Friday, September 10, 2010

Homework


I've been toying with the idea of changing my domain name for a while. I've decided against it for now, but I might buy it just in case I want to use it. It's a good one. I won't share so you vultures can't snatch it up. Suffice it to say, it happens to be in the fantastic documentary Paris Is Burning. The first thing I did was type my desired phrase into the address bar to see if it was an existing site. It is not, so my browser took me to a Google search of the phrase. The top hit was a link to a transcription of the movie. It's a little spotty, but it's great fun. See the movie if you haven't already, and check out the document here (if it asks you to download Japanese characters, just do it).

Oh Miranda

Until a couple days ago, I thought Miranda Sings was real. I'd only seen a couple of her videos, and I felt bad laughing at them. I just thought she was slightly autistic with a touch of palsy. I finally looked her up and found out it's just a character. Yay, now I can laugh. If you watch her older videos, you can see when she hasn't quite nailed down her look that she's so so pretty. And then you watch more and she talk about haters this and that and dating celebrities and whatnot. I guess I would have figured it out after a while, but there are some bitches making serious videos out there that are insanely laughable. But this is the first video I saw of her; and taking it as serious, I got a little uncomfortable and thought Mr. Rainbow was a douche: