Stompy has taken up step aerobics.
Hey, did TV go away? Wasn't that supposed to happen in February? After four years of panicky advertisements and converter-box-related brainwashing, I vaguely remember something about the demise of analog. I didn't hear of any deaths resulting from it, so I guess it didn't happen. Huh.
I've been thinking about taking up Twitter. But then I remember that I have a blog that I neglect way too much, and think that maybe taking up another medium would be foolish. But then I think that perhaps all of my ideas are small enough that Twitter is the better venue for them.
I read something today (or yesterday, spring break tends to bleeeeeed) about how silly vegetarians are who wear leather shoes because duh, leather comes from dead animals. And yeah, totally, I swore off leather shoes for the first four years I was a vegetarian, but people, do you know how hard it is to find decent non-leather shoes? Yeah, if I didn't mind looking like a fourth grader, I could buy a lifetime supply of canvas Keds and be done with it, but that's actually not a viable footwear choice in any kind of professional realm.
I find it interesting how people demand ideological purity from the people who are trying in good faith to wage some kind of protest, however token, against the way things run. Like this other thing I read with a person complaining about logging practices, and the response OH YEAH WELL HAVE YOU EVER USED A PIECE OF PAPER, YES, SO WTF DO YOU THINK YOU'RE COMPLAINING ABOUT LOSER. Yes. I've used a piece of paper. It's called being alive in the age of direct marketing. Hell, even people who have died still get junk mail. That's not really the point, is it? Shouldn't it be alarming on some level how difficult it is to opt out of anything?
Like, if Al Gore believes in global warming, how dare he expend fossil fuel for transportation!!??!1. What exactly is that argument supposed to prove? Is Al Gore supposed to build an airplane that runs on water before he can travel to a symposium on global warming? (Sorry, climate change. No, shite, wait, which one is the one that people who believe in it are supposed to use?)
I wonder if it's just that ideological purity, being impossible, is a convenient way of ignoring the protest altogether. So we don't have to take you seriously or consider your ideas unless you're a dirt farmer living in an electricity-less hut you built out of sticks and mud, weaving your clothes out of wild-growing, pesticide-free grasses. We all know how much respect those members of society get.
Anyway.
This week I got to put to use my two years of reading convoluted theory regarding the creation of the subject. That was yay. But kind of the only thing it's good for is reading more convoluted theory. I wish it were worth monies.
I've been thinking about taking up Twitter. But then I remember that I have a blog that I neglect way too much, and think that maybe taking up another medium would be foolish. But then I think that perhaps all of my ideas are small enough that Twitter is the better venue for them.
I read something today (or yesterday, spring break tends to bleeeeeed) about how silly vegetarians are who wear leather shoes because duh, leather comes from dead animals. And yeah, totally, I swore off leather shoes for the first four years I was a vegetarian, but people, do you know how hard it is to find decent non-leather shoes? Yeah, if I didn't mind looking like a fourth grader, I could buy a lifetime supply of canvas Keds and be done with it, but that's actually not a viable footwear choice in any kind of professional realm.
I find it interesting how people demand ideological purity from the people who are trying in good faith to wage some kind of protest, however token, against the way things run. Like this other thing I read with a person complaining about logging practices, and the response OH YEAH WELL HAVE YOU EVER USED A PIECE OF PAPER, YES, SO WTF DO YOU THINK YOU'RE COMPLAINING ABOUT LOSER. Yes. I've used a piece of paper. It's called being alive in the age of direct marketing. Hell, even people who have died still get junk mail. That's not really the point, is it? Shouldn't it be alarming on some level how difficult it is to opt out of anything?
Like, if Al Gore believes in global warming, how dare he expend fossil fuel for transportation!!??!1. What exactly is that argument supposed to prove? Is Al Gore supposed to build an airplane that runs on water before he can travel to a symposium on global warming? (Sorry, climate change. No, shite, wait, which one is the one that people who believe in it are supposed to use?)
I wonder if it's just that ideological purity, being impossible, is a convenient way of ignoring the protest altogether. So we don't have to take you seriously or consider your ideas unless you're a dirt farmer living in an electricity-less hut you built out of sticks and mud, weaving your clothes out of wild-growing, pesticide-free grasses. We all know how much respect those members of society get.
Anyway.
This week I got to put to use my two years of reading convoluted theory regarding the creation of the subject. That was yay. But kind of the only thing it's good for is reading more convoluted theory. I wish it were worth monies.
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