How do you know if you spend too much time at Best Buy (AKA The Temple Of Consumerism)?

I got a fairly radical haircut (not quite a Corgan like last time, but close). I needed a USB cable to help me transfer some files to a server I’m setting up at work, so I went to the Temple to pick one up. When I approached the Altar Of Spending (the checkout), the girl behind the register double-taked so hard she actually choked, pointed at me and said “You shaved your head!” Yep, when the cashiers recognize you and comment on your hairstyle, you officially hang out at the electronics store way too much.

Speaking of things you can buy at the Temple; if you like things that sound good, there’s no satisfactory excuse you can have to not pick up a copy of Pink Floyd – Live At Pompeii. It’s painfully good, including a tremendous performance of the “Echoes” suite from Meddle that demolishes the album version.

Speaking of Pink Floyd, at the Vic Wooten concert I saw with former work homeboy Doug two weeks ago, a tall, slender guy, looking straight from the islands with an impressive headful of dreadlocks approached me, pointing and waving animatedly in my direction. I couldn’t figure what the guy wanted with me until I dumbly figured out that he was pointing at my Floyd shirt, then back at the similar one he was wearing. “Right on”s and handshakes were exchanged after this bit of understanding was reached. The concert was good too.