Did You Ever Notice...

In honor of the recently retired Andy Rooney, just a couple of snarks and nitpicks this evening.

At a local bookstore I saw a copy of Rolling Stone magazine, the cover of which advertised a story about the retirement of R.E.M. The main cover story was about how the success of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon album led to tensions between bandmates Roger Waters and David Gilmour that would split that band apart some 13 years later. Rolling Stone's message to today's pop music lover: We've been irrelevant since before you were born.

To the ladies on the elliptical machines next to me at the gym: I suspect that if you removed your earbuds feeding you the sound of the TV program you're both ignoring, you could still talk and you could hear one another but the rest of us wouldn't have to.