Overthunk

(One of apparently several in the "Cleaning Out the Office" Series -- found scribbled on a scrap again) Swearingen: "You ever been beaten, Merrick?" Merrick: "Once, when I thought I had the smallpox, Doc Cochran..." Swearingen: "Are you dead? Pain, or damage, don't end the world. Or despair, or fuckin' beatin's. The world ends when you're dead. Until then, you got more punishment in store. Stand it like a man, and give some back."

I await. I try to do other things, but I am continually distracted. Will Tony get whacked, commit suicide, lose his family, turn to the feds? Will A.J. flip out? Why the shovel? I just can't stop thinking about it... the alternate endings, the end of an era, almost everyone else is already gone. Soon, we'll know.... but not soon enough!

It recently came to my awareness that the evil deeds of the resident representative of puggery extend far deeper than I previously knew (how was that for a cumbersome hell of a sentence??). You see, my house is small, and the kitchen and living room adjoin in such a way that you could watch TV, over the bar, while washing dishes. Because of this, I have a couch beneath the bar, in the living room. Atop the bar is my rock collection ('cause I wasn't enough of a dork without also being a geology enthusiast). For some unknown reason, the Puppin enjoys hurtling himself against the back of the couch repeatedly until he can kidnap some rocks to hurry off somewhere with and chew. Ours is not to reason why, but merely to defend the igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic from the advances of a slobbery mammalian. So, I hear tell from my roommate that the other day, he had chastised the Puppin Mineral Menace against self-hurtling, and then dozed off a little while watching TV. Well, af...

Allllright, I'm going to sound like a prude and I'm really not at ALL but what's with the inappropriate sexual overtones in seemingly inane food commercials ? OBserve: 1. Chunky Soup -- FILLS YOU UP RIGHT Watch beefy footballmen cavort as they talk about "soup." As a sage named Robert Plant used to say, "I'm gonna give you every inch of my spoon, I'm gonna give you my... broth!!" Or something like that. 2. Dr. Pepper -- STACY'S MOM HAS GOT IT GOING ON Take an already sexually sketchy Fountains of Wayne song and pair it with images of a cadre of post-soccer-game adolescent males lusting for a refreshing beverage (or for Stacy's mom, dressed in pert yellow and teasing them with the slow-roll open of the minivan door, revealing icy DP goodness waiting just inside. (Yes, pun intended, thanks for asking.) Either someone didn't get it, or someone very much did. However, these pseudooffensive food peddlings on...