If you're going to post a chain letter...

1. Please, please, please take the time to format it correctly. If you don't care enough about your message to take out the >>> and paragraph it properly, why should we care enough to read it?
2. Please don't apologise "if this has been posted here before". You don't care, and we know it. If you cared, you'd get up off your ass and make sure that it hadn't been posted yesterday. And the day before. And two days before that. And eight times the previous week.
3. Please don't tell us to "spread it everywhere". It's a chain letter. It's already been spread everywhere. In fact, you didn't need to post it at all. Furthermore, we'll spread it if we damn well feel like it. If you have to ask people to share the news, it can't be very important or interesting.
4. Do yourself a favor, think a little. Do you really believe that not shopping on the 20th will send any kind of message to the powers that be? Do you think they'll even notice? Who, exactly, will be hurt if you don't shop? Will it be the president? Or corporations? More likely, it'll be small business owners who are hurt.
5. If you can't think, check Snopes. No, they're not always right, but at least they'll talk you out of posting any stupid chain letters.

I love Calvin.

Clicky!

*swoons*

Interesting article from the Times...

http://nytimes.com/2005/01/17/opinion/17hochschild.html?pagewanted=print&position=

( Article inside )

Another article on a conscientious objector...

Here.

Go read, or don't.

The "I Have a Dream" speech.

Well, somebody had to post it. Might as well be me.

Like I need a new car...

But I know some of you probably do. It's a contest to win a new hybrid car (55mpg) if you submit a winning slogan to help encourage car manufacturers to get up and make us some hybrids.

I like the idea. But I don't need a car.

Edit: Ooh, they have a bike giveaway too! I can't ride a bike, but I know they're trying. Maybe they have a sneaker giveaway for walkers... wait, I like to go barefoot when possible. Um. A metrocard givaway?

You know what's really bad?

When you want comments. And nobody comments. Or they do comment, but not on the entries you want them to comment on, they comment on some other entry that you don't really care about. And you want comments. And it's been hours since the last comment. And you want comments, but if you post saying you want comments you'll sound whiny and you still won't get comments where you want them, people will just comment on your whine post, not the very important and oh-so-interesting post that you wanted comments on in the first place! And you really want comments! And you know it's stupid, that people are reading, that they can't comment on everything (and don't want to, and don't need to) but you just want comments, dammit!

*sighs*

Yeah, I'm disabling comments on this post.

Forget that, it looks weird. *dramatic eyeroll* Don't comment here anyway, that's just letting the commentwhores (me) win.

Finally!

If you're a member of book_icons, go vote in the poll! If not, go join, then go vote in the poll.

Oh, and thanks to Jazzy for helping me so very much lately.

And again with the defriending.

Somebody posted about it... why, I'm not sure. I'm also not sure if she was talking about me specifically or just random people when she said "inane". *le sigh* Here's the thing. I *know* I post a lot. I'm not going to edit my posts to add unrelated content. If I'm talking about comments in one post, I won't edit it to talk about politics. I don't do that. So instead, I post a lot.

Disclaimer. This actually isn't related very much to the earlier paragraph. Now I'm speaking generally, instead of specifically.

And, because I know this is a problem, I put a nice nifty disclaimer in my user info. It says, I believe, that I post a lot, and that you shouldn't friend me if this is a problem. So it's okay to defriend me because I post a lot, and it's okay to not friend me because I post a lot. Please don't defriend me and say "well, I wouldn't've friended you if I'd known you post a lot!". That's just silly. I give fair warning. And all my posts, almost, are public. You can visit my journal and see the insane number of posts here. No excuses if you don't know before you friend me that I post. A lot.

On the subject, if you actually think I post too much, and can think of a way to condense my posts, I'm willing to hear it. So long as it doesn't involve mixing unrelated stuff together.

Edit: I did a bad thing here myself. I started talking about a specific person, and then spoke generally. This is really a bad thing, because I don't make a disclaimer so you know when I'm miffed at one person and when I'm discussing a trend. I'll go fix.

Edit again: Sheesh, if I were setting out to comment-whore, I could scarcely have picked a better topic than this! I love me my comments, so this is all good.

Edit the third: The person I was speaking about in the first paragraph (but not the second) seems to have removed more than one person from her list. We all do list cleaning from time to time. I only posted because she mentioned that some people were removed for posting too much "even if she loves them" and that one of those people... well, she goes on. But I'm actually not upset, so stop trying to comfort me. Well, I was upset slightly, but now I suspect that I may not have been that one person, and anyway I was just rambling/chatting.

I'm not going to comment on the basic "telling other people what to buy" inanity...

I'm just stunned at what the complaint was. She's a bad parent for not buying candy and junk? Bwa?

Ooh, and on the subject... ANA! Is so cute. ANA! Is so sweet. ANA has never, afaik, had junk food. For her birthday she had... a cookie. She didn't even get to eat the whole thing. As soon as she lost interest, we took it away. *huggles her Ana baby*

Man, I need to get me some new pictures. Maybe one of her up on her skates, or in the tub with her fishies....