Top Ten Riesens to Live

Alternatively: What to Make Yourself Believe When October feels Desparately like November

It has been said, on a tv commercial no less, that all you really need is one good Riesen. Now, I just had a riesen, and it was alright, but it hasn't done much to actually get me through this atrocious week. So, on a most hostile of Wednesdays, I'm here, writing my top ten reasons to live, rather than dealing with the relationship between social standing and economics in one of the first four plays I encountered in Modra. Here they are for your benefit:

1. Chocolate. The list could not possibly start with anything else. A Riesen is chocolate and caramel as you should know by now, and it is delicious.
2. The Daily Show. There is no other program on tv like it. It is the truest form of critical realist news on Earth. The scientists may think there is only one conclusion to be drawn, but we know better don't we?
3. Kahlua. Please take note of the fact that I didn't generalize and just say "alcohol" that would be idiotic. Alcohol is a means of escape, not a means of coping. Kahlua is just lovely by its inherent nature. Oh, Kahlua...
4. Ice cream. Don't forget that the items on this list aren't exclusive. Just think: Kahlua topped ice cream with chocolate chips while watching the Daily Show. You heard me right--it's a time saver and it's the best plan ever.
5. O'Rocky's. Get this: they take the waffle they would usually make into a waffle cone and roll it up and then dip it in caramel, roll it in pecans, and then dip it in chocolate! I just don't know what more can be said about it without causing me to burst into tears of longing.
6. Dying would probably hurt. No one has ever really been able to support or refute this point for me: I don't listen to ghosts because they don't know anything.
7. Gwynne Dyer. Even though I have hours upon hours of reading to do every week, I still managed to read Future: Tense in the wee hours of the morning to become utterly and unconsollably depressed by the way the world is going. Having a reason to be depressed about the awfulness of the world is key though, and Dyer is really good at delivering on that front.
8. Sleep. Don't it only seem to go that you don't know what you got til its gone? Well, sorta...Sleep is beautiful and the less you get the more wonderful it becomes. Nothing else in the world is really truly like that. Mostly because we are horrible people who are overindulgent in every way imaginable.
9. Public Transit. Every real issue in the world can be argued through a thorough debate on the public transit system. Seriously. Let me show you: Treatment of the Elderly and Disabled. On buses there are specific seats designated for the elderly and handicapped, but young able bodied people sit in them all the time. Is this blatant disregard for authority or just practicality at work? You tell me. If you really want to get me going you should see how I link public transit to war or something broader. There was no time for that now.
10. You have my blog to keep you company. Oh, that's a reason alright. And a damned good one at that. Just admit it and the list will at least be over.

There you have it. And now at least you have found the hope that maybe we'll find better days, as Mr. Rzeznik might say.