What is Existential Dread?

Do you ever feel like it's cold and rainy out even when it's balmy and sunny?  Or that life is so mind-numbingly boring, even when you're on vacation in a spectacular place you've never been before?  Or you feel that in 2005 the concept of an American government "of the people, by the people, for the people" mocks you more than it inspires you?  Or that the selfish jerk in front of you on the checkout line at Gourmet Garage counting out exact change in pennies when all you want to do is pay for your milk and cereal and get home to watch another re-run of Curb Your Enthusiasm is just such a useless sample of time-wasting flesh?  Ah, existential dread... you know it well.

Well, this blog is about the little things in life that seem like big things because they are just so annoying, frustrating and aggravating -- or at least they feel that way... to me, to you, to every one of us.  I like to think of them as pet peeves that on the wrong day feel like universal vexations.

So, if like me you occasionally feel like you've got a touch of the dread, I invite you to join me in complaining about it -- often and at length -- in the hope that it will all feel a little bit better.  So if you've got dread, why don't you proclaim it and bum somebody else out today?