Question of the Day

We have to ask: What are you going to be for Halloween this year? And can we see a picture?

I don't love Halloween. I don't hate Halloween. I...I nothing Halloween.

Even as a kid, it was never my favorite holiday. Even though I can tell you that my all-time favorite costume was when my brother and the two kids from across the street went out trick-or-treating as a box of Crayola crayons (yours truly was purple, of course). As I was running down the steps of a stranger's house after snagging some candy, I tripped and fell and ripped a big old hole right in the middle of my crayon costume.

I also remember my brother and I dressing up as toothpaste and an Oreo cookie. But for the life of me, I can't remember who was the toothpaste and who was the cookie.

But either way...since "growing up," I don't really celebrate Halloween. I don't need a reason to eat candy whenever I want nor do I need a reason to play dress up.

So this year, I'm just me. And no, you can't see a picture.

Question of the Day

30 Rock returns to television today. Should Tina Fey's striking resemblance to Gov. Palin become part of this season's storyline?

No.

And as fucking hilarious as Tina Fey is, she should stop having to play her.

So for the sake of Tina's sanity, my sanity, and the sanity of everyone in the world, please do not help elect the vapid, incompetent woman.

Thanks.

Question of the Day catch-up

With Halloween on the horizon, burning questions about the undead need to be answered: Can being a zombie be considered suffering?

I generally believe suffering to be entirely subjective. Much like most of life, I can relate it to Buffy. After his gypsy curse, Angel walked around with a soul, forced to recall and live with the memories of all the vivious things he did as Angelus. Suffering. Spike, having no soul at all, dug his ability to walk around sucking the life out of people until The Initiative implanted the chip (die, Riley, die!!) He only suffered after being rendered inable to live life the way he was used to. It's all about circumstances. Some zombies probably dig it, some probably don't.

Everyone enjoys a ghost story. Or at least knows one. What is the scariest ghost story you've ever heard?

I'm not sure I've really heard a lot of true ghost stories. I've read plenty of creepy, scary stories (hi, Stephen King) but ghost stories, not so much. When I read it in school, I remember thinking almost anything written by Edgar Allen Poe has a genuine fright to it (moreso the prose than the poetry) and just the other day, I picked up The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allen Poe. So far, I've only read my all-time favorite, The Cask of Amontillado, but as I read some this week, I'll let you know if they're as scary as I remember.

Happy birthday, Internet! The Internet, of course, has changed many things for the good. But is it all good? What is the biggest problem the Internet has created for you or the world?

Nothing in life is all good but I definitely say the internet has been more beneficial to me than it has been detrimental. The biggest problmem it's created is probably the huge amount of time that's dedicated to it on a regular basis. Although it's usually used for reading and learning crap so, ya know...that's a good thing.

a joke

Joe took his blind date to the carnival. "What would you like to do first, Kim?" asked Joe. "I want to get weighed," she said. They ambled over to the weight guesser. He guessed 120 pounds. She got on the scale, it read 117 lbs. and she won a prize.

Next, the couple went on the ferris wheel. When the ride was over, Joe again asked Kim what she would like to do. "I want to get weighed," she said. Back to the weight guesser they went. Since they had been there before, he guessed her correct weight and Joe lost his dollar.

The couple walked around the carnival and again, he asked where to go next. "I want to get weighed," she responded. By this time, Joe figured she was really weird and took her home early, dropping her off with a handshake.

Her roommate, Laura, asked her about the blind date..."how'd it go?"

Kim responded, "Oh Waura, it was wousy!"

my current obsessions

I'm so very smitten.



And look how beautiful!




And look how beautiful!

a PSA

Any change in tax code is a redistribution of wealth.

That $700 billion bailout for Wall Street? A redistribution of wealth.

Palin's taking of oil profits and giving them to fellow Alaskans? A redistribution of wealth.

The simple fact that we pay taxes is a redistribution of wealth. We make money, the government takes it, and redistributes it. The simply price we pay for living like civilized people with roads and schools and stuff. Pretty straight forward, no?

So enough with the "Barry's a socialist who wants to redistrbute the wealth" argument, mmmkay?

Thanks.

Question of the Day

I don't care for some of the Question of the Day questions so when that's the case, I'll pick something from the archive instead. This shall be one of those times.

Everyone knows having a crush at the office or in class can make the time pass a little bit quicker. Is it better to keep your crush a secret or tell them how you feel?

"Depends on the situation" definitely could apply to this question but generally, I think that by nature, crushes aren't intended to develop into significant, intimate relationships and having genuine feelings for each other is much different than feeling infatuated and / or having a crush on someone. For me, there's no hidden agenda behind a crush or secret longing.

If it's a crush on someone I barely know, chances are, I'm going to keep my mouth shut because, "hey, we don't know each other but I have a huge crush on you" would make me feel a bit awkward so I assume it would for others as well. But if it's a co-worker or a classmate I'm friends with...I say definitely own up to the crush.