planet pooks

Attn: New Yorker

pooks — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:27:43 +0000

This is satire.

(read more here)

(and if you don’t know what I’m talking about, scroll to bottom of article linked above)

Friendly Americans in London

pooks — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:14:09 +0000

How can people do anything but love us, when we are such ambassadors of friendship?

(Snerk.)

My Personality Defect

pooks — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:07:38 +0000

My result for The Personality Defect Test…

Hippie

You are 14% Rational, 57% Extroverted, 29% Brutal, and 43% Arrogant.

You are the Hippie! Characterized by a strong sense of extroversion, irrationality, gentleness, humility, and a faint scent of marijuana, you no doubt frolic through fields preaching peace and free love! Immediately following that, you then frolic to the hospital with herpes! You are probably either very spiritual or needlessly paranoid about “the man”, like most hippies, as a result of your focus on intuition and feelings over cold, brutal logic. You probably enjoy poetry, especially beatnik ultra-liberal crap about how horrible fascism is, even though your suburbanized, sheltered idea of “fascism” is having to pay two dollars per gallon at the gas pump. You are also very, very social. And like any hippie who would have no qualms about hitchiking across the country just to meet some interesting people, you also love to interact with others, even complete strangers. Though I highly doubt they love to interact with you! Because we know most any hippie is peace-loving and humble, it stands to reason that you, as well, are terribly gentle and humble, almost to the point of revulsion. Your carefree attitude of peace and harmony is probably very, very sickening to realists or cynics or anyone who isn’t a hippie, to tell the truth. In short, your personality is defective because you are overly emotional, extroverted, gentle, and humble–thus making you an annoying hippie. Now go do your drugs and have sex with filthy bearded men in tye dye shirts.To put it less negatively:

1. You are more INTUITIVE than rational.

2. You are more EXTROVERTED than introverted.

3. You are more GENTLE than brutal.

4. You are more HUMBLE than arrogant.

Compatibility:

Your exact opposite is the Sociopath.

Other personalities you would probably get along with are the Hand-Raiser, the Televangelist, and the Robot.

If you scored near fifty percent for a certain trait (42%-58%), you could very well go either way. For example, someone with 42% Extroversion is slightly leaning towards being an introvert, but is close enough to being an extrovert to be classified that way as well. Below is a list of the other personality types so that you can determine which other possible categories you may fill if you scored near fifty percent for certain traits.

Take The Personality Defect Test at HelloQuizzy

(Sniff. They say it like this is a bad thing.)

omfg

pooks — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 21:05:11 +0000

I am so freaking glad I’m not writing romance novels today.

I haven’t looked at one in years and had no idea what the covers were looking like. Thing is, some of these are simply ugly, but the bare skin ones?

Horrors.

Entertainment Weekly’s top movies of the last 25 years.

pooks — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 23:47:01 +0000

Entertainment Weekly’s list of the top movies of the last 25 years.

Bold the ones you have seen.
Put an asterisk after the movie title* if you really liked it.
Cross it out if you saw a film and really disliked it.
Underline the ones you own.

1. Pulp Fiction (1994)*
2. The Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001-03)*
3. Titanic (1997)*
4. Blue Velvet (1986)*
5. Toy Story (1995)
6. Saving Private Ryan (1998)*
7. Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)*
8. The Silence of the Lambs (1991) *
9. Die Hard (1988)*
10. Moulin Rouge (2001) *
11. This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
12. The Matrix (1999)
13. GoodFellas (1990)
14. Crumb (1995)
15. Edward Scissorhands (1990)*
16. Boogie Nights (1997)
17. Jerry Maguire (1996) *
18. Do the Right Thing (1989)*
19. Casino Royale (2006)
20. The Lion King (1994)
21. Schindler’s List (1993)*
22. Rushmore (199
23. Memento (2001)*
24. A Room With a View (1986)
25. Shrek (2001)*
26. Hoop Dreams (1994)*
27. Aliens (1986)
28. Wings of Desire (198
29. The Bourne Supremacy (2004)*
30. When Harry Met Sally (1989)*
31. Brokeback Mountain (2005)*
32. Fight Club (1999)*
33. The Breakfast Club (1985)*
34. Fargo (1996)*
35. The Incredibles (2004)
36. Spider-Man 2 (2004)
37. Pretty Woman (1990) *
38. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)*
39. The Sixth Sense (1999)*
40. Speed (1994) *
41. Dazed and Confused (1993)*
42. Clueless (1995) *
43. Gladiator (2000)
44. The Player (1992)*
45. Rain Man (198 *
46. Children of Men (2006)
47. Men in Black (1997)*
48. Scarface (1983)
49. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
50. The Piano (1993)*
51. There Will Be Blood (2007)
52. The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad (1988)*
53. The Truman Show (199
54. Fatal Attraction (1987)*
55. Risky Business (1983)*
56. The Lives of Others (2006)
57. There’s Something About Mary (199
58. Ghostbusters (1984) *
59. L.A. Confidential (1997)*
60. Scream (1996)
61. Beverly Hills Cop (1984)*
62. sex, lies and videotape (1989)*
63. Big (198 *
64. No Country For Old Men (2007)
65. Dirty Dancing (1987)*
66. Natural Born Killers (1994)
67. Donnie Brasco (1997)
68. Witness (1985) *
69. All About My Mother (1999)
70. Broadcast News (1987)*
71. Unforgiven (1992)*
72. Thelma & Louise (1991)*
73. Office Space (1999)
74. Drugstore Cowboy (1989)
75. Out of Africa (1985)*
76. The Departed (2006)
77. Sid and Nancy (1986)
78. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)*
79. Waiting for Guffman (1996)*
80. Michael Clayton (2007)
81. Moonstruck (1987) *
82. Lost in Translation (2003)*
83. Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn (1987) *
84. Sideways (2004)
85. The 40 Year-Old Virgin (2005)*
86. Y Tu Mamá También (2002)
87. Swingers (1996)
88. Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997)
89. Breaking the Waves (1996)
90. Napoleon Dynamite (2004) *
91. Back to the Future (1985) *
92. Menace II Society (1993)
93. Ed Wood (1994) *
94. Full Metal Jacket (1987)
95. In the Mood for Love (2001)
96. Far From Heaven (2002)
97. Glory (1989)*
98. The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)
99. The Blair Witch Project (1999)
100. South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut (1999)*

I’m not sure what my choices say about me. I do think the fact that I’ve seen quite a few means I’m pretty mainstream in my tastes, though.

Whippersnapper!

pooks — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 00:15:50 +0000

Forty-one years old, a mom–and a national champion swimmer on her way to the Olympics again.

How about that Dara Torres?

“Well, observe me if you will–”

pooks — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:48:17 +0000

“I’m Professor Harold Hill.”

Which means it must be the Fourth of July on planetpooks.

Said it before and will say it again, the perfect July 4th for me is The Music Man, 1776 and Independence Day.

Happy 4th!

Damn, I love iTunes.

pooks — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 21:35:01 +0000

I realize that is neither profound nor timely, considering iTunes is hardly cutting edge technology.

But as I was driving today and listening to the local classical music station (WRR–the first radio station in the Great State of Texas), and as I heard the perfect mood music for a scene/chapter I’m writing, I gave a happy sigh because I knew all I had to do is go download it, and then I’d be set.

The music in question? Night on Bald Mountain

Not to be rude or anything, but this guy really does look like the kind of guy you would expect to write Night on Bald Mountain, doesn’t he?

Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky (1839 - 1891)

What music have you written to lately?

I love robot space monkey.

pooks — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 22:48:46 +0000

From here.

Where’s Matt?

pooks — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:03:35 +0000

I love this. For best results, click on the image and go to the youtube site and choose high quality.