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All senses combined to make one easy-to-chew column
- By Kimball Bennion
- Trail Staff Writer
- First, an announcement. You are reading my 10th column. I’ve entered into the double digits and
I officially have nothing more to say. You’d be surprised, but coming up with about 500 words of nonsense on a weekly basis is tough.
My inspiration comes from various sources, mainly television and a brain that behaves like a focus group of junior high school students. Write what you know, that’s what I always say.
I get loads of ideas, but too many of them get filtered out because they can’t seem to exist beyond a sentence or two. Try as I might, I can’t milk out enough material from these mini epiphanies to make them into a whole column.
Well, this being the big “1-0”, I have decided that this is a great occasion for some of them to be read. Let’s call it “Uncommon sense: fun size.”
If you plan on unleashing an embarrassing anger/substance-influenced tirade in public for all to hear or see, make sure that you’re known for something much cooler than that before the actual incident. It makes it a lot easier for people to forgive you.
Whether or not certain people are racist is debatable. But whether or not Braveheart and Cosmo Kramer both rule are no-brainers.
A few thoughts concerning the iPod. Is it the best hand-held device with ear buds known to man? Yes. Is it also the most satisfying way to gradually lose your social life? Yes. Also, never let other people look at your iPod without close supervision.
I know it’s tempting to show off your vast 32GB collection of awesome music, but there’s always a few rotten apples that you probably forgot about.
No matter how impressive your library may seem, it only takes one “Wake me up before you go-go” to cancel all that out.
I’m excited about two new shows in particular, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip and The Nine. Not just because they’re good shows, but more because these two shows have reunited television audiences with the Hackett brothers. Brian and Joe Hackett, played by Steven Weber and Timothy Daly respectively, were two characters from the show Wings who ran a small-town airport. It was kind of like Taxi, but with airplanes, no Andy Kaufmann and two brothers doing the work of one Judd Hirsch.
When Wings went off the air it was rare to see both Hacketts on TV at one time. But finally, Brian’s a network executive and Joe’s a detective who went through a horrific hostage situation. They may call themselves by different names, but they’ll always be the Hacketts to me.
You know how Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon syncs up with The Wizard of Oz? I think the same thing is true of The Beatles’ Revolver and The Princess Diaries. Don’t ask me how I found that out, I just did.
If you feel burned out from studying, go lift some heavy boxes. It keeps you motivated to stay in school.
And that makes 520. Now for some quality time at the middle school cafeteria, I need to get inspired.
- Trail Staff Writer