This past week, I found myself in 4 major cities - Pittsburgh, Indianapolis, Chicago and St. Louis. In Pittsburgh, I was visiting a friend, and he was toting me around the city - showing what there was to be seen, in Chicago - I was loitering until my train boarded, and in St. Louis - well, I live in St. Louis.

For the moment, I'll blame the transmission in a recently acquired vehicle. I was laying in bed and my head was reeling - trying to line up all of my ducks, and after 45 minutes passed - I threw a TV show up on my computer and I was asleep no more than 10 minutes later. It was really in Chicago when I made the realization - almost everyone I walk past on the street or that I encounter on the train is on drugs. Myself too. We're all using entertainment as a drug. Music, television, movies, video games or otherwise - we're pumping this psychological sedative into our heads at an alarming rate - and probably equally alarming cost. I was using this electronic pharmaceutical to quiet the storm in my head caused by something as trivial and nebulous as a transmission, I wonder what everyone around me was medicating for.

I'm not convinced that there is anything inherently wrong with these products of entertainment, after all, our Creator created us with the ability to indulge in the fantastic - I mean, even He used 'fabricated' stories to illustrate his point - but where is the line?

Oh - got to go. Five Score and Seven Years Ago by Reliant K just finished downloading. (Great album by the way - thanks Jon.)