Monday, September 23, 2013
Wednesday, September 18, 2013
anna karenina
i watched anna karenina recently because i couldn't get thru the book. it's forever long and everyone has a million names (as the russians do) but i'd always wanted to read it since it's a classic and i've never read a russian book before (i know... not even crime and punishment!)
in any case. the movie is worth a watch. it's shot really interestingly. some of it's like a play; there's a stage sometimes. some of the movements (the dance scene especially) is very choreographed, like a ballet. it's really interesting.
but, the point of this post, actually, is that some people is crazy. i dunno what it is about love, but it turns some people into raving lunatics. a lot of people grow out of it (i certainly did) but some people do not. i guess i'm just curious about why people act crazy. like, what do they think they're accomplishing? guilting people into things, stalking people, berating them, being paranoid... this does not keep people in love with you. in fact, it will eventually drive them away from you. it's tough being in love with someone who is all about the drama. a normal person will indulge you for a while, but no brand of crazy is so awesome that they'll stick around forever. ...unless there's something wrong with them as well.
in any case. the movie is worth a watch. it's shot really interestingly. some of it's like a play; there's a stage sometimes. some of the movements (the dance scene especially) is very choreographed, like a ballet. it's really interesting.
but, the point of this post, actually, is that some people is crazy. i dunno what it is about love, but it turns some people into raving lunatics. a lot of people grow out of it (i certainly did) but some people do not. i guess i'm just curious about why people act crazy. like, what do they think they're accomplishing? guilting people into things, stalking people, berating them, being paranoid... this does not keep people in love with you. in fact, it will eventually drive them away from you. it's tough being in love with someone who is all about the drama. a normal person will indulge you for a while, but no brand of crazy is so awesome that they'll stick around forever. ...unless there's something wrong with them as well.
Saturday, September 14, 2013
milky way over crater lake
june 19th's astronomy picture of the day!
if you follow the link and hover over the photo, it'll show you the constellations.
Monday, September 9, 2013
oink!
the following reminds me of the lab-grown meat from earlier this year. julian baggini - the pig that wants to be eaten
i don't have a problem with lab grown meat. it's a little weird. but i can get over it. what i cannot get over is a talking pig. even if i could somehow convince myself that it's no smarter or more developed than regular meat pigs, i wouldn't really believe it when it tells me it wants to be eaten. ...well, no. i'd believe it. but i'd think it was, like, brainwashed into thinking it. it's bred to want to be eaten. which is weird and unethical somehow. like taking away someone's freedom of choice. no one wants to be killed and eaten unless something is wrong with you. ...right?
mentally vegetated chicken? i'm somehow fine with eating that. probably because it doesn't think. which is weird cause all current animals do think and somehow i'm okay with eating them. ...so long as they're not talking. ...i am full of contradictions...
after 40 years of vegetarianism, max berger was about to sit down to feast on pork sausages, crispy bacon and pan-fried chicken breast. max has always missed the taste of meat, but his principles were stronger than his culinary cravings. but now he was able to eat meat with a clear conscience.as much as i love meat, i have some problems with eating it. most of the meat we eat comes from industries which are really not good for the environment and treat the animals very cruelly. but would i give up meat for these reasons? no. and honestly, it's just cause i like the taste too much. i do think that humans should eat meat as our bodies are made to do so, but i'd much prefer that that meat come to us in nicer ways.
the sausages and bacon and come from a pig called priscilla he had met the week before. the pig had been genetically engineered to be able to speak and, more importantly, to want to be eaten. ending up on a human's table was priscilla's lifetime ambition and she woke up on the day of her slaugher with a keen sense of anitcipation. she had told all this to max just before rushing off to the comfortable and humane slaughterhouse. having herd her story, max thought it would be disrepsectful not to eat her.
the chicken had come from a genetically modified bird which had been 'decerebrated.' in other words, it lived the life of a vegetable, with no awareness of self, environment, pain or pleasure. killing it was therefore nomore barbarous than uprooting a carrot.
yet as the plate was placed before him, max felt a twinge of nausea. was this just a reflex reaction, caused by a lifetime of vegetarianism? or was it the physical sign of a justifiable psychic distress? collecting himself, he picked up his knife and fork...
i don't have a problem with lab grown meat. it's a little weird. but i can get over it. what i cannot get over is a talking pig. even if i could somehow convince myself that it's no smarter or more developed than regular meat pigs, i wouldn't really believe it when it tells me it wants to be eaten. ...well, no. i'd believe it. but i'd think it was, like, brainwashed into thinking it. it's bred to want to be eaten. which is weird and unethical somehow. like taking away someone's freedom of choice. no one wants to be killed and eaten unless something is wrong with you. ...right?
mentally vegetated chicken? i'm somehow fine with eating that. probably because it doesn't think. which is weird cause all current animals do think and somehow i'm okay with eating them. ...so long as they're not talking. ...i am full of contradictions...
Wednesday, September 4, 2013
four planet sunset
i actually gasped when i saw this photo. it's just too beautiful!
Saturday, August 31, 2013
-mia
like 35 years ago, when my parents we dating, my dad went to the hospital for something or another. the dr takes some blood and comes back with a very serious face and tells my dad that they're going to have to keep him overnight because he apparently has leukemia.
my dad had to go home to drop off the car and by the time he came back he had already missed dinner service, which sucked cause my dad didn't eat dinner on his own. the next morning the hospital didn't get him breakfast because the night before he came in after they had taken orders for breakfast.
the blood specialist comes in and tells my dad that, haha, there seems to be a mistake. he doesn't have deadly leukemia, he has much less serious anemia! which, after talking to my dad about his life style, is probably because he doesn't eat a balanced diet. so anyway, he can go home.
my dad calls his friend to come pick him up. the friend says that he can come on his lunch break, around 1pm. my dad waits around and of course doesn't get served lunch because of course he should have been home by then. (he's missed three meals in a row by now!!) my dad keep waiting and waiting until it's after 2pm, wondering where this friend is. he can't get a hold of his friend so he calls his landlord (he hadn't lived in la for so long and didn't have so many friends with cars) who came to pick him up around 3pm.
when he goes downstairs to be picked up, the receptionist is like "i thought you left with your friend hours ago!" um... no, cause apparently someone else told the friend my dad has already been picked up!
the hospital eventually closed. btw. thank god. i'm not sure from what, but it's clear they were not being managed very well. my dad was in the hospital for about 24 hours and didn't get a single meal! and the whole reason they kept him was because they misdiagnosed him too! ...ridiculous!
my dad had to go home to drop off the car and by the time he came back he had already missed dinner service, which sucked cause my dad didn't eat dinner on his own. the next morning the hospital didn't get him breakfast because the night before he came in after they had taken orders for breakfast.
the blood specialist comes in and tells my dad that, haha, there seems to be a mistake. he doesn't have deadly leukemia, he has much less serious anemia! which, after talking to my dad about his life style, is probably because he doesn't eat a balanced diet. so anyway, he can go home.
my dad calls his friend to come pick him up. the friend says that he can come on his lunch break, around 1pm. my dad waits around and of course doesn't get served lunch because of course he should have been home by then. (he's missed three meals in a row by now!!) my dad keep waiting and waiting until it's after 2pm, wondering where this friend is. he can't get a hold of his friend so he calls his landlord (he hadn't lived in la for so long and didn't have so many friends with cars) who came to pick him up around 3pm.
when he goes downstairs to be picked up, the receptionist is like "i thought you left with your friend hours ago!" um... no, cause apparently someone else told the friend my dad has already been picked up!
the hospital eventually closed. btw. thank god. i'm not sure from what, but it's clear they were not being managed very well. my dad was in the hospital for about 24 hours and didn't get a single meal! and the whole reason they kept him was because they misdiagnosed him too! ...ridiculous!
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