Shut the FUCK up about The Beatles and iTunes. What asshole didn’t have The Beatles on their iPod already? Everybody has Beatles records and/or CDs – just rip them to your fucking computer. I don’t understand the hysteria here. What is wrong with people? OMG THERE’S THIS EXCITING NEW ALBUM CALLED ABBEY ROAD LOLOLOL!!!!!!1ONE

So I’m watching Daria and these really gay-friendly commercials keep coming on with like gay couples endorsing KY jelly or wallpaper or whatever and I’m like “wow, American society is finally progressing – this is awesome!”

Three minutes pass and I suddenly remember I’m watching LOGO. I’m like “fuuuuck“…

The things you see at the bus stop. Okay, this is a multiple offense, but let’s start with the biggest one: Your jeans are ACID WASH. Are you fucking kidding? Second, those jeans are too fucking light to wear in winter. Third, if your calves are that big, you shouldn’t be wearing skinny jeans… and NOBODY should be wearing THOSE skinny jeans. The only people who’ve considered wearing these pants must be too young to remember when they were actually in fashion. It was like living in a nightmare everyday. Please stop before you kill us all.

It’s crazy how much the web has changed since I first began blogging. We used to have little scripts for everything: a “currently” script (replaced by Twitter), an “ask & answer” script (replaced by Formspring), a “listening to” script (replaced by last.fm), a flash radio script (replaced by myspace), a photo gallery script (replaced by flickr) and there are dozens more examples I’m sure some of you can think of. I feel like there’s nothing left to DO anymore. 

You don’t want to feed the capitalist machine and bring ad revenue to a bunch of douche bags, but you start to rely on the audience these services provide because this has become the standard. Consequently, every website looks the same, with the same simple plugins, and we’re forced to rely on these websites to deliver our content, but the very audience that keeps us using them is also to blame for their slow speeds and constant errors. I just miss when everything was in your hands. I guess if your main concern is content and you get no joy out of fiddling with code, your only problem with them is reliability. For me, it steals the fun out of running a website.

Meanwhile, these services are hailed as time-savers which “make it easy” for all, while (ironically) they are probably the #1 way to waste time. They are designed to take the time you would have normally put into your own site, and get you to give it to them instead. Ask yourself: Who are you working for? What are you supporting? Who owns your thoughts and what are they worth?