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Friday, January 20, 2006

truthiness

never has a word come along in the context of making people laugh been so rightfully made into a legitimate word ever... truthiness.

"...truthiness refers to the quality of preferring concepts or facts one wishes to be true, rather than concepts or facts known to be true." - American Dialect Society.

Why am I blogging about this? Well... first of all, it's hilarious. The subsequent angry 'Colbert Report' skits are also pretty funny. Overall, I give it a funny-factor of 6.5-7 out of 10. Secondly, it's PERFECT for what I'm about to talk about...

James Frey, people... I cannot BELIEVE that people are still talking about this guy and his stupid book. OH MY GOD! WHO CARES?!?! It's a book, not a Nazi uprising. He embellished a few details in, what is found to be, a mostly true story. I would seriously like to meet the idiots that found it inspirational, then heard the news, and dove right back into a life a drugs and deprevity. Mostly so I can slap them across their drug addicted faces, and hopefully knock some sense into them.

Now, from the above, you get the sense that I don't really see this as a big deal, right? Well... as recently as a few years ago (early 2000's), I would do the same thing. *shock, awe!* I know... Even I'm surprised that someone as perfect as myself has faults. Who knew? To drive home points or emphasize something in a funnier context, I would totally embellish stories... Even one time flat out LYING about something that never even happened. Why? I don't really know. Perhaps to sound cooler, or just to put myself into a conversation with something of value to add...

Either way, I learned the hard way that this was just stupid in an infamously embarrassing car ride with Megan and Little Chris on the way to a Thursday (the band, not the day) show at the Fireside in 2002 (you know what I'm talking about, Megan). Since then, I've cleaned up my act. Just not worth the embarrassment.

I guess the whole big deal here isn't that he fibbed or embellished, but that he sold it as though he hadn't. I guess I see things like this... Megan and Little Chris have a personal knowledge of me, and what I did was stupid and made me look stupid. These people that have this problem with this guy don't know him personally. And keeping him in the spotlight makes them look just as stupid as he's made himself look.

I also guess that talking about him on my blog makes me no better than them, but I think I'm at least providing another point of view from the guise of... who cares? Read the book, and think of it as a memoir with that little extra PIZAZZ! (said while making jazz hands at the computer). Besides, I'd like to know how many junkies are reading this book? Aren't they spending their money on drugs instead of books as it is? How is this book changing lives, other than taking up time between dropping the kids off at school and brunch with the girls? Stupid...

In other news, I registered the domain for the design portfolio. It's not posted yet, but it will be design.greyassun.com. Cool, huh? I'm excited.

If anyone knows flash, and knows how to setup so that whenever you click a button, its link opens in the same popup window everytime, please let me know. I would really like it if you could do that for me. I'm also having trouble with the buttons going to different frames for no reason.

The target date of completion for that is Jan. 27. That also goes for the Music site. Yay! I'm also recording one more song this weekend and posting that. OH, which reminds me...

I never actually fixed the link for the demos yet, so I'll post those on Monday (or before) with the new versions. My apologies...

Have a good day, kids, and have a good weekend, too!

posted by grey as mike @ 10:46 AM

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