To the gentleman I almost ran over this morning on Joseph Speciale Drive:
I’m really sorry. I didn’t see you, as you were standing right in the blind spot where the left side of my windshield has a support pylon. I was also concentrating on the oncoming traffic (I was waiting to turn left) because it is a blind turn.
So your nasty look and mouthed “Excuse me” was probably warranted. But I would suggest in the future that you not try to jaywalk across the road in front of someone’s car. 
It makes me wonder about first impressions. Did this guy in a business suit take one look at me, with my spiky hair, T-shirt, driving a Lexus with White Zombie blaring from the stereo, and come to a conclusion about my personality and character that is incorrect?
Who knows. But it’s worth pondering. Maybe he’s not an asshole most of the time, either. 
February 6th, 2004 at 11:01 am - Edit
Spiky hair, Lexus, White Zombie?
Man, if not for Kyle, I’d ask you to marry me.
February 6th, 2004 at 11:18 am - Edit
The real irony is that Kyle hates music like that. He also hates my Crystal Method, Apartment 26, and Nine Inch Nails albums.
February 6th, 2004 at 1:11 pm - Edit
The Crystal Method stuff you had on the other day wasn’t bad, it just wasn’t my cup of tea. NIN is kind of like Dostoevsky; I can admire the technical competence of the art while being repelled by its sense of life.
But you’re right that we each have some musical tastes that the other finds incomprehensible. I don’t get your attraction to rap, and you don’t understand why I listen to country & western. (Or, especially, filk. Filk is one of those things that you either ‘get’ or you don’t.)
February 6th, 2004 at 1:58 pm - Edit
Filk is funny, I’m just not interested in listening to it over and over and over, like you do.
And let me clarify my interest in rap. I like good rap, not that shit they play on the radio. That’s trash.
But “Fome is Dape” by Little T and One Track Mike, that’s good stuff.
Hy-po-chon-dri-ac!
I’m back with a sore buttcrack.
I got scabies
And rabies
And hair on my back
Oh help me doctor, I’m illin’,
My heart is failin’
I’m retainin’
Water, start bailin’
Me Out! I think I might have gout!
Whenever I eat, my teeth fall out my mouth!
Brilliant.
February 7th, 2004 at 7:18 pm - Edit
Cobalt introduced me to an old industrial band named Foetus. If you like heavy + harsh (like White Zombie and NIN) and don’t mind further outraging Kyle’s tender sensibilities
I recommend it.
My favorite albums are “Hole”, “Sink”, and “Thaw”.
– TTK