Who am I? I'm just a silly goose who occasionally gripes about trivial matters.
And can you believe nobody else reblogged this trite garbage?
(Source: thiscollegeofmine)
I don’t know, but it’s been said,
“You do or don’t, and then you’re dead.”
So climb away, get higher son.
Never stray, just move ahead.
So it’s going to be one of those touchie-feelie posts about eemoshun, eh?
Yep, it is. I just need some kind of outlet to kvetch and be a selfish prick with my thoughts. It’s just that I can’t check my e-mail. Every time I do, I get this overwhelming sense of anxiety, and I become acutely aware aware and worried about all my responsibilities. The same with my phone; even though I don’t have a smart phone, which keeps me disconnected from that whole morass of connectivity, and I keep it on silent to keep it from harassing me when I’m trying to do stuff, it’s still a little conduit of anxiety for me.
MISSED CALL -gah!
3 NEW TEXTS …shit.
NEW VOICEMAIL -fffffffffffffffffuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
INCOMING CALL: Mom -ck. Shit. Fuck.
I need to maintain some kind of list of priorities or something, so I don’t feel like I’m having all of this shit sneak up on me. Also, then it’s harder to put out of my mind, and I don’t forget things. The only problem is actually making the list. I don’t like structure, and I resist it, even though I do well in it, or in spite of it, whatever. I like structure so I can climb on the scaffolding like a possessed ape-child.
So it goes.
I don’t even know what I mean by that, really. I just feel paralyzed by anxiety, and I almost want to escape it all. Maybe this is why I have trouble staying in one place, I’m just always trying to avoid the downward slide from my personal highs. I suppose it’s easier to bow out and start anew than to stay and be humbled, but after spending the last three years trying to start anew, I’m tired of it. I want to stay here in New York, so I should fucking act like it.
Basically, I need to man the fuck up. For those of you who just spat pink-ribbon, Trader Joe’s organic soy yogurt on your keyboard to say something to yourself about social justice or chauvinistic statements, congrads, you’re on the money. I need to sell out my convictions: I can’t be a druid in the forest forever, I need to betray my own notions about work-ethic in order to properly be able to have a basis for comparison.
In other words, from the conservative establishment of Judaism must come the proselytizing evangelicalism of Christianity, just as the corruption of Christendom in the Holy Roman Empire gave meaning to the Reformation, the anti-intellectualism of the Dark Ages give meaning to the Enlightenment and the Scientific Revolution. Just as mercantilism served as a setting for Enlightenment thinkers to develop capitalist theory, the rise of capitalism gave context to the theories of Marx and Luxemberg.
And so on this Easter Sunday, I am reborn a zombie yuppie.
Play this shit.
The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas
by Ursula K LeGuin - from The Wind’s Twelve Quarters
With a clamor of bells that set the swallows soaring, the Festival of Summer came to the city Omelas, bright-towered by the sea. The ringing of the boats in harbor sparkled with flags. In the streets between houses with red roofs and painted walls, between old moss-grown gardens and under avenues of trees, past great parks and public buildings, processions moved.
Some were decorous: old people in long stiff robes of mauve and gray, grave master workmen, quiet, merry women carrying their babies and chatting as they walked. In other streets the music beat faster, a shimmering of gong and tambourine, and the people went dancing, the procession was a dance. Children dodged in and out, their high calls rising like the swallows’ crossing flights over the music and the singing.
“in having become completely incompetent, and finding out that you don’t exist, you are reborn”
2011 in a goddamn nutshell.
Rick Perry’s Really Gay Creekside Christmas Party
YouTube took our Rick Perry video down again, so here it is in our own video player so you can watch it whenever and forever. We will not remove it. It only took YouTube an hour to remove it the second time. We are baffled by this for two reasons, one being that we know that thousands of people have already flagged the original video, yet it’s still hopping along, spreading its message of holiday togetherness. We’re also baffled because the video was flagged for “nudity or sexual content”, yet the clip we used was found on YouTube. Here. In fact, YouTube, you host hundreds of videos more inappropriate than the one we used.
So you’re honestly saying, YouTube, that enough people were offended by our silly video in one hour, but there still aren’t enough people offended by the original one that has been up for more than a day? Are you saying, YouTube, that Rick Perry being a bigot by a creek is less offensive than two dudes frenching near a creek? If you’re not saying that, then Rick Perry has clearly gotten to you and we’re sorry. We now address Rick Perry.
First of all, Rick Perry, what the fuck are you doing on Tumblr right now? Quit scrolling through reblogs of The Same Picture of Dave Coulier Every Day. You want to lead the country? Fat chance. We also notice that you’ve turned off comments to your video. Class A move there, Rick-who-also-wants-to-be-president. No need to listen to other people when you’re president, right, Rick? Sure, it’s YouTube, so everyone would mostly just call you a fag. But also? Rick? You’re acting pretty faggy right now. Preeeetty faggy.
So anyway jokes jokes jokes and stuff blah blah blah, we are very seriously disappointed in whoever decided to take the video down (twice), but we’re even more disappointed in whoever decided to keep the original video up.
Oh and, hey, Rick Perry and friends, go fuck yourself in whichever way pleases you the least, thanks.
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Anybody remember before Youtube started removing anything that made fun of Republican presidential nominees? What happened, Youtube? You used to be cool.
