I need to be good at things. I don't desire to master all there is to master nor do I desire flaunt such mastery should it occur incidentally. But I just need to have a basic, core level of skill at things which would require it. I don't need to pen a heartbreaking trilogy of novels but I need to make her smile at something I wrote down. I don't ( Read more... )

I just watched one of the saddest, most tragic things I've ever seen in my life. I just watched 7A WF 83429, the 5th Season premiere of The West Wing. The abysmal gap between greatness and hackery of the highest order was just one episode. The 4th Season ends on Commencement and 25 and opens on 7A WF 82429. All these years I've known and loved ( Read more... )

"I don't take it personally" would be an excellent mantra to adopt. Also, I think the internet is wonderful in ways. I think it's the ultimate leveling of the playing field and I think it is, from time to time, an instrument of absolute democracy. Just look at it, it is the triumph of the information. And it is a just system. You can find most ( Read more... )

People don't know you. They don't and if you go to bed comforted by the fact that there are people that really "get you" that aren't related to you or the Creator of the Universe, then I'd suggest reversing your position as soon as possible. I don't mean to be negative and I'm not trying to be pessimistic about the nature of human relationships, ( Read more... )

Where are they? If this is less then where are the ones worth focusing on? Where are the hearts and minds worth loving? It's a trick question of course because of course they're all worth loving. My brother's got a mind that any good woman could love and a heart that everyone SHOULD love. My sister's heart, strength, and perserverance are an ( Read more... )

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I was having a misguided conversation with a friend the other day. They weren't misguided, I was. I said, in effect, that I despise seeing the seams. I don't wanna see the quirky girl with the big headphones try to be Natalie Portman in Garden State. I don't like it when guys ceaselessly quote cartoons and pass it off as wit. I said we're looking ( Read more... )

My mom was a George Carlin fan. I didn't know anybody's mom was a George Carlin fan ( Read more... )

I don't get couples who watch movies together. I mean I get it, but I don't really get it. I think it's just the easiest segway between "You look nice tonight" and "Let's get on a couch get our limbs and legs entangled with one another in the dark" It's the effortless reason to turn the lights off and have no obligation to talk. You don't want the ( Read more... )

I want a Joey Lucas. Or maybe skip the "A" part, maybe I actually just want a hearing-impaired pollster cutie. We certainly won't talk each other's ears off, but there's other parts of the body that speak more articulately than those often painful noises that come out of one's mouth anyway. We'd make it alright. I don't who she is or where she is ( Read more... )