Him and his men, come in the club like hooligans, don't care who they offend, poppin' game like you got yen

I saw a sign in a store window today advertisting "MANCAVE TOYS." Surely I'm not the only one who thinks "mancave" sounds like something a closeted fratboy would call his rectum to a potential online suitor.

So the Super Bowl is in Indianapolis this weekend. I went downtown last weekend to check out everything that was going on. It's really cool to see all that activity and life here. But at the same time, it's really annoying when someone gets in my way when I'm trying to walk down the sidewalk. I know you all want to stop and look around, but move to the side out of the way. Otherwise, I don't care if you're a 60-year-old grandma--I will tell you to get out of the way. Am I wrong in this? I don't care that you want to discuss where you and Lucille might be able to get a table at a restaurant. Please move out of the way. Your table is not waiting for you in the middle of a very busy sidewalk.

as the protein transmutates, i knock on your skin and i am in

People keep asking me a lot lately if I ever cheat on my veganism. It's an impossible question to answer, though I like to think I do not. I eat honey, and occasionally wear wool that I purchased before I became a vegan, and wear leather sneakers to the gym that I bought before I became vegan, and I use tons of chapstick made with beeswax. I buy razors that were tested on animals because vegan razors cut the hell out of my face while at the same time not actually shaving me. I'm mostly comfortable with those things though. Sometimes I think I should give up foods with honey, and it's really quite seldom that I have it, but I think I only consider giving it up because of some outside pressure that the "vegans don't eat honey" crowd thinks, not because I actually think it is wrong. Every time I drive, I kill bugs; I kill ants that try to get in my windows during the summer, so why would bees be special? I can keep making excuses for why I'm ok with it, but if I have to keep making excuses to myself for it, maybe it would be easier to just stop. Who knows. anyway, no, I do not think I cheat. But there's no black and white answer, really. Blueberries aren't vegan, really, because bees are used in the fields. Same for flowers from the florist. Manure is used to grow my veggies. It's a non-vegan world. you can only do so much.

Also, I saw Lars von Trier's "Melancholia" recently. I have an amazing admiration for his work, and if I wrote out my top 20 favorite films or so, at least 4 of his would be in it, so obviously I get pretty excited when he has a new film. Plus, it had Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg, and Alexander Skarsgard. In a movie about depression and the end of the world. So maybe I was just expecting too much and went in with hopes too high, but I was disappointed. I didn't dislike it. I just didn't really care about it. It was just ok. The poster for the film is beautiful, and some of the scenes are gorgeous to watch, but that was about it.