Trajectory

Politics: What not to do #6

Apparently "don't talk with your mouth full" needs an addendum. Don't refuse to answer questions from the press because you're too busy eating a cookie. 

 

Quotable Quotes

From one of my dearest friends:

In traffic: "Go ahead, I'm a nice person. Get your bitch ass in there and MOVE."

On why she didn't ask her IT ex to help her with her computer: "Uh, because you're a clingy bastard. I don't want you falling in love again because then I'll have to put up with you!"

Squirrel logic: drugs

 

Politics: What not to do #5

Don't parody the Old Spice viral videos to get attention for your campaign.

I'm not sure what's more ridiculous- the fact that I have to tell you people not to do it or the fact that several of you have done it.

 

 

A journey into imagination

Dear Hollywood,

You suck at coming up with new ideas... especially when it comes to horror movies. Between H. P. Lovecraft and Rod Serling, it's all been done. Hell, even The Matrix was a Twilight Zone episode (though not in the original series). Get some new ideas, or better yet - find another Lovecraft/Serling.

xoxo,

Archer

 

are you f'ing kidding me?

It's time that we have a serious talk. People need to stop making up stupid words. 

Cray cray for Crazy? Slore of Slut/whore? All of this nonsense with the twitter and facebook terminology? Really?

I was looking up something online about AP Style and there was a page with what people wanted to be added to the new edition of the AP Stylebook. Some were legitimate-- I can understand wanting to change "Web site" to "website" and "e-mail" to "email" and take out the need to explain that a blog is a web log on first reference since these are internet terms that have been around for many many years now.

But where are they going to draw the line?

"Friending" and "Unfriending" are not verbs. Googling is not a verb. Twittering vs. Tweeting? LOL, LMFAO, BRB, all of these little internet/text abbreviations... Really? And I swear, the next person who says "cray cray" around me is getting SMACKED UPSIDE THE HEAD. STOP IT! 

If any of this nonsense makes it into the next AP Stylebook... ugh. Imagine the headlines

"OMG WTF? AZ passes new immigration law"

"Unfriending results in double homicide" (orly? cray cray!)

"California woman sues former bff over slore tweet"

We need to keep this crap out of newspapers, term papers and professional e-mails and keep it quarantined in the domains of our silly social Web sites.

 

self preservation

For being so evolved as a species, how is it possible that we've lost our basic instincts? I understand why people would choose to ignore their gut instincts-- they can reason and justify themselves out of most fear and apprehensions. What I can't figure out is what's happened to the survival instinct. How is it that so many choose to harm themselves? Drugs, alcohol, self-mutilation, suicide... shouldn't a person's instincts kick in at some point in order to survive? The saddest part is that so many of these harmful habits make the person "feel alive" while doing the exact opposite to their bodies.