Other Thursday stuff

[yendi]

Hilary Duff has a song in which she says, "I'm living proof that the girl can rock."

That's like rain on your wedding day, y'know?

Elsewhere, I've finally gotten hooked on Kingdom of Loathing. Just what I need. Reminds me most of Upper Reaches of Apshai. Quite fun, so far. I did hit level three before running out of my turns yesterday and today.

Good news: The Mets got Mientkiewicz. Bad news: We don't get the BoSox ball in the deal. And we gave up Bladergroen, which I'm not happy about, both because he's hella talented, and because "Bladergroen" has all sorts of humor potential.

More Good News: Alton Brown is doing a Road Food Special!

TV: Still playing Tivo catch-up. But we watched Scrubs (guest-starring Colin Farrell), which, as always, was not just screamingly funny, but actually used its guest star wisely. And then we watched JLU, which had Bat Lash, El Diablo, and Jonah Hex! And Jonah even made references to his time travel adventures! Only Western character missing (of my favorites) was Cinnamon. And then the ending -- shadesong and I turned to each other and just went "Holy shit." Not spoiling it, but let's just say that I've never looked forward to an episode of JLU (or the old Justice League) more than I have with this coming Saturday's show.

And yeah, I know it's the "down the rabbit's bunghole" day or whatever. But it's also the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, and of the Apollo 1 fire that killed Grissom, White, and Chafee. Sorry if I don't feel like turning my LJ into a pointlessly irreverent mess (um, more than usual, at least). Choosing July 4, which is a much more relevant date (being the publication date of the book, instead of the birthdate of the author) is, you know, a much more celebratory time, imntsfho.

Comments

[storme]

Hooray. KoL has my soul and won't give it back until ascension...

[bitsyboo.livejournal.com]

Whatever did happen to the BoSox ball? Is Minky still holding on to it?

[aussie-nyc.livejournal.com]

Come to NY. See Pedro pitch, while he still can.

[branwynelf.livejournal.com]

And you don't think that some people would find silly irreverant posts on the 4th of July to be just as wrong?

Seems to me that we can find a lot of things good and bad in history for pretty much any day. Should people not go out celebrating on their birthday if it's today because of tragedies in the past? What about those born or with wedding anniversaries on the 11th of September. What about Pearl Harbour Day? Then again, should those who have things to mourn not do so on days that are deemed "good" by society?

I'm a history major, and there are so many horrid things tha have happened in the past, and I've spent time reading and studying about a lot of them. Being silly on a chosen day that happens to be the anniversary of something negative doesn't mean that I've/we've forgotten the negative things or think they're unimportant. It just means we're chosing to focus on things that are meant to help people smile and get on with living.

And yes, I do remember that you're Jewish, and that there is an additional layer in the meaning of the liberation of Auschwitz to you - but why not try at least some to think of it as a day to celebrate the liberation and the end to the horrors as well as to remember what happened and pray it doesn't happen again?

At least, that's how I see it.

[yendi]

Oh, any date has teh good and teh suck, as it were. But different people also react differently to different dates. The idea that peopl should pick one date and act a certain way, period, is what I find galling.

If other folks want to participate, that's their prerogative -- as you might have gathered, I find the idea silly from any perspective, regardless of the date. But seeing too many lemming-like folks who are not only participating, but who have been posting for weeks about the date and imploring people to be different, just like everyone else, is grating beyond belief (and the inability of some folks -- mostly tangental to my fl, thankfully -- to recognize that not participating is as much of a choice as participating is just shocking).

[yendi]

I'm already looking at the Mets schedule for this summer. :-)

[yendi]

He "loaned" it to the BoSox for a year. I wouldn't count on his ever seeing it again.

[aussie-nyc.livejournal.com]

I am going to try hard to see both Pedro and Randy Johnson this year. It's a shame to have seen Steve Trachsel so often and never those two.

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

*shrug* I'm just doing it because it's been ages since I've written Shayara stuff, and it's a good excuse to get the "exercise".

[branwynelf.livejournal.com]

Fair enough - although it would seem to me that most of our year is guided by dates on which we're told to/expected to act a certain way. I don't see what makes a grass-roots effort at such a random sort of day all that different than SuperBowl Sunday, a country's birthday, religious holidays, Mardi Gras, or even the opening of a much-awaited movie. It isn't just here that people act like lemmings, and in a lot of our life we do so willingly despite knowing that we have the option to choose not to participate.

I have no illusions that all will, and no feelings that all should, participate in such a thing. I guess I just reacted to your initial post which came across (to me at least) as slamming the whole thing as inappropriate because of tragedies of the past being remembered today.

Personally, I thought the idea was fun and was looking forward to those posts from people who chose to have fun with it. My friends list is full of people who are creative thinkers at the best of times ... and it would defintely be an improvement over a friends list full of quiz results and auto-generated haiku from other lemming-intensive days.

[yendi]

*nod* There are plenty of folks like you and karlita (which is not to exclude anyone else on my FL, just using examples) who are doing some wonderfully creative things with it. And using it as the impetous for creative effort is wonderful -- I'm just concerned about the vast number of folks who have turned it into another lemming-like meme.

[sirinek.livejournal.com]

KoL is fun :) I am a 6th level pastamancer now!

[moonfire77.livejournal.com]

imploring people to be different, just like everyone else

I was just talking to someone about this. Everyone wants to think they're unique, but really no one (or almost no one) is.

[beowabbit]

I will eternally regret not having had the 33 1/3d birthday party I’d hoped to have (too close to holidays and travel, and I didn’t have enough energy to organize it), so I take any opportunity I can to increase the amount of silliness in the world. Your point about lemage is well taken, but at least everybody’s writing their own stuff rather than just linking to one of the same four GIFs.

[ldy.livejournal.com]

Are you Yendi in KoL as well? I'm LdySaphyre :)

Drop me a line there, if you can!

[auryn29a.livejournal.com]

I'm really not one for holidays. I don't even do birthdays, for the most part. Assigning a behavior for a certain date...I'm just not much into it. I like Christmas music all year round, for example. But I saw this, and thought it was a really cool idea. And like shadesong, I need the excercise. I just kind of assumed people thought of it the way I did. I see the lemming-fear, though.

[auryn29a.livejournal.com]

Oh! And I meant to say that I watched JLU on Saturday and had the same reaction as you guys! Wow! I so can't wait! And I loved the look on GL's face at the end.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_cinnamongirl_/]

call me selfish, but i have a special filter set up for writing journals, etc., so they don't clutter up my f'list view. this effectively renders that filter useless for today, as my page is now cluttered with these creative endeavors instead of them being safely filtered off. and i have to be in the right mood to read those. right now? not so much.

i have the hugest crush on Alton Brown.

[amokk]

No, Alanis, it's not ironic. ;)



And I saw part of the JLU episode, and was going, "wait, who's the guy with the funny eye, I know this one.... oh yeah, Jonah Hex!" But I didn't see the whole episode. What happened? Spoil me!

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

Dad? :)

[yendi]

I am, indeed, Yendi over there as well. How do I drop you a line?

KoL

[crystalline.livejournal.com]

Psssst. Sent you some random KoL stuff I had lying around. Don't forget to eat the food for more turns. :)

Re: KoL

[yendi]

Oh, rock! Thank you!

[enchant.livejournal.com]

btw: i added you to tcjfreestuff_ga but you need to watch it to see the posts.

:)

thompson

[yendi]

Gracias!

[phantom_wolfboy]

Well, it says, "the girl", so maybe she doesn't mean herself?

Maybe she means Alannis!

[alladinsane.livejournal.com]

Loved the JLU ep...thought Hex sounded a bit too articulate for me, but I like that he figured em as time travelers and he mentioned his own time adventures too...

Jan 27 is a very down day anniversary wise...here in OK it's the 4th anniverary of the plane crash in Colorado that killed 10 men associated with Oklahoma State's Basketball team(2 players, the radio team, the team publicist, the flight crew, and other staffers) as they were returning from a road game at Colorado..