Why would anyone want to simply walk across the street and buy a Butterfinger for a dollar when you can spend twenty times that and two solid hours making them at home?
No, seriously, why? I can’t think of a good reason not to do this.
"That men should cling so tenaciously to dogmas they have invented or accepted, and that they should hate so passionately the people who have invented or accepted other dogmas, are facts that can be accounted for only too easily. Certainty is profoundly comforting, and hatred pays a high dividend in emotional excitement."
"…and for the first time he realized the pain inevitable in any human relationship—pain suffered and pain inflicted. How foolish we were to be afraid of loneliness."
Graham Greene, The Heart Of The Matter
This is the type of quote I underline in books I’m reading…which leads me to believe that it’d probably be good for me to stop reading books for a while.
In an attempt to come to terms with the fact that I am no longer a bartender and thus can’t justify said hours, this morning (a Saturday no less) I woke up at 8:30 and then made orange almond scones.
I admit I may have over-corrected a bit too much to 50’s housewife, but I can’t deny that 10am’s scones are a whole lot more pleasant that 1pm’s hangover.
Stop it! Please god stop it with the fucking “Shit _____ say” videos. And I’m not even saying this as a shitty hipster that is “like, sooo over _____.” I’m saying this as a son who is desperately trying to convince his dad not to, please dad don’t, make that “who let the dogs out” joke again. Because it’s not, dad, a joke. Anymore. What Proust understood about memory please god can’t you grasp about jokes! They decay with use. You literally ruin what was good if you overdo it. And “shit girls say” was a legitimately funny video that made me laugh, but its template is now this horribly tragic dead horse that I feel really bad for. And, given the opportunity, I’d personally eat horse. So for me to feel bad for a dead one takes a whole lot. And we’re there. So stop. Please god stop. All of you.
This Is Important, You Should Watch It of the Day:Salman Khan offers the most succinct and straightforward rundown of how the language in SOPA’s current iteration leaves wide open the possibility that, despite its ostensible intention to block foreign sites trafficking in pirated content, completely legal websites operating inside the United States could easily be labeled “enablers” of “U.S. property theft” and subjected to crippling sanctions that would effectively shut them down.
And Salmon Khan gives by far the best explanation of why I should be against SOPA I’ve heard yet. I wrote my congressman earlier today, but I feel better about it now.
