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hummingwolf) wrote2004-11-17 10:40 am
hummingwolf) wrote2004-11-17 10:40 am
I Crank, Therefore I Am
Just call me Ms. Cranky McCrankypants. Yes, it's true: like anyone else in the world, when I woke up this morning I had a choice of which attitude I would take toward the day. I had the choice between irritability and despondency, and I chose irritability because it really brings out the color of my eyes. (And no, it's not PMS unless my body has decided to play yet another of its clever practical jokes.)
This would be the perfect day to decide to write a political blog, wouldn't it? Crankiness is de rigueur for the topical bloggerati, you know. Democrats are cranky because people voted for Bush even after the Democrats told them that only stupid people would ever vote for Bush. Republicans are cranky because there are still American citizens who are not singing the praises of the Great Leader (and who keep calling them stupid for voting for Bush). As a registered independent, I can wish a pox on both your houses--and mean it. Dang it, you should have voted for Howard Dean. Launchcast had an ad the other day for Yahoo! Local featuring Dean talking about his tour of the country, yelling out the names of the states he visits. I like Howie. I want to have all the other politicians and their apologists replaced with a roving band of uninhabited animatronic hand puppets, ones looking like that talking hand in the Hamburger Helper commercials. The country and the world at large would be better off with that kind of help.
And in local news, people are being petty. At least one person decided to stop being quite so petty as they could have been, but their pettiness still got into my crankiness and made a sort of satanic Reese's Cup in my mind.
Am listening to Launchcast and putting off attempting anything useful till after lunch, mostly because I feel like it won't be in the least bit useful and I will have wasted all that energy for worse than nothing. This journal entry is pure escapism, yes. It's better than pure despondency.
This would be the perfect day to decide to write a political blog, wouldn't it? Crankiness is de rigueur for the topical bloggerati, you know. Democrats are cranky because people voted for Bush even after the Democrats told them that only stupid people would ever vote for Bush. Republicans are cranky because there are still American citizens who are not singing the praises of the Great Leader (and who keep calling them stupid for voting for Bush). As a registered independent, I can wish a pox on both your houses--and mean it. Dang it, you should have voted for Howard Dean. Launchcast had an ad the other day for Yahoo! Local featuring Dean talking about his tour of the country, yelling out the names of the states he visits. I like Howie. I want to have all the other politicians and their apologists replaced with a roving band of uninhabited animatronic hand puppets, ones looking like that talking hand in the Hamburger Helper commercials. The country and the world at large would be better off with that kind of help.
And in local news, people are being petty. At least one person decided to stop being quite so petty as they could have been, but their pettiness still got into my crankiness and made a sort of satanic Reese's Cup in my mind.
Am listening to Launchcast and putting off attempting anything useful till after lunch, mostly because I feel like it won't be in the least bit useful and I will have wasted all that energy for worse than nothing. This journal entry is pure escapism, yes. It's better than pure despondency.
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You sound like you might appreciate a good round of WW3C273D?... provided you can figure it out, although I'd guess that if anyone can, it would be you. And you already read the MARZ episode that inspired it.
In case you don't feel like going all the way over to your friends list to find out what WW3C273D? is, it's "What would 3C273 do?" 3C273 is a quasar and it would do what quasars always do. Suggesting you take a quasar's priorities into consideration is about the most helpful I can be today. And, yes, I'm aware that it's not very helpful. Zephyr.
:)
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