6.08.2008
THANK GOD HE'S WEARING A HELMET
I LOVE IT WHEN CNN IMITATES THE ONION.
It's just as funny, but it's real life!:
- Their own version of the “hand shake.”
- The outing was cut short by a downpour.
- 'The Huckabee Heimlich'
- I want to go to the Magic Kingdom with Hillary.
It's just as funny, but it's real life!:
- Their own version of the “hand shake.”
- The outing was cut short by a downpour.
- 'The Huckabee Heimlich'
- I want to go to the Magic Kingdom with Hillary.
6.05.2008
"Politicians [...] respond to the people who vote for them, not to the people who ignore them."
Michael Ian Black articulates an argument I've been trying to make for years.
Seriously, please read this -- especially if you consider yourself 'too liberal' for the democratic party, and especially especially if we've argued about that before. His post summarizes my stance so perfectly that I want to print it out and carry around copies with me in my purse.
My long standing crush on MIB is experiencing exponential growth.
Seriously, please read this -- especially if you consider yourself 'too liberal' for the democratic party, and especially especially if we've argued about that before. His post summarizes my stance so perfectly that I want to print it out and carry around copies with me in my purse.
My long standing crush on MIB is experiencing exponential growth.
5.20.2008
Reasons Why I Am Quitting Myspace (Tomorrow!):
- I like facebook, goodreads, and flickr a hell of a lot better - design wise and content wise - and I would rather support and encourage websites that match my aesthetic and my beliefs.
- I spend way (way way way) too much time looking at myspace and, specifically, unhealthily obsessing over a small set of people's profiles, comments, and updates.
- I think that rather than trying to articulate my personality with words in a way that will seem appealing or magical or sexy or cute or funny, I should just try to BE all of those things in real life. And, relatedly, I think it kind of takes the fun out of getting to know people naturally to be able to refer to a list of all of their favorites and a concise summary of who they think they are.
- I would like my 'internet presence' to be content based and myspace is definitively personality based.
- Top friends. Need I say more?
- It's kind of cool to not have it at this point, right?
All of that said, I'm kind of cheating. I put up a music profile awhile back with some of my silly songs, and for now I'm keeping it. I've been working on music again and planning a show (!), so I feel like it makes sense for me to leave it there. I have a fraction of the friends that I have on my regular profile there and I'm not going to promote it any further until there are songs I'm more proud of up. I'm hoping that since I've made the definitive move of canceling my personal account, I won't start using that one the same way. To safeguard against that I'll be turning off email notification on that account and only checking on it maybe once a week.
& so that this post isn't solely an over-analysis of a trivial matter, here's a list of fake bands I've been a 'member' of:
- Shock The Nation / Shark Attack (third grade - me, Andrew, Jackie, Julia)
- Megalife (me, Isaac, Josh, maybe Robert/Mona/Jen?)
- Quicksilver Stallion (me, Sarah, Michelle, Isaac)
- The Poison Vixen Trio (me, Sarah, Michelle)
- Magic Action (me, Michelle)
- Man-Boy (me, Meaghan, Sarah Bear - 70s cover band)
- Another Day, Another Man (me, Mandy, Jen Mo)
- The Post-Sunset Muffins (me, Andy, Craig - possibly not-fake someday?)
- Slow Little Oranges (me, Mandy -- name coined by Kathleen in reference to a tree full of baby sloths (!!))
- Sloth Cabinet (me, Patrick)
- I spend way (way way way) too much time looking at myspace and, specifically, unhealthily obsessing over a small set of people's profiles, comments, and updates.
- I think that rather than trying to articulate my personality with words in a way that will seem appealing or magical or sexy or cute or funny, I should just try to BE all of those things in real life. And, relatedly, I think it kind of takes the fun out of getting to know people naturally to be able to refer to a list of all of their favorites and a concise summary of who they think they are.
- I would like my 'internet presence' to be content based and myspace is definitively personality based.
- Top friends. Need I say more?
- It's kind of cool to not have it at this point, right?
All of that said, I'm kind of cheating. I put up a music profile awhile back with some of my silly songs, and for now I'm keeping it. I've been working on music again and planning a show (!), so I feel like it makes sense for me to leave it there. I have a fraction of the friends that I have on my regular profile there and I'm not going to promote it any further until there are songs I'm more proud of up. I'm hoping that since I've made the definitive move of canceling my personal account, I won't start using that one the same way. To safeguard against that I'll be turning off email notification on that account and only checking on it maybe once a week.
& so that this post isn't solely an over-analysis of a trivial matter, here's a list of fake bands I've been a 'member' of:
- Shock The Nation / Shark Attack (third grade - me, Andrew, Jackie, Julia)
- Megalife (me, Isaac, Josh, maybe Robert/Mona/Jen?)
- Quicksilver Stallion (me, Sarah, Michelle, Isaac)
- The Poison Vixen Trio (me, Sarah, Michelle)
- Magic Action (me, Michelle)
- Man-Boy (me, Meaghan, Sarah Bear - 70s cover band)
- Another Day, Another Man (me, Mandy, Jen Mo)
- The Post-Sunset Muffins (me, Andy, Craig - possibly not-fake someday?)
- Slow Little Oranges (me, Mandy -- name coined by Kathleen in reference to a tree full of baby sloths (!!))
- Sloth Cabinet (me, Patrick)
Labels: funny, internets, lists, lovedones, politics
8.23.2007
Ron Paul? Really?
What the fuck is going on with people? In my boredom over the last couple nights I've seen a dozen myspace profiles of otherwise intelligent, reasonable, 'alternative' young people who I know aren't rich, selfish fucks supporting Ron Paul's presidential bid. This is after enduring these cute stenciled signed all over Austin that say "Ron Paul Revolution" with the backwards 'love' in 'revolution' boxed out and highlighted. Give me a break, people...
I know it's refreshing to hear someone out there 'supporting the constitiution' and dogging the Iraq war. But I know this guy isn't really your 'ideal canidate' or anything close. Just for starters, let's not make the same mistakes over and over again and launch support for a canidate that has no way of winning anything close to a majority vote and lock in some shitty republican because we're all too cute and idealistic to come together to support a decent alternative who people over 30 might actually support too. I hate to sound jaded, but radical change can come in ways other than a presidential race where EVERYONE IN AMERICA is voting and we HAVE to compromise in order to make any positive change whatsoever.
Also, even if you are going to stick to your guns and vote for someone who a. has no widespread name recognition and b. doesn't have the ability to convince our congress and senate to do shit that they want to do, this guy is ABSOLUTELY NOT some savior for your ideals if you and I get along at all...
Ron Paul:
- wants to repeal birthright citizenship, deport illegal aliens, and tighten our borders.
- wants to abolish income tax, a favorite topic among rich capitalist dicks who don't believe that the class gap is something our government should have to bother with.
- wants to return to a gold standard for currency and remove taxes on gold transactions. what?
- is the "The only 2008 presidential candidate to earn Gun Owners of America's (GOA) A+ rating"
- is pro-life and has described abortion as an 'act of aggression' against a fetus. "Paul introduced The Sanctity of Life Act of 2005, a bill that would have defined human life to begin at conception, and removed challenges to prohibitions on abortion from federal court jurisdiction.[87] Defining embryos and fetuses as persons would make abortion murder and outlaw fetal stem cell research and some contraception and fertility treatments.[88][89] In 2005, Paul introduced the We the People Act, which would have removed "any claim based upon the right of privacy, including any such claim related to any issue of ... reproduction" from the jurisdiction of federal courts. If made law, either of these acts would allow states to prohibit abortion"
- doesn't believe in a 'rigid' seperation of church and state and supports 'voluntary' school prayer. He's also claimed that the 'collective left hates religon' based on secularism.
- doesn't support same-sex marriage or civil unions and has described american's fear (homophobia) of same-sex marriage as 'understandable'
- he believes that envioronmental issues are sufficiently handled under the larger, capitalist-asshole property owner's rights umbrella, and opposes federal environmental mandates -- "The people of Texas do not need federal regulators determining our air standards."
- has voted to end affirmative action at the college level.
(political positions are lifted from wikipedia and references are available here)
So, in short... Really?
I know it's refreshing to hear someone out there 'supporting the constitiution' and dogging the Iraq war. But I know this guy isn't really your 'ideal canidate' or anything close. Just for starters, let's not make the same mistakes over and over again and launch support for a canidate that has no way of winning anything close to a majority vote and lock in some shitty republican because we're all too cute and idealistic to come together to support a decent alternative who people over 30 might actually support too. I hate to sound jaded, but radical change can come in ways other than a presidential race where EVERYONE IN AMERICA is voting and we HAVE to compromise in order to make any positive change whatsoever.
Also, even if you are going to stick to your guns and vote for someone who a. has no widespread name recognition and b. doesn't have the ability to convince our congress and senate to do shit that they want to do, this guy is ABSOLUTELY NOT some savior for your ideals if you and I get along at all...
Ron Paul:
- wants to repeal birthright citizenship, deport illegal aliens, and tighten our borders.
- wants to abolish income tax, a favorite topic among rich capitalist dicks who don't believe that the class gap is something our government should have to bother with.
- wants to return to a gold standard for currency and remove taxes on gold transactions. what?
- is the "The only 2008 presidential candidate to earn Gun Owners of America's (GOA) A+ rating"
- is pro-life and has described abortion as an 'act of aggression' against a fetus. "Paul introduced The Sanctity of Life Act of 2005, a bill that would have defined human life to begin at conception, and removed challenges to prohibitions on abortion from federal court jurisdiction.[87] Defining embryos and fetuses as persons would make abortion murder and outlaw fetal stem cell research and some contraception and fertility treatments.[88][89] In 2005, Paul introduced the We the People Act, which would have removed "any claim based upon the right of privacy, including any such claim related to any issue of ... reproduction" from the jurisdiction of federal courts. If made law, either of these acts would allow states to prohibit abortion"
- doesn't believe in a 'rigid' seperation of church and state and supports 'voluntary' school prayer. He's also claimed that the 'collective left hates religon' based on secularism.
- doesn't support same-sex marriage or civil unions and has described american's fear (homophobia) of same-sex marriage as 'understandable'
- he believes that envioronmental issues are sufficiently handled under the larger, capitalist-asshole property owner's rights umbrella, and opposes federal environmental mandates -- "The people of Texas do not need federal regulators determining our air standards."
- has voted to end affirmative action at the college level.
(political positions are lifted from wikipedia and references are available here)
So, in short... Really?
Labels: politics
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