MeyerBros

Items from my day:

1. Turn on the radio on the way home from Rapid: Violent Femmes’ “Blister in the Sun“. It’s a bad song. Don’t follow that link. But wow - did it ever take me back to high school. Yeah, those two years when I went to high school.

2. Same radio, same car, same drive: teaser snippet from some radio comedian whose name I didn’t catch. Roughly:

Now whatever you think of Bush, he really seems like a fun guy.

(At this point, I fear we’re headed for mushroom jokes, at best, and offensive politics, at worst. This is a generic ClearChannel music station, after all.)

… I mean, he does, he seems like a fun guy. Like the kind of guy who shows up at your barbecue, and you can always count on him to get the whiffle ball game going. He shows up, and you’re like, cool, yeah, that’s cool, everything’s good. Whiffle ball. Tony the whiffle ball guy.

But then somebody decides to put Whiffle ball Tony in charge of EVERYTHING. And you’re like, whaaat?! I mean, I’m not sure that’s a good idea. He’s kind of competitive. And pretty soon he’s breaking into the neighbor’s yard, challenging them to whiffle ball. I KNOW you want to play whiffle ball, and I’ll take you! Like that. Um, no, we didn’t say we wanted to play whiffle ball. And then he starts chucking hamburgers at them, and you’re like, hey, Tony, what’s up? And he says, Dude, they were just about to start chucking hamburgers at me!! Only then you find out, they never even HAD any hamburgers…

Ok, well, I found it funny.

3. We played a round of disc golf in Rapid while waiting for an estimate on the damage to our front bumper from some guy who had a little trouble parking at Safeway. Scored ten over par, my worst round yet on that course. It was windy, and I was getting used to a new driver. But a beautiful day anyway, and what better excuse to wander around in a park for a couple of hours?