I miss Bill Waterson.
Happy Singles Awareness Day, everyone!
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I miss Bill Waterson.
I hope everyone had a good Anna Howard Shaw Day!
It started out meh (too long and too many boring stuff in classes) but Orange Milano Cookies, Russel Stover chocolates, a Milky Way, some sodas, a good book, and the iPod playing my faves...all make a perfect party-for-one on Anna Howard Shaw Day.
Especially since there is nothing actually romantic about Valentine's Day, which is just an excuse to sell candy and cards and flowers. Real romance is 24/7/365.
That being said:
And to add to that ...
"Romance is dead. It was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece." -Lisa Simpson
"Romance is dead. It was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece." -Lisa Simpson
I have never been a big fan of Valentines Day with its over-commercialism and consumerism. Instead of celebrating love and togetherness it has morphed into another day of buying crap to express empty sentiment.
So to combat the dreaded "Hallmark Holiday" I have chosen to celebrate an alternative to love, Science Fiction. Instead of idolizing a single simple human emotion, I like honoring the drive and endurance of the human spirit, our indelible quest to obtain knowledge and understanding of our universe, and ultimately ourselves. So, when the rest of you pass around chocolates and cards, I choose to celebrate the ideas and ground-breaking themes of Clarke, Asimov, Heinlein, Bradbury, Sagan and Vern. I watch or read about Flash Gordon, Superman, Buffy, Robbie the Robot, Kirk, Spock, Morpheus, Deckard, Doctor Who, Muad'Dib, Ellie Arroway, Doc Brown, John Sheridan, Wonder Woman, Mal Reynolds and Luke Skywalker.
I also find it a great time to indulge myself in the most horrible third rate SciFi films, a little low-brow to go with the high-brow.
Recently I have been seriously considering creating a website to help the newbies celebrate the day properly and to get the word out. It would include e-cards, movie and book lists and a wealth of historical information on the subject. I would love to make SciFi day as popular as Festivus!
So... HAPPY SCIENCE FICTION DAY!
So, my team played our third night of dodgeball tonight...
Did you win?
Of course not! I never win on Valentine's Day!
Did you win?
Of course not! I never win on Valentine's Day!
OMG WTF THIS IS AWESOME WHERE IS THIS WEB SITE AND WHY DID YOU NOT TELL US EARLIER?!?!?!?
I have never been a big fan of Valentines Day with its over-commercialism and consumerism. Instead of celebrating love and togetherness it has morphed into another day of buying crap to express empty sentiment.
So to combat the dreaded "Hallmark Holiday" I have chosen to celebrate an alternative to love, Science Fiction. Instead of idolizing a single simple human emotion, I like honoring the drive and endurance of the human spirit, our indelible quest to obtain knowledge and understanding of our universe, and ultimately ourselves. So, when the rest of you pass around chocolates and cards, I choose to celebrate the ideas and ground-breaking themes of Clarke, Asimov, Heinlein, Bradbury, Sagan and Vern. I watch or read about Flash Gordon, Superman, Buffy, Robbie the Robot, Kirk, Spock, Morpheus, Deckard, Doctor Who, Muad'Dib, Ellie Arroway, Doc Brown, John Sheridan, Wonder Woman, Mal Reynolds and Luke Skywalker.
Now I'm sad because I didn't get any chocolate.
Many of us guys are conditioned to NOT give chocolate. If we do, we run the risk of being accused of 1) thinking our girlfriends or wives look fat, or 2) trying to make them BE fat. 
I've never celebrated Valentine's Day.
On the flip side, February 14th happens to be my half-birthday. I'm 23.5!
On the flip side, February 14th happens to be my half-birthday. I'm 23.5!
^ Be glad your birthday isn't February 29, otherwise you'd be...6? 
Ah, yes. I often forget it's possible to be born on Leap Year. It almost seems... impossible. Somehow.
Man. Those people.
Man. Those people.
Many of us guys are conditioned to NOT give chocolate. If we do, we run the risk of being accused of 1) thinking our girlfriends or wives look fat, or 2) trying to make them BE fat.
Are you saying my husband didn't give me chocolate because he thinks I'm fat??!?
Just teasing!
Funnily enough, 24th of July 365 AD occurred at the time of Roman emperor Valens. So it was literally Valens's time.
Funnily enough, 24th of July 365 AD occurred at the time of Roman emperor Valens. So it was literally Valens's time.
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