Someone Else’s Blog is Better Than No Blog.
January 20, 2011 4 Comments
2nd Best Non Porn Site on the Internet.
I haven’t been able to sit down and actually allow words to flow for quite some time now. The calendar of blog posts to the right is more scarce than Antonio Cromartie at a Parent Teacher Conference. As my battle with the page continues, I look to others for inspiration. Since I’ve spent the past 5 days worried more about unpacking and getting settled into our new apartment than school work, I’ve fallen behind. This leads to me putting aside blogging as it is less important (well, from a GPA standpoint, anyway). I hate doing this because one of my biggest pet peeves is when someone thinks they’re cool because they have a blog… and then they never update it. Ever.
I don’t want to fall into the habit of posting once-per-week, but such is life. So instead of attempting to drone on about something that I don’t care about writing right now, I’ll post a link to someone much better at this whole “written word” thing.
As an aspiring sociologist, I pride myself on being more rational and logical than just about anyone. I can look at a situation and tell you why it is the way it is, and why people are stupid for judging someone else (which is a judgment in and of itself, but hey, I’m Kyle Rancourt, and you’re not). It’s a funny coincidence, then, that my half-brother, Robbie, penned this mission statement of epic proportions not 20 minutes after I saw the commercial he is referring to. In it, I chuckled because it was dumb, not because it was funny, and then chuckled some more because I thought, “Hah, Robbie wears those. Gay.”
Understanding that the ridiculous nature of American machismo, and the fear of anything resembling feminine qualities, I can laugh at these stupid commercials because, hey, they’re beer commercials. However, I think the word “manly” is the stupidest word in the English language. I believe anyone afraid of being seen as feminine is ridiculous, but that’s sort of another topic for another day.
What I really wanted to do was re-direct you to the piece Robbie wrote concerning light beer, skinny jeans, hot emo girls, and hot lesbian orgies. One of those topics didn’t make it in to the blog post, but to find out which one it was, you’ll have to go check it out.
Bad Beer and Tight Jeans: An Analytical Deconstruction of Two Competing Paradigms
Also, because he’s a part of this family, too, go read Bryan’s article about Santa Claus’ homeless brother. If Hilson is my half-brother, Holt must be the 2nd cousin, twice removed.
KyleRancourt.com and SportsCasualties: coexisting better than Chinese Food & Chocolate Pudding since 2010.
Shake & Bake.
Since our server just crashed because of all the unanticipated traffic, I thought I’d come over here and address a couple things.
1) I read a shit-ton of blogs, ranging from crappy sports sites I feel compelled to read because they’ve linked to us to blogs that get more hits in 10 minutes than we get in a week. This is one of the most entertaining.
2) The Miller Lite commercial genuinely pissed me off. Such a cheap joke.
3) A post a week isn’t the end of the world. I’m actually taking this class called Multimedia Blogging (I swear… synergy, bitch!) and we have to read this book called “Blogging Heroes.” Long, non-story short, almost every one of these successful bloggers likens keeping a blog to either A) marriage B) a monkey on your back or C) a marathon. Now obviously these people are crazy and probably at least mildly obsessive compulsive. But I don’t think people understand how hard it is to maintain a functioning site, let alone a good one. (I feel like I was going somewhere with this… Anyway, I enjoy even KR.com “throwaway” posts).
4) I’m a HUGE Anne Hathaway fan, and I can’t wait to see her in a cat suit.
5) How long after Seattle selects Jake Locker will it take for your head to explode?
Shake and bake.
The “European man-thong” is the one that makes me laugh the most. Mainly because my friend dated a guy from Italy and when we were about to go out, instead of going into the other room and changing, he just dropped his pants in the living room, revealing a banana hammock. She was just like, yeah, that’s Francesco. Crazy Europeans. HEY, WE’RE SAME!
I actually want to address the Dark Knight Rises news in a post, so I won’t get too detailed in this response, but I was a little underwhelmed. I like Hathaway just fine (um, Havoc anyone?) and tom Hardy is the shit, but I’m worried that Catwoman as a pseudo villain and Bane aren’t really going to work. Specifically, I feel like Bane is too cartoony.
If the Seahawks take Jake Locker, I’m moving to Canada and rooting for the Edmonton Eskimos.
If you move to Canada, I’ll kill you myself. I honestly hope the Hawks lose every goddamn game next year, just so we could maybe, maaaaaaaaaybe hope to pick up Andrew Luck. Wishful thinking though, I know. *le sigh*
As far as Batman goes, I think you said it best with “in Nolan we trust”. The man wouldn’t risk his reputaion on a campy end to an awesome trilogy. I mean, c’mon, Heath Ledger anyone? I shall await your official post though before discussing further.
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