How long before Michelob Ultra comes in one of those sports bottles?

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You know you've reached a special point in a friendship when you go to the bathroom while on the phone with the person and you don't care if they realize what you're doing.

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My loser of the week: Smokey the Bear. Seriously, if there's one cause that died about ten years ago, it was forest fire prevention. What happened to all those commercials? Aren't there still horrible wildfires every few months in California? It makes sense though--there just isn't room for causes that everyone agrees on. Who wants to start a forest fire? Of the people that do, is a talking bear that wears slacks going to convince them not to? Nina says Smokey's still kicking up in Canada. I need to get up there and check it out. I've been trying to get to the bottom of this for a couple weeks now.

If you go to www.smokeybear.com, you'll learn that he's actually just Smokey Bear, the "the" was added to his theme song because they needed another syllable. The collection of posters is also funny--these are some depressing, guilt-ridden fucking posters. My God. Fascinating shit.


Pre-smokey creepy stuff; Smokey and his patented depressing guilt-trip for the American public.

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The OC is worthless crap. It's entertaining, yes, but basically everyone is worthless. It pisses me off. Seth is fine, I think he realizes how retarded his world is. I've seen parts of the show before, but tonight I watched most of the episode. I think this is it--the older I get the more I hate rich people. Not people with money, but rich people. I think it was...who was it...Torto maybe? Maybe Eli...maybe Ray...whatever. But someone said, I believe about Greg Hart, that it was shame he was too rich too ever understand how big of a dick he is. I never had the pleasure of meeting Greg Hart, but by all accounts he was a huge prick. Still, that's not the point; but isn't there just something revolting about seeing people who, even if they might mean well, will just never be able to get it. Isn't that the thing that makes Paris Hilton's trainwreck of a life so amusing? Would I be bitching about this if I didn't just spend four years at Harvard?

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I've been too lazy to do a proper write-up, but here are my top 6 albums of 2003. Not included are the White Stripes, because, as I have told anyone who will listen, I think they're incredibly overrated (they're two fucking people! get a fucking bass guitar!). Also omitted is OutKast, because while I am a white rock 'n roll fan who likes to think they follow music closely, I'm not a white rock 'n roll fan who's desperate to like a trendy crossover hip-hop outfit. "Hey Ya" is good, but otherwise I'm not interested (same goes for the Roots, Black-Eyed Peas, et al).

Another note: Nada Surf's album was released stateside last spring, but in the fall of 2002 in Europe...I'll let it go, but Interpol, which released their debut in the fall of 2002, isn't in the list because of that (otherwise it'd be top 5 probably). Nitpicking aside:

1. Think Tank / Blur
2. Hail to the Thief / Radiohead
3. Lovers / The Sleepy Jackson
4. Let Go / Nada Surf
5. Room on Fire / The Strokes
6. Logic Will Break Your Heart / The Stills