John's Journal

While running errands earlier today, I was listening to the radio -- WINC-FM, "the best songs on the radio!" Except not. This weekend they're playing tribute to the 1980s. I turned it off when they referred to the 80s as "the greatest decade," a claim so patently false that one hardly knows where to begin. Anyone who thinks the 80s was the greatest decade is stupid.

So I looked for my CD wallet, but it wasn't in the car; eventually I remembered taking it into my apartment last week. The only CD I had in the car was a mix I had burned that contained, exclusively, music from, yes, the 80s. In my defense, it's all *good* music from the 80s, which, despite its claim to the contrary, cannot be said of the 80s songs I heard on WINC-FM. They played "Manic Monday," for God's sake. And "Safety Dance." Whereas I was listening to XTC and Michelle Shocked. I won't pretend that all of the seventeen songs on my CD were better than the first seventeen 80s songs I heard on WINC-FM -- "She Drives Me Crazy" has not aged well, whereas "What You Need" is a great song -- but on balance I think my choices were superior to theirs.

One might well ask why I put a song I don't really like much, like "She Drives Me Crazy," on a CD that I created for myself. Rest assured that I had a good reason, but it's too complicated to get into right now.

I have digital cable now! So I'm celebrating by watching The Sting on TCM. I really should go to bed, since I have to get up at 5:45 tomorrow morning. Freaking sunrise service. But it's such a good movie!

Congratulations, you're rickets!

Caused by insufficient phosphorous, vitamin D and/or sunlight, you cause those unlucky enough to suffer you to have swelling in the joints, and bending of the longer bones (such as those found in the legs) in growing children.

You're not very prevalent in affluent societies any more - but don't worry, there's always the third world!

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Heh. Rickets. That's like one step up from "the vapors."