Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Music: Ted Stevens - The Internet is a Series of Tubes
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BWAHAHAHAHA!

MUAHAHA! MUAHAHAHA!!!!

Our favorite technologically savvy senator is so fucked it's beyond belief!!

Ted Stevens of Alaska is being asked to step down from his committee positions! This probably means that criminal charges of corruption are on the way! I'm so happy to see that the criminal justice system finally realized that two + two = four...Or in the case of Mr. Stevens: Bridges to Nowhere All Over the State + "The Internet is not a big truck" = "Hey maybe this guy is criminally incompetant at his job in addition to being one of the most corrupt politicians in Washington!"
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Monday, July 30, 2007

Music: Garbage - Right Between the Eyes
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I'll admit it. There are certain aspects of society and popular culture about which I am nothing short of a total hater. Cookie cutter ho-bag clothing on 12 year old girls, emo/scene music, the reverence for professional sports players....I completely lose all rationality and cannot be argued with when people defend these things.

I got that challenged a couple times this past Friday.

First was in the realm of music. There's nothing I enjoy more than making fun of scene kids. They're walking targets. The kind of people even dorky little me would not have felt bad laughing at in high school. But anyway, on Friday night I had a really random urge to hear this old Joy Division song called "Love Will Tear Us Apart." It's a terrible song. You can't understand a word of it and the 80's-tastic synthesizer beats are laughable...but I *really* wanted to hear it again. Sometimes things are so terrible that they're awesome. As I was downloading it I realized...that band "Fall Out Boy" did a cover of it. I'd heard it before. It somehow manages to be more unintelligible than the original...I wondered what else the Kings of Scene could provide in terms of laughter.

So I checked out the new album and there was one song...I can't even remember what it was called but...It made fun of Scene. The band...that pretty much invented Scene....was making fun of Scene...and the song was listenable! My world was rocked. I didn't know how to deal. Still not a fan of the band at large, but that one song is okay enough to make me rethink my haterism for about five seconds.

Earlier that evening, my parents and I went out to eat. Somehow we got on the topic of "stocks we own" and my father randomly asked me what I thought of Abercrombie and Fitch. "Oh God...where do I start?" I said, and went on to outline how much I hated their clothes, marketing strategies, and the atmosphere of the stores where the music is loud on purpose so as to put you in some kind of trendy trance. I went on for about five minutes and he started chuckling. "Well. I think you might want to change your attitude. I bought that stock years ago after that big scandle they had with the so-called indecent pictures on the bags...The money we've gotten from that basically funded about a year of college for you on its own. What do you have to say to that?"

"Hey," I said. "If idiotic white kids with too much money and not enough individuality want to dress like Hamptons Hookers and underaged frat boys, I like to know that I'm at least making money off their stupidity."

"Cheers," said my mother.

Sometimes, you just can't stop the hate.

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nice choice of stocks on your father's part. Cheers indeed. $$$$

# posted by  A : 11:10 AM

 

You are amazing. Thats all I can say.

# posted by  Lost-chelsea : 2:25 PM

 

Cheers, indeed.

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Friday, July 20, 2007

Music: Foo Fighters - DOA
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Why in the name of puppies does this always seem to happen.

I had *plans* for today. *Important* plans. I still need to go to the Borders and get my wristband to pick up my Harry Potter copies. I also need to get to the craft store and return a piece of crap snap puncher. I had things I wanted to do today, yet here I am stuck behind the dest with nothing to do.

Marilyn is sick for the second day in a row, meaning I get to listen to the paniced cries of our codependant clients as they scream to the heavens "Why, Dios!? WHY!? WHY ISN'T THE OTHER GIRL WHOSE NAME I CAN'T REMEMBER IN!!???!!??"

I honestly have no idea why this is so traumatizing for them. I can take a message just as well as she can, and I even speak Spanish, but most of them would rather not leave a message and have my boss never get word of their problems than tell me anything.

Guess that's what I get for being white in this office.

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Wednesday, July 18, 2007

Music: Cherry Poppin Daddies - Soul Caddy
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My mother is gone for a week....

I think my father and I have started to go feral.

It started out well. We had a good meal on Sunday. Dad was gonna cook until he threw his back out, so I ended up making dinner. It was fun and no disasters this time.

Then...housework set in.

My mom has a lot of plants outside...plants that need watering. It takes a minimum of half an hour to do all of that. Then there's cat management, meaning letting him out, changing his food and water, getting him back in the hosue, etc. Getting him to come in is another half hour task...little shit...if we wanted an animal we had to let outside, why didn't we just get another dog?

Today I also have to clean the bathtub, vacume, do some laundry so we have enough towels to last until Monday, and take out the recycling.

Have you noticed a pattern yet? In case you didn't, I'll point it out. In none of those sentences did you see the word "we." That's because my father has done jack all. Oh wait. He emptied the dish washer once. Whoop de friggin do. If he doesn't help me take the recycling out tonight, there is going to be hell to pay. I've never done the recycling before, so if he doesn't pitch in, it'll take me hours. Mom's so used to it that it only takes her a few minutes at this point.

I guess this just proves how little credit I give her....well....Lemme rephrase that. I always knew that she did a whole hell of a lot around the house and I appreciate that....I just never realized how much effort it takes to pack all that in to one day with zero help.

Kudos, ma. Now hurry back home before Dad runs out of shirts. I'm not washing his nasty, cigarette smelling clothes and I get the impression that if he tried to do it himself he might blow up the washing machine.

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awwwwww mummy appreciation day! I'm suprized, taking out the trash (recycling) has always been a traditionally masculine job.

And why DO you let the cat out? kinda dangerous for him, what with dogs, wild animals, cars, deer ticks, fleas, heartworm, rattlesnakes, robot assassins, zombie viruses....

# posted by  A : 12:06 AM

 

Yeah, my poor brother has been holding down the fort all this week while the parents are en Espana (Granada today actually) and I'm here.

Where is your mom?

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Thursday, July 12, 2007

Music: Squirrel Nut Zippers - The Interlocutor
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This just in from BBC's "WTF Desk"

"British forces have denied rumours that they released a plague of ferocious badgers into the Iraqi city of Basra"

...I really don't think I can add anything to this...

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very funny! those badgers sure look.... ferocious.

In other news, I've notices a severe lack of responces on MY blog, which has caused much sadness

# posted by  A : 7:30 AM

 

Forgive the delayed reaction...but what in the fuck? Badgers???

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Monday, July 09, 2007

Music: Epoxies - Stop the Future
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Buckle up. This one's gonna be long and disjointed...

First of all, I cooked yesterday. I love cooking and really wish I did it more often. I decided yesterday that I wanted pesto so badly I'd just make it myself. We just got the Everyday Italian cookbook, so I'd even have Giatta's directions as a safety net. Pesto's so simple that most people just make it off the top of their head. At least, that's what my dad does.

When I told him I wanted to cook he called dibs on going to the grocery store for pine nuts and stuff...grocery shopping is the only excuse he can use to justify to himself taking a break from work. So when he came back from the store with all these nice fresh ingredients I was all set to get to work.

It was a fucking disaster. I hadn't used NEARLY enough basil, the pine nuts weren't toasted enough, and I made a mess out of the blender. The end result: Really salty green oil. Dad came down to check on me and make sure I hadn't set the house on fire and I must have looked like someone had cancelled my birthday. After a few nudges to use the food processor not the blender, be more conservative with the garlic, and wait to add salt until after I'd added the cheese, I ended up with a MUCH better pesto. That second time was fun. I'd like to do it again. We had the pesto over some penne pasta and a bit of bread on the side. Tasty dinner after the second shot.

Also yesterday, I made it to the toe portion of the sock I've been making. I'm super excited. I don't post much about my knitting on this blog because I know it's pretty dull stuff to the majority of the world. I try to keep it on this one, but I wanted to share.

Lastly, and not at all related to anything above, I am worried about my birthday. The 22nd falls on a Sunday, which is pretty nice but there's one little thing....

The last Harry Potter Book comes out at Midnight the 21st. Harry Potter Day is on my birthday. What in the name of fuzzy kittens am I going to do with that? When I thought that Harry Potter Day was going to be the 20th in to the 21st I was like "hey no problem I can finish the book in time for my birthday"....Now it's one day off and I'm absolutely stuck on what I'm gonna do. I know I'm going to want to do stuff for my birthday...but Harry Potter Day....

I was planning on going in to total media deprivation until I finished it so as to avoid spoilers, but I don't know how well that's going to work. By the grace of Starbucks I even intended to go the midnight opening. Little kids having fun are cute, and seeing cute things would make a good start to my birthday. I'm also wondering if I can take my anti-douchebag campaign off the highways and in to the bookstore. I was thinking of bringing an air horn in case anyone tries to pull a "Snape kills Dumbledore" in the Borders. Douchebag vs Airhorn usually results in Douchebag shutting up about whatever they were on about and switching to "Oh my God what the hell is wrong with you oh my bleeding ears."

The moral of this post is "Be socially corteous or someone may assault your eardrums with presurized air."

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I'm pretty sure it IS the 20th into the 21st. Barnes and Noble says July 21st delivery, and I doubt they would deliver it by mail on the 21st if it wasn't going to come out until midnight. when they announce the opening date of things, it's usually the during the day date.

# posted by  Unknown : 2:54 PM

 

Ya know what you should do? you should wait a month to celibrate your birthday. Yes, a month. and mabey tack on a day or two (two would be the right number. Then have a big party. I bet it would be the bestest thing EVAR!

and check your facebook once in a while :p

# posted by  A : 12:14 AM

 

and i'm dumb, since i can neither a) remeber correct dates or b) do math. hold off your birfday for TWO WEEKS not a month. woooooo

# posted by  A : 12:17 AM

 

Marie: I'm really hoping you're right about that.

A: Regardless of whether or not it's my birthday I intend to set up something fun for when you come home for a visit :)

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Thursday, July 05, 2007

Mingle² - Online Dating

And here I thought I was a good kid.

On a different note, Pale Force is the fucking funniest thing I have seen in ages.

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Haha. Did it say what the rating was based on? I just rated my lj (PG-13) and it said it was based on the words "anal" and "crack" :-P

# posted by  Unknown : 9:45 PM

 

Lots of F-Bomb dropping, mostly. But also using the word "dead"...don't know how that gets me an NC-17 but whatever. These ratings are so skewed. I haven't reached Pulp Fiction levels of profanity and that only has an R rating

# posted by  ErisSaid : 10:14 AM

 

I always knew you were naughty. :P

Also, Pale Force is fuckin' awesome.

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