Or I guess that works too.
Today Sid Dickens walked onto the floor (he has descended for about a week from his fancy-pants home deep in the Haida Gwaii to make the final touches on the Spring 2007 collection). He sniffed the air and said, "Oh, it smells so good in here! Like oranges!"
And here was I thinking it smelled like an impending autoimmune disease and eventual death.
They've got me coming and going....
So, in a well-intentioned attempt to keep people from being burdened by guilt in his sermon this morning, Eric gave me two reasons to feel guilty about feeling guilty...
1.It's unhealthily self-obsessive. Guilt requires one to sit there thinking about oneself for long periods of time. Therefore it is selfish.
2.On a related note, it's unproductive. Guilty people aren't interested in helping others or doing useful stuff.
GAAAHHHHH!
A Facetious and Highly Incomplete Guide to Vancouver Radio
As I was listening to the radio at work today, it occurred to me that in the course of the past 2 months, I have acquired a certain familiarity with a few stations in this area; not one that I would necessarily choose, but there you are. This knowledge is hardly doing any good just rattling around in my brain, so I thought I would share it with you, dear reader, and thus hopefully also purge from it its power to irritate me. So without further ado...The Guide.
Jack FMDial Location:96.9
Content:A mishmash of bland inoffensiveness
Motto:Playing...what we WANT.
My Alternate Motto:Playing what the corporate office says we should. We and every other identical Jack station across North America. There are also some in the southern US that have a different male name, says Muffin, but that are clearly the same station because they also play "what they WANT".
Target Audience:Aging suburbanites who like to pretend that their biggest concern is still getting to third base, rather than paying for the bathroom renovation and treating their more-evident-by-the-day hair loss.
The FoxDial location: 99.3
Content: Mostly a lot of songs about pain
Motto: If it ROCKS....it's on...the Fox.
My Alternate Motto: We play music that has not yet stood the test of time! And probably won't!
Target Audience: tweens, and those who find the rampant misogyny droll and/or titillating
Rock 101Dial Location: 101.1
Content:Classic rock, and irritating morning show chitchat
Often Heard:You're NEVER more than 2 minutes away from more classic rock.
My Alternate Motto:You're NEVER more than 2 minutes away from yet another assurance that you're no more than 2 minutes away from another dang song, which may well be about pain.
Target Audience:Old guys with ponytails, and hipsters who assume that the rampant misogyny is intended to be ironic.
And, in the interests of a nonbiased sample, I thought I would include a radio station that I actually like, though it's certainly never played at work...
CBC Radio 2Dial Location:105.7
Content:Classical music, with the occasional tentative dip into the scary genre of world music, safely defanged through miscegenation with white people music.
Often heard:Pomposity
My Alternate Motto:We're desperately trying to conceal the fact that no one normal under the age of 50 finds us interesting.
Target Audience:Not people who talk like Danielle Charbonneau or Howard Dyck, strangely.
