Ok I've officially had it. And I'm doing something about it. If you don't like it, bring it to me...
Here is an ebay listing I want you all to take a look at (right click and open it in a new window or it will overwrite this window):
http://cgi.ebay.com/diy-Green-Day-Billie-Joe-Hoodie-Track-Jacket-NWT_W0QQitemZ5430023859QQcategoryZ63862QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
I'm not sure how this blog works with links, so you may have to cut and paste. What you see here is a lovely store bought hoodie with Green Day logos painted on it. Original? Not really. For some ungodly reason (I fucking HATE Green Day with a passion) everyone is painting Green Day logos on store bought shit and selling it as DIY, some of it for great money too. Why Green Day I dunno. Works for My Chemical Romance too, however, I digress from my point.
If you're still on that ebay page, go ahead and link to the seller's about me page, then scroll all the way down to the bottom, by the picture of the cute little girl. If you closed the window, here is the link (right click again and open in new window):
http://cgi3.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewUserPage&userid=zombie_couture_inc
For those of you who don't care to cut and paste or follow links, here is what it says, basically, on this about me page. These sellers are artists, btw, which is way cool. They have art work, I'm sure that is unique to them, probably copyright protected, that they put on clothing. Thats Awesome! I love that shit! Here is what it says, tho, at the bottom of that page:
All artwork is protected under copyright law and ebay's vero program. Do the right thing and be original...
I'm fucking speechless. Ok, apparantly not. I'm full of speech on this topic. Do the right thing and be original....?????????????????
Green Day logo merchandise is officially licensed to a company in Oakland, California, called Cinder Block Incorporated. Cinder Block has been made aware recently of all of the *wahoo lets fucking paint Green Day on everything and sell it on eBay* kick. I have no idea if they will take action against the sellers of this crap, but if you ask me, they should.
The Green Day logo is NOT officially licensed to the seller of this item. Yet the seller of this item wants you to know on their About Me that they will use whatever legal avenues they have to ensure that YOU don't steal THEIR artwork and PAINT it on a fucking store bought hoodie and SELL it on eBay. This early in the morning, I like to take my hypocracy with cream and sugar, don't you????
Must I say more?
Yeah.
Purchasing one of these painted pieces of stolen art is equivalent TO CONDONING THE ACTION. Everyone and their sheepdog would STOP doing this if there was no money in it. I've seen this painted stuff go for hundreds upon hundreds of dollars. And yes, I know its the buyer's money not mine, so fuck me for telling them what to do with it, but if you're a fan of the band...do you not OWE them the courtesy of purchasing LICENSED materials??? Dontcha??? And lets face it, you can buy a hoodie at walmart for $10, and fabric paint for another $10 and you could probably do a much better job of painting the logo than some of these sellers (come on, you're a fan...you sit and draw heart grenades in math class instead of learning algebra II...these sellers aren't fans, they just want a buck). Go do it yourself...express your own love of the band through art...DIY means do it yourself, right???
and then please, for the love of GOD, don't sell it on ebay.
Friday, September 30, 2005
Tuesday, September 27, 2005
All Good....Gee...Thanks :S
I'm gonna let this out here because if I don't I'm going to unleash it on a paying customer, and that's really not a good business practice.
To whom it may concern:
I read the feedback you left me today regarding that handmade item of clothing that you recently won from me. I am glad to hear that everything was *all good*. It took me several hours of difficult, detail-oriented labor to create that top quality, perfect garment which you now have in your hands. Additionally, I packaged it safely and made sure it arrived at your door within 2 days of your payment. It does my heart good to know that the many, many hours I put into this project were were hours well spent as, for me, there is little praise higher than *all good*.
As you know, the feedback system is an essential element to operating a successful business on eBay. There is a lot of competition out there in my market, and buyers often make their decision on whether or not to bid on my items based on the feedback that my clients have left for me. Thank you for being a part of that process by leaving helpful and thoughtful feedback. I'm sure that future clients of mine will benefit by knowing that our transaction was *all good*.
Again thank you, and have a great day - aNGrYLiTTLeDeAdGiRL
To whom it may concern:
I read the feedback you left me today regarding that handmade item of clothing that you recently won from me. I am glad to hear that everything was *all good*. It took me several hours of difficult, detail-oriented labor to create that top quality, perfect garment which you now have in your hands. Additionally, I packaged it safely and made sure it arrived at your door within 2 days of your payment. It does my heart good to know that the many, many hours I put into this project were were hours well spent as, for me, there is little praise higher than *all good*.
As you know, the feedback system is an essential element to operating a successful business on eBay. There is a lot of competition out there in my market, and buyers often make their decision on whether or not to bid on my items based on the feedback that my clients have left for me. Thank you for being a part of that process by leaving helpful and thoughtful feedback. I'm sure that future clients of mine will benefit by knowing that our transaction was *all good*.
Again thank you, and have a great day - aNGrYLiTTLeDeAdGiRL
Friday, September 09, 2005
The World's Longest DIY Rant Blog...and I Didn't Even Rant all my Rants...
2580 plus 2378 equals?? Anyone? 4958. No this isn't a math class blog. This is the total number of DIY women's clothing items that are on sale at this MOMENT on ebay. 5000 items. FIVE THOUSAND! 2580 in ebay stores, and an additional 2378 available at auction.
Are we familiar with our economics? I know its been a long time, hasn't it? Its a matter of supply and demand here, very basic. As the supply goes up, demand goes DOWN. When demand goes down...well, you know what happens.
I have to say this because its been weighing on my soul for far too long. And that's what my blog is about...getting this shit out of me and into another format so it will leave me alone.
I started browsing *and eventually buying* DIY clothing a few years ago because, after 7 years of intoxication, I sobered up, climbed out of my bottle and discovered that I didn't think like everyone else. Which is probably why I started drinking in the first place. In any case, sobering up reminded me of one aspect of life that alcohol had smoothed over for me: I AM NOT LIKE ANYONE ELSE ON THIS EARTH. I am so fucking far out of the realm of normal that its difficult for me to relate to other people...to put myself in their shoes. But anyway, a topic for another blog. I fell into the habit of making my own clothes, and eventually buying DIY on ebay because I felt the need to be different. I had to be unique. I got into selling the stuff I made so that I could support both my fabric habit (that shit aint cheap) and my ebay buying habit.
Back then, a few years ago, there were not so many DIY sellers on ebay. The items they made were the first of their kind seen on ebay. Now a days, thats just not the case. I'm really so tired of T-shirt remakes that I could puke. I don't know how many about me pages/listing descriptions I read that say something to the tune of *I took this baggy men's T-shirt and gave it a flattering cut*....its been done. Done done done done done. And let me tell you why. Its not difficult to take a tshirt and sew new seams in it and make something else. You can learn to do it well *enough* to make something semi-decent in maybe about 5 to 10 attempts (and I swear some people don't even make THOSE attempts before they start selling on ebay). Taking a Tshirt and giving it a *flattering cut* is NOT INSPIRED. Its the equivalent of using printed fabric as the sole source of your design individuality - a plain dress...in a print fabric...IS NOT INSPIRED. Its a plain dress in print fabric. It doesnt matter how many different print fabrics you find to make your plain dress out of. Its not inspired. Its not art.
But anyone with a sewing machine and an hour to spare and a MINIMUM of ability can achieve at least a semi-decent result. And when you first saw it on ebay a few years ago...you went WOW thats cool...and the sellers doing it...were making some good money. So many people have seen these reconstructions and thought...I could do that...and BAM a flooded market is born whereby everyone and their dog is cutting up a tshirt and trying to sell it....and not everyone and their dog is talented enough to pull it off...because let me tell you, even though you CAN do it with a minimum of ability...that doesn't mean that youre doing it RIGHT. That what you're making is going to last more than a month. That what you're making is going to fit right on human anatomy...be comfortable, hang right...etc.
Wow thats a long way out of the way to go to make a point. That point being that the idea of all this was to be unique and individual, not to all wear the same tshirt cut up in 20 different *flattering* ways. And to top it off, back to the Keynsian economics here...the more sellers that enter the market, the more you DEVALUATE the product. And the sellers that enter the market with *less skilled* product devalue our market more, because when a buyer pays money for a DIY product and that product does not live up to their expectations, they will be hesitant to buy next time...not just from the less skilled seller, but from all sellers. They may leave the DIY market entirely.
I'm sure very few people understand my point here. And I'm not suggesting that the floodgates to DIY seller *heaven* should be closed and I'm not saying fuck anyone who decides to start a DIY venture on ebay. I'm saying this: Its not for everybody. You really need to think this DIY thing through very carefully. Here are some points from grislted veterans (myself included...hahah)
1. This is not all fun and games. Its not a work-at-home-when-your-lazy-ass-feels-like-it-so-you-dont-have-to-go-out-and-get-a-real-job sort of thing. If you take this seriously, and you have to to have ANY CHANCE of success...you're gonna work your fucking ass off. Seriously. Oh yeah sewing is fun. How much fun is it after 15 straight hours? After making 250 or so corsets? How much fun? Its not grinning ear to ear fun let me tell ya. It beats raking shit for a living *maybe, I hear shit rakers have great benefits* But its a job. And its FULL TIME. You can't put 20 hours a week into this and have any hope. It takes me 20 hours to make one item sometimes. And then there are the aspects of seeking out and purchasing your supplies, answering emails, doing listings, desiging your HTML, networking with other DIYers and suppliers, putting together packages to send, sending those packages, coming up with new ideas, designing those new ideas, mocking up the new ideas and begging people to try them on for you and give you an honest opinion...all this takes a lot of your time out of the day. I spend easily 50 to 60 hours a week on my ebay activities. And all of the other DIYers I talk to, and I talk to a LOT of em...put in that many or more. No weekends off. No evenings off.
2. The materials of this business are not cheap. Tshirts cost money. Fabric costs money. Trims cost money. All the fucking metal I put on my clothing - costs money. Sewing machines cost money. Sergers. REPAIRING the fucking sewing machines and sergers. I have easily $2000 in sewing equipment in my home. Easy. Talk about capital investment. I have enough fabric in my home to start my own store. None of it cheap...not even close. My capital investment into my business has reached well into the thousands. And where do you keep all this shit? I have TWO ROOMS dedicated to this. Two rooms of my townhouse. Doesn't leave much room for anything else.
3. PROFIT. You make a nice shirt...takes you 3 hours, say, plus an hour to take pictures and list. You sell it on ebay. And due to the lovely market glut we are currently in, you rake in a cool $20 on it. Ohhh yeah $20. Less the cost of the tshirt ($10), trim and other materials ($3), ebay and paypal fees ($3), income tax and social security tax($2 and YES you are going to have to pay income tax...otherwise you could GO TO JAIL. And yes the IRS DOES CARE, even if you only make a little bit. They will eventually find you...the rat bastards). That's $18 in cost...not even including all the little minor expenses that add up quick. So for your 4 hours of labor you net...at best...$2.
I see so many people trying to sell on ebay that make $8, $10...$20 on an item...and I think, HOW can they keep operating at a loss? Cuz they are. There is no way to make a profit at that level. Why put in ALL those hours, and spend all that upfront money on materials...to lose?
4. Market glut = little chance of exposure = little chance of success. That's the sad truth. There are sooooo many DIYers out there now, its gonna be hard for anyone to see you. The marketing blitz you'd have to put on to get attention now would have to be astronimical. I've bought some DIY from exceptionally talented people, and I could tell you their ebay IDs but you wouldn't know them. Because they get no exposure. You type into your search bar *DIY corset*, for instance, and EIGHT pages of results come up. How many people actually sift through 8 pages of results? How many people actually pay attention to the details of EVERY result?? How many are going to see your item and click on it? And what are the odds, with all the DIY out there, that they are going to buy yours and not go shopping instead for a similar item made by someone else that is cheaper??? I don't know how anyone but established sellers are even getting SEEN out there. I know from watching my numbers that I'm BARELY getting seen. Its chaos stew out there...
I guess I've ranted enough, and I really need to get back to work before I lose my edge...that I'm already losing...lol...but there is a whole realm of unranted rant about Inspiration and Art and Vision and the stunning lack thereof in the vast majority of DIY listings. There is also the rant about things that are not DIY being sold as DIY: FOR EXAMPLE...buy a walmart hoodie and screen printing a *ahem...licensed...btw* band logo on it that you drew on your computer and calling that STOLEN SHIT DIY....I love the listing I read yesterday...a new DIYer...had a screen printed hoodie from Old Navy (NWT!!! fuck....) and were of course selling it as *DIY* and had the gall to put a whole paragraph in their listing about how they had over 30 years of combined sewing experience. Ok. If you can sew....SEW A FUCKING HOODIE. I'm not trying to be a *sew only from scratch* snob...because there are legitimate reconstruction DIY projects that ROCK!! I've seen a lot of them...wearydrearies for one makes wonderful reconstructions...but these items display *again* inspiration, art...changing something to make it TOTALLY UNIQUE. Stealing a band logo and screen printing it on an Old Navy hoodie is NOT
inspired, is NOT art...should not be *DIY* and mostly, is fucking illegal and disrespectful to the bands who work hard for their money, too. I sometimes think I'm going to start reporting screen printers to ebay, then I think, fuck it. Its not my problem. I'm not in the band... but really, maybe we should...
Anyhoo, I've ranted too long. I think you all know where I'm coming from anyway. Just had to get that out. Badly. I'm sure there will be more spewing out me soon...I don't feel...done yet.
Are we familiar with our economics? I know its been a long time, hasn't it? Its a matter of supply and demand here, very basic. As the supply goes up, demand goes DOWN. When demand goes down...well, you know what happens.
I have to say this because its been weighing on my soul for far too long. And that's what my blog is about...getting this shit out of me and into another format so it will leave me alone.
I started browsing *and eventually buying* DIY clothing a few years ago because, after 7 years of intoxication, I sobered up, climbed out of my bottle and discovered that I didn't think like everyone else. Which is probably why I started drinking in the first place. In any case, sobering up reminded me of one aspect of life that alcohol had smoothed over for me: I AM NOT LIKE ANYONE ELSE ON THIS EARTH. I am so fucking far out of the realm of normal that its difficult for me to relate to other people...to put myself in their shoes. But anyway, a topic for another blog. I fell into the habit of making my own clothes, and eventually buying DIY on ebay because I felt the need to be different. I had to be unique. I got into selling the stuff I made so that I could support both my fabric habit (that shit aint cheap) and my ebay buying habit.
Back then, a few years ago, there were not so many DIY sellers on ebay. The items they made were the first of their kind seen on ebay. Now a days, thats just not the case. I'm really so tired of T-shirt remakes that I could puke. I don't know how many about me pages/listing descriptions I read that say something to the tune of *I took this baggy men's T-shirt and gave it a flattering cut*....its been done. Done done done done done. And let me tell you why. Its not difficult to take a tshirt and sew new seams in it and make something else. You can learn to do it well *enough* to make something semi-decent in maybe about 5 to 10 attempts (and I swear some people don't even make THOSE attempts before they start selling on ebay). Taking a Tshirt and giving it a *flattering cut* is NOT INSPIRED. Its the equivalent of using printed fabric as the sole source of your design individuality - a plain dress...in a print fabric...IS NOT INSPIRED. Its a plain dress in print fabric. It doesnt matter how many different print fabrics you find to make your plain dress out of. Its not inspired. Its not art.
But anyone with a sewing machine and an hour to spare and a MINIMUM of ability can achieve at least a semi-decent result. And when you first saw it on ebay a few years ago...you went WOW thats cool...and the sellers doing it...were making some good money. So many people have seen these reconstructions and thought...I could do that...and BAM a flooded market is born whereby everyone and their dog is cutting up a tshirt and trying to sell it....and not everyone and their dog is talented enough to pull it off...because let me tell you, even though you CAN do it with a minimum of ability...that doesn't mean that youre doing it RIGHT. That what you're making is going to last more than a month. That what you're making is going to fit right on human anatomy...be comfortable, hang right...etc.
Wow thats a long way out of the way to go to make a point. That point being that the idea of all this was to be unique and individual, not to all wear the same tshirt cut up in 20 different *flattering* ways. And to top it off, back to the Keynsian economics here...the more sellers that enter the market, the more you DEVALUATE the product. And the sellers that enter the market with *less skilled* product devalue our market more, because when a buyer pays money for a DIY product and that product does not live up to their expectations, they will be hesitant to buy next time...not just from the less skilled seller, but from all sellers. They may leave the DIY market entirely.
I'm sure very few people understand my point here. And I'm not suggesting that the floodgates to DIY seller *heaven* should be closed and I'm not saying fuck anyone who decides to start a DIY venture on ebay. I'm saying this: Its not for everybody. You really need to think this DIY thing through very carefully. Here are some points from grislted veterans (myself included...hahah)
1. This is not all fun and games. Its not a work-at-home-when-your-lazy-ass-feels-like-it-so-you-dont-have-to-go-out-and-get-a-real-job sort of thing. If you take this seriously, and you have to to have ANY CHANCE of success...you're gonna work your fucking ass off. Seriously. Oh yeah sewing is fun. How much fun is it after 15 straight hours? After making 250 or so corsets? How much fun? Its not grinning ear to ear fun let me tell ya. It beats raking shit for a living *maybe, I hear shit rakers have great benefits* But its a job. And its FULL TIME. You can't put 20 hours a week into this and have any hope. It takes me 20 hours to make one item sometimes. And then there are the aspects of seeking out and purchasing your supplies, answering emails, doing listings, desiging your HTML, networking with other DIYers and suppliers, putting together packages to send, sending those packages, coming up with new ideas, designing those new ideas, mocking up the new ideas and begging people to try them on for you and give you an honest opinion...all this takes a lot of your time out of the day. I spend easily 50 to 60 hours a week on my ebay activities. And all of the other DIYers I talk to, and I talk to a LOT of em...put in that many or more. No weekends off. No evenings off.
2. The materials of this business are not cheap. Tshirts cost money. Fabric costs money. Trims cost money. All the fucking metal I put on my clothing - costs money. Sewing machines cost money. Sergers. REPAIRING the fucking sewing machines and sergers. I have easily $2000 in sewing equipment in my home. Easy. Talk about capital investment. I have enough fabric in my home to start my own store. None of it cheap...not even close. My capital investment into my business has reached well into the thousands. And where do you keep all this shit? I have TWO ROOMS dedicated to this. Two rooms of my townhouse. Doesn't leave much room for anything else.
3. PROFIT. You make a nice shirt...takes you 3 hours, say, plus an hour to take pictures and list. You sell it on ebay. And due to the lovely market glut we are currently in, you rake in a cool $20 on it. Ohhh yeah $20. Less the cost of the tshirt ($10), trim and other materials ($3), ebay and paypal fees ($3), income tax and social security tax($2 and YES you are going to have to pay income tax...otherwise you could GO TO JAIL. And yes the IRS DOES CARE, even if you only make a little bit. They will eventually find you...the rat bastards). That's $18 in cost...not even including all the little minor expenses that add up quick. So for your 4 hours of labor you net...at best...$2.
I see so many people trying to sell on ebay that make $8, $10...$20 on an item...and I think, HOW can they keep operating at a loss? Cuz they are. There is no way to make a profit at that level. Why put in ALL those hours, and spend all that upfront money on materials...to lose?
4. Market glut = little chance of exposure = little chance of success. That's the sad truth. There are sooooo many DIYers out there now, its gonna be hard for anyone to see you. The marketing blitz you'd have to put on to get attention now would have to be astronimical. I've bought some DIY from exceptionally talented people, and I could tell you their ebay IDs but you wouldn't know them. Because they get no exposure. You type into your search bar *DIY corset*, for instance, and EIGHT pages of results come up. How many people actually sift through 8 pages of results? How many people actually pay attention to the details of EVERY result?? How many are going to see your item and click on it? And what are the odds, with all the DIY out there, that they are going to buy yours and not go shopping instead for a similar item made by someone else that is cheaper??? I don't know how anyone but established sellers are even getting SEEN out there. I know from watching my numbers that I'm BARELY getting seen. Its chaos stew out there...
I guess I've ranted enough, and I really need to get back to work before I lose my edge...that I'm already losing...lol...but there is a whole realm of unranted rant about Inspiration and Art and Vision and the stunning lack thereof in the vast majority of DIY listings. There is also the rant about things that are not DIY being sold as DIY: FOR EXAMPLE...buy a walmart hoodie and screen printing a *ahem...licensed...btw* band logo on it that you drew on your computer and calling that STOLEN SHIT DIY....I love the listing I read yesterday...a new DIYer...had a screen printed hoodie from Old Navy (NWT!!! fuck....) and were of course selling it as *DIY* and had the gall to put a whole paragraph in their listing about how they had over 30 years of combined sewing experience. Ok. If you can sew....SEW A FUCKING HOODIE. I'm not trying to be a *sew only from scratch* snob...because there are legitimate reconstruction DIY projects that ROCK!! I've seen a lot of them...wearydrearies for one makes wonderful reconstructions...but these items display *again* inspiration, art...changing something to make it TOTALLY UNIQUE. Stealing a band logo and screen printing it on an Old Navy hoodie is NOT
inspired, is NOT art...should not be *DIY* and mostly, is fucking illegal and disrespectful to the bands who work hard for their money, too. I sometimes think I'm going to start reporting screen printers to ebay, then I think, fuck it. Its not my problem. I'm not in the band... but really, maybe we should...
Anyhoo, I've ranted too long. I think you all know where I'm coming from anyway. Just had to get that out. Badly. I'm sure there will be more spewing out me soon...I don't feel...done yet.
Tuesday, September 06, 2005
Are they gonna eat that TV? If not, then its looting...
Wow I have been a busy busy girl. Last week we moved out of the one-room apartment in DC and moved about 15 miles north to the suburbs in Maryland. Three times the space! What is sad is that we are so used to living in one room...everything is in our living room...and thats where we stay. We have two rooms upstairs. One is totally empty. The other just has our mattresses sitting on the floor. We don't even go up there, its been so long without space that we just forget we have it at all...
We call that *prong one* of our three prong move - get all the shit out of DC and into the new place. We stamped that prong with a big red DONE (ever watch monster house?). YAY! Prong two of the move is to go to Pittsburgh and get the essentials out of the house and into the new place. This includes the bedframe that the mattresses go on (mattresses are new...oooooh...never had a real NEW bed before...exciting), the stereo (oh to have my cd jukebox back...I can hardly wait), the bedroom TV, the other car...hahah...and a few more things. Prong three is to clean that damn house out and put it on the market and SELL IT!! Anyone want to buy a nice house in PA?
There are so many things to rant about that I don't know where to start. I guess one thing to say is HEY KANYE (you dumb ass)...ARE THEY GONNA EAT THAT TV? CUZ IF THEY AREN'T, THAT'S *LOOTING* AND NOT *LOOKING FOR FOOD*
Anyone want to flame me on that? No? Good idea. What a grade A dumb ass motherfucker. You know, George Bush may NOT care about black people ~ from what I've seen in the last year or so, I really don't think he cares about ANY Americans, let alone black ones ~ but the point is that a hurricane relief benefit program is not an appropriate forum to express your misguided, racially motivated opinions. Nothing like dividing your country during its moments of greatest need. Brilliant idea. Why don't we just set an industrial strength fan in front of this whole house of cards and watch it fall to the ground. DUMB....ASS.
No, seriously. Dumb fucking ass. Dumb. Fucking. Ass.
Ok...I don't think I have that all fully out of my system, but for now that's good enough. I have so much more spinning in my head on this whole *racially motivated hurricane*....but thats enough for now.
Hmmm...gas prices...hmmm...I think I've spoken to this topic before. Several times. Even though gas is $3.50 a gallon here now at my local Exxon, I still see what appears to be NO reduction in their daily business. I guess, as I have suspected for the last few months or so, that we are all just gonna drop trow, bend over, and continue to let them have at us - nothing we can do, right? We have to go to work, right? We have to drive to Aunt Mary's every Sunday, right? Pick up the kids at soccer practice, run to the shoe store...blah blah blah. Mark my words...gas prices will never ~ ever ~ go down again. Never. Get used to this price ~ and higher. Cuz once they have us believing this is the $$ value of their product, that's what they will charge. Oh and the havok this is going to wreak on our economy. Oh my god. The hurricane couldn't have hit at a worse time (like there's a good time for the biggest natural disaster in US history, but then again, I digress). So its going to take more money, I read, than the GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCT of the USA to simply clean up the contamination in New Orleans. More than the GNP...of the richest country in the world. So I wreck my car. It costs $5000 to fix it, but its only worth $2000. What do they normally do? They total it. Of course we can't *total* New Orleans...but...FUCK!! Its gonna cost more money to fix it than the country has!! Oy.
I fear the worst for our country ~ I really do ~ I can almost see the end days looming on the horizon. I fear our leadership is not equipped to handle any of the challenges it faces (ie wars it cant end...cities it cant fix). And I fear our people have become so divided (along so many lines - partisan, racial, religious...hell you name it) that there is no way we can ever pull together to accomplish ANYTHING...
*sigh* all doom and gloom, eh?
And yeah, Kanye, you're still a dumb ass.
We call that *prong one* of our three prong move - get all the shit out of DC and into the new place. We stamped that prong with a big red DONE (ever watch monster house?). YAY! Prong two of the move is to go to Pittsburgh and get the essentials out of the house and into the new place. This includes the bedframe that the mattresses go on (mattresses are new...oooooh...never had a real NEW bed before...exciting), the stereo (oh to have my cd jukebox back...I can hardly wait), the bedroom TV, the other car...hahah...and a few more things. Prong three is to clean that damn house out and put it on the market and SELL IT!! Anyone want to buy a nice house in PA?
There are so many things to rant about that I don't know where to start. I guess one thing to say is HEY KANYE (you dumb ass)...ARE THEY GONNA EAT THAT TV? CUZ IF THEY AREN'T, THAT'S *LOOTING* AND NOT *LOOKING FOR FOOD*
Anyone want to flame me on that? No? Good idea. What a grade A dumb ass motherfucker. You know, George Bush may NOT care about black people ~ from what I've seen in the last year or so, I really don't think he cares about ANY Americans, let alone black ones ~ but the point is that a hurricane relief benefit program is not an appropriate forum to express your misguided, racially motivated opinions. Nothing like dividing your country during its moments of greatest need. Brilliant idea. Why don't we just set an industrial strength fan in front of this whole house of cards and watch it fall to the ground. DUMB....ASS.
No, seriously. Dumb fucking ass. Dumb. Fucking. Ass.
Ok...I don't think I have that all fully out of my system, but for now that's good enough. I have so much more spinning in my head on this whole *racially motivated hurricane*....but thats enough for now.
Hmmm...gas prices...hmmm...I think I've spoken to this topic before. Several times. Even though gas is $3.50 a gallon here now at my local Exxon, I still see what appears to be NO reduction in their daily business. I guess, as I have suspected for the last few months or so, that we are all just gonna drop trow, bend over, and continue to let them have at us - nothing we can do, right? We have to go to work, right? We have to drive to Aunt Mary's every Sunday, right? Pick up the kids at soccer practice, run to the shoe store...blah blah blah. Mark my words...gas prices will never ~ ever ~ go down again. Never. Get used to this price ~ and higher. Cuz once they have us believing this is the $$ value of their product, that's what they will charge. Oh and the havok this is going to wreak on our economy. Oh my god. The hurricane couldn't have hit at a worse time (like there's a good time for the biggest natural disaster in US history, but then again, I digress). So its going to take more money, I read, than the GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCT of the USA to simply clean up the contamination in New Orleans. More than the GNP...of the richest country in the world. So I wreck my car. It costs $5000 to fix it, but its only worth $2000. What do they normally do? They total it. Of course we can't *total* New Orleans...but...FUCK!! Its gonna cost more money to fix it than the country has!! Oy.
I fear the worst for our country ~ I really do ~ I can almost see the end days looming on the horizon. I fear our leadership is not equipped to handle any of the challenges it faces (ie wars it cant end...cities it cant fix). And I fear our people have become so divided (along so many lines - partisan, racial, religious...hell you name it) that there is no way we can ever pull together to accomplish ANYTHING...
*sigh* all doom and gloom, eh?
And yeah, Kanye, you're still a dumb ass.
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