Inasmuch as a single bite of a PowerBar Protein Plus bar makes you want to never eat again, they are extremely filling.

However, ick.

I wish I were dead.

Because Talking Heads confidently predict a beautiful future without fossil fuels:

NOTHING BUT FLOWERS

” Here we stand
Like an Adam and an Eve
Waterfalls
The Garden of Eden
Two fools in love
So beautiful and strong
The birds in the trees
Are smiling upon them
From the age of the dinosaurs
Cars have run on gasoline
Where, where have they gone?
Now, it’s nothing but flowers

There was a factory
Now there are mountains and rivers
you got it, you got it

We caught a rattlesnake
Now we got something for dinner
we got it, we got it

There was a shopping mall
Now it’s all covered with flowers
you’ve got it, you’ve got it

If this is paradise
I wish I had a lawnmower
you’ve got it, you’ve got it

Years ago
I was an angry young man
I’d pretend
That I was a billboard
Standing tall
By the side of the road
I fell in love
With a beautiful highway
This used to be real estate
Now it’s only fields and trees
Where, where is the town
Now, it’s nothing but flowers
The highways and cars
Were sacrificed for agriculture
I thought that we’d start over
But I guess I was wrong

Once there were parking lots
Now it’s a peaceful oasis
you got it, you got it

This was a Pizza Hut
Now it’s all covered with daisies
you got it, you got it

I miss the honky tonks,
Dairy Queens, and 7-Elevens
you got it, you got it

And as things fell apart
Nobody paid much attention
you got it, you got it

I dream of cherry pies,
Candy bars, and chocolate chip cookies
you got it, you got it

We used to microwave
Now we just eat nuts and berries
you got it, you got it

This was a discount store,
Now it’s turned into a cornfield
you got it, you got it…”

More Talking Heads

More on peak oil.

Man it’s only, like, half past ten
But I didn’t get no sleep last night
Up late listening to jazz
(On the CBC)
(Kinda square
Actually kinda squaresville)
But like whatever
And now the clocks say:
GO TO BED
YOUR BRAIN IS DYING
AND YOU NEVER EVEN TRIED HARD DRUGS
LIKE JACK KEROUAC
YOU PANSY
And who am I to disagree with the clocks

Look, does anyone remember the title or author of this story many of us (probably) read in about grade three or four, in one of those elementary school readers with the silly name like ‘East of the Sun, West of the Moon’?

There’s a classroom full of kids on some distant planet, including one girl who always gets bullied by everyone (I forget why). And one day the teacher announces that for the first time in like a thousand years or something the sun is going to briefly rise on this planet which is otherwise always dark. So all the kids get excited and everybody in the world gets excited and they all troop out to see the sunrise with their protective glasses, and it’s so beautiful that everybody cries, and then the sun goes back down. But then they go back into the classroom and some of the kids turn pale and go quietly to unlock the coatroom door, because they shoved the bullied girl in there earlier in the morning and forgot about her, so she never got a chance to see the sun. And I forget what she says at the end.
Seriously.

This is really bugging me.