Let It Rest In Peace

It is way past time to retire my "I was in a band once called ______" joke. I mean, come on. Betsy's blog has been a victim of that bit far too many times, again today.

And it's not that I even think it's that funny. It just happens. Like a reflex. I can't help it. I'm not expecting big laughs or hilarity. I understand how mundane and even annoying that it has become. It's like a bulbous nostril in the mirror that isn't quite funny looking and you don't want to call attention to it but there is something about my own bulbous nostril and I'm stuck in between acknowledging it and ignoring it and I end up, boringly, acknowledging it. And I will not mention something about "bulbous nostril" that could be mentioned, because just becuase it has the potential to lend itself to a recently retired joke, that does not make the joke funny, which is why it is now retired.

(And I am writing more and more like Betsy every time I blog, which might be insulting to her, but I can't stop because it's fun, and I mean it as an homage rather than an insult, I hope. And it really is just kind of happening.)