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[Dollface]

Dear diary

i hate my imagination and my sub continuous because when i see any movies poster or any picture that is scary (by my standards) well long story short when i start to sleep my mind starts play tricks on me usually basic sound like steps, breathig and some others and i dont like it at all cause its scary as shit.

[Slick]

Do you mean 'subconscious'?

[Dollface]

yeah! (maybe i need more coffee to wake up)

[Slick]

I really like the idea of Bill Murray looking disinterested and correcting everyone on their grammar.

[Dollface]

But is he wearing any pants?

[Inlander]

I choose to read Dollface's typo as a conceptual-artistic commentary on Jordan's type and the several posts that resulted from it.

[Slick]

type

[Blue Kitty]

He looks judgmental, but at the same time bewildered and uncaring

[tania]

i think this belongs here more than it does in the pointless thread

basically i know bill murray is probably creepy and all, but he is also never going to make me stop loving him and i think i have to just accept that

edit: ah shit i forgot there was already a bill murray thread. well, i guess this kind of is too now.

[Inlander]

type

And now it's an installation.

Don't criticise it just because you don't understand it, you philistine.

[KvP]

i think this belongs here more than it does in the pointless thread

basically i know bill murray is probably creepy and all, but he is also never going to make me stop loving him and i think i have to just accept that

edit: ah shit i forgot there was already a bill murray thread. well, i guess this kind of is too now.

That chick from the Daily Show is good in this video. Curiously, she is not good on the Daily Show.

I mean COME ON!

[squawk]

Gob you are not helping me resist this ever growing temptation to blow off finals and instead have an Arrested Development marathon, which is something I've been longing to do for oh so long

[Inlander]

Resist the temptation! It's just another one of his tricks!

[KvP]

It's not my trick, harry,

IT'S MY ILLUSION!

Also, catch me on the Street!

[Patrick]

Man I can't blame George Michael, Maeby is hella cute.

[BrittanyMarie]

I don't watch the Daily Show due to no tv and laziness, but if you are referring to the curly haired girl, she is also on Flight of the Conchords and rules.

[Inlander]

That's Kristin Schaal. If you ever get the chance to go see her do her stand-up comedy, take it. "Stand-up" doesn't even begin to describe or do justice to how amazing and bizarre and hilarious the show that I saw her do was.

[Ozymandias]

Kristin Schaal is fantastic. She's so adorably weird.

[Jimmy the Squid]

Case in point.

I had my first real day of work at the new job today. I think it went ok. I didn't make any mistakes, that I noticed anyway, and no one got mad at me. If anything the people that rang up and asked for my help seemed reasonably satisfied. I took a significantly longer than other people to get things done but given that it is my first day I think the company will forgive me going slower and making sure I get things right. So far, I don't mind this new job at all.

[Inlander]

Case in point.

Or this (which is more indicative of the general tone of the show).

[Patrick]

Dear blog thread,

This morning my mom was a major bitch. It was her fault she was late. She didn't have to stay on her computer until 30 minutes after she usually starts to get ready, and so when I was already on the phone with my lady and she asked me to get her purse (and since we don't have a cordless) I wasn't going to just give up my conversation. I'm not responsible for my mother. If anything, it's the other way around, and even then, I am pretty damn self sufficient when I'm fucking allowed to be.

Basically I hate my life. But at least I got to annoy kids at the school today. It's worth the headache to at least get out of the house.

Love,
Me!

[0bsessions]

Oh man. Teenage life is so hard. She seriously asked you to get her purse? Bitch needs to step the fuck off.

[Jace]

So I was sitting at home the other night and my roommate asked me to take out the trash since he bought dinner and helped cover my half of the bills because I didn't have as many hours at work. He's done this type of stuff before to help me out too. But I was already deeply engrossed in an online game.

Seriously, I need to either find a new roommate and kick him out, or just move out myself.

(patrick, that is sort of what you sound like. I mean you couldn't tell your lady "hey hold on a sec while I grab something for my mom" ? I figure she'd understand.)

[0bsessions]

Honestly, I'm more concerned with the fact they don't have a cordless. How the fuck does that happen these days? A decent cordless phone costs all of ten bucks these days. Fuck, Patrick. I will BUY you a cordless phone if you promise not to bitch about your mom for stupid reasons anymore.

[Dimmukane]

I'm not sure they're all that easy to come by in Albania.  Or that they'll work properly with electrical adapters and all.

[tania]

i do not have a cordless phone because mine stopped working and i have been too lazy/in denial to buy a new one. months later it's still plugged in and i keep hoping one day it'll start ringing again, but no.

but yeah i mean putting down the phone and saying "hold on a few seconds" works pretty good too i guess. there's also this thing i do, sometimes, where i tell people "hey, i'll call you back" and then you hang up, and do a thing, and then you dial their number and you can actually call them back again! insane.

[Patrick]

Man you guys it's not just the phone. There is other shit and it is fucking constant and she's always telling me what to do with my life and not letting me ever explain myself and fuck I was just not in the mood for more of her shit. She hasn't said one nice thing to me since I got back in October, and her bossing me around and basically saying "You are responsible for my irresponsibility in making myself late this morning" was the real problem. I can put the phone down, but she can at least let me bitch about it without biting my fucking head off.

[StaedlerMars]

If the call is international (which it is from what I understand of Patrick's situation?) it's not that simple. The way some international calls work is that the connection fee is what really costs, rather than the actual time spent on the phone. Also, if she's on the other side of the world, she'll be on a different schedule, and maybe that's the only time they had to talk to each other, so just hanging up the phone isn't that simple. Long distance relationships are hard, and it is kind of important to make time for each other. If you don't make that time, it won't end well.

Also,

guys,

I'm in Northampton, MA.

What do I do now?

[0bsessions]

Kill yourself or resign yourself to an eternity of boredom and being looked down upon by hipsters.

[redglasscurls]

Meet Jeph? I dunno, I've been to a really really good vegetarian sandwich place there and there are neat shops. That's the extent of my knowledge of Northhampton, but I thought it was a pretty good place.

[tania]

see i see it as kind of how, if you want your parents to give you autonomy and treat you like an adult instead of a child, you gots to sort of set an example for them by being civil and respectful and essentially not complaining and swearing and catastrophizing every time something doesn't go your way.
everyone at some point has or will be through that developmental stage and it kind of sucks but you realize afterwords that no matter how shitty you thought your parents were treating you, most of it was probably warranted in some way. at least that was my experience. they're still absolutely insane, but since moving out i've realized i was probably really crazy and terrible to live with too. since then i've tried to calm down and now i like to think i've learned how to talk to them rationally and politely in spite of their ridiculousness and they respect me a lot more as a result of that too. you can also think of it as setting an example for someone rather than sinking to their level.

[Patrick]

Then in that case, when I am inevitably running late for work sometime next year, I will yell at Tara and treat her like shit because she didn't pour me a bowl of cereal. That is what you're saying, right?

[0bsessions]

Next year? Haven't you only been dating her like three months?

Hey, Patrick, my personal advice to you:

[Scandanavian War Machine]

next year is only a couple of weeks away.

[tania]

i am basically saying there are ways to register complaints with someone in a way that doesn't involve your life being absolutely horrible and them being terrible people. here are two examples scenarios:

#1: my fucking housemate made dinner yesterday and forgot to turn off the fucking oven. what the fuck is wrong with her? she's such an ungrateful bitch, i fucking do everything around here, i don't understand why she can't remember something as simple as that. i told her about it and she got all fucking angry at me, so i told her to fuck off. fuck her, she's a fucking bitch.

#2: my housemate made dinner yesterday and forgot to turn off the oven. i told her about this and asked if she could try to remember next time. she got angry at me and told me to stop patronizing her. i apologized and calmly explained that wasn't my intention, that i just thought it might be something she'd want to know. so she apologized too and things were awesome.

the first one kind of sounds like the majority of your blog posts, the second is i think maybe a better way to go about solving problems. i know the point of this thread is to get things off your chest but sometimes i wonder how much good all that anger and frustration and swearing is actually doing. sometimes the best thing you can do is just stay calm and rational (not the same thing as letting people push you around, it just means keeping your cool and seeing both sides of the situation) and eventually others will pick up on that and follow your example.

[Jace]

No, she's saying there's no need for you to get all fired up, even if your mother does.

This. The best way to make someone realize they are being ridiculous and stupid in an argument is to not let it escalate to the level that you are cursing and making a fuss. Take a step back and say "hey, maybe you should have gotten everything together before you sat on the computer." Don't be sarcastic, just be level headed. When she yells at you and tells you what to do, be very calm and say "Well, its my life, and while you have your opinions, that doesn't fit with who I want to be"

Or something like that. Ever since I stopped getting irrationally angry at my parents getting mad at me, we have had a lot better relationship. It's become more of a "Jace, what the hell?" and I say "I know, but listen, this is why I did this (point a, b, c)" AND THEN IT ALL WORKS OUT BECAUSE WE ALL ACT LIKE FUCKING ADULTS.

[De_El]

I'm in Northampton, MA.

What do I do now?

Buy music from Turn It Up! It is a really cool local record store there.

[tania]

yeah honestly, the best way you can make someone feel ridiculous and sack up (in a good way) is by not sinking to their level. i got pretty lucky in that i have an amazing group of friends who are all really intelligent, mature, amazing people and anytime i find myself getting really angry or frustrated with them or around them they'll listen, and wait until i'm done, and then calmly respond with "hey tania, i completely understand, but you don't need to yell" or something along those lines and it is pretty much the perfect way to de-escalate the whole thing because it makes me realize how ridiculous i'm being. if they responded by thinking "what a bitch! i'm going to yell back even louder!" i doubt that would make any difference because when you get angry the whole point is that you're not thinking rationally, you're just being insane and trying to hurt the other person as much as possible.

[Patrick]

Next year? Haven't you only been dating her like three months?

Hey, Patrick, my personal advice to you:

(yellow light)

You know the nice thing about plans? They can be changed. My personal advice to you: get your nose the fuck out of my relationships.

Guys, this is a blog thread. Do you know what blogs are for? They're for venting frustration where nobody really has to give a shit what's said. You get your stupidity and anger and frustration and sadness out, you maintain civility toward any of the human causes of any of the above feelings, and you get on with your life. I don't need anybody telling me how immature I'm being. I know exactly how immature I'm being. This is why people throw away their journals after a year or so, they go back and they realize "God damn I was being a (negative adjective) fuckskull that day, god, how embarrassing". They can then make a mental note to work on that undesirable personality trait.

I can work on this shit on my own time. I don't need advice. If I feel like I do, I will damned well ask for it. And yeah, I realize you're probably going to think I'm a stubborn little prick for it. I am aware of that and do not care, I never asked for advice anyway. I just wanted to get some simple fucking frustration out of my system. Making a discussion out of shitty things that have happened during my day is just going to piss me off more, it's not going to turn me to your method of doing things. My innate personality flaws are practically glowing bright red in the back of my mind, and my short temper (inherited from both of my parents) is the shiniest. I do what I can to fix this shit. In the mean time, I've got to get my frustration out somewhere, and since guitar strings get expensive if you strum them to death quickly enough, writing about it is a much better and often more effective alternative.

What none of you realize is that I've gone back and apologized to my mom for being a dickhead this morning. What none of you realize is that I have made that kind of thing a habit within the last year. I have a short temper but I also have a conscience. I believe in at very least attempting to regain not just the respect of the people I've fucked things up with, but also my own self-respect in knowing that you know what, I at least had the balls to admit I did something stupid.

Thanks for your concern, all of you, but seriously, keep the grey-in-the-beard bullshit down with me.

[redglasscurls]

You're still being kinda prick-y I thought you were super nice when we met! I hope you are still that nice!

[0bsessions]

Patrick, if you don't want peoples' opinions on your situation, get a real blog instead of posting your situation to a public forum. You may not WANT opinions or advice, but you're going to get them when you post them in public. Nobody's harassing you or trying to piss you off, but really, what's the point of a blog thread if it's just a bunch of us ranting, raving and commiserating in no real direction without any active discussion resulting from it?

You ever hear the old adage "I will treat you like an adult when you start acting like an adult?" That's kind of what we have here.

[Hat]

I am going to be a real dick about all the petty opinions this thread gets used as a dump for now to prove how ridiculous you are all being about this.

[Hat]

No wait I am not going to do that at all because that would make me a total dick

PS Still drunk at 6am, I need to find some beers and cook up some breakfast because it is not cool that I can't get to sleep

[Patrick]

You ever hear the old adage "I will treat you like an adult when you start acting like an adult?" That's kind of what we have here.

Whatever you fucking say, Daddy Dearest.

[0bsessions]

Hostility in response to a genuine and sincere piece of advice.

You sure are bucking the teenage stereotype you're exemplifying in this thread, Patrick.

[Lines]

Guys, shut up. Seriously.

[Hat]

no you shut up

[benji]

Man, this thread has gone down hill today.

EDIT to contribute: I've had a cold for about 2 weeks now, and it's one of those really obnoxious ones that makes you feel healthy for a few days and then comes back like a ton of bricks.

In one of my healthier spells this last Saturday, I went to see Bela Fleck and the Flecktones play a holiday concert. The Flecktones + Tuvan Throught Singers = Awesome concert.

[tania]

mostly i think there is a difference between occasional venting and near-constant raging, the former being sort of okay and healthy and the latter setting off a lot of serious red flags (to me, anyway). but i guess i'll shut up too.

[Tyler]

Dear blog thread,

I caught a flying squirrel in my chimney!




Can we just talk about how adorable this is?

-Tyler