tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50001285962633124882024-03-13T09:18:49.581-07:00iambeginningtohaveathoughtchrisbudmelmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03789590493541758454noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5000128596263312488.post-65519927691515916532011-05-16T01:09:00.000-07:002011-05-16T01:16:24.077-07:00Fun with Find and Replace: The Shame of Loving buffythevampireslayer<style>@font-face { font-family: "Times New Roman"; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }table.MsoNormalTable { font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }div.Section1 { page: Section1; }</style> <p class="MsoNormal">By the time the average American has reached the age of twenty-five, they have viewed <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">buffythevampireslayer</span> at least once, whether for pleasure or out of a simple curiosity.<span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">Yet there is a kind of social contract that we do not speak about <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">buffythevampireslayer</span> or our <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">buffythevampireslayer</span>-viewing experiences in polite company. 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Conversely, more and more couples are watching <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">buffythevampireslayer</span> together.<span style=""> </span>It is considered an intimate experience, more intimate for some than even the act of <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">combat</span>.<span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">When viewing <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">buffythevampireslayer</span> with a significant other, it is important to remember the element of fantasy.<span style=""> </span>Don't get hung up on specifics which might turn you off or offend.<span style=""> </span>No one, including your partner, really believes that <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">buffythevampireslayer</span> is real.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">Very few people would state that they like "all <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">buffythevampireslayer</span>."<span style=""> </span>The sheer variety of <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">buffythevampireslayer</span> available today makes the possibility of such a statement unlikely.<span style=""> </span>Most viewers of <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">buffythevampireslayer</span> qualify their preferences with terms like:<span style=""> </span>"…[O]nly the classy <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">buffythevampireslayer</span>…"; "I only like <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">buffythevampireslayer </span>where it looks like the women are enjoying it…"; "No cheesy plots!".<span style=""> </span>Some are bored by <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">buffythevampireslayer</span> where the progression of <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">combat</span> acts seems formulaic or contrived. </p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">In short:<span style=""> </span>what <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">buffythevampireslayer</span> one likes, or if one does not like <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">buffythevampireslayer</span> at all, betrays, in some way, what type of person they are.</p>chrisbudmelmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03789590493541758454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5000128596263312488.post-53644876433429420722010-06-06T12:46:00.000-07:002010-06-06T13:01:31.814-07:00iambeginningtohaveathought<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEionqaAldqn3U9RJFTNbprpfiBjSIstqKtjXdFdVsvE_brN8rLJGBG0Kii5QNMl-9RL-CjJieFxZFmIME8TyJeEsv5WiFOIfQWAxq8yt7Sm61mHPiCK6DkCM2oHUcQ0Il7MM8lNFC1_fmI/s1600/6561674-0-large.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 169px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEionqaAldqn3U9RJFTNbprpfiBjSIstqKtjXdFdVsvE_brN8rLJGBG0Kii5QNMl-9RL-CjJieFxZFmIME8TyJeEsv5WiFOIfQWAxq8yt7Sm61mHPiCK6DkCM2oHUcQ0Il7MM8lNFC1_fmI/s320/6561674-0-large.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5479751891230096658" /></a><br /><br /><br />i just don't think i like my tumblr, cause no one can talk to me and i can't talk to anyone. so we're going to make this the master site. <br /><br /><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/_jlmJDwPRCA&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/_jlmJDwPRCA&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object><br /><br />this site is about:<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5SEfVvxGAbH0rHColy1C9IzR-VFQLWnhHGDfHZoqnvmSg963sZM0lP4nEJzb12jN4PyrJVFun57tcAWqhYbJCKgD61sqkwyEIk_dKBKaEjyg8uY8pVgXrjJauJWUi-aoholwBxXqRMZU/s1600/7Umix3pDQqz3d1nhfsd3q9J0o1_500.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5SEfVvxGAbH0rHColy1C9IzR-VFQLWnhHGDfHZoqnvmSg963sZM0lP4nEJzb12jN4PyrJVFun57tcAWqhYbJCKgD61sqkwyEIk_dKBKaEjyg8uY8pVgXrjJauJWUi-aoholwBxXqRMZU/s320/7Umix3pDQqz3d1nhfsd3q9J0o1_500.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5479751499641739938" /></a><br /><br />simple things. things we aren't even going to think twice about. reactions we have and slip below our thoughts and sit like the underside of an egg, cooking. that's this world we now live in. this is the world of beginning to have a thought. it's beautiful and evocative and aches like looking into the face of death because no memory and no stature and no thought saves us from the immediate image and thought being presented being thrown into our faces with the speed and sublimity of the present... which was always too fast to really experience anyway. I read something on it. http://www.partnership.mmu.ac.uk/cme/Chreods/Issue_13/JGillen.html<br /><br />Love love, christopher.chrisbudmelmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03789590493541758454noreply@blogger.com0