Okay. So I know there seems to be a lot of unrelated stuff being thrown into the pot with this blog entry, but there is a reason to my madness. It’s all on my brain RIGHT THIS SECOND, and thusly is relevant to where I am at right now.
First in our jumbled mess: Men’s fashion.
Okay, I’m only 22, but I miss the days when men’s fashion wa sactually interesting; when they could be straight and wear more flamboyant, perhaps effeminate clothes and not be made fun of. I wish people would wear bell bottoms again. And I wish more guys would grow their hair out. Guys are hot with manes of hair. I could list a slew of musicians that demonstrate this. Inb4 this isn’t the 60s anymore, hippie. Screw you, I don’t care.
And I wish more guys would wear makeup. All I have to say to them is the same thing I’d tell women: KNOW HOW TO DO IT RIGHT. I.E., like, it’s a free country and you can do whatever you want, but wearing makeup so dark you look orange is going to undoubtedly affect how other people see you. And I know you should like, not care all that much about what others think, but you kind of have to care a little bit, dude.
Next in line is the incredibly dumb people who use “gay” as another word for “stupid”. Gay used to mean happy, now it’s come to mean homosexual. But saying “That’s so gay” as another way of saying “That’s so stupid” w0uld be like saying “That’s so fat, that’s so skinny, that’s so brunette, that’s so female, that’s so male, etc” basically any trait anyone could have. How’d you like if it all the gay people were going around calling stupid things ‘straight’? Don’t do it, people. And I’m sure I’m going to get someone in here saying “Don’t use retarded as another word for stupid, how’d you like it if all the retarded people went around saying ‘that’s so normal ” but that’s not really the same.
NEXT! A short shout out to the media who need to shut the fuck up. Quit slapping Michael Jackson’s name on everything just to rake in cash or ratings. Like, I ran across this infomercial for a motown multiple cd collection and they billed it as the Michael Jackson something or other when in actually he only accounted for a small portion of the material. And really, who gives a shit who the biological father of his kids was? Michael was their legal guardian and I’m sure the kids aren’t making a big stink about it so why should we? Michael was their father. It doesn’t matter who their sperm donar was.
Now, I don’t know if this incident is related to our racist neighbors which I’ll explain shortly, but as I was walking to the library, this old man in this boring old person car was driving slowly, staring at me. Now, I’m wearing my Michael Jackson tee shirt so that may be why. But I look at the car, then look away. Then I look back, and he’s still following me, staring at me. He shook his head, looked away, and finally drove off. I was like WTF was that all about? Was that one of our racist neighbors?
I will now tell that story. A week or two ago, a thunderstorm detached a huge branch from a tree by our garage and hit a bit of the roof in the back. It didn’t bust it in or anything, but the branch was blocking the alley behind our house.
We called our landlord to remedy the situation, and I wasn’t present for any of this, but my parents and brother told the story. Our neighbors to the left only live here in the summer, they live in Florida the rest of the year. They told our landlord he should make us clean up our yard etc. Now, we don’t have crap sitting out everywhere, we just don’t over preen and overmow our lawn, and the flowers out front are a little overgrown. But they said our landlord should make us fix it up because it looked like a family of “n” words lived there, and I don’t use that word because I find it vulgar.
I mean honestly. I didn’t get good energy from those neighbors before but after I heard that, I was shocked. They threatened to go to the city council and everything.
Maybe they have to landscape perfectly in their little old people gated community, but we do NOT. And city hall or whatever won’t do shit about us not having a perfect lawn. And these people are retired. My parents work, my brother is in school, I work and do shit, we don’t have the amount of free time that they do. They have the time to piddle around with their yard all day. They were even in some garden exhibition. They have a fenced in back yard, but all day that day we had to deal with all the noise from people constantly touring their stupid garden, and all the stupid people taking up parking everywhere, practically blocking our driveway.
And if anyone should complain about their neighbors, it’s us, because our racist neighbors’ dog and cat constantly poop in and invade our yard. It’s like our yard is the residential pet port-a-potty, because we have other neighbors whose dogs probably crap in our yard all the time too.
I don’t have much more to say than that… they just piss me off. I can’t wait till it gets cold and they fly back to their stupid retirement community in Florida.
