Sleeping is a mug's game

So far tonight I've tried in vain to get David Bowie out of my brain jukebox (Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes!), memorized the prices of cat adoptions, reread one of my favourite short stories (Tom Brightwind, or How the fairy bridge was built at Thorsby by Susanna Clarke), and been nostalgic about fog.

You never see that that type of peasoupy fog anymore, do you? It's my favourite sort of weather, but I can't remember the last time I'd walk outside and the entire world around me had just disappeared. Maybe I lived in a particularly foggy part of the country when I was a child, I don't know. My school route in the winter could at times put Silent Hill to shame.

Sometimes here in Bergen I look out my window and delight in how I can't see any of the mountains that usually dominate my bedroom view (though that could just be smog, seeing as how Bergen is one of the most polluted cities in Norway), but the kind of fog you can get lost in? Just a childhood memory.

I JUST CARE A LOT ABOUT FOG OKAY.

Recent realizations that should have come to me a lot sooner

- Dr. Doom rules over Latveria, not Latvia.

- The lyrics to the theme song of Linkara's Atop the Fourth Wall goes "Anyone who's ever had a bad comic published, it can be your turn", not "it can be returned". That wouldn't make sense.

- Morgan Freeman is an actor. Gordon Freeman is a video game character.

- In Joan Baez' 'Prison trilogy (Billy Rose)' the titular character was a "low rider" and a "night fighter". He was not a Knight Rider.

- In 'Turnabout Intruder', Kirk says that Spock's accusation of him not being the real Kirk is "insane at its base", not "insane in space" (which admittedly describes the third season to a tee). Thanks downloadable subtitles!