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        <title>Wow.</title>
    
    
    
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            <p>So here are my twelve responses to Gracey&#39;s twelve part beast post (You are one pretty amazing girl to write all of that and not get bored after awhile).</p><p>1.&#160; I despise ALL comics, as they&#39;re mindless pieces of literature.&#160; Seriously, why would anyone want to read about these beefed up, UBER (I&#39;m talking UBER with the two dots of the U, that kind of UBER) MACHO men who are obviously doped up on steroids.&#160; Never mind genetic mutations.&#160; I&#39;ve never liked the superhero movies/shows as well.&#160; They&#39;re so boring.&#160; The good guy ALWAYS wins, and gets some defenseless, stereotypical 1950&#39;s girl.&#160; Blah.</p><p>2.&#160; We all have exams Gracey.&#160; I have mine Thursday and Friday of next week.&#160; I have three finals (Spanish II, Algebra II/Trig, and Physics I) and a midterm for my Research II class.&#160; I&#39;m all ready to beast!&#160; I just really don&#39;t want to study.&#160; I hate studying for big exams, it&#39;s way to broad.&#160; I prefer concentrated tests, not those involving gel electrophoresis prep/loading (God, I&#39;m so bad at those).&#160; I&#39;m also pretty mediocre at plasmid mapping, which is funny, cause it should be relatively easy.&#160; Lucky me, that&#39;s like half of my research midterm.&#160; Gonna faillllllll.</p><p>3.&#160; YAY for Ellen!</p><p>4.&#160; Indeed we do.&#160; Our views are topping 60 for all the videos combined!&#160; Beastsssssssss.</p><p>5.&#160; As slow as molasses.&#160; <br />&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; <br />6.&#160; It&#39;s true!&#160; Gracey&#39;s ego is really large, and quite frankly, fun to pet.&#160; JK SMILEYFACE.&#160; But still, you should tell&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; &#160;&#160;&#160; people.&#160; It&#39;s already spreading that way!&#160; Join the craze!&#160; BANDWAGON.</p><p>7.&#160; I think you should do a music thing like that Gracey.&#160; We do agree on some artists, like the following one (to a degree) and Editors and Rent!</p><p>8.&#160; I really like her song Fidelity, but that&#39;s about it.&#160; She is ravishingly pretty though and Russian &lt;333&#160; Russians make the best artists, like Rachmaninoff!&#160; And Ayn Rand!&#160; YAY for ATLAS SHRUGGED!</p><p>9.&#160; <br /><p>A. Is James Marsden gorgeous? Gracey says: Yes. Trey says:&#160; <em>ABSOLUTELY.&#160; </em><br /></p>
<p>B. Mayo or Miracle Whip? Gracey says: Neither.&#160; Oh, I have to pick one? Mayo, then. Trey says:&#160; <em>Neither, as both are gross.&#160; But I guess Mayo too.</em><br /></p>
<p>C. Ketchup or Mustard? Gracey says: Mustard.&#160; But why are these questions all food related? Trey says:&#160; <em>Mustard all the way.</em><br /></p>
<p>D. Converse or Vans? Gracey says: Converse. Trey says:&#160; <em>VANS OF COURSE!&#160; Cutest shoes ever.&#160; Though I did recently buy a pair of Converse.</em><br /></p>
<p>E. Mr. Darcy or Mr. Rochester? Gracey says: MR DARCY! Trey says:&#160;<em> I forget who Mr. Rochester is, so Mr. Darcey cause he&#39;s sexy.</em><br /> </p>
<p>F. Seven or Eleven? Gracey says: Seven. Duh. Trey says:<em>&#160; Neither, but I guess seven.</em><br /></p>
<p>G. Cell phone or AIM? Gracey says: AIM. You know why/who. Trey says:&#160; <em>AIM!&#160; It&#39;s free.&#160;</em> <br /></p>
<p>H. Painted nails or no? Gracey says: Eep. No, I guess. Trey says:&#160; <em>YES.&#160; I &lt;3 painted nails.</em><br /></p>
<p>J. American Pie or Ghost? Gracey says: Well, if you were tying me
down and propping my eyes open with splinters like the way they did in
the Odyssey (which is the only way I&#39;d watch either) I suppose American
Pie, but whoever made these questions (:cough:gracey:cough:) picked
really, REALLY crappy movies.&#160; Trey says:&#160; <em>What&#39;s Ghost?&#160; And I&#39;ve never seen American Pie.</em><br /></p>
<p>K. Facebook or MySpace? Gracey says: Facebook, hands down. Trey says:&#160; <em>Facebook is pretty, so yes.</em><br /></p>
<p>L. Unicorns or Leprechauns? Gracey says: Now, if I were a six year
old girl with a rainbow fetish, I would definiltely pick unicorns.&#160;
And, if&#160;I were creepy, I would definitely pick leprechauns.&#160; However, I
am neither (well, I suppose the latter is debatable).&#160; I
mean,&#160;leprechauns are nasty and skanky and&#160;devious, and unicorns can&#39;t
be beat for sheer so-freaking-frighteningly-cheeful-ness.&#160; However,
leprechauns are genuinely frightening, and unicorns are only too
fucking cheerful creepy, so unicorns.&#160; Trey says:&#160;<em> Pink unicorns because I really do have a rainbow fetish.</em></p><br /><p></p>10.&#160; I think you&#39;re glasses are extremely flattering.&#160; And cute!&#160; I &lt;3 you.&#160; Plus I have glasses, which makes them UBER (again with an accent) cool.</p><p>11.&#160;&#160; I&#39;m almost done with Are We There Yet.&#160; Really weird writing style that man has.&#160; Kinda good book, though incredibly disappointed there&#39;s no subtle homosexuality.&#160; And Julia&#39;s a ho.&#160; </p><p>12.&#160; THE HEAVENS ARE TELLING.&#160; Best song ever, especially in chorus.&#160; It won us countless awards, even though we were terrible. </p><p>Here is the link:&#160; http://youtube.com/watch?v=UcsDU_mcPFo&amp;feature=related</p><p>Hearts and hugs,<br />Trey<br /></p>
        
    
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        <title>Important Take Twelve</title>
    
    
    
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            <p>Can I do this post in twelve parts? We shall see.</p>
<p>1. Marvel Comics vs. DC Comics.&#160; (COMMENT AND GIVE ME YOUR OPINONS, PEOPLE.) Now, I&#39;m personally a Marvel fan.&#160; I mean, The Fantastic Four? Spiderman? X-Men? As far as comic book heroes go, you can&#39;t do much better.&#160; Especially X-Men, in my opinion.&#160; But in general, Marvel was all about, &quot;With great power comes great responsibility,&quot; and being mutants, and getting their DNA altered by space clouds.&#160; </p>
<p>Actually, now that I think about it, all of those had something happening with the altering of DNA, whether it was through a natural evolutionary mutation (&quot;And then one day, a freak was born!&quot;--kudos, freshman bio class), a radioactive spider, or deadly space cloud.</p>
<p>So, Marvel Comics vs. DC Comics.&#160; <em>Personellement</em>, I cannot think of a reason for you to back up DC.&#160; I really can&#39;t.&#160; But then again, I&#39;m a little biased, I suppose.</p>
<p>2. Exams.&#160; They are looming over me with deadly knives, threatening to drop the axe of knowledge--or rather of non-knowledge--on my poor, vulnerable skull.&#160; I don&#39;t want to take them, but I have to, and therefore, I have to study.&#160; So, if things that take time, like videos, come with less frequency, it&#39;s because I&#39;m cramming my brain full of useless crap.</p>
<p>3. Ellen.&#160; She really does exist! You weren&#39;t making her up! (I admit, for a bit there, I had my doubts.) Her response to us was very well hidden (sneaky, sneaky) and I&#39;m not even sure that I could find it again. But then again, we can almost safely assume that I&#39;m a robot, that only comes to life to post these blog posts, right?</p>
<p>Right?</p>
<p>4. YouTube.&#160;Trey and I do, as&#160;it happens, have a YouTube channel, where our videos are posted.&#160; Conveniently, it&#39;s entitled (is that the appropriate word?) SockMonkeySlippers, which seems really easy to remember.&#160;Or maybe that&#39;s just because it&#39;s me.&#160; I never can tell with things like my brain.&#160; It likes to play games with&#160;me, don&#39;t&#39;cha know.</p>
<p>5. Cliches. (I don&#39;t know how to do the accent thingy on this.)&#160;Anyway, I&#39;m currently carefully comprising (holy alliteration, Batman!) a list of cliches, for reasons that aren&#39;t really important, but I&#39;m choosing not to disclose.&#160; Now, if I had a giant army of readers, I would have a giant army of cliches in a very short amount of time.&#160; BUT since I have a very small army of viewers, I need you to really THINK!&#160; These cliches can be anything from the simile variety--&quot;cute as a button&quot;--to little phrases--&quot;forbidden fruit&quot;--to things that are probably just true--&quot;ignorance is bliss.&quot;&#160; Being given these posthaste would be excellent.</p>
<p>6. TELL YOUR FRIENDS.&#160; Seriously.&#160; I mean YOU.&#160; Tell your friend in Poland.&#160; Tell your goofy boy neighbor.&#160; My ego needs stroking, as Trey will attest.&#160; (Secretly, we made this blog so that readers can assure me that I&#39;m getting attention, so that Trey doesn&#39;t have to.&#160; It was beginning to cut into his sleeping time.)</p>
<p>(I was kidding with that last bit in parentheses, by the way.&#160; I&#39;m not that much of an egoist.)</p>
<p>(Really.)</p>
<p>(But I do want readers.&#160; That would make le Gracey so, so happy.)</p>
<p>(HA I&#39;M HALFWAY TO TWELVE!)</p>
<p>7. Music.&#160; What do you think about my doing an Artist Hightlight of the Post?&#160; Like, I could rant and rave about how good they are, and how Trey doesn&#39;t listen to them in all likliehood, and all that other good stuff.&#160; I mean, music is a really huge part of who I am and what I do.&#160; I spend a LOT of time listening to music,&#160;to the point where I can&#39;t even fathom that some people DON&#39;T care about it as much as I do.</p>
<p>8. Regina Spektor. (I&#39;m not waiting for the judgment on the whole music thing.&#160; I&#39;m jumping right into it.&#160; If you really hate it, Trey, let me know, and I&#39;ll stop.)&#160;Regina&#160;Spektor is one of those people, who when you hear her sing, you&#39;re just like, &quot;...wow.&quot;&#160;&#160;Her&#160;voice is very...classy, and seems almost old fashioned.&#160; Favorite songs by her at the moment are Sampson, Us, and My&#160;Dear&#160;Acquaintance (the last of which is, I believe, a cover of a song from the forties, but still is very pretty.) Spektor is very non-rock, non-modern, but still pretty freaking awesome.</p>
<p>9. Disagreement.&#160; Trey, you and I, as the co-writers of SockMonkeySlippers, are not forming a united front on many issues.&#160; &#160;We don&#39;t agree on presidential candidates.&#160; We don&#39;t agree on music.&#160; We don&#39;t agree on Britney Spears, and how completely useless she is.&#160; We don&#39;t agree on movies (Titanic). We don&#39;t agree on the issue of skirts.</p>
<p>I feel like we should agree on some things.&#160; So, I am proposing several issues.&#160; If we disagree, it&#39;ll make for good conversation.&#160; If we agree, then we&#39;ll finally agree on some things.</p>
<p>(Feel free to just copy and paste this form:)</p>
<p>A. Is James Marsden gorgeous? Gracey says: Yes. Trey says:</p>
<p>B. Mayo or Miracle Whip? Gracey says: Neither.&#160; Oh, I have to pick one? Mayo, then. Trey says:</p>
<p>C. Ketchup or Mustard? Gracey says: Mustard.&#160; But why are these questions all food related? Trey says:</p>
<p>D. Converse or Vans? Gracey says: Converse. Trey says:</p>
<p>E. Mr. Darcy or Mr. Rochester? Gracey says: MR DARCY! Trey says: </p>
<p>F. Seven or Eleven? Gracey says: Seven. Duh. Trey says:</p>
<p>G. Cell phone or AIM? Gracey says: AIM. You know why/who. Trey says:</p>
<p>H. Painted nails or no? Gracey says: Eep. No, I guess. Trey says:</p>
<p>J. American Pie or Ghost? Gracey says: Well, if you were tying me down and propping my eyes open with splinters like the way they did in the Odyssey (which is the only way I&#39;d watch either) I suppose American Pie, but whoever made these questions (:cough:gracey:cough:) picked really, REALLY crappy movies.&#160; Trey says:</p>
<p>K. Facebook or MySpace? Gracey says: Facebook, hands down. Trey says:</p>
<p>L. Unicorns or Leprechauns? Gracey says: Now, if I were a six year old girl with a rainbow fetish, I would definiltely pick unicorns.&#160; And, if&#160;I were creepy, I would definiltely pick leprchauns.&#160; However, I am neither (well, I suppose the latter is debatable).&#160; I mean,&#160;leprechauns are nasty and skanky and&#160;devious, and unicorns can&#39;t be beat for sheer so-freaking-frighteningly-cheeful-ness.&#160; However, leprechauns are genuinely frightening, and unicorns are only too fucking cheerful creepy, so unicorns.&#160; Trey says:</p>
<p>I invite you to note that in this twelve-centric post, there were twelve things for us to agree/disagree on.</p>
<p>10. Glasses.&#160; It has been pointed out to me that I sort of hide behind my glasses.&#160; However, I sort of see them as a tool; they hide unsightly blemishes, protect somewhat my eyes when I almost jab them with things, and I think they look nice.&#160; Opinions?</p>
<p>11. David Levithan.&#160; So, you&#39;ve been reading his books.&#160; Any readers read things by him?&#160; Anyway, Trey, you definitely need to get your hands on a copy of Nick and Norah&#39;s Infinite Playlist.&#160;But,&#160;instead of jumping into that, I&#160;want to know what you thought of&#160;what you&#39;ve read so far.</p>
<p>ONE MORE.</p>
<p>:thinks:</p>
<p>:thinks:</p>
<p>:sits in The Thinker pose:</p>
<p>:thinks some more:</p>
<p>AHA!</p>
<p>12. THE HEAVENS ARE TELLING.&#160; The&#160;Heavens are Telling the Glory of God, m&#39;boy.&#160; Since I just spent&#160;half my life writing this iperlong post, I&#160;feel like I get to issue a challenge, but it&#39;s not a&#160;REAL challenge in that it&#39;s neither embarassing nor difficult.&#160; Also, I think you might like it.&#160; I challenge you to find me a link/file of that song, with all those middle school memories.&#160; Post it here.&#160; Then, we can all delight in it.</p>
<p>:pants and wipes brow:</p>
<p>Well, there&#39;s my twelve parts.&#160; Keep in mind that when I was writing that title, I just randomly pulled the number twelve out of my head, and then wrote the post to accomidate it.&#160; There&#39;re gonna be a lot of tags for this one.</p>
<p>&#160;</p>
<p>Love,</p>
<p>Gracey</p>
        
    
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