Stuff I Don't Get

Who likes sour pickles? They're awful. No restaurants should ever serve them. Especially in light of how delicious dill pickles are. Do restaurants that serve sour pickles think that their customers might prefer the bite of the darker, soggier log of salty, fermented garbage? Because I can fearlessly guarantee that they don't. Sour pickles aren't the only items I've recently encountered that led me to ask myself: "why do these exist?" What kind of person opts for the big circular earrings that some guys wear that take up the entire earlobe? You know the ones, they look like the metal tags you get when you go to the Met. Well why would you do that to yourself? I find it very difficult to imagine anybody, regardless of gender, finding that look "hot." But I suppose that's what makes the world go round -from an incredibly uneducated and non-scientific perspective that is. On the subway yesterday I saw an advertisement for a suspenseful Da Vinci code-esque thriller entitled 'Brimstone'. The poster hyped the book up with this line: "How do you break a contract with the Devil? You Don't." Well that kind of takes some of the suspense out of the read. I guess we know things don't end up so well for the character who makes a pact with the devil. Then one of the reviews they posted boasted: "Fans of cerebral action adventure novels know that, outside of Michael Crichton, no one delivers the goods like the veteran writing team of Preston and Child." Who knew that between novels Michael Crighton writes reviews for Publisher's Weekly. Real subtle Mike. Real subtle.

I have my first New York Urban Professional Basketball League game tonight. Our team is called Exree Hipp, (prounounced X-Ray) after the former University of Maryland semi-standout. I'll be sure to post a play-by-play game log of the action tomorrow. Some people take the league way too seriously so I'm hoping to observe some amusing behavior over the course of the season. Also, I'll hate myself if we ever lose. For those keeping track at home you know my lunch date from Tuesday was rescheduled for this afternoon so I'd bets get going. Have a Thursday.