Random thoughts from a Random mind

This will probably not be a coherent post with internal consistency. In fact, there will probably be no theme. Well constructed paragraphs that flow naturally from one to another as I develop a topic, taking it from introduction through the various points and to a natural conclusion. So get ready to jump, jump around.
It is a dark and gloomy day. How come stories trying to set the mood always go with the night card? Would, "It was a dark and gloomy day" really be so much different than "It was a dark and gloomy night"? Either way you get the dark rolling, you have the gloom setting...is gloom less gloomy when it is daytime? I would think it would be the opposite...sure, you might be gloomy at night, but you are sleeping, so does it really matter? On the other hand, a gloomy morning just wrecks an entire day. Besides, during the day you get more opportunities to say "gloom" and "gloom" and "gloomy" are just fun words.
Sometimes I think people have a hard time separating real life from fiction. For instance, some co-workers who are fanatic watchers of Lost were talking about the show today and how they used to think the people (and since I don't watch the show, I cannot define "the people" for you, so if that is vague and indistinct, I would apologize if I cared and wasn't gloomy) were innocent but the show last night pointed out some of them had bad pasts. As one person said, "It really makes you rethink how you look at them."
Uh, yeah...they ARE fictional characters in a fictional story. This isn't a documentary like Gilligans Island or Happy Days were. And they didn't jump the shark the first season, so, uh...okay, I just wanted to make that reference and really have no follow up to it. However, I do want to talk about fictional characters.
When you watch a show, if you believe the first picture of the characters you are given and actively build a fictional background for them...you need help. People who head out there to find continuity errors in these shows have entirely too much time on there hands.
I mean seriously...there are entire websites devoted to continuity errors in the Simpsons. NNoooooooo.....really? In a show that for 18 years has covered the same year of people's lives, that has individual episodes that span days or weeks or months at a time, thus indicating the mathematical impossibility of having overlap, so multiple things have to have occurred every day, that there are continuity errors? Spend your childrens inheritance and go on a videogame playing rampage because society is crumbling, the sky is falling, and the world is coming to an end.
Tuba players should really pretty much all be shot on sight...or sound. With that said, I do plan on enjoying Tuba Christmas this December 9th at Pioneer Courthouse Square. How could you not? 200 brass instruments blasting out Christmas Music, probably in the rain again. Oh, yeah, a cultural event not to be missed.