Walken reads, Duchovny on X-Files, Don’t Eat That, and we’re not property [I read stuff]

Wherein I read things, laugh [or not], and pass them on to you…

Where the Wild Things Are (as read by Christopher Walken):

David Duchovny: ‘The X-Files made me a better actor’:
David Duchovny has credited starring in The X-Files with helping him become a better actor.

Duchovny, who played Special Agent Mulder on the sci-fi series, commented that he learned a great deal during his nine years on The X-Files.

He explained: “Every day I had to go to work and every day for 14 hours year after year after year. I don’t know if I would’ve made it to this point if I would’ve just gone from movie to movie to movie like a three-month stint here and a three-month stint there.

“It was very good for me and my particular sense of myself or my craft to have to go in every day and do it.”
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[digitalspy.ca/18 jan 2012]

Totally Scentsless:

(Fragrance and Lotion Store | Orlando, FL, USA)

(I work in a store that sells lotions, soaps, and candles with different scents. Recently, one of the companies we carry had a new line of lotion that was named after fruits: strawberry, apple, and banana scented lotion. To promote the new line, we have a few jars of each scent on a table at the front with a tongue depressor in each jar so that customers could easily scoop out a little lotion to try. I’m stocking a shelf when an angry customer walks up.)

Me: “Is there anything I can help you with, sir?”

Customer: “I’m very angry with the product in this store. Are you trying to kill someone?”

Me: “I’m sorry? What’s the problem?”

Customer: “That yogurt you have up front is not even cold, and it tastes horrible.”

Me: “Yogurt? We don’t sell yogurt.”

Customer: “Yes, you do. It’s on the little table up front with a spoon to taste it. The banana tastes like garbage and the strawberry doesn’t have any taste.”

Me: “Sir, those are lotions, not yogurt.”

(The customer gets a little flustered after realizing their mistake.)

Customer: “You should really label it as lotion. It’s confusing!”

Me: “It is labeled. See?”

(I show the customer the huge sign on the table that says “lotion” as well as each individual fragrance saying “lotion” on the jar.)

Customer: *leaves, mumbling*

[Not Always Right]

The anti-choice fight for dog-women:

Yesterday was the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, and while it’s good news that you can still get an abortion in all 50 states in this country (sort of), the fact of the matter is that we’ve lost a lot of ground. Legally, for one thing, but psychologically as well. I examine the problem at RH Reality Check, talking about how people are growing more accustomed to the idea that female sexuality is male property. Depressing stuff, but it’s important to realize that this battle is not and has never been just about abortion. It’s about women’s rights and women’s roles, and whether we should be full citizens or be managed and controlled by fathers, husbands, ministers, etc.

[pandagon.net/Amanda Marcotte]