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Indians of Bolivia have become the first native peoples to reclaim their autonomy. Woot woot!

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1. People who can't accept me for who I am.  I refuse to change myself for anyone ever again. This is me, fucking deal with it.

2. People and things that make me feel bad about who I am. Ex-boyfriends, homophobs, name brand clothing that will never fit over my tits or ass, bathroom scales, facebook "friends" who only have something to say to me when they disagree with me, and so-called friends who only put up with me because of my ex.

3. To be accepted by everyone. If you don't like me, eat a dick, I don't care anymore.

4. People who can't accept my friends for who they are. We're strange, seemingly unkind, and open with our sexuality. I don't have a true friend whose never been called a lesbian before. 

5. To be ashamed of the fact that I am mentally ill. I take pills, I get help. It's more than most can say.

...

This is my new manifesto. Long story short, I'm sick of trying to be nice to people who don't deserve it.

( Indian law... )

I exploded at my ethics teacher today.  We were talking about sexual ethics and we eventually got onto the topic of gay marriage.  I have very strong feelings about the topic seeing as I want to be a public issue attorney in order to fight for everyone's right to marry.  At first I agreed with my prof- he argued that the issue of gay marriage has a lot to do with legitimizing the love and sex relationships between homosexual individuals.  But then he started to argue that marriage is not a civil right... 

If marriage is not a civil right, then what is it? A privilege? Then why are some couples receiving benefits from the government for their privilege?  I believe that equal ability marriage is a civil right- as much as equal ability to drink from the same water fountain.  Legal prohibition of gay marriage is genital discrimination, on par with legal prohibition of women's suffrage.  Now that I think back on the situation, I really wish I had been able to say all of these things but unfortunately I wasn't.  But I did end up expressing my disinclination to becoming married in a state where not everyone was legally permitted to become married.  Seriously, everyone in the room gasped and my prof called me idealistic.  I just don't understand people's shock when I express my feelings about gay marriage.

People, including my immediate family and my prof, seem to think it novel that I am so concerned about marriage and that I take it so personally when my partner and I would have no problem legally marrying.  I take it very personally.  All throughout high school I was called a lesbian because I was in the drama club and refused the sexual advances of horny teenage boys.  On top of that, I have been called "Heather" repeatedly ever since I can remember.  Who is Heather? Heather is my cousin.  My lesbian cousin.  My dad's family consistently calls me "Heather" then turns around and calls Heather butch or a dyke or a carpetmuncher.  Why do I take gay marriage so personally? How could I not take it personally?  I feel like society has deemed me a lesbian but, at the same time, nobody would think twice if I married my partner. Why me and not Heather? 

Why did I explode at my professor when I am usually quiet and polite in class? He called me Heather.  

- X what you saw
- O what you haven't finished/saw sizable portions
- Bold what you loved
- Strike for what you disliked/hated
- Leave unchanged if neutral



Classic Disney
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[x] 101 Dalmatians (1961)
[x] Alice in Wonderland (1951)
[x] Bambi (1942)
[x] Cinderella (1950) FUCK! I HATED THOSE SINGING MICE! 
[x] Dumbo (1941)
[x] Fantasia (1940)
[x] Lady and the Tramp (1955)
[x] Mary Poppins (1964)
[x] Peter Pan (1953)
[x] Pinocchio (1940)
[x] Sleeping Beauty (1959)
[x] Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
[ ] Song of the South (1946)
12/13


Disney's Dark Age
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[x] The Aristocats (1970)
[ ] The Black Cauldron (1985)
[x] The Fox and the Hound (1981) This is seriously the saddest child's movie aside from the Velveteen Rabbit.
[x] The Great Mouse Detective (1986)
[x] The Jungle Book (1967)
[x] The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1977)
[x] Oliver and Company (1986)
[x] Pete's Dragon (1977)
[x] Rescuers, The (1977)
[x] Robin Hood (1973)
[x] The Sword In The Stone (1963) POTS AND PANS TO THE FACE!!!
10/11


The Disney Renaissance
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[x] Aladdin (1992) aka Aradeen
[x] Beauty and the Beast (1991)
[x] A Goofy Movie (1995)
[x] Hercules (1997)
[x] Hunchback of Notre Dame, The (1996)
[x] The Lion King (1994)
[x] The Little Mermaid (1989)
[x] Mulan (1998) Favorite Disney movie of all time
[x] Pocahontas (1995)
[x] The Rescuers Down Under (1990)
[x] Tarzan (1999)
11/11


Disney's Modern Age
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[ ] Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001)
[ ] Bolt (2008)
[o] Brother Bear (2003) I remember being slightly offended by this film... but I dont remember why
[ ] Chicken Little (2005)
[x] Dinosaur (2000)
[x] Emperor's New Groove, The (2000)
[o] Fantasia 2000 (2000)
[ ] Home on the Range (2004)
[o] Lilo & Stitch (2002) DON'T ADOPT A PET IF YOU CAN'T HANDLE IT!
[o] Meet the Robinsons (2007)
[ ] Treasure Planet (2002)
3/11

Pixar
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[x] A Bug's Life (1998)
[ ] Cars (2006)
[x] Finding Nemo (2003)
[x] The Incredibles (2004)
[x] Monsters Inc. (2001)
[x] Ratatouille (2007)
[x] Toy Story (1995)
[x] Toy Story 2 (1999)
[x] Wall-E (2008)
8/9


Don Bluth
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[x] All Dogs Go to Heaven (1989)
[x] An American Tail (1986) STUPID RAT, GO DIE IN A FIRE!
[x] An American Tail: Fieval Goes West
[x] Anastasia (1997)
[x] The Land Before Time (1988) The mom dies... I've never gotten over it.
[x] The Pebble and the Penguin (1995)
[x] Rock-a-Doodle (1991)
[o] The Secret of NIMH (1982)
[x] Thumbelina (1994) THUMBELINA IS A SMELLY RAT WHORE!
[x] Titan AE (2000)
[x] A Troll in Central Park (1994)
9/10

Claymation
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[ ] The Adventures of Mark Twain (1986)
[x] Chicken Run (2000)
[x] Corpse Bride (2005)
[x] James and the Giant Peach (1996)
[x] Nightmare Before Christmas, The (1993)
[ ] Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)
[x] Coraline (2009)
5/7


CGI Glut
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[x] Antz (1998)
[x] Happy Feet (2006) Penguins should not dance... or sing... it is worse than singing cats
[ ] Kung Fu Panda (2008) I haven't seen it, but I dont need to see it to know it sucks ass
[x] Madagascar (2005)
[x] Monster House (2006)
[x] Over the Hedge (2006)
[x] Polar Express, The (2004)
[x] Shrek (2001) FUCK SHREK
[x] Shrek 2 (2004)
[x] Shrek The Third
9/10

Imports
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[o] Arabian Knight (aka The Thief and the Cobbler) (1995)
[x] The Last Unicorn (1982) Three titted harpy for the win
[ ] Light Years
[ ] Triplets of Belleville, The (2003)
[ ] Persepolis (2007)
[ ] Waltz With Bashir (2008)
[x] Watership Down (1978)
[ ] When the Wind Blows (1988)
[ ] Yellow Submarine (1968)
2/9


Studio Ghibli/Miyazaki
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[ ] Grave of the Fireflies
[x] Howl's Moving Castle (2004)
[x] Kiki's Delivery Service (1989)
[ ] Laputa: Castle in the Sky (1986)
[ ] Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro (1979)
[ ] My Neighbors The Yamadas
[x] My Neighbor Totoro (1993)
[x] Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984)*
[ ] Only Yesterday
[ ] Pom Poko (Tanuki War)
[ ] Porco Rosso (1992)
[x] Princess Mononoke (1999)
[x] Spirited Away (2002) <3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3
[ ] Whisper of the Heart
6/14


Satoshi Kon
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[ ] Millennium Actress (2001)
[ ] Paprika (2006)
[ ] Perfect Blue (1999)
[ ] Tokyo Godfathers (2003)
[ ] Memories - "Magnetic Rose" (1995)
0/5

Shinkai Makoto
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[ ] She and Her Cat (1999)
[ ] Voices of a Distant Star (2001)
[ ] The Place Promised in Our Early Days (2004)
[ ] 5 Centimeters per Second (2007)
0/4


Other Anime Films
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--------------------------------------------------
[x] Akira (1989)
[ ] Appleseed
[ ] Appleseed: Ex Machina
[ ] Arcadia of My Youth (U.S. Title - Vengeance of the Space Pirate)
[ ] Cowboy Bebop: The Movie (2003)
[ ] The Dagger of Kamui (U.S. Title - Revenge of the Ninja Warrior)
[ ] Dirty Pair: Project Eden
[ ] End of Evangelion
[ ] Fist of the North Star
[ ] Galaxy Express 999
[x] Ghost in the Shell (1996)
[ ] The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
[ ] Lensman
[ ] Macross: Do You Remember Love (U.S. Title - Clash of the Bionoids)
[ ] Metropolis (2001)
[ ] Neo-Tokyo
[ ] Ninja Scroll
[ ] Patlabor the Movie
[ ] The Professional: Golgo 13
[ ] Project A-ko
[ ] Robot Carnival
[ ] Robotech: The Shadow Chronicle
[ ] Silent Mobius
[ ] Space Adventure Cobra
[ ] Steamboy (2004)
[ ] Sword of the Stranger
[ ] Unico and the Island of Magic
[ ] Urotsukidoji: The Movie
[ ] Vampire Hunter D
[ ] Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust
[ ] Wings of Honneamise: Royal Space Force
2/31

Cartoons For Grown-Ups
----------------------
[ ] American Pop
[ ] The Animatrix (2003)
[ ] Beavis & Butthead Do America (1996)
[ ] Cool World
[x] Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001)
[x] Final Fantasy: Advent Children
[ ] Fire & Ice
[ ] Fritz the Cat (1972)
[ ] Heavy Metal (1981)
[ ] Heavy Metal 2000 (2000)
[ ] Hey Good Looking
[ ] Lady Death
[ ] A Scanner Darkly (2006)
[x] South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (1999)
[ ] Street Fight (AKA - Coonskin)
[x] Waking Life (2001) the "animation" makes me want to eat a live hamster. they seriously scribbled on top of live action.
4/16

Other Animated Movies I Can't Categorize
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[ ] Animal Farm
[ ] Animalympics
[x] Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon The Movie
[ ] Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker
[x] The Brave Little Toaster (1988) This movie horrified me.
[ ] Bravestarr: The Movie
[ ] Care Bears: The Movie
[x] Charlotte's Web (1973)
[x] Fern Gully I was violently anti-logging after this movie
[ ] G.I. Joe: The Movie
[ ] Gobots: Battle of the Rock Lords
[ ] He-Man & She-Ra: The Secret of the Sword
[x] The Hobbit
[x] The Iron Giant (1999)
[ ] Justice League: The New Frontier
[ ] Lord of the Rings
[o] Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland (1992)
[x] My Little Pony: The Movie
[ ] Pink Floyd's The Wall (1982)
[x] The Prince of Egypt (1998)
[ ] Powerpuff Girls: The Movie
[x] Quest For Camelot (1999)
[ ] Ringing Bell
[x] Road to El Dorado, The (2000)
[ ] Rock & Rule
[x] Space Jam
[ ] Starchaser: The Legend of Orin
[ ] Superman: Doomsday
[x] The Swan Princess
[ ] Transformers: The Movie (1986)
[ ] Wizards
[x] Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
[ ] Wonder Woman
[x] Balto
[x] Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron Silly, Lakota Sioux.  Little did he know, 100 years from now his people would be face down in the mud gunned down by the FBI.
15/35

When I began writing this letter, I had the notion that I would write about something positive and optimistic instead of going on about how semi-intelligible Donnie is. Unfortunately, I couldn't think of anything particularly positive to write about. So, instead, I'll just tell you that the people with the smallest minds always have the biggest mouths. Read on, gentle reader, and hear what I have to say. I'm certainly tired of loquacious dips. That said, let me continue.

If Donnie doesn't like it here, then perhaps he should go elsewhere. I intend to take a strong position on his remonstrations, which, after all, make conditions far worse than could ever have been the case without his impetuous efforts. That's the path that I have chosen. It's decidedly not an easy path but then again, Donnie wants to curry favor with inconsiderate louts using a barrage of flattery, especially recognition of their "value", their "importance", their "educational mission", and other psychotic, sneaky nonsense. Such intolerance is felt by all people, from every background.

This probably does not affect your daily life, but it is a fact. If Donnie ever claims that he is a refined gentleman with the soundest education and morals you can imagine, we must answer only one thing: "No, the reverse is true." The failure of his surrogates to recognize that he should be responsible for his own actions casts doubts upon their methods. Please re-read and memorize that sentence if you still believe that everyone and everything discriminates against Donnie—including the writing on the bathroom stalls. Moving on, last summer, I attempted what I knew would be a hopeless task. I tried to convince Donnie that whenever I ponder over the meanings and implications of his puerile bruta fulmina, I feel little peace. As I expected, Donnie was unconvinced.

Pardon my coarse language, but documents written by Donnie's allies, who are legion, typically include the line, "Donnie is cunctipotent", in large, 30-point type, as if the size of the font gives weight to the words. In reality, all that that fancy formatting really does is underscore the fact that Donnie's viewpoints are merely a stalking horse. They mask his secret intention to place stumbling blocks in front of those of us who seek value and fulfilment in our personal and professional lives.

When Donnie made his puppy-dog cheerleaders wag their little tails by promising to let them make us dependent on the worst classes of tasteless, obscene pouty-types there are for political representation, economic support, social position, and psychological approval, I realized for the first time that we must refute Donnie's arguments line by line and claim by claim if we are to get the Donnie monkey off our backs and off other people's backs as well. And I can say that with a clear conscience because his brethren have been trained, organized, and motivated to make it virtually impossible to fire incompetent workers. There's nothing controversial about that view. It's a fact, pure and simple. It was a fact long before anyone realized that perhaps one day we will live in a world where good people are not troubled by fear of spleeny lunatics. Until that day arrives, however, we must spread the word that Donnie really struck a nerve with me when he said that faddism is absolutely essential to the well-being of society. That lie is a painful reminder that we could opt to sit back and let Donnie shred the basic compact between the people and their government. Most people, however, would argue that the cost in people's lives and self-esteem is an extremely high price to pay for such inaction on our part.

As a dynamic, historical current, antipluralism has taken many different forms and has evolved dramatically in a variety of ways. (Note the heroic restraint stopping me from saying that it requires surprisingly little imagination to envision a future in which Donnie is free to destroy the lives of good, honest people.) Some people have indicated that he descends from a long line of ultra-flighty good-for-nothings who like to start wars, ruin the environment, invent diseases, and routinely do a hundred other things that kill people. I can neither confirm nor deny that statement, but I can say that the last time I heard Donnie ramble on in his characteristically bibulous blather he said something about wanting to galvanize a reprehensible, illiterate hysteria, a large-scale version of the otiose mentality that can have more impact on Earth's biological, geological, and chemical systems during our lifetime and our children's than all preceding human generations had together. I feel sorry for the human race when I hear stuff like that.

After hearing about Donnie's unimaginative attempts to drag everything that is truly great into the gutter, I was saddened. I was saddened that he has lowered himself to this level. When surveyed, only two percent of Donnie's shock troops agreed with the statement, "Donnie owes us a big apology." This is a frightening statistic to those who rely on, or simply support, social tolerance and open-mindedness.

I find Donnie's lack of depth and insight mind-boggling. I'll say that again because I want it to sink in: Donnie's brain must work very different from mine. If you think you can escape from Donnie's money-grubbing, gloomy reinterpretations of historic events, then good-bye and good luck. To the rest of you I suggest that if you're like most people you just shrug your shoulders whenever you hear about his latest endeavors. When your shoulders get tired of shrugging I hope you'll realize that Donnie keeps missing my point. More specifically, he keeps getting hung up on my words without seeing the underlying meaning. For example, when I say that Donnie worships capital, adores its aura, and genuflects before the mere concept of extreme wealth, Donnie seems incapable of realizing that what I'm really getting at is that you might say, "I draw strength and courage from knowing that most people comprehend the crusade to stop Donnie and are supportive of my role in it." Fine, I agree. But Donnie's mercenaries have learned their scripts well and the rhetoric comes gushing forth with little provocation.

It's quite easy for Donnie to declaim my proposals. But when is he going to provide an alternative proposal of his own? The answer will not satisfy those who seek simple solutions to complex problems but it boils down essentially to this: If Donnie's hangers-on are frightened that Donnie might cure the evil of discrimination with more discrimination by next weekend, they have only themselves to blame. Furthermore, he keeps telling us that he is a model citizen. Are we also supposed to believe that his decisions are based on reason? I didn't think so.

Well, Donnie, we're all getting a little tired of you and your kind messing up the world and then refusing to accept responsibility for what you've done. We're fed up. And the day is coming when you'll be held accountable for your clueless insinuations. I know the following is an incredibly cheap shot, but I'm not very conversant with his background. To be quite frank, I don't care to be. I already know enough to state with confidence that I have always been an independent thinker. I'm not influenced by popular trends, the media, or even so-called undisputed facts when parroted by others. Maybe that streak of independence is what first enabled me to see that Donnie wants all of us to believe that he answers to no one. That's why he sponsors brainwashing in the schools, brainwashing by the government, brainwashing statements made to us by politicians, entertainers, and sports stars, and brainwashing by the big advertisers and the news media. Many the things I've talked about in this letter are obvious. We all know they're true. But still it's necessary for us to say them because Donnie is incapable of rational thought about the real world.

PS: thank you Scott Pakin, for keeping me distracted while I should be writing 1000 words on tobacco use.

( But I don't want to go back to school... )

( (I hate christmas) )

I don't know if you were aware of this or not, but Hugh Grant* plays the same person in every movie he's ever been in. Shocking.

It's pretty much:

HUGH GRANT plays HUGH GRANT in THAT MOVIE WHERE HUGH GRANT BANGS THAT CHICK

But, you might say, he doesn't always play a womanizing asshole.  He's really  nerdy in Notting Hill**. My response: I watched the first ten minutes of Nottnig Hill, got bored, and turned that shit off. 

Regardless, I have seen two Hugh Grant movies, ergo I have seen them all. Also, I have friends who genuinely enjoy Hugh Grant movies, for what reason I'm not entirely sure, and have informed me that while attempting in vain to climb over a gate, he exclaims "Whoopsidaisies." Wow. How cute.  However, anachronistic vernacular aside, he still bangs that dreadful Julia Roberts***.

Conclusion: in some movies he falls over a fence, in others he falls into somebody. Either way he stutters, stumbles over his words, and gets laid. There. That's every Hugh Grant movie ever. The end****. I just saved you countless hours of your life.


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*gag
**gag gag
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****if only it really was "the end" b/c people will still continue paying to see Hugh Grant playing himself over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over.

Toby says: "the black hole where my brain should be is frosty!

Let me tell you a little something about snow: it makes driving more difficult. A smashing discovery, I know. 

    Here's the story.  About three days ago, the sky above Pullman, WA shat out over two feet of snow resulting in the first two WSU snow days in roughly 26 years. I suppose you would think this is a good thing. Well you would be correct... except for the fact that my car was rather covered in snow making an escape from the apartment nearly impossible.

    After one failed attempt at extracting the car from it's parking space, Z and I borrowed a snow shovel from the apartment coordinators and began the long and perilous journey called: "dig up Amber's car from the snowy abyss."  Easier said than done.  Some asshole parked crooked in the space next to me leaving about 8 inches between us. Now, that's not rage-worthy in the spring or summer; but, my friends, it is more than rage worthy when there is about three feet of snow in the little space left between the cars so you can't open the door or fit a snow shovel between them.



    I wont tell you all the details regarding the extracation of my car; suffice to say that this deed involved  quite a bit of swearing and shoveling the snow  from around my car onto and behind the assholecarfucker next to me.
Moral of the story: don't fuck with me.

I refuse to accomplish anything worthwhile today. But is this not the law of the land? For when Chuck Norris and the founding fathers founded this great state of Washington, they said unto the world:

"Let there be light... and snow days as well. And on such snow days, thou must not accomplish anything... except for leveling up in video games and consuming copious amounts of calories. And it was good."

Thus I must obey the rules set forth by our ancestors so that the ghost of Zombie Jesus does not return to haunt me on winter solstice and summer equinox.

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Yes, that's it, the hats!

        Mastication                                         
                                                             Punic
                        Gesticulate
                                               Condiment
          Penal
                                                           Angina
                                Giblets
              Joystick                
                                                      Testy
Lugubrious    
                          Fallacious
                                                         Seminary
    Kumquat   
                                Bungalow                                         

The rumors are true, I have sunken into the realm of livejournal.
But do not question my reasonings, or I will be forced to eat your children.
That is all.