tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61405465843923777352024-03-04T22:54:48.851-08:00James Pope's Masszipzaphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02348698026458377805noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6140546584392377735.post-32333337209770975192012-07-01T23:24:00.001-07:002012-07-11T01:47:08.529-07:00When sex, isn't sex.... wait what?<br />
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In the name of the fatherless son, and
the wholly spiritless James Pope.</div>
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May my grace be with all of you.</div>
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In today's mass I would like to talk
with you all about sex, or possibly a lack there of....</div>
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Recently upon entering my place of
work, I was approached by two of my female co-workers who stated that
they, “needed my male expertise on a subject,” to which I
replied, “Well I am a man expert, so lets hear it.”</div>
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We dealt with the immediate customers
in the store, and then retreated to the back to engage in their
query. The question was posed to me as such: <b>(nearly verbatim)</b></div>
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<b>(For the sake of
hiding their identities, I will refer to my co-workers numerically.)</b></div>
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<i>Girl 1: So, you
know when two guys have sex, there's like </i><span style="font-style: normal;">*a
crude hand signal was made</span><i>... intercourse?</i></div>
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<i>Me: Yeah.</i></div>
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<i>Girl 2: So lets
say you have a girl that's been with 5 guys and 5 girls, would you
say she's been with 5 or 10 people?</i></div>
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<i>Girl 1: Because
girls can't really have sex.</i></div>
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A general backing for their thinking was expressed for a minute or so
more. They stated that because penile intercourse was not possible
with two women, that essentially it was impossible for 2 women to
have sex. Though they didn't use the word “impossible,” their
argument leaned more towards 2 women having sex, “not counting.”<br />
If we're being technical about it, I guess that's a position I'd have a conversation about, but before I had a chance to reply, it was quite clear that in my
silence they assumed that I agreed. Probably because I smile and nod a lot, it appeared they thought my answer
would be 5 people, and that I would feel that sex between 2 women
does not count.</div>
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I eventually interjected with;</div>
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<i>Me: Ummm,
actually, I'd say that she's had sex with 10 people.</i></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal;">My
statement was met with what seemed like astonishment, and a flurry of
points to counter my position that followed as such: </span><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>(nearly
verbatim)</b></span></div>
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<i>Girl 2: But
they're not actually having sex.</i></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">I did not have sexual relations with that women.. wait does oral count?</span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<i>Girl 1: Yeah
like, you can still be a virgin and have oral sex. Oral sex isn't
“sex”.</i></div>
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<i>Me: Well it's
not vaginal intercourse sex, but it's still a type of sex.</i></div>
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<i>Girl 1: I don't
understand why you have to put labels on everything, I prefer to
think of it more as just... having a good time.</i></div>
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<i>Girl 2: Yeah
James, you're just thinking about it too much.</i></div>
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<i>Me: Not to be
offensive or anything, but I feel like you guys are kind of
projecting onto me. I'm not attaching any labels, I'm just giving the
scientific definition of the word. I feel like just calling it,
“having a good time” is more of putting an unnecessary label on
the action.</i></div>
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<i>I mean lets
take juice for example, </i><span style="font-style: normal;">(we work
in a store that serves many different types of juice, so I pointed
over to the different flavored machines) </span><i>we've got apple
juice, mango juice, orange juice, pomegranate juice, you wouldn't,
because you don't like one of the juices or think that it tastes
significantly different, then say it's not juice. Sex is the same
way, you have “sex” which is an umbrella word that covers many
things such as oral sex, intercourse, and hand jobs, but they're all
sex.</i></div>
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At this point customers had entered the store, and instead of
stopping the above statement and waiting for them to leave, I, as I
do, awkwardly rushed through the rest of what I had to say in a
fashion that probably came off as annoying and abrasive, though being
as socially unaware as I am at times.. I wouldn't know.</div>
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The patrons finished their business, and vacated the premises which
allowed us to return to our defining dirty deeds debacle. Though an
interesting turn presented itself, as we were dealing with the
customers; another co-worker arrived, whom happened to be a lesbian.
Now for the sake of simplicity, we'll refer to the new presence as
<i>Girl 3</i>. I headed towards the back, and I could hear that my
three co-workers had already delved back into the topic at hand.</div>
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<i>Girl 1: That's weird he said the same thing.</i> <span style="font-style: normal;">(Referring
to me, and speaking to </span><i>Girl 3.</i><span style="font-style: normal;">)</span><br />
My first reaction, internally, was that asking this question to someone who is out, specifically as a lesbian, might be offensive, given that implies that sex between her and her girlfriend doesn't count. Though ultimately it's not my place to judge and <span style="font-style: normal;">it just rolled off of <i>Girl 3</i>'s
shoulders, and my other two co-workers seemed completely unaware of
the implications of their question, so maybe I'm in the wrong. I eventually responded with: </span><br />
<i>Me: I feel like it's you two that</i><span style="font-style: normal;"> </span><i>feel like... for
some reason, that it's bad if you are labeled as having had sex with
a girl.</i><br />
<i>Girl 1 </i><span style="font-style: normal;">& </span><i>Girl
2</i><span style="font-style: normal;"> both interjected at this
point, making it clear that they had many gay friends, family members
and so forth, and didn't feel that it was “bad” for two girls to
have sex. I am aware of a certain degree of religiosity among my
co-workers, I don't know where they stand gay rights, but bringing
the topic up at this time seemed to have a potential to become
volatile, and well... I have to work at this place. Don't get me wrong, they very well may be pro-equality, but it was generally an off topic in a rushed conversation.</span><br />
<span style="font-style: normal;">We continued the sex focused
discussion, where </span><i>Girl 1</i><span style="font-style: normal;">and
</span><i>Girl 2 </i><span style="font-style: normal;">gave arguments
to </span><i>Girl 3 </i><span style="font-style: normal;">and myself,
such as; </span><i>you're over-thinking it, you're taking it too
seriously, </i><span style="font-style: normal;">and </span><i>you're
just trying to put labels on things.</i><span style="font-style: normal;">
To which I echoed my previous argument of them projecting those
descriptors onto us, and to my amusement, </span><i>Girl 3</i><span style="font-style: normal;">
eventually added:</span><br />
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<span style="font-style: normal;"><br />Which
was clearly what was going on, but something that I am probably too
reserved to point out in that circumstance.</span><br />
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<span style="font-style: normal;">Finally one more solid question
was put forth, which was asked to me as such: </span><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>(nearly
verbatim)</b></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-weight: normal;">Girl 1</span></i><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">:
</span></span><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">Well what if
someone is just going through a phase. I mean if it's just one time,
and it's not really what that person's into, then does THAT count?</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-weight: normal;">Me: Alright, well what if I'm
just going through a phase where I do heroin; Did I not really do
heroin because it was a phase? What if I just snorted it? What if I
just ate it? Well I didn't shoot it, so does it really count?</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">I
was eventually cut off from giving endless variations of my example,
and with that ended the conversation. The topic has not arisen at
work, at least while I'm around, since.</span></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">So
here are my questions for you all:</span></span></i><br />
<span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Do
you feel that there are certain types of sex that “don't count”?
If so, why? And what does “not counting” or “don't count”
mean? Also, what about going through a phase? Can you go through
certain phases in life where certain actions you partake in should be
disregarded? I am sincerely curious for any honest differing
perspectives. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Please
feel free to leave comments here on Blogger or on my <a href="http://www.facebook.com/popespage/" target="_blank">Facebook</a>, and
always remember that I'm a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/thejamespope/" target="_blank">YouTuber</a> as well. If you feel inspired to
make a video and direct it at me, (i.e. post it as a response to one
of my videos, share it with me on my Facebook Page, shout it at me on <a href="http://www.twitter.com/thejamespope/" target="_blank">Twitter </a>etc.) and I will
always do my best to record a response.</span></span>zipzaphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02348698026458377805noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6140546584392377735.post-29369167314253839632012-06-24T02:09:00.001-07:002012-07-02T01:38:09.458-07:00Perception of Me<br />
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In the name of the fatherless son, and
the wholly spiritless James Pope.</div>
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May my grace be with each one of you.</div>
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In this week's mass, I would like to
speak with you all about a truly wonderful topic; me.</div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3mp_5hWrlG4sqd0JfA0dGvgKP19Q8LVFR_s7BvqvIXhZeolqVR57rQ7XfJIaRhZueWuzy2XUvFnroaPXxmeUNN4WM1uk9F-HY72h_fJqcBKeYIPK0B49xwbGLz0oxoPlqOTUktIx_8R0/s320/People+walking+street.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3mp_5hWrlG4sqd0JfA0dGvgKP19Q8LVFR_s7BvqvIXhZeolqVR57rQ7XfJIaRhZueWuzy2XUvFnroaPXxmeUNN4WM1uk9F-HY72h_fJqcBKeYIPK0B49xwbGLz0oxoPlqOTUktIx_8R0/s200/People+walking+street.jpg" width="200" /></a>Anyone out there enjoy people watching?
I love observing social situations. Analyzing large diverse groups of
human beings interacting, all with their own individual ticks and
behaviors.</div>
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Most of us enjoy this type of activity,
but the majority of our nation has too short of an attention span to
enjoy watching people in real life. Too short to even take notice of
the numerous interesting interactions taking place, say... right in
front of them while in line at the grocery store. So instead they
flush their minds with fictitious people watching, in the form of the
reality entertainment that infests a large portion of cable
programming.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMU2CfIhvCxz34Z8h3VCSV1aJfA1tLc-ArVXJfBeVC7yK1b98JJgpy_2VBeZRQRQimOLhyphenhypheng3Bify_rEtTgMhN_JHDtqiSjP7u6Au5uulCNv-lhQAXxp00piGpqDMqr8pYuvjGGIc1dclOP/s1600/Twitter-Egypt-revolution.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMU2CfIhvCxz34Z8h3VCSV1aJfA1tLc-ArVXJfBeVC7yK1b98JJgpy_2VBeZRQRQimOLhyphenhypheng3Bify_rEtTgMhN_JHDtqiSjP7u6Au5uulCNv-lhQAXxp00piGpqDMqr8pYuvjGGIc1dclOP/s200/Twitter-Egypt-revolution.jpg" width="178" /></a>But don't just blame television; we
live in an era of self indulgence: MYspace, FACE(your face)book,
YOUtube, and that's just to name a few. The internet has birthed a
new pastime activity for the world... we call it social networking;</div>
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The ability to meet, engage, and
network with people from all over the world... a wonderful thought,
not to say it doesn't occur, it does, as is evident by the numerous
charities, small businesses, and even national revolutions, that have
benefited from the ability to socially network information, photos,
and videos across the internet to massive groups of people.</div>
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But there is another aspect of online
social networks that is less touted, one that we're more ashamed
of... and don't like to address or even acknowledge as much; and this
is our ability to share ourselves, in extremely large portions... to shame.
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXMA0uSVDMp-MfqCmo6rBbyOeD6ZiokexmXbrQDVT9MKwrBgISxKb8RqasEFBuqxwz9bYpmWuFRg0isn4dlzNk9STgT0or_AUklJnRCQjpELcAbWObVjdiALbXa_tZ_S01AqSFNxAqdMo/s1600/10425_large.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="244" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXMA0uSVDMp-MfqCmo6rBbyOeD6ZiokexmXbrQDVT9MKwrBgISxKb8RqasEFBuqxwz9bYpmWuFRg0isn4dlzNk9STgT0or_AUklJnRCQjpELcAbWObVjdiALbXa_tZ_S01AqSFNxAqdMo/s320/10425_large.png" width="320" /></a>Obvious examples include Facebook or
dating websites, where with a couple of clicks, one can have access
to a form like page that has all of your likes, dislikes, sexual
preference, political views, religious stance, and more neatly
organized and at the ready to share with the world.</div>
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Though less obvious examples include
things like Twitter; granting access to all of your random thoughts,
and the little things that you find important, which may seem
miniscule at first glance, but that can often say a lot about a
person.
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Even more so with YouTube; people
observing your physical being, your body language, and facial
expressions.
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And the more you share, the more open
you become. You allow your being to remain a permanent fixture in a
virtual world, for all to observe, and re-observe, manipulate, edit,
and re-upload, but most of all... to critique.</div>
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The feedback one can receive from an
audience about themselves is the ultimate in self indulgence, and I
say that with no negativity implied. It is to me one of the most
interesting aspects of sharing myself online. With the small audience
that I have amassed, receiving comments and criticisms in such a
volume starts to give you a perspective of yourself, that I don't
feel could be obtained in any other way. It's like people watching
yourself through other people's eyes.</div>
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My whole life I have been very aware of
people's perceptions of me. Probably due to some insecurities on my
part, I've always taken great notice in people's reactions to me, and
have done my best to see myself, how they see me.</div>
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… <span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Thinking about this
brings up a memory, which is odd to think about now; I remember in
elementary school I would get in trouble for saying, “I don't
care,” in reference to myself.</i></span></div>
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<a href="https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/408092_119917334801431_1249136060_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="140" src="https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/408092_119917334801431_1249136060_n.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>You see, throughout my
education I occupied the position of class clown. I like to think
that I evolved as a class clown, from being just obnoxious and
disruptive, to eventually asking very pointed yet antagonistic
questions. Still, while I was young I would often tell lots of jokes
where in which I made myself the butt, of said joke. The subject that
is most prevalent in my mind is that of being poor; I would often
make jokes about myself, in regards to having less money than the
rest of my peers. My mother would (might) cringe in reading that last
part, but I must say, my living conditions were comfortable to say
the least. My mom worked hard, on her own, to make sure I went to
school in a nice area, where I wouldn't get jumped and would receive
a decent education. As a result, we lived in a very wealthy area. I
wouldn't in retrospect refer to our living conditions as “poor,”
not at all, there was just a noticeable income gap between our
household and that of my classmates. Nonetheless, I would make these
jokes, and encourage my friends to as well, and teachers would
approach with concern to which I would always reply, “I don't
care.” And as I think about it now, you'd have to not care. To be
so aware of how people perceive you, cutting through the bullshit,
and skipping the pleasantries, you would have to not care, maybe you
already do have to....</i></span></div>
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<b>Note of Caution:</b></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">When
you claim to be so aware of how others perceive you, the big thing to
consider, is how much of this pseudo-psychological guess work, is
really just you projecting your perception of yourself onto other
people. You can't get, too into, thinking you know what other people
think, even if it's about you. In reality, most people aren't
thinking about you, or me.. we are all, thinking about ourselves.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">So..
make sure to like me on Facebook, and follow me on Twitter :P</span></div>
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Finally though, the point I wanted to
address, the one that really inspired this post, is how I'm perceived
online.</div>
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Developing into adulthood, I feel I've
achieved a pretty clear perspective of how I am perceived by my
friends in the physical world, or as many of you put it; my IRL
friends. I feel if you asked them, they would describe me at best; as
a comedian, somewhat well read, a good speaker... and at worst; as a
talkative know it all, kind of annoying, loud and or having a loud
belly ache on most occasions when alcohol is consumed.</div>
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The traits they would most stress,
would be my talkative nature, though only on certain subjects where I
may speak eloquently, such as technology, science.. nerdy stuff
basically; never sports. I'd say the persona was solidified my senior
year of high school with betrothing of me to the nickname that I
still hear on occasion; Wordsworth. Now this is actually after the
18<sup>th</sup> century poet William Wordsworth, but my friends have
no background knowledge of the man, they simply heard his name once
in the classroom, and thought it was a fitting match for me. The
chanting of said nickname is always paired with an upturn of the nose
and a stroking of the chin, as if one was contemplating something
very important. Otherwise they would probably say that I'm pretty
reclusive, spending most of my time on the computer, looking up
articles and watching YouTube videos, so as that I may have a new
topic to lecture them endlessly on.
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Yet online, at least in some crowds,
the perception of me is wholly and entirely different than I would
have ever expected. I've heard some YouTubers use the word “macho”
in reference to me being an aggressive person. Even more so, if
marijuana isn't the reason I'm written off from an intellectual
standpoint, then often times I observe the 'macho meat head' persona
leak into the arena. If these descriptions were to be expressed to my
friends from school and work, they would find it laughable, as I do.
Yet it exists. I've heard and read comments about me that suggest sex
appeal is the only source of my internet traffic, and that I should
leave intellectual topics alone. If you were to convey to my friends
in the physical world, that I'm some sort of piece of eye candy,
who'd be better off standing around with his shirt off rather than
talking about politics.. well I think they'd be wetting themselves at
that point in a mad fit of laughter. Yet the perspective exists.</div>
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The questions I leave with you are
these; How do you perceive me? Is it any different after reading this
article? And what about you? Do you have a persona online? If so,
does it vary from how you are perceived in the physical world?</div>zipzaphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02348698026458377805noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6140546584392377735.post-37431724546194904722011-07-15T00:17:00.000-07:002012-06-24T02:12:08.407-07:00"I will gladly pay you Tuesday for a cheeseburger today..."So I just got back from a day out at my friend, Dre's house. I was getting some recording done mostly. But while I was there at one point enjoying some perfectly legal medicinal rips, some of the guys there were discussing a pair of jeans that they wanted to purchase off of Dre. They kept slinging offers at him giving different combinations of dates and times that they could pay him different amounts of money for the jeans.<br />
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At this point I thought of Wimpy from Popeye and his old saying, "I will gladly pay you Tuesday for a cheesburger today," it seemed fitting with the different long term payment plans that everyone was coming up with for Dre.<br />
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.... but amidst my medicinally induced hazy perception I couldn't quite remember the quote correctly. First I turned to a girl there and asked her... she remembered in general, but couldn't quite remember <br />
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This was followed by a short pause preceding one person's comment, "What the fuck!? Where did that come from..?!" interspersed with some laughter....<br />
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I thought for a second about explaining myself, but then decided to just let it pass, the discussion quickly turning back to the great jean negotiation that was once taking place, and my question for you, is have you ever done that?<br />
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I thought it quite odd for me to just try to blurt the quote out without having fully remembered it, and I was wondering if anyone else had any experiences where they did the same. It could be because of some medicinal or alcoholic influence, or just a plain old sober brain fart, but any stories welcome :)zipzaphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02348698026458377805noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6140546584392377735.post-23602266637967996982011-01-22T00:45:00.001-08:002012-06-24T02:14:02.727-07:00Welcome<script src="http://connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1">
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I just started three blogs tonight. It is something that I have been working on for a while, different ideas in different departments.<br />
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I have, over the past few weeks, been becoming more familiar with blogging, and the blogging community. I've always wanted to get involved, but it was another social medium that I had to learn and figure out, I didn't want to come in with the same old topics, as on my YouTube channel, but I didn't want to abandon what I came on the internet to do.<br />
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What did I come on the internet to do? Well... spread information I guess. I feel like a lot of contributers to the free thought community feel like we come from a place in our physical lives where nobody hears us. No one cares about taking action, politics, current events, no one wants to take the time to learn new things and meet new people, and that's why a lot of us congregate on the internet, for the intellectual release, for the brain-gasm, to let the culminating accumulation of thoughts have place to burst from and then into, without being ridiculed, but still being judged, being allowed to make fun, without having to instantly turn to violence, a peaceful place where freethinking people can finally poke fun at the close minded without being looked at oddly for doing so.<br />
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So after tossing around a few ideas inside of my brain, three blogs have been born.<br />
You are currently reading Evolution of a YouTuber. This blog is pretty self-explanatory, it is going to catalog my coming onto and being immersed in the YouTube community, with some short funny stories and other interesting content thrown in here and there to keeping things varied.<br />
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There are two other Blogs I have created<br />
<a href="http://worthycomments.blogspot.com/">Worthy Comments</a><br />
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<a href="http://popeapproved.blogspot.com/">Pope Approved</a><br />
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Please Follow All My Blogs. I promise not to pump out any just to read content, and to make sure that everything you recieve through any and all of my blogs will be to the same quality that you have come to enjoy on my <a href="http://youtube.com/TheJamesPope">YouTube Channel</a>.<br />
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