Am I Weird?

So I am going on a Scandinavian/Northern European vacation in a few days. Places I will visit include Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Germany. I have things I want to see/do like visit the Nobel Peace Center, ride a roller coaster in Tivoli Gardens, touch the Berlin Wall, etc... However there is one thing I vow to do, and will consider my vacation a failure unless it is accomplished.

Your probably thinking to yourself, "What must it be? Probably something pretty BIG if you vow to do it!". However that is not the case, the thing I want to do is relatively easy and will take no effort at all. When I am in Norway I want to grab a stick or a branch or a small log, put it in my suitcase and bring it back with me to Los Angeles. I just want to have a piece of "Norwegian Wood". That way when people come over and see a branch on top of my fireplace they'll ask, "What is that stick doing there?". Then I can say it is "Norwegian Wood" in the hopes that they get The Beatles reference/irony. Then they will either think that is awesome or totally weird. Either way I will get a reaction, which is one of the sole reasons I do most things. Does that make me weird?

"And when I awoke, I was alone, this bird had flown. So I lit a fire, isn't it good, norwegian wood."

- The Beatles

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNV2vaxOQ-Y

You Like It?

If you like my picture, status, etc... and are going to take the effort to "Like It" why not take the extra effort and just say something about it. I mean what do you like about it exactly? "Like" is a very vague word... If someone says "I like you" what does that mean? Do you want to hang out with me and be my friend or do you want to one day have my babies?

Oh facebook, the headaches you cause me : (

Dumb Car

Living in Silver Lake you see a lot of Smart Cars. Why you ask? Because they are environmentally friendly automobiles that require little gas, and those type of people are prone to live in urban liberal areas. They are the types of people that want others to look at them and think... "Wow that person is so cool, they are taking real steps to save our planet. They must be super deep". Don't get me wrong I am all about saving "Mother Earth", but I won't do it at the expense of my own life. I mean have you seen one of those cars get in an accident?!?! A little fender bender could mean death!

Not very smart if you ask me ; )

Status Update News Reporter

You know what I am not going to write anything about Michael Jackson and his death, because frankly I don't really care that much. However I think it is funny how everyone is using their facebook status update to inform people about it. Like... "Oh really Michael Jackson died? Well thanks for informing me via your status update, because it isn't like it is EVERYWHERE!". Why is it when something news worthy happens people turn into the facebook Anderson Cooper? If I wanted to hear editorial insight about world events I would watch the news, and not check out your latest update on a social networking site. News I want to find out from your status update includes....

" Blank just got a new job"

"Blank ate too much chocolate, and doesn't feel good"

"Blank loves his new apartment"

In closing try to keep your status updates about yourself, because if I wanted news I don't want it from some guy I went to high school with and is now an Assistant Manager at Best Buy!

Take That Off!!!!

Why do hipsters wear neck ties?

Neck ties to me symbolize the man having a noose around your jugular. I mean you could literally hang yourself with a tie! The only reason someone wears a tie to work is because its part of the dress code and their boss makes them. Neck ties are 8-5, 401K, stale coffee and monthly birthdays in the break room.... all things hipsters disassociate themselves with! Yet here they are walking around Silver Lake and Echo Park with their dumb looking ties talking about free trade goods and organic coffee.

As a member of the 8-5 association living amongst the hipsters (I'm kind of like Jane Goodall living with chimps) I ask you to take off your neck tie! It is almost offensive, how dare you look like you work 9 hours a day behind a desk for 40 years of your life! Get an actual job with a neck tie and then let me know if you still wear it on the weekends : )

Do I Know You?

I am sure everyone has one or two of these friends on facebook. The friend you really don't know that well or don't really care for that much (but added them on FB just so they don't think you are a jerk), who always comments on your stuff! Now it wouldn't be a problem if they said/left comments like...

"Oh your dog is cute"

"Congrats on the raise"

"I like cinnamon rolls too!"

But these people don't! They leave random/odd/rude comments that leave you scratching your head. The kind of things that if they said it to your face (in real life) you would be like "Excuse Me!", "You can't be serious" or "What crawled up your butt and died?". However you can't reply to their comment with your own comment, because then other people will think badly of you. Also you don't want to confront them in real life, because in all honesty you don't want to see them in real life!

Well then your probably saying to yourself "Why don't you just de-friend them"? However since this person does comment on your stuff they will probably notice you don't come up in their news feed anymore and realize you de-friended them. Then by chance if you see them in real life the roles are reversed and they think YOU are the weirdo for de-friending them without explanation.

facebook is kind of like virtual high school, since your all in the same place your bound to bump into the kid who never got the clue that you WEREN'T friends.