Let's Get Jexy

ticketmaster in front of congress:

This year, they are hosting a “Pupularity Playoffs” where you can vote for your fav pups based on their personalities and how cute they are. They have a video for each puppy and the winner is the Most Pupular Player.

These are this years pups! Personally I’m rooting for Cooper and Moocow. Voting runs from now until February 9th. I’m not sure if you have to be a US resident to vote but if so it’s nothing a VPN can’t fix. Here are the voting rounds:

Cows reaction when they see grass after being shut down indoors for 6 months. 

I just had a random memory of a friends’ kid when she was about six or seven, when she cornered a couple of us at a get-together and says “wanna know what my dad had for lunch?”

We figured this was, while unusual, a pretty straight-forward conversation starter. “Sure”, we said.

We were NOT prepared. She went on this EPIC storytelling monologue about the restaurant and Italy and the art on the walls and some dramatic story she made up ABOUT the art on the walls. We were enraptured. No idea what was going on but by god we were hooked. At no point does she mention food.

The next week, similar get-together with the same people. Same friend I’m talking to. Same child walks up. “Wanna know what my dad had for lunch?”

But NOW we’re prepared, we’re excited. We’re about to hear some SHIT. We grin in anticipation. “Sure!”

“A salad.”

Now, there’s a look I never thought of. 

I proceeded to tell her about a time when I was a kid and she was yelling, screaming, and throwing things, and I said "I love you" in that small timid kid voice and she said

"well I don't love you right now"

Mundane

Evokes helplessness

Kind of a bummer

"Plagued by demons as I am, my crops have withered yet again"

Powerful imagery

Frames you as a gothic protagonist

Emphasizes that you are hounded by demons

"I think the lettuce has succumbed"