Trying hard to, fit among you.

Off to Big Bear Lake’s OKTOBERFEST! Weekend of fun and...

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:38:21 -0700

Off to Big Bear Lake’s OKTOBERFEST!

Weekend of fun and camping with good friends. A lot of people are like, “Why are you going to Oktoberfest if you can’t drink?” Whatevs. I don’t care, I went to the real deal in Munich in 2004 when I still partied like a rock star (aka like an alcoholic).

“I spy Ryan Ridley on the Sarah Silverman...

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 22:30:54 -0700

“I spy Ryan Ridley on the Sarah Silverman Program.”

Best. E-mail. Ever. Thanks, B.

I love Ry Rids!

irrationalblog: This week has been crawling along because I’m...

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 19:44:00 -0700

irrationalblog:

This week has been crawling along because I’m excited for this.

Can’t wait for our camping trip!

"We live as we dream - alone."

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:14:03 -0700

“We live as we dream - alone.”

- Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

Cocktail Napkins.

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 23:51:00 -0700

It’s always a strange sensation approaching home. Flying on a plane to arrive where you came from, leaving something behind to return to reality. I always choose a window seat because the person inside me who enjoys feeling melancholy and a bit depressed enjoys pondering my life while looking at the city lights of Los Angeles. I try to suppress this person nowadays because I can’t afford to be in this state of mind for too long, but while flying the feeling cannot be stuffed into my subconscious anymore.

I like to fly over the city listening to something that juxtaposes that lifestyle and tonight it is Neil Young’s Harvest, more specifically the song of the same title. By doing this I torture myself, yearning for a life in your arms dancing under the stars in Michigan on a farm. Looking at the lights of this huge city makes me wonder what I really want out of life. My head tells me silly things sometimes: fleeting moments of dissatisfaction, restlessness, loneliness and disillusionment. I look at the lights and wonder if this is right for me. I don’t think I will ever know the answer to this question. Sherwood Anderson stated it best when he said, “the possibility of attaining freedom in an impersonal metropolis is just as illusionary as the chance of finding pastoral harmony in a rustic village.” While I yearn for a bucolic small-town life I’m afraid it’s all simply a romanized vision in my head. And I’m afraid I could only have it with you.

I can’t help but think of you when I listen to this song and look at the city lights thinking you’re somewhere, down there.

401-Keg Plan

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 22:48:00 -0700

alexkehr:

If you bought $1000 of stock a year ago, you would now have:

$91.28 if you bought Washington Mutual

$37.50 if you bought Neomagic

$21.29 if you bought Freddie Mac

$20.79 if you bought Fannie Mae

But, if you had purchased $1,000 worth of beer one year ago, drank all the beer, then turned in the cans for the recycling REFUND… You would have $… 214.00 in cash.

So the best investment advice is to drink heavily and recycle.

It’s called the 401-Keg Plan

Am I the only one who thinks this doesn’t make sense? I mean, I get this witty by saying, “yah the economy blows, you’re better off drinking beer it’s a better investment.” But you originally pay the deposit fee when you buy the beer. We do this because of the “Bottle Bill.” Recycling is often an incentive for some people to get back the money they already spent. So you return the cans and you get BACK your $214.00 you would have already paid when purchasing the beer. Don’t return the cans you lose the $214.00. This would work though, if you dug through garbage cans for empties because you would have never paid the original deposit fee. Man, I worked at a grocery store for like 5 years and people hated paying that $.10 per can fee in Michigan. If a six-pack was $5.00 they would have to pay $5.60. I also worked in the bottle room at the same store and it was f’in awful. People would return cans with condoms and other sick gross unmentionables in them and bags full of cans and dead things.

I just got off topic. Anyways, if you’re drunk you are also probably spending some dollas you would haven’t spent in the first place on things such as shitty late night food and prostitutes.

Whatever, I’m just an alcoholic who hates everyone who can drink because I can’t and therefore I hate your dumb drink beer investment cockamany b.s. Who knows. Maybe this only pertains to Michigan. Maybe I am wrong and everyone on tumblr will reblog me laughing at how stupid I am and my self-esteem will crumble for a day or two.

Discovery Channel's My Shocking Story: Tree Man

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 22:13:00 -0700

Discovery Channel's My Shocking Story: Tree Man:

Half Man Half Tree

32 year old Dede lives in a remote village in Indonesia with his two children, trying to care for them. Dede, a former fisherman, has an extraordinary skin condition: he has root like structures growing out of his body - branches that can grow up to 5cm a year and which protrude from his hands and feet, and welts covering his whole body.

He is known locally as ‘Tree Man’ and his condition has baffled local doctors for 20 years. In an attempt to earn a living to support his family, he is part of a circus troupe, displaying his Tree Man limbs along with others afflicted with skin deformities in ‘freak’ shows.

Off to Vegas to meet my Dad & Roxanne!

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 12:42:26 -0700

Off to Vegas to meet my Dad & Roxanne!

Where is Gregory Smith? I used to love me some Everwood....

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 11:48:00 -0700

Where is Gregory Smith? I used to love me some Everwood. Remember when Ephram was getting it on with the babysitter? I wanted to kill that byatch. I used to go online after every show and talk to other Ephram lovers because I’m cool like that.

Yes, I would like to see more Gregory please. It would be especially nice if you could work something out where Ephram Brown and Craig Manning share the screen together. Take note Casting Directors! A member of the oh-so-sough-after 18-25 demographic has spoken. Give me Ephram and Craig!

UPDATE: I just saw some disturbing pictures of him on the internets where he has a weird fake orange tan and spiky hair. He looks like a TURBO. But I am not discouraged. Hair, Make-up & Wardrobe can turn him right back into the Emotastic young man I once got tingly over in my late teens.

"This is love, isn’t it? When you notice someone’s absence and hate that absence more than anything?..."

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:17:00 -0700

“This is love, isn’t it? When you notice someone’s absence and hate that absence more than anything? More, even, than you love his presence?”

- Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated (via paperbackgirl)

This is so perfect. When I read it my mind was flooded with picture perfect memories of sitting somewhere absolutely hating the fact that the person I loved was on a vacation or such.

Just got done watching my fav, Moulin Rouge. For reals, during...

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 23:03:54 -0700

Just got done watching my fav, Moulin Rouge. For reals, during the Come What May Reprise, at the end of the song when Ewan sings his last Coooommmeee Whaat Maaaayayay and his voice fluctuates like that… my vagina, it can’t handle that shit.

Portland

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 14:13:00 -0700

Hey tumblrs who live in Portland, my mom and I are thinking of taking a vacation there the 2nd week of April during my Spring Break. What’s the weather like there? Please reblog or shoot me an email if you have a moment. It would be super appreciated to have an inhabitants opinion, not weather.com’s. Thanks!

jillbord@gmail.com

ianbroyles: yay, movie night Movie Night Season Finale was amaz....

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 23:59:00 -0700

ianbroyles:

yay, movie night

Movie Night Season Finale was amaz. I am so proud of everyone, you all did such a great job! My friends are all so talented. My fav parts of the night were The Jeffs’ calendar and of course, Spencer & Dan because anything Spencer & Dan makes me want to pee my pants and clap my hands in happiness.

"Wow, Barack! The nia’s name is Barack. Barack? Nia named Barack Obama. What the f**k, man?! Is..."

Sun, 21 Sep 2008 22:10:00 -0700

“Wow, Barack! The ni**a’s name is Barack. Barack? Ni**a named Barack Obama. What the f**k, man?! Is he serious? That ain’t his f**kin’ name. Ima tell this ni**a when I see him, “Stop that bullshit. Stop that bullshit” [laughs] “That ain’t your f**kin’ name.” Your momma ain’t name you no damn Barack.”

- Interview with Hip-Hop artist DMX via

Amo la lingua Italiana! Che sono sobrio, voglio studiare la lingua di nuovo.

Sun, 21 Sep 2008 21:30:46 -0700

Nessuno sul tumblr parla italiano?

"You’re the nicest most pretty girl I know with a serious skin disease."

Sat, 20 Sep 2008 23:35:53 -0700

“You’re the nicest most pretty girl I know with a serious skin disease.”

- A young student on my personality, appearance and psoriasis.

Paper Planes.

Sat, 20 Sep 2008 14:46:00 -0700

I heard this song for the first time two days ago on the school bus while the kid sitting next to me, who is in 2nd grade, was telling the kid next to him, who is in 1st grade, that he needs to pretend to shoot guns in the air during the song like she does in the music video. It was pretty disturbing watching young children act fake violence as a direct result of the media. I went to YouTube today to watch the video and saw a comment which I wish I could post on here but I didn’t copy it in time and it got deleted. It was more or less along the lines of:

THIS SONG IS FUCKING AWESOME~~~~~~~~~!!!!!! WE HAD OUR FIRST SCHOOL DANCE THIS WEEKEND AND WHEN THIS SONG CAME ON EVERYONE PRETENDED TO SHOOT GUNS!!!!!!! IT WAS FUCKING AWESOME!!!!!$$

I am pretty into studying the psychological effects the media has on children. A lot of people say us media literacy freaks look too deep into things. I’m not saying this song is going to make kids go out and buy guns and shoot them in the air. I’m just saying that it’s fucking weird to watch a couple babes mimic violence they saw on television in real life. All throughout my days at U of M I read countless articles about the effects of violence in the media on children. Now working with them in a school I can see the direct effects first hand and it’s intense. Considerable violence occurs in programing we don’t really associate with aggression like music videos and the news. The worst of them all is video games. Don’t even get me started on video games.

All this children pretending to shoot guns aside, this song is pretty awesome.

P.S. I hardly ever use YouTube and OMG, the comments on that thing!? Incredible. So much hostility and anger!

It's 11:00 pm and what do you think I am doing: A, B or C?

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 23:05:00 -0700

A) Hanging out with friends

B) Drawing Pokemon pictures for Special Ed kids

C) B but with it were A

I would think of something funny to tumble but I’m too busy these days spending all my free...

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 21:04:58 -0700

I would think of something funny to tumble but I’m too busy these days spending all my free time drawing Pokemon pictures for eleven-year-old boys. Nicole and Kacy circa 2000 would be proud.

"Too many conflicting emotional interests are involved for life ever to be wholly acceptable, and..."

Sat, 13 Sep 2008 13:05:13 -0700

“Too many conflicting emotional interests are involved for life ever to be wholly acceptable, and possibly it is the work of the storyteller to rearrange things so that they conform to this end. In any case, in talking about the past we lie with every breath we draw.”

- William Maxwell

Trying hard to, fit among you.

Off to Big Bear Lake’s OKTOBERFEST! Weekend of fun and...

“I spy Ryan Ridley on the Sarah Silverman...

irrationalblog: This week has been crawling along because I’m...

"We live as we dream - alone."

Cocktail Napkins.

401-Keg Plan

Discovery Channel's My Shocking Story: Tree Man

Off to Vegas to meet my Dad & Roxanne!

Where is Gregory Smith? I used to love me some Everwood....

"This is love, isn’t it? When you notice someone’s absence and hate that absence more than anything?..."

Just got done watching my fav, Moulin Rouge. For reals, during...

Portland

ianbroyles: yay, movie night Movie Night Season Finale was amaz....

"Wow, Barack! The ni**a’s name is Barack. Barack? Ni**a named Barack Obama. What the f**k, man?! Is..."

Amo la lingua Italiana! Che sono sobrio, voglio studiare la lingua di nuovo.

"You’re the nicest most pretty girl I know with a serious skin disease."

Paper Planes.

It's 11:00 pm and what do you think I am doing: A, B or C?

I would think of something funny to tumble but I’m too busy these days spending all my free...

"Too many conflicting emotional interests are involved for life ever to be wholly acceptable, and..."

"Wow, Barack! The nia’s name is Barack. Barack? Nia named Barack Obama. What the f**k, man?! Is..."