turkeys—whoever they are!

AT LEAST...
...their game was far more riveting than tonight's big showdown between Texas Tech and Oklahoma, during which OU blew the collective doors off the Red Raiders, 65-21.  This game was over by the end of the first quarter, and now the Big 12 South division is a mess—each division leader has one loss.  Oklahoma lost to Texas, who lost to Texas Tech, who lost to Oklahoma.  Who the hell wins this thing?!?

Meantime, it seems like every Top 25 game in college football today was a blowout, but yours truly is rejoicing in Notre Dame losing to Syracuse 24-23 today.  These days, losing to the dreaded Orangemen is like getting beat by the cast of "The Facts Of Life" (Mrs. Garrett included)!  Pitiful...pity-ful...

PUT A SOCK IN IT!
Again, I ask the question why does the U.S. news media always air these videotapes done by these Muslim assholes denouncing America?  Why is it every time ol' Mukka-Lukka Al So-And-So from Iran, Iraq or Afghanistan whips out a video and bad-mouths our country, it's headline news on CNN and Faux News Channel?  In case you TV news idiots out there haven't figured it out yet, this is exactly what these fuckers want—free publicity!

CLASSIC MISHEARD LYRIC #101
"In The Air Tonight"—PHIL COLLINS (1981)  "The pain still grows..."  I originally misinterpreted this as "the pain's too gross..."

IF AN NFL NETWORK FALLS IN THE WOODS...
...and no one hears it, does anyone care?  Evidently, the battle rages on between the National Football League and Compost—er uh, Comcast—over where Comcast places the NFL's esteemed network in their digital channel lineup.  Sorry, kids, but I have no desire to pay extra for this superfluous channel.  The live Thursday night games they air are generally bland (Cincinnati at Pittsburgh?) and the rest of their programming day is just a three-hour tape loop.  At least they got rid of Bryant Gumbel, so that's a step in the right direction...