I need to stop being so cheap

I'm a sucker for free samples. Sometimes, I'll remove clothing so I can get a second pass-by.
Today I hit that dreaded thing called 'things you think are tasty, but aren't.' It was strawberries covered in some fake sugar that comes from plants. I know what sugar tastes like, and this did not taste like sugar. The woman giving the free sample was saying that this fake sugar didn't have a bad aftertaste, and I had to resist saying "no, it does." It had a bad before taste, it had a bad during taste, and it had a bad aftertaste. And these were all different tastes. This was like a neopolitan ice cream of suck.

Everybody panic!

According to the predictions of 24/7 Wall st. Reader's Digest may not have much of a future left. Instead, it will be broken up into several smaller magazines; Questionable advice, Things that are only sort of funny, Books you can't be bothered to read all of, and OMG CRIME COULD HAPPEN TO YOU.

Google Reader is making me fat

90% of the posts I save with the label 'food' are desserts. Then again, I judge cookbooks by that same section. I should just relabel that tag 'butterlicious' and stop fooling myself.

Yet another genuinely creepy thing on the bus

In El Salvador, two men dressed as clowns murdered a man on the bus. As though being murdered by the single most annoying/scary thing, on the most annoying/scary form of public transportation wasn't bad enough. Apparently, clowns regularly perform on busses in San Salvador.
Much as I hate riding the bus, at least LA's public transportation system doesn't have these.

RIP back mole: (??? - 2010)

Went to the dermatologist today to get this mole on my back checked out. It might have been cancerous, so they did a biopsy on it. I'm not worried at all. I actually think the whole thing is amusing. Especially the lidocaine they gave me to numb the pain. I almost asked the doctor to punch me in that area to see if I could feel it.
Really the biggest disappointment is that all I got for my trouble was a bandaid. A 5 cent bandaid. The least they could have done was give me a lollypop or some stickers or something.