Best Thing Since...

For those of you unable to read comments (and I feel for you, I really do. It's an awful condition, and the fact that there's not a nonprofit dutifully raising money for a cure is a travesty), my next assignment is to update the phrase "the best thing since sliced bread." Which has always been a suspect phrase, if you ask me. I mean, really, is sliced bread such an innovation? I mean sure, sandwiches and toast. Not the worst things in the world. But..."the best thing since the wheel" would be grander. The wheel is not only older (I'm pretty sure) than sliced bread, it also has more to show for itself than sandwiches and toast. NOT THAT I DON'T LIKE SANDWICHES AND TOAST. I'm just sayin'. Rolling is pretty cool.

Anyway, "the best thing since the wheel" makes more sense, I'm sure we all agree. But if I were updating the phrase, I'd want it to be hip and now, so I think I might go with "the best thing since Google." Or if I wanted to be really old school, "the best thing since sunlight."

If I were going for bringing it into the theme of this blog, and thereby perhaps scoring an extra point (and I feel your pain, non-comment-readers - how about "No Comment" as a non-profit name??) - the best thing since an oral med for MS. not that that exists, of course. I still have to jab myself with pointy things, and sometimes curse, every night. But once it springs into being, from the veritable forehead of some very smart scientist, I'll be coining the phrase, believe-you-me.

Amy's Decision 08! er, 9-26-08!

Where, or where to watch the debate? To watch at all? I feel like Christmas is coming, which sort of shows just how nerdy I am. But here are my options:

* Watch at home, alone
* Listen at home, but do not watch
* Try to organize a watch party (Graham, I'm lookin' at you)
* Watch at the Alamo South Lamar

I'm interested in the different experiences between watching and listening - I know that Kennedy was perceived to have been better than Nixon in part because of the visuals - but then again, the watching is what everyone else will be doing, and I want to have that extra visual information, since everyone else will have it.

Dilemmas...

Inciting me to post - a few ground rules

If you enjoyed that last post about broccoli but found it random, check the comments on the post prior to it. And once you figure it out, come back here and continue reading.


You back? Ok, good. So, if YOU want to incite me to post by suggesting topics, here are the rules:

1. If you are NOT Mel, you must be approved by Mel as a Post Inciter. Her decision is final - no appeals, no recourse.

2. Whether are not you are Mel, once approved, I will write on any topic suggested by a Post Inciter, but I insist that I get a week to produce the new post.

3. If there's a post suggested, nobody can suggest another post until I produce the required post, or until my week expires.

4. If my week expires and I don't produce...oh, I don't know, but it seems like there ought to be some kind of consequence, shouldn't there?

Broccoli...

I spent most of my life believing that I did not like broccoli. Of course, I had never tried it. That's sort of how it goes for me with food. I make a snap decision and then I stick by it. Broccoli looked complicated, smelled funny, and therefore I did not like it. I didn't have to actually eat it - I just knew.

Now, this could be a morality tale, and I could tell you that I eventually tried it, realized how much I loved it, regretted wasting so much of my life in a broccoli-less wasteland. And I could tell you that I learned my lesson, that now I'll try anything before deciding whether or not I like it.

But life is not so simple, nor authored by Disney. I did try broccoli, a few years ago - and...I didn't hate it. There are times when I really enjoy it, even. But I definitely have to be in the mood for it, and most of the time I do not want it.

And I still can't bring myself to try cauliflower.