Just watching the Brit awards. I TiVo'd it. Okay I didn't TiVo it because I have a cheaper, Canadian version of a TiVo. Should I be capitalizing it that way? I don't know really, it just seemed right. I'd be surprised if that's right. Why the hell did I capitalize it that way? Who knows, anyway on with what the hell I was going to say... what was it...

Oh yeah. Prince. He just performed on the Brit awards and did four songs. I really have to hand it to that little guy. He seems gay, but I don't think he is. He's the gayest not gay person I've ever seen. Anyway I think he's fantastic. He had an all girl band (except for the bass player; token male) playing with him, and they were so good live that I found myself really getting into the fact that they were female and so good. Why is that? Why should it make a differrence? Don't know. Hope you weren't looking for something profound there. They were hot, that's all I know. But the hottest of all was the drummer. I couldn't take my eyes off her. Then at the end of the last song (Let's go Crazy, one of my earliest rock solo guitar influences because it has this ROCKING guitar solo at the end using a crybaby wah pedal) he introduced her. It was Sheila E. Wow. I now want to go find every Sheila E. album ever made. Did she make more than one album? Who knows. She's hot, that's all I know. Great drummer too.

But what amazed me about Prince was how good he was live. His vocals were bang on (no he wasn't lipsynching, I have a very sensitive lip-synch detector) He does this falsetto vocal that cascades off into weird riffs and runs and goes right back into a scream or a softer vocal. Very cool. He was duet singing with one of his backup singers, sharing the same mic and he gave her what looked like an impromptu kiss on the cheek. I liked that. It was funny too, because the whole time she was staring at him like she was in love. I always wonder how much of that stuff is planned.

Anyway he's very short, and one of the presenters that came on later mentioned that he spotted Prince back stage sleeping in his shoe.

Cool.

I mean, really! Don't they know I like to have a relaxing beer or two after a hard day's Monday? Sometimes I need a beer after work, and when I come home it's much more convenient to drop in to a store when it's on the right. Not the left. The left means you have to pull in, do an annoying left turn, get your stuff, do another annoying left turn, then continue on your way. It would be FAR easier to drop in to a nice Beer Store on the right, pull in, and pull out. No lights, no waiting. But noooooo I can't do that because there isn't anything on the right. Only the left. What's with that?? Come to think of it, I don't think there are any stores of any kind on the right. They're all on the left. It's some kind of conspiracy! Help me out here! I need my beer on the right. It's my right.

Hey, did you guys know there's an asteroid the size of a stadium heading for Earth in 30 years? Cool. Doesn't even sound big, does it? But that's the charm with these pesky asteroids. They don't have to be big. You see, they don't even hit us. We bump into them. The Earth is moving around the sun at about 30,000 miles per hour, and when you smack into something at that speed, you smack good. Bullets only go a few hundred miles per hour. And there's none of this "whooosh.... trail of fire.... big plummeting asteroid as we watch in horror" stuff either. The atmosphere is only about 20 miles thick, so when something plows through it at 30,000 miles per hour or more (depending if it's moving toward or away from us) you don't get to see it coming. It's just BLAMMO.

Apparently it will do some pretty good damage too. Likely to land in the middle of the Pacific and cause tsunamis that make the recent disaster look like a playground pool. Neat what you miss in the news when it's full of hurricanes and Iraq. Anyway, NASA's not really doing anything about it just now. They're busy getting ready to land on the moon... again. Hm. Almost makes one question George W. Bush's priorities on several levels doesn't it? But don't worry, there's time to evacuate. But it'll be a shame losing all the property across the entire West coast of North America. Hey, I'm from Canada... maybe we can load up the Canadarm with some rockets and send it up there to push the asteroid away. Or maybe we can launch a Tim Horton's coffee shop and land it on the rock. The drive thru traffic might cause it to deflect. Oh I'm all out of ideas.

Have a nice day!

The blog name speaks for itself, doesn't it? Yeah I know. I haven't felt like writing in a long time, and I still don't, but I'm hungry, and waiting for the food to be done so I can eat it.

I'm on another health kick, trying to cut out all the red meats and fatty foods. It's a real chore, and hard to come up with interesting things to much on. It doesn't help, either, that I get so ravenous when I get home from work... especially when I've been eating things only cows and bunny rabbits eat. Today though I have a pile of mixed vegetables and some cod fillets simmering in a pool of leek soup. I have no idea what it will taste like but right now even that sea monkey tank is looking tasty. It'd be like seafood broth with little wriggly bits. Mmmmmmm.

Hope y'all are doing fine. Me and my stomach have some work to do now. Growwwl.