It’s nice to know that we’re not the only country that has holiday seasons start earlier and earlier. Here it is, still September, and Oktoberfest is going on in Germany. For some reason, it began in mid-September this year. I realize that the people want their beer and all, but no one, not even I, can celebrate with all that beer for weeks on end. Keep your drinking holidays to one day, or at least dye the beer, like like the Irish. The only way they can tell if it’s St. Patrick’s Day is if their puke is green rather than orangey. If you were busy getting roasted this week, odds are you missed it.
R.E.M. out
In a move that caught a lot of people off-guard, R.E.M. announced that they are calling it quits, after 31 years of making music. This lead to every headline writer, professional or not, on the internet trying to come up with some clever reference to one of the band’s more popular songs. I, on the other hand, take the high road.
Crash landing
By now you’ve all heard that there is a six-and-a-half ton of satellite that’s going to crash somewhere in the world later today. At one point, NASA said we were completely safe from getting hit, but now it seems the U.S. is back in the potential range again. We’re not ones to cause panic, but it might not be such a bad thing to make your peace with Krom this afternoon.
Hipsters are complaining about Facebook changes that haven’t happened yet
Facebook released its latest round of changes to its interface this week, and with every other Facebook interface update since its beginnings (which anthropologists believe occurred in the 1970s), people began complaining about it immediately. Let’s face it, if I go to a website that charges me nothing so I could share things with people I barely remember and friends I have many other lines of communications with, I demand that things stay the same. You know, I just may not let them harvest information about myself I volunteer anymore.
