Quote of the day:

"She's as awkward as an Eskimo on South Beach!"

The 1 reason why I love Miami:

Dana.

Reasons why I hate Miami:

• Every six feet they force you to pay a toll, and every single toll is a completely random amount.
• The nearest Taco Bell on Alligator Alley is either in Naples or Eastern Miami. Nothing in between to eat at except one Indian reservation that has terrible chicken fingers.
  
• In the hospitals, security guards outnumber nurses. No joke, Kendall Regional Hospital - they even take a picture of you when you visit a patient.
• It is the birth place of one of the most annoying American Idols ever. Suck it, David Archuleta.
• The people aren't friendly. Just buying a coke at the 7-11 and the lady next to me completely stops her phone conversation in Spanish to stare at me like I'm deranged.
  
• A Bloody Mary is cheaper than a Coke (okay, maybe this isn't such a bad thing....)
• HOMELESS PEOPLE ARE EVERYWHERE. I totally understand why the homeless would flock to one of the largest cities in the southern US, however. No need to sleep outside in snow, living on the beach can't be so bad, and there are ample tourists to panhandle from.
  
• Traffic. Angry drivers. Lack of turn signals.
• Everything just feels dirty.
• This song:

to be continued..

Frank O'Hara

I am not a painter, I am a poet.
Why? I think I would rather be
a painter, but I am not. Well,

For instance, Mike Goldberg
is starting a painting. I drop in.
'Sit down and have a drink' he
says. I drink; we drink. I look
up. 'You have SARDINES in it."
'Yes, I needed something there.'
'Oh,' I go and days go by
ad I drop in again. The painting
is going on, and I go, and the days
go by. I drop in. The painting is
finished. 'Where's SARDINES?'
All that's left is just
letters, 'It was too much," Mike says.

But me? One days I am thinking of
a color: orange. Pretty soon it is a
whole page of words, not lines.
Then another page. There should be
so much more, not of orange, of
words, how terrible orange is
and life. Days go by. It is even in
prose, I am a real poet. My poem
is finished and I haven't mentioned
orange yet. It's twelve poems, I call
it ORANGES. And one day in a gallery
I see Mike's painting, called SARDINES.

Wtf Pope?

Can someone tell me why, in Africa, a country where more than 22 million people are infected with HIV, nine out of 10 children with HIV in the world live in the region, which has 11.4 million orphans because of AIDS, and 1.5 million people there died of the disease in just 2007, the Pope BANS condom use?

click here to read the article

I've never understood the religious stance on banning contraception, especially in a place where more people have a sexually transmitted disease than clean water. I'll give the Vatican props, they are the largest private supporter of HIV/AIDS treatment in Africa. However, if they put so much financial support into helping the sufferers of HIV and AIDS, why wouldn't they want to take the necessary steps to help the people in Africa slow the spread of it?

I find it ignorant and irresponsible to hold the same morals of a time when HIV and AIDS did not exist.

EDIT:

love the commentary by this guy on CNN.com

T.S. Eliot

"Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves."

One last desperate plea in the world of grammatical blasphemy

Chuck Palahniuk

"We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will."

Ghandi's version of the 7 deadly sins:

* Wealth without Work
* Pleasure without Conscience
* Science without Humanity
* Knowledge without Character
* Politics without Principle
* Commerce without Morality
* Worship without Sacrifice

which ones are you guilty of?

Christopher Morley

"Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, everyday, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity."

7 reasons why I probably hate your facebook status

I, like most other college students, am mildly obsessed (yes, obsessed) with my facebook profile.

However, sometimes when I read my news feed, it makes me want to reach through my internet cables and suckerpunch half of my facebook "friends".

I have compiled the following:

1. The I-have-no-friends-so-text-me status
"X is bored. Text it. ###-###-####"
First of all, didn't your mother ever tell you not to post your personal information on the internet? Further more, if you have to beg your friends to text you, you should probably invest in some new friends.

2. ANYTHING involving "Twilight" status
Yes, we know, you love Edward Cullen. What is that you say? Everyone isn't in love with a fictional vampire? Yes, we all have/had our celebrity crushes (I was in love with Zac Hanson until I was like... 16), but planning your wedding with a fictional character? You need therapy, stat.

3. the "X IS SO SCHMAMMERED" status
Its friday night, you're drunk. awesome. Do I care? No. & "schmammered" might be the most obnoxious word ever.

4. The song lyrics status
Put down your razors, emo kids. I've never understood why people tap dance around their feelings with obscure song lyrics. You THINK that Pete Wentz and the rest of Fall Out Boy wrote specifically about your break-up with your lame high school boyfriend, but really, no they didn't. Get over it.

5. The i-feel-the-need-to-update-my-status-500-times-per-day status
you're walking your dog, molly. You're going to the mall. You're hanging out with Tina. and then OMG the Jonas Brothers are on MTV. I don't care. Check your newsfeed. If you have more than 5 status updates per day, you are abusing the facebook status privilege.

6. The I!! am!!! so!!!! excited!!!! about!!! every!!!! status!!!!! I!! have!!!! status
A million exclamation points does not make you look intelligent.

7. The passive aggressive facebook status
Now, can you expect that the object of your hatred is going to see your status, figure out it is them, alter their behavior accordingly and all will be well? Nope, probably not. Probably will never happen. Broadcasting such on your status is more than likely ineffective.

1)
2)
(statuses courtesy of passiveaggressivenotes.com)






p.s. I am probably guilty of one or all of these at one point in my facebook career (except Twilight. Twilight sucks). Just sayin'.

Emily Dickinson

The Duel


I took my power in my hand
And went against the world;
'T was not so much as David had,
But I was twice as bold.

I aimed my pebble, but myself
Was all the one that fell.
Was it Goliath too large,
Or only I too small?