{"id":1414,"date":"2007-05-23T05:49:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-23T05:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/?p=1414"},"modified":"2007-05-23T05:49:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-23T05:49:00","slug":"current-obsessions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/randomosity\/current-obsessions\/","title":{"rendered":"Current obsessions"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2022 Dried cherries<\/a> from Walgreens. Dear god these things are amazing.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Jezzball<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Grow<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The new Kings of Leon<\/a> album. Finally, I’ve come around to liking it after a month of feeling extremely “meh” about it. And I can pinpoint the exact moment my opinion changed: Mother’s Day, at my aunt and uncle’s cabin, just as a political discussion was getting heated and I realized I couldn’t sit there and not say anything for much longer (I try my best these days to stay out of these discussions because I always end up crying because the people I love hold such awful opinions of their fellow humans of different races and, often, genders), so I grabbed my camera and my iPod and went upstairs to sit alone on the deck. As I settled into the rocking chair, I hit the shuffle button. And “Knocked Up” began, its opening beats steady and quiet, building gradually. I stared out over the river to the opposite bank and watched the wind flirt with the trees. I think the sun winked at me, y’all. The song was the perfect soundtrack to a breezy Sunday spent on a rocking chair on the bank of the river. And after that moment, the rest of the album made complete sense. <\/p>\n

\u2022 Procrastination, which is why I’m making this list. <\/p>\n

\u2022 Relatedly, ambivalence. <\/p>\n

\u2022 lolcats. I know, they’re on the verge of jumping the shark (if they haven’t already<\/a>), but they crack me up so much I just can’t stand it. Lately I’ve been giggling at I Can Has Cheezburger?<\/a> and contemplating the greater cultural significance and grammatical implications<\/a> of cat macros. And you can even make your own<\/a>. I’m itching to break out some homemade ferret macros. Felix was born to be a macro star.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u2022 Dried cherries from Walgreens. Dear god these things are amazing. \u2022 Jezzball. \u2022 Grow. \u2022 The new Kings of Leon album. Finally, I’ve come around to liking it after a month of feeling extremely “meh” about it. And I can pinpoint the exact moment my opinion changed: Mother’s Day, at my aunt and uncle’s cabin, just as a political discussion was getting heated and I realized I couldn’t sit there and not say anything… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[99,68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloggerrhea","category-randomosity"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1jWWl-mO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}