Bleeding Fiction

1. Nuemos: rawk. Super creepy clown on their website, though.

2. Mates of State: had no idea they were a husband and wife duo. Guess that accounts for the name. Wish you'd seen Smoosh. 12 year-olds are awkward and funny...

he he he somehow I don't think your parents will give up that easy.

Smooooooooosh!

Hmmm lets see first it was a girl in seatle while you were in Jersey... Then there was the girl in Moscow while again you were in jersey so some girl that lives in jersey while you live in seattle doesnt seem so odd to me but who am I to say?

Jeni - Smoosh'll be playing Seattle again in early June, if you happen to be swinging by around then. If not, you could make the drive down to Filthy or up to Boston around mid-June to catch them. Something tells me that that's not happening, though. :)

Gus - It's tough to tell with them. Some days they stick to their guns, others they flow down stairs like slinkys.

Zach - You know what? You can just shut the fuck up. :)

You know I love you right in a strictly putonic sort of sense but seriously dude we all know that your problem is the fact that your parents are trying to manipulate you and not the thought of a 5 thousand mile relationship

I don't know that "manipulate" is the right word, but yeah, you're right - I'm more annoyed at my parents' involvement than I am at the prospect of a long-distance relationship.

There's also a trust issue. I mean, beyond being annoyed that my parents are trying to get involved at all (or manipulate me, or whatever), I just don't trust that I'm going to agree with their taste in women; I don't trust them to be capable of accurately deciding that a given girl is a girl I'd actually want to have anything to do with.

You know, sometimes a girl that's good for you just ain't what you think your type is. Your parents might do a better job than you would think.

Then again, I'd probably hate the chick just because my parents wanted to set me up with her. Did you ever see the play the "fantastics". It's about these two dads who set their kids up together by forbidding them to be together. It's brilliant. Perhaps your parents just need to tell you that this is the one girl they will never set you up with; then you'd be in love.

Reverse psychology, Doug? Isn't that a bit, I dunno, passe? Do people still fall for that these days?

You're right that wasn't a good idea....................................................................................................................I bet now you think it was. See, still works.

Oh, and no guy who wears ripped jeans and has long hair can accuse someone else of being passe. ;)

Actually, I think you've been wearing ripped jeans so long that they have actually come back into fashion. I take back my friendly insult.

Dude, seriously? It has been a while since we've seen each other. Check it out:

http://www.bleedingfiction.com/archives/00000227.html

http://www.bleedingfiction.com/archives/00000259.html

I am not sure man if I remember my Sociology right arranged marriages have a VERY high success rate as opposed to other types and not to be racist or anything but the ethnicity fits grins I mean think about it your mother could have sent some sort of great aunt out there to play match maker or somthing. and as far as your parents taste goes I would wager a small fortue that your father knows a hot 20 somthing year old when he sees one. the determining factor to be ask your sisters oppinion and if she doesnt like the girl you should give her a shot

You're all fuckin' traitors, you know that? Aren't you supposed to take my side? Jesus...

(For the record, arranged marriages have high success rates because of cultural factors in the cultures that practice arranged marriages, not in the arrangement itself.)

I can't believe you cut your hair. Jason without long hair and cut jeans? Who are you?

I think arranged marriages work because people in them don't have the same "divorce...so what?" kind of attitude that many Americans have. That being said, aren't there numerous examples of women seriously getting the shitty end of that deal in arranged marriages? i.e. abusive husbands who cheat on them and social pressure not to say anything? I've never seen any kind of statistics though.

Yeah what were we thinking wanting you to possibly be happy.... I mean she probably has two heads or three arms or somthing. not to mention the serious relationship that you are in now and would screw up by talking to this chick on the phone and possibly catching a movie with. Dont forget the fact that this might actually make your mother happy and lords know we dont want that. I think you shouldnt even talk to your mom for daring to suggest that she might know someone you might possibly have a friendship with .... what was she thinking. (You realize the only reason that I am taking this stance is b/c I think it is funny and love "seeing" you squirm)

Hey Jason I saw this and thought of your love for your Yankees

www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNQ8UhYZkIY&search=yankees

Doug - Same great taste, but now with fewer calories. :) As for arranged marriages, I think it sort of depends on how you qualify "work," you know? If you mean "the couple sticks together no matter what their feelings towards each other," then sure, arranged marriages work, and generally much moreso than in cultures where divorce is socially acceptable. If you mean "the couple would say they love each other," you run into a stickier situation. A lot of modern Japanese, for example, have what we'd call arranged marriages, but they tend to tell people it's a love match. Love matches are viewed as more modern, hipper, trendier; but how long does it take for your saying it to make you think its true? It's like a little bit of Stockholm Syndrome, right there in your home.

Anyway women, as a rule, get the short end of the stick in any culture where they don't have a say in what happens to them. This seems equally true in cultures that promote arranged marriages and cultures that forbid divorce, at least when women also don't, as a rule, have independent earning power. Unsurprisingly, these two cultural facets are often found hand-in-hand. Results of that shouldn't really be surprising - if a woman gets into a shitty, abusive relationship in a culture where she has the legal right to leave, where it won't cost her much in the way of social standing and where she can fend for herself if she does leave, logically she's much more likely to be out the door than in a culture where she has none of those things.

Zach - I live to squirm for the entertainment of the crowd. Hence the public blogging and not the private grumbling. Also, that video was funny. I still can't believe that the Yankees signed Damon. Too weird.