Word of the Day: NKOTB

I mean, come on, who does not love the New Kids on the Block REUNION??

I still have a poster of NKOTB hanging, albeit on the inside, of my closet door in my old room at my parent's house. I either couldn't bring myself to take it down, or my friends thought it was funny to keep putting it back up. I can't quite remember now... I was shocked by the fact that it's now been 20 years since they released their first single! How is it even possible that I was only ten years old when Hanging' Tough came out? How old did that make them? Joey, who I was totally in love with, must have been about 12 at the time.

Anyway, I'm willing to give them another chance. As long as they don't sound like a boy band anymore and dance around on stage in that hokey boy band choreographed way, they could probably sell a lot more albums, just on the nostalgia alone.

Word of the Day:

mazuma
slang for "money," 1901, from Yiddish, from Mishnaic Hebrew mezumman "designated, fixed, appointed," used in Medieval Heb. in sense of "cash" (cf. slang the needful "money"), from Akkad. simanu "appointed time."
It seems like everyone is making cool million off their own lives these days by writing books about, well, about being them. If only anyone wanted to read about being me.

Today the Clinton's released their tax returns to the public, showing a combined income of $109 M between 2000 and 2007. Here's my favorite line of the Washington Post story:

The returns reveal how the Clintons turned global fame into a successful commercial brand...

Did we really need to know about the life of the Clinton's during the White House years enough to pay them millions of dollars in royalties? We already know enough, I think. But America can't seem to get enough of celebrity life. Enough so that we start labeling the Clinton's as a commercial brand, like Air Jordan's or Kleenex.

I much prefer reading books of real substance, like one I just finished, by former Navy SEAL, Marcus Luttrell, who wrote an extremely moving account of his time being hunted by Taliban in the Hindu Kush in Afghanistan, while his buddies were dying with valor all around him. Why aren't we paying real people big money to read amazing accounts of thier lives? Instead we're shelling out $25 dollars for the hardback version of Hillary Clinton's years in the White House.