Life is beautiful

It's so easy to focus on the negative. My mom and I were talking about how narrow-minded people are, how they make such derogatory, hurtful, and inaccurate comments that insult entire classes of people. That shit's depressing.

But today, I stumbled upon this site, which reminds me that not all people in this world are horrible.

This one made me cry. It's so beautiful! I'm tearing up again.

A week ago, my 17 year old daughter died in a car wreck. The Hindu family that lived on the property let me put up a big wooden cross with her name on it. People care, no matter what their religion.

Lady Gaga's "You and I" analysis

Yay... country pop. So here is a half humorous, half serious explanation to Lady Gaga's latest video, "You and I." For whatever reason, there is an umlaut over the "u." That makes it silly, but whatever.

Okay so she's walking, she's been walking a long way from how her feet look. She arrives at an ice cream truck but she doesn't like vanilla. She wanted chocolate. Vanilla is all they sell because that's what everyone else likes (the ice cream truck is labeled "Follow the Crowd.") They like white and pure ice cream. Purity.

Gaga was once white and pure, like a pretty girl who played with dolls...but then she got married. She managed to escape her insane marriage, and her on the run is where where the MV starts. So after her escape, not only did the ice cream man tell her "no vanilla," he taunted her with her lost innocence by waving a doll at her. This made her experience flashbacks.

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