A Facebook friend had this going on and I thought, why not? I’m a sucker for a meme, and I’m sure I’ve got enough songs by this group to play this:
Using only song names from ONE ARTIST, cleverly answer these questions. Pass it on to 15 people you like and include me. You can’t use the band I used. Try not to repeat a song title. It’s a lot harder than you think! Repost as “my life according to (band name)”
Pick your Artist:
Great Big Sea
Are you a male or female:
Old Brown’s Daughter
Describe yourself:
I’m a Rover
How do you feel:
Bad as I am
Describe where you currently live:
Nothing out of Nothing
If you could go anywhere, where would you go:
Excursion Around the Bay
Your favorite form of transportation:
Donkey Riding
Your best friend is:
Mari-Mac
You and your best friends are:
Dancing with Mrs. White
What’s the weather like:
Ordinary Day
Favorite time of day:
When I’m Up
If your life was a TV show, what would it be called:
Rant and Roar
What is life to you:
Goin Up
Your relationship:
Someday Soon
Your fear:
Can’t Stop Falling
What is the best advice you have to give:
Margarita
Thought for the Day:
Berry Picking Time (which is something to dream about, given the weather)
How I would like to die:
The Jolly Butcher
My soul’s present condition:
Consequence Free
My motto:
Fast as I can
Since I’m supposed to tag, I tag whoever reads this.
Just because it’s hilarious. Apparently she admitted to having a crush on Christ via Twitter recently.
“I’m looking at a picture of Jesus on the wall. I would have totally dated Jesus. Love that beard. Too bad he’s dead,” she posted on her Twitter account.
When some followers on the micro-blogging website took offence to the suggestion that Jesus was not alive, she added: “Ok, ok my friends. I know Jesus is not dead. I’m saying that the fact his body has ‘risen from the dead’ makes him un-datable.”
Dating Jesus obviously stayed on her mind for some time, as she later tweeted: “Did they do circumcisions in Jesus days?
Yes, Jenny, they did. Obviously your love of the dude is superficial – and more than a little creepy.
The image appears to show the face of a man with medium-length hair, sunken eyes and a moustache, possibly a beard. Other interpretations suggest that rather than Jesus, it could also be the face of Albert Einstein, Ron Jeremy or maybe Yosser Hughes.
At least the Metro doesn’t take it seriously either. But they still posted the “news” article about it. It’s not news. This kind of thing should never be used to fill space in a paper or a website.
I was sitting in a restaurant waiting for my bus after the film and I sent a message via my iPod to Facebook to tell friends it was just like FernGully, but for grown ups. Now, thanks to Scanners, I see someone else had the same thought I did, but with way more tech talent behind the eyeballs than I possess.
And it’s not the only one.
Like Jim Emerson, I will also quote a bit from Racialicious who quoted from a comment left at io9.
when you go out of your way to suggest that people should be thinking less — that not using one’s capacity for reason is an admirable position to take, and one that should be actively advocated — you are not saying anything particularly intelligent. And unless you live on a parallel version of Earth where too many people are thinking too deeply and critically about the world around them and what’s going on in their own heads, you’re not helping anything; on the contrary, you’re acting as an advocate for entropy.
Moff was writing this about people who claim a movie should be enjoyed, not ripped apart by critical thinkers mere minutes after the studio sign appears, as if it’s somehow unnecessary to think about a movie while watching it. Now I’ll quote from io9’s review of Avatar and Annalee Newitz’s impressions of other films like it (some breaks added):
This is the essence of the white guilt fantasy, laid bare. It’s not just a wish to be absolved of the crimes whites have committed against people of color; it’s not just a wish to join the side of moral justice in battle. It’s a wish to lead people of color from the inside rather than from the (oppressive, white) outside.
Think of it this way. Avatar is a fantasy about ceasing to be white, giving up the old human meatsack to join the blue people, but never losing white privilege. Jake never really knows what it’s like to be a Na’vi because he always has the option to switch back into human mode.
Interestingly, Wikus in District 9 learns a very different lesson. He’s becoming alien and he can’t go back. He has no other choice but to live in the slums and eat catfood. And guess what? He really hates it. He helps his alien buddy to escape Earth solely because he’s hoping the guy will come back in a few years with a “cure” for his alienness.
When whites fantasize about becoming other races, it’s only fun if they can blithely ignore the fundamental experience of being an oppressed racial group. Which is that you are oppressed, and nobody will let you be a leader of anything.
When I was watching the film, my mind kept returning to FernGully and the industry vs ecology aspects of both films, but I see what Newitz is getting at here and she might be right. I enjoyed District 9when I saw it, too, and came out of it with a lot of questions, some of which others wrote about and discussed.
Newitz also mentions remingtons’ review of the film and the fact that the white-American Sully character wasn’t even necessary to make the picture fly. Why have a cultural interloper as the main draw? And,
when you hear Sully talking about “our land” it just makes you cringe, especially if you’re a white dude from the United States. We should not make such claims to cultures; even claims to fictional ones are in bad taste.
Cameron may be king of the world–but it’s a world that, though beautiful, doesn’t really exist. And underneath it all is an ugly racial dynamic that reminds us Americans why we’re seen as the bad guys on and off the screen.
But this type of thing could extend beyond alienesque war movies, too. Think about every sports underdog movie that’s come out – especially the Disneyfied biopics that are keen on showing the “very first black player/coach/teacher ever to…” whatever. Are they meant to be real movies showcasing a real issue and steps beyond racial stereotyping, or are they more like “we white people acknowledge your struggle on and off a football field and commend you for being as good a person as a white person…”?
Seems back in November at my uncle’s retirement condo, a wind upwards of 95km/h ripped Baby Jesus right out of the nativity scene and through an eight story window.
In my frying pan! Just now! It’s totally amazing! And since I’m hungry, I’m going to drizzle all the goodness that is syrup all over it and enjoy every bite of this breakfast!
(A real sign would have noodly appendages, by the way…)
It got rained out and they discovered there were state laws against burning paper anyway, plus protesters were on hand to give them second thoughts about trying to be so idiotic in public. They later videoed themselves cutting and ripping the books apart instead.
I wonder if they plan on recycling all that. Do some good with all that “evil” for a change.
@SusanZwarych People of Walmart should issue complimentary eye bleach. When I worked there, I saw a few weird outfits too, but those people? 20 hours ago
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