For Real?!

I was just doing a pre-bedtime perusal of Facebook, and one tidbit jumped out at me to a degree where I felt an immediate blog post was necessary. One classmate who shall remain nameless had a status update that read as follows, and I quote: "i wish i knew more DMB fans at SLU." Now, for the uninitiated, DMB refers to Dave Matthews Band, and SLU is street lingo for St. Lawrence University. Anyway, if you haven't recoiled due to the ridiculousness of that status already, this may not be the blog post for you. Let me endeavor to explain. There may be a college campus, somewhere, where Dave Matthews and his band are not appreciated or liked. It is not this campus. I would suggest that around one room out of say, 8, has a DMB poster on adorning the walls. If there was a way to know the 10 most common bands on people's iPods, than I would put serious money on DMB making the list. And why would you want to know more of them anyway? (Disclaimer: Cam Lownie quite enjoys DMB, and has lots of their music)

Also on the list of things that have made me invoke the title-referenced exclamation today: Glenn Beck. Instead of being a sort of silly/scary figure on my peripheries, he has moved right up there with Michael Moore and Bill O'Reilly on the list of people who need to seriously go away. He's only been a member of Fox for about two months, but he's already the third most popular cable news host on television. Haven't seen him? You're missing out (I highly recommend watching this at least up until the point where he breaks down in tears). Populists like him are always irritating, but Beck is really, really, awful.

Connecticut. I'd always thought you were a decent state. Maybe not the world's most exciting place, but harmless enough. Then this happens. A middle school where touching is banned. No physical contact is allowed. I'm not even going to stoop to ranting or debating about this. If such a ban doesn't sound inherently wrong to you...

Finally. Unnecessary movie remakes always grind my gears, but this seems like a perfect storm of terribleness. I know that the point of the article is that there is not going to be a Footloose remake starring Zac Efron, but that the very idea was being considered makes me shouty. Although I do recommend watching the original, just for giggles.

I know that last paragraph seemed like a good place to end, but I do just want to point out that a couple of weeks after you read about it here, CNN is now running a story about the proliferation of pythons (alliteration!) in Florida.