the ethics of blogging

This is the comment i recieved after writing the commentary on the defying gravity lip synching video:

Hi there, this is the he.(she)? in the video Defying Gravity!! Wow...first of
all thanks for writing a blog about me!! that's really cool! Yes some might
say to do it in the privacy of my own home and then burn the tape!! but
life's to short to burn tapes!!! this video goes out to anyone who did the
same thing and was to embarassed...!! Just DO IT! Thanks again for the blog!
and PS...I'm a guy!

um. okay.

Not gonna lie, this took me by surprise. First of all, who knew people could track you down if you take their clip on youtube. i mean, it makes sense, i just never thought of it.

Secondly-- i openly mocked that video calling it "embarassing", "tingly", "a monstrosity", "priceless", "lame", "crazy", and "great fodder for my blog", not to mention my running joke about the ambiguity of his sex: and he doesn't seem to care!

Me, being the kind, good natured boy who believes in the innate goodness of people, felt badly and I took some time to reflect on the ethical questions of having a blog. After those five minutes of deep thought, I came to a few conclusions:

1. my blog is reaching into the deep corners of the cyber-world--well beyond my intended 2 readers (holla at ya Courtney and Beneatha!!!)

2. who am I to openly mock a fellow human being and post it for all the world to see?

3. I shouldn't post any more videos of people singing/dancing/lip synching/doing other things that are funny and embarassing to themselves.

after coming to those conclusions, I then pondered some more:

4. wait a minute--THEY'RE the ones that are putting it up there to share

5. (after re-reading his comment) he's PROUD of his video

re-examining my initial conclusions:

6. yes, my blog still is reaching out to the depths of cyber-space---that conclusion is happily un-changed.

7. who am i to openly mock a fellow human being? Well i was a fat kid who battled the torment of elementary and middle school--so i do have somewhat of a right. but more importantly--i'm NOT mocking. People videotape and post these videos willingingly and are proud of them--so who am I to deny the world of their work?

8. It is the duty of this blog to post more videos of people singing/dancing/lip synching/doing other things that are funny and embarassing to themselves. No more will their hours of preperation, filming and editing go unnoticed.

In conclusion--Josh: I thank you tremendously for finding this blog, and writing your comment! And you keep doin' what you're doin' man! I think we should all heed Josh's advice and "just DO it"--meaning make our own videos and post them on youtube. Seriously--make your own video and i'll put it on this blog and then write about you. who wouldn't want that?

PS. Josh--i apologize for not knowing if you were a boy or girl. i know that pain: one time when i was fat and in need of a haircut, my mom and i went to a chinese restaurant and the waitress asked my mom "is this your daughter?" i tried to awkwardly laugh it off...but i'm pretty sure i cried. in hindsight though, isn't me mistaking you for a girl a compliment? it means that you you were totally transformed in what you were doing. no? i'm an ass? ok.

a short list of things that are pissing me off:

1. the fact that it is a painful 86-unairconditioned-degrees in my office and the simple, non-energy-asserting act of sitting at my desk is making me sweat.

2. in a moment of drunken retardation this weekend, i threw out my last pair of contact lenses.

3. I was really hoping they'd get us Cosi for lunch today at work...but we got pizza. don't get me wrong, it was good pizza and it was free--i was just looking foward to a sandwich.

Defying heterosexuality

ugh. damn you blogger. I wrote a hilarious post...Which to the dismay of me and my readers (all two of them--what up mom and her friend from work!) was erased. So I'll have to rewrite it...it WON'T be as funny though. Really. The other one was insanely funny. I peed twice while writing it.

ANYWAY. In an attempt to find something as embarrassing as the two queens singing wicked in a parking lot--I scoured youtube for something equally tingly (tingly is a word my friend Lindsey introduced me to describing that feeling you get when you're super embarrassed for someone else.) After some time, and some excellent possibilities, I settled on this monstrosity. Granted, it's not AS funny as our two friends who give gays and musical theater a bad name, this is still pretty priceless. I think I blew my comedy wad by posting the other video first, but whatever. This guy (or is it a girl, I'm not really sure) is AMAZING.



Now what gets me in this video, isn't the fact that he (or she?) is so into it he (or she?) actually believes they're on stage at the Gershwin. It's the fact that he (or she?) is SO into it, he (or she?) took the time to pick out a dress in his (her?) mom's closet, find a black wig from the Halloween box in the attic, rummage through all the make up in the house so he (she?) could cover his (her?) face in green eye shadow, and then paint pointy eyebrows (seriously, that's at least a 45 minute make up job). And that was just pre-production. He/She THEN spent at least an hour setting up the camera and making sure the lighting was good. rigging the stereo and cuing the CD to the right spot, followed by a couple good hours of filming. The post production then consisted of choosing the best shots and EDITING them together and synching up the sound. Now that is crazy as it is, but this guy/girl is a professional. for him/her, the plain video will not suffice. No. He/she needs computerized credits introducing him. her.

I am not one to judge. I did some pretty lame things as a kid (including, but not limited to: turning my sun room into a theater by rigging a curtain using fishing line, bed sheets, and duct tape; and dancing to Janet Jackson in my driveway as my mom secretly watched from my bedroom window.) BUT in no way would I EVER videotape this and post it for the whole world to see! C'mon dude, show some class! This is shit you do in the privacy of your own home, when no one is there. if you DO make a video of it, you destroy it. Clearly. ugh. When will these kids learn.

in the meantime I can't really complain, its giving me great fodder for my blog.

i am NOT a barista

i don't get it. we have a nice big coffee machine in our little office-kitchenette that looks to be quite easy-to-use. ("looks to be" being the key phrase in that sentence.) all you have to do is put in a filter, open and pour in a packet of Dunkin' Donuts coffee (conveniently measured to the right amount), place the whosewhatzit back in the machine and click the "brew" button. easy enough, right? well why is it, then, whenever i "brew" the coffee myself it comes out tasting like unshowered ass?! and i mean like EVERY time i make it. what am i doing wrong here?! there is not that much room for error--they designed it to be that way.

jon suggested maybe it is the water that is funky. i disagree. although jon knows his coffee and the mechanics of brewing it, i have a feeling he's trying to comfort me, because it tastes fine whenever someone else makes it--and i've watched them do it too, so i know they're not doing anything different.

granted its not really that big a deal; i don't have any aspirations to work at starbucks or some trendy cafe. but it would just be nice to be able to brew a decent cup of dunkin' donuts bagged coffee that I can be proud of and share with the rest of my co-workers on the 9th floor. but no, i'm not proud. i'm embarrassed. and after i taste my god-awful concauction, i have to run away in fear of people coming after me because they think that instead of brewing coffee, i took a shit in the coffee pot, poured boiling water over it, and stirred it with a spoon...

as if my life wasn't filled with enough rejection, now the god damned coffee machine has to assert its power over me and tell me "NO." fine. i'm ok with that. from here on out i WILL NOT make coffee. if the pot is empty, i will drink tea.

on a happier note--one of my supervisors gave my co-worker and i $10 to go buy candy (my job is really demanding). we spent all $10, clearly, on peanut m&m's, rolos, and the assorment bag of hershy's, krackle and mr. goodbar. Candy is good to me. Candy won't reject me. Candy loves me.

This makes me feel better about myself

This is maybe the most hilariously sad thing i've ever seen. i get sweaty with embarrassment for both of these guys. (ironically enough, i'm more embarrassed for the guy WITHOUT the blonde wig)

this is the blurb he wrote about it:

me and a friend in a random parking lot with a blond wig, broom, and bed
sheet.....yes actually us singing and cracking up....i really am better than in
the video i am singing elphie! hahah oh and fyi this is about 4 days after my
wisdom teeth were taken out and this is NOT how i really sing lol

a blog? really?

So this whole blog is a fluke. all i really wanted to do was comment on carolyn's blog , but in order to do so, it made me start my own. so here we are. but then i thought: "well this will kill some time at work. and i read other people's blogs, so why not have my own." it'll probably last a few days--a week at most--when i realize that writing on this and having no one read it is quite pointless.

until then though: here are some alternate names for my new blog...courtesy of carolyn:

BoyMeetsWorld
Corey'sStory
Kori<3
THE CORE
Core Entertainment
aka Core E
So Now I'm a Blogger and Gay
So No-Corey-Us