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Things I learned this weekend…

Life, Randomness

In the order I can remember them.

1.) You can NOT make it to Staunton Virginia from Fredericksburg by 4pm if you leave at 2pm. Also you should realize this when you get to Route 20 at 2:30pm and just give up instead of driving out to Skyline drive… but it was a pretty drive.

2.) Gay men do not appreciate Han Solo related belt fashion. Apparently satchels are out this year.

3.) Some people don’t appreciate being called “Matt Mirabile’s Sister”

4.) After driving around for 8 hours you really don’t want to go out to a party, you just want to not be driving anymore.

5.) If while at a party someone hands you a drink that they’ve dubbed “Sheep Shit” just pass on it. Trust Me.

6.) There must be more…

Country Music is like tomatoes.

Entertainment, music

It’s amazing what kind of music I like now… well not really amazing, just interesting. It’s just like food tastes, I used to only like french dressing on salads, now I can’t get enough vinagrette. In high school I hated country music, but now I still don’t like it… so that hasn’t totally changed. But I do like the fringes of country. (bluegrass, alt-country, cowpunk, etc.) Country music is like tomatoes, I don’t like them by themselves, but I like everything made out of them (salsa, pasta sauce, etc). I just got an album from [W:The Beat Farmers] and it’s totally awesome. I’m a little behind the times because it came out 13 years ago and 2 of the band members have died since then. But it’s just really good music, just enough country, just enough rock.

I’ve been on a very alt-country kick recently.

CNN.com has the best comments of the web.

Entertainment, The Interweb

Emily Perkins wrote…

As a Christian, I am often frustrated by the media only choosing to show extremists and wackos as opposed to those who actually follow the teachings of Christ. I can’t imagine, however, how it must be to be a Muslim in the United States today, where the term itself is used to try to disqualify and smear a presidential candidate. I pray that the voice of Muslim-Americans across the nation will be heard as clearly as any other. Freedom of religion is supposed to be a fundamental of this country. Maybe we will live to see the day when this is a reality.

via CNN.com

I don’t think it’s that the users of that website are more intellegent than others, I’ll bet its that the comments are more heavily moderated because they are a very visable website. I don’t know what website has the best community of commenters but if I had to list the bottom 3 it would be…

  1. IMDB.com
  2. Youtube.com
  3. Fark.com

Wretched hives of scum and villany

Later!