now for some more trivial stuff
Jan. 22nd, 2006 07:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kleenexwomanThis is the non-philosophy post for today. I was thinking of making a "Rachel's grandiose theory of the day" filter, but I don't think I'll really need one after today. At least, I hope I don't. See the post before this for why I think I may have actually gotten everything figured out for the moment.
Stuff that happened today: My mom E-mailed to tell me that she had two tickets to "Wicked" on June 11th, and that the world ending would not prevent us from going. I'm excited, because I liked the book and Mom likes "Wizard of Oz," and it's sort of cool when someone, even your mom, is that excited to go with you to see something.
I really need to call her. Monday, after dinner, I call Mom and Dad. They'll be home then.
Spent 12 solid hours RPing today. Went to Jen's house to play Seventh Sea, which is sort of a Renaissance-era pan-European game, except with thinly-veiled versions of various Europeans countries, and also various types of magic. I got to be an Italian Fate Witch who dressed up as a hag, which was hella fun. I do a really terrible Italian accent. It's recognizable as Italian in the same way that frozen pizza is recognizable as Italian. RP accents don't have to be good, though; they're just placeholders, like cardboard cutouts of swords. The important thing is that you make an effort.
Vampire made me very, very tired. Lots of fights that I wasn't part of. Lots of people trying to scare each other. Went till midnight. Much stress on the high-status people. One girl got a stomachache because of the unrelenting politics and action. Poor thing.
Memes. Fine, I'll give up and call them memes, are you happy?
TEN SIGNS YOU ARE READING A FANFIC BY KLEENEXWOMAN
10. There is a reference to at least one science fiction book or story whose author died long before the author of the fic was even born.
9. The title and summary is from the most obscure song by a fairly well-known artist that the author could possibly find, she being too lazy to make up her own goddamn titles.
8. There is a gratuitous rant about music, be it the shoddy state of the industry today or the greatness of an album that the author found in her dad's basement on LP.
7. The plot revolves around the ingestion of small blue objects that seriously alter the main character's perception of the universe.
6. Philip K. Dick makes a surprise appearance. You'd think that Philip K. Dick would be more aware that the author is using him in so many cameos.
That's all I could think of. Does anyone who actually reads the pretentious meandering that I call "fanfic" have any others?
OTHER TOP NUMBER MEME
Give me a "Top Five Things" to make a list of. Favorite flavors of jellybean, worst possible places to go on vacation, diseases I'd like to contract, whatever. Maybe I'll make a poem out of it, 'cause I'm not getting anything new written as it is.
Stuff that happened today: My mom E-mailed to tell me that she had two tickets to "Wicked" on June 11th, and that the world ending would not prevent us from going. I'm excited, because I liked the book and Mom likes "Wizard of Oz," and it's sort of cool when someone, even your mom, is that excited to go with you to see something.
I really need to call her. Monday, after dinner, I call Mom and Dad. They'll be home then.
Spent 12 solid hours RPing today. Went to Jen's house to play Seventh Sea, which is sort of a Renaissance-era pan-European game, except with thinly-veiled versions of various Europeans countries, and also various types of magic. I got to be an Italian Fate Witch who dressed up as a hag, which was hella fun. I do a really terrible Italian accent. It's recognizable as Italian in the same way that frozen pizza is recognizable as Italian. RP accents don't have to be good, though; they're just placeholders, like cardboard cutouts of swords. The important thing is that you make an effort.
Vampire made me very, very tired. Lots of fights that I wasn't part of. Lots of people trying to scare each other. Went till midnight. Much stress on the high-status people. One girl got a stomachache because of the unrelenting politics and action. Poor thing.
Memes. Fine, I'll give up and call them memes, are you happy?
TEN SIGNS YOU ARE READING A FANFIC BY KLEENEXWOMAN
10. There is a reference to at least one science fiction book or story whose author died long before the author of the fic was even born.
9. The title and summary is from the most obscure song by a fairly well-known artist that the author could possibly find, she being too lazy to make up her own goddamn titles.
8. There is a gratuitous rant about music, be it the shoddy state of the industry today or the greatness of an album that the author found in her dad's basement on LP.
7. The plot revolves around the ingestion of small blue objects that seriously alter the main character's perception of the universe.
6. Philip K. Dick makes a surprise appearance. You'd think that Philip K. Dick would be more aware that the author is using him in so many cameos.
That's all I could think of. Does anyone who actually reads the pretentious meandering that I call "fanfic" have any others?
OTHER TOP NUMBER MEME
Give me a "Top Five Things" to make a list of. Favorite flavors of jellybean, worst possible places to go on vacation, diseases I'd like to contract, whatever. Maybe I'll make a poem out of it, 'cause I'm not getting anything new written as it is.
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Date: 2006-01-22 05:58 pm (UTC)My mom LOVED "Wicked." She keeps trying to lure me back to Toronto to see it. We don't get "the good stuff" out here in boonie, hippie-land, unless we drive to Seattle.
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Date: 2006-01-22 07:57 pm (UTC)Let's see, for me, that would have to be:
1) Music: Led Zeppelin, Elvis (really, anything from Sun Records), the Who, the Velvet Underground.
2) The written word: Lester Bangs, Hunter Thompson, P.J. O'Rourke, Dave Barry and, yes, kleenexwoman.
3) Humor: P.J., Dave, Mel Brooks, Conan O'Brien, and general correspondence with good, smart, funny people.
4) Food: pasta, oranges, cold water, black coffee, good wine on occasion, and bread. The peasant's life.
5) Friends. Just in general. The simple good vibes we all get from one another.
More lists later if I think of any . . .
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Date: 2006-01-22 08:01 pm (UTC)Nooooooo! Never. The most annoying word in the world. Glad to see I'm not the only one who hates the fucking thing. It's all over the place on this godforsaken graffiti wall we call the Internet. Christ, why does everything on here have to be so wrought-out and pretentious. Let's call it something else. Or just smash the whole thing and start anew. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go sort through my incoming mailbox full of random newsletters and mailing lists that I signed up for five years ago and haven't had any damn use for since. There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke.
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Date: 2006-01-23 12:58 am (UTC)The word meme is catching, that's the problem. There's a nice paradox for you: Things that people call memes are not memes, but calling those things memes is a meme, in the real sense of the word.
There must be some kind of way out of here (said the junkie to the meme. oh god there is it again)
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Date: 2006-01-23 07:09 pm (UTC)Don't people know that the Internet was designed, patented, and intended for nothing more than illegal Simpsons sound bites, kitty-cat pictures from some poor bored housewife in Iowa, and "cHeep V!ag_ara now!*!*!" popup ads from Penis K. Caltech?
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Date: 2006-01-23 01:00 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-01-25 02:32 am (UTC)