Intertwined Bloggery

Being in the line of work I am I routinely see a diverse range o f people in financial turmoil. People think that those who get payday loans are all scuzzy, smelly, and gross. But it is in my opinion that for the most part these are the people who pay their debts, and because of the vicious cycle have to reborrow, but it is the ‘classier’ middle class people who never do and are sent to collections.

Now this has brought me to an interesting quandry. Until you see people in severe financial diress, you can not actually appreciate money to its full extent. The value of a dollar has never been so clearly outlined for me as has become apparent from my line of work. Also being on portage, just past Arlington, you see a wild grab bag of characters walking up and down the streets d/t the nut house just down the block, but the people outside seem so desolate at times eating out of garbage cans and sleeping in the alley way. The Wolesley residents to the south seem to just ignore the situation like mold growing on a corner wall. You see large stately homes next to Manitoba housing ‘projects’ it’s really a fascinating area.

But back to my point. I have come to the realization that eventually I will die, and what is the point of working hard and saving my money for nothing, so I vow to always live life to the fullest and spend all my money- which I have been doing a lot of lately. Luckily I am over paid to do such a dull job. As my youth will soon be lost to Davey Jones’ Locker, I plan to have as much fun as I can. Life will catch up with you if you let it, so you must always be one step ahead.

Earlier this week, Wednesday to be exact my regular crew (Josh and Jon Symons) and I attended the Cuff the Duke concert at the Pyramid. An excellent show for only $12.00. What a deal, what a show! Cuff the duke’s sound has been described as ‘the fusion of old-time country, indie rock and art-prog experimentation’. They have two discs; LIfe Stories for Minimum Wage (2002) and Cuff the Duke (2005). Both excellent discs that deserve a spin, so you should go buy them. The new cd is available at HMV for only $7.99!

But aside from that big rave, the purpose of this post is to complain about the straight from a Canad-Inns bar two stupid bottle blonde bar chicks that were sitting with a group of males of comparable intellegence who almost ruined the show for us as they were talking through the whole show! Those fucking chicks even had the nerve to purchase merch (shirts and buttons). I hate those kind of people that go to concerts to buy the merch for instant cred. Yuck. As I clutched my own shirt in my hand I was disgusted. You could tell these chicks had never even heard of the band before. I still can’t get over how they talked the whole way through the concert! At one point I said loudly ” I wonder if some people even realize that a concert is going on here”, now the chicks obviously heard this as they shut their suck holes for a bit, but the silence was too much for them. They were the type of girls that would take anyone home, and sleep with roadies to get close to ‘the band’. It was obviouse that with two girls and three guys the odds were good for the fellows, but I felt bad for the one guy who you could tell actually wanted to be there, but alas all sympathy is lost due to the fact that he associated with those heinous barflies. They were proof positive as to why I hate the bar. They (the two hooches) each had one drink and were totally pretending that they were ‘loose’ oh wait they probably are.

I hate when you go to shows and there is some kind of idiot that has potential to ruin the music experience for you. People you already graduated from High School, grow up!!!

With thanksgiving season upon us I thought I would share with the masses my infamous turkey bowl recipe. First, someone must cook a complete turkey dinner with all the trimmings and there must be many leftovers. After all of that is done…

1- Start by picking out a large bowl (preferably clean)
2- Pick out two large pieces of turkey (I prefer white meat) and cut into bite-sized pieces. Then put in bowl
3- Scoop into the bowl two scoops of mashed potatoes
4- Add as much stuffing as you like. I like lots so here goes
5- Add as much gravy as you need to make a nice slurry, or a stew-like consistency. If you like gravy, you may want to go for more of a soup like consistency.
6- Stir all ingredients together, and season with Salt and Pepper to taste.
7- Eat with spoon, and experience all of the bowl’s deliciousness. Enjoy!

This particular recipe has too many to count calories, and is not for the dieters or faint of heart. It’s a feel good, stick to your ribs kind of meal. You can mix it up and add other ingredients as you’d like, but it would not be an original T-bowl.

With the impending hike is gas prices I wonder when it will actually happen. I know on friday all the radio stations were saying it was going to spike to 176.9 and I am told it did in a few areas mainly Transcona and St. Vital. Luckily, here in sunny Mennoville NK gas remains at a lovely 103.9. It’s funny to see people be whipped into a frenzy because of a sudden hike. They start to plan alternate routes or modes of transportation, they try to carpool, or just not go/do anything. I laugh because this is a good plan, but after about three or four days of roughing it, the people come to their senses and just go back to their old routines. People recognize that Winnipeg is not a pedestrian/ transit friendly city. Cars rule the road, and need gas to function.
Now if cars could run off of human gas productions now that would be the life!

I have made a quasi commitment to write for the Uniter, the U of W school newspaper, and have come up with my first piece. I want to write about how with today’s youth they care more about their appearances than what’s going on around them. If you have any ideas/thoughts/comments/or whatever please let me know as I forsee this to be a huge undertaking.

Wish the Planning Predators good luck as today the seek to win the year end tournament. Oh who am I kidding, the best part is the huge BBQ after full of boozing, good food, good friends, and good music. Oh and unfortunately a little karaoke (only Coach Ron) and a bucket of chicken. Bless the bucket!

I’ve pretty much come to terms that Jon Symons is the only person that reads this blog, and I want to say that this is ok with me. I have succumbed to the realization that my words/thoughts/ideas at this stage in my life cannot really affect anything/anyone. It is kind of like our own secret mental affair that he can read my thoughts and gain insight into the chaos that is my life. That sounds like home to me.

Today I started back at the old Alma Mater- woo hoo!! It all came back to me how much I detest the first couple weeks of school. From the posers, to the nerds, to the preps, to those who take themselves far too seriously. I realized today how many observations/assumptions that I make of people. Maybe it is because I don’t like to look internally, or is it beacuse it is easier to judge others, reagardless of my verbal diarrhea, the point I am trying to make rather bumbly is that watching others flit around in their little ‘box’ lives as I like to call them I realized once again, a prevalent theme in today’s day brought to you by the letter Q and the number 6, is that how small our worlds are. I have come to recognize that my life consists of work, school, sleeping, eating, nothing, more work, and general shit. Do I think my life is important? On the contrary my good man. Do the people I observe from a far. Of course they do, if they didn’t why yould I be writing this? Geez, how predictable I know. These people live out their box lives and will spend all of their lives mostly living within 25 kilometres f where they were born, and will end up basically where their parents are or perhaps better, it’s a crapshoot. Your life becomes defined by your repetative schedule and indulgances of self-importance, instead of by the acts they do. You basically live in a box allowing people in, but not really. It’s like the boomarang effect. Your life is cyclic and always comes back to you. I wonder if everyone who thinks they are are actually at the centre of the universe what would happen to their centres of gravity, or gravitational pull? How are people attracted to their high maintenance pull/lives? It hurts my head to try to understand such a phenemenon. It must be this tremendous act that cause natural disasters, climate changes, overall terribly heinous acts to grave to pause a second breath/type upon. If these people are at the centre of the world then why do they cause a black hole effect. They suck in/attract weak objects/people like flies to honey. The insecurities of one shelters the weak from their own, and helps them to seek refuge from their own lives.

Now writing this makes me think how could a girl of only twenty one pure years become so cynical? I question you to look at me, then look at yourselves and ask why am I not? Have I been jaded by years of abuse? mistreatment? or am I just some old fogey re-incarnated to spread the cynical, pessimistic word out to all you youngin’s. I don’t know. I started to think back as far as I could go and have decided that I have always been kind of a dark cloud. I am not a very positive person, yet think of myself as a realist. A realist? What the hell does that mean? It means my interpretation of what I see/say/think/do is done with the purest of intentions, and see the world/peoples intentions/motives for what they are. I know that stores offer sales so taht you will buy more shit than you ever would need. Who needs a four pack of pianos anyways? Yet we all continue to live our consumer-driven lives, only allowing for self-introspection when something shakes up our routine monotonous existances. Even if we come to the conclusion that we are living a farce, I ask is it easier to change the pattern or continue to live the lie as it is working for you so far? Hmmm
much contemplation is needed. Will ponder and post my thoughts at a different time.

Much hoped inner contemplation to all.

University commences for the fall semester tomorrow and I am sad. Where did the summer go? Where were my leisurely taken vacations and many good times. Oh well, I shall enter the belly of the beast and just fuckin give’r.

A while ago this list came out, and I didn’t really look at it until just now. I cannot believe that Nobody puts baby in the corner was only #98. The shame I feel for these poor list compilers that do not know one great line. I do feel however, that there are far too many Casablanca quotes. The movie was good, but not that good.

AFI’S List Of 100 Greatest Movie Quotes Of All Time
(American Film Institute)

1. Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.
GONE WITH THE WIND 1939

2. I’m going to make him an offer he can’t refuse.
THE GODFATHER 1972

3. You don’t understand! I coulda had class. I coulda been a
contender. I could’ve been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I
am.
ON THE WATERFRONT 1954

4. Toto, I’ve got a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore.
THE WIZARD OF OZ 1939

5. Here’s looking at you, kid.
CASABLANCA 1942

6. Go ahead, make my day.
SUDDEN IMPACT 1983

7. All right, Mr. DeMille, I’m ready for my close-up.
SUNSET BLVD. 1950

8. May the Force be with you.
STAR WARS 1977

9. Fasten your seatbelts. It’s going to be a bumpy night.
ALL ABOUT EVE 1950

10. You talking to me?
TAXI DRIVER 1976

11. What we’ve got here is failure to communicate.
COOL HAND LUKE 1967

12. I love the smell of napalm in the morning.
APOCALYPSE NOW 1979

13. Love means never having to say you’re sorry.
LOVE STORY 1970

14. The stuff that dreams are made of.
THE MALTESE FALCON 1941

15. E.T. phone home.
E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL 1982

16. They call me Mister Tibbs!
IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT 1967

17. Rosebud.
CITIZEN KANE 1941

18. Made it, Ma! Top of the world!
WHITE HEAT 1949

19. I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore!
NETWORK 1976

20. Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
CASABLANCA 1942

21. A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some
fava beans and a nice Chianti.
THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS 1991

22. Bond. James Bond.
DR. NO 1962

23. There’s no place like home.
THE WIZARD OF OZ 1939

24. I am big! It’s the pictures that got small.
SUNSET BLVD. 1950

25. Show me the money!
JERRY MAGUIRE 1996

26. Why don’t you come up sometime and see me?
SHE DONE HIM WRONG 1933

27. I’m walking here! I’m walking here!
MIDNIGHT COWBOY 1969

28. Play it, Sam. Play ‘As Time Goes By.’
CASABLANCA 1942

29. You can’t handle the truth!
A FEW GOOD MEN 1992

30. I want to be alone.
GRAND HOTEL 1932

31. After all, tomorrow is another day!
GONE WITH THE WIND 1939

32. Round up the usual suspects.
CASABLANCA 1942

33. I’ll have what she’s having.
WHEN HARRY MET SALLY 1989

34. You know how to whistle, don’t you, Steve? You just put your lips
together and blow.
TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT 1944

35. You’re gonna need a bigger boat.
JAWS 1975

36. Badges? We ain’t got no badges! We don’t need no badges! I don’t
have to show you any stinking badges!
THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE 1948

37. I’ll be back.
THE TERMINATOR 1984

38. Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the
earth.
THE PRIDE OF THE YANKEES 1942

39. If you build it, he will come.
FIELD OF DREAMS 1989

40. Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know
what you’re gonna get.
FORREST GUMP 1994

41. We rob banks.
BONNIE AND CLYDE 1967

42. Plastics.
THE GRADUATE 1967

43. We’ll always have Paris.
CASABLANCA 1942

44. I see dead people.
THE SIXTH SENSE 1999

45. Stella! Hey, Stella!
A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE 1951

46. Oh, Jerry, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We have the stars.
NOW, VOYAGER 1942

47. Shane. Shane. Come back!
SHANE 1953

48. Well, nobody’s perfect.
SOME LIKE IT HOT 1959

49. It’s alive! It’s alive!
FRANKENSTEIN 1931

50. Houston, we have a problem.
APOLLO 13 1995

51. You’ve got to ask yourself one question: ‘Do I feel lucky?’ Well,
do ya, punk?
DIRTY HARRY 1971

52. You had me at “hello.”
JERRY MAGUIRE 1996

53. One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my
pajamas, I don’t know.
ANIMAL CRACKERS 1930

54. There’s no crying in baseball!
A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN 1992

55. La-dee-da, la-dee-da.
ANNIE HALL 1977

56. A boy’s best friend is his mother.
PSYCHO 1960

57. Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.
WALL STREET 1987

58. Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
THE GODFATHER II 1974

59. As God is my witness, I’ll never be hungry again.
GONE WITH THE WIND 1939

60. Well, here’s another nice mess you’ve gotten me into!
SONS OF THE DESERT 1933

61. Say “hello” to my little friend!
SCARFACE 1983

62. What a dump.
BEYOND THE FOREST 1949

63. Mrs. Robinson, you’re trying to seduce me. Aren’t you?
THE GRADUATE 1967

64. Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here! This is the War Room!
DR. STRANGELOVE 1964

65. Elementary, my dear Watson.
THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES 1929

66. Get your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape.
PLANET OF THE APES 1968

67. Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks
into mine.
CASABLANCA 1942

68. Here’s Johnny!
THE SHINING 1980

69. They’re here!
POLTERGEIST 1982

70. Is it safe?
MARATHON MAN 1976

71. Wait a minute, wait a minute. You ain’t heard nothin’ yet!
THE JAZZ SINGER 1927

72. No wire hangers, ever!
MOMMIE DEAREST 1981

73. Mother of mercy, is this the end of Rico?
LITTLE CAESAR 1930

74. Forget it, Jake, it’s Chinatown.
CHINATOWN 1974

75. I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE 1951

76. Hasta la vista, baby.
TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY 1991

77. Soylent Green is people!
SOYLENT GREEN 1973

78. Open the pod bay doors, HAL.
2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY 1968

79. Striker: Surely you can’t be serious. Rumack: I am serious…and
don’t call me Shirley.
AIRPLANE! 1980

80. Yo, Adrian!
ROCKY 1976

81. Hello, gorgeous.
FUNNY GIRL 1968

82. Toga! Toga!
NATIONAL LAMPOON’S ANIMAL HOUSE 1978

83. Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make.
DRACULA 1931

84. Oh, no, it wasn’t the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast.
KING KONG 1933

85. My precious.
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: TWO TOWERS 2002

86. Attica! Attica!
DOG DAY AFTERNOON 1975

87. Sawyer, you’re going out a youngster, but you’ve got to come back
a star!
42ND STREET 1933

88. Listen to me, mister. You’re my knight in shining armor. Don’t
you forget it. You’re going to get back on that horse, and I’m going
to be right behind you, holding on tight, and away we’re gonna go, go,
go!
ON GOLDEN POND 1981.

89. Tell ‘em to go out there with all they got and win just one for
the Gipper.
KNUTE ROCKNE ALL AMERICAN 1940

90. A martini. Shaken, not stirred.
GOLDFINGER 1964

91. Who’s on first.
THE NAUGHTY NINETIES 1945

92. Cinderella story. Outta nowhere. A former greenskeeper, now,
about to become the Masters champion. It looks like a mirac…It’s
in the hole! It’s in the hole! It’s in the hole!
CADDYSHACK 1980

93. Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death!
AUNTIE MAME 1958

94. I feel the need - the need for speed!
TOP GUN 1986

95. Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary.
DEAD POETS SOCIETY 1989

96. Snap out of it!
MOONSTRUCK 1987

97. My mother thanks you. My father thanks you. My sister thanks you.
And I thank you.
YANKEE DOODLE DANDY 1942

98. Nobody puts Baby in a corner.
DIRTY DANCING 1987

99. I’ll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too!
WIZARD OF OZ, THE 1939

100. I’m king of the world!
TITANIC 1997

While needing to look up the spelling of a very important word (diarrhea from a previous post) I stumbled accross this from www.dictionary.com

7 entries found for poop.

poop2
tr.v. Slang pooped, poop·ing, poops
To cause to become fatigued; tire: “Many people stop here, pooped by the short, steep climb” (Sierra Club Guides to the National Parks).

Phrasal Verb:
poop out Slang
To quit because of exhaustion: poop out of a race.
To decide not to participate, especially at the last moment.

poop1 ( P ) Pronunciation Key (pp)
n.
An enclosed superstructure at the stern of a ship.
A poop deck.

tr.v. pooped, poop·ing, poops
To break over the stern of (a ship).
To take (a wave) over the stern.

poop3 ( P ) Pronunciation Key (pp)
n. Slang
Inside information: She gave me all the poop on the company party.

poop4 ( P ) Pronunciation Key (pp)
n. Slang
A person regarded as very disagreeable.

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[Perhaps short for nincompoop.]

poop5 ( P ) Pronunciation Key (pp) Slang
n.
Excrement.

intr.v. pooped, poop·ing, poops
To defecate.
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[Possibly from obsolete poop, to break wind, from Middle English poupen, to blow a horn, toot, of imitative origin.]

poop

n 1: obscene terms for feces [syn: crap, dirt, shit, shite, turd] 2: a stupid foolish person [syn: nincompoop, ninny] 3: slang terms for inside information; “is that the straight dope?” [syn: dope, the skinny, low-down] 4: the rear part of a ship [syn: stern, after part, quarter, tail]

I found it funny that all the last definiton cited was the one we mainly use. I do not generally have a poop fascination, but now after this funny occurence, I believe I do. You can’t tell me that you don’t feel good after letting a good turd out. Thoughts??