I Can't Believe It

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind won for best original screenplay. Finally there is some justice. Although I did lose all faith in award shows when Eminem won an Oscar for "Lose Yourself". I was surprised that the Passion didn't win anything. I never saw it but from what I heard it seemed Oscar-worthy. But as my mom pointed out the powers that be may not have wanted him to talk. Too risky.

Another ray of sunlight although they didn't win, Before Sunset got nominated for best adapted screenplay. That made me smile.

This May Sound Terrible But...

I'm getting a little bit tired of this guilty sinking feeling that has seems to follow me, looming like a cloud all for one reason...

.The colour of my skin.

I am not in anyway racist nor do I discriminate or think less of people that are different than me. So I found out that I am not to be afforded that privilege in return. If you've read my profile you know that more than anything I want to be a journalist. While I was at my local library the other day I picked up a "Together" magazine. It preports itself to be an effort to encourage multiculturalism in my community. So I wanted to get involved. Today I had the displeasure of meeting the people who run the show. Who told me, after many sideways glances, that my services would not be needed. They used a lot of big words and quite masterfully slung their bullshit but it seems as though I was excluded for one reason. One because I'm WHITE!!!


Once again hypocrisy rears its ugly head and once again I am left with the short end of yet another stick. This time I am very close to the end of my rope.

Witness In Awe The Orgy Of Greed And Thrift

As some know today was the bank holiday(stat. Holiday) known as Family Day. To my knowledge it's only recognized in Alberta. Well last week me and my mom where driving past the Value Village near our house when we noticed that a sign advertising a 50% off sale. So we decided to check it out. Not like we had much else to do. We were not partaking in any of that silly family bonding junk. And apparently no one else was either. After spending about 15 minutes trying to find a place to park we spent the next two hours stuck in a small barn-like structure with about five hundred angry irritated thrift shoppers. Don't get me wrong I love VV and thrift store shopping in general and I never really understood the snobbery that went hand in hand with people who thought it was shopping for the lowest of the low. Which I guess I could be seen as such being that my family falls into the lower tax brackets. (Sorry that's the embittered poor girl peaking through.) But after spending a total of three long hours stuck in this venture with people giving me dirty looks and hitting me with their carts I am hard pressed to remember why I liked shopping there in the first place. Three hellish hours and all I got out of it was a pair of shoes for $1.50, a back full of bruises and a small glimpse of the fast falling demise of society. Hip Hip Hurray for consumerism!

OH MY GOD!!! The World Is Coming To An End...

...George Michael has decided to "quit" pop. What the hell am I going to do now?

http://entertainment.sympatico.msn.ca/celebs/articles/1038492.armx

Just a Quick Side Note

Censorship at its finest.

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1108842790068_6/?hub=Entertainment

God Help Us. Even Canadian Customs is homophobic.

Lets Just Jump Right Into It

I came across something that made my stomach turn. It served as a reminder that though I would like to hope otherwise the world we live is a place where all of our priorities are out of whack. Read this article and revel in the ignorance that is the human race...

http://sympaticomsn.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1108830692002_6?hub=topstories

In a time where there is insurmountable loss of life all over the world it saddens me to that such importance is placed on a fifteen second commercial spot used as an effort to promote universal equality, despite who and how you love. Worry about the single mothers that have to go to the Food Bank to feed her children despite the fact that she works two steady jobs. Worry about the kids in the third grade that wince when they sit down because of their fathers belt. Worry about the fifteen year old kid that in held up in my brothers' room because the Youth Emergency Shelter is full and he has no place to go. Worry about the hooker that had to be chipped out of the snow, less than three weeks ago. Worry about the grandparents that are getting abused in retirement homes. With all these issues that need their worry people are more concerned about two people wanting to profess their love in front of their families. I have a sneaking suspicion that if the glbt community was afforded the rights that the average straight person is afforded they might respect the sanctity of marriage more than that sad straight person. Because for so long they weren't lucky enough to considered human.

A Blogging Virgin

So this is obviously my first time posting. But moreover this is my first blog so please bear with me as I try to navigate the tretcherous waters I have decided to immerse myself in. Don't worry I will subject you to my crazy mixed up ideas in no time flat. Once I have the technicalities down. So I guess you should worry. . . . Be Afraid!! Be Very Afraid!!!! MuhHuhHun.


Okay I'll leave you alone now.
(I will now retreat back to whence I came)