By the way, Happy Irish History Month! I'm trying to make March the month for Irish History. When I was in school all we did was eat friggin' green cupcakes and draw friggin' leprechauns. They didn't even bother to explain who St.Patrick was! I had to got to a website to find out who St.Patty was! I don't know anything about Irish people really. I like the brog(?) I saw Angela's Ashes. I love U2 and the group that did Funky Kaylee(?) I know there is a language called Irish Gaelic. Let's see what else... the Protestant-Catholic thing, which I'm not sure if I understand completely. I would of never known about Bloody Sunday if it weren't for U2. In fact, our history books seemed to completely ignore Irish people, except for the potato famine. Wtf? Come on Irish peeps do your thing! I'm not qualified for the job, the only thing Irish about me is my last name and we all know how that came about! Here is where I have started to learn about Irish History (via Yahoo): Irish History on the Web I haven't been here in a week. Everytime I get ready to log on and post I click on a link! Then that link leads to another link and so I'm too tired and overwhelmed to write anything. So it goes...

Blogger has been posting these noteworthy blogs and one of them is the ModelBlog. I found a link to Model Heaven and found a very beautiful woman. I'm sorry to say this but she, Charity, was the only one that really had any business sending in her picture. Well, there were a few that had potential. So what have I been doing with myself lately? Trying to learn how to make a web page. I hate Netscape. I came up with the design of my dream and it doesn't work out right in Netscape. I even downloaded their latest version, 6.01, and the fucker still won't display the page correctly. What's even more screwed up about it is that I got the code from a Netscape site! I absolutely love Netscape's developing pages, but how come they don't work in Netscape? Let me not bash Netscape too harshly, reason being I use Netscape for my e-mail and it has saved me from many a virus(virii). I refused to use Outlook from day one. I hate anything that takes over your computer without your permission. So is there a solution to this Netscape/IE issue? No, there are still developers and such out there discussing standards that neither seem to make sense to me nor come into fruition. Well, my literacy rate is increasing. I'm in the C's of my ten ton Webster's Dictionary. I also have a copy of Fowler's Modern English Usage, which I had no clue was a well-known book in English major circles. My copy is from 1965, I scored it from my sister along with some Harvard book collection. Yay! Now I fully understand what a genteelism is. Honestly, I never quite understood what was meant by it. Anyway, along with my study of the dictionary ( which is from 1975, Carter last president) I have found that I have an affinity to words that include -genesis, -ism, also botanical or zoological terms. I've also decided that ebonics (AAVE) indeed is a dialect, because cockney is considered to be one. Cockney is bad English mixed with slang. Words are substituted to mean something else. In fact, American English is bad English, yet it has been granted language status. Just because the speakers of the dialect are black does not mean that it is slang, okay? I feel comfortable when I hear ebonics spoken, especially when I am in a strange place and am feeling lonely. We speak it at home and amongst each other just like Spanish, Chinese, etc. Just because it's a variation of English doesn't make it invalid. Also people keep insisting that the language used in stupid gangsta' rap songs is the embodiment of ebonics. Wrong-o. I don't even now listen to that crap, so how you gonna' play me like dat'? You don't know... bedda' aks sumbahdy! Also, I've developed a rather peculiar way to retain these words that I am learning. I've always complained that we need better words to use for insults instead of the usual Jerry Springer crap. So I have developed a method in which I put the words into a pretty decent insult and then I run off to Yahoo's fight room and use them to see how people react. English majors catch on quick and laugh their asses off when they realize that the person I use them towards has no clue what it meant. For instance, I told one guy he had an acephalous penis. He thought it meant small! I told him in private what it meant and he thought it was cute. I try not to let the fight get serious in those rooms. I'm not capable of fully hating someone I have never met before. I chatted on the phone with a friend I have not spoken to in months ( or is it years?) I'm glad to hear that she is doing well. I hope she makes one of these blog thingies because she is an excellent writer. If you're reading this girlfriend, give it some thought! Movie Reviews Almost Famous: This movie made me proud to be un-cool! I enjoyed every single bit of it and the actress that played the mother should get an award. I'm big fan of classic rock, because that's when rock was at its best. None of this whining about my life sucks crap, but some "Ooh girl, I can't quit you babe" Robert Plant stuff. That white man has soul! Now that I have veered off the subject, the point is the soundtrack is groovie. Lot's of stuff off ofLed Zeppelin IIIwhich is my favorite. I love me some Led Zeppelin What can I say? I absolutely loved this movie. It made me mad, laugh, cry and inspired. Art of War: If Wesley was not in this movie I would of turned it off and went to bed. Too predictable and cliches abound. Hollywood (HollyKlan) is still making Chinese stereotyped characters and expecting us to like it. First scene, Wesley fight stupid Chinese security guards in kung fu no less! They made the guys seem stupid by making it easy for Wesley's character to kick their asses. I don't appreciate that. You and I know his character would of been murdered in that first New Year's scene. The Art of War theme was so tactless that I felt like flipping the bird at the television. They made his female co-star a bit too shallow. In reality, she wouldn't of been so stupid as to fight the man that was protecting her. Sappy excuse for romance. However, Ann Archer's role was credible, but not deserving of an award. And dammit how many times must I tell Hollywood to let the subtitles do the talking. It was annoying that they kept putting the interpreters on during the conference scenes. I study mandarin and I want to see if I actually can understand it. Also I love the way it sounds. Way too violent and it gets two thumbs down and an E for excrement. Having major troubles getting this thing up! But I saved my post!

posted by Lady Ursula at 2:31 PM