House of Eratosthenes

Not too much attention being paid these days by the ladies, in these not-quite-so-delicate matters of how to be a good girlfriend. Things do seem to be improving there slightly, I think…but it’s tough for me to tell because I’ve got the best girlfriend of all. So for me it’s like trying to look at the stars in the sky while standing under a very bright light.

Sloane Peterson Whatever the situation, I thought I’d help the improvement along, because this is a great post and it deserves linkage (and she, in turn, found it over here). And I think I found some new blogroll entries as well:

THE GUIDE TO BEING SO CHOICE:

How Sloane Peterson from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off Taught me how to be an Awesome Girlfriend.

• Get along with his friends if you don’t get along with his friends you are done. seriously. That is number 1. Even if you think his friends are uptight weirdos or hypochondriac freaks, HEY, he is friends with them for a reason, so cut the shit. You’ve probably got some weird and crappy friends too.
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• Pack lightly ever notice how tiny Sloane’s purse was? The bigger the purse, the lamer the girl. Its called baggage for a reason.

Kind of funny that this weekend just past was our “Ferris Bueller” weekend. I haven’t even sent the disc back, it’s sitting right there on top of the red envelope under the teevee staring me in the face.

I have mixed emotions about this one. On the one hand, Ferris is so clearly headed for a future of being a welfare bum…but you can’t bet any real money on that, can you. After all, he is a smart kid surrounded by stupid grownups, recognizing the futility of a mediocre school curriculum churning out mediocre graduates by going through the motions. He’s taking the bull by the horns. But of course, he could be taking the bull by the horns doing something productive and not quite so fun to watch. This is, after all, the kid from War Games.

In the end, Ferris lands on the “approve” side of my fence because of his sister. It’s a movie not quite so much about the things we do, as about the emotional reaction we have to the ideas of doing those things…and through the high-strung sister, the film recognizes my conflict and addresses it head-on:

“I hate him.” It is the hate that comes from doubt. It is hate felt by those who “know” they’re doing the right thing by preserving order, even when that order leaves dimwits in charge…but aren’t completely sure that this is the right thing. They know they’ve been given a choice of rejecting rebellion versus rejecting incompetence, and have chosen to tolerate incompetence.

It’s a delightful movie and a true piece of 80’s nostalgia, but let’s see. He goes truant from a public school, plus entices two other students to do the same after lying to the school administration to pull it off. He lies to his parents about being sick. He takes his friend’s dad’s porsche without permission – technically that’s grand theft auto right there. Then he misrepresents his identity to get into a fancy downtown Chicago restaurant. And the movie isn’t even over by this point.

To tell you the truth Morgan, I’ve never done anything with this movie except sit there and watch it, and enjoy his hijinks, or the way he shows up the principal to be a fool and a jerk. But now that I think about it…

Yeah, Sloan is hot. Too bad the girl writing all this wisdom for us, seems to have a third-grade command of the English language. I had a hard time even parsing her “advice.”
- cylarz | 09/29/2009 @ 12:24
Agreed. But Hillary Clinton’s command of the language leaves very little to be desired; who would you rather have as a girlfriend, our current Secretary of State, or an incomprehensible zero-glot who was at least making an attempt to follow the Tao of Sloane?
- mkfreeberg | 09/29/2009 @ 12:36
Point made. In fact, it’s an example I wish my own girlfriend would follow more closely.
- cylarz | 09/29/2009 @ 12:39
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