Numero Uno:
I have some fun ideas for the next couple of blog posts, one of them being the actual completion of at least one show synopsis in my FtLoTV (For the Love of TV) series. YAY!! Another one is a poem I've been working on when I can't sleep at night (like now). And last but not least, it is definitely time for another hotnessincelebrityform entry. I'm going to do a few of those since there's a LOT of hott guys on TV in the summer :)
So watch out for those entries!
Numero Dos:
Another entry is going to be a little more personal---- think love life, people! But to do this, I need to have a more accurate list of who I've dated/crushed on in the many years I've been alive. SO, I need your HELP. Call/text/email/facebook/carve it in stone/write in the comment section (only if you feel I won't be TOO embarrassed) the NAMES of the random people I've crushed on SINCE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Yeah, that's right. I'm going ALL THE WAY BACK.
I've crushed on a lot of people so I need you guys to rack your brain and sus out some names, especially some obscure ones you think I may have forgotten :)
Numero Tres:
I've decided to do a little honest Q & A. So here's your chance to ask me anything. And as long as it's within sight distance of reasonable, I'll answer it in a blog post. This is for all those people who've been wondering about the intricacies of my life (i.e. thedeepstuff) but haven't had the nerve to ask me any questions. You know, because my life is SO interesting. Right. LOL. But seriously, ask away (in the comment section)!
So there you have it. Expect some updates soon. Now do your homework and leave me some comments people!
Love :)
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Thursday, July 28, 2011
Thursday, May 19, 2011
On my way to bed but had to post this! (Inside-joke alert!)
Saw this on a comment board about nerdy, hott actors:
SUCH AN AWESOME QUOTE!
And guess who posted it?
Somebody named JOY.
Am I missing something here, Ary?
J/K!
Toodles!
Nathan Fillion is like maple syrup: excellent with pancakes.
SUCH AN AWESOME QUOTE!
And guess who posted it?
Somebody named JOY.
Am I missing something here, Ary?
J/K!
Toodles!
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
READ IT.
So I've been getting The Huffington Post Daily Brief in my inbox since before I knew it was cool.
Some stuff I just skip over either because I don't have time to read it or already read a bunch of articles about the topic, but sometimes I break down read all of the emails that have collected in my inbox (yes, I do have a special Politics inbox-- I'm a nerd, what can I tell ya?) and really look at them for content if not a similar opinion.
Yesterday? (Or some other day this week!) I found an article which pretty much sums up the way I feel about money, opportunity and people when those three words are found in the same conversation.
Kelli Goff, whose op-ed pieces I find quite fascinating, wrote an article entitled,
"Gwyneth Paltrow is Right. We're All Jealous (of her and George W. Bush)."
which is pretty much fan-frickin'-tastic.
Her claim is this: We understand that some people are born into privilege and some aren't. We accept that. It's a fact of life. But what really get our goad is when a person born into privilege A) doesn't realize it and B) further ignores his privilege by defining his success as an achievement which came solely from his own hard work.
NOTE: It's important to define the two major words at work in this article.
Privilege: a right, immunity or benefit enjoyed by a person beyond the advantages of most.
Success: the attainment of wealth, position, honors, or the like.
The reason for this note is that often people get the two confused in conversations like these, i.e. proponents of the "Don't hate; you're just jealous" mentality.
BACK TO IT.
Goff writes, it better than I do:
Well if your last name is Bush (or McCain or Kennedy for that matter) you don't need affirmative action programs, or Pell grants for college or an extension of unemployment benefits if you find yourself out of work, and your kids won't either. Why? Because you had the privilege of being born into privilege. And this is ultimately the issue. People should not be punished for being privileged. They can't help that anymore than the rest of us can help NOT being born into privilege. But it would be nice if they would extend the rest of us the courtesy of acknowledging their privilege, and not simply pretend that their success is built solely on a combination of hard work and chutzpah. But it seems like increasingly all we get to hear -- from members of Congress and now Ms. Paltrow -- is that if we're just a bit more disciplined and willing to work a little bit harder, we can achieve the same Dream as the privileged classes."
Now, isn't that just AWESOME? I love when people tell it like it is.
:) Love!
Some stuff I just skip over either because I don't have time to read it or already read a bunch of articles about the topic, but sometimes I break down read all of the emails that have collected in my inbox (yes, I do have a special Politics inbox-- I'm a nerd, what can I tell ya?) and really look at them for content if not a similar opinion.
Yesterday? (Or some other day this week!) I found an article which pretty much sums up the way I feel about money, opportunity and people when those three words are found in the same conversation.
Kelli Goff, whose op-ed pieces I find quite fascinating, wrote an article entitled,
"Gwyneth Paltrow is Right. We're All Jealous (of her and George W. Bush)."
which is pretty much fan-frickin'-tastic.
Her claim is this: We understand that some people are born into privilege and some aren't. We accept that. It's a fact of life. But what really get our goad is when a person born into privilege A) doesn't realize it and B) further ignores his privilege by defining his success as an achievement which came solely from his own hard work.
NOTE: It's important to define the two major words at work in this article.
Privilege: a right, immunity or benefit enjoyed by a person beyond the advantages of most.
Success: the attainment of wealth, position, honors, or the like.
The reason for this note is that often people get the two confused in conversations like these, i.e. proponents of the "Don't hate; you're just jealous" mentality.
BACK TO IT.
Goff writes, it better than I do:
Well if your last name is Bush (or McCain or Kennedy for that matter) you don't need affirmative action programs, or Pell grants for college or an extension of unemployment benefits if you find yourself out of work, and your kids won't either. Why? Because you had the privilege of being born into privilege. And this is ultimately the issue. People should not be punished for being privileged. They can't help that anymore than the rest of us can help NOT being born into privilege. But it would be nice if they would extend the rest of us the courtesy of acknowledging their privilege, and not simply pretend that their success is built solely on a combination of hard work and chutzpah. But it seems like increasingly all we get to hear -- from members of Congress and now Ms. Paltrow -- is that if we're just a bit more disciplined and willing to work a little bit harder, we can achieve the same Dream as the privileged classes."
Now, isn't that just AWESOME? I love when people tell it like it is.
:) Love!
Saturday, January 29, 2011
"Write 400 words (or less) on your ideal place [to live]."
So, a friend of mine prompted the readers of her blog to write about their ideal place to live after the subject came up in her life--twice in one week. So here goes. It's probably very different than what she intended, but one must go where the words takes them.
_____
There are no sad and quiet people here.
The air is clear and clean, the water calm and warm. The temperature always matches the light of the sun. Trees find themselves green without trying. Flowers bloom without challenge; bees don't sting.
Seasons are so crisp here. The changing of the colors is a vibrant affair. The snow melts on the tongues of children and falls in flakes the size of closed eyelids. Summer comes often. Heat and breeze are in consummate harmony. Spring brings back birds of every color that algor took away.
It's soft. Light is temperate. All noise, dulcet. Movement, unpretentious and rhythmical. No sense is ever harmed, no practice overwhelms. But the people are loud and happy, full of life and purpose.
Night is conclusive to day. Darkness holds no sinister plans; no egregious dealings go on in dusk. Darkness is not the absence of light, but the rest of it. The balance of dark and light for rests’ sake.
No true measure of time exists here, only the sensation of moments both here and then, now and always. This does not bother the loud and happy people. They rejoice. For they knew it once when it was different, when it was worse and they were sad and quiet.
And there are no sad and quiet people here.
_____
1000 points if you let me know what you think.
_____
There are no sad and quiet people here.
The air is clear and clean, the water calm and warm. The temperature always matches the light of the sun. Trees find themselves green without trying. Flowers bloom without challenge; bees don't sting.
Seasons are so crisp here. The changing of the colors is a vibrant affair. The snow melts on the tongues of children and falls in flakes the size of closed eyelids. Summer comes often. Heat and breeze are in consummate harmony. Spring brings back birds of every color that algor took away.
It's soft. Light is temperate. All noise, dulcet. Movement, unpretentious and rhythmical. No sense is ever harmed, no practice overwhelms. But the people are loud and happy, full of life and purpose.
Night is conclusive to day. Darkness holds no sinister plans; no egregious dealings go on in dusk. Darkness is not the absence of light, but the rest of it. The balance of dark and light for rests’ sake.
No true measure of time exists here, only the sensation of moments both here and then, now and always. This does not bother the loud and happy people. They rejoice. For they knew it once when it was different, when it was worse and they were sad and quiet.
And there are no sad and quiet people here.
_____
1000 points if you let me know what you think.
Monday, January 17, 2011
"things that make me squeal in delight and collapse into a fit of giggles"
Lately I've been reading this blog that is so funny, I actually laugh out loud, like for reals. BUT I can't share it with you just yet. I gotta keep it secret a while longer until I can catch up with the 4, 837 entries she's written already. I'm only 1/3 of the way through 2010.
Anyway, she inspired me to come up with my own list of things that makemehappie, like the kind of happy where I laugh, clap my hands and fall over. Hotchkiss people know what that looks like, lol.
brunch, horseback riding, baby animals - especially baby kittens :( I miss Buttons, funny blogs, Jimmy Choo shoes, small children (when they behave), a good book, TELEVISION, hotnessincelebrityform, crisp hotel sheets, comedy central joke of the day's, black stiletto boots, random information, warm apple pie with crumb topping (also known as streusel), reading, my grandmother's baked macaroni and cheese, that main street chocolate shop's raspberry animals, pretending to be sex-and-the-city cool with my girls, dressing up for fancy events, crushing on guys, guys' arm muscles (it's insane how much I love them, really), making fun of books I love (like Twilight), anything related to or can even be remotely labeled as science fiction, talking about religion (except Scientology), finding recipes online, baking, researching/dreaming about the things I could do if I won the lottery, going out to eat, looking up random words on dictionary.com (it used to use oed.com, but I no longer get it for free from NU… sad.), poetry, writing silly things that no one will ever read, making lists, guys who are talldarkhairedandskinny, keeping track of books I'll probably never read, when someone asks me "who was that guy in that one movie?", knowing the answer, wikipedia, corny television shows like Tower Prep (speaking of which, Drew Van Acker… pretty cute. He's my third blonde celebrity crush. Is it no longer the exception?), talking about legal things, laying down in my bed, random dance parties, girls' night-in, Poggio del Moscato wine, whiskey sours, grapes, red dirt (found in AL, GA, etc.), when little girls wear pigtails (so adorable), computer games (from Freecell to Age of Empires), theatre, inside jokes, having money in the bank, castles, rereading stuff I wrote when I was younger (it's hilarious how little I knew then, though I thought I knew a lot), Wal-Mart and Target (I refuse to choose between the two. They're both good for different things), strawberry ice cream, black knee-length socks, sleeping
Speaking of which… I think I might do that now.
Oh, and just for fun:
Okay, now I'm done.
Sunday, May 9, 2010
Untitled (The Battle Against Christianity or This is me rambling/hashing out frustration.)
(The reason why this post was originally untitled is because at the beginning of writing it, I didn't quite know what to say about the following matter.)
Christians are discriminated against/looked down upon.
Yes, I said it. I took off the PC gag and said boldly what others, even some Christians themselves, are reluctant/afraid to say. And I'll say it again.
Christians are looked down upon in society.
Now, the popular (conceived) consensus is that Christians have it made, that the United States continues to run blatantly on Christian values, and that the majority of Americans are Christian and therefore cannot possible discriminate against its own kind. These things in theory are true. The founding fathers did set up a government which had roots in the Christian faith (life, liberty, happiness and all that jazz). According to self-reporting stats, most Americans do identify with some form of Christianity, whether Catholic or Protestant, Evangelical or Methodist.
But lately there has been a distinct shift to the religion of humanism, as I like to call it. [I believe humanism is definitely a religion. And I contrast it sharply with Atheism, which shuns and the idea of God--and a good number of atheists also shun those who believe in God(s).] This shift does bother me on a spiritual level. It does in fact pain me to see people who were once in fear and awe of God, those who once claimed to know the Lord, turn their backs on Him and adopt this new humanist perspective and ultimately put their faith in the once place they shouldn't, the one place God tells them not to-- in man. However, the new religious adherents, humanists, I can understand. These people do not despise the idea of God (the idea of humanism and other traditional religious forms is indeed compatible), they only wish that humans would "step up to the plate." I often wish the same.
I being up the point about Humanism and Humanists to be in direct contrast to Atheism and Atheists, as it has been conceived and as it is lived out in American society. So often Christianity and Atheism are seen at two ends of the spectrum. This is not accidental; Christianity is often seen as "the Big Bad" in modern society, the one religion which oppresses all the others. I disagree. Every religion, with perhaps the exception of Bahi, makes some sort of truth claim, whether it be that their one monotheism is the Truth, or that the earth is the body and soul of the Brahman or primordial man.
Why then is Christianity's truth claim, in particular, treated so harshly?
I cannot answer that question for sure, but my best guess is this: society's conception that Christianity permeates every aspect of our lives, from the religious to the secular, has made us run in the opposite direction of Christianity.
For those who are Christian, this should come as no surprise: we have been biblically warned that our lives will be neither easy nor accepted. But for those who are not, my questions are these: Why treat us like lepers? Are we not human too? Do we not also care for the fate of the physical world, in addition to the spiritual?
There is a place in this world, for both the religious and non-religious alike. While the Christian faith makes its truth claims about one's spiritual soul, it makes other claims too, namely ones about the dignity of persons. Are some of these not the same dignities for which humanists, Atheists, Jews and other religions also fight?
* The following is a response to a blog post I read about one persons "drift towards godlessness" (more aptly called secular humanism!) because of the fallacy of the church and the realization that God is not needed.
I realize that some people, especially those who regard themselves as "post-Christian," the Church (with a capital "C" - meaning the body of Christian believers as a whole) has been a constant source of pain. I am sorry for that-- truly. But it is unfair to maximize that pain onto others' experiences. Your drift towards godlessness is your own, shaped by your own experiences. Don't apply those experiences to the whole of Christianity. And it is unfair to destroy Christianity for one's own ends, to use the failings of the institution to justify to your "Post-Christian" self your reason for becoming, something different. Your negative experiences are the result of people failing you, not Christ. And if the sentence above rings hollow for some, then you do have a problem with Christianity--as religion in and of itself-- and that's fine. But please don't take it out on Christians themselves. Don't discriminate against us as a group. Do not "look on the church with disgust" and don't "pity" us, because we don't pity you.
In my opinion, you deserve as much respect and dignity as any other human being, things that you seem very often, not to afford specifically to Christians.
Christians are discriminated against/looked down upon.
Yes, I said it. I took off the PC gag and said boldly what others, even some Christians themselves, are reluctant/afraid to say. And I'll say it again.
Christians are looked down upon in society.
Now, the popular (conceived) consensus is that Christians have it made, that the United States continues to run blatantly on Christian values, and that the majority of Americans are Christian and therefore cannot possible discriminate against its own kind. These things in theory are true. The founding fathers did set up a government which had roots in the Christian faith (life, liberty, happiness and all that jazz). According to self-reporting stats, most Americans do identify with some form of Christianity, whether Catholic or Protestant, Evangelical or Methodist.
But lately there has been a distinct shift to the religion of humanism, as I like to call it. [I believe humanism is definitely a religion. And I contrast it sharply with Atheism, which shuns and the idea of God--and a good number of atheists also shun those who believe in God(s).] This shift does bother me on a spiritual level. It does in fact pain me to see people who were once in fear and awe of God, those who once claimed to know the Lord, turn their backs on Him and adopt this new humanist perspective and ultimately put their faith in the once place they shouldn't, the one place God tells them not to-- in man. However, the new religious adherents, humanists, I can understand. These people do not despise the idea of God (the idea of humanism and other traditional religious forms is indeed compatible), they only wish that humans would "step up to the plate." I often wish the same.
I being up the point about Humanism and Humanists to be in direct contrast to Atheism and Atheists, as it has been conceived and as it is lived out in American society. So often Christianity and Atheism are seen at two ends of the spectrum. This is not accidental; Christianity is often seen as "the Big Bad" in modern society, the one religion which oppresses all the others. I disagree. Every religion, with perhaps the exception of Bahi, makes some sort of truth claim, whether it be that their one monotheism is the Truth, or that the earth is the body and soul of the Brahman or primordial man.
Why then is Christianity's truth claim, in particular, treated so harshly?
I cannot answer that question for sure, but my best guess is this: society's conception that Christianity permeates every aspect of our lives, from the religious to the secular, has made us run in the opposite direction of Christianity.
For those who are Christian, this should come as no surprise: we have been biblically warned that our lives will be neither easy nor accepted. But for those who are not, my questions are these: Why treat us like lepers? Are we not human too? Do we not also care for the fate of the physical world, in addition to the spiritual?
There is a place in this world, for both the religious and non-religious alike. While the Christian faith makes its truth claims about one's spiritual soul, it makes other claims too, namely ones about the dignity of persons. Are some of these not the same dignities for which humanists, Atheists, Jews and other religions also fight?
* The following is a response to a blog post I read about one persons "drift towards godlessness" (more aptly called secular humanism!) because of the fallacy of the church and the realization that God is not needed.
I realize that some people, especially those who regard themselves as "post-Christian," the Church (with a capital "C" - meaning the body of Christian believers as a whole) has been a constant source of pain. I am sorry for that-- truly. But it is unfair to maximize that pain onto others' experiences. Your drift towards godlessness is your own, shaped by your own experiences. Don't apply those experiences to the whole of Christianity. And it is unfair to destroy Christianity for one's own ends, to use the failings of the institution to justify to your "Post-Christian" self your reason for becoming, something different. Your negative experiences are the result of people failing you, not Christ. And if the sentence above rings hollow for some, then you do have a problem with Christianity--as religion in and of itself-- and that's fine. But please don't take it out on Christians themselves. Don't discriminate against us as a group. Do not "look on the church with disgust" and don't "pity" us, because we don't pity you.
In my opinion, you deserve as much respect and dignity as any other human being, things that you seem very often, not to afford specifically to Christians.
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