Life in the key of E flat minor

Everybody’s talking about it… http://blog.blankbaby.com/blankbaby/2006/07/diet_pepsi_jazz.html I went into my local bodega… (Ok, the APlus Convenience Stores isn’t a bodega, but using the word, bodega , is so Law and Order) and I saw Diet Pepsi Jazz Black Cherry French Vanilla and Diet Pepsi Jazz Strawberries & Cream. While I am a Coke loyalist, I thought, it’s good to sample the other brand, just to see. While Coke has Diet Black Cherry Vanilla Coke, I felt that Pepsi was going against Dr Pepper with these two products. For those who don't know, Dr Pepper has a line of "Fountain Classics" in regular and diet: Cherry Vanilla Dr Pepper and Berries & Cream Dr Pepper. This Jazz line of Pepsi product seems to be a response to Dr Pepper and not Coke. It's not an exciting blog entry, but they all can't be winners!

In an entry à la ALT , I’m going to bitch about bikers in the city of Philadelphia. No, not motorcycle bikers (those fuckers are very incon-fucking-siderate, too) but I'm talking about those who peddle to and fro. I am sick and tired of sharing my sidewalks with inconsiderate bikers. Get off the sidewalk and get on the streets, like others like you fought for. There are bike lanes on Walnut and Spruce to get you into and out of West Philadelphia/University City. I am royally annoyed by bikers having no regard for pedestrians. We're saving money, conserving energy and making the roadways safer, too, damnit. And with even less of an impact on our environment! Yet, we didn't argue and clamor for access to the roads; we just want our sideways safe and free from hazards. I hate having you bikers come up from behind and get annoyed that I am in your way and that you have to get around me. You shouldn't be behind me at all. Go to the Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philad...

(Confessions Tour, part 1) The concert started an hour late with imagery from Madonna's most recent photo shoot for W - all done in an equestrian theme. A disco ball descended onto the stage bathed under blue and pink lights. It opened and out stepped Madonna then followed by her dancers all dressed in an equestrian cum S&M black outfits. She belted out Future Lovers dancing with the 'horses.' (Many of the songs on the album have riffs from other songs mixed in -- Hung Up has famously ABBA's Gimme, Gimme, Gimme , Sorry has the Jackson 5's Can You Feel It? and Future Lovers has I Feel Love by Donna Summer .) What a great surprise to my ears when she started to sign I Feel Love . (Madonna is not heavy into covers, so this was a great treat.) After the spectacle of her entrance, she sang Get Together on the giant stage with two back up dancers performing in front of red, black and white kaleidoscopic imagery. Though only 5'6" or something like that...

"And life's gonna drop you down like the limbs of a tree It sways and it swings and it bends until it makes you see" These lyrics remind me of a hymn we sang in grade school, called Hosea . It's one of those songs ( Hosea and not Jump ) that I want at my funeral. The irony being that I already want 2 Madonna songs and Hosea is really a hymn. But I digress. I'm less then 24 hours away from a Madonna concert on her "Confessions Tour." As you can expect, I am excited. I've been doing my best to avoid the reviews; I don't want to know too much. However, it's been noteworthy enough for me to know about the crucifixion set up for Live to Tell and Like a Virgin performed to the backdrop of her X-rays from falling off a horse. (Brilliant, how effing self-referential is that?! Look at me, dancing in front of MY X-rays. Self-indulgent! But I'm jealous that she did it first.) Back to the lyrics from Jump , they have been striking a cord with me...