1. Candy continues - I thought limited edition candy season was over, but apparently not. I was at Walgreens the other day looking for things that could serve as ice cream toppings when I stumbled onto a 3 for $2 bin that contained the already-reviewed Snickers Fudge and a limited edition Reese's Peanut Butter Lovers Peanut Butter Cup, which looks to be chocolate on the bottom of the outer shell and then the rest is peanut butter. So I bought two of those and a Snickers Fudge. Why not? It's only around for a while, I'll give it another chance. The peanut butter cups will be fun, I put on in the fridge and one in the freezer, so we'll see how that goes. This brings up a couple points. The peanut butter cup is a rerun, they've put these out in limited edition before. That gives me hope for the future, that even if the strawberried peanut butter m&ms do go away soon, they could always come back. It's kind of weird though that the Snickers Fudge bar is just now showing up at Walgreens, and I went to the 7-11 the other day where I originally found it and they don't have them anymore. And why is it that I can still find packs of strawberried m&ms here and there but the coconut m&ms are nowhere to be found? The coconut came out AFTER the strawberried, and as far as I can tell it got a much better reception. (Not from me, but from most reviews I read.) I know of one gas station around that still has a few little bags left, but that's it. The strawberried bags are now showing up at Big Lots for close-out, but I've never seen the coconut there. I only ever saw one medium size bag of the coconut. Coconut was way less of a drastic change than the strawberried was, I would have expected it to be a lot more successful. If either of them was to become a regularly produced flavor, I would expect coconut, though I'd vote for strawberried. So why were they around such a short time and so hard to find? Is it a regional thing? An individual choice for stores as to whether or not they'll carry them? Or was coconut such a success that the entire limited run was bought in a fury and they're still having trouble unloading the strawberried? (Like the Snickers Nougabot bars. I still see those everywhere. Nobody wants them, and rightfully so.) I have no idea.
By the way, sometimes looking at the candy aisles of Big Lots is a lot of fun. The cheap, ratty candy isn't so much fun, but then there's also the things that just failed to sell. A lot of different kinds of Hershey Kisses, Hershey bars with various things shoved in them that nobody asked for. You can find some out-there stuff.
Anyway, I'll try to get myself motivated to do some kind of post to review the peanut butter cups. It could go either way. Could just be overkill on the peanut butter and lose something without the mixing of chocolate. Then again, one of my favorite things in the world is seasonal king-size Reeses (for instance the pumpkins, eggs) because it's a little bit different texture and they just cram peanut butter in those. So maybe it's a good thing. We'll see. Pins and needles.
2. Music - I've taken a little break from my jazz buying. I started eighth grade dancing like crazy and it made me curious about the last few Pearl Jam albums that I had so far avoided. Surprised how much I liked them, especially Pearl Jam and Binaural. Thought the latest one was good, though front-loaded, but I'm going to give it another shot. Riot Act, I wasn't that crazy about.
And the new Built To Spill came out, so I checked that out and was surprised how much I liked that. Made me wonder what I disliked so much about some of their previous albums. I loved Perfect From Now On, but all of their other records had so far failed to stir up anything in me. So I went back to listen to those too. I'm not sure exactly what my problem with them was before, but most of these albums are very good. Keep It Like A Secret is very good, You In Reverse is very good. But There's Nothing Wrong With Love is dreadful except for a couple short spots. Maybe I always started with that one before and that's why I told all their albums to shove it. So, anyway, better band than I thought.
3. TV - I finished Lost last week. It was incredible. I have to say I think people who thought any of those seasons were lacking are crazy. Maybe I can understand them thinking some of the episodes were not worth the agonizing week between airings, and I had the benefit of watching as many as I wanted when I wanted, but still, that show has been consistently intriguing start to finish. And so then Adam sent me a bunch of links to reactions, recaps, postulations, and explanations. I haven't even put a dent in it, but I followed a little line yesterday that took me in a circle where I learned some stuff but mostly learned I had a lot to learn. And fall TV season is pretty much roaring. Except for Fridays and Saturdays every night has something I'm hooked on. I was doing really well studying for the GREs too. I have about 300 flash cards sitting on my coffee table. I haven't looked at them or the book in about a month. TV.
4. MMA - Attended my first ever MMA event last weekend. I won tickets from a Fairfax radio station. Pretty good seats too. Not on the floor, but that was probably better because I was at a vantage point where I could see when it went to the ground. I really enjoyed it. The promotion, UWC, is not huge, I guess it's regional to the Mid-Atlantic, or claims to be even though all of its shows are at the Patriot Center. But they still manage to book fights that have real ramifications for the fighters' divisions. And this card pretty much had everything. Knockouts, two championship fights that went to decision, one of which was an incredible brawl and the other of which caused a major controversy, a female fight, lots of local fighters, one fight that ended with a knockout 35 seconds into the fight, and one right before that was stopped at literally the last second of the first round. Of course, as with most things I attend, the audience could have easily ruined it for me. You had the guys that were just sitting there talking to each other through the whole match, which is distracting because I just sat there thinking, "Did you really come here to talk? Do you know there's people fighting in front of you? Maybe you want to watch?" Then there was the majority of people who shouted directions to the fighters no matter where they were in the stands. Newsflash shitheads! They can't hear you, and if they could, they don't need to hear, "Hit him! HIT! HIM! Elbows! ELBOWS!" I swear one guy only attended the event so he could yell "ELBOWS!" all night no matter what the situation was. And then worst of all is the booing of fighters. I can't believe people boo fighters. The Flyweight championship fight was amazing, a TON of action. But there were times when things slowed down, which is NORMAL, when the fighters are looking for an opportunity, especially when it goes to the ground. Well, apparently this crowd was spoiled by the two guys coming out and immediately getting to work, because if things slowed down for three seconds they immediately started booing. It's not like these guys aren't doing anything. They're in combat! Two inevitabilities: they are trying to fight smart, and they are going to get tired. Ideally, any fighter wants to find a way to take the other one out with minimal damage to himself. And this was a 25 minute fight! Things are going to slow down! As far as I'm concerned, people should be forbidden to boo. If they boo, I should get to put a bullet between their lips. Just let me in the shows for free. I'll provide my own bullets, I'll do the dirty work.
5. Other sports - The Redskins. Jesus christ....
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