Wayward the Whale and other stories...

First off, just a kind thought and a word of hope for family of the miners trapped in West Virginia. My thoughts go out to you all...

Okay. Down to business.

Over on FoxNews.com and CNN.com the leading story isn't Pakistan's President Musharraf telling a U.S. official that we've used up our Violate Pakistan's Sovereignty Free card, and that we're not allowed to do it again (although he assured another U.S. government official that his country still pledges unwavering support for our wars on terrorism (read: our wars on other nations that really, really, annoy us beacause they're not us and since they're weaker than us can't stop us anyway and if Pakistan doesn't pledge support they're next...).

It isn't that 200 hundred people were arrested in pro-Democracy protests in Nepal (it's a wonder that we haven't yet invaded Nepal to spread the jelly of democracy over the dry bread of this small southasian country. I said yet, right?). It isn't even that the President of another nation passed away today (Kosovo's President Rugova died today at 61 years of age). The leading story on both sites today is...

A whale.

A wayward whale. (CNN.com's choice of headline, sadly enough, not mine. I however will name the whale Wayward. So there.)

Yes, this sad behemoth of the sea stole the front page from mad cows, trapped miners, and dead presidents. Sure, I think its sad that the whale is lost and injured, and even sadder that in some way its probably our fault that it got lost in the first place. Doctors in England have run blood tests on Wayward to determine whether the northern bottlenose whale should be euthanized or released into the artic waters.

The homeless guy living beneath the Hamilton bridge in the Bronx should be so lucky.

Hello World!

Hi. Kid Caramel here, just signing on for the first time. A little about me: I'm a teacher, writer (as yet unpublished), and all around nice guy. I wish we lived in a country shaped like a donut so we could avoid the issue of landlocked states that have no contact with diversity and different cultures, and recieve all of their news and information from FOX News Channel. If I had my way actors, athletes, and lawyers wouldn't have the highest salaries on the planet, politicians would be paid teacher's salaries, and teachers would be glorified as the guardians and shapers of the future that they are.

Anyway, that's enough of a rant for now. Like I said earlier, I'm a writer. I write fantasy stories long and short, and (like everyone else seems to be doing these days) I'm working on a novel. I'm about halfway through and running downhill towards the finish line. What have I learned? Well for starters, writing isn't as simple as stringing words together. It's really hard work! The other thing I learned is that just because you read a crappy book and think you can do better than whoever wrote it, it doesn't mean that you actually can. Even pieces of crap take work.

The same thing goes for almost anything in life. Like radio shows, for example. David Lee Roth (DLR) is now doing radio, trying to fill the void created by Howard Stern's departure from Planet Earth Radio and into Satellite Radio. DLR is horrible. Absolutely horrible. Listening to his "show" is like forcing yourself to listen to Rita Cosby's voice. And what's up with that? Somebody get her a lozenge. Or a new throat. Yeah, a throat transplant, like that French lady who got the face transplant and is now using her new mouth to smoke cigarettes! Mon dieu! Idiot! Its a real slap in the face for the brain dead donor who provided the nose cheeks and mouth for that moron.

Is anyone else bugged by the constant media coverage of Jennifer Aniston, Brad Pitt, and Anjelina Jolie? Who cares what they're doing? So what if she's pregnant? Isn't there anything more important that could be aired on a television than "Branjelina" coverage? And Aniston's not even that good an actress. I'd actually rather listen to Rita Cosby rasp on for an hour than hear anything more about those three. Without the lozenge. Yes, that's how serious I am.

Until the next time.