not the theory of relativity again

[iceinyourmusic]

someone's chalked on the side-walk:
ELLA [HEART] VERONICA!

a little bit further down:
(JUST FRIENDS)

- Work felt like a never-ending Twin Peaks moment tonight; I suppose it had something to do with the combination of having slept for exactly two hours last night and having H. listening to French ladies singing on the radio in the next room. Didn't get anything done at all.

Some days I find I worry less about the things I like and more about the things I don't like. Like, today, I don't like R.E.M. Seriously: what kind of a person doesn't like R.E.M.? Freak.

Also this: reading Bujold makes me half want to chat about Bujold a lot, and I thought I'd go and try to find me one more of her books, as a treat, but I got side-tracked and ended up at the little record store buying super-cheap Placebo and The Smiths instead. And, there's a surprisingly narrow margin for the music one can buy with a straight face. One'd think that The Smiths were easier than, you know, Best of Take That, but that's only if you don't consider the other side of the matter. The side where it's, oy, poser, if you don't have all The Smiths albums by now, you have no business buying them at all. Go eat your shame; chew on it and choke...

I had a whole long post (rant) about taste and acceptability and acceptable mockery etc. from a very personal point of view, just to cheer me up a bit, but it's not very interesting. What it comes down to, though, is that if sane, normal, interested-in-normal-things non-fannish people can find it in their hearts to say "Britney? huh. well. Good for you", then certain in-fandom people whose singular obsessions we've all watched and tolerated and enabled for years and years? may just as well try to put things into some sort of a perspective. Sweethearts, bunnies, pumpkins. Pirates of the Caribbean: not so much Waiting for Godot either exactly.

- But, to top off the all-artificial whipped cream with the bright blue cocktail cherry, about this meme -

I want anyone and everyone who reads this to post in here something they would LIKE to do with me SOMEDAY.

Then post this in your journal to find out what I want to do with you.

(as seen in the journals of babylil and mazily - can you see the path all the memes have beaten on the internet coming down that exact road? I can)

- surely I can't be the only one who takes one look at it and automatically thinks (only) of about a dozen answers that are all completely inappropriate in completely different ways? The way it's worded is just so - or maybe it is just me.

First actual computer science class today, it was. The silly humanist should be a bit more afraid, I think.

Comments

[babylil.livejournal.com]

I want to go a Britney concert with you, at which we get to pick all the songs, and her outfits, so she only does the good ones and doesn't dress like an idiot.

[leksa.livejournal.com]

The best Britney concert ever!

[mazily.livejournal.com]

hmmm, i rather like your random meeting in central europe scenario, but in the interest of individuality creativity not being a complete copycat poseur type, i shall say that we should drive a pickup truck from point a to point b, after which we will find a bar that plays only the most sparkly of (pop) music and drink and smoke and discuss post-apocolyptic twincest. the end.

[leksa.livejournal.com]

ooh, post-apocalyptic twincest discussion? count me in. but, i think, it's the pick-up truck that really makes the scene. yes. i like.

[pirateyes.livejournal.com]

I would like to make paper boats with you, maybe with little red flags that wave in the breeze, and then float them out onto a lake while we talk about such things as acceptable mockery, because I imagine we'd have things to say about it. And we'd watch until the boats were out of sight, then walk away.

[leksa.livejournal.com]

you make the pretties images, but then i've already said that. like, twelve times. so i won't say it now, at all.

[mandysbitch.livejournal.com]

Sweethearts, bunnies, pumpkins. Pirates of the Caribbean: not so much Waiting for Godot either exactly.

Bwa ha! Yes! Oh yes.

Be careful where you place your hiearchies - you're bound to trip over them.

surely I can't be the only one who takes one look at it and automatically thinks (only) of about a dozen answers that are all completely inappropriate in completely different ways?

Dude. I keep looking at it thinking, gosh that sounds pervy...

Do you want me to come up with something vaguely sexual? I can, you know.

[leksa.livejournal.com]

gosh that sounds pervy...

I suspect it's the "and then find out what I want to do with you" bit that really makes it so sleazy. The SOMEDAY (IN CAPS!) is mostly just kind of menacing...

Do you want me to come up with something vaguely sexual? I can, you know.

Nah, no need. I mean, I do know that you can! I have faith in you in these matters! but mainly I'm already quite satisfied just to know that you thought about it, too.

... right.