The Mike Haddad Show: This is relevant to my interests.

I was attacked by my thoughts on the taxi ride home last night. As it turned out, a subway delay caused me to miss my train home by about 30 seconds resulting in me taking a taxi so I could get home on time and not be shot by the parental units. That gave me enough time to think, with actual music to think along to. I was thinking mainly about how I have been a huge slacker, to the frigginmasendeshita. It's like to the max, only with more emphasis on being a friggin.

The big focus in my mind was the question "What makes the show unique?" In the end I was satisfied remembering a lyric rapped by Eve in her pop hit 'Let Me Blow Ya Mind' featuring the ever so crazy Gwen Stefani: "I do what they can't do, I just do me." Given a few seconds to giggle at the sexual allusions of that, I proceeded to think about what "doing me" meant. What do I have that makes me unique from the other bloggers out there? You can't just say everyone's special, because as brilliantly stated in Mr. Incredible, that's just a way of saying no one really is. So I started trying to think about what category the show would fit into.

More often than not, a blog is either personal or political. That didn't help me very much. My blog, though occasionally political if someone does something really stupid, is not anywhere near political enough to be considered a political blog. So that left personal as the most obvious choice for the show, leaving me with the unpleasant challenge of becoming more interesting than some of the better established personal bloggers out there, and their perspective bags of tricks (not the kind you pull; at least not yet anyways).

Dooce has both her daughter, and the fact that her body will NEVER EVER allow her to go to the bathroom in peace. The fact that she lost her job because of her blog gave her a nice little push into the spotlight. The blog at Thick Slab is both Church & Wellesley based, angry and occasionally R-rated. Xiaxue is a mediocre looking Singaporean chick that has no problem making fun of herself, no problem making fun of others, and a knack for doing both extremely well. I think the fact that she gets paid just to blog, and is given free passes to events also helps her case.

I think I have two things left working for me, and my anger is no longer one of them. That trait started faded, and is not usually beaten into submission by the fear of offending my close friends who provoke the beast that can be my anger. So anger is out. I have the fact that I'm a homo and I have nut allergies. I find the nut allergies thing rather amusing since I've had more run-ins with nuts in the past two weeks than I had suffered through over the last 10 years. Both times, the nuts happened to be hidden in a piece of food given to me by my father. So I guess that it has finally come to the point where I'm spending far too much to the point where I'm now a huge liability. Maybe I can run around screaming "My father is trying to kill me, read my blog for details!" for the publicity. Right.