my new internet addiction is McSweeney's Open Letters To People Or Entities Unlikely To Respond

i have nearly choked on my water, snorted a few times and regularly laughed out loud this evening while reading these letters, but this one is by far my favourite.... well so far anyway.

Dear Umlaut,

You think you're so damn cool, huh? Just hanging out, chillin', above all those vowels. You're all, "Ooh, look at me, I'm a chic umlaut. I make girls' names look modish, like Zoë and Chloë, and I rock with strung out '80s metal bands!"

Well, guess what? You're only an umlaut if you're modifying the pronunciation of a singular vowel, like in "Führer" or "über." If you're stressing the second of two consecutive vowels or one that would usually be silent according to common English usage, you're just a plain old boring dieresis. How 'bout that, you naïve jackass? God, you're such a poseur, umlaut. You're nothing but two measly dots. You're a Eurotrash colon lying down. Nobody thinks you're cool.

Sincerely,
Josh Abraham
Kew Gardens, NY

"An Open Letter to My Deep Fear That My Girlfriend Will Be Really Fat Later in Life" should also get an honorable mention.

So I really haven't been keeping up with blogging lately. I was even considering just heading off to bed, and ignoring this slight urge to blog, as i have been doing every day for the last week or so. Instead as the current season of 24 finishes, I think I might as well sit up and write at least something....why the hell not?
Season 2 of the OC finished last night. With a lump in my throat and tears in my eyes, I pounded on the keyboard in frustration to rachel, who was blubbering over at her computer. I was actually quite shocked with the ending, was surprised it ended when it did (I was sure there would be another few minutes)... but no, it just ended. What a cliffhanger!

I have this sinking feeling in my stomach, like my life is slowly being emptied of everything which I hold dear. Of course I'm just being overdramatic and lame, because what I'm talking about is all my favourite tv shows coming to an end.

First there was Lost, then Veronica Mars, now the OC. Desperate Housewives is about to finish and Cindy and I are just about finished Angel as well. Actually I finished off the final few discs of Angel season 5 when I was sick the other month(?) and had a few days off. I've also finished Alias season 2 the other weekend but luckily I can borrow season 3 off rach's brother and can prolong the inevitable for a little bit longer.

I did, however buy a few dvds recently, including Firefly and Arrested Development, so im looking forward to some lazy weekends coming up. And I'm starting to get hooked on House and the new season of 24, and Grey's Anatomy is starting on tv soon. I've seen Grey's Anatomy mentioned on many LJ community's and forums in the past, but I'm not actually sure what it is about or if its any good. thoughts anyone?

TV seems to be the biggest thing in my life at the moment. How sad. I have, however been getting out and saw a couple of bands recently. And August is going to be a busy month - 4 Little Birdy shows (Tegan & Sara are supporting), and possibly the Bravery gig. I really better stop spending money on booze, clothes and dvds, because I KNOW i'll want to go merchandise crazy.

Last friday I went along to the Zoo and saw End of Fashion. the support band, Tambalane was amazing as well, and when they started playing an awesome cover of Get Back, my knees buckled and I fell in love with them there and then. I promise I will buy their EP and future CDs... after I recover from August's expenditures. Cindy actually got free tickets to that gig as she was reviewing it for Faster Louder. How cool is that? Read her review here.

Saturday night, I went out to dinner at the Vietnamese. MMMM it was so good, except for the quail. Sure, it was kinda tasty (tho personally I think it had less taste than chicken), but its just so damn small and a pain in the ass to eat. really not worth the hassle. After dinner and a decent amount of wine, we were off to see Evermore play in the Valley mall (The Valley Fiesta was that weekend). I can't really tell you much about them as the annoying crowds, full of emo boys and 16 year old girls with funkier hair than me, distracting me the whole time. They sounded ok, but I saw jack squat. Instead I found myself glaring at everyone who pushed their way through the crowd, thinking horrible, judgemental thoughts at them all.
We gave up after Evermore finished and heading back to our local where it was much quieter and the jukebox ate all of our money while only playing 1 of our selected songs. There must be serious money in Jukeboxes. I complained to the bar girl and a woman at the bar overheard me and piped up. She owns a few bars and said that this happens all the time. But the drunkards keep feeding their dollars into the slot and their songs are rarely, if ever played. Of course most people are too drunk to notice and/or care, and the jukebox owners are probably laughing at us all while swimming in their giants vasts of money. Because I know I would be, if I was them.

Ok its late and my computer nearly froze before and I had horrible thoughts about losing my only half decent post I've bothered to make in days. If it was to be lost, I know I would never have the energy to try and retype this all, and my site will continue to fade into oblivion. So before that happens, i think i'm going to publish.

ps- we're having another work social club event this friday- LAWN BOWLS!!!! this is awesome for many reasons, but mostly because we get to finish work at 2pm, the lawn bowls club has cheap drinks and we have an awesome bbq meal planned, AND its close to my place. WOOT! we have plans to continue the drinking at a bar in the valley, but if/when I decide to pike and come back to my couch and my wonderful, ever growing dvd collection, I wont have far to go. yay for the simple things in life that make me happy, like never having to leave my inner city haven.
I've never played lawn bowls before, so it should be interesting.