Radio nincompoop: Finally, sled pie.

Some things, when you get to heaven, you can measure in terms of Actual Time Spent (washing cars, 164h; attending births, 22h). Other things are so pervasive and enormous, you measure them as Percentage of Life Spent (sleeping, 31%; commuting / work-related travel, 4.5%). For a little while there, "making mix tapes" was threatening to move from my list A into my list B.

In high school, it makes sense to make mixtapes for girlfriends. In college, it's still sweet. When you're 35 years old, and you just can't decide whether the next song should come in on the two or the four, and you're auditioning it this way and then that way, then playing the entire previous song trying to figure it out ... as Dennis Miller once said, "you've probably made a serious vocational error somewhere along the line."

So here you go. For best results, iTunes. And to all those who are too cool for Bruce Springsteen, I offer: When a man is tired of Rosalita, he is tired of life.