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people are cray
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case in point, the alex jones aka the crazy person who was on CNN a few days ago yelling at Piers Morgan and then posted an even crazier video afterwards about how he thought he was being followed and going to be murdered by crackheads.
or something like that, I only read the huffpo article in brief because I can't handle listen to peeps who talk say stuff like that. people who believe that chemtrails are bad and that there's a secret gov't conspiracy for everything just blow my mind.
like yeah, the gov't is probably orchestrating a lot of stuff behind yr back, but it's the gov't and they've been doing that since the time when they were first established. thing is, the stuff they're orchestrating probably isn't the stuff you're raving about on your youtube channel or on yr radio show which is apparently really popular?
which just goes to show that people will listen to anything as long as it's radical and scary.
I keep waiting for this guy to pop up and be all
omg guys jk I don't actually believe all that ridiculous stuff
which will be the greatest prank in recent history.
but somehow I doubt that'll happen.
nobody has blogs
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one of my profs asked today if anyone has a blog and I was the only one who put up my hand. this is the third time that's happened this year and I'm developing a bit of a complex about it because when I do everyones heads turn and they look at me like I'm this antiquated freak.
who do I think I am? why am I putting my thoughts on the Internet?
one girl asked me if I got paid to do it and I said if she meant was that how I made my living, no, and she said well then what's the point? and that bothered me.
I remember back when it was cool to blog, back when everyone had one and I was just starting to get into them because I had shitty dial-up until like '06 because I lived at my parents house and as a result doing basically anything was a huge hassle. I found out about it because my friend kira wrote a blog at manicidosyncratic.blogspot.com that she used to be obsessed with that isn't around anymore.
I started a blog because I envied how easily she seemed to talk about everything in her life. she just put it out there, boom. typed and hit 'publish' and maybe regretted it but the blog never saw that. she had connections with these equally interesting, thoughtful and crazy writers all who she communicated with all the time. she had public fights and falling-outs and flame wars and it was amazing to watch, this brilliant and beautiful girl that I knew making her mark on the blogosphere.
do we still call it that?
nobody in any of my 'communications' classes knew what it was.
that worries me.
especially because most of the blogs that I used to read that I considered to be "good blogs" have just become vehicles for promoting crap that they probably would never use in real life if someone wasn't paying them for it. I'm not saying I don't think it's okay to blog about a product you like, or an experience you were lucky enough to have comped but if that's all a blog is -just a place to advertise stuff without any actual heart, soul or thought that otherwise goes into it- is that still a blog?
or is it just a commercial with a blogger's face slapped onto it?
I think that's what has ruined blogging. nobody wants to share their lives or be frank or sad or angry or drunk or fucked up anymore because there's the possibility of getting a blinged-out necklace or a car for the weekend or a trip somewhere if you just sell your soul & your integrity off to the highest bidder a post at a time. heaven forbid that there's an actual person underneath all that jargon with something real to say.
which is what we used to want to see.
which I think is why a lot of blogs -the good blogs- have died out. been privatized or shut down because the people who give a shit about writing feel like there's no point in putting it out there because if so-and-so is going to an MTV party once a week who wants to hear about what I did on the weekend or what I thought about a movie or whatever.
I think that's why people who don't write blogs don't know about blogging except for the Jenna Marbles' of the world (which is mostly vlogging but that's a different story) which is a damn shame because it's these everyday people that should be blogging in the first place. it's their experiences that make blogging important and interesting, not what the same six people did at the same party which they all attended every weekend for the past year.
maybe it's because I came late to the party, but blogging means something different for me. which is why I still do it.
which is why I wish you did, too.
but with the attention people pay to blogs these days, I doubt you even finished reading this.
canadians skating
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how predictable.
I like skating a lot but I suck at it and we never go because I don't own skates like a true canadian girl and also because tyrone has bad luck with rental skates. in the background of the above photo you can see him and john going back up the stairs from the river (which I am sitting on underneath that bench) because tyrone's skates weren't supporting his ankles.
which they almost never do.
bro has serious issues with rental skates. they almost never fit properly which means our skate dates are pretty short-lived. like yesterday we got onto the ice and started skating and I was all
wait where's tyrone?
and I noticed him standing by a bush off to the side of the skating path looking sad
(he really is the cutest sometimes)
and so he went to go see about exchanging his skates for different ones with no luck because some dastardly kids stole a bunch of skates from the rental place the night before so they were low on skates and we were all 'omg who steals skates from the forks?' but those were the facts.
afterward we drank some soco and wine and played tag in the back lane, but you don't want to hear about that.
Hip hop Sunday #59 Adriano Celentano - Prisencolinensinainciusol (1974)
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okay so it's not hip hop
but it sounds like it
and it's definitely English
what do you recognize?
(happy hip hop sunday)
breath smells like garlic
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and feta and chickpeas and onion and other good stuff. healthy stuff. back on the 'eating well it's not the holidays any more' track stuff. not that I mind. over the holidays I put too many things in my tummy that usually I stay away from, greasy and boozy and (just once) stuff that comes from a place with a slogan that (I think) goes "I'm lovin' it"
no tony it wasn't a mcrib. sorry.
everyone's all 'omg don't you hate when yr gym gets all crowded after new years because everyone's trying to get fit for like three weeks?' and my response is, no you jerk fitness is for everyone and if some peeps can only handle being fit for a few weeks/months out of the year then that's cool with me.
though honestly I take a weird sort of satisfaction in seeing the same peeps every time I'm at the gym. the burly black dude and the super-build asian dude and that blonde white chick with her fake eyelashes that she lost on the floor one time last year.
though the best guy at my gym is this older guy who must be in his sixties at least who wears one of these one-piece
wrestling onesies every time he works out. he has a few colours, purple and highlighter green and lemon yellow and sky blue. he's amazing to watch because even though he's not patrick stewart built bro's in good shape and the self-confidence that it takes to rock one of those in a gym filled with mid-20s douchebags is staggering.I don't have those kinds of balls in a literal or figurative sense. I wear a nice tank top and some capris and cute socks for nobody else to see but me.
but these peeps make me feel better about being at the gym on a routine basis. we don't smile or wave or even acknowledge each other at all but at least for me it's comforting to see some of the usual suspects killin it on the treadmill right along with me.
hopefully some of the new year's faces stick around this time.
cause honestly that spandex onesie is distracting, and not in a good way.
I don't believe in making NYE resolutions
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while a new year is as good a time as any to make changes picking NYE to make big decisions about changing yr life doesn't seem like a real milestone or reason to stfu and start making changes.
a few months ago I realized that I had issues with control and negativity. I'm a pessimist by nature and I get stressed out easily and tend to not make time to appreciate the people in my life and the good ish I've been lucky to receive.
I also don't like not being in control. I get really worried about things I can't change just because I can't change them. when people do things I don't like, or act in a way that I disagree with, I spend too much time worrying about it and sometimes make bad choices as a result of being anxious and upset.
I decided that I didn't want to be that way anymore.
so I downloaded some good audiobooks to listen to and started leaving reminders for myself to make sure I took a few seconds every day to appreciate what I've got, and I've tried to be more positive overall. changing how I think and act is hard, and sometimes I still slip up, but I'm working on it.
while we were out with friends on NYE there was a conversation going where people were rolling their eyes and commenting about some other people we know and kat turned around to me and said "I haven't heard you say anything negative about anyone in a long time"
which is a really big deal for me
so while the new year isn't some milestone year where everything changes, what a very dear friend said to me on NYE was an indication to me that 2013 is going to bring good things.
just gotta keep working at it.
Here's to 2012
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the year I started reading bukowski. the year I saw the mountains and then camped in 'em. the year I went to the festival du voyageur for the first time as an adult and learned that drinking makes standing outside in the winter a lot better. the year that I learned what kind of job I never, ever want to have. the year we saw father's day. the year I rode my bike for 20km erry day all summer. the year I got hit by a car while on my bike (eek). the year the lo pub died. the year where I watched the big lebowski for the first time. the year my friend made a music video which we were all in. the year of Cenquist Day.the year of secrethandshake's 2nd birthday. the year of the tupac hologram. the year I saw smoky tiger twice. the year I went to my first folk fest. the year I tried dim sum for the first time.
& lots more. but you knew that.
almost time for 2013 omg.
bring it on
