Comments on: The Fuck-It List

By: Meme Me This…/Anti-Bucket List « Living & Loving, That’s All That Matters, Right?

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 05:58:43 +0000

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By: The Opoponax

The Opoponax — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:04:06 +0000

Harumph – I tried to read that sympathetically and assume they meant Big Important Canonical Literature that they personally might not be interested in. And I get that. Sure, there are a lot of writers out there who are just brilliant, hands down, and considered canonical for a reason.

But there’s always the question of taste, too, and what you’re looking for in a reading experience. Right now I’m very slooowwwwwwlllllyyyy plodding through Light In August, because it’s just not subway reading, and I rarely have time to read in bed without just nodding off to sleep within 5 minutes. And Faulkner is light reading compared to Dostoevsky or Joyce. I could see just admitting to myself that I probably won’t ever get to some of the heavy hitting stuff because I just never find myself in a situation where I could possibly get anything out of it but guilt at failing to read a “good book”.

By: Harumph

Harumph — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 15:25:20 +0000

I understand nobody wants to feel like they “should” read anything in particular, but I feel like there’s a nasty backlash against a lot of good literature… What’s up with that?

Also, Buffy and Grand Ole Opry make me super happy. And videogames, specifically Katamari Damacy which is colorful good fun for everyone (and Zelda *ahem*).

My fuck-it list:
* Assume I’ll know what I will and won’t want for the rest of my life.

By: My fuck-it list « building bridges

My fuck-it list « building bridges — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 14:43:48 +0000

[...] Me , meme Tags: Lists I saw this at my friend Denise’s blog, which she got from the Feministe blog. The idea is to make a list of things you feel no need of doing before you die. So here are some of [...]

By: evil_fizz

evil_fizz — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 05:52:29 +0000

- Yoga, in any and all forms
- A desire to drink coffee, tea, or anything hot
- Trying not to be so judgmental
- Appreciating the great outdoors in ways that involve hiking long distances, camping, or “mountaineering”
- Trying slow food

By: Julie

Julie — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 23:25:43 +0000

It depends on the video game I think…. I love the Lego Star Wars games and I suck at most video games. As far as my list:

-Get down to a size ______ (insert size far smaller than my current 18).
-Be a vegan. I’m trying to go vegetarian but vegan will not ever happen.
-Have a spotlessly clean home.
-Learn to love NASCAR just because the spouse is obsessed with it.
-Let my children watch Teletubbies
-Spend less time on the internet.
-Spend time doing exercise that I hate.
-Give up soda
-Have a one night stand
-Make my own clothes
-Wax anything but my eyebrows
-Worry about who likes me

By: Jill

Jill — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 22:40:31 +0000

I know you’re heartbroken, Holls…

Honestly, the video game thing is an offshoot of my deprived childhood. We weren’t allowed to have Nintendo, and when I went to friends’ houses we were always more into playing outside, so I just never learned how to play video games. By the time I actually touched a controller, I was so far behind everyone else I felt dumb and just gave up. Now I’m 25 and I’ve never even played Mario (I have played Duck Hunt, but that’s it).

Maybe some day some patient person will teach me and I’ll love it. Crazier things have happened.

By: Holly

Holly — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 22:05:23 +0000

OMG does this mean you’re not coming over to play video games now?

By: Axiomatic

Axiomatic — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 15:42:44 +0000

No Buffy OR video games? Harsh.

By: biosparite

biosparite — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 14:52:48 +0000

1. Use slickum on my hair;
2. Use cologne;
3. Tolerate evangelizing from religious right wackjob wingnuts;
4. Watch Mary Grace;
5. Tolerate even a few seconds of Rush Limbaugh on any radio I own;
6. Read the local or state bar associations’ publications on anything but updates on the law; the rest of it is an exercise in narcissistic personality disorder;
7. Vote Republican under any but the most unusual circumstances;
8. Read People, Us, or any other wrapper dedicated to the cult of celebrity;
9. Know anything about Britney Spears, Brangelina, celebrity serial pregnancies, or related topics;
10. Get married again;
11. Practice family law;
12. Give up the fight against insurance companies;
13. Buy a car from an American automaker;
14. Live downwind from a nuclear or coal-fired power plant (lotsa luck, hunh?);
15. Use pesticides or herbicides or fungicides;
16. Eat pork in any form;
17. Read any banner ad that appears on any website;
18. Play bridge;
19. Consume acai berry;
20. Patronize any health-food store;
21. Talk to an insurance salesman other than at my own initiative;
22. Recommend that anyone send his/her child to a school within the Houston Independent School District;
23. Believe that mankind enjoys a divinely- (or otherwise-) conferred dominion over the Earth and its life;
24. Read Rupert Murdoch’s Wall St. Journal;
25. Read the Houston Chronicle;
26. Ever disagree with the maxim that Rome wasn’t built in a day, but Atlanta came close;
27. Shop in a Border’s Bookstore;
28. Propagate invasive, exotic plants in any space I control or influence;
29. Love a real-estate developer, particularly in Texas.
30. Etc., growl/snarl.