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.

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.

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.

I'm tired of you and judging by what's going on in the world and in this city, so is most everyone else.

Today they are demanding that Catholic charities stop brokering all adoptions unless they agree to stop helping with adoptions for same-sex couples. Now you could give them credit for actually sticking with what they say their beliefs are, or you could just remember that the Catholic church is basically evil and should stop telling everyone what to do.

Don't point out the splinter in my eye until you take the log out of your own, Mr. Pope.

Apparently Saddam Hussein declared in the courtroom today/yesterday that he would not return to an "unjust" courtroom the next day and that he had been deprived of a shower and clean clothes, which he called "terrorism". That is a very interesting definition.

I don't think he should be tortured or even deprived of a shower really but I just think it's funny that he's so outraged about such a small thing and actually thinks it's OK to call it terrorism.