Then imagine that the washer destroyed the napkins and the weather turned out to be cloudy and a bit chilly. The sandwiches were still delicious, but the idyllic picnic just didn't come to fruition.
The third movie experiment night was something like that picnic. I made some delicious lasagna and Hot Rod was funny (especially with the red wine I consumed along with the movie)... but the napkins and weather weren't what they were supposed to be.
It was to be all that the movie experiment was about: three people that I knew reasonably well that had never met nor seen the movie. Three people from three different parts of my life. Lasagna. Andy Samberg.
Things fell apart pretty quickly, though.Given how much time I have spent on social media sites and how many people I've become friends with (and become unfriends with) it's shocking how little e-drama I've had in the last several years. The most severe case, up until recently, went something like this:
- Chick I'm dating is in my top four MySpace friends
- I'm in her top four MySpace friends
- She puts another guy she's dating in her top friends (but below me)
- I bump her down in my top friends list
- She puts the other guy ahead of me in her top list
- I remove her from my top friends
- She removes me from her top friends
- I unfriend her (not defriend... totally different)
In comparison to the more recent e-drama, though, that was nothing. That was light-hearted and juvenile. The more recent case was steeped in gravitas. Juvenile gravitas, but gravitas.
It went something like this:
- Guy agrees to come to the Hot Rod movie night
- Guy makes random Facebook status update (as is his right)
- Flowers comments on status
- TM2000 comments on the comment
- Flowers and TM2000 go back and forth for a comment or two
- TM2000 makes a "racially edgy" comment
- Flowers jokes back
- One of the guy's Facebook friends (who doesn't know either Flowers or TM2000) makes a crack about how they aren't funny and they need to grow up
- I read this and, while admitting that either or both of those assertions may be true, feel compelled to snipe back at the woman I don't know
- The guy rushes to her defense, and is unable or unwilling to delete the comments that had offended him
- I go back and forth with the woman and the guy a few times
- The guy deletes Flowers, TM2000 and me as Facebook friends without any warning or explanation
- I block the guy on Facebook
No biggie, though. The show must go on. I still had SSD, my college roomie, and a female friend with whom I hadn't spent much time recently. I looped F-Bomb in as a pinch-hitter and we were good to go. The napkins might not be available, but it was still sunny out.Unfortunately, I got a txt from the female participant about three hours before the appointed time, begging off due to exhaustion and being kidnapped by a roc. I responded that it was considerate of the giant mythical Arabic bird of prey to allow her access to her cell phone, and that I hoped she would feel better soon.
I did a half-ass scramble, chatting with Politica (she had a previous engagement) and then TM2000 (who actually has been engaged before, but was free to hang out last night after he got in a nap).
The movie was good, catching up with SSD was fun (hearing that his daughter is going to enter kindergarten kind of freaked me out), and the lasagna turned out reasonably well.
There was no sunshine and the napkins were unavailable, but it was still a pretty decent picnic.
3 comments:
I am going to look up gravitas and if it's a racial slur I'm going to stop following your blog next.
I really enjoy people who post what they are going to do opposed to just doing it. Never fear, the hero has come through again and with the last word. He sure showed you. I feel like this is a scenario where somebody gets extremely defensive when you call them gay. They are so homophobic that they it's quite possible they are gay themselves to keep others from knowing or assuming that of them. Another option is to just "go with it" in the fact that if somebody calls you gay, or somebody says something in a form of a joke over race, to get so offended makes me wonder who they are as a person.
As for the Hot Rod movie. Completely awesome and the lasagna was far better than described. You're being too humble about it.
There is an entirely new definition of e-drama on social networking sites. It's interesting how non-personal conversations and relationships with people over the internet can be so superficial. Even though you might meet some of these people in person, because they take a simple action of deleting you from a friend list made up of 1's and 0's, you are no longer friends with that person in "real life." IMO, people don't have real relationships as much anymore as they used to. I would say going from a 10 in the 90's, we're at a 2 presently. Facebook keeps you "connected" but just by a thin digital wire.
I'm not sure if Frank understood my comment to be a joke...
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