You got ninja in my anarchy! You got anarchy in my ninja!

[kleenexwoman]

Am feeling significantly bouncier today. (Advice on last post is still welcomed, I'm just not thinking about it at the moment.) For one thing, I'm comfortably bummed about having to miss the Jeff Combs episode of Super Monkey Robot Hyper Force Monkey Force Robot Team Robot...well, a cartoon with a silly name that is about robot monkeys and had Jeff Combs in it. We had to leave Dad's house before six A.M., and his is the house with cable TV. I am once again thwarted. Did anybody tape it? Will trade jewelry and pudding for tapes of this episode...the reason I'm comfortably bummed, by the way, is that I have something to grumble about that doesn't involve me fucking up. So good.
So I got to Mom's house early, slipped into my bedroom before she woke up, and was re-awakened at 11 A.M. with this dialogue:

Mom: "RACHEL!" :pound on door:
Me: "Mrsfgl."
Mom: "You got a package."
Me: "Huh?"
Mom: "It's heavy. It's not a bomb, is it?"
Me: "OOOH LEMME SEE." :springs out of bed:
Mom: "Who's sending you heavy packages?"
Me: "OMG "BRIMSTONE"."
Mom: "What's that?"
Me: "You know those books we like with the albino detective?"
Mom: "The creepy one? Yeah!" (Mom has become a bigger fan than me. She's actually re-reading "Relic" and "Reliquary," which I didn't do because I thought they weren't as good as "SLWC" or "CoC".)
Me: "This is the fifth one!"
Mom: "OOOH LEMME SEE." :grabs:
Me: "MINE!"
Mom: "It's my house and I got the package for you." :flips through book: "They're having them illustrated now?"
Me: "Ohh, no. drworm drew something in there! Lemme SEEEE."
Mom: "P/D'A? Oh, is this one of those slashy things you like?"
Me: "Yep!"
Mom: :sarcastically: "Because they love each other so much."
Me: "Yep, they do."
So she left, rolling her eyes, and left me to squee over the drawing. I haven't even read the book yet, I just giggled happily for five solid minutes. I get to read it after I vacuum the house. I hate vacuuming, but oh well.

Mom is taking sailing lessons this summer. She wants to be a pirate. She was very much inspired by the character of Captain Jack Sparrow, you see--she even wrote a poem about being a pirate teacher. "A pirate with a B.S. degree." (Bachelor Studies, I think...)
So of course we had a long discussion about pirates and ninjas. Turns out Batman's a ninja. He's also a Republican. I had a long and boring "budding social worker" rant in the parking lot after I saw that movie.
For the record, I've decided to endorse a logically impossible political party: Socialist Libertarian. I swing back and forth anyway, depending on my mood, so I might as well, right? Money and the free market for ABSOLUTELY EVERYONE EVEN THE OPPRESSED DIRTY CRIMINAL MASSES. :sticks tongue out at Ayn Rand:
Anyway, discussion question for today: Are you a pirate or a ninja? Why? And am I a pirate or a ninja? And why? (I expect everyone to know the subtleties of this dichotomy, by the way. If not, what the hell have you been doing on the Internet?)

Comments

[diraskyria.livejournal.com]

BS is Bachelor of Science. ^_~

I think everyone should strive to be a pirate ninja (or a ninja pirate), but we should have unity among the two of them. I have to admit, though, I am probably more ninja than pirate. But, as a hippie communist, I'm partial to both.

Meanwhile, I'd peg (harhar) you in the pirate category more so than the ninja category. It has a lot to do with those dangly earrings, I think... ^_^

[ghostgecko.livejournal.com]

"They're having them illustrated now?"
I laughed so hard I actually started weeping when I read that. I WISH!!!!!!!

I think I'm a ninja. I usually wear black, and I brush my teeth. It strikes me that pirates don't brush their teeth very often. And I don't like parrots.

[thatnoise.livejournal.com]

I'm a VIKING!

*pillages*

Arrrr...

[wolf-heart9.livejournal.com]

First off: Got the package! *loves on you*

Second: I have a friend who would be very upset to think of Batman as a Republican. He's a bleeding heart liberal and a huge fan o' the Batman. *laughs*

Third: I would soooooooo be a pirate. And likely a captain. I have been a pirate since I was a very very young child and my sister read me The Pirate Don Dirk of Dowdee from the Childcraft book every night. She addicted me to pirates from a very young age.

Fourth: I think you would more likely be a pirate, but maybe a stealthy one? Either way, you can be on my ship. :D

Fifth: Did I mention the love for the package????

[drworm.livejournal.com]

Yay! The book came! Your conversation with your mother made me smile! I confess, I was slightly afraid that I would traumatize someone else with my little drawing, but then just decided to chance it.

Anyway... you must tell me what you thought when you finish. Must... discuss... slashy goodness. And rawr.

*is a vigilante zombie, haha!*

re: my other reply

[josephwaldman.livejournal.com]

Double clever, too. "Socialist Libertarian": you read my mind. I've been giving myself headaches for the past six months trying to combine the two into an adequate and workable political admixture. I know it's possible, my gut and brain tells me it's so, but it's still damned difficult. Anyway -- good thinking on it. Throw me some ideas.