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"Hell, I'll kill a man in a fair fight... or if I think he's gonna start a fair fight, or if he bothers me, or if there's a woman, or if I'm gettin' paid - mostly only when I'm gettin' paid." - Jayne, Firefly

"I am like a being thrown from another planet on this dark terrestrial ball, an alien, a pilgrim among its possessors." - Thomas Carlyle

bookmarks:
alexithymia art (photographers)
gideon autobio (year 30)
a ~ notes (favourites 2024)
notes (life list)
travel (current daydreams)

Inspired by Skye's list [http://listography.com/thimbleviolet/things/of_which_i_am_highly_suspicious]

  • Angry mobs & their ringmasters
  • Anyone [esp. politicians] who says, "I accept full responsibility..." (you ain't Jesus, sucka, you don't die get to vicariously for my sins)
  • Anyone who says "I apologize" instead of "I'm sorry"
  • Bestsellers
  • Celebrities & celebrity gossip
  • Chinese food
  • Chinese government
  • Cloud computing
  • Convenience
  • Corporations
  • Costly gadgets
  • Desk jobs
  • Doctors
  • Federal government
  • Flattery & its practitioners
  • Fluorescent lighting
  • Fluoride
  • GMOs
  • Government organizations (especially regulatory/'protective' ones)
  • Historical narrative
  • Hospitals
  • Junk food
  • Linear time
  • Linguisitic fascism
  • Mainstream news coverage
  • Mainstream politics, politicians and partisan debates
  • Malls & department stores
  • Neutral color schemes
  • New technology
  • New vehicles
  • Normal
  • Offices
  • People wearing white
  • People with an unreasonable bounty of Facebook 'friends' (how can you possibly be their friend? and why would they have cause to miss you when you're so easily replaceable? but maybe I'm wrong on this)
  • People with perfect hair/makeup/nails
  • Pharmaceuticals
  • Plastic
  • Rigid categorical thinking (it's just semantic smoke & mirrors)
  • Self-help and rehab
  • Spartan exteriors
  • Standardization
  • Sterile tidiness
  • Talk show hosts
  • Television
  • Theism
  • Harry Potter. Not the books, per se. But the character. Also, RonxHermione? wtf?! How would that ever happen? Snakes are evil? Try harder, JK Rowling! And the conclusion of Snape? How could it be so predictable?! I bristle to think of it.

Books I Friggin' Hate with a Zealot's Fervor, Petty Though It Is

  • The Time Traveler's Wife - aka "Margaret Sanger Wept".
  • Little Women - aka pollyanna "Little House on the Prairie Remix Sans True Story Origin and Action-Packed Kidnapping Scenes". Brought to you by the Halmark Network and Big Brother.
  • One Hundred Years of Solitude - it never ends!! One hundred years of my life wasted in which I could've been reading a better book!
  • Diary of a Wimpy Kid - something tells me that the reader is intended to identify with the protagonist in a sympathetic way, but he is a most despicable, loathsome coward lacking in both decency, dignity and empathy.
  • The Joy Luck Club - Ooh! Someone from the admin office taped a tell-all conversation one night at Friday Happy Hour. Seems like she really got crazy after 2 margaritas! How stimulating and cultural!
jan 1 2011 ∞
jan 2 2015 +