Teen Titans, AniZona, and Snarkiness
Sunday I spent a lot of time zoning out, thinking about people and friendship and life and love and death and anything else that would flit into and out of my mind.
Tomorrow is the day, and for that I'm rather excited, because closure is good, not that I expect many to actually care. If they did, well, never mind. People’s actions and words don’t mesh a great deal of the time, and that’s all I’ll say for now. I'll save my snarkiness for later.
I know there's at least one person on my friendslist who likes the Teen Titans, so I present a link to several sound clips, including the Japanese theme song and the version Larry sang. Browse and enjoy.
To any anime fans Arizona and the surrounding area, you might want to consider attending this year's AniZona. It's their first year, but, impressively, they managed to arrange Yoshitaka Amano as Guest of Honor. Unfortunately, not everyone took the news well, particularly those who are fans but unable to attend, calling the con "ghetto", whining about how such a fledgling con won't be able to handle it, how the organizers said before they didn't have money for big guest, why such a big name would go to such con instead of a big well established on like Anime Expo. Maybe Amano like small cons. Maybe he likes the way they asked. Maybe his horoscope told him it to. Who knows? And as for the allegations that they lied about not having money, maybe they didn't want to make any promises they couldn't keep. Personally, to me it sounds like a case of sour grapes.
It's later; thus, it’s time to be a snarky.
I read not too long ago a comment in a community that began, "I hate to be bitchy, but..." after which the commenter immediately did get "bitchy". Personally, I believe it's too often become way to excuse rude or crude or nasty behavior or words, because if they truly hate to be or don't mean to be a certain way, then they wouldn't do it. They’d think and reword your statement.
Also, ever notice how some people spend so much time trying to find out what's wrong with what you say that they don't actually hear what it is you're actually saying. There seems to be a certain perverse pleasure in trying to contradict your words, find the loopholes, or twist things around. For instance -- and this isn't the best example -- if I were to say, "Eating doughnuts to excess is a bad thing," such a person would reply, "It's okay to eat doughnuts." But you see, I never said there was anything wrong with doughnuts; I'm quite fond of their fried goodness, yet along the way the key word "excess" was overlooked, intentionally perhaps?
Tomorrow is the day, and for that I'm rather excited, because closure is good, not that I expect many to actually care. If they did, well, never mind. People’s actions and words don’t mesh a great deal of the time, and that’s all I’ll say for now. I'll save my snarkiness for later.
I know there's at least one person on my friendslist who likes the Teen Titans, so I present a link to several sound clips, including the Japanese theme song and the version Larry sang. Browse and enjoy.
To any anime fans Arizona and the surrounding area, you might want to consider attending this year's AniZona. It's their first year, but, impressively, they managed to arrange Yoshitaka Amano as Guest of Honor. Unfortunately, not everyone took the news well, particularly those who are fans but unable to attend, calling the con "ghetto", whining about how such a fledgling con won't be able to handle it, how the organizers said before they didn't have money for big guest, why such a big name would go to such con instead of a big well established on like Anime Expo. Maybe Amano like small cons. Maybe he likes the way they asked. Maybe his horoscope told him it to. Who knows? And as for the allegations that they lied about not having money, maybe they didn't want to make any promises they couldn't keep. Personally, to me it sounds like a case of sour grapes.
It's later; thus, it’s time to be a snarky.
I read not too long ago a comment in a community that began, "I hate to be bitchy, but..." after which the commenter immediately did get "bitchy". Personally, I believe it's too often become way to excuse rude or crude or nasty behavior or words, because if they truly hate to be or don't mean to be a certain way, then they wouldn't do it. They’d think and reword your statement.
Also, ever notice how some people spend so much time trying to find out what's wrong with what you say that they don't actually hear what it is you're actually saying. There seems to be a certain perverse pleasure in trying to contradict your words, find the loopholes, or twist things around. For instance -- and this isn't the best example -- if I were to say, "Eating doughnuts to excess is a bad thing," such a person would reply, "It's okay to eat doughnuts." But you see, I never said there was anything wrong with doughnuts; I'm quite fond of their fried goodness, yet along the way the key word "excess" was overlooked, intentionally perhaps?