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		<title>4,135 words on Glee, Season 2, Episode 6, &#8220;Never Been Kissed&#8221;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Churrb and I discussed Glee last night over gchat.
Me: gleee
eeeee
did you watch!

Rachel: I did!
there&#8217;s so much to discuss
what did you think?

Me: SO MUCH
check my facebook
i wrote an essay
[ed. note. essay transcription:  
For the record! Here are some things that I thought did not work.
-Puck's entire story line
-"We have a strict non-descrimination policy." Puke.
-The girls' [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Churrb and I discussed Glee last night over gchat.</p>
<p><strong>Me:</strong> gleee</p>
<p>eeeee</p>
<p>did you watch!</p>
<p><strong><br />
Rachel:</strong> I did!</p>
<p>there&#8217;s so much to discuss</p>
<p>what did you think?</p>
<p><strong><br />
Me:</strong> SO MUCH</p>
<p>check my facebook</p>
<p>i wrote an essay</p>
<p>[<em>ed. note. essay transcription</em>: <span> </span></p>
<p><span>For the record! Here are some things that I thought did not work.<br />
-Puck's entire story line<br />
-"We have a strict non-descrimination policy." Puke.<br />
-The girls' number. Hardly even a mashup at all. Costumes were great though.<br />
-TWO never been kiss<span>...</span><span>ed moments? Come on, writers.<br />
-Slow  motion hand-holding with strangers?!?! Where are we. I assume they  forgot to make it explicit that Teenage DREAM was being literal? or  something?<br />
-Private school boy is too cute for Krazy Kurt, I preemptively hate that match-up</p>
<p>Things that worked.<br />
-The mailman is always funny, always.<br />
-Kurt,  as usual, acted the SHIT out of this episode. The sweaty, balding  hamhock scene actually really worked for me! They hit all the right  emotional themes, it was surprising, it was believable, and it was  relatable for me.<br />
-The final guys' number was killer.<br />
-Kids can  be HORRIBLE in high school! It's really hard to realize that teachers  are humans while you're in school, so I was a fan of having otherwise  nice people, like Finn and Tina, be the "villains" for that conflict.  Bieste for president of Glee.<br />
-Sue's "WOUNDS" line won the episode, no one is surprised.</p>
<p>I'm  ambivalent about Schue kissing Bieste. It was clearly a non-romantic,  endearing friendship kiss, although Schue was probably being a little  condescending, at least he wasn't being malicious and evil, like he  usually is, or even causing unintended evil consequences due to  negligence, like he sometimes does.]</span></span></p>
<p>it&#8217;s a good starting point i think</p>
<p><strong><br />
Rachel:</strong> haha I think I read it</p>
<p>I agreed entirely, except my opinion of the boys and girls numbers are switched from yours</p>
<p>but that&#8217;s unimportant</p>
<p>important= Kurt is seriously the best thing this show has going</p>
<p>that locker room scene was inTENSE</p>
<p><strong><br />
Me:</strong> OMG</p>
<p>how GREAT was it</p>
<p><strong><br />
Rachel:</strong> so great</p>
<p><strong><br />
Me:</strong> one of the best scenes of the series</p>
<p>kurts whole storyline was such a GREAT depiction of my life</p>
<p>like, my first kiss was also by a bully</p>
<p>in a different way</p>
<p>in that he was an asshole AFTER the fact</p>
<p><strong><br />
Rachel:</strong> ah ok</p>
<p>but still</p>
<p>it was great b/c they kissed but then, realistically, the guy was still an asshole</p>
<p><strong><br />
Me:</strong> in terms of hitting all the emotional themes</p>
<p><strong><br />
Rachel:</strong> but now kurt had more perspective</p>
<p>yeah, I totally agree</p>
<p>I was glad that everyone learned an Important Lesson</p>
<p>and that they got to humanize Bieste</p>
<p>because from the getgo that character has been pretty dehumanized</p>
<p>but her scene with will was really moving</p>
<p><strong><br />
Me:</strong> although they didn&#8217;t really establish anything new with her?</p>
<p>i feel like they&#8217;ve already established these character aspects</p>
<p>and i fear she is turning into a wuss</p>
<p><strong><br />
Rachel:</strong> they&#8217;ve def already established that she&#8217;s tough but gooey inside</p>
<p>or at least that she wants to be loved just like everyone else</p>
<p>but her quitting and the scene of sue gloating about it to will was more complex than this show usually gets</p>
<p>the whole &#8216;think of her to not be aroused&#8217; plotline was kind of awful though</p>
<p>because clearly, even as the show was frowning on such behavior, it was taking part in it via comical interludes of her in lingerie</p>
<p><strong><br />
Me:</strong> but do you remember high school?</p>
<p>kids are evil brutal nihilistic pricks</p>
<p>poor miss cloutman!</p>
<p>i&#8217;m glad i don&#8217;t remember the things we said</p>
<p>and it happens all the time</p>
<p>and nice kids (tina, mike, finn) take part</p>
<p>because kids don&#8217;t realize that teachers are also humans</p>
<p>so i&#8217;m sure anyone who is a teacher was reaaaally feeling the mirror neurons last night</p>
<p><strong><br />
Rachel:</strong> omg I&#8217;m sure</p>
<p>kids are horrible to teachers, I remember that from middle and high school for sure</p>
<p>that part was realistic</p>
<p><strong><br />
Me:</strong> but i think the writers had problems with stakes</p>
<p>it&#8217;s well established that the central conflict between sue and bieste is that sue wants her gone, for budget</p>
<p><strong><br />
Rachel:</strong> right, that&#8217;s been true the whole season</p>
<p><strong><br />
Me:</strong> and we believe that sue is evil enough to go to unbelievable and despicable ends to get rid of her</p>
<p>but i don&#8217;t think we got to a point for bieste&#8217;s character to up and quit</p>
<p>which was the scene where schue tells her what the kids said</p>
<p>i think it would have made sense for them to cut her quitting and it would have worked</p>
<p>stern talking to from schue, and an apology</p>
<p><strong><br />
Rachel:</strong> definitely</p>
<p>I dont think people say stuff like &#8220;I am really going to quit&#8221; nowadays if they arent going to follow through 100%</p>
<p>in a situation like this</p>
<p><strong><br />
Me:</strong> so if the writers wanted to get bieste gone for the purpose of the sue-bieste conflict, they needed something else</p>
<p><strong><br />
Rachel:</strong> right</p>
<p>also, the scene at the private school was SO heavy-handed but also kind of cute</p>
<p><strong><br />
Me:</strong> slow motion hand holding?</p>
<p><strong><br />
Rachel:</strong> serious discussions with two gay and two straight men who are all friends?</p>
<p>due to a &#8220;strict non-bullying policy&#8221; or whatever</p>
<p><strong><br />
Me:</strong> shut up, twofer</p>
<p>you are making me nauseous</p>
<p><strong><br />
Rachel:</strong> I think at that point I said aloud to my roommate &#8220;oh, a &#8217;strict&#8217; policy?! well, that just about solves it then! all we need is strict non-bullying policies and the problem will be solved!&#8221;</p>
<p><strong><br />
Me:</strong> they forgot to establish that kurt was dreaming.</p>
<p>teenage dream.</p>
<p>because there are schools where there is less of a homophobic environment</p>
<p>they just&#8230; didn&#8217;t get there</p>
<p>where getting actually physically assaulted for being gay while your CHOIR teacher watches and says nothing is <em>unthinkable</em></p>
<p><strong><br />
Rachel:</strong> oh yeah! that was a very weird scene</p>
<p>shue was just like &#8220;watching this happen is a profound moment.. for me&#8230; to ponder in silence&#8221;</p>
<p><strong><br />
Me:</strong> in line with his character</p>
<p>it was a horrifying scene, because it was a very accurate depiction of what happens in real life</p>
<p><strong><br />
Rachel:</strong> right</p>
<p>I thought the depiction of kurt being bullied was really intense and realistic</p>
<p>b/c bullying isn&#8217;t like in &#8220;teen wolf&#8221; where the bully just says dumb mean things about your mom</p>
<p>people get physically hurt</p>
<p><strong><br />
Me:</strong> the more i think about it, the more i think kurt is the best character on any tv show ever</p>
<p><strong><br />
Rachel:</strong> he&#8217;s so great</p>
<p>and chris colfer does an amazing job with it</p>
<p><strong><br />
Me:</strong> yeah, that&#8217;s what i mean</p>
<p><strong><br />
Rachel:</strong> when he got angry this ep it was totally real and grounded</p>
<p><strong><br />
Me:</strong> he&#8217;s just so absolutely alone</p>
<p>the way they do kurt&#8217;s loneliness is PERFECT</p>
<p>that is how every gay kid feels</p>
<p>no matter their circumstance</p>
<p>this deep, deep loneliness is universal</p>
<p><strong><br />
Rachel:</strong> yeah, and they made a great point that there are no other gay kids at the school</p>
<p>and it&#8217;s in ohio</p>
<p>so no matter how glittery the glee club costumes, it&#8217;s not really a gay-friendly environment that the show has created</p>
<p><strong><br />
Me:</strong> it&#8217;s a really fine point they make</p>
<p>and it&#8217;s been so gradual and perfect</p>
<p>with all the mike omalley scenes</p>
<p><strong><br />
Rachel:</strong> it almost seems accidental, it came up so subtly</p>
<p>oh totally</p>
<p>because now, the viewers realize how truly unusual it would be for kurts dad to react that way</p>
<p><strong><br />
Me:</strong> &#8220;you need to allow yourself to be alone until you find someone brave as you&#8221;</p>
<p><strong><br />
Rachel:</strong> given their circumstances</p>
<p><strong><br />
Me:</strong> that line that made me weep for days and oceans</p>
<p><strong><br />
Rachel:</strong> aww I know!</p>
<p><strong><br />
Me:</strong> that was so full of truth</p>
<p><strong><br />
Rachel:</strong> my heart grew three sizes</p>
<p><strong><br />
Me:</strong> and also shrank</p>
<p>because telling someone they need to be alone, and also being right while saying it, is horrible</p>
<p><strong><br />
Rachel:</strong> I mean, only horrible if being alone is always a terrible thing</p>
<p>which I hope it isn&#8217;t</p>
<p>although I still want Kurt to find a bf and not have his &#8220;first kiss&#8221; be from some conflicted bully</p>
<p><strong><br />
Me:</strong> here&#8217;s a link i think is good for this point</p>
<p><a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2010/11/the-campaign-against-mean-people/66354/" target="_blank">http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2010/11/the-campaign-against-mean-people/66354/</a></p>
<p>because it&#8217;s one of the saddest realities of god choosing you to be gay</p>
<p>is that the correct answer is &#8220;sorry, watch everyone else fall in love, you can&#8217;t yet, and it&#8217;s no one&#8217;s fault&#8221;</p>
<p>also in the list were santana&#8217;s comment &#8220;i can think of so many gay jokes right now&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;kurt, you&#8217;re with the boys&#8221;</p>
<p>such that whatever small comment that was made in the meeting with all the guys made perfect sense as a reason for his character to flip out and storm off to that private school</p>
<p>which would have been really weird if the only thing leading up to that was sam saying &#8220;&#8230;i don&#8217;t want to wear a feather boa&#8221;</p>
<p><strong><br />
Rachel:</strong> yeah, that made sense, I didn&#8217;t think it was an overreaction at all</p>
<p>but I have a query for you</p>
<p>about a part of the ep last night</p>
<p><strong><br />
Me:</strong> queery?</p>
<p>or query</p>
<p><strong><br />
Rachel:</strong> a queery!</p>
<p>when I was watching the boys meeting scene, I had an instant negative reaction to how the show handled kurt speaking to the guys</p>
<p><strong><br />
Me:</strong> about feather boas, or in kurt&#8217;s dream?</p>
<p>(i am choosing to reimagine the whole private school as a dream)</p>
<p><strong><br />
Rachel:</strong> because it seemed to me that even while trying to present an anti-bullying message, the writers were just depicting kurt as a stereotypical &#8216;fashion gay&#8217; who would bring in a board of clothing swatches and talk about that instead of about song choice</p>
<p>and I get that fashion is a part of his character, but it seemed like they went out of their way to make him purposely ignore the point of the meeting in order to talk about &#8220;gay stuff,&#8221; and when I see that depiction elsewhere, I find it really offensive</p>
<p>but since it&#8217;s Glee, I can&#8217;t tell if I&#8217;m reading the scene totally wrong or not, because obviously they don&#8217;t intent to propagate stereotypes</p>
<p>even if that&#8217;s what I think they&#8217;re doing</p>
<p><strong><br />
Me:</strong> i think that&#8217;s kind of a tough thing!</p>
<p>because seriously, stereotypes are true</p>
<p>and i think the message is more &#8220;listen, gays can be lisping and mincing, AND THAT IS FINE&#8221;</p>
<p>because i think there&#8217;s a knee jerk reaction to say &#8220;not ALL x&#8217;s are Y&#8217;s!!!&#8221;</p>
<p>when talking about any group</p>
<p>not ALLL canadians are loggers!</p>
<p>not ALLL french are stinkies!</p>
<p>but like, probably a significant portion of canadians&#8217; livelihoods have to do with logging</p>
<p>so on one hand, you want people to not prejudge others based on their group memberships</p>
<p>&#8220;Hi, I&#8217;m Kurt, nice to meet you, I&#8217;m gay.&#8221; &#8220;Can you tell me if my outfit matches?&#8221; is kind of offensive</p>
<p>and on the other hand, anyone in nude erections asking kurt that now is not offensive</p>
<p><strong><br />
Rachel:</strong> that&#8217;s exactly my predicament!</p>
<p>because on principle, there&#8217;s nothing wrong with him loving fashion and wanting to be on the girl&#8217;s team for the competition</p>
<p>those are choices as acceptable as a gay guy being an amazing dancer or a lawyer or whatever</p>
<p>but on the show, in that format, it feels offensive for them to constantly highlight that he isn&#8217;t &#8220;one of the guys&#8221; because he&#8217;s gay</p>
<p>and it feels like his interest in fashion is a major way that divide is indicated</p>
<p><strong><br />
Me:</strong> i think it&#8217;s that kurt&#8217;s feeling of not belonging</p>
<p>is because he doesn&#8217;t belong in a high school in the middle of ohio?</p>
<p>and someone like kurt in suburban ohio DOES create a lot of discomfort, for everyone?</p>
<p><strong><br />
Rachel:</strong> it totally does, in real life</p>
<p>but in real life a kid like kurt in suburban ohio would probably not go to school in a full-on lady gaga costume</p>
<p>unless he had particularly supportive friends and family <img src='http://www.dyerstraightsgetit.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>so they&#8217;re already playing on a different level</p>
<p><strong><br />
Me:</strong> and i think it&#8217;s maybe just like heightened 10% for tv?</p>
<p>like the kiss got to the emotional core</p>
<p><strong><br />
Rachel:</strong> it totally did</p>
<p>that was so well-done</p>
<p>and perfect for this episode</p>
<p><strong><br />
Me:</strong> kurt is someone who would really really want to wear a full on lady gaga costume</p>
<p>so by making him actually do that</p>
<p>you get a little bit more drama and plot and conflict, while still staying true to the <em>feeling</em></p>
<p>so it&#8217;s more representational of like, constance mcmillen</p>
<p><strong><br />
Rachel:</strong> I guess my problem is that Kurt is a smart character and he should&#8217;ve known that bringing in a design board would get a negative response from the guys</p>
<p>and the writers are smart and should know that you don&#8217;t have to prove a character is gay by making them care only about fabric swatches</p>
<p>can I pitch an alternate plotline to you? <img src='http://www.dyerstraightsgetit.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p><strong><br />
Me:</strong> yes</p>
<p>because i think right now we&#8217;re on the same side of a very fine point</p>
<p><strong><br />
Rachel:</strong> I think so too</p>
<p>what if, instead of bringing in a costume board that doesn&#8217;t mention songs, Kurt had brought in the music for a song like &#8220;Man I Feel Like a Woman&#8221; or similar woman-hear-me-roar anthem</p>
<p>and the outfits would not be mentioned</p>
<p>but the song choice represents not only overcoming their discomfort with the &#8216;manly woman&#8217; stereotype that they were hurling at Bieste but also lets them have a kick-ass number that Kurt gets credit for</p>
<p>more subtle? less stereotypical gay to make a point?</p>
<p>or the same?</p>
<p><strong><br />
Me:</strong> i dunno!</p>
<p>because things like this make me kneejerk to do something real faggy</p>
<p>maybe he wouldn&#8217;t bring in a fabric board and diarama, because he doesn&#8217;t have a prop department?</p>
<p>another alternate plotline</p>
<p>they&#8217;re sitting around talking</p>
<p>brainstorming</p>
<p>and he says &#8220;we should wear feather boas&#8221;</p>
<p><strong><br />
Rachel:</strong> Go on&#8230; <img src='http://www.dyerstraightsgetit.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p><strong><br />
Me:</strong> the end</p>
<p><strong><br />
Rachel:</strong> I would support that too, if it got integrated into the final number</p>
<p><strong><br />
Me:</strong> it&#8217;s the same <em>feeling</em></p>
<p><strong><br />
Rachel:</strong> Bc then they&#8217;re still allowing him to be exactly who he is</p>
<p>Without being so hamfisted as to use a literal fabic swatch board</p>
<p><strong><br />
Me:</strong> but then he can&#8217;t huffily gather his things and huff off in a huff</p>
<p>i think for the purposes of tv, they are indistinguishable</p>
<p><strong><br />
Rachel:</strong> I don&#8217;t know</p>
<p><strong><br />
Me:</strong> okay can we move on to our point of disagreement?</p>
<p>nvm let&#8217;s stay here</p>
<p><strong><br />
Rachel:</strong> Haha no move on</p>
<p>I agree that we&#8217;re on a razor-thin margin of differenxe</p>
<p>*ce</p>
<p><strong><br />
Me:</strong> okay</p>
<p>the girls v boys</p>
<p>i would like to posit as a jumping off point</p>
<p>what a mashup is, and what it should accomplish</p>
<p>they should, as a rule, be contrasting songs</p>
<p><strong><br />
Rachel:</strong> Or at least different songs</p>
<p><strong><br />
Me:</strong> but at the very least should create unexpected or different reactions than either one of the songs by themselves would</p>
<p><strong><br />
Rachel:</strong> Stylistic, tempo, era etc</p>
<p><strong><br />
Me:</strong> exhibit a</p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfG94k41MrI" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfG94k41MrI</a></p>
<p>miley cyrus and biggie</p>
<p><strong><br />
Rachel:</strong> Agreed</p>
<p><strong><br />
Me:</strong> so the girls&#8217; number</p>
<p>was just living on a prayer, full stop.</p>
<p>outfits, vocal performance, choreo? fantastic</p>
<p>you can&#8217;t just perform living on a prayer, say &#8220;start me up&#8221; at the end for the button, and call it a mashup</p>
<p>the men, however, got two songs that were different, and integrated them well</p>
<p>&#8220;free your mind in the name of love&#8221; is a different thing entirely</p>
<p>and i thought it worked well for the themes of the episode</p>
<p>and actually salvaged the whole episode</p>
<p>and i guess here, my primary criterion is &#8220;did they complete the assignment&#8221;</p>
<p>much like how i love modern family, because while being formulaic and sometimes cheesy and trite, it completes its assignment better than any other sitcom</p>
<p><strong><br />
Rachel:</strong> Woah, trite?</p>
<p>You watch it mister</p>
<p><strong><br />
Me:</strong> okay, minus two points for word choice</p>
<p><strong><br />
Rachel:</strong> Cheesy? Absolutely</p>
<p>But anyway! Glee mashups</p>
<p><strong><br />
Me:</strong> yes, fully rescind the word &#8220;trite&#8221;, it goes against my point</p>
<p>Glee mashups!</p>
<p><strong><br />
Rachel:</strong> I will agree that the girls&#8217; wasn&#8217;t a great mashup in the ideallistically pure sense of the concept</p>
<p>BUT!</p>
<p>Costumes were hair-metal perfect, songs were two great classic rock hits that worked well together</p>
<p><strong><br />
Me:</strong> &#8220;worked well&#8221; = &#8220;the same song&#8221;?</p>
<p><strong><br />
Rachel:</strong> It was energetic, fun, and ridiculous</p>
<p>Haha no, just songs from a similar era of music that dovetailed well</p>
<p><strong><br />
Me:</strong> i&#8217;m not being convinced that their energy and hair made it <em>better</em> than the boys</p>
<p><strong><br />
Rachel:</strong> My argument is basically that the boys had a better mashup but the girls had a better musical number</p>
<p>And honestly, I don&#8217;t put much emphasis on the &#8220;club assignment&#8221; framework</p>
<p>That&#8217;s just how the show excuses why normal hs kids would choreo, cvstume and stage 5 numbers a week <img src='http://www.dyerstraightsgetit.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p><strong><br />
Me:</strong> okay let me clarify, because i agree with that</p>
<p><strong><br />
Rachel:</strong> haha k clarification = good</p>
<p>agreement = better</p>
<p><strong><br />
Me:</strong> because &#8220;start me up&#8221; didn&#8217;t add anything, it ended up taking away</p>
<p><strong><br />
Rachel:</strong> reasoned discourse = best</p>
<p>okay, I see that too</p>
<p>but also, I didn&#8217;t recognize either of the boy&#8217;s songs</p>
<p>and I thought the choreo was lackluster</p>
<p><strong><br />
Me:</strong> stop in the name of love?</p>
<p><strong><br />
Rachel:</strong> i mean, that one obvs, but what was the other song?</p>
<p>were there one or two other songs?</p>
<p><strong><br />
Me:</strong> free your miiiiind</p>
<p>two songs</p>
<p><strong><br />
Rachel:</strong> ?</p>
<p>I hadn&#8217;t ever heard that song before</p>
<p><strong><br />
Me:</strong> &#8220;Free Your Mind&#8221; is the name of a Grammy Award-nominated hit single released by the all-female R&amp;B group En Vogue. Released on September 24, 1992 &#8220;Free Your Mind&#8221; is the third single released from En Vogue&#8217;s critically-acclaimed album Funky Divas. The anti-prejudice rock-oriented song reached number eight on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and number sixteen on the UK Singles Chart.</p>
<p>MTV Video Music Awards 1993</p>
<p># Best R&amp;B Video (won)<br />
# Best Dance Video (won)</p>
<p># Best Choreography – Travis Payne, Frank Gatson, and Lavelle Smith (won)</p>
<p><strong><br />
Rachel:</strong> ohhh En Vogue! From September 1992, when I was 4!</p>
<p><strong><br />
Me:</strong> it&#8217;s a <em>claaaassic</em></p>
<p><strong><br />
Rachel:</strong> I can&#8217;t believe I forgot about Travis Payne&#8217;s epic MTV Movie Awards win</p>
<p><em>can&#8217;t believe</em> it</p>
<p><strong><br />
Me:</strong> seriously look it up</p>
<p><strong><br />
Rachel:</strong> I think you see where I&#8217;m going on this one <img src='http://www.dyerstraightsgetit.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p><strong><br />
Me:</strong> it&#8217;s a classic</p>
<p><strong><br />
Rachel:</strong> no, I believe you, but I have never heard of it or En Vogue</p>
<p>and while I&#8217;m glad Glee brings me new music</p>
<p>I feel that another function of mashups is to pair famous songs in a new and innovative way</p>
<p><strong><br />
Me:</strong> The group has won more MTV Video Music Awards than any other female group in MTV history, a total of seven, along with four Soul Train Awards, six American Music Awards, and seven Grammy nominations. En Vogue have accumulated over 2,800 weeks on various Billboard charts.[4]</p>
<p>you&#8217;re setting a very high bar for famous!</p>
<p><strong><br />
Rachel:</strong> again, that&#8217;s awesome for them and I am pleased for their success</p>
<p>haha true, I guess if I am the only one who didn&#8217;t recognize it, my point is invalid</p>
<p>but it&#8217;s certainly not as famous a song as living on a prayer, start me up, or stop in the name of love</p>
<p>is that an accurate statement?</p>
<p><strong><br />
Me:</strong> but also</p>
<p>did you know rain on my parade before you saw it on glee?</p>
<p><strong><br />
Rachel:</strong> of course!</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve seen funny girl</p>
<p><strong><br />
Me:</strong> or rose&#8217;s turn</p>
<p>Everythings coming up KUUUUURT</p>
<p><strong><br />
Rachel:</strong> there have been very few songs on Glee I didn&#8217;t recognize</p>
<p><strong><br />
Me:</strong> where i&#8217;m going with this is that even if you don&#8217;t know the song, it should still be awesome</p>
<p><strong><br />
Rachel:</strong> which is why last night&#8217;s mashup was so confusing!</p>
<p>haha okay, that&#8217;s a fair point</p>
<p>it mostly just contributed to my overall dissatisfaction with the boys&#8217; number</p>
<p>also, costumes and choreo were way off: agree/disagree?</p>
<p><strong><br />
Me:</strong> costumes and choreo were appropriate</p>
<p>stop in the name of love is very 50s motown, and requires shiny blue jackets</p>
<p><strong><br />
Rachel:</strong> is it 50s motown or 60s soul?</p>
<p><strong><br />
Me:</strong> not sure</p>
<p><strong><br />
Rachel:</strong> I thought it deserved more because that is a great song</p>
<p><strong><br />
Me:</strong> but appropriate for either?</p>
<p><strong><br />
Rachel:</strong> it might even be 70s disco</p>
<p>which is a HUGE missed opportunity for costuming hilarity <img src='http://www.dyerstraightsgetit.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p><strong><br />
Me:</strong> 1965</p>
<p>supremes, motown label</p>
<p><strong><br />
Rachel:</strong> but not motown era</p>
<p>ruh roh, razor thin disagreement again!</p>
<p><strong><br />
Me:</strong> still, shiny blue jackets, arm sway-snap</p>
<p><strong><br />
Rachel:</strong> yeah, pretty standard stuff, not as fun as the girls&#8217; hair-metal ridiculousness</p>
<p>but I will concede that they were going for a motown vibe and that explains both the costumes and choreo</p>
<p>which is an idea I love in theory but apparently not practice</p>
<p><strong><br />
Me:</strong> and i feel like shiny blue jackets came back in the 1990s?</p>
<p>like boyz II men maybe?</p>
<p>i&#8217;m revisiting free your mind</p>
<p>i&#8217;m becoming even more recalcitrant in my opinion</p>
<p>because there&#8217;s this little do wop shoop shoop in the background</p>
<p>i&#8217;m thinking this is even more brilliant and inspired song choices than before</p>
<p><strong><br />
Rachel:</strong> I only watched it last night and I had a few glasses of wine, but I also stand by my opinion upon reflection</p>
<p><strong><br />
Me:</strong> agree to agree that the other person is wrong</p>
<p><strong><br />
Rachel:</strong> let&#8217;s both do that <img src='http://www.dyerstraightsgetit.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p><strong><br />
Me:</strong> i agree with me that you are wrong</p>
<p>you agree with you that i am wrong</p>
<p><strong><br />
Rachel:</strong> and I agree with me that you are wrong!</p>
<p>precisely</p>
<p>so in that way, we&#8217;re both right</p>
<p><strong><br />
Me:</strong> right.</p>
<p>dare i even bring up puck&#8217;s clusterpuck of a storyline?</p>
<p><strong><br />
Rachel:</strong> UGH</p>
<p>that was so effing stupid</p>
<p><strong><br />
Me:</strong> like, what?</p>
<p><strong><br />
Rachel:</strong> I don&#8217;t even know</p>
<p>so dumb</p>
<p>and pointless</p>
<p>and no one gained anything and it didn&#8217;t even make sense half the time</p>
<p><strong><br />
Me:</strong> oh hey, puck&#8217;s actor has to take a couple weeks off and record and promote a studio album, what can you do for us, writers?</p>
<p><strong><br />
Rachel:</strong> yep!</p>
<p>basically</p>
<p><strong><br />
Me:</strong> no words are to give their lives for the discussion of the disaster that was puck</p>
<p>but it was good for kevin</p>
<p>i mean artie</p>
<p>oh god</p>
<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NLT_%28band%29" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NLT_%28band%29</a></p>
<p>kevin mchale nooooo</p>
<p>Their second single, &#8220;She Said, I Said (Time We Let Go)&#8221; was produced by Timbaland and released on August 21, 2007. The single peaked at number 65 on the Billboard Pop 100;[3] it also reached number 27 in Portugal.[4]</p>
<p>On December 18, 2007, they released an R&amp;B-influenced version of &#8220;Silent Night&#8221;.</p>
<p>Compilation appearances<br />
#Bratz: The Motion Picture (2007, Geffen) (song: &#8220;Heartburn&#8221;)</p>
<p>UGH NOOOOOO</p>
<p>anyway</p>
<p>i&#8217;m glad artie paid the bill</p>
<p><strong><br />
Rachel:</strong> hahahahaha omg &#8220;#27 in Portugal&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;R&amp;B-influenced &#8216;Silent Night&#8217;&#8221;</p>
<p>this is the wikipedia page that keeps on giving</p>
<p><strong><br />
Me:</strong> i used to like artie as a character</p>
<p>now, not so sure</p>
<p>although him being in a &#8220;largely unknown&#8221; boy band prior to being a rapping cripple</p>
<p>makes him&#8230; sadder?</p>
<p>i don&#8217;t know</p>
<p>i&#8217;ll ruminate on implications later</p>
<p><strong><br />
Rachel:</strong> that page is high up on my &#8216;definitions of sadness&#8217; list</p>
<p>&#8220;In 2008, they took part in the Johnny Wright-organized Bandemonium tour, with Menudo, VFactory and Glowb, which was less than successful&#8221;</p>
<p>Less. Than. Successful.</p>
<p><strong><br />
Me:</strong> yuck yuck yuck</p>
<p><strong><br />
Rachel:</strong> &#8220;Glowb&#8221;</p>
<p>I mean come ON</p>
<p><strong><br />
Me:</strong> his bandmate performed on idol?</p>
<p>this is TERRIBLE</p>
<p><strong><br />
Rachel:</strong> that&#8217;s tragic</p>
<p><strong><br />
Me:</strong> <a href="http://youtu.be/l0dZKOcbt04" target="_blank">http://youtu.be/l0dZKOcbt04</a></p>
<p>was &#8220;discovered&#8221; by perez</p>
<p>(not as a competitor, as a special guest)</p>
<p><strong><br />
Rachel:</strong> &#8220;i luv yu travis﻿ garland<br />
nd yur a sikk dancer&#8221;</p>
<p>(from the youtube comments)</p>
<p><strong><br />
Me:</strong> (i couldn&#8217;t tell)</p>
<p>this is all making me nauseous</p>
<p><strong><br />
Rachel:</strong> haha let&#8217;s move on then</p>
<p>I agree about artie</p>
<p>although my dislike of him stemmed from when he was going out with tina</p>
<p>and then increased when he dumped brittany for no reason</p>
<p>because she&#8217;s the best</p>
<p><strong><br />
Me:</strong> well, brittany used him</p>
<p><strong><br />
Rachel:</strong> I mean, a) she&#8217;s kind of too dumb to use people, b) he probably knew that going in, and c) wasn&#8217;t he using her too?</p>
<p><strong><br />
Me:</strong> yeah</p>
<p><strong><br />
Rachel:</strong> to get back at Tina for going out with mike chang?</p>
<p><strong><br />
Me:</strong> lots of moral ambiguity!</p>
<p><strong><br />
Rachel:</strong> so its kind of a wash on the using</p>
<p>and then I default to siding with brittany <img src='http://www.dyerstraightsgetit.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p><strong><br />
Me:</strong> fair</p>
<p>i am not familiar with the handicapped community</p>
<p>but is this type of thing typical?</p>
<p>i could see how in theory, being in a wheelchair could have a big impact on how you see dating</p>
<p>i&#8217;m gunna have to tie it back to kurt, because that&#8217;s what i know</p>
<p>but they share that loneliness?</p>
<p>is that a fair statement?</p>
<p>because puck was manipulating/teaching him to be a dick to girls</p>
<p>and he went along with it for a while</p>
<p>i didn&#8217;t like that</p>
<p>he redeemed himself though</p>
<p>good for him</p>
<p><strong><br />
Rachel:</strong> that was great</p>
<p>(the redemption)</p>
<p>but the whole &#8216;being a jerk to girls together&#8217; thing felt forced</p>
<p><strong><br />
Me:</strong> didn&#8217;t work at all.</p>
<p>even though he had a history of it!</p>
<p>did someone new write this episode?</p>
<p>just checked</p>
<p>regular writers</p>
<p>so</p>
<p>4000 words later</p>
<p>episode rating, 1-10?</p>
<p><strong><br />
Rachel:</strong> hahaha</p>
<p><strong><br />
Rachel:</strong> okay, I&#8217;ll ponder my rating</p>
<p><strong><br />
Me:</strong> k</p>
<p>35 users on imdb rated the ep, and it&#8217;s at a 9.7</p>
<p>for anchoring purposes</p>
<p>back in a bit</p>
<p><strong><br />
Rachel:</strong> NOM</p>
<p>8.5, btw</p>
<p><strong><br />
Me:</strong> any particular reason?</p>
<p>actually</p>
<p>don&#8217;t</p>
<p>4000 words</p>
<p><strong><br />
Rachel:</strong> yep</p>
<p><strong><br />
Me:</strong> and i&#8217;m going to be all boring</p>
<p>and agree that it&#8217;s an 8.5</p>
<p>the god episode was a 9.8</p>
<p><strong><br />
Rachel:</strong> haha k agreed</p>
<p><strong><br />
Me:</strong> i&#8217;m glad we talked it out though</p>
<p><strong><br />
Rachel:</strong> me too!</p>
<p><strong><br />
Me:</strong> because when the credits rolled</p>
<p><strong><br />
Rachel:</strong> I had so many queerys about it</p>
<p><strong><br />
Me:</strong> my gut said &#8220;WORST OF ALL TIME&#8221;</p>
<p><strong><br />
Rachel:</strong> ruh roh!</p>
<p><strong><br />
Me:</strong> but it was just puck</p>
<p><strong><br />
Rachel:</strong> turns out, it was just complex</p>
<p><strong><br />
Me:</strong> which i will ignore</p>
<p><strong><br />
Rachel:</strong> yeah, that&#8217;s the 1 point ding I gave it</p>
<p>and .5 is for one, but not both, of the mashups being weak</p>
<p>weak mashup TBD <img src='http://www.dyerstraightsgetit.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p><strong><br />
Me:</strong> it helped that kurt received an 8 out of 3 for his performance and storyline</p>
<p><strong><br />
Rachel:</strong> yeah, honestly, the score would be a lot lower if kurt wasn&#8217;t around</p>
<p>he got more points than his rubric allowed</p>
<p>for being amazing</p>
<p><strong><br />
Me:</strong> yep</p>
<p>life changing</p>
<p>okay i&#8217;m going to put this on my blog</p>
<p>maybe we can do this again next week?!</p>
<p><strong><br />
Rachel:</strong> yes!</p>
<p>and blog away <img src='http://www.dyerstraightsgetit.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p><strong><br />
Me:</strong> for gwyneth!</p>
<p><strong><br />
Rachel:</strong> ohhhhhh boy</p>
<p>yeah, that&#8217;s going to be eithe rreally amazing or really not amazing</p>
<p><strong><br />
Me:</strong> there will be Thoughts!<strong></strong></p>
<p><strong><br />
Rachel:</strong> I might watch &#8220;Shakespeare in Love&#8221; beforehand so I&#8217;m in the right mindset about her</p>
<p><strong><br />
Me:</strong> or ironman 2</p>
<p>will will be once again making out with Every Adult On The Show</p>
<p><strong><br />
Rachel:</strong> my roommate and I have this theory about will</p>
<p>in which he does whatever the last person he spoke to suggested to him on any given issue</p>
<p><strong><br />
Me:</strong> hahahahah</p>
<p>i can think of no instances where that isn&#8217;t true</p>
<p>will should die</p>
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		<title>Mobile site functionality</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[You can now read this blog from your mobile device!  I figured if I&#8217;m asking people sitting on Boston Common to read this, then being able to read it on an iPhone should be pretty reasonable.  
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You can now read this blog from your mobile device!  I figured if I&#8217;m asking people sitting on Boston Common to read this, then being able to read it on an iPhone should be pretty reasonable.  </p>
<p>I have an LG Dare, and it works pretty well for me.  Please let me know if there are any technical difficulties because I&#8217;m using a third-party plugin for this.</p>
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		<title>In all likelihood I will be at the NH statehouse today when they pass the gay marriage bill</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been trying desperately to figure out how to blog from my phone.  The best I could figure is to make a Twitter account, which actually seems like it might be pretty useful.  Go ahead and follow me if you want some real live citizen journalism today!
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve been trying desperately to figure out how to blog from my phone.  The best I could figure is to make a <a href="http://twitter.com/dyerstraightsgi" target="_blank">Twitter account</a>, which actually seems like it might be pretty useful.  Go ahead and follow me if you want some real live citizen journalism today!</p>
<p><strong>Update: Something came up, and I didn&#8217;t get to make it up to NH.  So go ahead and not only disregard this post but my entire existence for violating your trust so. PS <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/04/us/04marriage.html?_r=1&amp;hp">the bill passed the Senate</a>.</strong></p>
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		<title>For someone whose site title is a terrible pun&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 21:16:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[…It’s quite embarrassing that only yesterday I finally got the following two puns after probably hearing each one for over 5 years:

Men’s Wearhouse
“Trust Sleepyyyyyyyyyy’s… for the rest of your life”

I should go cry myself to death now.
h/t Matt Naz for #1
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>…It’s quite embarrassing that only <strong>yesterday</strong> I finally got the following two puns after probably hearing each one for over 5 years:</p>
<ol>
<li>Men’s <strong>Wear</strong>house</li>
<li>“Trust Sleepyyyyyyyyyy’s… for the<strong> rest</strong> of your life”</li>
</ol>
<p>I should go cry myself to death now.</p>
<p>h/t Matt Naz for #1</p>
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		<title>Here’s a thing you should come to.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 20:12:26 +0000</pubDate>
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This Friday and Saturday I’m gunna be in this hilarious play called The Brothers Grimm Spectaculathon with The F.U.D.G.E. Theatre Company.  You know The Complete Works of Shakespeare Abridged? It’s not that. But it’s quite similar indeed.  TBGS is a play in which 5 actors perform all 209 works of the Brothers Grimm in approximately 100 [...]]]></description>
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<p> </p>
<p>This Friday and Saturday I’m gunna be in this hilarious play called <strong>The Brothers Grimm Spectaculathon </strong>with The F.U.D.G.E. Theatre Company.  You know The Complete Works of Shakespeare Abridged? It’s not that. But it’s quite similar indeed.  TBGS is a play in which 5 actors perform all 209 works of the Brothers Grimm in approximately 100 minutes. It has everything you could possibly want in a play: high energy, 50 lulz per minute, sexual innuendos, violence, blood, death, people getting cut open with scissors, <strong>cross-dressing</strong>, 4th wall breaking, puns, guns, and <strong>fart jokes</strong>.</p>
<p><strong>DO IT.</strong></p>
<p><strong></strong></p>
<p><strong>Here’s the deetz:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Friday and Saturday, May 8+9, 8 pm</li>
<li>The [brand-spanking news] Next Door Theater, <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&amp;source=s_q&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;q=40+cross+street+winchester+ma&amp;sll=42.438407,-71.1236&amp;sspn=0.069551,0.11055&amp;gl=us&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;ll=42.478934,-71.128578&amp;spn=0.139012,0.2211&amp;z=12&amp;iwloc=A" target="_blank">40 Cross St, Winchester MA</a> – 14 minute drive from Tufts</li>
<li><a href="http://fudgetheatre.com/" target="_blank">Get tickets here</a>.</li>
</ul>
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		<title>Spongebob turns 10 on May 1st.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 18:21:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[They’re making a documentary about how sweet it is for his 10th birthday.&#160; (Yes, I know I’m like 3 months late with this news.)
I can’t believe it’s been a decade. That’s forever.&#160; 
Spongebob turning 10 makes a lot of things make sense to me.&#160; I understand why relatives you never see always say “I can’t [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.nypost.com/seven/01202009/tv/spongebob__documentary_151051.htm">They’re making a documentary about how sweet it is for his 10th birthday.</a>&#160; (Yes, I know I’m like 3 months late with this news.)</p>
<p>I can’t believe it’s been a <strong>decade.</strong> That’s forever.&#160; </p>
<p>Spongebob turning 10 makes a lot of things make sense to me.&#160; I understand why relatives you never see always say “I can’t believe how big you’ve gotten!” Also, my dad’s reaction to any new technology, specifically Google Street View, which is “Unbelievable! I can’t believe it! Unbelievable. Can you believe this? Unfableekableevable.” </p>
<p>So, sorry to relatives and Pops for my sarcastic reactions in these instances.&#160; I had no experience up until this revelation that <strong>Spongebob was turning 10</strong> that enabled me to sympathize with your feelings. Spongebob turning 10 is a thing that I will constantly bring up all the time like an annoying person that brings the same thing up all the time. It’s fine.</p>
<p>But yeah.&#160; Check out this <a href="http://wannafeelold.tumblr.com/">awesome blog</a> that my friend Meghan found that made me remember that Spongebob is 10 years old.&#160; The link to that blog is the actual substance of this post.</p>
<p>God, I can’t believe Spongebob is 10.</p>
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		<title>Recession-friendly ways to destroy your body!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 18:52:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Was I the only one that really craved a Big Mac after seeing SuperSize Me? I remember watching the scene when he’s puking in the parking lot because his body was rejecting the abuse so hard and thinking to myself, “man, it’s been ages since I went to McDonald’s… maybe I’ll go this afternoon.”
I was [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Was I the only one that <em>really </em>craved a Big Mac after seeing <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0390521/">SuperSize Me?</a> I remember watching the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATYJx3x0nyo">scene</a> when he’s puking in the parking lot because his body was rejecting the abuse so hard and thinking to myself, “man, it’s been ages since I went to McDonald’s… maybe I’ll go this afternoon.”</p>
<p>I was on my way to <a href="http://fudgetheatre.com/dinnertheater2009.php">Murder Mystery Dinner Theatre!</a> the other day and I was having flashbacks of that masochistic craving.  I stumbled upon <a href="http://www.myspace.com/mcgangbang">this gem of a situation</a> recently, so the correct course of action was obvious: The McGangbang must be experienced. </p>
<p>A McGangbang is a Dollar Menu Remix: McChicken inserted in between the beef patties of a McDouble, such that the structure from top to bottom is bun beef bun chicken bun beef bun.</p>
<p>Strangely enough, the girl manning the drive-thru was unfamiliar with the sandwich. </p>
<blockquote><p>“I’d like one McGangbang please.”</p>
<p>“I’m sorry?” “A McGangbang.”</p>
<p>“Um.”</p>
<p>Audible sigh from me. “I’ll have a McDouble and a McChicken please.”</p>
<p>“Is that all?”</p>
<p>“Indeed, thank you.”</p>
<p>“$2.16, please drive up.”</p></blockquote>
<p><em>WAIT. I could make this infinitely more awesome WITH RANCH DRESSING! </em>I think as I’m handing the 20ish year old girl working there my money and explaining to her how to assemble a McGangbang.  Nice.  What is the only logical thing to call a McGangbang with ranch dressing?  Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the <strong>McBukkake.</strong><em><strong>  </strong>(Editor’s note: if you don’t know what that is, you probably don’t want to look it up. You’ve been warned.)</em><em><strong> </strong></em>Here’s a couple of pictures of the sitch I snapped with my phone.</p>
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<p>I also took the liberty of diagramming it out:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.dyerstraightsgetit.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/mcbukkake1.gif"><img style="display: inline; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px" title="McBukkake.gif" src="http://www.dyerstraightsgetit.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/mcbukkake-thumb.gif" alt="McBukkake.gif" width="313" height="313" align="left" /></a></p>
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<p>As for the taste, it tastes much as you would assume it would.  A generic surge of lipids and simple carbohydrates, pillae-shriveling quantities of salt, with strong notes of synthesized preservatives.  But you feel like a damn champion after finishing it. And a little out of breath.</p>
<p>Here’s the boxscore of the McBukkake-Steve’s body Death Match, estimated using McDonald’s <a href="http://nutrition.mcdonalds.com/nutritionexchange/bagMeal.do">horrifying feature</a> designed so one can “Create a meal that fits into your balanced, active lifestyle”:</p>
<ul>
<li>Total calories: 920</li>
<li>Calories from fat: 450</li>
<li>Total Fat: 50 g (77% DV)</li>
<li>Saturated fat: 14 g (70% DV)</li>
<li>Trans fat: 1.5 g</li>
<li>Cholesterol: 115 mg (39% DV)</li>
<li>Sodium: 2280 mg (95% DV)</li>
<li>Carbohydrates: 82 g</li>
<li> Sugars: 15 g</li>
<li>Vitamin C: 2 mg (4% DV)</li>
</ul>
<p>Ugh.  I’m off to do some crunches now.</p>
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		<title>My sister is kind of incredible.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 19:07:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[She was just walking around and saw this:

So serendipitous that she had her camera in her purse.
Update.  I don&#8217;t know what the internet is.  I didn&#8217;t click the link.  Here&#8217;s what he was talking about:


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>She was just walking around and saw this:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.dyerstraightsgetit.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/image1.png"><img style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" title="Well, except for the text at least." src="http://www.dyerstraightsgetit.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/image-thumb1.png" border="0" alt="Well, except for the text at least." width="404" height="307" /></a></p>
<p>So serendipitous that she had her camera in her purse.</p>
<p><em>Update.  I don&#8217;t know what the internet is.  I didn&#8217;t click the link.  Here&#8217;s what he was talking about:</em></p>
<p><span style="color: #0000ee; font-style: italic; text-decoration: underline;"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-103" title="Yes, Chris. You are double awesome." src="http://www.dyerstraightsgetit.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/doubleparkfail.jpg" alt="Double Park Fail" width="453" height="604" /><br />
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		<title>Prepubescent Explanation For Why I’m Gay #1</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 19:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My favorite Power Ranger was the Blue Ranger.  He was the one with the Unicorn Zord .  I am so lucky that closeted gays are indistinguishable from huge nerds. ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">My favorite Power Ranger was the Blue Ranger.  He was the one with the <a href="http://powerrangers.wikia.com/wiki/Unicorn_Thunderzord">Unicorn Zord</a>.  </p>
<p><a href="http://www.dyerstraightsgetit.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/image.png"><img style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin: 5px auto 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" title="The horns are phallic.  Get it!?" src="http://www.dyerstraightsgetit.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/image-thumb.png" border="0" alt="The horns are phallic.  Get it!?" width="322" height="242" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"> </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I am so lucky that closeted gays are indistinguishable from huge nerds. </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">(PEWIG will be a recurring series of posts, because:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">1) it’s funny to think about gay babies.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">(If you have personal PEWIGs, send them to <a href="mailto:dyerstraightsgetit@gmail.com">dyerstraightsgetit@gmail.com</a>, and I’ll put it up if it’s good.  Your ticket to internet stardom.)</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">PPS I will defend until death that Billy is the gayest Power Ranger, despite <a href="http://dlisted.blogspot.com/2006/03/from-power-ranger-to-porn-star.html">contrary evidence.</a> Link sort of NSFW.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">PPPS It’s pronounced <em>PYOO-ig</em></p>
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		<title>Chris Kantos: FOILED! (get it!?)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 20:10:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[April Fools&#8217; Day, inexplicably, has never been a holiday that has been widely celebrated by my friends and family.  This year, however, given my abundance of time combined with Robby&#8217;s possession of Chris Kantos&#8217; spare key, we decided to start a new tradition.  Sure it was just an entry-level punk&#8217;n', but it turned out quite [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>April Fools&#8217; Day, inexplicably, has never been a holiday that has been widely celebrated by my friends and family.  This year, however, given my abundance of time combined with Robby&#8217;s possession of Chris Kantos&#8217; spare key, we decided to start a new tradition.  Sure it was just an entry-level punk&#8217;n', but it turned out quite well, if I dare say so myself.</p>
<p>Materials:</p>
<ul>
<li>6 rolls of tin foil x 75 ft = 450 ft</li>
<li>10 man hours -
<ul>
<li>4 from me</li>
<li>2 from Nate Haduch</li>
<li>2 from Jill Ovsiew</li>
<li>2 from Jen Luft</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>2 more rolls of Costco-sized tin foil that we stole from Chris at the end: 2 x 250 ft = 500 ft</li>
<li>Total tin foil used  ≈ 950 ft</li>
</ul>
<p>Here&#8217;s a little vid of the ackshun!</p>
<p><object width="445" height="364" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/REnB6CEGUlA&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="src" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/REnB6CEGUlA&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;border=1" /><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /></object></p>
<p>Additionally, enjoy these pictures of the aftermath (I recommend fullscreen mode so you can see the captions of what the stuff is):</p>
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<p>Of course, no prank would be complete without a hidden camera to record the reaction, 2 girls 1 cup style.</p>
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<p><em>(Update: flickr embedded, that other horrible whateveritwas removed.)</em></p>
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