80% of something is better than 100% of nothing.

[judecorp]

I would really really like any and all self-labeled (and self-respecting) Lefties, Liberals, Progressives, etc. to take a few moments before November and read THIS ARTICLE. (Thanks to my very smart smurfbrother for the link to this new info source.)

And in other news, 'stina did this neat meme-ish thing and I'm going to copy her now. Because I'm LIKE THAT. Just see if you can stop me.

Pick an interest from my interest list that you either:
1) don't know anything about
-or-
2) can't understand why I would dig it.

Then I'll tell you all about it.

Now is also time to ask me any and all burning questions you've been dying to know about me, you've been craving answers to, or you would like me to write about. (Desperate times call for desperate writing-spurring measures.)

To the Batmobile!

Comments

[drainbead.livejournal.com]

I read that article earlier today. It's a good one.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

So far, everything I've read on that site is good, if for nothing more than to stir up some shit in my head. That's always a good thing.

[humanbeatbox.livejournal.com]

I don't know why you or anyone else would dig Moxie.

[vorpalbla.livejournal.com]

OK, say something about "keroppi".
A band? Someone's last name?

Inquiring minds wanna know

[hazelpeach.livejournal.com]

What's $240 worth of pudding? A band? A Book? Something that you actually did buy?

[scottopic.livejournal.com]

I tried it for the first time last month.

It still burns.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Because it is SO DELICIOUS.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Good, more for me. I LOVE IT!

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Keroppi is one of the Hello Kitty characters by Sanrio (http://www.sanrio.com). He's the lttle green frog:

Re: Inquiring minds wanna know

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

There used to be this comedy show on MTV called "The State." And one of their funniest skits was about $240 worth of pudding.

You can read the dialogue here. (http://www.floatingmonkeys.com/mt/blog/kpl/000228.html)

Re: Inquiring minds wanna know

[hazelpeach.livejournal.com]

Ooooooohhhh.. And I wasn't even close. :) Thanks for sharing!

Re: Inquiring minds wanna know

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

No problem.

[kungfoogirl.livejournal.com]

Since someone already asked about the only thing on your list I don't quite get (the pudding), I will just take this time to say hello.

Chunk says hello, too.

(Hope things are well. I miss talking to you and Jen.)

[katy-kate.livejournal.com]

I'm curious about Hothead Paisan.

I am glad to see Dar Williams on your list. I was just convincing a friend that he ought to give her a good listening to that she's good stuff.

-Katy

[humanbeatbox.livejournal.com]

By "delicious" you mean "10W-30", yes?

Re: Inquiring minds wanna know

[humanbeatbox.livejournal.com]

Lavon! The mothership!

[humanbeatbox.livejournal.com]

I think it still comes in those cans you can pull the tab all the way off of. They had a few left at the warehouse.

[rizzo41.livejournal.com]

It was hard to pick something off your list since it is so peppered with Very Silly Things (Turd Fergeson), so I picked something that has always boggled me about you. I never ever understood your fascination with Jack Kerouak.

And because I'm a schmuck and keep forgetting to call at a decent hour:
How big is the thing and what method were you going to use to send it?

Re: Inquiring minds wanna know

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

I knew you would jump in. Awwwwwh yeah!

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[humanbeatbox.livejournal.com]

I LOOK LIKE A F**KING BLUEBERRY!!

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[judecorp.livejournal.com]

The monkeys, they make-a love.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

I would disagree emphatically, except that the "10W-30" comment is too effing funny!

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Hello to you, Captain Chunk, Scout, and Pixel. :)

Re: Inquiring minds wanna know

[humanbeatbox.livejournal.com]

WHERE'S THE MOUSY?!

[tetonkid.livejournal.com]

pirates?

Off subject...but....

[prettyvacantone.livejournal.com]

I think I fixed my pictures messing up your friends list. It seems to be a bug in the LJ style you use, but I fixed it in case other people who have me friended also use that style.

[michael622.livejournal.com]

Curiosity strikes - what is the 8-ball meeper?

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Hothead Paisan, Homicidal Lesbian Terrorist (http://www.hotheadpaisan.com/), is the heroine of a comic by Diane DiMassa. I'm not a really big fan of comics, and I actually have a hard time reading comics (because I get all distracted and annoyed, I guess), but Hothead always cracks me up.

If that's the sort of thing you would enjoy, I definitely recommend checking it out.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Turd Ferguson, it's a funny name!

My brother gave me a copy of On the Road when I graduated from high school, and it had a big impact on me. Kerouac has a lot of interest in mysticism, buddhism, and eastern thought, and this is very evident in his subject matter, so I get a lot out of reading his experiences.

Also, I love that his work is autobiograhical, but shrouded in story and exaggerated. It's like you only see the good parts, or if you see the bad parts, they're painted as not so bad. It's like looking at chaos but knowing that everything will end with peace, which for me is an important life lesson. Kerouac really used his words to drag the complacent world of the 1950s and early 1960s kicking and screaming into a world peppered by change, action, adventure, and experience. Jack Kerouac would never have sat quietly enduring a job he hated. Instead, he would get in a car and shake things up. I can really admire that.

I also really like the writing style: jumbled stream-of-consciousness. He writes like I think - scattered, very run-on and with no clear focus. Perhaps that's what makes him hard to read for some people. But it's also very honest and very raw. He has a book called Visions of Gerard which is written about his baby brother who died in childhood, and even all those years later, the pain is very real and very close to the surface. In a similar way that I loved Wally Lamb's She's Come Undone, I like the way that Kerouac's books can tap directly into my emotions.

~//~

As for the thing, I think it will come FedEx, but hopefully it won't need a signature.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Oh, come on, how can you not like pirates? :) They're just so... piratey! Arrrrrrr!

~//~

So this pirate walks into a bar. The bartender says, "Hey, doesn't it bother you to have that steering wheel attached to your pants?" The pirate replies, "Arrrrr! It's drivin' me nuts!"

Re: Off subject...but....

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

You're so good to me. That sucks that my style is getting in the way. Isn't that always the way it is? I just have so much style. Rowr.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

The 8-ball meeper is my friend happy2beso. She used to say, "Meep!" all the time as an exclamation of surprise or shock. Well, she also used to have this one userpic of an 8-ball (not a Magic 8-Ball, just an 8-ball).

One day, in a fit of silliness, she went to about 100 random journals, and commented on the top entry. She changed her name to "the 8-ball meeper" and commented "Meep!" on every one. That always cracked me up. It became a bit of a running joke.

[goddamnelf.livejournal.com]

Perhaps I will ask the all to obvious question. What the hell is the deal with the Smurfs? I mean, a society dominated by males, with the exploitation of the single female? Constantly pursued by the man, and of course the man's cat. Is it a desire to go topless, or to be blue, or to wear a funny hat? Perhaps to get away with wearing footy pajamas all the time without anyone noticing. Tell us oh, smurf chick, collector of smurf stuff, knower of smurf facts!!

[rizzo41.livejournal.com]

FedEx needs a signature. =\

As Kerouac, I guess I just don't get it. I can appreciate his style of writing, that it was new and different and that he did get people thinking. But the whole time I read On the Road all I could think was 'this guy is such a fuckin' dick. I want to punch him in the head.' It's been a long time since I read it, so I should probably read it again before trying to make an intelligent argument, but I remember just being boggled that this guy drove around the country being a big jerk-ass and everyone loved him anyway.

[cfred.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I wanna be a pirate too!

Arrr! Arrr! ... Aiiiipr!

:)

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Wrong! Back to pirate training with you, C.Fred!

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Hrm. I will get this sent to you one way or another! :)

And you're right, Dean Moriarty was a total asshole who basically used people left and right, but he had /something/ that made him attractive and likable to all those people. I think what that thing was was that he was /alive/.

I think so many of us are so hung up on doing what's right or acceptable or expected or good or whatever and a lot of us are just plain miserable for it. We see someone that /looks/ happy, no matter how dickish, and part of us is drawn to that.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Well, I don't really know how the smurf thing started. I mean, when I was a little kid, I liked the smurfs. No big deal, everyone liked the smurfs. ANd I can't even say I liked them more than other kids. So I had some smurf figurines.

And then when I got older, I got a couple more. My dad collects old toys and frequents yard sales and junk shops, so he got me more. And then I got more. And then it sort of became a "thing," something people could get me if they didn't know what else... and I ran with it. I have no idea.

And now I have so damned much smurf stuff. Heh. Personally, gender aside, I like the good communist lessons of the smurfs.