Random musings for a random Monday.

-Have you ever been so out of it that the bags underneath your eyes felt so puffed up that you felt like shouting out "Cut me Mickey?"

-On Friday before I went out to meet with friends, I noticed that I one of my shaving nicks from that morning was bleeding. So I wondered, was it bleeding all day and nobody said anything? Did I totally make fool out of myself all day?

-I've seen the new Star Wars trailer both online and in the movies and I've noticed there's like this Pavlovian thing that happens when it comes on. For the first few seconds, especially when you see the LucasFilms logo, the excitement comes over you. A couple of seconds later, you realize that it's probably going to suck just as much as the other movies and so you get over it really quickly.

-Found myself last week so stressed out at work and so pissed off at the photocopy machine that I started to kick it. Believe it or not, I consider it a good thing to be so stressed out at work that I'm kicking the photocopier. It's all relative.

-Had the big kickball playoffs on Saturday morning starting at 10:30 in the morning. The same time as our kickball game was being played, there was this marathon/cross country event taking place. As I stood there in right field, I saw this huge group of runners headed my way so I risked life and limb to not only get out of their way, but to save my cocktail. As I watched them run away and took a drink of my screwdriver, I wondered if that is what one would call a moment of clarity.

-I'm feeling a little better about things right now. I even spent some time reading Slate this morning and have caught a few seconds of the Daily Show the past couple of days. I'm thinking if I keep this up, I'll actually be able to make it through the newspaper within a couple of days or read the New York Times again. I'm thinking, though, that it'll still be months before I even go near one of the cable news channels again. Seriously, ever since the election, I feel like I've been dumped. Like I should just stay in my room listening to "Losing My Religion" over and over again.

-Dear WB, we thank you for showing "The Fellowship of the Rings" as apparently there's no limit to how many times I can watch it. However, if you're going to go to all the trouble of showing it in wide-screen and with HiDef, could you please not paste the WB logo all over the screen or show clips of upcoming WB shows during the movie? Kind of defeats the purpose of all that HiDef stuff if you ask me.

-Those orange Cincinati Bengals outfits? Worst Uniform Ever.

-I stumbled upon this series Skinemax movie called "Married Couples." I was kind of fascinated by the movie because the film-makers are trying real hard to do serious drama instead of just some stupid soft-core flick. The movie, filmed in cinema verite style with faux "interviews", basically detail a group of married friends and the troubles and problems they have in their marriage. So, in between sex scenes, there's lots of spats, interviews where each cast-member describes all the angst they have in their relationship, and whining. There's even scenes where the couples are so angry they don't have sex. And I'm thinking, who the hell wants to see a porn movie in which a married couple fight and not have sex? Plus, no matter how hard they work the cinema verite style, I've noticed that every time a couple goes at it, the wah-wah porn music kicks in.