March 2019 thoughts

(On the decision to pull the "Simpsons" episode featuring Michael Jackson's voice) Okay, this is dumb. A lot of great movies and TV shows feature terrible people. Lots of terrible people write great songs. Just because a person is terrible doesn't mean we should censor all their creations.
Besides, pulling this episode is like saying it never happened. Instead they should acknowledge that it did happen and try to do better.
Next thing we know, they'll stop teaching about Picasso in art classes because he was a jerk.

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Edward Scissorhands is a great movie, but it has a lot of plot holes. Like why didn't the inventor give him hands earlier? How does Edward wipe after using the bathroom? Does Edward even go to the bathroom?
But perhaps the biggest plot hole is (spoiler alert) where the heck did the ice come from at the end of the movie? If he got it through Amazon, how did he get the computer in the first place? How did he get a credit card? That's what I want to know.

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"Lowering the minimum drinking age to 18 is dangerous! 18-year-old brains aren't fully developed! People will die!"
Okay, fine. Keep the minimum drinking age as it is. But while we're at it, let's raise the minimum age to join the military to 21. If an 18-year-old can't enjoy even the occasional alcoholic beverage because people might die, then they're definitely not old enough to go to war where people WILL die.
(This is all coming from someone who has no interest in drinking alcohol.)

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It's hard to enjoy Rammstein when the guy sitting behind you is talking really loudly and obnoxiously.
(I'm on the bus)

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Being sick during Spring Break is the worst.



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I'm sick of alt right people calling themselves libertarians. Because it makes us all look bad. Liberty means nothing if it's only for white, straight men.

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Just heard the new Rammstein song. I'm so excited for the album to come out!

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People who are offended by the new Rammstein video are stupid. They didn't even watch the whole thing. They just saw a few images from the video and thought it was pro-Nazi.
Stupid people, always assuming the worst of Rammstein.

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Stop trying to make me feel bad for having problematic faves! So maybe a lot of my favorite movies don't pass the Bechdel test. Maybe Tim Burton is a racist. Maybe Rammstein made a pornographic video. But that doesn't make their work all bad.

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Dear Rammstein,
Please come to the pacific northwest. And please sing "Frühling in Paris" even when you're not in Paris because it's one of my favorite songs of yours, I'm too broke to fly all the way to Paris, and it's not fair that only the French can hear it live.
Also, my birthday's coming up. Hint hint.