Birthdate: May 23rd, 1980 (28 years old)
Bio:
About me:
Going to school for my MA part-time, and working full-time during the day. In love with: (1) the hubby, (2) chocolate, (3) hot pink, (4) alternative universes, (5) happy music, (6) chocolate.
About my videos:
I post what I enjoy watching, and hope that others like it too. Most of my posts fall into two categories:
(1) Things that make me happy
(2) Things that advance my own secret personal agenda to take over the universe
About my comments:
Despite being a literary buff, most of comments on most websites in general are limited to the standard vocabulary of a 13-year old girl. I am notorious in particular for the following:
(1) "Fabulous" and its cousin "Awesome." As in the 'hot dog' sense of the word and not the 'universe' sense. If you don't know what I'm talking about, please see #3.
(2) "LOL." I will say in my defense that I only use this in instances where I am literally laughing out loud. I laugh easily so this is not a feat, but I will uphold my principles on this. I try to avoid LMAO and its variations, unless I find that my ass has literally been laughed off.
(3) I will sometimes quote things simply for my own amusement. For example, AWESOME like a hot dog (from Eddie Izzard's "Circle): The universe is awesome using the original version, the meaning of the word awesome, yeah? Not the new one which is sort of for socks and hot dogs: "I saw an advert for 'awesome hot dogs, only $2.99'. If they were awesome you'd be going "I can not… breathe for the way the sausage is held by the bun. It is… it is speaking to me. It is saying 'we are lips and thighs… of a donkey. Please eat us… but do not think that we are lips when you eat us, otherwise you'll throw up'." Which is true! It's awesome! America needs the old version of awesome, because you're the only ones going into space. You've got a bit of cash and you go up there, and you need 'awesome' because you're going to be going to the next sun to us. And your President's going to be going "Can you tell me, astronaut, can you tell me what it's like?" "It's awesome, sir." "What, like a hot dog?" "Like a hundred billion hot dogs, sir."'
(4) In instances where I am not limiting myself to a teenaged vocabulary, I am excessively wordy.
(5) I like making lists.
Favorite quotes:
"Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could."
— Louise Erdrich (The Painted Drum)
"Can you be happy with the movies, and the ads, and the clothes in the stores, and the doctors, and the eyes as you walk down the street all telling you there is something wrong with you? No. You cannot be happy. Because, you poor darling baby, you believe them."
— Katherine Dunn (Geek Love)
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Rilo Kiley's Moneymaker because oh oh oh... oh yeah.
Walk the Line because this is such a smile-inducing scene.
Favorite Sift: Vampire Love Story
Favorite Tags: Documentary, Comedy
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Books Videos Submitted by blahpook
Because somehow, i really really doubt that. I think people like eating shit. It's called temptation and gluttony, it's written about in many books thousands of years old.
I am vegetarian. If i go to a pizzeria, my friends happily spend 50% extra to get meat on their pizza. I am quite sure that if the meat pizzas were $10 and the vegetarian pizzas were $1.50 they would still buy the meat pizza.
In reply to this comment by blahpook:
>> ^MINK:
nah man, let's just ask the marketplace what it thinks and then do that.
The fact that an over-processed candy bar is cheaper compared to something relatively fresh from the ground - cauliflower for example - doesn't seem to make much sense when taking into consideration labor and processing and packaging, and Pollan's argument is that the best way to account for this difference is by looking at what the government subsidizes.
When the Farm Bill subsidizes resources mainly concerned in fat and carb production (corn, soy, wheat - and, indirectly, meat and milk), naturally, more farmers will move in that direction, flooding the market with more of these cheap goods, typically making them even more affordable. The end result is a fat America, sadly enough.
Affordability combined with the addictive qualities of a lot of these foods (sugars from corn, fats from soy) makes the market choice work in favor of the subsidies and the lobbyists who support them. Until that changes, there's always going to be more people at the Fatburger than the Farmer's Market.
In reply to this comment by blahpook:
*promote
Uuuh. nice haircut!
In reply to this comment by blahpook:
hey you - looks like you replied to me instead of oileanach on this one. just thought you might like to know
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Neither do I - though my friend said she can't stand to look at him in concert, but loves to hear him sing. She then thought to also note that she is "not racist." So I guess the Journey purists are just used to old ways
In reply to this comment by T-man:
I don't get the controversy.
The guy sounds more like Steve Perry than Steve Perry does.
Did you build this by any chance?
In reply to this comment by blahpook:
I agree. She deserves way more credit than the small group off the street the Today Show must have pulled in to watch her sing.
In reply to this comment by oileanach:
I heard this track on the radio when it first came out and I bought the album almost immediately - what an excellent piece of work! That lame ass clapping at the end is pathetic though... flogging one's album on morning TV shows is a pretty humiliating end of the business I think. I'd strongly recommend all of her stuff.
http://totallylookslike.com/2008/09/25/nicole-richie-totally-looks-like-a-sleestak/
Ha. That's too funny!