Nobel Prize in the Field of Being Boring

What happened to the Nobel Prize? It used to be so cool. It used to be about the music, then it sold out. In my classes, we keep learning about prizes for sequencing some dumb gene or discovering the structure of some stupid protein...abvfebfvbf b...

Sorry, I fell asleep while typing that and my face hit the keyboard. Sooo boring. Alfred Nobel, the man who established the Nobel Prize (duh), invented dynamite. Friggin' dynamite! How cool is that?? And the early prizes were always given for cool stuff:

1901-1903, Physics: Radiation. Delicious radiation...
1904, Medicine: Friggin' Pavlov, whose studies can help you create an unholy army of salivating animals
1908, Chemistry: "For his investigations into the disintegration of the elements" Muahaha

More recently?

2001, Medicine: "for their discoveries of key regulators of the cell cycle"
2004, Chemistry: "for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation"
2004, Physics: "for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction"

See what I mean? Winning the prizes now is like receiving the award for "Most Boringest Guy Ever." And if you try to give me the "it's important for the advancement of our knowledge of life, the universe, and everything," you obviously lack my vision.

All I'm sayin' is that the Nobel committee needs to get its act together. Give all of the 2005 prizes to mad scientists - the kind with crazy hair who wear lab coats and goggles all the time. A prize for inventing the death ray or a mind control drug would be a huge PR boost. Plus, it's closer to what I imagine are the initial intentions of the Dynamite Prize. And maybe it would remove the motivation for Zombie Nobel's yearly brain-eating rampage.