Things You Just Don't Care About

i find in my milieu that a lot of ppl are smoking weed however it occurs in a secretive / privacy discourse or at the v least an awkward transgressive one

I work at a university with 20,000+ students and I see WAY less weed related stuff on students since it's been legalized and there are actual retail stores in town. Like you're no longer some sort of subversive countercultural rebel or signaling to other like-minded individuals if you wear a shirt covered with pot leaves or the word "dab" anymore, you're just kind of sad, like wearing a Bud Light shirt.

People still smoke obviously - I smell it around town enough in both smoked and un-smoked form - but there doesn't seem to be any thrill of illegality or reason to celebrate it as a separate culture anymore, it just exists as part of life like energy drinks and pizza.

haha yeah I was at an Oregon festival last summer and a bowl was offered around but there were no takers, the guy looked down sadly and said "it's lost its allure"

Lolsad

Whatever some >100 yr old person did to live that long. like sure 110 yr old florence hardy credits a daily dose of hand jobs and falcon blood to her longevity. that's cool and all but I don't want to be alive that much.

Changes to the Starbucks Rewards program.

"medibles"

and celebrity buttholes are everywhere now! they're always eating them and putting their fingers in them every time i turn around. enough of that.

Who will be the next President of FIFA.

guess i don't either, but having tokyo sexwale succeed sepp blatter would have been some Great Real Names

No one's said the Oscars tonight? OK, then: the Oscars.

Shows you how much I don't care about 'em.

The weather.

The government? The weather? You guys would be horrible trying to make small talk at Michael Stipe's place...

Oscars x1000

not having cable television means not caring about a lot of stuff. like the oscars.

although i actually did enjoy watching awards shows when i did have regular t.v. i like the speeches.

i watched this whole thing a couple of weeks ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SevmAKmGkeg

also watched the one with the awesome bonnie franklin number from Applause.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQ9yYI2Hkik

i watched this whole thing a couple of weeks ago.

Can't believe some damn hippies hijacked the joint for seven minutes.

(also, I know it was still a thing then, but it's bizarre to hear how/that cigarettes were pitched on tv. Rich Virginia Flavor!)

that Hair medley actually made me a little weepy...what can i say, it has an effect on me.

wishing people who died years ago a happy birthday on facebook when they aren't a family member. like, random celebrities? or even random celebrity birthday wishes for the living. "Pulling out all my Eddie Rabbitt records today..."

wow, i don't think i even knew that eddie rabbitt died so long ago. figured he was in branson or something. 56! too young, eddie.

Can't believe some damn hippies hijacked the joint

the correct term is "bogarted"

and for people who died a long time ago it just seems really silly. "Irving Berlin would have been 150 today...."

and for people who died a long time ago it just seems really silly. "Irving Berlin would have been 150 today...."

I actually like doing those. I usually go with something like "Mozart would have been 400 today, had he lived."

brb gonna listen to "Suspicions"

mozart is like a famous anniversary guy though. there are genuinely famous death dates.

Eh, I don't really mind the dead-person birthday thing. It's the dead-person deathiversary thing that I don't really get, mainly when it's not a round number. I saw a "Charlie Parker died 61 years ago today" post a couple days ago and though, hmmm, maybe save it for his birthday. Or just post "I'm listening to Charlie Parker today." Doesn't have to be because he died an odd number of years ago.

yeah, i don't like those either. death days are sad.

plus, does anyone even remember the day that someone died? do they have a celebdeathapp on their phone?

I always remember when they died more than their birthday.

Like Mel Tormé. He was ... early June of 1999? I remember I was on a roadtrip and it was around the time of the Preakness. Who knows when his birthday was, except maybe Harry Anderson.

June 5, 1999! See, I did remember.

i'm pretty sure i only remember john lennon and princess di. lennon in december because it was john lennon and i remember what month it was for pete's sake. princess di was august which i remember because it was the last time i ever saw my sister alive.

that's about it though.

wait a minute, keith emerson was trolled to death? keith emerson was killed by keith emerson jokes? okay, this i might actually care enough to read about.

Jesus Christ, someone on my facebook timeline wished John Cazale a happy birthday over the weekend. "R.I.P. Gone too soon."

best tribute headline by the way: *Keith Emerson's playing was in stark contrast to my troglodyte brutality*

http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2016/mar/14/bad-seeds-james-sclavunos-keith-emerson-lake-palmer-elp

does anyone even remember the day that someone died?

Yes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bereavement_in_Judaism#Annual_remembrances

"Yahrtzeit, יאָרצײַט, means "Time (of) Year" in Yiddish... The word is used by Yiddish speaking Jews, and refers to the anniversary of the day of death of a relative. Yahrtzeit literally means "time of [one] year". It is widely observed, and based on the Jewish tradition that mourners are required to commemorate the death of a relative... The Yahrtzeit usually falls annually on the Hebrew date of the deceased relative's death according to the Hebrew calendar. "

i didn't even know that keith emerson shot himself...i just saw tarkus youtubes on my facebook.

Outic, i made the friend and family exception up above. i know that people mourn their dead. and remember them.

although now i kinda do want to post a picture of bea arthur on my facebook every may 13 (her birthday) and april 25 (her deathday).

oh sorry didn't see that

bea arthur belonged to us all

two days til Jerry Lewis's 90th, fans

https://ww2vintagepinupgirl.files.wordpress.com/2015/06/bea-arthur-marine.jpg

will be sad when rickles goes. jerry not so much. though i do love jerry.

Next year's Bowie remembrances should be interesting for their timing.

"Happy 70th! ... two days later... can't believe it's been a year!"

happy birthday to al jaffee, by the way. 95 yesterday.

RIP our beloved Rozz Williams. April 1 will be the eighteenth anniversary of your all-too-soon departure from us.

oddly enough the anniversary of julius caesar's death in 44 BC is currently trending on facebook

"authoritarianism" as if this is a new thing