Wednesdays

You know its that sort of day when the thing gets you most excited is iTunes radio playing a Joanna Newsom. Seriously, I thought I was going to cry tears of joy. Wednesdays suck.

New Seven Wonders?

Okay, so I get the idea of updating the list to reflect a more global understanding of the word "world" (as opposed to a "Mesopotamia is AWESOME" interpretation of it) and, yeah, its cool that it was a show of international democracy, and yes, 6/7ths of the original list no longer exist... BUT STILL. I mean, wrong with commemorating our lost history? Why can't we just let the seven wonders stay as they are, even if we only ever hear about them in history class? I mean, they may all be gone now, but isn't there something great about the idea of kids learning about these fantastical creations that occupy a mythic place in our history? And the fact that they don't exist anymore makes it all the more important that we hold on to what we know about them. I mean, why bother to teach about the Babylonian Gardens or the Colossus of Rhodes if they don't count as wonders? And if we take away their "wonders" status, aren't we hammering the final nail into their coffins of obscurity?

And on a less pretentious note, THE PYRAMIDS OF GIZA STILL EXIST. I mean, thats just a slap in the face of ancient Egypt. They built those babies to last, and now we're saying, "nope, sorry, you may have survived near millenia of sandstorms, various and sundry rulers, multiple religions, Napoleon (the man blew off the nose of the Sphinx, thats all I'm saying), colonialism and two world wars, but you just aren't that wonderous anymore. We'd like that title back, thanks. Mexican pyramids are so hot right now." I can almost here the pyramids of Giza weakly yelling, "I'm not dead yet!"