December 18, 2003

Justify Your Love: You are an unprincipled, spoiled, conceited brat! It's the Holidays. What are You doing to be good during the one time of year you're somewhat supposed to?
posted by anonymous 20 years ago
  • hmmm. not brushing you back for your aggressive finger-pointing?
  • I figured when I got to be this old, I'd have saved the world from . . I dunno polio or shark attacks or something. So this nutty koo-koo holiday comes around every year and I think "oh yeah - do good . . right, riiiiight". I'm not that old yet, but caricature is in the eye of the beholder, right? I didn't cheat on any tests. I recycle. Umm . . if I was in the woods, I'd tread lightly and take only pictures. I'm working on the rest. (on Preview: I wasn't finger pointing Dizzy - . . . okay I was. Hogaaaaaaan!!)
  • Please forgive my knee-jerk jerkiness, PB---obviously your provocative post touched a nerve in me, too. Yet you aptly bring up two issues I wrestle with more each passing year: 1) I'm a loyal, mostly good, tax-paying, recycling, mostly follow-the-rules kind of person. I even use "person" in a sentence like the previous, lest I offend a female reader. I'm on top of it. I say "please" and "thankyou" and I mean it. So WHY aren't my efforts returned by a kind and caring earth? And--- 2) I thought I'd be MUCH further ahead in my career by now. Others do shitty work and everybody ADORES them. Why can't I be recognized for MY efforts, damnit?\ So. At 41 I haven't got it all figured out yet, but what I do answer myself each time these arguments come up is, for #1: This earth owes me nothing. Those people OWE me NOTHING. I hope I'm saying "please and thank you" because that is how I WISH to be treated, and because it just feels GOOD to be kind. (Most of the time. Sometimes I'm a terrible shit. I'm human.) ...and for #2: Yes, it does suck, but it would feel LESS sucky if only I'd stop COMPARING MYSELF to OTHERS all the time. Just do my own good work and that is good. (Mostly.Often I'm reeeaaalllyy jealous. I'm human.) So. my lecture endeth. Thank you for letting me vent a bit, pb. Pretty cool post, my friend.
  • Aw, Diz, vent all you want; we loves ya! Here, have some eggnog.
  • Thanks CM! Wow, this tastes a little bit like.. (cue commercial)
  • Wow, this tastes a little bit like.. As Mishima noted in The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea, glory is bitter stuff.
  • I've already saved the world, distracting Dizzy from his secret master plan to take over it by making that timely Jim Loy post... ...but I really just want my Pop-tarts.
  • Has anyone ever seen Banana Pop-Tarts? And have we written the 'MoFi's Favorite Things' song yet? It could start: "Pop-Tarts in toasters and Jim Loy's wegpages..."
  • i like to volunteer. there are all kinds of great organizations that need your help. i'm a case manager for this group, and i also lend a hand here. in fact, i'm volunteering at the hospital on christmas day! find a worthy cause and give your time and enthusiasm, you won't regret it!
  • Twice a month, I pass out paychecks to my co-workers. I like to think of myself as a year-round Santa Claus.
  • CheekyMonkey--- Line 2: "New Zealand hosters and rattling cages..."
  • Line 3: Loading the home page and waiting for ages ...
  • But, but, but, i thought this comment thread was going to be about Mozart?! What's with the quotes, petebest?
  • Cheeky and Mickey--how does one rhyme line three with "bu du du du du du favorite things?" that was theoretically line four of the julie Andrews song? I'm all hinky.
  • Ack! I'm the one who messed it up - REVISED Line 3: Egg nog on french toast and Kimberly's string ...
  • "CheekyMonkey, wet mop on aisle seven!..."
  • *slides around corner with mop bucket*
  • Ok, so, can we squeak through by losing a syllable by device? These are a few of MoFi's fav'rite things
  • Oh, oh and I think we should use Mickey's page line somewhere in the bridge: As the page loads! *realizes she's singing into mop handle, quietly goes back to work*
  • Lemmee take it on home: "When no comments come, And I f-e-e-l berserker.. I simply remember my primatey pals And know I won't be A Lurker... please feel free to tweak. we need more verses, too,
  • When no comments And a ghurka And response don't scan I simply remember my favourite things And grab a huge hit Of skag -----aauyuh!
  • Wolof-- I'm getting all misty. That was beautiful, bro. Multiple Pop-Tart Action!
  • Congratulations, you're all getting lumps of coal and voice lessons this Xmas (even the Jews).
  • Lumps of LURVE.
  • you're all getting lumps of coal At least back in the day, you could use that for some heat. How about modernizing it. Instead of lumps of coal, give a handful of partially used AA batteries?