Jenn Martinelli Blogging in Boston

Hey, this is pretty dumb, but I can't help myself. Check out this picture of a pleated skirt on sale on Gap's website. I have those shoes! Aren't I stylish? Now Rob will post a comment about how he hates the shoes. We can't agree on shoes most of the time, only sneakers sometimes.

My old radio userland site is going to be going away soon and I didn't want to lose these, so here's a whole wealth of Rob Reed quotes:

1/25/03: "I'm an idiot. I like everything."

9/12/03: "People are gorillas who put on clothes and watch TV."

9/14/03: "When you're young, you make plans. When you're old, you make compromises."

9/15/03: "Good, go live somewhere else. South Africa needs some dogs." (to Billy)

9/16/03: "We aren't raising kids right. People are either horribly repressed like me, or they're obnoxious fuckjobs who think the world is their toilet."

9/18/03: "I could give a shit less whether 100,000 parents lock their kids in the car to let them boil to death when tens of millions of parents stand by while their kids' brains are neglected... ...We should give awards to the ones who are shooting each other because at least it shows that they have some initiative to go out and accomplish something."

9/19/03: "I'm not saying two wrongs make a right, I'm just saying that some people need to be beaten upside the head until they're coughing up blood."

9/22/03: "I can't think of a scenario where the worst part of the experience wouldn't be the people involved."

9/23/03: "How did it happen that all of our greatest philosophers today came to write for cartoons?"

9/26/03: "Everyone is a mini-celebrity in their own mind."

10/20/03: "I'm not paranoid. I know the score. You're against me like everyone else."

10/13/03: "Too much of my genius has been lost."

That Rob Reed. He's quite a guy.

Amy Jo, aka AJPP, AmyW (pronounced "Amy Wuh"), is my psychic twin. This is sort of like a best friend but more creepy. Ask me about the "sconce, tome" story sometime. We have been inseperable since our first year at Smith when we discovered that we needed to swap roommates so that she and I could be roomies. Yes, we spent many a night demurring from going to parties in the quad so that we could fold laundry and watch TV in our PJs at good ol' Washburn House. And when that place got miserable and the first years were literally smoking crack, we made a break for Chase House and spent a lovely last year (or for smartypants Amy, a last semester) there with much more pleasant people. Well, for the most part, nasty skanks on the third floor notwithstanding.

We were roomies for a year in Slummerville after graduation too, before she moved to Worcester to be with her future wife, Miss Annie Plean (actually Annette... we're big on dorky nicknames).

Amy is very awesome and definitely one of my very favorite people in the whole world. She taught me how to knit as well, which is a big bonus.

Members:

Rob Reed
Heather Rose
me
Billy
Emily
Bridget

I'm listening to this story on NPR right now. It's very interesting. Crazy evangelical lunatics should listen to it or read this guy's book. Before you do, please take your crazy pills so the sane part of your brain can actually absorb the information about how the bible is actually a re-re-re-re-reinterpretation of the original text and that scribes edited it somewhat freely and added and removed things at will in many cases.

Look how cool the stuff is here. I love stuff like the test tube holder as a pen and pencil holder, the aluminum house numbers, the cable turtle, the marble paper clips, and lots of other stuff. I haven't been to the store in Cambridge... that's probably a good thing. But I like to stare at the cool things online.

In case you had any doubt somehow, despite the sub 20-degree temperatures around here lately, it is, for all intents and purposes, winter.

Update:

By the way, those earlier pictures were nothing. It's now a blizzard with about 6 inches of visibility.

For all you crazy evangelist nutjobs out there who feel it's your duty to once again enforce your beliefs on everyone else in the country, let me review some things for you.

What Christmas Isn't:

1. A holiday that everyone celebrates

2. The only holiday in December

3. The only "real" holiday in December (just for clarification)

4. About making people feel bad

5. An excuse to pressure corporations to do what you want

6. A reason to accost people in the subway with signs like "Jesus or Hell" while wishing them a Merry Christmas

7. A political tool

8. Under attack

9. A war to be waged

10. About presents

Guess what else? If you're so concerned about the religious meaning of the holiday, then you should pay special attention to item number 10 above. In light of that, you should not be threatening retailers with not spending your holiday shopping dollars there if they don't say "Merry Christmas" to you, because in fact, you should be going to church and giving your money to the poor if anyone, and not buying materialistic things. So if you can't make that kind of change in your life then you can shut the hell up because nobody else wants to listen to your hyprocritical nonsense.

Seriously, you really suck.

For many, many, many, many, many reasons. Really. Shut up.

See my previous post. Case in point, my brother's genius roommate stole Dan's checkbook and made a check out to himself then went to his bank and cashed it. Then kept living there. Um, pretty sure you're going to get busted for that one, genius.

Lucky for Dan and his other (sane) roommate, this guy is kicked out now and the locks changed.

Dan, you'll have to do a criminal background check from now on I'm afraid.