happy birthday to dennis tomorrow. i guess we didnt go to champaign. sheeee...sorry. we'll see you soon, though.
also, congraduations to oiy. going out to eat at three happiness with everyone was cool. remember what i said in an earlier blog about all 4 lansiris in a room being funny? well, add caddy, some more of oiy's friends, some alcohol, and mix thoroughly. you get another level of hilarity. hahhahaha. going out to barleycorn after was cool, although i didn't get drunk as planned. it wasn't really crowded when we got there, maybe because all the yuppies were at dave matthews. haha. anyways, it was good to see everyone there.
i ate 3 popsicles today in a span of 15 minutes. they are so good. it's like sucking at god's teat.
when i was driving home today, i heard the new no doubt song (platinum blonde life). i like it, its a good song to drive to. it sounds kind of like garbage (the band). speaking of garbage (the band), i've had that song "special" in my head for the past few days. "iiiiiiiiiiiii'm livin' without you....iiiiiiiiii know all about you..."
going back to work is so depressing once you've had a lot of days off. boooooo.
posted by mcpheeny 6:15 PM
hi everyone.
just wanted to say that i have finally gotten around to taking my blog to the next level. yes, i added comment fields to my blog. at least i accomplished something on my day off. i kind of want to see what people think about my blogs, instead of always hearing "hahaa nice blog", or "hahaa your blog is funny". so if you wanna comment on something i said, you can now. well, i don't really feel like writing anything today, but i'll leave you with a funny quote. it's by billy corgan in the veiuphoria video, when someone is asking him about the band:
"let me make this analogy. ...you want to go to the circus. and to get in the circus, it costs 5 pence. so you stand in line, and you don't have 5 pence, but you really want to go to the circus. so someone comes along and says "well, i'll take you into the circus, and i'll pay the 5 pence, but you gotta pay me back later." so you get taken into the circus, and he takes you out, and he says "so when are you gonna pay me back the 5 pence back?" .... "i don't know, ill get around to it later." thats the story of the band."
hahaha. he likes to confuse people.
oh yeah, i saw sara silverman on tv today. she is hot. she's also really funny. i think her being funny makes her hot.
posted by mcpheeny 12:00 AM
hi.
well, i was gonna write a blog about my history with illini bball, and how they are the favorite team of mine, ever since 1989, but dudo went ahead and stole my thunder by posting an illini blog. hahaha. actually, i don't really feel like writing about it now anyways. i'll probably write about it later this week. but i was going to write about it today because i was excited to watch the illini play against eastern illinois......eastern illinois. also, i was still focused on the game even in the garbage minutes when they were up by 15. i still wanted to see how the players on the court were doing. that's how huge the illini are to me, and im sure to others.
i bought some more ice cream today. dole strawberry/raspberry/grape popsicles made with real juice. it seems like i'm always chewing on the popsicle stick when im done while im writing a blog. im doing it now. ::chews::
remember how i said i was excited about the bulls in the beginning of the season. hahahahhahahahahahahahahahahhahaha. hahahahahahahahah. haha. hehehehe.
i finally got to listen to my new white stripes cd, "de stijl". its good. i listened to it while folding clothes. i think the only time you can appreciate how good a cd when listening to it is when you are folding clothes, driving (and not talking to anyone), or just sitting/lying there listening. im probably missing some other instances, but this is from my experience.
ok laters everyone.
posted by mcpheeny 12:26 AM
hello.
one day, back when i lived in cicero, and i was like 8 years old, i was walking to my friend's house. it was a sunny day out, but it was like 0 degrees, and there was snow everywhere. i was wearing a huge coat, winter cap (with a bally thing on top), scarf, mittens, the works. and i was eating a cherry popsicle on the way there that was from our freezer. i passed my friend's sister on the way, and she goes "you're eating a popsicle in the middle of winter?!? are you nuts?!?!" i just shrugged to her, but in my mind i was like "i don't get it, i'm just eating a popsicle. oohh, 'cause it's cold outside. and the popsicle is cold. eh." and i kept on walking. i never thought about this issue again until last year, it was winter (and cold out) in champaign, and dudo thought i was nuts for wanting to go to dairy queen for blizzards. apparently dq isn't even open in the winter there. i bring this up because today, before i lifted, my dad told me to buy some dole fruit bar ice creams. at first, i was like "why? its cold out." but then i was like "hmm, i want some too. who cares if its winter." which has been my view all my life. so the moral of the story is...ice cream is good any time, at any ambient temperature. unless you are suffering from hypothermia, but i don't think eating some ice cream will bring your body temp down that much. today i had a orange-pinepple one. i bought 2 boxes. strawberry and orange-pineapple. they are on sale at jewel for 2.99 (from 4.79) for those of you who want to get it.
also, today i was driving the nissan nx with the stick. i bought the paper and a cranberry-raspberry snapple from white hen. one of the talents im proud of was put to use on the drive home. i can drive with the stick, drink from a snapple bottle, and change the station on the radio at the same time. this is four things being done by two hands (steering, shifting, drinking, pushing buttons). four things done by two hands.....i bet that would make me popular with the ladies. hahahaha. ( a collective eeeww being heard by the girls reading this, and hearty laughter and cheering from the guys)
ok laters.
posted by mcpheeny 12:36 AM
hello, yes another blog.
anyways, ill write a couple things in response to dudo's blog (which is good, by the way), and dennis' blog (also good) for that matter.
first of, all, i just wanna clarify somethings i said before. i guess i made a poor choice of words when i said life is all about "maintaining high happiness levels". but i think that the point to life is to be happy overall. theres a difference between the two. i remember in sunday buddhist school, the teacher made this board game where as you went along and landed on different parts of the board, you could get either good karma (white chips) or bad karma (black chips). and if you got a lot of white chips (by landing on the "do your homework", "listen to your parents", "finish your bowl of rice" squares), you could reach nirvana (or heaven) and stop the reincarnation cycle. anyways, forget all that nirvana, hell, reincarnation crap, i brought this board game up to make an analogy. i think that theres like a pool of white chips that you wanna collect throughout life. sometimes getting these chips may not bring happiness at the time (eating broccoli), but at the end, its a white chip that counts towards your pool (making your parents happy(or not pissed at you), getting proper servings of vegetables in your diet to make you healthy). sometimes you get black chips... it happens. and the point of collecting these white chips is different for different people, like saying "life was cool" at the end for some, or trying to get to heaven at the end for others. so basically i described life as a game where you collect chips that mean different things to different people, make people feel differently, and the goal is different and probably indescribable for different people. sweet. after much consideration, i'm not gonna delete what i just wrote cause it took a while to type. i don't think i know the words to describe what i feel about life, so, eh. anyways, the one constant is that people wanna feel happy or good about their life at any part of their life up to that point. this includes what dudo said about living it the way you wanted, enjoying the view, etc. maybe happy isnt the word. more like it's just right. but then again, if you feel that you've lived your life right, you're happy. ok,i'll go back to happy, hahaha. it don't matter, its just words.
ok, to address what i think is the backbone of dudo's blog. so what keeps you from killing yourself if your life is happy? what's the point when the ICEE is gone? what keeps you going? can't we just say it's an indescribable inherent human trait? well damn, plants and other animals have it too. maybe it's too easy an explanation, but thats what i think. if there wasn't this trait, there wouldn't be any humans around, would there. we'd be walking in the middle of the street going "well, that car's gonna hit me, but it's aight, cause i prolly won't feel it, and i don't got anything left to do."
our motivation to do things is to be happy overall. our motivation to live is much harder to define. also, i agree with what dennis wrote about the two guys with the different morals. i have always thought that. fortunately, a lot of us have morals.
you know what, the first time i really thought of this life stuff was a long time ago when i read a certain calvin and hobbes strip where they were talking about the point of life. just another reason why calvin and hobbes are cool.
also, i saw the wash today. its the movie with snoop and dr. dre working at a car wash. it was pretty funny. there was a hilarious part in the movie near the end that pretty much made the movie for me. hahahaha. anyways, i recommend it.
ok laters. sorry for that one huge paragraph that barely made sense.
posted by mcpheeny 1:45 AM