The Politics of Dreamland

The envelope that my registration renewal came in has the sentence, "Please drive safely and wear your seatbelt" right above a copy of Governor Corzine's signature. If THAT isn't "do as I say, not as I do," I'm not sure what is.

I bought pants at Target the other day, and I was reminded (as I usually am when I'm trying on pants) of how, when I was a kid, you could just walk right into the fitting room without taking a number or anything. Yeah, I know they started that system to prevent theft, but wasn't it so much simpler back in the good old days? (Man, now I'm starting to sound like a Republican! :P)

On my way out, I noticed that one of those stupid magazines at the checkout line (I forget which one) had a cover with pictures of Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan, and some caption that included, "Where are their parents?" Wait, aren't they both legal adults? I tried to check the wording of the caption at the drugstore this morning, but they didn't seem to have that issue. They did, however, have two different covers mentioning that Jordin Sparks loves her body. I probably wouldn't even get what they were talking about if it weren't for Dorothea telling me a few days ago that someone on the radio said she was fat. You know, I don't remember that being an issue with Ruben Studdard. Stupid American media and their double standards.

I had a dream the other day where I was at some event (possibly for school) that involved a lot of different political figures, including Al Gore, Rudy Giuliani, and Robert Byrd. I shook hands with Gore at one point, but his hand was really big, and I was unable to move it. There was also something about a water cooler falling apart, and the cooler part was so heavy that they needed someone with super strength to lift it. I forget whether Giuliani fixed it, or he just happened to be around during that part of the dream. Later on, we had to go into an auditorium, and some speaker on stage kept telling us to switch seats. He was really hard to hear at first, but eventually the crowd quieted down, and he told us we could come up and do something (what, I don't remember, and I'm not sure he even said) to get a free coffee. I didn't want to, but bethje (who wasn't even in the rest of the dream) told me I should. And it was right around then that I woke up. There was also another dream where I was outside Beth's house on a snowy day, and a bunch of people had to help me get the car out of the parking lot. When I reached the road, there were very few breaks in traffic, and a bunch of cars were driving on the shoulder. I noticed Beth's cat Wally running around right near the street, and I tried to stop and get him, but I wasn't having much luck. Fortunately, it was right around then that Beth called and woke me up.

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On the Record

Both the tmbg and ladypilot communities have mentioned upcoming vinyl releases. I wouldn't think there would be that much of a market for that kind of thing nowadays, but apparently there's enough of one, because I've seen other recent albums on vinyl as well. I know a lot of people say vinyl records sound better, and that might be true if they're in pristine condition (I've never done a comparison myself, but I assume the audiophiles know what they're talking about), but the fact that you can't listen to them without running a needle over them means they're not going to remain in that condition for very long. And when I think about it, it's kind of weird when you have some people predicting the end of physical recording media, yet there's still a significant number of consumers who are clamoring to buy new albums in a basically obsolete physical format. Personally, I haven't had a record player in years. I used to have one as a kid, but I pretty much stopped using it once we got a cassette player. I think it no longer works, or my mom gave it away, or both. I wouldn't mind getting a new one someday, but I doubt I'll be buying The Else on vinyl.

Recently, I've been going back and tagging old entries. I'd already done that when LiveJournal first introduced tags, but I later thought of a few more I wanted to use, so I started going back and applying them. That was about a year ago, and I think I've finally finished. I don't intend to do it again, though, so you'll have to be content with the current tags on my old posts. While going through, I occasionally fixed typos or links. More often than not, however, the links were totally dead, which sucks for archiving purposes. I doubt anyone is looking at those old posts anyway, though. When I add a new person as a friend on LJ, I'll usually read all of the posts that are currently on their front page, but no more, barring exceptional circumstances (e.g., a tag that I find particularly intriguing, or a link in a new post to an old one). I would imagine that a lot of other people don't even do that. I guess the newer tags were more for my own benefit than anyone else's.

Well, now that I'm done cleaning up my old journal entries, I should probably start cleaning up my actual room. Really, it's not that bad, but I still need to go through the stuff my mom brought over on her last visit.