It figures--literally two days after I obtain a 15 GB Ipod, Apple phases it out.  It’s obsolete.  You can now only purchase 20 and 40 GB models.

Can someone explain to me why anyone needs a 40 GB Ipod?  That’s 10,000 songs.  “Yeah, honey, I’m taking the Ipod and going out for a jog.  I’ll be back after I circle around THE PLANET OF NEPTUNE.  Let me know if you’d like me to pick something up from THE REACHES OF DEEP SPACE.”

Look, we all believe that “Stairway to Heaven” should be a shorter song--but hello, can we say “overcompensation”?

In other news: Hey, it’s a Lord of the Rings & the Hobbit Audio CD dramatization.  And an an Xbox cable.  And a 7-piece Popeye set.  And silver age Batman & Robin.  And a 2-pack Episode I & II DVD set.  And a Radiohead CD.  Boy, I loved that smash hit song of theirs, “Jerk.” What is all this?  Why, it must be my friend James selling a bunch of stuff.*

*Okay, James, I did it.  But if anyone other than you or me actually knows who Mervyn Pumpkinhead is, I’ll smuggle a Harry Potter book out of the National Archives.