Tubasaluki: Quoting music since 2003

So, the day after I went on about how newspapers are hurting because you can get sudoku and Pearls Before Swine, for free, online…I started subscribing to the newspaper. The St. Louis Post Dispatch. I want it mostly for national and international news. The sudoku puzzle doesn’t hurt. Though I had this thought today as I bought a Post Dispatch (my subscription will kick in next week) how will people of my generation remember historical events?

I have made it a point to obtain four newspapers in my lifetime. There was the Seattle Times the day after Columbia exploded, two Times’ after Seahawk wins in the 2005 Super Bowl, and today’s paper highlighting Barack Obama’s inauguration. These were events that I found important enough to me to go out and purchase a newspaper. Obviously, these events run the gamut from tragedy, to historic, to somewhat trivial. But, regardless, they are important to me.

What do people in my generation do now? Do they take screenshots of CNN.com? Do they print out articles of importance? If they were there, possibly a Facebook photo album suffices. I don’t know. I don’t know if that has the same effect.

In other news, I have purchased two new cookbooks. One is a slow cooker recipe book, so I don’t just have to use the ten recipes that came with the slow cooker. I’m excited about that. I also bought an Asian cokbook, for I like that type of food and wish to try to make it.

I have been doing a decent job of going to the gym lately. However, despite taking an iPod shuffle along I cannot get over my loathing of treadmills. I’m risking hypothermia and running outside. Those things are just to boring. I’ll still go and use the weights and other stuff. But, treadmills. Ugh. Who invented those? Sir William Cubitt? Thanks for unleashing boring on the world. I’m just going to assume Dr. Cubbitt also invented the Oxygen Network and the comic strip “Ziggy”.

That’s about it for now for now. Not a whole lot going on. I hope there’s something exciting to talk about soon, but I don’t know. We’ll just wait and see.

I wish I could swim
Like dolphins can swim,

Alan