“Quite well, thank you. Are you asking because of recent events? You are making the mistake of seeing time as linear. The brilliant American author Kurt Vonnegut, he’ll tell you that if you imagine reality as experienced simultaneously, events become redundant.”
This is what Russell Brand had to say when he was asked how he was doing this past weekend.
You know, something about a lot of European folks: they’ve still got some manners left after all these years. And that’s not to say that Americans don’t, because that’s just not generally true, but if an American actor (even an American actor like the revered Ryan Gosling) said something like this in response to a paparazzi’s question, they’d be considered pretentious, vague, and annoying. When it comes from the mouth of someone with a refined accent (and not a chewy US East Coast accent), it’s seen as so much more tolerable. Seriously, as much as I’m not a huge Russell Brand fan, he’s looking better and better as the days go by.
Like I said last week.
And the week before, too.
Also, I love that he’s been educated enough to have read Kurt Vonnegut and is able to correlate ideas from literature and apply their basis in day-to-day events. I mean, that kind of stuff’s probably way over Katy Perry’s reading level. I’ll bet she stopped at Are You There God, It’s Me, Margaret or at the very least, Twilight.
Lastly, Evil Beet’s now on Pinterest! If you don’t know what it is, it’s kind of like Facebook, just without all of the annoying people who feel the need to update you on every bodily function that they engage in or do their best in trying offend everyone with their weirdo BS and only end up being looked at with piteous contempt. There’s also more cool stuff to look at than just I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER. And since it’s sort of all about sharing cool stuff, we thought, ‘Hey, why not. If we’re going to do this thing, we may as well do it right,’ huh?
Check us out and if you’re not already hooked up, request an invite straight through Pinterest and get on the cool kid bus.
Refined accent?! Are you joking?
Brits are people, too. They are refined, crass, educated, ignorant, brilliant, stupid. North America in general needs to get over its Brit-boner. It only makes us look pathetic.
Also, if your friends are talking about bodily functions on Facebook, you just unfriend them. Done and done.
The only boner I have is for people (regardless of their geographical location) who speak proper English. And have generally decent manners. HAWT. ;)
That’s not how it reads.
Good thing I clarified then, huh? :)
Why thank you, I hope one day when I visit your fine country I will be treated wonderfully because of my British accent.
Ryan Gosling is NOT an American actor!
Word. Good call. I knew that, don’t know how it slipped past me. D’oh.
kb, you beat me to it. My sweet little Gosling is Canadian :)
If he’s using Vonnegut’s sci-fi philosophy as a shield to hide behind, he must not be coping well.