Metallica-branded ear plugs are currently for sale at the group’s website: Ear Plugs with Keychain Case by EarPeace 
. Only $10.99, what a deal!
These are currently in the clearance section, suggesting that they could soon become a collector’s item. Although, rumor has it that they will be recirculated as a free gift to anyone who has purchased the band’s music since 2000.
The Stand 
, written by Stephen King and released in 1978, is more than 800 pages long. The Stand: The Complete & Uncut Edition was released in 1990 and is more than 1100 pages long. The book is definitely worth reading. It also has what I consider to be a happy ending: an atom bomb is detonated in Las Vegas.
This is not to suggest that I would like to see Las Vegas be exploded; but I do think that if a nuclear weapon were to go off in the US, Las Vegas would be one of the the better places for it to happen.
Last (track 03 from the Broken EP by Nine Inch Nails )
Gave up trying to figure it out, but my head got lost along the way
Worn out from giving it up, but my soul I pissed it all away
Still stings these shattered nerves, pigs we get what pigs deserve
I’m going all the way down, I’m leaving today
Come on, you have got to fill me up
Come on, you have got to let me inside of you
Come on, you have got to fix me up
Come on, you have got to let me inside of you
Still feel it all slipping away, but it doesn’t matter anymore
Everybody is still slipping away, but it doesn’t matter anymore
Look through these blackened eyes, you’ll see ten thousand lies
My lips may promise, but my heart is a whore
Come on, you have got to fix me up
Come on, you have got to let me inside of you
Come on, you have got to fill me up
Come on, nothing gets through to you
This isn’t meant to last
This is for right now
I know it’s all getting away and it comes to me as no surprise
I know what is coming to me is never going to arrive
Fresh blood through tired skin, new sweat to drown me in
Dress up this rotten carcass just to make it look alive
Come on, you have got to fill me up
Come on, you have got to let me inside of you
Come on, you have got to fix me up
Come on, you have got to let me get through to you
This isn’t meant to last
This is for right now
I wish I could put the blame on you
I want you to make me
I want you to take me
I want you to break me
I want you to throw me away
I loathe bumper stickers and typically regard people who put them on their vehicles as inconsiderate. To my reckoning, an individual’s personality deficiencies are directly relatable to the number of stickers affixed to her car. Yesterday, however, I was stuck behind somebody with only one sticker, and this sticker actually brought me some amusement. It read: God wants spiritual fruit, not religious nuts.
I was immediately reminded of the only other bumper sticker that has brought me any amount of joy. It was in the same vein as the one above, but highly provocative… maybe even incitant. I have never actually seen it on anybody’s car—I only came across it in a music store that was known to carry some morally ambiguous wares (this store has since gone out of business). I think that if a person actually put this sticker on his car then his insurance policy would be cancelled due to imminent vandalism. Its words were as thought-provoking as they were offensive.
With all the bad parts edited out, the bumper sticker reads: *** * ***** ***** *** *****.