Taylor Swift

So as anyone who knows me knows, I am passionate about Taylor Swift. If she's on TV, I know about it. If she has a new single coming out, I know about it. If she breaks up with her shirtless werewolf boyfriend, I know about. I have her Twitter updates forwarded to my phone and really if I knew as much about Chemistry 101 as I do about Taylor Swift then I probably would not have to retake that course at some point in my college career.

Many people would say that I am a "stalker", but by looking at a simple definition of "stalking" it would be very easy to rule that description out. According to wikipedia and confirmed on dictionary.com, "stalking" is a term commonly used to refer to unwanted attention by individuals to others. So other than that time I was within like 20 yards of her at her concert I have never even come into physical contact with her. I don't have a life-sized statue of her in my closet made out of her used chewing gum and hairclips so I'd say that me being a "stalker" is not the proper term. What term would I use then you ask? Passionate. As defined on dictionary.com "passionate" is expressing, showing, or marked by intense or strong feeling; emotional. I'd say that's perfect. I would describe my fandom as being more like those old videos of Elvis or the Beach Boys performing and the girls in the crowd going crazy rather than John Hinckley Jr. So here's the next question everyone asks: Why? Why Taylor Swift? And it has taken nearly three years to realize the answer to that question but here it is, the secret to it all.

I remember the first time Taylor Swift's heavenly voice reached my ears. It was a Sunday morning during my junior year of high school and I was on my way to church when "Tim McGraw" came onto the radio. The DJ talked about how she was only 16 and that she had a part in writing all of the songs on her debut CD. Incredible right? Well here's the shocker. And I hope everyone is ready for this because its an earth-shaker. The thought that came into my head was "She's no Carrie Underwood" *gasp*. It was not love at first sound. I'll admit that even now "Tim McGraw" is not one of my favorite songs of her's. It took awhile to get to where I am today.

It wasn't really until she was on the brink of stardom that I really, really started to like her. Here she is at the age of 20 on top of the world and she still acts like she hasn't done anything, like she doesn't belong with the greats of music. (I'm gonna finish but I'd just like to say that Love Story was the greatest video of all time!) She is a superstar that doesn't act like the other superstars of today and it shows in the music she writes. Her music is not sex-centered like so much other pop music is today. She acts like a girl should act and expects to be treated the way a girl should be treated. I will admit that that last statement sounds pretty sexist: "like a girl should act". Who am I to say how a girl should act? But the answer to that question is in the second part of the sentence: the way a girl should be treated. In the music video for "Love Story" Taylor portrays a princess. In a few other songs the whole fairy-tale theme is front and center. In regards to her darker songs about boys she says that "If guys don't want me to write bad songs about them, then they shouldn't do bad things." Guys should be act like that Prince Charming that every girl expects because God created girls to be treated just as Taylor Swift thinks they should be: like princesses. And I couldn't agree more.

Indianapolis Colts vs. New Orleans Saints

So its going to be Colts vs. Saints in Super Bowl XLIV. Manning vs. Brees. Two of the greatest quarterbacks ever will meet in two weeks for what promises to be a game in which the Miami air will be filled with footballs. For those of you who thought that this was going to be my prediction on who is going to win the Super Bowl I will indulge you. I believe that the team which scores more points than the other team will ultimately find themselves heading to the real grand-prize: a trip to Disney World! And now for the real reason for this blog:

What does this quarterback battle really mean? Well, I will tell you what it means and it doesn't involve anyone playing on February 7th either. It means that we will have to endure another late Winter/Spring/Summer of Brett Favre's retirement drama. You think "Jersey Shore" is good television you just watch the NFL Network after the NFL Draft. Brett "The Gunslinger" Favre will take up a good 45% of all NFL coverage in the dead period between College Payday (NFL Draft) and the opening of Summer Camp. Maybe it won't happen. Maybe he will make his decision known early and stick with it. I just don't see that happening though. Brett Favre loves media attention more than Paul "DJ Pauly D" DelVecchio loves hair product and I can assure you that Favre spends more than 25 minutes preparing for every Wrangler Jean ad.

Have you ever let clothes sit in the washer after you wash them? (I promise this is an asinine tangent) You don't intend on leaving them there but you get caught up in re-watching "The Office" Season 5 on Netflix and you just forget about them until you need clean tube socks. So when you do remember to transfer them to the dryer (while wearing dirty tube socks) they've dried out partly and because the spin-cycle on the washer has plastered them against the side of the tank they've kinda gotten wrinkled. If you hadn't forgotten them they would have gone in the dryer as soon as they were done washing and then no wrinkles. Wrinkled tube socks < style="font-style: italic;">Voila, no wrinkles.

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So I've been thinking about starting a blog for a long while. I have so many original ideas which are formed by my peers that after a while my brain requires to just forget about select ones, lost for all eternity, and that would just be tragic. "What Kind of Bear is Best?" should also cut down on the number of facebook statuses I tend to post on a daily basis. Maybe not, we'll see...