Pandemonium Cheesecake

Why do people insist on leaving their houses when driving on the streets is an adventure? You would think the sheets of ice on the road would keep people in. Churches across the state were closed, and when churches in the south are closed due to weather, you know its bad. Do you really need that $4 mocha and to sit around and ruin my magazines? Why can't you stay home and let me enjoy an extra day of vacation? Is it really so hard to spend more than one day trapped in your house? What are you going to do during the zombie apocalypse? You can't run out for a paper and a muffin when the undead roam the streets. You say you have a 4-wheel drive. Big effin' deal. Having 4-wheel drive doesn't mean you can drive up the side of glacier like you think you can. It doesn't make you a better driver either. I saw as many Toyotas in ditches as I did pick up trucks. Plus, you're a southerner. You don't know how to drive in the snow, you barely know how to use a turn signa...

Long Island ruined me. Growing up there, listening to WBAB [a classic rock radio station] led me to believe that Billy Joel was among the elite in rock music. Their dependance on William Joel's weak-ass catalog robbed me from learning just how good artists like David Bowie, Queen, The Who and Elton John really were. Not to mention ignoring some of the giants of rock that get ignored by most radio stations, the Stooges, Velvet Underground and the Clash. You never hear 'The Entertainer', 'Miami 2017' or 'The Ballad of Billy The Kid' on the airwaves anywhere else except on Long Island. 'Piano Man' is the only song heard at 5pm on Fridays on any station and a wedding on the Island isn't complete without either 'She's Got A Way' or 'Just The Way You Are' [which is possibly the wussiest song in the history of rock music]. Don't believe me? Really listen to the song, I mean really listen like you didn't grow up on the Island...

The TV season starts up again. Thank god. The holiday break maybe be a bit too long but it splits the season up into two parts. That way you get two cliffhangers if you are lucky. Some of the shows I'm most looking forward to: Leverage (tbs) - a great show. Lots of fun. There is a major cast change. Jeri Ryan joins the cast. Which means at least one episode will contain at least one Star Trek reference, if not an entire episode. Castle - best chemistry on TV. Castle and Beckett are great. Here's hoping they never jump the shark with the two of them sleeping together. American Idol - it starts with six car wrecks. Then a month of boring team singing and empty stages until you get to the final 12. That's when the fun starts. Sanctuary (scifi) - because everyone needs to watch at least one bad show with substandard green screen graphics and lousy fake English accents. The Big Bang Theory - the show that anyone with a shred of geekness needs to worship. Dr. Sheldon Cooper is th...

2010, the year I turn 40. That's just scary. A fifth decade on earth is just starting. Let me sum up the past 4 decades in a few words. The 70s. Atari 2600 and my grandmothers basement. The 80s. High school and lots of trouble. The 90s. Paying back everything caused by said trouble. The 00s. Dated some. Did little else. The good news is the last decade shouldn't be that hard to top. All I would have to do is grow a single pepper or tomato plant to maturity and blammo. That's the longest I've ever kept a plant alive. Although this is not completely my fault. I inherited my mothers black thumb. Its helped me kill every plant I own. I'm pretty sure I would kill kudzu if you put it in my apartment. Nothing survives. You think something would flourish after all the slashing & burning. Right now I am watching Tim Tebow and the Gators dismantle Cincinnati. Games like this are the perfect argument about why non-BCS schools shouldn't play for the National Championshi...