Nite Fight

It's irritating. Truly.

I hate it when people spell words incorrectly. But it really bothers me when they spell words incorrectly on purpose. You know, where they change the spelling of a word because it's "cute" or some other stupid reason? For example, there's a convenience store chain known as the Kum-N-Go when it should be Come-and-Go. Or when someone is chatting online and instead of using something, they type out sumthin. The list goes on.

Really. It's endless.

But perhaps the one I hate the most is when people use nite for night. There's Nick-at-Nite. A local bar offering karaoke tonite. A trucking company known as Over-Nite.

I once tried to count how many times nite was used in place of night. I lost count after 20 sightings in less than 3 hours.

Is it so hard to spell a word correctly? To stick in that one little letter? I just don't understand why the proper spelling of a word is frequently belittled and replaced with non-standard, poorly spelled substitutes.

It's highly unnecessary and wrong.

In other, unrelated, rants, has anyone heard Lonestar's cover of Marc Cohn's Walking in Memphis?? It sucks. Major. The arrangement is hideous and the vocals aren't that great.

Why do people take other people's work and butcher it?

Perhaps that is a rant for another day.

People Don't Like You??? Use ProActiv!

Ever hear of ProActiv?

I'm sure you have. Some alleged acne miracle used by celebrities like Jessica Simpson, Alicia Keyes, Kelly Clarkson, and P.Diddy. There are always commercials and infomercials playing on television and there's usually advertisements throughout magazines and newspapers.

One late night, an infomercial for ProActiv came on. Tired and unmotivated to change the channel, I just kept the television on while I spent some time unwinding on the internet. I'm not even paying attention.... but then, I hear this:

ProActiv got people to like me again!

What? Excuse me? I don't quite understand. People didn't like you before you used ProActiv? They didn't like you because your face was covered in acne? Is that what you're saying??

Apparently, it was. This girl continued to gush about how ProActiv gave people a reason to like her again.

I'm sorry, but that's just so wrong. There are just so many things wrong with this child's way of thinking that I cannot even begin to discuss them. But this child believes that ProActiv saved her life by helping people to like her.

ProActiv. It's a magical solution created by two dermatologists that lures people into liking you.

That should be their new slogan.

Quotations for Sale

"Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell."
--Edna St. Vincent Millay

"Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love."
--Charlie Brown

"Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction."
--Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars

"To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else."
--Emily Dickinson

You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.
You're on your own.
And you know what you know.
You are the guy who'll decide where to go.
--Dr. Seuss

"I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach."
--Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
--Oscar Wilde, De Profundis


Tell me how many beads there are
In a silver chain
Of evening rain,
Unravelled from the tumbling main,
And threading the eye of a yellow star: -
So many times do I love again.
--Thomas Lovell Beddoes


"Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them."
--Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

"Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same."
--Emily Brontë

"Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us without words?"
--Marcel Marceau

"I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything,
I still believe that people are really good at heart."
--Anne Frank

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on."
--Robert Frost

"A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony, in a moment."
--Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

"To die will be an awfully big adventure."
--J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

"The Possible's slow fuse is lit
By the Imagination."
--Emily Dickinson

“There is no use in trying,” said Alice;
“one can’t believe impossible things.”
“I dare say you haven’t had much practice,”
said the Queen. “When I was your age,
I always did it for half an hour a day.
Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as
six impossible things before breakfast."
--Lewis Carroll

"You see, Wendy, when the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies."
--J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

"I'll tell you how the sun rose -
one ribbon at a time."
--Emily Dickinson