I hate:

• that rumors of Stevie Wonder playing Tampa Bay are unfounded.

• when someone says “print is dead.”

• that Omar on The Wire is dead.

• that I only get to the beach three or four times a year.

• Ben Affleck less than I used to.

• fruit in my beer.

• Donald Trump.

• that my colleague Sal won’t accept my challenge to Indian wrestle.

• that almost everyone uses “forever” to mark the past: “Oh, I haven’t seen you in forever.”

• that when you get to a certain age, hairs starts to sprout on your ears.

This article appears in Feb 27 – Mar 4, 2008.

Eric Snider is the dean of Bay area music critics. He started in the early 1980s as one of the founding members of Music magazine, a free bi-monthly. He was the pop music critic for the then-St. Petersburg...