A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall
Everytime there is some catastrophic event in the news, I find it very hard to blog. I don't have anything original or helpful to say and I feel powerless. Whatever I could say about the poor people of the Gulf Coast and the embarassing government response and the inherent racism involved and the Bush administration's policies that led directly to this terrible tragedy isn't going to help anyone and I'm not the most qualified person to do so. All I can say is that I've spent the past week either being overwhelmed with sadness and anger or feeling guilty that I'm going on about my regular life and not feeling anger and sadness every minute of every day for the people of New Orleans and the surrounding areas.
So it feels a little hollow and ridiculous to blog about the usual bullshit that I write about, but since I have no commentary to add to the din here in the blogosphere, I will do just that. Though, if you are interested in reading more about the hurricane and how the damage is a direct result of the policies of the Bush White House, check out this article. It made me so mad when I read it at the office on Thursday, that I could barely work!
So.....I don't quite know the proper segue, but here is the other stuff that's been on my mind this week:
1) I am so excited for the season premier of Arrested Development on the 19th! I've been rationing out the episodes on my season one DVD, which I just finished watching this afternoon (because I have an article to write, so I clearly needed to procrastinate!). The best part of the DVD is listening to the audio commentary by the cast. They all seem to really like each other and they had all of these inside jokes and favorite parts and it really made me miss being in a cast. I mean, my "acting muscles" have all attrophied and the thought of auditioning in front of people now terrifies me (when it used to excite me), but I do miss the comeraderie of it. It's certainly NOT like a newsroom. But I must say, I don't think that I would feel this jealous if it weren't the cast of AD--I mean who wouldn't want to have inside jokes with Jessica Walter or David Cross. It was exceptionally cute when Portia outted the girl who plays her daughter by admitting that in the pilot when she kisses "George Michael" that was her first kiss ever!
2) The Kanye crush grows every day. He is on the cover of Blender, looking dapper in a full white suit. FOXY! You know how much I love Kanye? So much that I even really like the track "Heard 'Em Say" even though it features my nemesis, Adam Levine from Maroon 5.
3) I realized that I love copy editors. I was always kind of freaked out by them because they are so detail-oriented and obsessed with punctuation and they can be short or mean because they are so focused. But at work the nicest people (the ones who've made an attempt to be friendly) are the copy editors. And I kind of admire their strict precision. (As anyone who reads this blog can attest, I am lazy and careless with my grammar!) Plus this week, which was kinda a doozy at work, I got the nicest compliment ever from the copy department. One girl told me that I reminded her of "that girl from Sleater-Kinney" and then the whole department was like, "Oh yeah, you totally look like her." Now, there was some confusion as to WHICH girl from Sleater-Kinnney I look like (Carrie or Corin--though Shaya says it must be Corin and weirdly the only resemblance I see is that I have Janet's haircute!) it doesn't really matter because either way it's a huge compliment. No one has ever told me I look like a celebrity. Whenever we play that, "which famous person do you most resemble game," I always have to say, "No one."
4) Last night I was at Palais Royale and I learned how to play darts. Carrie was surprised that after a year of living in England and spending all my time getting wasted in pubs with cute guys with accents that I never learned. Let's just say I don't have the best hand-eye coordination. But, surprisingly, I wasn't that bad. I mean, Carrie won, but it wasn't an embarassing defeat and almost all of my darts landed on the board. The key is that I have no aim, so whatever I'm aiming for I won't hit. That way, I just aim for something NEXT to what I want to hit and my dart'll go there every time. I can't wait to play again! I hope this will redeem my poor pub game skills (I suck at pool, I don't like video games--the only machine I'm good at working in a bar, is the jukebox!).
5) I learned this week that, though it is time consuming, it is totally worth it to upload all of your box set CDS (for example the "Peel Slowly and See" set by the Velvet Underground) to your computer and onto your iPod. You'll be happy when you're on the subway and you don't want to hear, say, "Galang" for the 500th time, that you can listen to alternate live takes of "All Tomorrow's Parties."
Well, as of Thursday I'm off to the Toronto film fest, so this will probably be the last post for like the next 10 days or so. Try not to have to much fun without me.
So it feels a little hollow and ridiculous to blog about the usual bullshit that I write about, but since I have no commentary to add to the din here in the blogosphere, I will do just that. Though, if you are interested in reading more about the hurricane and how the damage is a direct result of the policies of the Bush White House, check out this article. It made me so mad when I read it at the office on Thursday, that I could barely work!
So.....I don't quite know the proper segue, but here is the other stuff that's been on my mind this week:
1) I am so excited for the season premier of Arrested Development on the 19th! I've been rationing out the episodes on my season one DVD, which I just finished watching this afternoon (because I have an article to write, so I clearly needed to procrastinate!). The best part of the DVD is listening to the audio commentary by the cast. They all seem to really like each other and they had all of these inside jokes and favorite parts and it really made me miss being in a cast. I mean, my "acting muscles" have all attrophied and the thought of auditioning in front of people now terrifies me (when it used to excite me), but I do miss the comeraderie of it. It's certainly NOT like a newsroom. But I must say, I don't think that I would feel this jealous if it weren't the cast of AD--I mean who wouldn't want to have inside jokes with Jessica Walter or David Cross. It was exceptionally cute when Portia outted the girl who plays her daughter by admitting that in the pilot when she kisses "George Michael" that was her first kiss ever!
2) The Kanye crush grows every day. He is on the cover of Blender, looking dapper in a full white suit. FOXY! You know how much I love Kanye? So much that I even really like the track "Heard 'Em Say" even though it features my nemesis, Adam Levine from Maroon 5.
3) I realized that I love copy editors. I was always kind of freaked out by them because they are so detail-oriented and obsessed with punctuation and they can be short or mean because they are so focused. But at work the nicest people (the ones who've made an attempt to be friendly) are the copy editors. And I kind of admire their strict precision. (As anyone who reads this blog can attest, I am lazy and careless with my grammar!) Plus this week, which was kinda a doozy at work, I got the nicest compliment ever from the copy department. One girl told me that I reminded her of "that girl from Sleater-Kinney" and then the whole department was like, "Oh yeah, you totally look like her." Now, there was some confusion as to WHICH girl from Sleater-Kinnney I look like (Carrie or Corin--though Shaya says it must be Corin and weirdly the only resemblance I see is that I have Janet's haircute!) it doesn't really matter because either way it's a huge compliment. No one has ever told me I look like a celebrity. Whenever we play that, "which famous person do you most resemble game," I always have to say, "No one."
4) Last night I was at Palais Royale and I learned how to play darts. Carrie was surprised that after a year of living in England and spending all my time getting wasted in pubs with cute guys with accents that I never learned. Let's just say I don't have the best hand-eye coordination. But, surprisingly, I wasn't that bad. I mean, Carrie won, but it wasn't an embarassing defeat and almost all of my darts landed on the board. The key is that I have no aim, so whatever I'm aiming for I won't hit. That way, I just aim for something NEXT to what I want to hit and my dart'll go there every time. I can't wait to play again! I hope this will redeem my poor pub game skills (I suck at pool, I don't like video games--the only machine I'm good at working in a bar, is the jukebox!).
5) I learned this week that, though it is time consuming, it is totally worth it to upload all of your box set CDS (for example the "Peel Slowly and See" set by the Velvet Underground) to your computer and onto your iPod. You'll be happy when you're on the subway and you don't want to hear, say, "Galang" for the 500th time, that you can listen to alternate live takes of "All Tomorrow's Parties."
Well, as of Thursday I'm off to the Toronto film fest, so this will probably be the last post for like the next 10 days or so. Try not to have to much fun without me.
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