Who the @!#?@! is Schala…

…and how in the world did she end up with this song?!?

Schala’s Theme icon-external-link-12x12 icon-search-12x12 (track from Chrono Trigger icon-external-link-12x12 icon-search-12x12 by Yasunori Mitsuda icon-external-link-12x12 icon-search-12x12 by SquareSoft icon-external-link-12x12 icon-search-12x12 )

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This is perhaps the best track in Chrono Trigger—and arguably one of the most wonderful compositions in a video game—yet it couldn’t have been used less effectively. The sequence in all of its glorious mundanity can be experienced by watching a variety of videos on YouTube icon-external-link-12x12 icon-search-12x12.

According to its placement within the game, you would expect that the song was about to end up on the cutting room floor. In actuality, assigning it to Schala, her temperamental little brother Janus, and her little brother’s rude kitty cat is more likely to be due to time constraints and poor planning than an inability to recognize potential.

Super-Sized Sinning

My third favorite restaurant, Carl’s Jr., just came out with its next delectable: El Diablo.

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You may spend an eternity in hell for eating this hamburger, but it is so delicious that you won’t even care! Only $5.95* and for a limited time only.

To keep Burger King regulars from feeling left out, the company will be releasing its competing meal The Scourge Burger, due for mass consumption sometime this summer. McDonalds is also getting in on the action, but will apparently forgo any references to pestilence and demonology so as not to dissuade the greater population from eating at its restaurants. Word on the street is that the burger will be called the McUlcer, but this is yet to be confirmed.

* One time fee of your soul required.

Just Do It

As everyone knows, Nike produces the coolest and most attractive sportswear in the universe. So, whilst buying Nike sports equipment the other day to prepare for the upcoming baseball season, I noticed that many of its products depict a man swinging a bat with his batting helmet on backwards.

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This seemed strange to me at first, but after a few minutes I had the same epiphany that many others have had before me: if you want to be cooler than everyone else, take two or more previously unrelated cool things and combine them together. In this case, baseball is cool and wearing your hat backwards is cool, so doing both at the same time must be at least twice as cool. Ergo, to achieve ultimate coolness while batting during a baseball game, do it the Nike way and put your batting helmet on backwards.

In my continued pursuit to be accepted by as many people as possible, I will next attempt to surf on a Southern California beach while eating a corndog and wearing an ensemble of five finger shoes and Billabong swimtrunks. Following this, I am going to start drinking Starbucks lattes while talking to some random inconsequential person on an iPhone with a 12 inch screen as I’m pretending to workout at the gym.

Esoteric Etiquette

If somebody you know suffered a disappointing date brokered through a match-making website, sharing the comment “There are plenty of fish left in the sea” might be highly inappropriate. This is particularly true if the site happened to be PlentyOfFish.com, as she will think that you are making a horribly cruel joke at her expense.

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Depending on the degree of catastrophe that was experienced (and eventually comprehended in the aftermath), your well-intentioned journey from Mars to Venus could result in an articulated knee to the gut… followed by black-eye-prostration… followed by one or two cracked ribs… followed by….