dear powers wot be: this week is failing to meet my customer satisfaction standards. please improve service immediately, or i shall kick you in the head. no love, min
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dear powers wot be: this week is failing to meet my customer satisfaction standards. please improve service immediately, or i shall kick you in the head. no love, min.
i wish. this week has just made me feel helpless and frustrated and broken-hearted, and it sucks, and i want someone to FIX IT and no one can. ugh. *clings*
good call on jesus. i bet if you got him and gandhi together right now, they'd have a whole shitload of stuff to say about the current state of the world, stuff that we all probably really need to hear.
thank you for your email yesterday. i wasn't up to replying last night, but it means a lot. so. thanks. you know.
1)Margaret Sanger- Because, hello, she is responsible for birth control. Birth control is a lovely, lovely thing that makes my cramps disapper and me not have yucky periods. I want to prostrate at her feet.
2) Archduke Ferdinand- I have a feeling I'm getting the name wrong. The guy that was assasinated and whose death was the catalyst for World War One. That entire period fascinates me in a sick sort of way.
3)My great-great grandmother.
She lived in Russia during the time of the Russian Revolution. She was Jewish and didn't have a husband and also had two young kids. Somehow, she managed to escape Russia and come here. I am named for her (well, my Hebrew name). No one really knows anything about her and I would love to know more.
4)Ghandi- Because he was an advocate of non-violence. I would love to know what he thinks of today's very violent world.
5)Queen Elizabeth The First- A strong woman ruler and how she did it. I recently watched Elizabeth and also read a biography on her in the past year or too. I greatly admire what
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arch duke frank ferdinand of the hapsburg empire. yis, he was fascinating. his wife was not, from what i recall, royalty and he married her anyway. really neat guy.
plus, he's got a band named after him! i bet he'd hate them.
it's true that king john was neither a great thinker or great humanitarian or anything like the rest of the list, but he just fascinates me. i mean, i have no illusions about him, he was kind of a Bad Man, but interesting as hell. and i really want an answer about arthur, i mean, did he order the prince's death or what??
I'm not going to go the pedestrian route of Jesus, Gandhi, or Hitler here, because that would be too easy, even though that's my impulse.
Instead, I'm going to go with:
1. Alexander Hamilton - mostly because I'd like to know whether he misfired on purpose, and if he did, whether it was because he was hoping for a truce or if he was resigned to the fact that he was going to lose the duel. I wrote a paper on it once and it stuck in my head.
2. Dorothy Parker - because I couldn't not.
3. Nell Gwynn - king's mistress, street vendor, stage actress - there are stories galore to be heard from this woman.
4. Ludwig van Beethoven - so brilliant, so tragic...I'd like to let him know it was all worth it.
(Hee. Aside: "I'd like you to meet my friends Dave Beethoven, Maxine Ofarc, Bob Genghis Khan, and ...Abraham Lincoln.")
5. Martin Luther - Of all the people in history to have a beer with...again, I couldn't not.
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YEAH.
Can we request do-overs?
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*clings back*
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4. Gandhi. I wonder what he would be saying today. The world could use him.
3. George Bernard Shaw. I'd take notes. And be ready to be effortlessly verbally eviscerated.
2. Jesus of Nazareth. I'd have a beer with him. We'd talk. I wanna know.
1. Thomas Jefferson. You might have been able to guess this. The architect of the American consciousness.
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thank you for your email yesterday. i wasn't up to replying last night, but it means a lot. so. thanks. you know.
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Because, hello, she is responsible for birth control. Birth control is a lovely, lovely thing that makes my cramps disapper and me not have yucky periods. I want to prostrate at her feet.
2) Archduke Ferdinand-
I have a feeling I'm getting the name wrong. The guy that was assasinated and whose death was the catalyst for World War One. That entire period fascinates me in a sick sort of way.
3)My great-great grandmother.
She lived in Russia during the time of the Russian Revolution. She was Jewish and didn't have a husband and also had two young kids. Somehow, she managed to escape Russia and come here. I am named for her (well, my Hebrew name). No one really knows anything about her and I would love to know more.
4)Ghandi-
Because he was an advocate of non-violence. I would love to know what he thinks of today's very violent world.
5)Queen Elizabeth The First-
A strong woman ruler and how she did it. I recently watched Elizabeth and also read a biography on her in the past year or too. I greatly admire what ( ... )
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plus, he's got a band named after him! i bet he'd hate them.
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- siddhartha gautama
- mohandas gandhi
- john plantagenet
- thomas paine
- leonardo davinci
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Instead, I'm going to go with:
1. Alexander Hamilton - mostly because I'd like to know whether he misfired on purpose, and if he did, whether it was because he was hoping for a truce or if he was resigned to the fact that he was going to lose the duel. I wrote a paper on it once and it stuck in my head.
2. Dorothy Parker - because I couldn't not.
3. Nell Gwynn - king's mistress, street vendor, stage actress - there are stories galore to be heard from this woman.
4. Ludwig van Beethoven - so brilliant, so tragic...I'd like to let him know it was all worth it.
(Hee. Aside: "I'd like you to meet my friends Dave Beethoven, Maxine Ofarc, Bob Genghis Khan, and ...Abraham Lincoln.")
5. Martin Luther - Of all the people in history to have a beer with...again, I couldn't not.
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martin luther raises a question for me: what would he think of your tattoo? :)
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