bring it on in to omeletteville (and other random thoughts)

When I'm doing laundry, I like to pretend that the clothing manufacturers have added commas to their clothes' tags so that they would read:

wash with, like, colors

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My brother has a cackle of a laugh that, according to his wife, sounds evil and only comes out when he's talking with me.

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Remember that Weird Al song, Amish Paradise? No? Well, he wrote a parody of Coolio's Gangsta's Paradise (you know that one), but Coolio got offended and threatened to sue (I think) because he never agreed to it. The thing about this whole scenario is that, if you want to get technical, when Coolio created Gangsta's Paradise, he sampled Stevie Wonder's Pastime Paradise, so I don't think that Coolio had any right to get his panties in a twist about the whole thing.

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Does anyone ever actually use webdings?

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I can't stand the texting text that goes around: 2 = to or too (rarely two), U = you, R = are, ppl = people, etc. The worst one is UR, meaning your or you're. To me, Ur is (was) a city in Mesopotamia. Plus, kids are learning these things as valid substitutions for the actual English language. I've read some things that teens have written using these shortcuts, and it makes them seem mentally handicapped.

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To me, it's long been a mystery how certain people get to be on the radio when there are others with so much more talent who cannot seem to get a break in the music business. My friend's brother, who is the lead guitarist for a successful band, told her (my friend) that it's all about luck, fame can be fleeting, etc. What I honestly don't understand, though, is this influx of "artists" whose "talent" is nothing more than talking really quickly at the interval of a major 4th or a major 5th, depending on the "song". Is it too loud? Am I too old?

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I share a birthday with Billie Holiday, James Garner, Francis Ford Coppola, Jackie Chan, Russell Crowe, and Bill Bellamy.