I wrote a while ago about why I didn’t see the need for marriage. I don’t think, like some, that marriage is an expression of “doth protest too much” insecurity, but I also don’t see the need for marriage. I have a bunch of reasons, but the one relevant to this post is the sterility of marriage. We do the same things our parents did, because that’s what their parents did and so on. Most weddings aren’t expressions of love because there’s nothing about them that expresses that love except ritualistic ceremony and attendance.

But this video I came across today offers a counter argument to that. I’m still against marriage in general, but this video has given me an example of a wedding I wouldn’t mind having. Weddings can be whatever you want them to be, because we’re the grownups now:

I could write something here about how great the songs were or how Hinton Battle, who choeregraphed and starred in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer musical episode, choerographed it, or how the blood splattering over the audience was awesome, or how the show both honoured and poked fun at the original Evil Dead series, or how the tickets were only twenty bucks but that would only waste precious time you should be spending getting tickets. Go now.

Well over the years I’ve spent a great deal of time trying to solve the Rubik’s Cube. At first I was satisfied with solving only one face; anything more seemed excessively complex and I didn’t want to dedicate the mental effort of planning the whole procedure out. Over time the sheer challenge forced me to continue my efforts. I didn’t get very far after that simply because I neither was willing to put the effort in or willing to find out if the effort would be worth it (that is, if I could actually manage to solve it on my own). So I began browsing Rubik’s Cube solving sites, which are a fantastic resource if you’re looking into the problem. I initially expected to find a rote technique which I could follow mindlessly to make myself feel smart. Now I know that, while there is a great deal of memorization involved, strategy still weighs heavily on the mind. Obviously, the longer you work on Cubing the better you will get and the more mechanical the movements will become, but the root of that knowledge lies inside actual deductive capabilities. Long story short, I just finished solving my first Rubik’s Cube. It took a little while and the final steps contained complicated movement sequences which I had to follow very very slowly but it is done. Now to get obscenely good at it and impress no-one seeing as there are dozens of websites which provide all the information you need to solve Cubes.