"Hey Baby, [insert bad pickup line]!"

Allo,

As the title implies, I've been thinking about all the bad pickup lines I've heard recently and I want to tell the male population: Try less.

What? Try less?

Yes, you read me correctly. Honestly, the pickup lines I've heard as of late are worse than the generic 'Did you fall from heaven?' style pickup lines. (I'm actually somewhat hoping for someone to say "Just call me milk, I'll do your body good." just so I can come back with "I'm lactose intolerant") At least with these type of conversation starters, hopefully, the target female will know you don't seriously think 'u' and 'i' should be together in the alphabet. If she does, ditch her because she is a tool. Although, that being said, I also wouldn't go with anything you saw off of a t-shirt in the mall. Starting a conversation with "The man, the legend" cannot possibly go well.

I know you're trying to be witty (operative word: trying) but it's not working. If you come up and tell me that you like my shoes I know you're full of shit. I'm sorry, but it's a little obvious.

My best piece of advice I can give all you gentlemen is: be yourself...and by that I mean have some sweet dance moves. Now listen, you can't be too good, it doesn't give off the effortless charm that you're going for if you 'miraculously' have a full out choreographed dance routine. Perhaps, you can develop a signature dance move that all the ladies will love. And remember, above all, dance slightly awkwardly because everyone knows that chicks dig slightly awkward guys.

It's So Bad That It's...Good?

So often there are lists made to define the best of the best: The Best 100 songs of 2007, Forbes' List of the 10 Richest People, People Magazine's List of the 50 Hottest People, and so forth. I, however, have a penchant for all that is terrible. I am all about terrible movies. Now, I am aware that these terrible movies are not works of art and this is how I justify the fact that I seriously enjoy them.

Fake blood, awesome.
God awful acting, bring it on.
Badly written script just means more to quote.

What's more though, is that I have tendency to not only see bad movies once, but again and again. And, I completely love it. I've considered getting a job as a movie reviewer/critic because I'd always have something positive to say about a movie.

For example, "This movie redefines what it means to be a teenager" means that the movie did a poor job at capturing what teenagers are actually like. "Felt like real life!" means that there was absolutely no budget and the movie feels like 'real life' because it looks as though it was filmed with a camcorder. (Blair Witch Project, anyone?)

And because I can see the good in any bad movie maybe that's just an indication that I can see the good in any person....maybe? Probably not, well I'm off to watch something terrible and LOVE it.

Valentine's Day is Not That Bad

Hello to all,

Even though it's Valentine's Day and I'm single, I am feeling good today. Actually nothing could have brought me down today, that's how positive I was (might of been because it was sunny out, but nonetheless, it was great). First, at school someone painted the snow fort that was around the Canon "I LOVE YOU VANESSA" and I feel like usually I would at least be repulsed by this extreme statement of 'love', but today it was somehow slightly endearing.

Then I drove to the gym and I was in the parking lot, put my car into park and pulled up the handbrake (like usual) and tried to take the key out of the ignition. Operative word here is 'tried' because the key was stuck and that was since the button my handbrake was stuck, leaving me stuck in my car. But, no big deal, it eventually unstuck itself. And then got stuck again later, but it's okay.

So, I get into the gym and get changed....and I have only 1 running shoe. Haha, it kind of sucked, but oh well.

So...the moral of this post is: don't let Valentine's Day get you down because really all it is is a consumer holiday for people who are in relationships. Not a big deal. Oh and an opportunity to eat lots of pink and red candy.

Snow day, Macro and Vintage Cartoons

First off, thank god for the snow day today. I was able to dodge two assessments (1 electronica listening quiz + 1 biomechanics quiz) and laze around pretty much all day in bed while outside looked like this:



I've been playing around with my camera today (the Cannon G7) and I took some macro shots (aka reeeally close up) so here are some of them:






The rest of my day was spent watching cartoons from the 1920s and 1930s (Betty Boop, Mickey Mouse, Popeye, etc.) , and it's insane the topics that were commonplace in the old cartoons. It was completely normal to have characters smoking, racial stereotypes, and brutality.

Here's just one example of said cartoons, but there are many more on Youtube.


Banned Daffy Duck Cartoon


Well that is all,

Kate