3 posts tagged “rant”
I was checking out a Rihanna video today and glanced down at the comments (I should know better by now, but it's the whole "Fascination with the Abomination" thing) and saw this little gem:
Isn't she as much white as she is black? Turns out, she's from Barbados and of Guyanese descent. I realise that I'm treading touchy ground here, but as a person of "mixed descent" myself, I guess I'm more sensitive to these things. Maybe overly so. BUT. I think I have a point here and it's that she's no more black than white, but because she's apparently a little bit black, she's not white anymore? Maybe it's just a "white country" thing and in Africa, she's regarded as white. In Barbados, she's probably just Barbadian (or Bajan). In China, would they regard her as black? Possibly. If I go to China, I wonder if the natives would regard me as white or chinese...
This is stupid. I'm not sure what my point is anymore.
*sigh*
/rant
I'm sitting here at my sister's PC and I am vividly reminded why I dislike using this computer for extensive typing. Seriously, the keyboard SUCKS. Balls. Hard.
Moving on. I'm sure there's been another rant about this damn keyboard already.
Picture of my baby, at the end of the day, using long exposure. He started talking to me mid-exposure, giving me this image. I quite like it.
Well, not really, but I am wondering how other people manage to write really interesting, often funny blog entries and I'm stuck here like a tool who can't seem to string a decent sentence together.
See?
I suppose I could read a book on how to write a journal, but that just seems like more reading and not so much practice.
Anyway, the thing that used to work for me (back when I wrote in an actual journal with pages and a pen and stuff *whoa*), was just to write whatever was in my head at the moment. Doesn't make for a scintillating read, but it fills up space!
In fact, that was my problem in high school English. I was too succint. Get to the point and leave the damn thing alone, right? "No, no, no. You MUST fill as many pages as you can with filler. We're used to reading filler. It's everywhere. Especially in the newspapers."
This is filler. Filler is where, to use an english essay as an example, I beat the reader of the head with the bleeding obvious. See, I didn't understand that in 12th grade. So, where I was done at 2 pages, fellow A-student classmates reached the 8 or 9 page mark! Maybe I just never understood the point of essays. Especially when I felt like I was just regurgitating the teacher's opinions.
Okay, okay.
End rant.
