Friends

Added a bunch of people and Ooo! I have reasons and greetings for each of them.
( Hey y'all )

Wanna live in Pittsburgh...

The indie student paper writes stuff like this

I love Tomato Nation for having great links. Well, and Sars is a kick-ass writer, but we all knew that already.

O-Town

Someone at MBTV met them and apparently:

I've met all the O-Town guys - Trevor's okay, Jacob's nice, Dan's funny as hell (mmmmmm, Dan), Erik is now my mother's baby, and Ashley....Let me share the Ashley story: We met the first time up in NYC, outside his hotel. My hand was in a soft cast -- something that only he and Dan had noticed. There were about 10-15 of us standing around talking to him, and his girlfriend Shelli (surprisingly sweet). He and Shelli went to leave, and the group broke up, everybody walking off in different directions. I heard somebody run up behind me and say, "HEY!". I stopped and turned around, and it was Ashley. He pointed at my cast, looked me in the eyes, and said, "Feel better, okay?". Awwww. I know a lot of people don't like them, but you've got to admit that was mighty damn cool.

Fuck.

Was updating my site and my backspace sent to the previous page instead of deleting the fucking mistake. Which means that I lost all of my pithy 'span' comments.

I want to smoke a cigerette. And I don't smoke. I want some vodka and I don't drink. Because? Frustrated.

Boredom raises its head.

And I'm scared of my webpage... changy... program now. So, I don't feel like working on that.

I'm thinking of making icons and then offering them to people. That seems to take up time for people.

I love Hugh Grant.

Sometimes, when I'm talking to Americans, they moan about their crime rate and about how they wish they didn't have driveby shootings and school shootouts. They talk about how Europe doesn't have these mass gun murders. They ask me why America has mass gun murders. And I tell them, 'Because you have those fucking guns, you morons.'

He amuses me so much.

Canadian figure skaters

So, they got a gold medal, too, after a French judge revealed that she was pressured to vote for the Russian team. (article)

Only the second time that they've ever done this.

Silvia?

Interested in a Buffy/Giles icon? I just made two.

Britney and violence

Silvia mentioned the glossing over of serious issues in Britney's movie.

But Britney's all about suger-coating scary, serious things. Starting from her first single, ...Baby, One More Time. Salon.com actually has an article about this.

Key quotes:

Her appeal hinges on a confusion between, and an overlap of, sex and violence. Her secret weapon, as it were, is in some frightening and unspoken but also real way, abuse.

Her new album, "Oops! ... I Did It Again," arrived in stores last week. The record has already hit No. 1 in the U.K., and it seems destined to do the same here. But this time, she's not just a sweet-and-sour slut, a good-time girl about to go bad. She's a girl who's been hurt, and now it's her turn to hurt back. Of course, it's still really all just sex-play, and she's celluloid-smiling and seductively sneering the whole way through it.

This shift -- from a sort of battered girlfriend to a battered-girlfriend-who's-getting-even persona -- isn't being trumpeted loudly, of course. Instead, it seems to be being alluded to in quiet code.

This was written before the release of Britney, obviously.

And Britney takes us back to the beginning. Back to being under a man's thumb. "I'm a slave for you." You own me. "Dance up on me." My body belongs to you.

The progression is then abused girlfriend->fighting back->giving in.

More later. I'm still digesting the whole idea.

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Kevin Smith died. And that's... I mean, I didn't know him. But he was an amazing actor. And he seemed like he was a great guy. He was funny and talented.

I've only ever seen him as Ares. His character was the only reason that I ever watched Xena.

But he's in God's hands now.

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I was... kinda calm when I wrote the last post but now I'm crying and my hand hurts because I punched the wall because? It really, really sucks that he died. It sucks and it pisses me off and it's awful and not fair. And I know that life isn't fair but I've never had proof before.

The article about him is here.

The only people that I know who've died were my aunts, Leslie and Karen. And I loved them and I was upset that they died but I was never pissed off because it was their fault. Aunt Leslie was driving too fast. Karen overdosed.

But Kevin died in an accident. He didn't do anything wrong. And it's not fair. And people are hurt and lost and it all just competely sucks.

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Am now listening to the nsync/tim mcgraw medley in order to keep from being depressed enough to cut. Am crying but not cutting, so good.

It's just. Fuck