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Where’s Matt? Home Depot. D.C. Ghetto? Lost… Found. !Chong! Dinner. Reminiscing. Great people. Hookah. Darts. Last call. Blueberry muffins.

Headache. Farewell… Praan. Coffee. I have to what? Chauffeur. !!Boom!! Rock solid. Greasy khakis. Abysmal instruction. Manly success. Delayed. Starbucks. Delayed? Brotherly chat. Delayed!?! Finally. 3am empty roads alone. A Distant Sadness!

When you troll through sites like Song Meanings and actually take the time to read the lyrics to your favorite song, you kinda start to realize that sans music, the words aren’t that clear in their meaning. In a sense, it’s succinct poetry.

You could walk into any high school English class, replace their poetry books with Dylan lyrics, and they’d have just as much trouble trying to figure out what the hell was being said. If you ask me, that’s downright awesome.

I often carry around a notepad and pen wherever I go since my memory has already checked out for greener pastures. (Can you get Alzheimer’s at 25?) The only downside to the notepad is there’s not that much room to write on and I’m a freak for writing and editing something 10 times before it’s “finished.” Yet that’s simply not possible with a tiny sheet of paper.

I’ve always liked writing dramatic poems mainly because it allows me to be as longwinded as I please, yet offers the added challenge of creating a gazillion rhymes. But even this form isn’t optimal for trying to jot down a story on a scrap of paper no bigger than a toilet paper square.

What’s become of my journal over the past few years is a novel in and of itself, but lately I’ve been writing entries that cover days in the fewest words possible, thanks in part to my free time with nothing but the pen and notepad. I usually stick to a 25 word maximum, but 50 is another good limit if you’re trying to recap the entire weekend. And the thing is, when you go back and reread it weeks later, it’s still usually pretty damn good at bringing back memories you’d initially forgotten.

It’s pretty damn fun, to boot.

The poem at the beginning of this post was from my past weekend. It’s pretty transparent, which is why I picked it for Shyzer. If you’ve got a few minutes, try recapping your day in a few words and see how you do. At the very least, you can then say you’ve written a poem.

Digg.com has seen a bunch of quizzes pop up lately where people seem to take pleasure in finding out how little they know. Name the 50 US States. Name all the African countries. Name all the countries in the world.

Well fine, if people enjoy feeling stupid, then they can take my Goob’s Thought Quiz and find out just how futile it is for them to try and follow my train of thought! For best results, just don’t answer at all and read the “solutions” from start to finish.

As it’s now 5:30AM (don’t bother looking at the timestamp - you can ask Fellner, I’ve always said that the day never ends until you go to bed, midnight be damned) and I’ve yet to post a thing, I can’t help but think I have not a damn clue what to post. So I will say this: after spending the past few hours learning how to use Sony Vegas for a new Freebie Review to come out on HIF tomorrow and subsequently stumbling across the video below, I can say I love making random ass videos. This is a new hobby I could get used to.

Just an aside, I personally enjoy how Clayster sounds like a little girl in this video that was recorded all of two years ago. I didn’t realize testicles could grow in so quickly.