the i in we

Mentiras, Fortunas, y Cumpleanos
I have a book listed on my side bar that was going to be my #60…and I can’t do it. I can’t I can’t I cant. I have issue with the author…and I haven’t finished the introduction yet! Am I jealous that she had this book published at the age of 23? Of course. Does she have a better vocabulary than I? You bet. But can I also hear her voice – even though I have never met her – in my ear as I read, and know that she articulates every word crisply, and is one of those people who live and die for a debate? Yes. I read a lot of books, and many authors would never be my friend, but I have to cut this relationship off at the pass. So sorry, Wendy.
Written on the Body or Boychiks in the Hood.

In other, less personal news, the Family Research Center is ‘motivating the pro-family vote’ at the RNc by handing out forture cookies. Yep. This is not a joke. Here are what some of the “fortunes” say:
Real Men Marry Women: Support a Constitutional Amendment to Protect Marriage
Save the Constitution! Impeach an Activist Judge
Cures for Diseases – Know the Score: Embryonic Stem Cell 0, Adult Stem Cell 45
#1 Reason to Ban Human Cloning: Hillary Clinton

Ouch. I’m not even anti-W (nor pro-), but I do heft a large, nerdy poster in the direction of the FRC.

Everyone knows about Karki being in “Bat Boy: The Musical”, right? Well, I propose we all buy tickets for Saturday, October 9th. Here’s the link.. Share with your non-kp-blog reading friends.

Did you know the internet turned 35? Doesn’t it look lovely?

Arrive, Depart, Repeat
After the Olympics and VMA residue, what are we left with this week,? Joey? I think not. I barely watched the Olympics (just when they were on, and that was all thanks to Colleen. I watched Chocolat the other night, instead. And Garden State! Ignore that drumSmith kid and run to this movie) and didn’t catch any of the VMAs. (No great loss, I know.It’ll be rerun central as MTV’s filler programming until Real World Philly debuts.)

But it just got me think how darn disposable all of this entertainment and culture we consume really is. Truth is we hardly even consume it; we might rinse, we might gargle, every once in a while we digest it, but so much of it ends up similair to a bad high school yearbook signature: gone AND forgotten!
Is anyone going to talk about crying marathoners or now-
professional runners while at the Thanksgiving/Lam’s B-day Dinner table? No. Is anyone going to be toasting an orangina-colored Mystic Tanner at next year’s Oscar pre-party? Heck no; that’s SO 2003.

Don’t get me wrong; I know I am fully entrenched in post-modern (yech)irony by writing this on a blog that gets updated almost every day. And I have my hands fully in our “come and go” pop culture scene…. (Except that I had never heard of the #1 movie this weekend! Dang my movie-with-swords prejudice.) but that doesn’t mean I like it. I have no suggestions, no panaceas…just a plain old observation.

Here is a short list of cultural NOWS that I think we’ll see on a VH1 special in 5-15 years, and at his/her/their/its mention, some of us will go, “Oh yeah! I remember that…I think!?” and others will say “How is it that I have never heard of…?”

-Uncle Kracker
-Farnsworth Bentle
-DVD rental stores
-RPAA and MIAA ominous warnings in national newspapers
-cell phones that don’t take pictures or video, or store mp3s
-RedBull-type energy drinks
-The O.C. (it’s no 90210, people. if not for the rolling around, reruns would go on ABC Family channel, aka the “Not-Quite-F/X” for syndication)
-bunless burgers being sold at fast food places
-Haylie Duff, Ashleeeee Simpson, second-string sisters et al
-Most sitcoms on CBS, Monday & Tuesday nights
-Wife killers (Hacking and Peterson are no OJ)

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