Animals

Mar. 6th, 2011 11:19 pm
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I think I'd make a great architect. I have this idea for a building. The outside is lined with pillars. On top of each pillar is a rabbit. There are many rabbits. Rabbits screaming violently.

I'm not even going to bother to seriously answer the question of 'where would you get all those rabbits?' because everyone knows that rabbits reproduce like rabbits, usually while screaming violently.

I briefly considered the idea of replacing the rabbits with octopi. However, octopi do not reproduce with the same ease as rabbits. They lay eggs, for which you need water, and plus I think the mother octopus has a tendency to eat the eggs if she stays with them for too long. Also, octopi cannot scream violently, as I learned during the various trips my family would take to the beach. They just sort of flop around without making much noise at all.

I'm toying with the idea of dressing up in a clown costume and applying to job interviews that way. You know. Just walk in, my face painted up all white and red, wearing a rainbow-colored baggy polyester suit, with really large shoes that squeak. Or, no, perhaps that is a little unsubtle. How about instead I walk in dressed completely appropriately, flats and a boring skirt and a dull unflattering sweater, except I'll have a toucan perched on my head.

The main problem with this plan is getting a toucan to stay on my head. But it's ok, I've come up with several solutions. One solution is to smear my head with the pulp of tropical fruits of the sort toucans might like to eat. This solution has the added benefit of enhancing my personal odor. Unfortunately fruit can go bad pretty fast, which would NOT enhance my personal odor, and also, the stickiness might drip down onto my dull unflattering sweater and stain it in interesting and colorful ways.

Another solution was to super-glue the toucan's feet to my scalp. The main problem with this solution is that I'd need to press the toucan's feet to my scalp until the super-glue took hold, which would be kind of bothersome.

A third solution is to just tie the toucan to my head with some very strong string. That will probably be the solution I'll go for, even though it is somewhat impractical, and breaks the illusion of a toucan sitting in my head of its own free will.

If anyone who is interviewing dares to questions my toucan, I'll just throw back my head and shriek, "RELEASE THE BEES!" and the toucan will open its beak and release a swarm of bees that it will have been holding inside its beak for just this occasion.

Naturally I will be immediately hired by anyone to whom I apply.

I'd like to run a carnival where the prizes at the various booths are not optional. If you win the game, YOU MUST TAKE THE PRIZE. In this case, the prize I'm thinking of is something akin to a goldfish in a plastic bag full of water. Except, goldfish are kind of dull. How about a jellyfish in a plastic bag full of water?

Alas, that would only do for the small prizes. You know how the stuffed animal prizes get bigger and bigger, depending on how many points you score? We'll have plastic bags that get bigger and bigger too. There's jellyfish out there that are larger than human beings, these gigantic jellyfish that are over ten feet in diameter. I think it'd be cool to have some of those as the Grande Prix.

Or, why stop at jellyfish? A bag could contain a shark. We could get the sharks for cheap from the zoos which need to put down the sharks that accidentally and unfortunately develop a taste for human flesh. Instead of putting them down, though, they could just sell them to us! And then we'd give them as prizes to small children, what a wonderful idea this is.

Or, what about lions? Yes, a lion in a large plastic bag full of water... Hm. For some reason something bothers me about this last one, but I'm not sure what it is. Oh wait, that's right. Lions can drown. I think that giving a little girl a large bag full of drowned lion would be possibly slightly traumatizing... So alright. No lions. UNLESS THEY ARE EQUIPPED WITH LION-DESIGNED SCUBA-TANKS...!!!

My aunt enjoys pressing flowers but what about pressing butterflies? I hear some people do that. That's kind of boring though. Let's press birds instead. Actually no, that is kind of gruesome. Let's press vegetables.

Question, though: what sort of vegetables? Meaning, plant vegetables, or people vegetables? I think that the families might object if we took the human vegetables out of the hospital and began squishing them under the weight of various encyclopedia volumes. So let's just press celery and asparagus instead.

I know a girl who has tries human cheese before. It's cheese made from human breast milk. I found myself strangely repulsed by the idea, despite my otherwise adventurous approach to unusual culinary presentations. I think the human cheese was developed as part of a science project. Just imagine having to put an ad in the paper: "WANTED, lactating women. We will milk you and then turn the milk into cheese. It is in the name of science." Hmmm.

I find it very interesting that caterpillars metamorphose into butterflies. I mean, it's a very bizarre idea if you think about it - they essentially lock themselves in a silky womb of their own devising and then transform into a totally different creature. That would be like me wrapping a bunch of blankets around myself, and then emerging three months later as Rosie O'Donnell. I mean, perhaps that example is a little too terrifying. And also I guess Rosie is still human so I'd have to emerge as something pretty different, like a seal, or a caribou. I wonder if I'd have to get a new drivers license picture if I metamorphoses into a caribou. How irritating...

I suppose you could train a goose to iron shirts, but it really seems hardly worth the bother.
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Here's what I wonder about Russian spoons: do people actually ever eat with them?

You know the ones I mean. They're made of wood. They're painted really pretty colors and swirly patterns. They're too large to be practical for anything but borscht or maybe kasha. You can't eat ice-cream with them. You can't eat yogurt with them. You can't dive into a grapefruit with them.

Of course, back then, Russia did not really have ice-cream or yogurt or grapefruit - well, they probably had yogurt but I think they drank it as kafir rather than eating it with a spoon the way we usually do - so it was probably a moot point.

But I can't help thinking that the spoons are really entirely for decoration, like those giant bottles of pickled vegetables that they sell in some stores Does anyone ever actually buy one of those giant bottles of beautiful colorful pickled vegetables in order to consume them? I mean, the layers are so carefully arranged, first yellow peppers, then red squashed tomatoes, then light brown mushrooms, then green asparagus... and the bottle-neck is far too impractical to allow you to easily fish out the pickled vegetables, should you want to eat them. I've seen them decorating various shelves and refrigerators, particularly those of my Russian piano teacher back in the day when I took piano lessons, and I've seen them in marketplaces that cater to immigrants... I've never seen one actually opened, though, so I think they are entirely there for decor. It's very odd... I wonder how they would look at me if I suddenly bought one and then began to eat its contents.

Maybe it would be the expression that waiters give me in buffets when I take one of the radishes carved as a rose and begin munching on it. Or when I tried chipping off the nose of an ice sculpture so I could have some ice for my drink... Hm. Maybe I'm the reason why my family stopped going to buffets...

I wonder who came up with the idea to fuck around with metal and put together this conical thing with a mouth piece and then tried making farting noises into it and realized HEY I INVENTED THE TRUMPET! I mean, I'm sure there's some logical historical precedent that make it quite sane to create this metal thing that requires a strangely specialized method of performance - I mean, it's not like a reed flute where you just blow into it and sound comes out, you need to squish your lips into some special shape I think... though I could also be totally wrong because I am not a trumpet player and might have totally misunderstood how brass players function. For example, I am under the impression you need to sort of fart into the brass instrument with your lips to get a proper sound. Maybe I am wrong about this.

I also always wondered who the hell invented the idea of bread, though, because it's such a complex process, FIRST grinding the grain into a flour, THEN mixing it with water and yeast, THEN baking it until it rises and is all yummy on the inside and crusty on the outside... It does not seem an intuitive process at all but apparently it is because I think practically every culture I can think of has some version of bread.

Another odd thing that we take for granted but that is actually somewhat odd is brushing our teeth. I mean, we do not think about it because for all our lives, we have been taking tiny brushes and squeezing out minty paste onto them and then scrubbing our teeth with the brush and apparently this somehow keeps our teeth healthy and cavity-free.

I mean, I suppose I can see some intuitive thinking here. Baking soda cleans stains on pots and plates and things, after all - if you drink too much black tea out of one cup and it's just stained all over with these black tea marks, you can just scrub them away with some baking soda and a brush and maybe a dab of water. It works like a charm. And teeth sort of resemble porcelain in texture so it kind of makes sense to use the same method to clean them, rather than, say, trying to clean them with soap and water like how we clean everything else.

Ok. Wait a fucking minute. SOAP. How the hell did THAT get invented? Such a bizarre invention. Somehow it magically kills bacteria and gets rid of dirt! I mean, people were making it and using it before they knew what bacteria were, they just used it to get rid of dirt. But they MADE it, in really big pots over really big fires, and it smelled vile and was made out of these poisonous awful substances - that somehow combined to create something that got RID of vile awful substances on your body and your clothes. How the hell did that get invented?

Man. It's too bad I don't care enough to actually look all this shit up and discovered the logical processes behind the invention of most of these things, because now I'm actually curious. But I'm too lazy to go to the library and look all this up, especially because it snowed like crazy a couple of hours ago and there's about three feet outside, and also, I'm at college again so I have classes and shit to worry about instead of looking up the answers to my silly questions.

But in the meantime: why are hearts supposed to be the organs with which we feel emotion and love? And why, for logic's sake, is the stylized rendition of a heart this weird symmetrical woogly shape that does not at ALL resemble what a real heart looks like?

Also I will never understand ties. Perhaps the antecedents to ties made some sort of functional sense, but now ties are pretty much the most useless article of clothing I can think of - what befuddles me and actually even angers me, though, is that they are required articles of clothing for men who want to work in an office or attend a wedding or something. I mean, I guess they can be thought of as an ornamental scarf or something cos they can look kinda nice when done right - but what really boggles my mind is that people do NOT think of them as weird ornamental scarfs and instead actually seem to regard them as vital parts of a dapper gentleman's attire, as necessary as, say, pants. Then again, classy women seem to be expected to wear makeup too, which is another thing I find ridiculous - am I the only person who looks at someone wearing make-up and cannot get over the fact that there is pretty much paint smeared all over their face and we are pretending that this is totally normal and not at all silly and funny?

Ok. Okay. I'm done. I'm going to go drink some calming tea now. I'm done.
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DISCLAIMER: This blog post does not really stray off-topic at all (oh man, so amazing and strange, what's come over me), and also, it will probably be immensely boring except to other foodies who have way too much time on their hands.


ANYWAYS


Today I accomplished THREE (yes, three!) food-related adventurous achievements! Oh boy, oh man, I am just so proud of myself.

I mean. I had this really intense to-do list of things I was supposed to do today, and I didn't get most of it done - but INSTEAD I did food things so I feel accomplished anyways.

THE FIRST: a rather minor-seeming achievement perhaps but still something. I was eating some black Russian bread (I think it's rye?) with pieces of Empire Jack cheese on top, and thinking that, man, this cheese was too bland to go with the bread's flavor. Normally you need something sharp to bring out the bread's sharper qualities in proper harmony.

That was when my eye fell on this large bag of dried apricots I have been very slowly making my way through.

I don't know what made me do it, but without really even thinking about it, I just took some dried apricots and put them on top of the bread-and-cheese open-faced sandwich and took a bite and OH MY GOD instead of bringing out the bread's sharper qualities, it brought out the bread's tangy qualities, and it was SO GOOD and SO DELICIOUS and also really kind of weird to be eating a bread-and-cheese sandwich with, like... apricots.

BUT IT WORKED SO WELL. I bet that if I had a copy of the Flavor Bible, I'd find some entry in it describing my experience in great detail. The flavors just melded incredibly well and I had another similar sandwich right after because it was that tasty.

I am very proud of myself for having invented this sandwich! With my luck, it's probably a totally common type of thing eaten all over the place in some province of some country whose language I don't speak, but whatever, I FEEL LIKE COLUMBUS TODAY.

So okay, send food-related adventure! I BAKED A FUCKIN PECAN PIE fuck yeah. It's my first pie EVER. The only thing I have ever baked before were butter biscuits. I do not have much baking experience. And I went out and baked a PECAN PIE and it is so delicious and amazing that I had to tell my cousins (I'm staying with my upstate-NY cousins at the moment, have I mentioned that? Woo woo traveling around a lot this past week) that if they ate it before it finished cooling and setting, the boogey-man will get them and gnaw off their toes and they'll have trouble walking and will keep falling over and falling flat on their faces.

My cousins are all very youngish in age and thus amusingly gullible.

Anyways yeah, this pie is so badass, it has pecans all over the place, but it ALSO contains Frangelico hazelnut liquor - which, if you are not as curiously interested in random fancy alcohol as I have become in the past few months, is a fairly high-end liquor that by itself is quite tasty but also adds delightful flavors to the pie when added to the mixture. It's the magic ingredient that makes the pie feel like creating a special potion instead of just mixing a pie. Also, it has a bed of chocolate chips oh man.

The pie is one of those things where you make a gloppy mixture, pour it into the pie crust, bake it, and then it sets and hardens into a forkable consistency and is delicious. The original recipe called for corn syrup and coffee liquor, but my ingenious sister instantly replaced the corn syrup with maple syrup, and the coffee liquor with hazelnut liquor, and it just makes it taste that much more amazing. She tried making the original version later, and we all agreed that her invention was just SO GOOD and a lot better than the original recipe, and it is her delicious amazing recipe that I made. Maybe I will post the recipe online after trying it out a few more times to make sure it's a-okay. OR MAYBE NOT perhaps I will hoard it and have it be my Family Secret, because my family does not have any family legacies or secrets (perhaps because most of them all died during WWI and WWII so we've got just the core family members left), and really, we should GET some.

And ok. The third thing food-related adventure is related to the Frangelico liquor. You see, the little co-op grocery store right next to my cousins is also, very conveniently enough, located in the same plaza as this small but extremely classy wine-and-alcohol shop. That was where I picked up the Frangelico, and I also decided to get myself some fancy dessert wines for my upcoming term at college, which starts in about a week. My college town is tiny and really dead - there are no Borders, Barnes & Nobles, Starbucks, or Target stores within miles and miles, and the only clothing stores are the Goodwill and Ross. Oh and Walmart, I forget that counts as a clothing shop most of the time. But yeah. A very dead little town where the most life is the isolated highly liberal college campus, which does not get along with the town at all because the town is the proverbial old-fashioned farmer with a shotgun sitting in the back of his truck staring at a hay bale, and my college is the proverbial lesbian couple making out in the hay bale without really noticing there's a guy with a shot gun staring menacingly at them.

But yeah, the gist of this is that the local wine store has a really small and insignificant selection of dessert wines, which I have become strangely fascinated with over the past wine. I swear, I've become obsessed - I want to try EVERY DESSERT WINE I SEE and then I try one and it's AMAZING and alas also quite pricey, but I believe that alcohol should be quality alcohol or it's just not worth it. The people who buy plastic jugs of vodka for ten bucks a pop can enjoy themselves for all I care, but I've tried that vodka, and let me tell you, there is not much of a difference between that stuff and rubbing alcohol. It quite literally felt like the roof of my mouth and the top three layers of my tongue had been dissolved in acid.

Also, I discovered pretty quickly that I did not really enjoy getting drunk just for the sake of getting drunk (though, as I think I've mentioned earlier, I do like getting slightly tipsy off of really tasty wine or liquor while having a fun silly fireside chat with friends). So popping off twenty dollars for a 500 mL bottle of high-end dessert wine is not that unreasonable to me, considering it will probably last me longer than that plastic jug of vodka will last the other type of drinkin' folk. Especially at college, where I'll be super busy all the time and won't have the hours to spare enjoying a bottle of deliciousness.

Still, good to be prepared for those moments when I DO have the time. So I bought three bottles. One is a winery I know and really like called Quady Wineries - their muscato is kind of amazing. I was actually hoping to get a bottle of their black muscato, which I tried a week ago with a friend and found to be even more amazing than the orange muscato (which was what originally hooked me on them). But this amazing store did not have the black muscato, alas, so I settled for another bottle of the orange, which is like settling for a mansion in the south of France instead of, like, one floating in the clouds and drawn by winged horses. So, still pretty awesome.

Also I got this ice wine, because I'm really fascinated by ice wines as a specific type of dessert wine, and the alcohol content is not that high but it looks like it will be amazing and delicious. It's a riesling wine, from Germany, which is supposed to be the most amazing place for rieslings to come from. I've had quite a few rieslings before this one and found them totally delicious, but never one from the hometown of Germany, and never an ICE WINE version, so I'm really looking forward to trying this one! The bottle is a dark green and very slim and fancy, oh man.

And the third bottle, the creme de la creme, is a trebbiano blend dessert wine from Italy that comes in this custom-made bottle that looks somewhat like a very large and elongated modernish perfume bottle - I am without a doubt keeping the bottle for this one and using it as a vase. Also, this wine is apparently from 2001, which makes it the first wine I'll be trying that is actually more then just a couple of years old - this is from a vintage ten years ago!

Clearly, yes, I am like an overexcited puppy let loose in a room full of squeaky things, because even describing all these wine details makes me realize that though I am so interested in all of it, it must be immensely boring to anyone reading this. Also, describing the wine is pretty boring - it's much more interesting to look at the bottles, pick them up and rotate them in your hands, examine the beautiful labels and so on and consider the potential evenings they contain, of adventurous cork-popping and wine-sampling!

I really did not think I'd turn into a potential wine snob because I just could not find anything about wine that particularly appealed to me, but of course, that was because no one I knew was serving delicious dessert wines in tantalizingly beautiful bottles that are like small works of art in themselves.

I am a total sucker for good packaging.

Cymbidium

Feb. 11th, 2011 01:02 pm
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Once my friend made this hilarious typo on AIM. Instead of typing hahahahahahaha, he wrote babababababababa. And then we cracked up a lot because it was the wee hours of the morning and we were both procrastinating very stressful homework and we were sort of desperate for a laugh. Or something.

I tried to compile a list of my favorite fandoms and found it kind of difficult to do. You see, half the time I don't even watch/read/access the source material. I just start reading the fanfiction and really liking it! Or, like, I'll find out about a new fandom from a crossover fic. I love crossover fics. When they're well done, I mean, but that should go without saying. Why would I love stupid bad crossover fics? I'm not a mother, with unconditional motherly love. THIS IS NO DISNEY FILM.

In the end, to figure out what my fandoms are, I went through my subscription list for various websites and here is what I came up with:

Airwolf, "Anime X-overs", Avatar: The Last Airbender, Bleach, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, "Buffy X-overs", Chrono Trigger, D N Angel, Danny Phantom, Dresden Files, there's a Death Note fic in my favorites even though I can't stand the show itself because the fic is a total crackfic AU, Detective Conan, Discworld, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Eyeshield 21, Fantastic 4, Final Fantasy VII, oh hey I guess there are some Firefly fics here, Fullmetal Alchemist, Good Omens, Gundam Wing, Halo, Harry Potter, Iron Man, Justice League, Katekyo Hitman Reborn, Legend of Zelda, Magnificent Seven, Mass Effect, Metal Gear, Naruto, One Piece, Phoenix Wright, Pokemon, Prototype, Spider-Man, Star Control 2, Star Trek, Star Wars, Stargate Atlantis, Stargate SG-1, Static Shock, Supernatural, Transformers, World of Warcraft, X-Men Movieverse, Yu Yu Hakusho, Yu-Gi-Oh

ALSO:

Psychonauts, Yakitate!! Japan, Hikaru no Go, Magic Kaito (which is set in the same 'verse as Detective Conan so I guess I said this one already), The Sentinel, Life on Mars, Due South, Cthulhu Mythos, From Eroica With Love, Ranma 1/2, Doraemon, 1/0, Majin Tantei Nougami Neuro, Vorkosigan Saga, Earthbound, Team Fortress 2

AND DON'T FORGET:

Ruby Quest, There She Is, Cable and Deadpool, Deadpool in general, Freakazoid, Monkey Island, The Law of Ueki, Hellsing, Vagrant Story, Trinity Blood, the Avengers, Girl Genius, Cave Story, Zork, Dinosaur Comics, Kingdom Hearts (man I have a love/hate relationship with that fandom and I've never even played the games), Durarara, Franken Fran, Greek Mythology, Trauma Center, Codex Alera, War Between the Pitiful Teachers and the Splendid Kids, DS9, Yotsuba&!, Smallville, Nurarihyon no Mago, Temeraire

Well.

The interesting thing is that, for the majority of these, I either really am totally ignorant of the canon, or I am sort of aware of it BUT I find it really dull or somehow repulsive or in some other way unengaging. It's more like... I'm interested in the LOOSE ENDS, and the POTENTIAL, which is where all the good fanfiction comes in anyways. I'm sort of interested in the possibilities suggested by the world or the characters and whatever, and I like it when a fanfic author does a really interesting job developing that and spinning it out into something AWESOME.

Isn't it ironic when fanfic authors can be more talented and just better writers sometimes than the canon source? It's kind of pathetic if you think about it, but also pretty thrilling each time it happens, because unlike the canon source, the fanfic source is as constant and endless as Cthulu. Oh yeah. I went there.

Ok so I have to make some corrections to my previous posts. I recently bought a blood orange to see if there really was a difference AND ACTUALLY they are kind of delicious in a way normal oranges are not, but also different yet again from tangerines and mandarins. So I suppose there is indeed a subtle difference between blood orange flavored stuff and... just orange.

ALSO I STOLE A PINKBERRY STAMP I feel bad about it though so I'm going to return it today sneakily in a way that hopefully does not have them noticing I'm putting it back. I just wanted to see if I could, and I went with a friend to get some Pinkberry and they went into the back to make her smoothie so I went 'umm hmmm' *YOINK* and had the stamp in my pocket before you could say 'Well, butter my crumpets and call me Maude!'

Ok though, I'll be honest, the reason I'm returning it isn't entirely because of guilt. I'm also returning it because it's defective - instead of stamping out little Pinkberry logos, it stamps out STARS. I think that this particular pinkberry lost their stamp or something so they replaced it with a star stamp? I dunno. Either way it makes it effectively useless for defrauding the system - but also, I feel bad for taking it! It was more a 'hmm I wonder if I could actually do this!' sort of moment than a premeditated plotted moment of thievery.

My friend was very impressed though when she realized what I'd done because she hadn't even noticed, she was like WOAH YOU ARE BADASS and I said BITCH PLEASE and then we hi-fived and put on some bling-bling and strolled down the street together waving our bums to and fro. Yeah. Exactly like that.

It does mean, though, that I spent the last half hour before falling asleep preoccupied with plans of how to replace the pinkberry stamp without them noticing. And I decided, rather than buying a smoothie and hoping there's only one person working the register and they will go into the back to make the smoothie and I can replace it then... Well, rather than hoping for all that, I'll just come in and get a free pinkberry yogurt anyways because I actually have a legit stamp card that is full of legit stamps that I've been waiting to use for when the pinkberry urge next strikes me, which might just be today. And then, I'll either drop my wallet, or stoop down to tie my shoes... and be like "Hey guys, is this yours? It was on the floor." And that way they can maybe think that, oh, no one stole it last night! It just fell and we didn't notice it!

If it was me behind the counter, I'd be like 'oh. this person stole it. but now they're returning it awkwardly because it's a star stamp. lame, but at least it saves us trouble, so kind of nice of them in a way.' Something I learned from reading Agatha Christie mysteries is that if something goes missing and no one can find it AND THEN one of the suspects suddenly magically finds it... suspect them as having been the original thief. It's so obvious too. I mean, if I worked at pinkberry, and I'd mopped the floors, I think I'd have NOTICED if the stamp was on the floor right over there. So I'd be mighty suspicious if someone 'found' it. Or, like, once this stupid kid who for some reason I was friends with stole my backpack. And then I looked EVERYWHERE for it and was rly mad, and I suspected him because he held long grudges and I knew he had one against me at the moment for some stupid reason. And then when it was time to leave and go back to school (this was on a field trip) and I was about to go to the head teachers to let them know that I thought someone had stolen my backpack, this particular kid went 'oh look, I found it! It was on the bus seat. You left it there all along,' and I turned to him and said "AH. You stole it. You fucking stinker!" because I'd checked that bus seat several times already and knew it hadn't been there, and I knew he'd just wanted to make me stress out the whole trip for no damn reason because he was a lame idiot who sucked. And it was him, as it turns out, because these tendencies of human behavior are really kind of obvious if you think about it.

Speaking of this friend, he tried to contact me lately! I have no idea why he would be under the illusion I'd want to hear from him after about five years of silence, so I will just pretend I never got his e-mail to an account I barely check anymore anyways. Thankfully, though I have a facebook, I am invisible on it so that people like him cannot find me, moo hoo hoo.

New York subway systems have these advertisements in them that I really like (did I mention I'm in NYC for a few days, by the way? Because I am) and these advertisements are advertising some big theater's new productions, which include things like Macbeth and so on, and the stars include people like FIONA SHAW and ALAN RICKMAN and they're performing Shakespeare in front of an audience and it's like... ok, it is kind of fucking awesome that the paid advertisements in the public transportation system are advertising the high arts, and it's kind of fucking awesome that the people starring in these arts are folk who get big-bucks movie deals all the time and really don't need to do Shakespeare on stage for their career or anything, but they still WANT to, which is cool and awesome and not very like the American actress's POV at all! And to advertise the high arts in a space usually reserved for things like liquor posters and Coca Cola adverts? It makes me realize what might be awesome about NYC after all...

But then I came home to my cousin's apartment and opened up an issue of the New Yorker and realized that it's a double-sided coin in any event, because the way in which the New Yorker talks about the arts is, in so many ways, very glib and superficial and not actually always that perceptive at all, and it made me realize that New York isn't an intellectual paradise. It's just a big city with enough money to afford luxuries like the arts, and enough people with high-falutin' tastes to make the art-investment worth it. I'm not sure if that observation really made any sense at all and it feels like I am kind of rambling and not being very coherent, and that I'm accidentally snipping my thoughts into glib and not-entirely-accurate shapes for the sake of spilling them out in quick progression, but oh well, this is just a silly blog after all, I can always ret-con things anyways HA HA.

It sucks that Hitler liked that particular mustache so very much, it means no one can wear that mustache anymore without being accused of being a Nazi. Or what about the name 'Adolf'? No one wants to name their kid that anymore! It's not like people avoid naming their kid Joseph because of Stalin. But then again, there's a ridiculous amount of Josephs out there, and not as many Adolfs, I suppose...

I was in a flowershop a few days ago and saw these GIANT orchids that were taller than I was, and each stem cost $20 or so, maybe it was even $30, but oh my god they were fucking gorgeous. Each bloom was the size of my fucking HAND, and the stems were so large that they were in fact wood, all twisty and grainy, instead of being green floppy things like they are for tiny orchids you normally see in supermarkets.

I actually do not even know if they were properly orchids. They may have been some other flower that I just registered as 'orchid!' because they looked like them to me. Hmm... I tried some google-fu to see if I could find a photo of someone holding four-foot tall stalks of orchids, so I could at least maybe figure out the genus name in the process, but my google-fu skills are clearly not developed enough for this task... Image-searches for 'giant orchid' or 'giant phalaenopsis' do not yield any satisfactory results.

Oh wait! 'Giant cymbidium' yielded something! Man, who knew orchids could be so confusing. All I can say is, orchids may not be my favorite flower, but if I was filthy rich, I might actually consider buying several stems of these giant amazing orchids and placing them around the house because honestly it's like staring at a work of art, they're so bizarre and gigantic and yet kind of very beautiful.

What's the point of scented nail polish? I guess it must be so when you're picking your nose, at least it smells good.
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"ENJOY YOUR DESTRUCTION!" screamed the hamster as it revved the chainsaw for one last, fatal time.

Hm. I can't decide what would be better: a serial-killer thriller movie where the murderer is a chainsaw-wielding hamster, or a hamster named ENJOY YOUR DESTRUCTION.

On one hand, you get a film where the psycho can be distracted from his diabolical rampage by nibbly treats and chewy toys. On the other hand, you get a hamster named ENJOY YOUR DESTRUCTION.

In fact, ENJOY YOUR DESTRUCTION shouldn't be a name restricted only to hamsters. All sorts of animals would benefit from being named ENJOY YOUR DESTRUCTION. Toucans, armadillos, pet snakes... "In recent news, a new species of rabbit has been discovered living in the attic of a renowned rabbit biologist, who has dubbed the new species Lagomorpha Enjoyyourdestructiona."

Or what about this scenario:

"For Show and Tell, I brought my baby brother! My mom named him ENJOY YOUR DESTRUCTION." At which point Lil Susie's brother opens his mouth and vomits a myriad of laser beams that end up incinerating the entire school. Lil Susie cackles over the burning wreckage while ENJOY YOUR DESTRUCTION toddles around in the corner, finally plonking down onto his diapered butt to suck his thumb.

GUESS WHAT I GOT?! I got a bunch of really big blue envelopes! Then I got a bunch of of medium-sized green envelopes! Also, I got some smallish red envelopes. Then I got some REALLY TINY ADORABLE orange envelopes. And finally... I got ridiculously tiny yellow scraps of paper.

Now, I can send off letters that are like those Russian dolls that fold into each other! You keep opening envelope after envelope till you get to the tiny letter on the inside, which might just say "Oh, hello," because there won't be room for anything else on the tiny little yellow papers.

But! You know what I could do? I could write on the envelopes themselves! So the message progresses further and further inside till you finally get to the tiny little yellow slip of paper, which might just say 'Sincerely, Ingletonn Moopwad' or whatever you name is, because you already wrote all you had to say on the backs of the previous three envelopes (I'm not counting the blue envelope that all the other envelopes come in, since it's the outer shell).

Either way, I am very excited to send people collapsible and colorful letters.

Some things are marvelous when they are small and fuzzy, like slippers, or pets. But not all things. Like, what about mothers? What would a small and fuzzy mother be like?

Would she nipple on strawberries and clear her ears with her paws?

Would she hop under the table when frightened and dig in the garden for treats?

Would she drink from a water bowl?

Or would she just be a small woman with a lot of body hair and possibly a little womanly mustache as well?

Hm.
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I feel that not raping your food is a good idea. It could get too messy, too quickly. You should delicately make love to your food with your tongue. I mean, I guess you COULD sprout tentacles and turn into a Cthulu-like monster for every meal and totally savage your sandwich, but... that feels like so much effort, oh man.

My friend and I were talking about how we should start a winery together. But, our incompetence would be so phenomenal that our wine would kill anyone who drank it. So, we'd send bottles of our wine as gifts to people we did not like very much.

"Dear Bret Easton Ellis, Enjoy this bottle of wine! Sincerely, Blue Bottles Winery"

With luck, we could get this guy we both dislike who adores Bret's novels to send off the wine, so he could get framed for the murder and that would make get rid of two birds with one stone. This is all theoretical, of course, but I guess that makes us theoretically bad people.

There's a lot of articles on the internet that talk about choosing pen names, and they all say the same shit, over and over, and it's never anything that interesting anyways. They tell you the various reasons for choosing a pen name, give some basic boring strategies towards picking one, and mostly just exist to reassure you in your decision to use one.

However, that's not what I'm interested in! What I'm interested in is the idea of creating a pen name that is actually in some way a cool badass code or phrase or something! Like, Lewis Carroll, or Vivian Darkbloom, or even Mark Twain. I will now proceed to explain what is cool about each name.

Lewis Carroll is a play on the author's real name, Charles Dodgson. To quote wikipedia: "Lewis was the anglicised form of Ludovicus, which was the Latin for Lutwidge, and Carroll an Irish surname similar to the Latin name Carolus, from which the name Charles comes." So one cool strategy for deriving a cool pen name is to play language games with your real name.

Vivian Darkbloom, while not a real author, is a fictional author mentioned in Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita, and she herself is an anagram of Vladimir Nabokov. So another fun way to get a cool pen name is to make an anagram of your real name. However, Nabokov's name happens to be particularly well-suited to anagrams. Some names are not. But you can still play with anagrams! You can make an anagram of a phrase involving your name, such as 'Hanna made this' turning into 'Amanda Hithens', or you can even do a phrase that does not involve your name but just feels to you like a self-describe phrase, such as 'badass mothafucka' turning into 'Casadama B. Khustof'. So much fun!

And you could always go the route of Mark Twain, who took the phrase 'mark twain' from Mississippi riverboats, where the shout of 'mark twain!' indicated that the water was at least twelve feet deep and thus safe to pass. You could even use the previous methods of forming pen names and combine it with this method: for example, 'white night' could turn into 'Bella Notche' if you passed the phrase through Russian and transcribed the sounds back into English. 'Cheval Fonce' is French for 'dark horse'. 'Tut Bannan' is Hebrew for 'strawberry-banana'. And so on.

The point being that the fun in coming up with pen names isn't just finding a name that 'sounds good' because really far too many stupid-sounding names crop up that way, like 'Isabella Fier' or 'Adrien Myst' or whatever, and meanwhile people who are actually named Isabella or Adrien feel a deep sense of shame. Sometimes you can be lucky and stumble onto a pen name that just sounds fabulous without meaning anything in particular (like Lemony Snicket) but if you are like me and chronically indecisive (and also like playing with words when bored), it can be a lot more fun to create a pen name that has a secret to it! Like giving someone a wedding ring without them knowing that it's actually a decoder ring, and then a few years later when you get kidnapped by foreign spies, they discover that their wedding ring can decode secret codes and they go on a badass butt-kicking mission to rescue you from the spies so that you can be reunited in a fit of passion lovemaking. Woo!

There was a sale at the local grocery store: buy ten tiny buckets of ice-cream, and get them for one dollar each! Luckily I realized the sale applied even if you just bought one - sometimes it works like that, but sometimes they actually only apply the sale if you buy the specific number. But either way, even though buying smaller buckets is more expensive than buying a proper quart, this way you get VARIETY and plus it's so much fun to eat out of the tiny little buckets! I bought five. They are neatly stacked in the freezer, like a delicious little tower of upcoming joy.

I'd like to write a romance novel where halfway through the middle, during a steamy sex scene between the 'fiery yet petite and delicate young damsel' and the 'smoldering uncouth shirtless rouge', the damsel runs her hand over his smooth, smooth chest and pauses, furrows her brow, and says 'Is that.. stubble?' and then it'll turn out that, yes, he shaves his chest. Why are they all hairless? I don't get it. Some guys do have hairless chests, but hairless arms? Hairless legs? That's not nearly as common. My dad is one of those rare individuals who have barely any hair on their bodies (except his head and his facial hair, of course, where he has plenty), and he was always embarrassed by it when younger, because he thought it made him less manly or something dumb. But it might because some guys probably assumed he shaved his legs, or maybe even teased him about it. He was quite the playa before he settled down and got married, though, so it's not like his manhood was in question or anything... Anyway, I digress. The point being, hairlessness is not a natural state of being for most men, so why are almost all romance-novel men so hairless? Maybe their hair is on a vacation in Hawaii? I can just see it. The guy wakes up one morning, suddenly hairless, to find a note from his leg-and-chest hair:

"Dear Hunk, We are tired of being attached to your hunky glory all the time so we have decided to take a break, get some sun, and enjoy a bit of snorkeling. We'll send postcards! Sincerely, All Your Body Hairs From Below The Neck"

And while his hair is vacationing in Hawaii, he meets this fiery young wench (why are they always described as 'fiery'? Are romance novel women prone to lighting themselves on fire or something?) who, depending on how you see it, seduces him with her feminine charms / falls for his pick-up routine because she's extremely horny and sexually unfulfilled, and the novel ends with what we assume will eventually be marriage... and then, a few days after the novel's end, she wakes up to this very unfamiliar feeling beneath her body and realizes it's because all the man's hairs returned from Hawaii, but all the coconut juice and bananas have disoriented them and instead of landing back on the man's body, they missed and landed on her body instead. WELL, SHIT, THAT'S WHAT YOU GET FOR RUNNING OFF WITH A MYSTERIOUSLY HAIRLESS HUNK, guess you should have been a bit more curious over why his skin was so baby-smooth, huh!

The timing in how you steam your asparagus is so crucial. If you steam it too little, it's just not cooked. But if you steam it even a minute too much, then it's not crisp and kinda soggy and not nearly as much fun to eat! Generally I find that between three to five minutes does it for me. At three minutes, I'll start nibbling and sampling one of them to see if it's done yet, and the moment it's just cooked enough, I yank them off the fire and put them on a plate and yum yum delicious asparagus!

I once had steamed fiddleheads when my college's dining hall did 'Healthy Food Day!' for health awareness week or something silly like that, and I thought there were fantastic. I put a little butter and salt on them and ate soooo much oh man, delicious fiddleheads. When I am living on my own like a proper adult and cooking for myself, I'll have to figure out where you get fiddleheads and make them for myself because man are they fun to eat. I like foods that are fun to eat! Maybe that's why I don't like apples. I don't find them that fun to eat. And I HATE most oranges because they are such a pain in the butt to peel, oh my god, just stick with tangerines instead, those things peel like a charm if you buy the right kind. Blood oranges peel pretty well though, I've found.

Why are blood oranges so popular all of the sudden? There's blood orange sorbet now where before I didn't see any, and pinkberry has a new blood orange flavor and also blood orange bits to put on top of your yogurt if you so desire. I mean... blood oranges are just oranges that are red. It's kinda cool and I guess maybe there's a slight taste different, but I don't see what's so awesome about them, other than them being easier to peel, which is a big deal only to me... Maybe it's because there's a novelty to blood orange. Just orange is no longer cool anymore, so they make it BLOOD orange and change the color around and people get all excited!

Or maybe blood oranges actually taste significantly different and I just am remembering them wrong. Who knows. Anything is possible.

You know those vibrating chairs in malls where you put in a quarter and it vibrates for two minutes? I fucking love those things.
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Wooooo I just had a crazy weekend! I ate drank TWO thai iced teas! I also had a fancy and overpriced crepe from this very high-class crepe shop where, for some reason, they made the employees wear berets and I think they had to speak in French accents as part of their job, because their accents were really obviously fake and they kept dropping the accents by accident every now and then. It was an interesting experience. The crepe was very good, though, despite the oddly accented workers.

Hotel ballrooms are pretty awesome. Something I really like to do is wander into a hotel ballroom that is all laid out for a big party or wedding or something, all the tables with the silverware on the sides and this big space in the middle for dancing and a huge arched ceiling with a ridiculously overwrought chandelier, and no one is there, and you're not supposed to be there either... But being me, I sneak in anyway, and hopefully the lights aren't turned on yet, because then it feels extra ghostly and dream-like to waltz by myself with an imaginary partner while the empty tables watch and the glasses gleam if I dip my head at the right angle, like they're winking at me.

Canvas shoes are pretty comfortable. But not if they're old and smelly. Then they are no longer so comfortable. Well, not to imply that old equates smelly, because if you take good care of your canvas shoes, then their chances of being smelly too are not as high. I used to wear the same pair of shoes each day and every eight months or less I'd have to buy a new pair because my shoes would be worn to old smelly bits and were just no longer even working properly as shoes half the time, all scuffed up like I'd attacked them with a saw, and beginning to fall apart in places. Then I discovered the wonder of having TWO pairs of shoes at once! I could alternate between what shoes I wear each day, and thus have shoes that last twice as long! But actually, the shoes last even more than twice as long, for some reason, because I noticed that my shoes tend to wear out faster if I wear them constantly - I don't know if this is actually an illusion and perhaps scientific research would prove me wrong, but oh well, it's not that important.

BUT THEN I REALIZED THAT HAVING THREE PAIRS OF SHOES AT ONCE IS EVEN MORE AWESOME luckily my amazing realization stopped at three pairs of shoes and I have not followed the trend of my sister, who owns around sixty pairs, or the trend of her husband, who used to own nearly two hundred pairs of Nikes, many of them extremely fancy rare high-end Nikes which he later sold on e-bay for hefty prices in order to help finance their move from an apartment to a house.

Acne medications are the weirdest things. None of them really work that well, has anyone noticed? I mean, I've heard that the oral medications can work, but those are the crazy antibiotics that totally fuck with your system and are supposed to be really bad for you and can have awful side effects. Meanwhile there's a whole parade of topical skin medications that are supposed to make your skin as smooth as an apricot or something, but really, all they do is dry out your face and, in the process, dry out existing pimples. They don't stop new pimples from forming or really do a very quick job on existing pimples either. It's kind of dumb. I think the French had the best acne cure YES THE GUILLOTINE acne does not bother your face if you do not have a head HA HA! You know what else the French invented? Boobs! That is why my breasts have little Dali-esque mustaches, one for each nipple. It is because they are inherently French. Just so you know.

Once for a Crafts class I made an Hercule Poirot egg. I poked tiny holes in the top and bottom of the egg, blew out the insides into a bowl and washed it with water and let it dry, and then made little clay feet for it and a giant mustache and drew on a face. For those of you who are fans of Agatha Christie, you will be familiar with her famous Belgian mustachio'd detective, Hercule Poirot, who is often described as having an egg-shaped head. HA HA take that.

When people are sleeping, I like to take their lips with my fingers and make them move up and down like they're talking in their sleep and then I say things in funny voices as if they're my puppets, things like 'Oh goodness, it seems I've spilled the lemon juice aagaaaaaain, quick, fetch the dog! He'll lick it up right away, oh won't he, my precious little puppy, he just loooves lemon juice, goodness!' or things like 'I wear penguins on my head OH MAN I wear penguins on my head, they ask me no questions and I tell them no lies, I also wear seals on my head sometimes but usually they're too large and they fall off'.

For some reason my friends never invite me to sleepovers anymore.

CELERY IS SO FUCKING AMAZING did you know celery can make farting noises if you crunch it right? Or wait, no, that's just me, I make farting noises with my mouth in between bites of celery because it's much more lively that way. For carrots, I moo. Radishes merit small squeaks, and when I eat sprigs of parsley off my plate in restaurants, I yodel for a few seconds, just to let the kitchen staff know how much I appreciate the sprig of parsley that they kindly placed on my plate.

A sad thing about my weekend: I had a very nice bottle of super-awesome-seeming dessert wine that I was going to try with a friend, and I was so excited to drink super sweet and delicious wine with them AND THEN we had no corkscrew, and trying to open the cork with his room key, and then with a giant knife, did not yield any results. I am considering drinking the wine by myself but I don't really want to, I like to share my liquor with friends while having high-ended philosophical discussions about things like which Harry Potter movie was the best and how non-Western cultures are represented in most modern fantasy novels and so on. You know, things you can get really worked up about while having a lot of fun too, wine is good for those moments. Oh, and for watching movies with those same friends at one in the morning, that's pretty fun too. I'm glad I found a good use for alcohol besides cleaning wounds, I don't really enjoy getting drunk but getting a little tipsy with the right people can be a lot of fun since the conversation tends to start flowing in good, hilarious ways.

Today I was at a fish pond and I kept sticking my hands into the fish pond, trying to snatch one of the large koi out of the pond, but all I kept managing to get was just one hand around their body or tail before they jerked out of my grasp as fast as they could. I kept hoping to get both my hands around one of the koi so that I could lift it out of the water, wink at it, maybe even give it a slimy wet fishy kiss on its forehead, and then toss it back... But alas, it was not to be.

The color of my underwear today is pale gray.
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Fruits I find especially delicious include things like starfruit, raspberries, tangerines, and peaches. I delight in quality strawberries, grapes, and watermelons, but watery or wrinkly old gross strawberries and grapes and watermelons make me cry. I'm not so much a fan of apples, though everyone else seems to love them... I like bananas fine! And I forget that avocados count as a fruit because you put them in vegetable salads, but I like those too and will eat them sometimes with a spoon like ice-cream.

I am an insomniac and often lie awake in my bed for several hours before managing to doze off, even if I'm exhausted when I slip in between the covers. While lying there staring at the ceiling, my mind has plenty of room to wander, so last night, the thing I was thinking about before managing to fall asleep was:

I don't really want to live in New York City because it's so damn expensive and the living situation is really just kind of unpleasant for beginners, but alas, it's where a lot of the jobs I'd want are at!"

See, I'm considering my career options once I graduate, and one likely option is that I'll end up being the lowliest of assistants at a big-name publishing house. NOT because I want to work at one - in fact, as someone who writes fiction in their spare time, I really don't want to, because I worry that having to look at manuscripts in the slush pile all day will depress me and drain my creative energy - but because I'd still prefer being a slush-pile reader to, say, a cleaning lady. Those are my career options so far, I think. Hm. I guess I should add 'garbage collector' to that list...

So, as I was wondering a possible initial few years in NYC, I began thinking about the food situation, how I would simply not have any money for anything but the basic necessities, and that was when I recalled with dismay my fondness for things like boba tea and pinkberry smoothies and pretty much all sorts of expensive snacks that I guzzle with the greed of a not-very-gas-efficient car.

So then I began thinking, well! I can at least solve the pinkberry problem! They have a stamp card system, and if you get something like ten or twenty stamps on your card, you get a free smoothie or yogurt or whatnot! So all I'd have to do is walk into a pinkberry when it's not rush hour and I'm the only one there, cause some sort of diversion that makes all the employees not look at me for a moment (if there's only one employee, I could just order a smoothie, because they go into the back anyways to make those) and then swipe the stamper that stamps your pinkberry cards!

Then, I could just buy one pinkberry item, get a stamp card, stamp it at home, and go to a different location to get my free smoothie!

Unfortunately, the rest of my brain had a large number of problems with this, the least of which was 'you are stealing!' My main problem was: won't the staff get in trouble if their stamp goes missing? They'll be the ones who are blamed and possibly fired!

And that, alas, is simply not something I am willing to risk. I will not sacrifice the possible well-being of a hapless pinkberry employee just so that I can have a free smoothie!

What I ought to do is find a pinkberry employee - or, better yet, make one of my friends work at pinkberry so they can report their experiences to me. Because what if no one gets in that much trouble if the stamp goes missing? I'm sure they misplace them sometimes and also I'm sure I'm not the first to think of this idea. Hmmm. Once I found this blog online that was written by a former Target employee, who gave a very detailed summary of the most effective way to steal things from Target. Maybe there's a similar blog for pinkberry...

I'd feel a little bad stealing from pinkberry though. Target at least has all that political mush around it that you can use an excuse for feeling justified for stealing a pair of overpriced underwear or whatever bullshit. I kind of like pinkberry though, all the employees are always very nice to me! I don't want to steal from them... so I guess if I move to NYC after college, I'll have to resign myself to a pinkberry-less fate.

Or maybe my moral dilemma will magically resolve myself once I'm actually there and I'll find myself forging pinkberry stamp cards right and left. Who knows!

You know what's weird? Anise-flavored toothpaste. I bought some once. Big mistake. I won't ever do it again.
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Ok, so I made this account entirely for the nefarious purpose of being able to read the fanfiction of one of my favorite fanfic authors. I didn't have a handy LJ or anything to prove my authenticity... so I figured I'd make a journal from scratch and post a bunch of entries and maybe that would do the trick!

Anyways, right now what I want to talk to you about is this tea I recently discovered.

Oh holy fucking god this tea is amazing.

There's this little shop like twenty minutes away called Lupicia, and they sell fancy-shmancy teas from Japan, even though no one behind the counter is Japanese (instead it's an elderly well-dressed dapper gentleman and this kind-looking girl with glasses in her late twenties). My sister introduced me to them because suddenly instead of making her tea with teabags she began making it with this silly-looking strainer and I tried some and it was strawberry black tea, what the hell. It was delicious too, which is even weirder. She'd gone a little nuts when she found the shop and bought a bunch of teas, actually, so we have Champagne Rose (I don't know what's so champagne about it but I guess the name sounded cool), Afternoon Tea, and Au Lait. But my real discovery was Momo Oolong, which is oolong tea with peaches and stuff. My sister bought some to try and hated it, so I tried some to see what upset her so much and oh my god.

Well.

The reason I'm talking about it is because I'm drinking some right now so there. I couldn't think of what else to talk about so I talked about what's in my mouth. There's also a tongue and some teeth and also this really small alligator but I pretend the alligator doesn't exist so I couldn't exactly talk about it, otherwise I'd have to admit its presence in between my gums and be forced to DO something about it. Like, give it a name. Albert McFrosterberry, perhaps? No. ALBERTUS McFrosterberry the THIRD! Yes, yes, I like this already.

Why does my wardrobe consist of so many stripes? What is it about stripes that really appeals to me? Perhaps it's because it reminds me of bees. I like bees. I liked to pretend I was a bee when I was little. I'd run around going CHUCKCHUCKCHUCKCHUCK before for some reason I thought bees made that noise instead of, you know, buzzing, and then when I'd find someone, I'd run up to them and go STINGGG and bite them really hard.

That is how I got kicked out of my first two kindergartens, by the way, till I figured out that biting people is not like biting into a sandwich, it is not delicious and digestible, and actually, the person will scream and might even hit you and there are bad consequences, none of which occur if it is a sandwich you are sinking your teeth into.

This was a very important lesson for me to learn.

One of my friends keeps trying to get me to read books he likes and I think that our tastes just do not match enough for it to be a good idea. He's really into nitty-gritty detective novels spliced with sci-fi and fantasy and, like, circus freaks. Yeah. The problem is that the nitty-gritty isn't even real nitty-gritty. It's that 'oh look at me, I am so dark and edgy! Oooooh!' nitty-gritty style that can really get on my nerves when it's not done well, which half the time it just isn't. It's like those TV shows that introduce a throwaway villain and try to demonstrate to you that the villain is PURE EVIL by having them randomly waste an extra for no real reason. All that this demonstrates, really, is that the villain is like one of those incontinent chihuahuas who can't help peeing everywhere, except, instead of peeing, they stab extras. It's not exactly threatening. It's more like a disorder. Homicidal tourettes, perhaps? It doesn't really do a thing to develop their character or make them in any way interesting or threatening - all it does is let us know 'okay, this person will randomly kill bystanders while making a prissy annoyed face that is supposed to look Very Evil but instead looks like Paris Hilton irritated that her food is coming a little late', which is useful to know, I'm sure, but not exactly INTERESTING.

Like, take Firefly as an example. As much as I like the show, I really cannot stand those blue-gloved men who are supposed to be so very threatening but are really just two walking cardboard cut-outs of "OH NO THEY'RE GONNA KILL YOU IF YOU GET TOO CLOSE" I mean honestly, you could just have let loose a tiger on the set and there would have been more drama and character development. Hell, what they should have done is brought in Barbara Streisand and paid her a shit-ton of money to play herself as a futuristic assassin whose preferred method of murder is to slap her victim to death. This isn't meant to bash Barbara Streisand, by the way - I really enjoy her in Hello Dolly and just think that having her randomly waltz onto the screen in the middle of a Firefly episode would be the most hilarious awesome thing ever. But yes, picture that rewrite. Mmmm. I can see it already. River muttering crazy-talk under her breath, Simon hyperventilating and trying to save her life...

"Two by two, woman in blue, two by two...!!"

"Look out River! It's Barbara Streisand! And oh my god she's wearing an aquamarine Dior gown that is simply faaaabulous! Run for your lives!"

Cue a chase scene where Barbara Streisand pursues them while standing on a bright yellow Segway, her blue Dior gown fluttering in the wind as River and Simon skip and hop away in bladder-releasing terror.

You know what's pretty awesome? MY NOSE MUSCLES OH MAN SO MUSCLEY when I flex my nose, a little bicep-bump-thing appears on its bridge and oh boy is it sexy. With this nose, I can seduce any butterfly or ladybug I want! They cannot resist my nasal charm, HOO-HAH. Perhaps I should lay off the peach oolong. I don't think there's an enormous amount of caffeine in oolong tea, but at the rate I've been drinking it, it's probably too much for my delicate system to handle. Anyways, I'm going to bed now, and tomorrow I will make another post, continuing to prove my identity and personality as the authentic goods!

Fondly,
Bumbilton Ericka Froomp

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