I wish these were my career options

Perspective

So I hear the economy sucks. At least, no matter what you've lost, you're not this bad off:

http://www.mccainblogette.com/archive/june_22_25.shtml

I am so damn tired

of every picture I post in my blog being taken down.

I think I might go buy a scanner today and start making crayola-drawings to illustrate all of my topics from now on.

For example, if I wanted to say something about planting trees, or saving the forest, or the creepy scene in MacBeth where the trees walk up to the castle, I might use this:

Lighten up your morning & nourish yourself

I know you prolly came here today looking for a meaty posting with some comedy or politics or ranty-witty-awesomeness, but somehow this three-day work week seems way to fucking long already. Might be because I'm broke and haven't gotten out of the house in a few days. Either way, I think this afternoon I might try to invent one of these..

Favorite Lines from Movies I saw this year....

Admission: I'm a cinephile. Or more likely, a Movie-aholic. And I'm unrepentant. It's so bad that I don't really care that I just wrote 2 half-sentences back there.

Anyways, here's a list of my favorite lines from movies I saw that came out in 2008

- "What's the boy word for 'slut'?"// Definitely Maybe

- "Oh trust me doc, bringing psychiatric drugs and teenagers together is like opening a lemonade stand in the desert." // Charlie Bartlett

- Guy 1: "In the Army, soldiers would pull on their puds to keep the blood flowing."
Guy 2: "What regiment were you in? The Royal Corps of Wankers?" // The Bank Job

- "Say yes to whim! Say yes to chance! Say yes to chaos!"// Chaos Theory

- "How do you say goodbye to someone you can't imagine living without? I didn't say goodbye.
I didn't say anything. I just walked away." // My Blueberry Nights

- "You have Christ between your thighs... only with a shorter beard." // Forgetting Sarah Marshall

- "Give me a scotch. I'm starving." // Iron Man

- "Lavender, you get on my head" // What Happens in Vegas...

- "Oh, you. You just couldn't let me go, could you? This is what happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object. You are truly incorruptible, aren't you? Huh? You won't kill me out of some misplaced sense of self-righteousness. And I won't kill you because you're just too much fun. I think you and I are destined to do this forever." // The Dark Knight

- "Suppose Nancy sees me coming out of the shower and decides to come on to me. I'm looking good, got a luscious v of hair going through my chest pubes down to my ball fro. She takes one look at me and goes " Oh my god, I've had the old bull now I want the young calf" and grabs me by the weiner." // Step Brothers

- "Maria Elena used to say that only unfulfilled love can be romantic." // Vicky Christina Barcelona

- "One of my teaching assistants and a very, very hard working woman. [teaching assistant exits [ Last night I fucked her to within an inch of her life. True story. I'm champin' her, head through the headboard, and I flip her over and she screams give me a choker. I play the choir boy and say what's that? Starwiped her five minutes later and she's bugging like an epileptic at a strobe light convention. Now I'm getting scared and as I'm working out the 911 phone call in my head she goes" // My Best Friend's Girl

- "If anyone is getting raped in that van, it'll be a guy. " // Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

- "When someone says that they have people everywhere, you expect it to be hyperbole. Lots of people say that. Florists use that expression. It doesn't mean that they have people in the bloody room." // Quantum of Solace

- "Google me bitch! I might be famous one day. " // Four Christmases

- "Your life is defined by its opportunities... even the ones you miss. " // The Curious Case of Benjamin Button



Films I saw for which no favorite lines exist:
- 27 Dresses
- Cloverfield (but only because this movie was NOT about dialogue)
- Strange Wilderness <-- all around lame
- Jumper
- Penelope
- Semi-Pro
- The Other Boelyn Girl
- 10,000 BC
- Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
- Doomsday
- Drillbit Taylor
- Harold & Kumar 2
- Run, Fat Boy, Run
- Smart People
- Deception
- Indiana Jones IV
- You Don't Mess with the Zohan
- The Happening
- The Incredible Hulk
- Get Smart
- Wanted
- Hancock
- Hellboy II
- Pineapple Express
- The House Bunny
- Max Payne
- Nothing Like the Holidays
- 7 Pounds

It Pays to Increase your Vocab!

If you've ever had brunch with me (and only a certain lucky few of you have), you'd know that I like to start the day with coffee, some breakfast and a crossword. It all started when I rented Wordplay a few years ago.



Look at my boy Will Shortz and tell me he is not exactly what sets your motors running, ladies. Seriously, tell me, because if not, I've been modeling myself after the wrong guy.

(Side Note: If you search "Will Shortz" on photobucket.com, you get a whole bunch of pictures of young chicks posing for the camera, which leads me only to believe that girls ARE indeed nuts about this guy)

I also like to think that my boss at work, Jim (as opposed to my boss not-at-work... you know who) would look like Will if he had hair. Here's another shot of Will executing what one might call "The Hooter Honker"


Ok, I feel my point has been suitably made. Moving on.

Here is where I admit I have a personal fault. I tend to hear something funny or witty and want to integrate it into my life. This fault, sadly, has occassionally left me unconsciously using words that other people have trademarked. This then feeds into another fault I have where I know my vocabulary is much larger than the number of words I actively use, yet seldom do I find ways to incorporate all the words I'd like to use. I particularly despise it when I use a word or saying that I tend to hear a lot at TMH (Anie's place... yes, she bribed me to refer to it as this), because;

1.) I'm just globbing on to the words of Anie & Co.,
2.) these are chick-words in my mind and I should clearly be able to think up my own unique witticisms without ever having to gender-blur,
3.) I cherrish the concept of personal identites as "Ryan" and "Anie" who happen to be a couple, as opposed to "Ryan & Anie" who would be a tragic siamese hybrid-thing of awefulness (we all know a couple like this in our lives, if you're not doing something to avoid being them, it may already be too late!).

Yes, I know these are nerdy, complicated issues. This is the minutae of my life. Now we're ready to move on.

Last week, Anie & I were crusing along on our way to New Year's Eve her cousins and we were talking about Resolutions for the New Year. One Resolution I had on my mind was to never use a word or saying that I have heard her use. Then, I decided to take it one-step further. For this year, I'm going to try to use a new, interesting word that i've either under-used or never used before every other week. This week, the word I chose is:

Aleatory -- accidental, chance, occurring randomly

As in, this blog is totally aleatory, because I came home to play video games and the servers were down, so I needed something else to fill in my time.

I think we're off to a good start.

so...

Looks like I've been having some issues with getting images to want to appear in my blogs lately. That sucks. It also sucks that Blogger makes me use images that are only so wide, especially since I have a wide-screen monitor; no way to avoid uber-large margins = lose. On a positive note, I'm off today and bored, so here goes some sweet sweet bloggery.

Yes, that's a word. Move it or lose it.

New Year.... rah rah

So, welcome back.

Today I intended to start by posting some pictures that I took over the last week. Anie is trying this project of taking a picture everyday (though I have no idea where she plans to put these pictures), so I thought I'd use that as an impetus to re-up my own photography skills. To that end, I took my new camera with us on Friday when we decided to have fun on the Light Rail. Turns out, however, that I cannot find the cord I need to use to upload these pictures to my computer. So, please enjoy some random images that I found on flickr this morning, and rest assured that there is some genuine grade-a artwork locked into my damn camera, never seeing the light of day (until I find the damn cord...)

Onwards and upwards, though, right? So, being as it is the new year, here are a few "resolutions" I made.

- Be Healthier: Work out 3x a week, stop eating potatoes of all types, cook at home more
- Be More Green
- Be More Creative: Complete some project every month, blog 3-4 times a week

I know, some of these seem way easier to say than to actually do, and from experience I do better with "until New Year's resolutions" made in the fall, instead of the traditional type made in the Winter, but let's give it a whirl.

LOL

Happy Hi-Five Day, Anie.