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I am disturbed that the guy was looking for his boat on ebay at precisely the same time it was there. This seems to imply that he was constantly looking for it.

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THAT'S IT! That's why it was so weird. He also looked like someone who was sort of not all that happy in his life, or something. I dunno, it wasn't something that was sweet but something that implied an unsettling obsession.

See, you always know how to get to the heart of things. Were you watching Best Week Ever, as I was? I can't get enough of the 106th and Park Destiny's Child video. So cold.

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No, I am instead half-heartedly reading Lord of the Flies and eating a bagel.

I supposed we're supposed to think that he just happened to look then, but why would you be that focussed on a sailboat? I mean, why would you remember it so exactly, as he must, since he knows at once that it is his?

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I hated Lord of the Flies, but when I was a teen I had a real issue with books with no girls in them, which IIRC isn't an issue for you. Also, you are not 13.

What kind of bagel?

It's actually sort of sad, when it should be sort of sweet. I feel that there should have been nicer visual cues. If the guy looked like he was generally together. If they had trusted us to see that look of recognition and not given us that stupid picture on the mantle. Then it would have been kismet rather than obsession.

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I am really not enjoying it thus far. Granted, I am only 69 pages in, but it is not that long a book. It is turning into one of those situations where you keep reading but are not really taking in anything on the page.

I generally only eat plain bagels, although I will have an onion if there is no other option.

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Really, I think that's a moment you can just go straight to the cliff notes.

I am a sesame girl myself. I really don't like cinnamon raisin bagels, though I love cinnamon raisin bread.

Oh my god, I Know What You Did Last Summer is on AMC. That's just a world of wrong. Man, that channel used to be great and now it's a lame copy of TNT.

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Well, I'm mainly reading to get it out of the way so no need to go buy cliff notes.

I do enjoy a good sesame. I generally don't like bagels with anything sweet in them because I find sweet mixes grossly with cream cheese and butter alike, and those are the only spreads I put on my bagel.

Even TNT generally shows better movies than that. Downgrade!

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I actually really like everything bagels with cream cheese and jelly, which grosses Cassie out. I like a bit of sweet and oniony, as onions are a little bit sweet. I like sesame with either scallion cream cheese or extra butter and cinnamon sugar.

Does that mean you don't like butter and jelly together?

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Definitely not, and I am also grossed out by the cream cheese and jelly. However, this is because when I was little, a character in a book I read ate cream cheese and jelly sandwiches. So I made a big fat cream cheese and jelly sandwich and was completely revolted.

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I only like cream cheese and jelly, or butter and jelly, when things are toasted so the butter or cream cheese get melty. Jelly and cold cream cheese isn't nearly as good.

I guess that means you also don't like pastries with cheese and fruit fillings, like those cuban guava and cheese danish-like things or whatever.

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Although, you know, ebay is largely about unsettling obsessions, now that I think about it.

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Excellent point. However, you'd think that they'd want a nicer corporate image, rather than, "Ebay. If you can't get over that your mom sold your Dr Seuss books from 1963, buy them back here and save on the therapy bills."

You know, Theo Black always flings things up on Ebay before he throws stuff away just in case. You never know what people want to buy.

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See, I actually think that Ebay is completely about people buying back their Dr. Seuss books from 1963 to save on therapy bills. They provide no goods of their own; their whole business is about connecting crazy buyers to crazy sellers.

So I think the Ebay ads are all about two very simple messages:
a) If there's some crazy shit you want, you can probably find it here.
b) If there's some crazy shit you want to get rid of, some crazy person will want it.

No?

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No, that's absolutely true. But you can sell that message in a funny or clever way, or you can do it in a way that makes people look pathetic for obsessing over their toy boat for 30 years. Like, the ad where the guy finally finds a mate for his wife's big ugly lamp on ebay, and it turns out that she was the seller? Funny, makes its point, nice twist on that O Henry story, and doesn't make anyone look like a loser.

Whereas, I don't want to be this guy. I don't want to admit to what I have in common with this guy. And I can't imagine why ebay would want to further that perception of everyone online being scarred people desperately searching the web for what their pathetic off-line lives can't give them.

I'm not entirely sure that was the actual point. I think the story board was likely much nicer, and at some point the director did something obsessive with it. And it's really only in that final reverse shot of the guy with the picture behind him.

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Speaking of things that sound nice but are actually weird, I love that the latest John Mayer song is essentially, "Men, stop fucking up your little girls, because then I get a boatload of batshit crazy girlfriends."

"Do you know how many weddings that is going to be played at?" That was the first thing that went though my head the first time I heard it and I still think it every time I hear it.

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Which would make it one of those songs that people think are nice and really aren't and then they play it at their wedding, like "Every Breath You Take". Some girl thinks that she's being sweet about dancing to that with her dad, but what she's actually saying is, "Well, Dad, you fucked me up so completely that I was really lucky to ever get married, but I guess that's Don's problem now!"

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Exactly! Very creepy.

It reminds me of the song that played at three of my cousins' weddings, people like to dance to it, but when you really listen to the lyrics you realize it's all about a drug deal of some sort.

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Okay, you realize that you have to tell me what song that was.

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I had to Google it because they never annouce song titles at weddings.

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That is actually not that catchy of a song. Hip hop classic, but I really don't think I'd play it at a wedding.

I really, really, really don't want any "wedding" songs at any wedding of mine. Nothing you can do a conga line to. NO "Hot hot hot". Just, no.

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Oh heavens! I don't think I can admit to everything that will probably play at my reception when I have one. I have too may relatives with backwoods roots. I know now, beyond a shadow of a doubt that if my mother attends, the song Rocky Top will be played. The Stroll I don't mind so much as it was the first "group" dance I learned (age eight, with my cousin and a friend, in my mom's kitchen). However, if I somehow avoided all that, I'd like to have a blend of celtic/irish folk music, romantic and baroque music.

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You know how in one of Margaret Cho's routines she says that she didn't like driving through the south? Well, I went to college with two Korean-Americans from Tennessee, and one of them, John, was really funny in a totally dry way, and the joke was always to get him really really drunk and get him to sing Rocky Top, which was one of the funniest things I have ever seen.

In a dream world, I would be able to have the Madison from Hairspray, then the line dance from Saturday Night Fever, then the Electric Slide. Or maybe just one of those society bands, like in Metropolitan or the costume party in To Catch a Thief, and everyone in their nice clothes doing fox trots and such.

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I think I could live with that. ;)

I have never learnt the Madison, though it almost seems you could from the movie. The Electric slide is inevitable, as is a few you can cha-cha to as I've had to teach a lot of people how to do those dances. Along with Rocky Top there will be at least another fiddle piece, because you can't pseudo clog without them. I'm trying to think what else... oh, Shoup because my cousin Amanda has a line type dance to it that's actually fun. (And, really, I'd have to because she put it together when she was a little butterball girl like me. She's not so much of a butterball at 18 as she was at 10 or 14, but still she didn't let people's opinions keep he from dancing so it must be celebrated.) The Twist, and the song Shout (oldies version) and I know I'm forgetting something obvious but such is my ramble.

Oh there is a new song out that they're playing at all the weddings. It's got a bit of cha-cha in it, but I don't think the person who mixed it knew how to cha-cha because it only gives five beats for it (or was that four? not sure). Also at some place it tells you to "Charlie Brown" I think and everyone on the floor just looks at each other in wonderment.

OH! I know what I'm forgetting. The Macarana. My mother and her friends won't let me forget it.

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Houston has a rather large Vietnamese population, and life in general is just a little bit better once you have heard Texas wedding standards sung in Vietnamese. Who knew that "Crazy" would scan so well?

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I totally agree about that John Mayer song. I can't stand it.

Oh, I have to throw in another example. People think this is such a tender love song but it isn't! It's about a guy who's trying to talk a girl into bed...'Come on baby, if you really love me prove it...' It's More Than Words by Extreme. *shudders*

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I cannot count the number of weddings I have been to where that was the couple's song. I think this is because it is both a power ballad and anti-sentimental, so lameass white trash guys who are non-verbal and proud of it refuse to dance to anything else. (Dancing in public is of course bad enough already.) It's like that SNL sketch where that guy is getting married in KISS makeup.

This is why I cannot understand that whole military uniform fetish. P has one, and one day when we wanted to go outlet shopping he made his friend K and I stop off at Quantico so he could stare at the Marines, but I look at the average Marine and I just see all those guys I went to high school with. Frankly, if I'd wanted to fuck them I would have just done it then.

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I love you. :)) That is all.

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