Tell me why.

Three things I don’t understand.

1) There is a giant billboard on my way home from the gym. On the billboard: a giant spoonful of corn. Corn kernels on a spoon. Along with a Cracker Barrel logo, and underneath, the name of the shopping center where this particular Cracker Barrel is located.

My question: why?

I spent too much time thinking about this tonight. Is there any significance to a giant spoonful of corn? Any other possible meaning than what is there? And if there isn’t, I don’t get it.

Is a giant spoonful of corn supposed to intrigue me? Supposed to draw me to Cracker Barrel? I like corn. Most people do. But I’m not going to drive across town to eat corn at Cracker Barrel.

What is the deal with the corn? Why corn? Why?

2) The lyrics to John Mayer’s “Waiting on the World to Change.”

I’ve never thought too much about this song . . . it’s just one of those things you hear on the radio, but lately the lyrics have been bugging me. At first I thought it was meant as a rebuke to “my generation.” Like we’re just sitting around, waiting for the world to change, when we should be doing something. But I don’t think it is. It could be a rebuke to the people in power now, for not doing things right. But I’m thinking it’s just a statement about the way things are. And if that’s all it is, then I think it’s pretty dumb. I mean, saying we’re not doing anything because we don’t have power? What a cop-out. Does John Mayer really think that things will be different when people our age are running the government? Because really, I don’t think anything is going to change. If we are too lazy to do anything now, we’re not going to do anything later.

Stupid John Mayer.

3) Why According to Jim is still on the air.