Comments on Critical Fluff: 109 Pineapples for Being Authentic

3-2-1 contact and the Bloodhound Gang were too imm...

2006-03-12T11:44:00.000-05:00

3-2-1 contact and the Bloodhound Gang were too immature for me. I had moved on to more sophisticated entertainment like Growing Pains and America's Top 10 by that time.

Besides, after you see Spidey make his 'web-flingin' motion, then the scene changes to a black net being DROPPED DOWN on the bad-guy, everything else pales by comparision.

Mack- I do enjoy 3-2-1 Contact, but that's a bit d...

2006-03-12T08:42:00.000-05:00

Mack- I do enjoy 3-2-1 Contact, but that's a bit different. I totally wanted to be a member of The Bloodhound Gang (the original preteen mystery squad, not the group that was the first to use the word "mammals" in a song). And a ring is a big investment at the prodding of wax packs.

E- This will probably come out wrong, but to hazard a personal answer to your rhetorical question: nope. I think your comment works in complete contradiction to everything I wrote in my post (which is good, unless you want to arm wrestle it out). I'll back this up by repeating: authenticity is personally-defined and always relative. Feeling like "an actress in a fake reality series" is a self-imposed sensibility. And, yes, this is me being my stubborn "fricking do it or don't" self, but, in this case: own it or don't.

As I scream to slow drivers at yellow lights: Take what's yours. Even if all you're taking is a bunch of muddled thoughts.

take authenticity to another level - what is true ...

2006-03-12T06:33:00.000-05:00

take authenticity to another level - what is true and what is not in terms of feelings? feelings are so bloody fickle - one moment what is coming out of your mouth is the most truth you've spoken in years - and in the next you are entirely doubting it. which is authentic? the first or the later? what you feel in one moment changes so quickly to the next...and most of the time the change takes place in reaction to something someone else has done or said. are feeling authentic in the moment or upon reflection?

is your writing the authenticated you? or is the authentic you your words and action spoken outloud? can you have an authentic connection with someone if you are in fact - not connected??

sometimes, don't you feel like an actress caught in a fake reality series that is actually a documentary of the human condition caught in a courtship of technology?

Ah the days of baseball card collecting.....1987 w...

2006-03-11T20:25:00.000-05:00

Ah the days of baseball card collecting.....1987 was the Last Stand, it was all down the frickin' toilet after that. I still remember every week going down to the 'Good Ole Boy' 'fillin station' and asking if the distributor had brought by the Donruss yet.

'Yep, we got a box right here'.

'How much?'

'It's 55 cents a pack'

'No....how much for the whole box?'

'you wanna buy the WHOLE BOX?!?'

The man obviously didn't understand the importance of spending $236 on wax packs to hand collate a $40 set.

A fleer or donruss glue stain you could deal with....but a topps wax stain on your McGwire rookie was a heartbreaker.

Thanks for the trip down memory lane. If you ever post about your love of The Electric Company, I'll either propose on the spot, or just off a bridge.