How's it goin', guys and gals?! *^^*

I've actually got a few proper updates assembled for you all this time 'round, unlike the last few Updates/Blog entries here on mallorymaloney.com ... Which have admittedly been über lacking. >_>; Here's to hoping this week's much improved updateage makes up for that!

My Facts page received a small yet rather monumental update: A new addition to the Favourite Bands/Musical Artists section was added! Now, before you ask why such a seemingly meagre update could be considered monumental, hear this: The newest addition is none other than a post hardcord band known as the Black Veil Brides. If you're already familiar with them, you'll instantly understand the monumentality that is my discovery of their music. If not, then why are you even still living right now? =_=; FFS, man, just go off yourself, because life isn't worth living 'til you've heard the Black Veil Brides! o_o However, if you're keen on giving life a second chance, then click here to check out my favourite song and music video by them on YouTube. ^_~

My Contact page and the FAQ page were both updated to include the link to my 'new' YouTube channel! That's right, 'new', with virtual air quotes surrounding it. o_o Remember last October, when I posted an Updates/Blog entry going on and on about how I deleted my 'mallorymaloney' YouTube account, and how I wanted it back, but I had concluded that you're unable to get a YouTube account back after you delete it ...? Well, guess what? I was wrong. Turns out you can get any account back you want if you yourself have deleted it, simply by filling out the minuscule form located on this page. -_-; I feel like a right retard for not realising this sooner. I'm trying not to focus on it too much though, because after all, I got my beloved mallorymaloney account back --- Which you can check out by clicking here! >w<; ((As for my now old 'maloneymallory' YouTube account, I'm going to be deleting it in the next few weeks, as I hate the fact that my last name's before my first ... And, obviously, I no longer have any use for it.))

The Family's Funny Quotes page was updated with one new quote for your snickeriffic amusement! I would've added more, but for the most part, family's been more less funny and more annoying as of late, so if you wanna slag someone down for lack of new quoteage, it'd be them. -_-;

The Credits page was updated with one new link! This is due to the fact that I installed and customised a WordPress plug in known as Math Comment Spam Protection recently. Er, make that recentlyish. I'm definitely a little late on reporting it, but I wanted to give the plug in a bit of a live test run before I concluded I even wanted to keep it. It seems to be doing the job nicely, though --- That job would be putting a stop to the countless number of spam comments mallorymaloney.com was receiving daily --- So unless I find something better, it'll stay!

My Photographs page was updated with one new photograph of myself that my Dad took of me during our second day in New York City. As you'll see after checking out the shot, both my body language and facial expression are saying something along the lines of: 'WELP, I DUN GOOFED, LAWL!' And seeing this is the last update on the list, let's move onto the blog half of this entry and I'll explain why!

It all started in New York City on 10 November, the day after my Dad and I saw the American Idiot Broadway musical, as I wrote about last week. We had a couple hours to spare before we were to board our train, so we were wandering about trying to find two stores I had wanted to visit --- A Japanese bookstore called Kinokuniya, and a Sanrio Luxe store.

I had written the stores' exact addresses on a scrap of hotel paper, and my Dad was using the GPS function of his iPhone 4 to better locate them, but we were still bumbling about in a unfortunate touristy sort of way, going first one way, then the other, with Dad getting confused as to which way the street numbers ran, and me stopping every twenty seconds to take a photo of a some impressively tall building or another.

After awhile, though, several New York City natives helped us out without us even asking for any assistance, which was both surprisingly and greatly pleasing, after hearing so many 'bad' things about the city prior to visiting. You know, about how everyone who lives there is loud and annoying and pushy and rude and angry --- Which absolutely isn't true!

... Okay, so everyone's loud, and some people were pushy, annoying, angry, and rude, but for the most part, everyone was perfectly pleasant --- Just like any other city in the world!

So we managed to find both stores easily enough after random New Yorkers helping us out just to be kind, but after we finished shopping, ((Or, rather, after I finished shopping. Dad's not really into Hello Kitty or Japanese fashion magazines, LOL,)) We were somewhat lost all over again, and ended up circling around in a wide arc back to our hotel by mistake.

As a result, we kinda ended up walking through a less tourist friendly area to get back where we wanted to be --- That is to say, a bit of a 'rougher' area. I, however, was rather oblivious to this until my Dad pointed it out to me afterward, as I was too busy admiring everything and everyone around me. I was too busy reflecting on the fact that; Holy crap, even the bums look cooler here than in Canada!

Because of this, I was caught off guard when a tall, lean, averagely dressed black guy pushed past me, and, low enough that Dad wouldn't hear him, but loud enough that I clearly would, brazenly drawled: 'You outta place, ho!'

At first, I didn't even register what, exactly, he had said, or even that he was speaking to me. Then, about two full seconds after he pushed past, I suddenly realised, all at once, that a random New Yorker had just totally dissed me --- And I hadn't even registered it fast enough to respond! ((Not that I would have even if I knew exactly WTF was going on --- You can't just tell people to fuck off or flip them the bird outside of your home turf. This is an obvious given.))

As soon as I fully figured this out, I spun around in the direction the guy had went, just in time to see his back disappear into the crowd, his overly casual stride and his carefully slumped shoulders telling me all I needed to know: That he knew he utterly pwned me, and although he may have felt a twinge of guilt for doing it, he was still pretty Goddamn pleased with himself overall.

Hell, even I thought what he said was pretty awesome, 'cause at the time, the only thing I could think was; Oh my God, even the insults are cooler here! Of course, I'll openly admit that I did feel pretty bummed out after it happened, but I will also admit something else: Random, mildly hurtful insults from passing strangers is nothing new.

It happens everywhere I go, due to the fact that I wear 'unordinary' things in perfectly ordinary places, such as giant tutus to the library, cat ears to the pharmacy, army jackets paired with frilly back skirts layered over skinny jeans to the grocery store, and, as was the case on 10 November; Overly glittery rhinestone studded tiaras when visiting New York City.

It's my opinion that the combination of me wearing my tiara, carrying my giant pink Sanrio shopping bag, and constant snapping of photographs with my flashy camera caused the guy to mistakenly believe that I thought myself to be better than everyone else in the city, and decided to comment accordingly as a result.

... Er, that, or he just thought I looked like yet another ridiculous tourist and wanted to call me out on it. >_>;

I didn't mention any of this to my Dad, though, until after we finally began to recognise our surroundings again --- And as soon as I did tell him, he immediately began laughing his ass off, followed by repeatedly insisting on taking a photo of me posing in the aforementioned 'I DUN GOOFED!' sort of way, so we could 'document the event for later lulz'. I agreed, and the result is the photo I uploaded over on my Photographs page! ^^;

Now, as you may have read on my Twitter, I was planning on a second topic for today's Updates/Blog entry --- The happenings which took place whilst seeing part one of Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows last night --- But I noticed that the word count's already up to about one thousand and five hundred, so I think I'll save that story for next week, if you guys don't mind terribly. .-.

Until next Wednesday, darklings! I love you all. ♥