This is a blank canvas. Please feel free to post holiday greetings, thoughts about Joan and friends of Joan, and questions.
If you have any questions, ‘Ask Joan’ and I will return and answer it. Questions may include psychoanalysis, relationship theories, environmental philosophising, quandries, and plain silliness (mr joel…).
Mememememe! I just wanted to post something here, ’cause I like this blank canvas idea. :-P
Posted by Vera
Q: What did the Ego say to the Self?
Posted by Beldar
Beldar,
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:)
Posted by joanium
Just wondering if you have read this, and if you believe it to be true ^_^ (the facts in the article I mean)
Posted by Ee Leng
Dear Joan,
The long of it is coming to you via email. (soon, anyway) The short of it is: “Merry Christmas! and I hope you’re having a wonderful holiday. We all miss you, even if ‘we’ don’t actually ‘see’ you that often anyway…”
The very delayed of it should be in your mailbox by now, awaiting your return to Oz.
Tell Jason if he memorised some of the Rhapsodies, he wouldn’t *need* to lug his manuscript everywhere. ;o)
Posted by ftalk
Hey Joan,
It has been great knowing you this year, since the ski trip. Merry Christmas and Have A Happy New Year!
Take Care and Have Fun!
Cya Soon,
With Best Wishes from,
Kolin
Posted by Kolin
Merry Christmas! 🙂
Posted by belle
Merry Christmas from Marseille!
I have a question – how are we to quickly and most easily establish world peace?
Posted by Daniel
Daniel, haven’t you heard! The only way to achieve peace is to let women rule the world. 😉
Posted by belle-t
belle-t, you can’t be serious… that would mean that they would have to come out of the kitchen. Unacceptable.
Posted by Daniel
It’s July in Christmas. It’s freezing today — 18 degrees and raining and hailing. The only clue that it’s summer at all is that it’s not quite pitch black at 9pm.
Brr.
Posted by Vera
…and that our tomatoes are ripening! (I hope they’ve survived the hail.)
Posted by Beldar
Dear Joan,
I’m like, 15 right, and my boyfriend wants me to have sex with him. But I’m all like, I don’t think I’m ready and stuff. But he’s like sooooo cool, he’s like the hottest boy at school and I don’t want him to break up with me and everything. So should I like, have sex with him so that he’ll like me, or should I say no even though he’ll like tell all the guys at school that I’m fridgid and stuff?
Thanks Joan
Posted by Anonymous
Re: Peak Oil: Life After the Oil Crash
Hi Ee Leng,
The end of the world comes down to this question: Are there readily available alternatives for petroleum-based products?
Yes, there are (and he lists them) but unless there is a brilliant breakthrough, they probably won’t be enough to sustain our juggernaut world economy and its current growth rate.
That’s perfectly fine with me. This pursuit of economic growth for growth’s sake makes less and less sense to me so I don’t think scaling down the economy (and accompanying resource extraction, pollution, crowding of streets) is a bad thing. The risk is in the rate at which it occurs. If it’s really a ‘crash’, then people will suffer (ironically, the under-developed countries will probably suffer less than you people reading this on the internet).
I’m essentially an optimistic person. I don’t think there will be a worldwide crash. The oil companies know what reserves are available. They will string us along so that oil goes to its most valued use (metal extraction, medicine etc.). Very soon, plastic bags will be uneconomic, as will be fuel-guzzling SUVs. People will find alternatives. So here’s to hoping for the deflation of the economy at a manageable rate!
P.S. There is a very similar thing happening with water. The problem with the use of water is that unlike oil, there are no ‘water companies’ that receive true signals of the value of water. We get it too cheap! So I believe that we will all die from the lack of drinkable water before any sort of oil crash happens!
Posted by Joanium
Ftalk,
I’m waiting for special touchscreen sheets into which you can insert a memory card full of music. The piece you want will just appear on the screen. Besides not needing to lug around Liszt’s Rhapsodies, we can also get rid of page turners!
Posted by Joanium
Belle-T and Daniel,
The quickest way to establish World Peace is to genetically engineer the human race so that physical attractiveness is positively correlated to goodness. We then have a legitimate reason to chase pretty people because they are actually nice inside. Wouldn’t that be great? How many of us have fallen for the ‘cute guy’ or the ‘hot babe’, only to discover the blackhearted soul of a pirate inside?
Best of all, we could vote for our nation’s leaders through a beauty pageant.
Posted by Joanium
Dear Anonymous 15 y.o.,
Let’s see if we can brainstorm our way to an answer to your dilema.
PROS OF SLEEPING WITH BF
BF stops whining
CONS OF SLEEPING WITH BF
Risk of pregnancy, STD, stuffing up your education and life, getting a reputation as an ‘easy lay’, losing the respect of your peers (and possibly your family)
Ah, such a finely balanced problem! It could go either way.
My final advice would be this: Don’t do it.
Not for your sake, but for your BF’s. Although he is the hottest guy in school, he probably is a terrible lover (being inexperienced, impatient, inconsiderate and all). You would be forced to tell him how terrible he is and this kind of feedback at such a risky age may shatter his self-esteem and scar him for life.
As he moves through life, he is likely to develop anxiety attacks over his sexual performance. This will lead to him responding to spam mail advertising Viagara. As he submits his online payment for the drug that he thinks will make his life better, he will fall victim to credit card fraud and will have to declare bankruptcy by the end of the year. Finding himself friendless and still unable to perform in bed, he may resort to suicide.
So if you truly love your BF, don’t sleep with him, at least not until he grows up enough to develop a conscience to match those pretty locks of his.
Posted by Joanium