I made the unfortunate discovery of this blog yesterday:
Before I ramble on and get to the "nitty gritty" of why it makes my penis erode, I urge you to quickly peruse the site and get the gist of it, though being the cause of more hits for the site does erode my penis further.
While you read about why life is worth living based on a series of arbitrarily cute everyday occurrences, I will sit here silently, twiddling my thumbs, and thinking about a professor I had in first year Canadian Politics who always said we were getting into the "nitty gritty" when explaining a complex issue like fiscal responsibility. Apparently, he had some sort of mid-life epiphany when he realized why he always says "nitty gritty" : He is a homosexual. I used my keen intellect (I got 72 in that class) to come to this conclusion as he had previously mentioned his children, then one day mentioned possibly going to Mexico with his "partner" over Reading Week, "...but I'm not sure he can get work off." Understandable. Mid-February is when Pottery Barn receives its new Spring inventory.
Back on topic...
The girl in front of me in class yesterday spent literally the entire two hour lecture browsing the 1000 Awesome Things blog. Okay I lied. She occasionally went to the other tab in Safari that was on some online store specializing in horrid crewneck Mom sweaters. I realize that 1000 Awesome Things is certainly not geared towards such a cynical being as I and some undergrads (even those sitting in Architecture For Our Times) appreciate gooey sentiments like babies wearing big person clothes (awww a little scientist! are you going to invent a way for you to not constantly shit?) and Post Secret, but I find the 1000 Things blog a little suspect. The purpose of the blogosphere is to post rants about why Kings of Leon suck, leak Pitchfork albums, chronicle the monotony of your day to day life, upload pictures of various designer lines of clothing you will never be able to afford, anonymously take jabs at your friends, and hire a ghostwriter to make you seem like a well-read, richly cultured, fairly articulate rapper named Kanye. Any other uses of the blogosphere are suspect.
The 1000 Things Blog is a devious plot by the Church of Latter Day Saints to seep its way into our collective pop culture blogosphere consciousness. By winning over web-gazers with its positive message and easy to follow layout, it can continue to count down to that great powerful #1—which will undoubtedly be revealed as God, probably just as 2012 is upon us (not the release of the movie on DVD, but the real thing)—and continue to gain followers along the way. As well, the devious internet propagandizers of the Church will have us all wearing Snuggies, listening to Jack's Mannequin, believing that Joseph Smith Jr. was visited by an angel in Vermont of all places, and drinking POM (I can't knock them for believing in the importance of antioxidants). Stop the madness.
