| we're like that one TNT commercial where they go "WE DO DRAMA BEST"
i love you guys?
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| at work today...
some lady comes up to me, kinda meekly...
"sir?"
yes ma'am, i reply.
"do you know where the plus sizes are?" she says in a fine
whisper, almost like she thought would be killed if anyone heard.
i stand for a moment, a little shocked.
"you know," she adds, "for the large women?" and she
grabs her collar nervously and scans the area to see if anyone is
overhearing our conversation.
At this moment, I want to give this woman my life. I want to give
her any contentment I can find in myself. I want to tell her
something to reassure her. To tell her theres no reason to be
ashamed. That our culture has turned her spirit from something
beautiful into one that has to bask in fear and dejection. I want
to tell her that she has sparked something deep within me; an
unrequitted love for the underdogs that must always lie in
defeat. The ones that have been cast away by the overbearing
branches of a culture meant to make you unhappy.
But I can't.
Being the guy that just found out they have things called Petite sizes in department stores, I cant do shit.
I dont know where the plus sizes are.
So I kindly tell her that I'm not so sure where there are, but that
there are a couple of sales associates down the aisle that could help
her.
She embarrassingly struts off in the direction I pointed her towards.
She'll never know how much she touched me.
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| someone needs to change the mix tape to the backround music they play
in macys womens store...i memorized it..working there i can only listen
to back-to-back tracks from ashlee and jessica simpson so many times
before i throw a hangar at the next person who asks me where the mens
bathroom is
thinkin about that whole genesis story...
god creates adam and eve...puts them in a literally perfect environment
in the garden of eden..says the only thing they cant do is eat from the
tree of knowledge of good and evil or they will die...blablabla all the
stuff memorized in sunday school
but the serpent (who is never mentioned as satan in the bible)
persuades eve..who persuades adam..into eating the fruit..saying that
they wont die..and theyre eyes will be opened to the "real world"
and we've all been taught to hate the serpent...but if it wasnt for his
acts..wouldnt we still be still living oblivious to good and
evil..living without choice?
by saying that we will surely not
die..does the serpent mean we gain a greater understanding of
life by knowing what evil and suffering are that surpasses the notion
of life and death..we are bestowed the gift of knowledge because of the
serpent
this all makes god out to be an oppressive tyrant..like an overbearing
parent that makes you close your eyes when people start having sex in a
movie..because hes right..they eat from the tree they become mortal and
learn of suffering and they'll feel pain and die and blahhh..but then
again god was the one that created the tree and the serpent in the
first place..and placed them within the vicinity of adam and eve..maybe
with the purpose of allowing or even staging the inevitable banishment
from "paradise"..ignorance is NOT bliss i guess
so god was kinna like a parent who helps his kids ride a bike and has
the training wheels on...and then takes them off when it becomes
apparent the child is ready to go out on his own..or he could just be
oppressive..or not
why do people keep bad mouthing the serpent..i was always taught that
it was the devil..but without the evil there is no good..that whole
chinese yin and yang thing that danyo is proud of..not to say that we
should praise and worship evil and suffering...but we should
respect its influence on us and the balance it creates between
itself and good..
and i didnt get anywhere with that
except maybe almost pledging my allegiance to satan..just kidding *shiver*
5:57 AM ouch
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| morrie schwartz was. fucking. brilliant.
bryan and i are sociologizing
i feel a tingly sensation inside whenever i watch iron chef..the
good old school one...with the dubbed voice...but yea i feel a sort of
happiness and well being whenever the chairman...that asian guy with
the long hair...bites into the bell pepper at the beginning of every
show and smiles in a way that says "mm...im ready to seize the day"
now you maybe thinking that im a loser...or have a vegetable
fetish...but why does that matter to me...society makes it so that i
have to conform to your
standards...i should act "normal" and not fantasize about old
asian men in order to conform and be exactly like you...fuck that...i
mean why are you even gonna act like that in the first place...why does
it matter to you how i feel when i watch television..am i causing you
physical or mental harm by enjoying someone biting into a pepper?
im living my life and not bothering anyone by doing it..yet you see a
problem with it because its different from what youre accustomed
to...and our culture teaches us to be afraid of the unknown...i cant
tell you how much i enjoy iron chef...and gay people cant get
married...because of YOUR ignorance...
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| its that time of the year kiddies...when us children make resolutions
for the upcoming school year..to not do that ...or smoke this...or to
study more of something...and i admit ive made some goals...but i cant
really remember a time where i actually changed myself as drastically
as ive wanted to during the summer...people constantly deal with the
present..whats in front of your face..these resolutions and this drive
to succeed will be forgotten
you are what you are
deal with it
hopefully what can help us college kids is the fact that if we fuck around this time. its over.
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