On bubble gum

Whenever I’m in an ordinary mood of pure state of concede of reality, I like to go to the local convenience store and buy some Trident bubble gum. Unlike most bubble gums on the market, this bubble gum has a good helping of xylitol, so I know I’m getting the good stuff.

I like to chew two pieces per serving, so I know I’ll be blowing bubbles left and right. Like most gum, it starts soft, and then it gets a bit stiffer, due to prolonged mastication. This makes the bubbles snap harder, and louder, waking even a bored, sleepy class. It wakes even the professor from his or her funk.

In the past, the gum bases were made of chicle, but now, they are simply made with polymers. I suppose they are similar to that type of compound used for balloons. I have no idea.

I usually chew Trident bubblegum during an afternoon session, and keep the wad in my mouth during my Monday night class, where it gets hard enough to cause some loud snaps. It is said that gum is a great way to ease boredom, and a good stress reliever. The scene of a veteran coach, chewing on bubble gum while watching his players on is the mood I am in right now, as I assume I’ve seen all there is to life, but I know I lie to myself as I go through my period of assuming.

I’m on my second serving of 7. There are 14 pieces per pack, meani ng 7 servings, meaning this one will last 2-3 days, at $1.00 a pop. As I am chewing the savory blend of polymers, softeners, vanilla, cinnamon and other spices softly blended into a manufactured mastication device, I am playing Tommy February6’s “Lonely In Gorgeous,” segueing to Seal Samuel’s “Crazy.” I like playing syhtesizer-heavy tunes with the hooks during the evening run home.

UCLA’s going to look for a little bit of revenge against Joakim Noah, Al Horford, Taurean Green, Lee Humphrey and the rest of the lucky scumbags from Florida. Hope they do it, and do it right. No excuse to be choking like Long Beach City did against Antelope Valley, okay?

Air Force is taking on Death Valley, South Carolina, in Big Apple City tomorrow. To prepare, I’ve been downloading some comic strips from eDodo, one of the satirical web sites run by Air Force Academy graduates, and frequented by other grads and current cadets. Sorry to say, the Grunion can dish out better equivalents, but I do commend their effort.

Seriously, I hope Air Force and UCLA win their respective tournaments. That means the Beach lost to two teams that won their dances. More impetus for a rising assistant to make his move.


But how did Landon Donovan dish out the goods against Ecuador that effortlessly? With 2 goals in as many minutes, no less? Simple: He grew up. As in: he got married. Let’s see if he will smash Eric Wynalda’s record in internationals in the Gold Cup, as well as translate his forays to big ones as the G-Men open play against Houston Dynamo.

The April wave of new anime classics is upon us. This means Alpha Nu Iota alums (ANI – my imaginary sorority of moe anime girls) Nanoha Takamachi and Fate Testarossa are sending in a new wave of pledges in Nanoha StrikerS. Add some other new candidates to push in this year’s Saimoe, and we got some good ones up in store. Question is: from this new crop of new shows, what will Anime Club play via raws or subtitles? Stay tuned…

It seems very effortless to draw women in the moe aesthetic these days. Hope the COTA (College of the Arts) makes a course of it for the freshies rolling in next year.

Lately, I have been hungry to look at the history of failed web sites. eFront, LoanCity, and several other big companies that are NOT Enron have been my style of corporate necrophilia. I may have to find some way to be the infrastructural coroner for my upcoming IS 355 project.

Speaking of which, I have two other project besides the IS 355. For IS 380, I have to set up Oracle SQL code from the top down, while in IS 340, I have to create a program using purely Visual Basic code. Farewell Spring Break, and diving into a harem of hedonism…till summer.

Oh Carolina...

While my compadre and colleague Ryan Kobane of the Union Weekly is compiling a special on me for an upcoming issue, I have to express my condolences to North Carolina, and not that they were upset by Georgetown. The guy who plays as their mascot died due to an accident before the game against USC.


Oh Carolina.