My Doctoral Fucking Thesis on Wonder Girl is up on The Wonder Woman blog, chronicling my valiant struggle to stay on the topic of Wonder Girl's origin story. I know it's long, but I think it has some really good bits in it. If you think I'm funny sometimes, you should definitely check it out.
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I am probably going to regret writing this because I am probably as guilty of it as anyone but much less aware of it. Still, I feel like I need to say something because I am sick to death of people's excuses for being boring.
A while back, I went to a mind-numbing comedy show featuring some of the most vacuous morons that I have...
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A while back, I went to a mind-numbing comedy show featuring some of the most vacuous morons that I have...
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jenisfamous:
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That being said, what bugs me about the entry in question is the point made that "The medium only allows you to show a smidgen of what you can do.," etc. This is something people say about any medium they don't find sophisticated enough. I hear it most often with comic books. People say that mediocre writers are "good writers for comic books."
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Agreed! They also say "There are no bad rooms, just bad comics."
That being said, what bugs me about the entry in question is the point made that "The medium only allows you to show a smidgen of what you can do.," etc. This is something people say about any medium they don't find sophisticated enough. I hear it most often with comic books. People say that mediocre writers are "good writers for comic books."
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Agreed! They also say "There are no bad rooms, just bad comics."
illstabyou:
It always amazed me that most Americans in our age group can name all the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, but can't name even two people who are on Mount Rushmore. Sad.
Holy Shit! Is it winter already? I wasn't ready for it...
I woke up this morning and the heat wasn't working. I thought, "Well, of course it would break when it's this cold out..." Then I realized how silly I was being. The pilot light could have gone out at any time and I wouldn't have noticed it until now.
It has been a hectic...
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I woke up this morning and the heat wasn't working. I thought, "Well, of course it would break when it's this cold out..." Then I realized how silly I was being. The pilot light could have gone out at any time and I wouldn't have noticed it until now.
It has been a hectic...
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darkrabbit:
Winter's deathly grasp is sneaking up on us all it seems... My car was frozen shut... it took an hour for ChiquitaBonita and myself to get my driver side door open using 2 kettles of boiling water and ice scrapers... then there was the fun drive. God I love New England 
jenisfamous:
Syd, do you want to do the Jenny V show on Feb. 8? I think you should start wearing all-black for this.
j
j
I hate sounding like a sectarian liberal. I hate buying into dogma and I am well aware that there are many stupid, unscrupulous, insane, and extremist liberals. I really think that there is room for improvement in the progressive philosophy, but I will always sound far left of center because my sense of irony hasn't been deadened to the point where I can talk about...
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illstabyou:
Jesus will forgive them for the errors in their ways. 
Then again, I'm going straight to hell whatever religion is right.
Then again, I'm going straight to hell whatever religion is right.
jenisfamous:
I used to tell people that, in the absence of a religion, my moral code came from Captain Picard.
I think it still does; I've just internalized it so that I don't have to consciously think about Jean-Luc when making moral judgements.
j
I think it still does; I've just internalized it so that I don't have to consciously think about Jean-Luc when making moral judgements.
j
"I shall file that idiotic question in my memorabilia to be referred to on some future date when I write my memoirs. You, my friend, will fill one entire chapter entitled 'The Most Forgettable Person I Ever Met.'"
- Bartlett Finchley, from "A Thing About Machines" by Rod Serling
Watching the "Twilight Zone" Marathon as I do every New Year's, I heard what has got...
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iggy:
miracles happen, i'm a monkey's uncle...
yeah i am still drunk...
yeah i am still drunk...
stella_marie:
im gonna have to read that one when im not trying to get some sleep
Every year, I cringe when someone wishes me a Merry Christmas, then, remembering that I am a heathen pariah, corrects himself to "Happy Holidays" or worse "Happy Chanuka." I always tell them, "It's okay! You can say, 'Merry Christmas!' It doesn't hurt anyone!" The game of semantics that is always played around this time of year has sickened me for a long time, especially since...
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kingsnake:
Frankly I've had it with semantics and people thinking that Christmas Trees, Santa, gingerbread men, etc. has any form of religious connotation.
Sunday I was at the gym and they had on the CBS Sunday Morning show. The closing commentary / opinion was from my hero, the brilliant Ben Stein:
Herewith at this happy time of year, a few confessions from my beating heart:
I have no freaking clue who Nick and Jessica are. I see them on the cover of People and Us constantly when I am buying my dog biscuits and kitty litter. I often ask the checkers at the grocery stores. They never know who Nick and Jessica are either. Who are they? Will it change my life if I know who they are and why they have broken up? Why are they so important? I don't know who Lindsay Lohan is, either, and I do not care at all about Tom Cruise's wife.
Am I going to be called before a Senate committee and asked if I am a subversive? Maybe, but I just have no clue who Nick and Jessica are. Is this what it means to be no longer young. It's not so bad.
Next confession: I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish. And it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up, bejeweled trees Christmas trees. I don't feel threatened. I don't feel discriminated against. That's what they are: Christmas trees. It doesn't bother me a bit when people say, "Merry Christmas" to me. I don't think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me in a ghetto. In fact, I kind of like it. It shows that we are all brothers and sisters celebrating this happy time of year. It doesn't bother me at all that there is a manger scene on display at a key intersection near my beach house in Malibu. If people want a creche, it's just as fine with me as is the Menorah a few hundred yards away.
I don't like getting pushed around for being a Jew and I don't think Christians like getting pushed around for being Christians. I think people who believe in God are sick and tired of getting pushed around, period. I have no idea where the concept came from that America is an explicitly atheist country. I can't find it in the Constitution and I don't like it being shoved down my throat.
Or maybe I can put it another way: where did the idea come from that we should worship Nick and Jessica and we aren't allowed to worship God as we understand Him?
I guess that's a sign that I'm getting old, too. But there are a lot of us who are wondering where Nick and Jessica came from and where the America we knew went to"
Amen!
Sunday I was at the gym and they had on the CBS Sunday Morning show. The closing commentary / opinion was from my hero, the brilliant Ben Stein:
Herewith at this happy time of year, a few confessions from my beating heart:
I have no freaking clue who Nick and Jessica are. I see them on the cover of People and Us constantly when I am buying my dog biscuits and kitty litter. I often ask the checkers at the grocery stores. They never know who Nick and Jessica are either. Who are they? Will it change my life if I know who they are and why they have broken up? Why are they so important? I don't know who Lindsay Lohan is, either, and I do not care at all about Tom Cruise's wife.
Am I going to be called before a Senate committee and asked if I am a subversive? Maybe, but I just have no clue who Nick and Jessica are. Is this what it means to be no longer young. It's not so bad.
Next confession: I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish. And it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up, bejeweled trees Christmas trees. I don't feel threatened. I don't feel discriminated against. That's what they are: Christmas trees. It doesn't bother me a bit when people say, "Merry Christmas" to me. I don't think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me in a ghetto. In fact, I kind of like it. It shows that we are all brothers and sisters celebrating this happy time of year. It doesn't bother me at all that there is a manger scene on display at a key intersection near my beach house in Malibu. If people want a creche, it's just as fine with me as is the Menorah a few hundred yards away.
I don't like getting pushed around for being a Jew and I don't think Christians like getting pushed around for being Christians. I think people who believe in God are sick and tired of getting pushed around, period. I have no idea where the concept came from that America is an explicitly atheist country. I can't find it in the Constitution and I don't like it being shoved down my throat.
Or maybe I can put it another way: where did the idea come from that we should worship Nick and Jessica and we aren't allowed to worship God as we understand Him?
I guess that's a sign that I'm getting old, too. But there are a lot of us who are wondering where Nick and Jessica came from and where the America we knew went to"
Amen!
Attention, fans of my serialized monologue Sydney T. Bernstein's One-Man Show and One-Man Tell and people who want to become fans and people who have never heard of it but think I'm funny sometimes - this Wednesday, at The Jenny Vaudeville Show (10 PM at Pete's Candy Store (709 Lorimer Street in Williamsburg)), I will be doing The Sydney T. Bernstein's One-Man Show and One-Man...
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calamity:
this pink DID take my aa's! 
oh well, a small price to pay....
♥jess.
oh well, a small price to pay....
♥jess.
amperes:
teehee! sucka!!! ::points and laughs::
im jokin ::hug::
im jokin ::hug::
Have you ever met someone and it was like walking into a movie in the middle - you don't know what's going on or who the characters are - but you pick up enough here and there to get by, and then you get really caught up in it and emotionally invested in the story, but the next time you see her, it's like someone...
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calamity:
haha. no problem.
it looks like i'm naked, but i'm nooootttttt.
♥jess.
edited to say:
i have mixed feelings about mistletoe.
i think i'd only be 100% for it if i had a head band with a sprig of mistletoe on it, that way i could choose my mistletoe-ing partners. hah.
[Edited on Dec 05, 2005 11:41PM]
it looks like i'm naked, but i'm nooootttttt.
♥jess.
edited to say:
i have mixed feelings about mistletoe.
i think i'd only be 100% for it if i had a head band with a sprig of mistletoe on it, that way i could choose my mistletoe-ing partners. hah.
[Edited on Dec 05, 2005 11:41PM]
kingsnake:
mistletoe? wow, here I thought that was an Indiana thing where we would use that to get girls pregnant. But it seems out here on the east coast nobody knows that kissing girls = how babies come about.
"A generation as unique as this needs a new generation of financial planning."
- Advertisement in the subway
I know that many, many people have said this before, but the situation makes me sad, so I thought I would throw my own two cents in.
I like the word unique, but I fear that it may no longer mean anything at all. Common usage may...
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- Advertisement in the subway
I know that many, many people have said this before, but the situation makes me sad, so I thought I would throw my own two cents in.
I like the word unique, but I fear that it may no longer mean anything at all. Common usage may...
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stella_marie:
thats why you have to make words up. this way, only you can use them. would you use the bat phone to order a pizza????
amperes:
i dont have much to say to your journal entry since i dont really know whats going on....but this is my notice to let you know that i found you and now i shall commence stalkin you on SG...and karaokee was fun. we ought to hang out again sometime 
...So I went out dancing...
...I met a girl who looked like a miniature version of my friend Kat. She had the same mannerisms and everything. It was as if someone accidentally left Kat in his pocket and she went through the wash and shrank...
...She said they wouldn't let her into the Marines because her knees bent the wrong way. I said, "That's...
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...I met a girl who looked like a miniature version of my friend Kat. She had the same mannerisms and everything. It was as if someone accidentally left Kat in his pocket and she went through the wash and shrank...
...She said they wouldn't let her into the Marines because her knees bent the wrong way. I said, "That's...
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iggy:
oh man i saw that guy...yeah that was a lot of metal....
it was great dancing with you hon!! We need to chill more often!!
it was great dancing with you hon!! We need to chill more often!!
My diary is on the hard drive of my old computer. I have to check if the hard drive is still salvagable, but regardless, it means that the only record of this month was my one online journal entry, and I didn't really write anything important in it.
Good.
I want to start writing again in case anyone wants to read anything I have to...
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Good.
I want to start writing again in case anyone wants to read anything I have to...
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Especially this : "People who create Aquaman shouldn't throw stones."
and Spartacus...
I can't wait to read the rest of it.