vote NO on 73-78, YES on 79

[sab]

So LJ user iramoved asked why I hate anglophiles. And of course I don't hate them, I simply have enough to worry about trying to love this bumpy country we made over HERE, and I never saw the appeal in getting all starry-eyed over those people whose asses we kicked at Yorktown. *g*

But, you know, I built my Disinterests list half a year or so ago when I was all pissed and cranky and trying to demographize this country and figure out how to best spearhead the revolution, while also wondering why I was so broke and why all my good space shows were being cancelled. These are legitimate concerns! said I.

It turned into a hazy pastiche of things I'm simply just not all that into, like faeries and butterflies, and things that generate abject bile and fury, like, um, people who don't vote and the revised Patriot Act.

Now, six, eight months later, I've got a whole bunch of new items to add to the agenda, like "restoring dignity to the White House" and the estate tax and Desperate Housewives and handheld videogame consoles and Schwarzenneger's insane ballot measures and whatever the hell is going on between Apple and Motorola.

Color me hypocritical, man, but boy howdy it feels good to bitch, sometimes. And though I would never wield my sword in anger, I am all about wielding it in haughy disinterest. So! Hit me, baby. If you take issue with something on my disinterests (or my interests!) or if you've got suggestions for me (or suggestions for where I can *stick* my haughty disinterest), bring it ON, mamas and papas.

And while you're at it, if you missed it yesterday, wish sorlklewis a happy TWO-OUGHT. The kid's not a teenager anymore!

Comments

[ratcreature]

I can't believe that you don't care for ice cream. That's just disturbing. ;)

[ropo.livejournal.com]

I heartily agree with ratcreature on this. The rest of your list, I'm pretty much down with. Then again, I don't like pie, so who am I to talk?

[helenish.livejournal.com]

I simply have enough to worry about trying to love this bumpy country we made over HERE, and I never saw the appeal in getting all starry-eyed over those people whose asses we kicked at Yorktown. *g*

Sing it!

You know, I have been hit with a sudden WAVE of love for America lately, and it somehow seems tied to how BAD and AWFUL and TERRIBLE and EMBARRASSING it is to be an American now. But I love this country like an ugly dog - I'm not fond of the bad breath and the tumors and the fucked up eye - but...that's a goddam good dog. This is a good country, with good people in it, and we're going to OVERCOME, and I believe it now, even though I wake up every day and think things couldn't get worse.

[empressaurelius.livejournal.com]

You know, I think that disinterests are just as telling and, well, interesting as interests are. I myself was inspired to do a disinterests list after I saw yours; I need to add Turner's Syndrome and chromsomal disorders to it, actually, now that I think about it.

P.S. The only thing worse than people who don't vote is people who vote and then complain about the results of elections. We're actually discussing the fight for female suffrage in my History of American Women class; it blows me away that we've only been able to vote for seventy-some years.