Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Slightly less Stupid


After reading one of the dumbest articles ever, on a web site purporting to be for "smart and beautiful women"-- and no, I'm not going to name it or link to it, because they don't deserve any more traffic, for whatever a mention on here is worth-- I have decided I need to post here more often. Because I couldn't possibly endumbenify the general level of conversation on the internet any further.

Here's to making it a little smarter out there.

P.S. If you're wondering, the article that prompted this was yet another pointless piece on how women should be more nicer and less bossypants in order not to scare off the menfolk. I'd add it to the list of Depressing Shit if I didn't want to avoid giving it more traffic.

Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Sounds like a bummer (Depressing shit, Part 4 in a series)

I recommend you see Part 1 and read my original disclaimer here; now here's installment 4:

Haven't seen these movies, don't think I want to:
An American Crime
Biutiful
Burma VJ
Precious
The Sea Inside/The Dancer Upstairs (Am I confused? All these depressing-sounding Javier Bardem flicks run together for me...)
The Second Circle
The Unloved (more child abuse!)
The Walker

song (definitely depressing):
"Is That All There Is?"

And here's Part 2 of the series, in case you missed it...
And Part 3.


More coming sooner or later! Please comment if you have anything to add. I am always looking for more depressing shit to avoid.


 

Monday, June 11, 2012

even more depressing shit (Part 3 of our series)

I recommend you see Part 1 and read my original disclaimer here (if you haven't already); now here's installment 3: 

Movies:
A.I.
Capturing the Friedmans
Project Nim (haven't seen this, don't want to ever see it, I don't need to be more depressed.)
Yesterday (having to do with AIDS)

And some of my GOING COMMANDO! co-host Mae Aswell's depressing movie suggestions:
House of Sand and Fog
Midnight Cowboy
Mystic River

song: "All By Myself" (also Mae's suggestion)

...and a few other things that depress me, outside of the categories above: 
-the guitar wankers at Guitar Center
-most comments on Youtube videos (and on most other mass-viewed web sites)
-the Disneyland monorail, especially the part where you see the parking lot


And here's a bonus-- a link to the original posting of our GOING COMMANDO! podcast episode in which Mae Aswell and I do a lot of expounding on cultural consumables that depress us:

5-4-11 GOING COMMANDO! with MAE ASWELL & MAREN McC...
(At least I think that's the right episode. If not, I'll have to relisten to some episodes to figure it out, and that SHOULDN'T be depressing!  I'm pretty sure the subject comes up on more than one episode, knowing me.)

And here's Part 2 of the series, in case you missed it.

More coming sooner or later! Please comment if you have anything to add.