1. how many "serious" joggers think about how they look when they run. Not their workout gear, but how they actually look when they're out on the street or sidewalk running. Now note that I say "serious" and not serious runners. Serious runners, marathon competitors and such, they run with a clean, easy-on-the-eyes gait because it physically improves their performance, they can't be running like a three-legged hippo that just dropped acid and had an air horn blown in their face. Your regular, but not competitive runners...well, I wonder if they think about just how much like that they sometimes look. Sure, sometimes you only see them at the end of a run and they're gassed, but, c'mon, you know what I'm talking about. The one that runs like they're on wet ice wearing sneakers made of snow. Arms at their sides. Arms flailing wildly. I'm not knocking their effort, heck knows it would do me some good to run again, but I do wonder if some of those with ungainly gaits ever think about how odd they look.
2. why some guys walk into a bathroom, flush the urinal, take care of business, and then walk to the sink to wash, not flushing it again. I mean, this is just so wrong on so many levels. Do they flush the toilet at home, then do their thing, get up, and go wash their hands without flushing, leaving a little treat for the next person to use the bathroom? What do they think they're accomplishing by flushing a clean urinal? If they do it because the last person to use it was someone like them, do they think, 'Eww...geez, looks like somebody can't be bothered to flush, gross *flush*'...and then they don't flush. Is it psychological? Are they born with it or do they learn it from someone? Do they just not understand the concept? Do they think that they shouldn't touch the handle after taking care of things? Well, guess what? It's too late, because you just touched the handle with your previously clean hands that a zillion other guys just touched after taking care of things and then touched all over yourself. Whatever the reason, I don't want to go to the bathroom at their house.
3. why so many European bands, that put so much effort into performing in English when it's clearly not their native language (judging by their grammar and spelling), can do a generally passable job of it, but simply cannot pronounce v's as v's and not w's. I must have a dozen songs about "wisions" and it's "wery" tiring. I don't want to sound xenophobic or whatever, but you are singing in English, that is the choice you made and I can still enjoy your music a lot, but it's like a fingernail on the blackboard just about every time. It's a v. It's pronounced v...not w. It's like you put in all this time to learn the language and write songs that make sense in that language and you put out a CD and you have a producer and a label and an engineer...someone please just point out that they're mispronouncing one letter. Would it be Ok if they always pronounced D's ad M's? No, so why does this one get a pass? I do understand the why of it, I don't need a lesson on that, I just mean, you've gone 99 yards, why not go that one more?
4. what Cirque du Soleil would have to do to get critics and newspapers not to rave about it being 'can't miss' and 'spectacular' and 'captivating'. Slaughter bunnies wholesale by running them over with a steamroller? Shoot poisoned darts into the crowd? Punch every attendee in the face with brass knuckles? Not show up? It seems like no matter how dull or incomprehensible it is, the reviews just rave all the harder, desperate to not be thought of as 'not cool' or 'not getting it'. It doesn't make a lick of sense, people. They can try to say it's about this or that, but without someone explaining it to you, it doesn't make any more sense than Obama without a teleprompter. Such has the mystique become that they could put a bear on a motorcycle (Hello, Clark's Trading Post!) surrounded by three 'sad' clowns sitting on stools eating popcorn balls on sticks for an hour and it would get raves lest anyone think the reviewer doesn't 'get' how this is a 'triumph!' of their latest 'masterpiece' entitled "Le Crayon Vert". C'est magnifique, indeed.
5. how some people turn their brains off. Why is "dissent the highest form of patriotism" when a republican is in the white house, but "dissent is the action of an angry, racist, nazi mob" when a
6. if man (or woman) will walk on a non-manmade extraterrestrial body again in my lifetime.
7. why more people aren't eating at the Afghan Grille on Route 7 in the Peter Harris plaza in Latham. Go there now! If you have any interest in this type of food just go there! No, it doesn't look like much from the outside, but it's nice inside and coze with good service and amazing food. Get the lamb, get the chicken - get something! Support your local businesses, capital district residents, and this one is really worth it!
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