Love Your Introvert
22 March 2006
I don’t remember exactly how I came across this, but I’ve recently been reacquainted with an interesting little article that was published in The Atlantic Monthly in 2003: Caring for Your Introvert by Jonathon Rauch. While the tone is light and the touch is soft, Rauch is really hitting on something I and many people I know well care deeply about, namely feeling guilty about not seeming to enjoy people as much as we’re told we should.
I don’t mean individual people, I mean people as a concept. I mean the idea of people. I would say it’s because I’m an only child, but I’ve known too many introverts who weren’t, and too many extroverts who were, for that to stand up to too much scrutiny. Whatever it is, people en masse seem to bug me, annoy me, frustrate me, and just plain piss me off if I’m exposed to them for too long.
Cheney's Got a Gun... Yep, it's still funny
23 February 2006
Ok, so it’s funny in a sad, ashamed-of-my-country, the world’s most powerful government is run by a bunch of narcissistic war-mongering power-hungry jerks kinda way, but if you’re tired of crying then try laughing.
No, less deranged. There, that’s better.
Anyway, though the jokes about the Vice President shooting a man in the face are getting worn, while listening to JackFM the other day I heard something I couldn’t quite believe at first: Cheney’s Got a Gun (3MB MP3, right click and “save as” to download). I wasn’t even entirely convinced that it wasn’t actually Steven Tyler singing (oh how his cool-factor would’ve sky-rocketed if that were so), but alas it was not. I did, however, locate the source of this masterful little parody: The Bob Rivers Show, one of those morning shows of which it seems classic rock stations are so fond (this one hails from Seattle).