I was kind of surprised to see this email in my inbox once I got to work:
His auto-follow bot might want to be a little more selective.
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Hilarity
We had a 4.4 earthquake this morning, but the local news in LA acted like it was armageddon, covering the small quake for the entirety of the morning newscast. Robert Kovacik is a local anchor, and while he was interviewing people this morning, my gaydar went off, so I tweeted this:
I was kind of surprised to see this email in my inbox once I got to work:
His auto-follow bot might want to be a little more selective.
I was kind of surprised to see this email in my inbox once I got to work:
His auto-follow bot might want to be a little more selective.
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Corey Haim, addiction, and facebook
Hey guys, did you hear Corey Haim died?!
That's my attempt at humor in this post, because the rest of it will not be funny.
I sometimes think I should cancel my facebook account, because so much of what people put on there makes me so angry. Then I talk myself off the ledge and remind myself that I can just block certain people. But facebook has really become a reminder to me of how hateful and ignorant people are, and that's not something I think should be ignored.
Someone I'm friends with on facebook updated their status yesterday with something along the lines of, "Oh boo hoo, Corey Haim overdosed. Come ON, when you do drugs, you die! Get over it!" (I've omitted the horrific spelling errors.) Her point is that people are dying of cancer, people are dying in the war, why are we sad when someone dies of an overdose? Now we're gonna hear about the overdose for weeks and we won't hear anything about any soldiers dying!
A few reminders:
-America is a culture obsessed with celebrity. You can't get around it if you want to live in this country.
-Death is sad. It also serves as a reminder of our own mortality. This is also sad for some people. And that's okay.
-Addiction is a disease. If he was taking enough pills to accidentally overdose, it sounds to me like he was an addict. And the very definition of addiction includes loss of control. I would argue that most people don't choose to become addicts. But once you're an addict, it's pretty difficult to choose to be sober. Yes, it's a disease that started with a choice, a choice to do drugs, and yes, it's a disease over which you can ultimately choose to have control, but that control does not come easily. To say an addict "should die" is insensitive and ignorant, and shows an utter lack of perspective on the world at large.
In the words of the Indigo Girls, "Who are you to speak for God?"
That's my attempt at humor in this post, because the rest of it will not be funny.
I sometimes think I should cancel my facebook account, because so much of what people put on there makes me so angry. Then I talk myself off the ledge and remind myself that I can just block certain people. But facebook has really become a reminder to me of how hateful and ignorant people are, and that's not something I think should be ignored.
Someone I'm friends with on facebook updated their status yesterday with something along the lines of, "Oh boo hoo, Corey Haim overdosed. Come ON, when you do drugs, you die! Get over it!" (I've omitted the horrific spelling errors.) Her point is that people are dying of cancer, people are dying in the war, why are we sad when someone dies of an overdose? Now we're gonna hear about the overdose for weeks and we won't hear anything about any soldiers dying!
A few reminders:
-America is a culture obsessed with celebrity. You can't get around it if you want to live in this country.
-Death is sad. It also serves as a reminder of our own mortality. This is also sad for some people. And that's okay.
-Addiction is a disease. If he was taking enough pills to accidentally overdose, it sounds to me like he was an addict. And the very definition of addiction includes loss of control. I would argue that most people don't choose to become addicts. But once you're an addict, it's pretty difficult to choose to be sober. Yes, it's a disease that started with a choice, a choice to do drugs, and yes, it's a disease over which you can ultimately choose to have control, but that control does not come easily. To say an addict "should die" is insensitive and ignorant, and shows an utter lack of perspective on the world at large.
In the words of the Indigo Girls, "Who are you to speak for God?"
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