Ode To A Truck

My Nissan Frontier I admit is not great,

At least not to anyone else.

But when it was given to me, it was fate,

And when I see it my heart melts.

My adventures within it's doors have been many,

Including the Bump on which everyone screams.

The music fills its cabin with a cacophony,

And even beyond its fair seams.

Though old and wrinkled it may be,

I will miss it once summer is through.

For although it has never been mine technically,

We have been through quests not a few.

America's (Maybe) Got Talent

It's decided that people shouldn't be allowed to perform "talent" acts that look like it was put together one otherwise uneventful hour in someone's basement, or ones that are boring. Please save the operatic and solo piano numbers for your personal recitals. They're not entertaining to K-6th graders, or to the heckling teachers who's laughter embarrassingly and unintentionally fills the room (sorry about that...). If you must sing by yourself it would be appreciated if you wouldn't just stand there and sing, if we wanted to watch a song we would stare at our speakers. Big group numbers are mostly fun but make sure there are some flashy streamers and LOTS of movement. But I really think the problem lies with the so-called judges decisions on who gets to perform, you really should be more discriminating, don't give these kids false hopes for life. Also, if the show lasts more than an hour it's time to start cutting .

Oh the Hunger!

If you haven't already, you should read these books, and be excited for the last one:

Time Travel

That would have to be the biggest surprise attack of anyone's life. Or at least it seems that way in every story I've ever read/heard/seen about anyone who is shot through the 4th dimension. Although, I think that people make it more complicated to understand than it really is. I mean, is it really so hard to comprehend that while you may have been deported to the past your future is still relatively unknown? In other words: your future is happening in the past of the time you were born in but that doesn't make it set in stone, or spelled out for you. Or, is it so strange that someone coming from the future and explaining things changes the course of that time? On that note, I think if I were ever thrown back in time that I wouldn't be able to do anything significant because I would be too afraid that my actions would change the course of reality, even if I was assured that what I was doing was necessary.

Still, if I had to travel through time, here are the top ways I'd like it to happen:

5. Hit my head and wake up somewhere else

4. Slide on the river in the Rainbow Room

3. Fall through a worm-hole

2. Blink of my eyes (total control)

and...

1. Electrified phone booth

But lets be real: living in the age of computers and excellent TV is probably the best place for me, so I'm glad that time travel doesn't really exist (I think...).