By the end of this, it might be long, so it’s okay if you don’t want to read everything. I get wordy sometimes. I am such a Chatty-Cathy.

I hope, if you were reading the comments from the last post, that you could tell Rob and I have an awful sense of humour.

Leah said that it came-off, the post, as preachy. But that was exactly what I didn’t want. The point was how to talk about it without being preachy or making people feel awkward. What a bizarre time that it is PC to not talk about giving or helping or sharing. That might be preachy? Are we so protective of our stuff that we won’t allow for anyone to mention giving it away? I am not sure. Or we should be humble and not mention it?

Amy tagged me. Who would have thought Feminism would pick me–a list of five things feminism gave me:

1. A theoretical discourse in which to write many, many English papers.
2. An challenge of how to be a better man.
3. A step to move beyond Feminism towards gender equality–maybe someday I will be a stay-at-home dad!
4. Hairy girls to look at and other stereotypes.
5. And… (Rankin Family)

I’ll tell my ma, when I go home,
the boys won’t leave the girls alone.
They pull my hair and they stole my comb,
but that’s all right till I go home.

She is handsome, she’s so pretty,
she is the belle of Belfast city.
She is courting one, two, three…
please won’t you tell me who is she?

Website Changes…

I am going to be doing a major overhaul to my website and set it up as I initially wanted to. The main page is going to be changing and so, I don’t know if I can design it behind closed doors and then show you, but if you see things changing… just don’t look!

I am going to move towards WordPress, but I will archive all these previous posts into WP. Blogger is just too unstable. The problem with my plans for WP is that it will be actual code instead of a drag/drop program. And that will take time to learn and figure out.

WP offers easy podcasting, RSS, and lots of other nifty features. I want to move into some more creative blogging and as things get more and more settled I will be hopefully doing it a lot more. I guess that’s all I have for now.

I am sorry I haven’t posted anything lately, but I do have at least a few little ditties that I found on the internet that are interesting ways to waste time:

1. Keep it in the air! (My record is 59, but someone in my office got 124)
2. GodHatesShrimp.com (Funny!)
3. Read funny quotes from people chatting on IRC (this one is for Tracy and her Feminism ^^):

ChaosPid: She was already mad at me and she yelled “I’m gonna kill you”
ChaosPid: and I responded….
ChaosPid: “This is wierd, I swear to god I just heard you offer to make me a cake, but the words didnt match up with your lips at all……..but chocolate, I suppose.”
Curt: What’d she do?
ChaosPid: She looked like she was gonna die… left the room and then came back a few minutes later…. in a rage.
Curt: LOL.
ChaosPid: I then told her she shouldnt have left, if she wanted to go to the store to buy ingredients, she knew she would need a man to drive her to the store, and then I called her silly.

Leah and I went to the UofC’s library tonight and I got three books!!!

Since, I’m on this Thomas King kick, I got:

1. The Truth About Stories (the Massey lectures)
2. One Good Story, That One

And one I am very excited to read…

3. Robert Kroetsch – Completed Field Notes

I am working on my writing assignment…

Hopefully I will have an update for you soon/tomorrow. We will see.

Until then, look at this news article with a caution for those who love Saved By The Bell or non-disgusting things.

About four years, or so, ago I was sitting in a second year Dramaturgy class. What is dramaturgy, you might ask? Who the hell knows. Dramaturgs, or is it ists, study plays and do research for playwrites and stuff like that I believe. Anyways, this is before English, when I was still a theatre-perfomance major and I had to take the Dramaturgy class for the betterment of acting or something. The prof I had, I can’t remember her name, she wasn’t around long, but she was a nut. Lots of profs are, but this one was especially nutty. And she was obsessed with melodrama–she thought it ruled the world. I can remember sneering at her and thinking I hate melodrama, it’s so dumb. Dramatic people should be taken and thrown off a huge cliff and never come back until I am the king of the world…

I may not have thought all of that. The point I am trying to make is that I don’t think I was very in touch with myself. Because, the fact is, I love melodrama. I think it is wonderful and I agree with that nutty professor. Everyone (meaning storytellers) is quite obsessed with some sort of modern, academic truth in their stories. A cold, dark life. Well, the Soviet Union is gone so everyone can just chill out warm up and be a little more creative. Get with the post-modern melodrama or perhaps the classic version, I don’t care. I love it and you should too!

Update: I have joined Amnesty and so I put a little image on the bottom so I can appear like I am judging you for not having it and for being a very poor excuse of a human being.
Update 2: If you haven’t noticed I have been putting links in my titles. Today’s is particularly clever, not that being clever is all that and a bag of potatoes.
Update 3: I am not that hungry and I don’t particularly like Snickers, but I did just eat some lovely waffles.
Edit: I like how the Google Ads are all about George Bush and Iraq. It is suppose to sense the content of my site and put ads to match. I am guessing that joke from a couple days ago has lead to these recent ads. Humorous, no?