Why People Should Give A Shit.

The other night a friend of mine said something rather inappropriate to someone else over dinner. It was a bit out of left field, a bit vulgar, but all in all the term I would use to describe it is “inappropriate”.

I decided to confront this person privately and remind them that “Yo, you can’t just blurt crazy things like that out.” To which this person replied with the eight words that have protected acts of ignorance acts for so long.

“Well I don’t give a shit what people think!”

The problem with that statement, is that it doesn’t absolve you from being an asshole. Sure, if some one says “Well Jorge’s shirt is ugly.” Then I can rehtort with “Well I don’t give a shit about what they think.” But if I am in court charged with murder, and the judge asks me why I killed the guy, he won’t let me off the hook just because of my blatent disregard for people’s thoughts and feelings.

You see, not giving a shit is not some sort of blanket statement to justify whatever action you deemed appropriate. You can’t just offend someone and say you don’t give a shit about what they think, thats just not cool. Sure the person who keeps this in their armory of responses will argue that they go against the norm. Well, there’s being different and going against the norm, and there’s being an asshole.

Don’t be an asshole.

Consider this a The Jorge Zone public service announcement.

Google Image Search is a Powerful Tool

Where else can you google “Cheetos Cat Commercial” and find a girl in a bath tub full of puffy cheetos…

I am at a loss for words. I have a lot of unanswered questions now…

Anyway, have a great week. Got some cool stuff coming up. Stay tuned…

My Inner Thoughts While Dancing at a Night Club

I hate nightclubs, so most of the time when I am there, I usually let my mind wander as I explore a bit and do some people watching…

You know the next time a girl gives me some feminist rant about how men make more money that she does I am going to remind her she doesn’t have to pay twenty dollars cover to get in to a night club. I should be able to get in free at nightclubs, I’m cool. 

Man this music sucks. And why are there so many damn sirens? What do you do during a siren? You can’t dance to the siren, you can’t have a conversation during the siren. So do I just stand here? Oh okay, siren’s over. Wow that girl is hot…ah but her friend isn’t. Oh crap, here comes the weird shot girl…

Shot Girl: Hey you want a shot?!
Jorge: Nah, I’m good thanks!
Shot Girl: Why not?!
Jorge: Well, I don’t make it a habit of drinking stuff that comes out of a test tube in the middle of a nightclub!
Shot Girl: ::confused look:: Um…okay!?

Later on that evening…

Aw they are kicking the ugly girl off of the dance platform, that sucks. Is she crying? Somebody should tell her that life isn’t all about dancing up by the speaker. I don’t think that’s worth crying for. Let me go check my phone, it’s 2 A.M. and my mom probably has an Amber Alert out on me. Hey look it’s Jordan…

Jordan: Man there are more dudes than chicks out there…it’s a sausagefest!
Jorge: Bro tell me about it! Did you see the girl who got kicked off the dancing thing by the speaker!? She was crying!
Jordan: Which one the ugly one!? Yeah well what do you expect?! I mean that sucks but she has to understand that there are certain requirements you need to have to dance there!
Jorge: Yeah I guess you make a good point! 
Jordan: Man I haven’t eaten anything, I’m tired, I’m cranky, I’m pissed…this shit sucks!
Jorge: WHAT?!
Jordan: THIS SHIT SUCKS! This is proof that if you aren’t drunk in a nightclub you don’t have a good time. Like why bother coming if you aren’t gonna drink?
Jorge: Can you believe some midget asked these girls if they wanted to be in a porno upstairs?!
Jordan: Dude that is nuts, society is going to hell!
Jorge: WHAT?!
Jordan: SOCIETY IS GOING TO HELL!

I bet midget porn stars make good money…it has to be a niche market. Oh God, here comes another shot girl…

Shot Girl #2: Hey, you want a shot?!
Jorge: No, I am fine thanks!
Shot Girl #2: Aw come on why not?!
Jorge: No I can’t actually I have two surgeries scheduled in the morning!
Shot Girl #2: You’re a doctor?!
Jorge: Not quite, I am a cardiovascular veterinarian!
Shot Girl #2: Woooow thats sooo cool. Good luck tomorrow!
Jorge: Yeah thanks, good luck ummm selling shots?!

Later on that evening, dancing in the salsa room…

Man the Chargers rocked the Colts tonight, I love when games go to OT. Man, I think Jen is a bit drunk…

Jorge: Jen are you drunk?!
Jen: WOOOOOOOOOHOOOO!!!

Yep Jen is smashed. I think I am going to watch Wall-E when I get home, I love that damn robot. Whoa! Did somebody just grab my ass? I have been groped a few times in here already. Everyone is shoving everyone around, this is chaos. You know next time we are going to Bongos…at least it’s better there for latin music. Hey here comes Juan & Joey…

Juan: Dude next time we are going to Bongos, this place sucks for salsa!
Jorge: I was just thinking the same thing!
Joel: Bro, you want to go home? I am tired and this place kind of blows.
Jorge: Agreed. Lets get out of here.

Man I’m hungry…I want some freedom toast. My ears are ringing big time, I feel like I took a grenade in Call of Duty 4. Wow that girl is really hot. Is that a forty ounce beer in her hand? Damn she doesn’t mess around.

So there you have it…thats what goes through my mind in a night club.

Annoyed.

I am really annoyed at something I have no control over today. I feel powerless. I can’t stop it, I definitely can’t make it go away (cause it won’t). It continues to linger, persistently. Just when I think it’s all said and done, it comes back. 

So I officially surrender.

All I can do is continue to be annoyed by this. And I am bored of being annoyed. So it ends here. I have already spoken my peace about it and I refuse to speak about it anymore. Do I consider it a mistake on my part to have ever pursued this in the first place? The more the days go by the more I am convinced it was. But that is neither here nor there. Being annoyed leads to being angry, and being angry only affects me. So it’s over. However this plays out, is how it plays out. I won’t sweat it, or worry about it. I…am not annoyed. Woosa.

Thank you for letting me vent while still keep the situation I am venting about in anonymity.

August 5th 2008: The Most Boring Day Ever

Today is one of those just nationally boring days. Where the nation units to be bored together as a people. I am epically bored today. Nothing really interesting to write about. Nothing too important going on. It’s quiet more or less everywhere you go. Even the press is bored today and the proof is on the homepage. CNN is the most bored of all, with headlines like:

More than 100,000 rare gorillas found in Congo
They found Gorillas in the jungle…get out of town.

Man calls 911 over sandwich
This is epic.

Mountain Lion That Snatched Dog Killed
Wow…

So yeah, let me get back to being bored. Peace Out!

Well…

Tonight’s plan was to take a shower, cook dinner, and write an empowering, fiery blog about how ignorant it is to compare presidential candidates to Adolf Hitler (something that has been occurring around me very frequently this week). Well all of that changed when I slipped and fell getting out of the shower. What is a notorious mishap for elderly people has occurred to a 22 year old college student. I can barely move now. So yeah, blog(s) coming soon. In the mean time I am going to ice down my entire left side and watch Generation Kill. Peace Out.

"The Look"

So I just get to the beach (as you can tell this is a blog spin off) with my friend. So we are walking to the area of the beach where there is, you know sand and stuff when we notice two girls walking by. They were both pretty cute but one of them did something that we will never forget. She looks at us, pulls down her sunglasses, as if she is like in complete disbelief, and then gives us the weirdest look I, in my 22 years of life, have ever seen. It was like we were aliens from another planet. It was like a mixture of shock, disbelief, and horror. I mean, I’d like to think I am an attractive guy, but what was that? That look had us thinking the entire time. I almost couldn’t enjoy myself. Every now and then we would stop talking about whatever it was that we were talking about and look at each other and remember “The Look”. Some questions aren’t meant to be answered. And this is one of them.

Oldie But Goldie: Lessons Learned…

I found this posted on my MySpace. I had just ended a very brief yet horrible relationship, and this is basically a summary of all the lessons I have learned in the brief time since I turned 21. Stuff I learned from personal experience, and some that I learned through the eyes of others.When I wrote it, I was listening to “Easy Tiger” by Ryan Adams. That album is just as awesome then as it is now. Enjoy…

The best way to learn is through experience. And it’s those experiences that in the end make us better, whether the out come was good or bad. In the short couple of months since I turned 21, I have learned a lot of things. Some times I learned the easy way, and sometimes, the very, very hard way. I knew I would eventually learn these things, it never dawned upon me that I would learn them so soon, but God likes to teach us things on His own time, not on mine. And at the very least I find it comforting, because if it were up to me to learn everything on my own time table, I never would. Sometimes you learn through your own experiences, and sometimes it’s through the eyes of another. But you still learn it. And in the end, regardless of outcome, you are grateful for the lesson.

 

• Decisions are hard. No matter what you are trying to decide between they can get difficult. You’ll make some good ones and you’ll make some bad ones. But when you make the bad ones, take responsibility for it and try to never do it again. Dwell on it for the purpose of reminding yourself that you should probably never do that again and move on.
• If a person likes you, they won’t try to change you. And if all the little things become big issues, move on. Cause that means that person can’t see past the little things (for one reason or another) and as a result, won’t be able to see the bigger picture. 
• Don’t be a push over. Stand your ground. If the other person can’t see logic and reason when it comes to something simple, then they are never going to see it. Life is too damn short to be dealing with drama and insecurities. Finding someone who jives with you is hit or miss. And chances are you’ll miss a lot before you hit, so be patient.
• Let people talk crap. Caring about what they say is giving them too much attention. Just be happy when you know good people who know who you really are and how full of it they are. When people talk trash, they end up looking a lot worse than what they are saying about you. If they really knew who you were, then they’d know that what you say isn’t true.  
• Don’t doubt yourself and don’t worry about the future. Success won’t come if you are too busy worrying about where you are going to end up. It’ll come when you trust God with the things you can and can’t control and apply all the energy you use worrying about the future to doing things in the present. Success is in the eye of the beholder. And sometimes it isn’t measured by how much money you may have or how powerful you are.  
• Just as you shouldn’t let people change you, you can’t change other people. No matter how close that person is to you if they are set on decision, nothing will change how they feel. You can lead the horse to water, but you can’t make him drink. Even if you feel a little betrayed because you expected more of them, in the end, if they aren’t willing to fix their mistake, they don’t see it as one. Then what that means is the lesson you are trying to teach them will have to be learned the hard way.
• Something is one thousand times better when you are waiting to have it. Then, once you have it in your hands, you run the risk of something terrible happening. Realizing that it’s not all you thought it was going to be, and what you left behind is actually better. So next time you get all crazy on the hype, take a few steps back, breathe, and analyze the situation. You may be surprised as to what you may find out.
• My friend always says “Surround yourself with good people. Because when you do, good things tend to happen to you.” This statement is completely true and totally speaks for itself.

So, yeah, pretty much the major points of the last 2 months are right here. Can’t wait to see what else is in store.

 

 

 

One More Thing…

I was out and about today and I notice that people are sitting down as the descend on an escalator. Why? I mean your sitting down and then like one minute later you have to get back up again. Ohh and I was thinking, if you don’t get up in time, won’t you get skewered by the metal teeth? If this is the new cool thing to do, I didn’t get the memo. 

BTW, the picture above proves that no matter how obscure your search on Google may be…you will find results. 

 

Friday’s Rock

This is my last Friday before I go back to work. A part of me is sad I won’t be able to sit around all day and watch FOX Business (two words: Shibani Joshi). But a part of me is happy I won’t be able to sit around all day and watch FOX Business. Going back to work is nice too, I mean aside from the money I actually would rather be productive somewhere other than my house. I got a cabin fever that is making me crazy. I am going to go to the Apple Store today and pick up my laptop which is finally back from whatever magical factory Apple send computers to be repaired. I like to think it’s like Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory except you can’t eat anything. BTW I can’t find a good picture for this post…sorry