this sounds like fun to me

demand answers from artists!


Radiant Baby composer at NSC next Sunday at 5:15. If I see any of you faceless readers out there, I'll just assume you heard about it someplace else.



Speaking of faceless readers: webpage stats can sometimes tell you more than you wanted to know. How many times did I click over to PFS to check on links and shit? Dunno. Less than that. I think. I'm not too sure though.



Do you know whom I see reading this, Faceless Reader? The Civil War guys from Night at the Museum. I know it's weird, especially considering their lack of eyes, but if you didn't know yet, it's time you knew. I'm kind of strange.



Caught the Hiram Powers exhibit at the Taft. It was great. His faces are so amazingly lifelike, but the eyes are dead empty. Kind of creepy. Those statues might also be readers. There was one smaller room with a lot of busts. I was glad they didn't have legs because I could see them coming alive and hopping after me just as they were. Revenge of the zombie statues. How do you kill marble? Acid rain is awful slow.



Well, nice chatting at you. Feel free to say "Hi" in the comments.

Trans-Justice

Britain's Got Talent. And similar crappy reality shows to us. This group decided to do a take on the Pussy Cat Dolls. ooh, video

The catch is that they're all some manner of trans. (-gender or -vestite) They have good performer names (except for Tony, but that's brilliant in it's own special way) and I'm wicked jealous of Vanilla's sense of irony.

So they have a decent amount of talent for one of these shows and get promoted in the clip. But then they get booted because some of them either are or have been sex workers. I thought the puritans left Britain and came here.

As a trans varietal, your job prospects aren't always that great. But if the side bar ads I see are to be believed, there's a lot of grocery money in sex work for trannies. My hope is that the majority that try this path do not get damaged on it. Either way, assuming the person is also a grown-up and dealing only with adults, I see it as their decision.

I learned about this through this blog, which I've never actually read before. But it was linked from this one, which is one of my favorites.

Speaking varietals, I am a strange manner of fem-nazi it seems. I believe in special privileges. Equal rights are bull shit. Sex can be political, but that doesn't mean I think it should be banned. And, horror of horrors, not all men are evil. Though most have been duped into buying into the system of patriarchy that holds down the little guy, too. Look at Ken Blackwell, waiting to run for Governor until it was his turn. At which point he was so used up there was no way in hell he could win.

Still Creeped Out By The Open Book Thing

Sagittarius Horoscope for week of June 21, 2007

Now that we're almost halfway through 2007, it's time to assess how well you're capitalizing on this year's unique opportunities. So let me ask you a few pointed questions. Have you been reinventing yourself from the ground up at least once a week? Have you been shedding old shticks and learning new tricks? How relentlessly have you committed yourself to the arts of liberation? There's still a lot of time to become even more receptive and responsive to the steady stream of wake-up calls that life is sending your way. For the next six months, you'll have cosmic luck on your side whenever you actively court the fertile blessings of future shock.

www.freewillastrology.com

Still amazes me. Horoscopes are crap. period. Something about this guy, I bought his book. How do they cold read my on the internet? Is it enough I clicked the link? The sign I'm cusping on is also good:

We're almost halfway through 2007. Let's take inventory of how well you're capitalizing on this year's unique opportunities. Are you exorcising the ghosts that have messed with you for so long? Have you been wrapping up all unfinished business and resolving every ambiguous pain-in-the-ass that has sapped your energy? I hope so. By your next birthday, I'm rooting for you to finally graduate from the lessons you've been studying for years. Then you'll be primed and receptive for the fresh teachings that will begin flowing your way in 2008.

Those are my two main projects. The kind of influence each other. One way to re-invent is to let go of old crap. Especially old crap you never needed in the first place.

I like freewillastrology because they are all little poems on living a fulfilling life every week, no lottery numbers necessary.

Not all shits and giggles

So not everything is always happy here. But some people think that's ok. Progress is being made. Baby steps. Here's a video. I'm not where she is, but I'm working on it. I'm not so good at giving stuff away.

Stories behind the vagina stories:
linky linky
Thanks to Feministing for the tip.

Announcement:

New endeavor!

ask me about PFS!

To any Possible New Readers (This part is a repeat.)

Your Existence Frightens Me.
Your Existence Frightens Me.

This was mainly about me leaking crazy like a safety valve. Now I've commented with this identity and I think it linked back here.

Welcome, comment but please don't attempt to have me committed. And maybe everyone in real life doesn't need to know all this if they can't look it up for themselves. No need to mention it's here either.

So yeah, scary.

another new love

A Softer World.
How did they get in my head, too? Sometimes it's awful crowded in there.

Announcement coming soon.

Got Me Pegged

Your Birthdate: December 19

You are resilient, and no doubt your resilience has already been tested. You've had some difficult experiences in your life, but you are wise from them. Having had to grow up quickly, you tend to discount the advice of others. You tend to be a loner, having learned that the only person you can depend on is yourself. Your strength: Well developed stability and confidence Your weakness: Suspicion of others Your power color: Eggplant Your power symbol: Spade Your power month: October

What Does Your Birth Date Mean?

Now, with only 2 pieces of information about me, this quiz is calling me out as a suspicious bastard.

Guilty, but still. All they've got is my birthday and a willingness to take internet quizzes. It doesn't seem like that should be enough.

And I'm not that untrusting. I believe what people say. And if they're just a friend, I'm with you right up until I walk in on the sixty-nine or whatever.

However, I will be waiting every minute of the day for you to turn out to be a zebra in llama's clothing. Not good, not bad. Just completely different than what's represented.

Miraculous Triumph for Rule of Law

Al-Marri might or might not be a black hat, but a divided panel of the 4th circuit ruled that legal residents can’t be seized as enemy combatants for shits and giggles.

Due process shall commence. Once the government is done appealing the ruling that upholds the Constitution.

This makes me happy. Well, the at worst fleeting victory for justice and rule of law is to be celebrated in my opinion. Charge him or let him go. Do not pick up random people off the streets. Now that you mention it, I would rather die than live in a totalitarian police state. It would only be a matter of time for me in that environment anyways.

Oh, and why did I link a UK paper for an American Government issue? Because whether it’s a tool of the right or left, our media are vapid. Somehow, their papers have more of both t&a and serious news.

Ask me about Profile Fatigue Syndrome – info coming soon.

I Want to Have Your Abortion

"This care worn mother-of-several had a large abdominal mass that I rapidly determined to be a well advanced pregnancy. I asked my resident to come and break the news to this woman; it was very obvious to me that she was not going to be happy about the news of another pregnancy. When told that she - already unable to adequately feed and clothe her family - was again pregnant, she looked up at me and the resident. There we stood, two white males, well clothed, well feed young men with superior educations. We were, in her eyes, stunningly blessed and obviously going places in the world. She began to weep silently. She must have assumed, for good reason, that there was no way that we would understand her problems; she knew also that there was nothing that we could or would do to relieve her lacerating misery.

"Oh God, doctor," she said quietly, "I was hoping it was cancer."

That mother's anguished whisper eventually became a shriek of despair and hopelessness that has reverberated in my heart and mind and soul for over thirty years. Before that moment, forever seared like a brand on my memory, I would have described myself as "Pro-Life" had I then known this political term .

Over the next few years, I was exposed to real life as it is lived by millions of people who don't have the sanctification granted in America to those who are white, male, well educated, well gene-ed, well nurtured, well advantaged. I learned that what this woman knew was a personal tragedy for herself and her family, was only one face in a multifaceted problem confronting thousands of girls and women every day."

Abortion saves. A fetus is a parasite, just like a baby or teenager. Why do we let the cute ones get away with anything?

A WOMAN, ANY WOMAN, IS WORTH MORE THAN A PARASITE.

I hoped it was cancer. Because that is BETTER than a baby(parasite)?


This guy is real. that's amazing to me.
word.

As fucked up as I am, nobody beats the government. This comic has archives well worth pursuing, especially in the vacation irregularity posting era.
Three Pane Soul. Check them out, y'all.




And speaking of fucked up...
Why do I post almost the same exact thing in 3 spots? Where two of them are pseudo anonymous? Maybe I'm tired of games. I wonder if anyone is looking to find.
I shock to discover the one reader, now I'm hungry for more. Should I type the name that will send him an email? So cheap. I know if I told a couple people or commented with this sign on again they would probably jaunt over.

And then I would need to clean up for company. I truly love doing that. Alone together really really got to me. I need to talk about it somewhere. I don't know if I'm ready for a Cuddles post.

Such raw emotions. I admitted to someone once that I had yet to inspire that kind of devotion (installing trash can and bathroom mirror). I have this trick of ph

gotta go. finish later

New Working System

This will be my attempted operating system from now on. There might be some bugs at first. Hopefully it will become easier with practice.

I've told myself this before. If I do it enough, it might stick.



From xkcd, updated 3x a week. But I hoard it to read a big glut on Saturdays. Artificially imposing a more print-like experience on myself. (I do this with most web comics, not just this one.)

Things I Miss (or not)

Strange already to be sleeping in a room by myself.
Welcome and needed.
Unfathomable and almost unaccomplishable. I can't make myself do it. At least not without extreme difficulty.

I need a hug. I don't really want one. The only ones I reasonably foresee will not come with the right strings.

I know I need to eat but it doesn't seem important somehow.

It's kind of too hot for all three of the above anyway. I just took a shower and I'm already sweaty.