So I was just about to go on to Wikipedia there to look up Ryan Goslings’ filmography. I’m trying to work my way through his back catalogue, decide if I fancy him or not (I think I do).
So that was fine, except then wikipedia was all:
But.... No....
Blacking out Wikipedia? For 24 hours? But… I have so many questions…
I tried to “Learn more” but then it was really long and boring and all about legislation and crap I don’t really care about so I gave up.
I knew that I shouldn’t panic. “You can just use IMDb to get Ryan Gosling’s filmography.” I told myself. I’d be horrid resourceful like that. So I went to IMDb… ‘All Good Things’ (2010), okay, that might work for my next choice. Who else is in it? Kirsten Dunst. Kirsten Dunst still gets work?! Well good for her. She looks pretty haggard these days I thought, but no, good for her. She tries. But I wonder who she’s dating these days. Last I heard it was yer man from Razorlight (with the face… Johnny Borrell!). Aaaaand BOOM! I’m in a question trap! Wikipedia would usually tell me these things. I don’t have time to traipse all over google trying to find out who Kirsten Dunst is dating! I’m not that interested. My curiosity has a two click limit.
So then I got to thinking about how much I actually use Wikipedia. It was pretty eye opening. That is to say, it opened my eyes to all the ABSOLUTE NONSENSE I try to find out about. I made a list of some of the highlights of my Wiki travels. Then I got embarrassed about it. But then I thought, “You’re the only one who knows about this. You can’t be embarrassed.” So, for no other reason than to justify my shame, Imma go ahead and share the list with you. These are all things I legit looked up on wikipedia for one reason or another within the past month:
- Meet The Parents (One of my all-time favourite movies, no joke!)
- Eddie Murphy (I wanted to find out if he was still disowning Mel B’s baby)
- Pixar
- MoneyBART (Simpsons episode)
- Mongolia, which led me to Ulan Bator, which led me to Chinggis Khaan Airport, which led me to MIAT Mongolian Airlines (I had watched a TV show where they were in Mongolia)
- Street Art
- Compton, California – Crenshaw, California (I’d been watching Spike Lee movies)
- Staffordshire Bull Terrier
- Fugu (I can’t even pretend to have a proper reason for looking this up)
- Christmas Albums By Year
- Kevin Costner
- Afghanistan
- Academy Award For Best Feature
- Walt Disney Parks and Resorts (I was tryna find out how you can get a job as a Disney princess)
- Zooey Deschanel
- List of the Big Bang Theory Characters – Jim Parsons
- ZipRealty (I was probably pretending I was a millionaire and looking for real estate in the US)
- Michael Alig
- Uncontacted Peoples – Kombai – Sentinalese People – Autonomous Regions of India
- Harvey Keitel
- Bananas (Just how nutritious are they?)
- Human Penis Size (Okay, hear me out… My friend and I were talking about whether or not dwarves have regular penises or dwarf penises – they have regular ones, thank you Wikipedia)
- Recursion
- Tumblr – David Karp
- List of Medieval Weapons – List of Premodern Combat Weapons – Personal Weapon – Sword (I was thinking about getting beat up and I figured it’d be much better to get beat up nowadays than it would have been way back when, what with weapon and law evolution and that. Like, it’d be shit to die by the sword! I’d much rather get shot (DON’TANYBODYSHOOTME!!!)).
- The Mexican
- Air France Flight 4590 (Were any celebrities onboard? … No, thank god/damn!)
- Morphology (I have no idea what morphology is but it’s in my browsing history)
- Edwards Air Force Base (Do fighter squadrons operate out of Edwards? I can’t remember the answer… Prolly not.)
- Orchidaceae (I’d watched ‘Adaptation’)
- Milton, Massachusetts (I pretty much yearn to live in suburban America)
- Kelly Clarkson
- 2006 New York City Plane Crash – Cory Lidle – 2009 Hudson River Mid-Air Collision
- Beaver Falls (TV Series)
- 2010 Haiti Earthquake
- Low-Cost Carriers – Lauda Air – Jet Blue – Virgin Atlantic Airways – American Airlines – Air Canada – Al Nippon Airways – Emirates
- Aurora Borealis
- David Letterman – Jay Leno – Jimmy Kimmel – Sarah Silverman
- David Grant USAF Medical Center (No idea why…)
- Carrot (Do they really help you see in the dark? And just why do horses love them so much?)
- List of Fictional Mice or Rats (I got a mouse-themed Christmas decoration and wanted to give the included mice iconic names… I went for Fievel and Tanya Mousekewitz in the end).
- Keypoint, New Jersey (Again, dreaming the suburban dream)
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