MC Odd

A little over a year ago I started to get into NFL. There isn't really any story to why this happened; I was home one morning and bored, and so I turned on the TV and flicked over to the sports channel, and a game was on. I watched it and had fun, so I read up on the rules, and watching become more fun. That's really all there is to that.

When it came to picking a team, I had a few options. I liked the Eagles from the start, as that was the first game I saw (WAS @ PHI in Week 12, 2009), and I liked Green Bay because of That 70's Show, and I liked New England because of Family Guy. Jets and Giants were on my radar as well because I like New York, as a city, even though I've never been there.

I work in a book shop, so I get to witness first-hand all trends, fads and obsessions in the literary world. Aside from the usual Twilight and Stieg Larsson hype, there are a couple of weight loss books that are in huge demand at the moment: "The Dukan Diet" and "The Flat Belly Diet".
These have made me think, and I've realised that there's never more than a few months between diet book fads. Someone on The View or Oprah or some equally terrible daytime TV show pushes the flavour-of-the-month "new, amazing, revolutionary, easy" weight loss book that "really works!", and every blind sheep rushes out to their nearest bookseller so they can add it to their collection, not realising that the only thing that's going to lose weight is their wallet.

This is a new, "random" blog. I have two others, Left Side and 21 Days in Nippon; but I want to keep those focused on what they are: Left Side is a socio-political commentary blog, and 21 Days is a travel blog of my October 2010 trip to Japan (which I still need to finish, ugh).

This new blog will be fairly freestyle, just random musings on life which are unrelated to my others.

It could turn out interesting, or it could turn out boring. Who knows!