Irony

As you know, the DNC is occurring right now in Boston. And as always, there are protestors; for this convention, the protestors would be Republicans. However, the protestors are complaining because they are not being allowed to protest as close to the convention as they would like. The Boston PD has said that for the sake of security, certain freedoms have to given up. Republican protestors are, obviously, saying that this is unacceptable. But doesn't this, sacrificing certain freedoms for the sake of security, sound awfully familiar to the idea behind a little piece of legislation called the Patriot Act?

Moved

I've moved all (12) of my entries from my old site to this one. I couldn't move the comments, so if you made a comment on the old one, feel free to repost it here. Or, if you were too shy to post, skulking away in the corner, wondering "Will Adam think I'm less-cool if I comment on his journal?", then reread all of my entries and post a new comment.

(And no, I won't think you're less-cool, well, unless you're this guy )

And on that note, I learned how to incorpate PICTURES! into my entries, so now I can post pictures, like this one from after-prom weekend my senior year

or this one from freshmen orientation .

Fun

New Location, Nothing New

Absolutely nothing new here, just the change of location. But here's a link to a good site of live mp3s from some bands, including Guster, Ben Folds, and DMB alphaquam.com

Tools

What's that you say? "Adam, how can I delineate between a tool and a person I'd actually like to spend some time with?" Well, the answer is actually quite simple.

On a recent excursion to the movies, I noticed a young man, wearing a white polo shirt (okay by me, and by many people's standards) with pink shorts.


It seems we have a problem here.


When I go shopping for, let's say, a new shirt, and I see one I like, I know that it is something I like as soon as I see it; it's somewhat of an innate reaction, one could say. I say to myself, "I like this shirt," or "this shirt is a nice shirt." It is for these aforementioned reasons that I will buy the shirt.

However, let's say that I am tool. We are of course speaking in a hypothetical sense, since I have not been a tool since I was fourteen months old, and refused to wear cheap-ass "Huggies" diapers. Anywho, let's say "Adam the Tool" is shopping for a pair of shorts, and he passes a pair of pink shorts.

NO ONE in their right mind would see these shorts and say "I like these shorts," or "these are nice shorts." In fact, the majority of the population, being non-tools, would pass by these shorts without a second thought.

HOWEVER, a tool sees these shorts and says, not that he like the shorts or that they look nice, but rather "some of my friends have these shorts," or "I have seen these shorts in [insert crappy men's fashion magazine here, i.e. Abercrombie Quarterly]" and for this reason I will buy these shorts.

It is my belief that within a given society there exists a "fashion norm" that everybidy recognizes and subconsciously agrees with. Some choose to diverge from this norm for various reasons, such as to rebel against "the Man" or even when we dress up in a tux, to show that wee are going somewhere that requires clothing much nicer than just the norm.

Wait, there was a point to that, I'm sure of it, I just cannot remmeber what it was. Anyway, the point of this is to show that if you buy something because you've seen it on other people, or for a similar reason, you are, incontrovertibly, a "tool." Ok, that's all, have a good week.

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