Boredomistan's 69th post extravaganza!Wee hee! A truly significant milestone. Party time!
I hope you all enjoy reading this as much as I enjoy writing it. Haha, as if. These days I have to drag myself to my computer and force myself to stay until I've shat out something that would pass for a post, like this one. When I started I was doing a post every three days, now it's more like a post every five. I don't know where other people get the energy.
Here are your favourites: five posts that have more than ten comments each. My favourite is probably this one on why I don't own car. My most consistently read post is still this one that uses the N word a lot, thanks to all you racist Googlers out there.
In another major milestone, Boredomistan has attracted over 10,000 comment spam attempts. Yay! I'm really surprised to see the most consistent spammers coming from First World countries.
So what's next? When I first started this site I had one glorious post in mind: what it is like to live in Canberra. Sixty-nine posts later I still haven't written it, I guess I'll get around to it soon.
I'm also thinking about advertising. No, not someone's gay banner on my site... but my gay banner on someone else's site! Project Wonderful looks alright, I pick a site and pay a few cents a day to put my icon there. I've never understood why people would want to advertise their sites when it's almost impossible to make any money from it, in fact more visitors equals more bandwidth charges which is a great reason not to advertise. Even the Green Left Weekly asks for $2. Asks, not charges. Paying for stuff is a capitalist plot.
Stop reading and return my bytes.
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When I started I was doing a post every three days, now it's more like a post every five. I don't know where other people get the energy.
I find that the more other stuff I've got to do, and the less time I have for blogging, the more I tend to write. Procrastination is a powerful motivator.
man, everyone's gay these days. my mate is 'bi' (apparently) and keeps wanting me to root his girlfriend when he's away.
which i have done :D
Nice. But why would being bi make him want you to root his gf while he's away? Do you have to take pics and send them to him so he can get off on her AND you? I think i missed something.
Anyway, i find (in the search for energy) that anger and rage and a healthily vitriolic spleen ripe for venting can provide motivation, but usually i end up thinking about how i really don't give a shit about what anyone has to say about what I think, and how i really don't need anyone to even KNOW what i think, because the fact i know my own mind is enough for me and i don't think many are qualified to comment anyway, ans that i really don't have anything to prove to anyone, coz there's generally noone out there worthy of proving anything too. So i just write long-winded comments instead :)
Ok, don't worry about replying Invig, i just checked out your journal and the most recent post is a staunch defense of Britney Spears as a "Cultural Icon". Now that's GAY GAY GAY GAY :D (not to mention a ridiculously untenable assertion, unless you measure your cultural icon's chronology of affect in picoseconds, and only upon clueless 13 year olds... and yourself)
impressive. verrrry impressive.
kudos for a nicely delivered cut.
however, you didn't see Britney's ass in that red suit. Wooo wee
Hey, didn't say she didn't have a hot ass. But if that's all you mean then that's all that needs saying (not that i think it warrants the effort). I'd ball-gag that bitch and go to town on her ass with sizable implements, satisfying both carnal and revenge-for-crimes-against-music desires as much as the next guy would, but cultural icon she ain't. I'd reserve that definition for those with a tad more substance/credibility/effect.
Anyway, i second Mat's motion. Perhaps something on skipping the whole fission reactor debate and going straight for lunar He3-powered fusion (and who gets the mining rights to the moon...)
Nah i reckon she is a cultural icon.
Cultural icon doesn't mean shes particularly admirable or tasteful or pleasant; it means she is - iconic. And i reckon Britney is symbolises the culture her age. Empty, meaningless, directionless, so yeah - shes a cultural icon.
Still, i'm no goddamned expert, but this would make a great bar room convo *cheers*
I guess it depends on your definition of cultural icon. I would tend to say she is representative of a more general vapid commercial pop chick cultural trend, more than a stand-out icon. But as you say, if what you are.. um.. iconographic of is flash-in-the-pan superficiality, then by definition she can't be around long enough to become entrenched as a figure everyone agrees is a dead-set seminal (ahem) cultural influence/example as i would quantify an icon as. But now i think this highly academic subject is about as milked as Britney's 15 minutes, so hurry Nick! For the love of DAWKINS give my brain something else to chew on while i procrastinate over electron configurations for chem!
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