July 1, 2011

• Lukewarm Links 6/30

  My dad had surgery today.  I didn't go because I didn't feel like sitting around in a hospital all day when it was so hot and humid.  They said it felt like 110F and tomorrow it will be hotter.  I finally got word that he was ok this evening but I don't know...did I care?  I'm not heartless but the dude put my mom and I through hell during my childhood.  I know I make it seem like things are rosy but they are dysfunctional.  He's done shit that I don't know if I can forgive him for.  That being said, he has kidney failure and when asked about transplants I thought of it but I can't because I've had kidney infections and apparently the doctors didn't think that was wise to give him one of mine.  Anyway, it's fucking hot.  I woke up early and weeded my raspberry and blueberry patches and then watered all my plants.  I also had my first black raspberry of the year and it was delicious.  That plant is so tall.  Normally they run between 3 and 4 feet tall and this one is at least 6 feet tall.  It started off this year at my knees and now it is almost taller than me.  Time for links.

  1.  Does anyone other there use OKCupid?  Well here is a tumblr that is produced by a woman who posts the strange emails she receives on OKCupid.  It's called This is not ok, cupid. 

  2.  Last week I posted a site about history and this week I have another.  It's called How I Remember It.  It's a collection of photoshopped historical photos.  One of those photos serves as my current facebook profile pic.

  3.  I found this tumblr called Who is Osama.  It's a collection of posts of people who don't know who Osama bin Laden is.  I don't know if that's funny or sad.

  4.  Stop me if you've heard this joke before: An Amish guy buys a tracphone and accidentally sends a text to the wrong number.  The person who received the text is a 12 year old girl.  She texts back and they start a correspondence and it got very sexy.  The Amish guy set up a date for sex with the girl.  Her parents notified the police and they told the girl to arrange the date.  He wanted to meet at a restaurant.  He showed up in a horse-drawn buggy.  It's not a joke it's true.  Here's 25 things that could have made it creepier (if you want to read more about the story there is a link there)

  5.  Here's a site that discusses the 10 Worst and 10 Best movies thus far this year.  I have to agree for the most part.

  6.  Have you ever read the classic novel "From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler"?  Well it's an awesome book and I'm not just saying that because I read it in grade school, college, and taught it to my class.  It presents a great story that most people can relate to...running away.  The children in the book run away and live in a museum.  Well I don't know where I'm going with this but here's a collection of photos showing what it'd be like to live inside an Ikea.

  7.  I used to spend a lot of time reading Craigslist.  There were always hilarious items found in the missed connections section.  Well now I don't have to scour Craiglist for gold, I can just visit this site.

  8.  Last week I encouraged you to read and I will do the same.  Here's a site called The Book Seer.  You type in the last book you read and then it will suggest the next book you should read.  Once again I will recommend "From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler" and if you don't want to read a kid's book try Book Seer.

  9.  I have heard a lot of people talk about the joys of this thing called Groupon.  Well here is something that people have labeled as dumb.  Who goes to the movies alone?  People who want to see The Lincoln Lawyer.

  10.  I have had some people say that I look like John Candy.  It's probably because I'm fat.  Anyway I've always considered him to be a brilliant actor.  Here's a collection of roles that Candy didn't get.  It's so sad how some of those movies were so bad but would have been great with Candy.

  11.  I enjoy football, specifically college football.  This may not be interesting to you unless you enjoy college football.  It's a collection of artwork depicting various colleges' football uniforms over time.  So sad they didn't put in Wisconsin but oh well, we're going to take the Big Ten this year and that's good enough for me.

  12.  I also enjoy pro-wrestling.  It's entertaining and much more exciting than the old school amateur wrestling like I did in high school.  One of the best parts of the pro-wrestling experience is the entrances.  Here's a collection of the ten best theme songs from the 80s, the heyday of pro-wrestling.  Of those wrestlers, can anyone tell me which ones were from Minnesota and who played for the Green Bay Packers?
  
  I guess it was decent...inside with a fan blowing on me while watching a season of SVU.
  
  God this is so true, especially for me.
  
  I don't know what to think of this product.
  
  
  God bless America!
  
  OK, here's the end of the circumcision debate...which would you rather have ladies?
  
  Yes.

  Oh and if you read this, do me a favor, do not recommend any posts or comments that have to deal with LoBorn.  That includes people who reply to "her".  I could care less.  Xanga has become such a toxic place.  Let me sort it out: you believe this and you don't believe that.  There it's solved.  No more shit.  If I see anymore recs about LoBorn or Curtis Bell I will delete and block you.  I am so sick of this shit.  LoBorn is not this Curtis Bell and I don't care what links you will send me to prove me wrong.  I know who the Xangan is behind it.  If it is Curtis Bell contact the school he works for and email them the type of things that he is posting.  Teachers don't have freedom of speech on the Internet.  Also you claim he's stolen photos of an athlete, contact her.  Just stop exacerbating the situation and now I need to go block myself because I realize what a hypocrite I am.  We need to draw in new members to this dying site and do people who have been here less than a week really give two shits about who LoBorn really is or what they believe?  Yes, I know...hypocrite...fuck this shit.

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