Showing posts with label people I want to know. Show all posts
Showing posts with label people I want to know. Show all posts
Thursday, June 16, 2011
oh dear yes
I caught a few seconds of the electric slide in there. Or maybe the boot-scootin-boogie. Either way, she's so cool I can hardly take it. Canhardlyfuckingstandit!
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Something more
I recently watched Examined Life again. For those who haven't seen it, it's a documentary about modern philosophy with brief interviews with the some of the world's best living philosophers. They all wax poetic about the idea of ethics and the human existence as it applies to the modern man, and it's kinda heavy stuff. Once again, I was overcome with some confusing emotions, particularly related to the things one Peter Singer had to say. This is Peter Singer.

To summarize a life's worth of work, he has committed himself to educating people on what it means to be a good human. In doing so, he asks some hard questions of his listeners. Here. See for yourself.
It isn't in this clip, but in the movie he references a moral conundrum that he likes to pose to people who attend his lectures. It goes something like this: You are walking on a path and you see that a little distance from where you are standing there is a small pond. In the pond a child is flailing about, clearly in danger of drowning. There is no one else around. What would you do? He said everyone said they'd save the child. Now, suppose that in this same scenario, you are wearing $200 shoes. The child is still drowning and without your help, the child will surely die. There is no physical risk to you, but in order to help, you will surely ruin your shoes. Would you still save the child? Of course, once again, people always answer yes. Forget the shoes, they say. A child's life is much more important. So then, he asks, how can you justify spending the money on the shoes in the first place when $200 would go a long way in medical aid and the like? If the money we spend on material items could be used to literally save the lives of people who are unable to help themselves, how can we justify our spending? I keep thinking it over and I can't come up with an answer that justifies my selfishness. So, that being said, I have decided to look for ways to help. I'm researching charities right now and looking for places where my money and my volunteerism will help people who cannot help themselves. Any ideas? I am open to anything, but I'd love something where me and my son could both get our hands dirty. He's five, so something related to children would probably prove the most beneficial for us both.
Also, as a side note, I've been toying with the idea of writing fan mail. I've never actually sent a letter of the sort, but I keep thinking about it. Being that he has inspired me to change my ways, I'm going to write a letter to Mr. Peter Singer himself. I'll let you know how it goes. Stay tuned!

To summarize a life's worth of work, he has committed himself to educating people on what it means to be a good human. In doing so, he asks some hard questions of his listeners. Here. See for yourself.
It isn't in this clip, but in the movie he references a moral conundrum that he likes to pose to people who attend his lectures. It goes something like this: You are walking on a path and you see that a little distance from where you are standing there is a small pond. In the pond a child is flailing about, clearly in danger of drowning. There is no one else around. What would you do? He said everyone said they'd save the child. Now, suppose that in this same scenario, you are wearing $200 shoes. The child is still drowning and without your help, the child will surely die. There is no physical risk to you, but in order to help, you will surely ruin your shoes. Would you still save the child? Of course, once again, people always answer yes. Forget the shoes, they say. A child's life is much more important. So then, he asks, how can you justify spending the money on the shoes in the first place when $200 would go a long way in medical aid and the like? If the money we spend on material items could be used to literally save the lives of people who are unable to help themselves, how can we justify our spending? I keep thinking it over and I can't come up with an answer that justifies my selfishness. So, that being said, I have decided to look for ways to help. I'm researching charities right now and looking for places where my money and my volunteerism will help people who cannot help themselves. Any ideas? I am open to anything, but I'd love something where me and my son could both get our hands dirty. He's five, so something related to children would probably prove the most beneficial for us both.
Also, as a side note, I've been toying with the idea of writing fan mail. I've never actually sent a letter of the sort, but I keep thinking about it. Being that he has inspired me to change my ways, I'm going to write a letter to Mr. Peter Singer himself. I'll let you know how it goes. Stay tuned!
Saturday, July 10, 2010
Theo Mercier
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Do you know this woman?
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Saturday, March 6, 2010
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Excited! Excited!

Shaun Ross. Are you working anymore? If I had clothes to sell, I'd hire you.

Mentioned her before. Diandra Forest. Black Albino Model. Yes, please.

Swedish Albino with the best hurr.

Brazilian family with three albino kids and a couple of boring, normal kids, too.

Uh huh.

Connie Chiu. Sometimes in pictures her eyes are blue but sometimes... they're pink! I'd give my vocal chords for pink eyes.
I like albinos.
One more thing.
Maybe you heard of this? It's a family with not one but two sets of twins that appear to be of different races. Mom's white, dad's black (mixed, I think) and the girls? Well, one is black and one is white, in both fucking sets. Here's a joke I thought of just now: If they ever get divorced, it will be easy to divide their assets.
Monday, January 18, 2010
Silly With Straight Faces
Isn't that a wonderful title? I made it up. It will be my new album or my new novel. I'll let you know. I thought of it when I was watching this video and thinking 'I like people who act silly with straight faces.'
Karl Blau. Do you want to be friends?
Karl Blau. Do you want to be friends?
Monday, January 11, 2010
Have I said this before?
I heart this man and his weirdo brain and his weirdo voice and his weirdo drawings. I have recently decided to begin writing fanmail. I am starting with him.
Monday, December 21, 2009
If I'm too good for him, then how come I'm not with him?
I love Kanye and Spike like Spike loves monsters and Kanye loves himself. And booty.
Saturday, October 3, 2009
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
I heard...
Brit Brit was at my work today. I didn't see her, but remember when she did this?

And this?

That's when I realized there was a little Whitney in Britney. I know I'm supposed to obsess over someone more indie, like her

or her

and, don't get me wrong, they're lovely, but can a girl have a guilty pleasure?

And this?

That's when I realized there was a little Whitney in Britney. I know I'm supposed to obsess over someone more indie, like her

or her

and, don't get me wrong, they're lovely, but can a girl have a guilty pleasure?
Saturday, September 19, 2009
Hooker with an eye for gold...
Ms. Bobby Gentry. Is or is not her dancing the most awkwardamazingness you ever saw?
And incase you grew up in a rural area in the 80's, too, Ms. Reba McEntire's own take on the most fantastic ode to the justification of prostitution the world has ever known.
It's like what would happen if you mixed an MJ mini-movie and Glamourshots. Which is to say I love it.
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