Planet Crazy: April 2010

Sunday, April 11, 2010

I have a lot of complaints about setting up my blog. Of course, none of them are legitimate. They're little picky things that the average computery person could do quite easily but hey, I'm me and I am quite untalented at those types of things.

I really like pink. That probably makes me An Official Girly Girl but goodness, the colour pink just makes me happy. Yes, for the record I also love Hello Kitty, flowers and carousel horses. Gawd, that just sounds pathetic but it's so true. I'm having issues with the pink templates. One wasn't "me" so we're trying this one. Let's be honest: what I'd really love would be a SMAP template because, and this has been scientifically proven, Kimura-san is the sun and we all revolve around him. Plus, SMAP is one of the few groups for me where all the members get an equal share of love. And, as if this were the least- anything SMAP is next to godliness. You'll find that I talk about SMAP often because they provide a welcome diversion when I get overwhelmed and to the point of tears about everything else in life. I'm an empath so life can get pretty heavy sometimes...

Lest we get bogged down in The Black Zone, on to my second complaint: I don't like any of my pictures. Or perhaps to better phrase, I am not the subject of photography often and when I am it's to take those "candid" shots: mouth hanging open, making goofy faces, asleep in bed. You are either the perpetrator of these kinds of photos or the perpetratee so your opinion of these may be biased. Unless you live alone or with very kind people who always wait for you to look fabulous (or maybe you always look fabulous but then I couldn't imagine you reading this because I assure you we have absolutely NOTHING in common - well, unless you're Kimura-san to whom I'd say- Irasshai, "Hot Stuff"!) before they take your picture. What I'd love is to import my Yahoo avatar because (1) it actually looks rather like me and (2) it looks really cool and is a bit hard to replicate in real life. I just never seem to be standing in a field when a rainbow appears. And if I were, the photographer would wait until I yawned or made a dorky face to take the picture.

So we've established that I'm fickle, possibly perpetually PMS'd and a SMAP addict. Don't expect the template to stay the same but please make yourself welcome. I promise not to re-arrange the furniture too much.

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Heterodoxy in Action

“We have a cultural notion that if children were not engineered, if we did not manipulate them, they would grow up as beasts in the field. This is the wildest fallacy in the world.” ~ Joseph Chilton Pearce

"Children don’t need to be taught how to learn; they are born learners. They come out of the womb interacting with and exploring their surroundings. Babies are active learners, their burning curiosity motivating them to learn how the world works. And if they are given a safe, supportive environment, they will continue to learn hungrily and naturally – in the manner and at the speed that suits them best." ~ Wendy Priesnitz

“Education itself is a putting off, a postponement; we are told to work hard to get good results. Why? So we can get a good job. What is a good job? One that pays well. Oh. And that’s it? All this suffering, merely so that we can earn a lot of money, which, even if we manage it, will not solve our problems anyway? It’s a tragically limited idea of what life is all about.” ~ Tom Hodgkinson

“Nothing enrages me more than when people criticize my criticism of school by telling me that schools are not just places to learn maths and spelling, they are places where children learn a vaguely defined thing called socialization…I think schools generally do an effective and terribly damaging job of teaching children to be infantile, dependent, intellectually dishonest, passive and disrespectful to their own developmental capacities.” ~ Seymour Papert

“Unschoolers could be seen as the messengers of the dysfunctionality of schools and, like all messengers, should not be shot (or regulated).” ~ Wendy Priesnitz

“The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.” ~ H. L. Mencken

More of this goodness can be found here http://www.lifelearningmagazine.com/quotes.htm

Who Populates Planet Crazy?

Nezumi: Kind of like Suzumiya Haruihi but nicer. Don't you believe me?! Loves: family, animals, unschooling, fermented foods, Earth, Tai Chi, Turkish pop, folk & arabesk music, holistic healing, peace, Tao, JE, cookery, wuxia, anime & manga, Buddha. Fave treat: sesame mochi & barley soymilk. Fave JE: SMAP (of course). Fave SMAP: Goro's hair.
Meat: Kind of like Edward Elric only more emo & uptight. Loves: family, online gaming, music (feel his passion for 70's Gold!), Rodney McKay and anything with "Stargate" or "Star Trek" in the title. Fave Treat: nachos with micro-brew root beer. Ice cream. Fave JE: V-6 (although I don't think he can tell any JE apart) Fave SMAP: Kimura Takuya 100% (Nezumi Note: they are both excellent mimics and both hams for attention, that's probably why)
Bu: Kind of like Yagami Light only taller & more determined. Loves: Shining Force, history, military history, architecture, classical music, Invader Zim, people building walls to keep his ancestors out and CHOCOLATE. Fave Treat: CHOCOLATE! Fave JE: SMAP (Why? Hello people: Nakai Nakai Nakai!)
Jane: Kind of like Edward Wong Hau Pepelu Tivrusky IV except...no, pretty much exactly like her. Loves: Animals, violin, Japan, Go, Tw-dramas & J-dramas, herbalism, manhwa, Gackt, λucifer, Fahrenheit, Arashi, learning German & Mandarin, cookery, anime & manga. Extra special joy: kon-katsu with Mom! Fave Treat: Tzaziki & Chips. Fave JE: Who could pick just one?? Although Arashi = love. Fave SMAP: probably Nakai. (yes, we have a lot of Nakai love going on in this family)