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Saturday, January 6th, 2007
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1:41 am
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I was wasting a little of the last bit of my vacation time at ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) badtattoos_4 today... they have a "worst-of" page that's pretty incredible. A lot of the tattoos are actually very well done, they're just in there because they're... odd... like the one that turns a guy's penis into the head and neck of a dragon. Anyway, it's worth checking out in its entirety (I think maybe you have to join the comm to see the post, but it's open membership), but this is my favorite photo. A little bit nsfw.
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| Sunday, November 12th, 2006
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2:06 am - Everybody laughs.
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Tonight I went to a vegan potluck that happens once a month here in Lexington. Lots of people there, lots of dishes, great food. You don't often see such a variety of vegan food in one place. People brought their kids too, hey fine, I can deal with kids running around. I didn't even notice them for most of the evening.
After dinner a few friends and I sat around and talked in the living room. Right next to us, in the kitchen, there's a big table full of other people. We're all just chatting it up, the kids are playing, okay. At one point I notice that this one kid, let's say 8-10 age range, has abandoned the other kids and taken the seat next to me. He's being quiet, but not in a shy-kid way, just sitting there being quiet, I think he was fiddling with some puzzle-toy. Then a few minutes later I look over and I see he's crocheting. Okay, I think. That's cool. That's fine and good if a kid wants to sit there all quiet and crochet while his friends play on the floor. No problem.
A couple minutes later, somebody cracked a joke, and we all laughed; the people in the kitchen were laughing at the same time. As the laughter dies down, I hear this; and I figure it's pitched low enough that I was the only one to hear it. From the crochet-kid I hear this, and it's monotone, low like he's talking to himself, just muttering really. He doesn't sound sad or depressed at all, but he sounds tired, not yawning-naptime-kid tired but jaded-weary. He's in my peripheral vision, and I can see he doesn't even look up, he's just sitting there with his head bowed toward his crocheting when he says:
"Everybody laughs; everybody's jolly. Ha, ha."
I turned and looked at him for a minute, but he didn't look up or anything, just kept on crocheting, so I turned back and did my best to rejoin the conversation. I left to go home not long after that.
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| Tuesday, October 10th, 2006
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12:44 am
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| Friday, October 6th, 2006
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2:22 am
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I need to vent about some stuff that's really been bothering me lately. I just feel like there's no one near me I can talk to about this sort of stuff, so I end up just brooding over it. I need to get it off my chest, and I feel like there are some people who might read this and understand. I'm having issues with Star Trek Voyager.
I've been going through it episode by episode. I never really gave it a good chance before, and now I'm glad that I have. Overall, I like it a lot, but two specific episodes that are bothering me -- "Tuvix" and "Future's End". I'll put a spoiler alert and a cut here, just in case there's actually anybody nerdy enough to care about spoilers of random Voyager episodes, but not so nerdy as to have seen them already.
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| Wednesday, September 27th, 2006
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2:25 pm
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"Most Popular Boy and Girl Names
Sept. 21, 2006 — - Studies of resumes have found that people with black-sounding names are less likely to get callbacks.
'20/20' put 22 pairs of names to the test, posting identical resumes except for the names at the top.
The resumes with the white-sounding names were actually downloaded 17 percent more often by job recruiters than the resumes with black-sounding names."
(taken from blackfolk)
Wish I could say this were surprising. -_-
( Here are the names, in case you're interested. )
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| Monday, September 25th, 2006
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12:59 am - i guess that's how it goes
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Two or three months ago one of my neighbors started appearing outside my window with a fluffy little white dog. I always noticed, because there's normally no reason for anyone to be outside my window, so it always kind of weirds me out when someone's hanging out there. My front window is big and makes me feel displayed. Anyway, every time I saw them she'd be carrying the little thing, smiling all peaceful and dreamlike, and she'd hug it up against her face. Every time I saw them, I saw a face-hug and a big dreamy smile. She'd set it down by some bushes, let it do its business, and then lovingly scoop it back up and carry it away. About a month ago, I stopped seeing the dog being carried; she would now lead it around the bushes on a leash, looking happy and patient and loving.
Right now, for the third time in the past few days, she just appeared outside my window, tugging the dog on a leash, scowling at it and yelling, "C'mon! C'mon! Go! Just go!!"
Lolzorz.
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| Monday, September 4th, 2006
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12:28 pm
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| Thursday, August 24th, 2006
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5:32 pm
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| Sunday, December 11th, 2005
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3:00 pm
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I died the long livejournal death and was gone for many months. But now I'm back. That's not impressive, because it was just a metaphorical death. But I came back because I had to spread the good news about the one who was born into the world, was killed by humans and truly, literally died, only to return miraculously to us.
I say "the one", but apparently it was several.
( Zombie Dogs. )
Feel the creepy.
Thanks, Dien, for the mad science alert.
current mood:  spiritually awed
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| Saturday, June 4th, 2005
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3:38 pm - Me too
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Reply with your name. I will:
1) Eat some chocolate.
2) Read your name aloud, enunciating it slowly and carefully and shaking my head, like I don't understand what it means.
3) Tell you something about something.
4) Write a christian-themed haiku about you.
5) Put "[your name]" and "naked" into a google image search and post anything I find.
6) Breath. In...... out. In...... out.
7) Try to fart, and tell you whether I in fact succeeded in farting in response to your name.
8) Give you a mandarin name.
9) Give you an elvish name.
10) Take a drink.
11) Die, within the next 80 years tops.
12) Hit on you.
13) Hit myself.
14) Take a hit.
Go!
current mood:  recumbent
current music: Cars
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| Sunday, May 15th, 2005
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4:40 pm - Can't escape the Mantrix
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I've just (re-re-re-re...)watched the Matrix, and as always, much love for a beautiful movie.
But there's one thing that has always nagged at me, and only this time have I thought much about it.
So, according to Morpheus, everyone who has ever stood their ground against an agent has died. No one fucks with agents, no one kills agents. Okay. Then on the roof of the building where Morpheus is interrogated, Trinity, "dodge this," bam, she puts one through an agent's head, at a time when Neo can still do nothing but call for help and spaz out -- and get shot -- after looking said agent in the eye. Still, fine. No one blames you for that, Neo. I'da been scurred too.
Nonetheless, first person ever to kill an agent is Trinity. People thought, man, you'd have to be the One to kill an agent; killing an agent is impossible. And then, after the agent dies, what's the exchange between Trinity and Neo? What's the reaction to this event? Where's the movie's focus in this situation?
Is it, whoa fuck! Trinity that's incredible, you killed an agent! Holy shit you're amazing!
Nope. It's, wow, Neo, you're amazing! When you were flopping around like a dying pigeon, you did it really, really fast! That's incredible!
Is it really so unacceptable that the accolades and the focus be directed away, even for a moment, even when so deserved, from the man and onto a woman? If Morpheus had killed an agent, I bet the movie would have driven home what hot shit he was. But no, in the case of Trinity's kill, if you had turned your head away from the film for the right two seconds, everything else in that situation would have left you with the impression that Neo was far the greater badass.
Not to mention how her purpose in the larger oracular tapestry of the movie is to fall in love with the right man.
I almost feel guilty writing in a negative way, though, about such a lovely movie. Gets better every time I watch it.
current mood:  refreshed
current music: Alice in Chains - Hate to Feel
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| Wednesday, May 11th, 2005
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11:51 am - Homosexuality needs no excuse
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I just posted this in liberal. It is my attempt to dissuade those who fight the anti-gay agenda from resorting to what I call 'the genetic argument.' I know that some of you, my friends, have used this argument (as I myself have also done); and I wanted to try to point out what I think are some of its damning flaws.
In many posts and many responses here, as well as throughout the real world, I find arguments against homophobia that rely on the fact that homosexuality is genetically based, and 'not a choice.' I want to post here about why I think this is a bad idea as a foundation for the goal of eliminating the oppression of homosexuals.
( Five reasons not to use the genetic argument against the anti-gay agenda )
current music: The Doors - Break on Through
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| Saturday, April 30th, 2005
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2:39 pm - Some creatures got no respect for natural kinds
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Okay, tigrons and ligers make enough sense; that doesn't seem so wrong. But man the parents must be embarrassed when its all over the news that the baby is ( a zonkey/donkbra (I vote donkbra) )
Or a freaking ( WHOLPHIN???? )
The article says it was a "surprise coupling" between the 2000 pound whale and the 600 pound dolphin. Guess a couple decades of captivity leaves you pretty hard up.
They work together. Ain't that sweet?
Man, animals are some ( sick little horndogs. )
current mood:  agog
current music: Super Furry Animals - Some things come from nothing
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| Tuesday, April 26th, 2005
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10:07 pm - Sometimes it hurts being a moron
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While you sit and read,
suddenly you might realize:
you've left your toaster oven burning.
And a voice might come to you in your haste,
advising that you jump over your coffee table
(rather than walk around);
although the table faces you longways,
and the tabletop is glass.
Don't listen,
Don't listen,
Don't listen to that voice!
My friends, that voice doesn't love you like I love you.
That voice only wants you to bleed like I bleed.
(Do they call it a "hide" because it conceals slivers of glass so well?)
current mood:  Injured
current music: Skinny Puppy - First Aid
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| Wednesday, April 20th, 2005
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9:50 pm - Good good
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I love the way some people's minds work. I need to find whoever is responsible for this so I can offer a big sloppy kiss.
The issue is: Camel racing requires light jockeys. The industry creates a need for young boys who are mistreated, kept malnourished to make them lighter, etc. This is a very shitty situation. This is a problem. Hmm, how do we solve this?
"Hey guys.... I was thinking, well, how about... I mean, it's just an idea, but... robot jockeys?"
Oh yes. Yes, random Qatari genius, robot jockeys indeed.
current mood:  pleased
current music: Chaz's tunes... kick ass my friend, kick ass.
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| Tuesday, April 19th, 2005
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3:56 pm - Habemus papam
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So Ratzinger is going to take John Paul's place. And he's ideologically an even crustier european male caucasian than the last one. John Paul, though he was just the cutest little doddering old man in the whole wide world, was also, I'm afraid to say, a vicious bastard, whose oppressive ideologies contributed massively to the worldwide fear and hatred of homosexuals, and to the prevention of realistic solutions (i.e., birth control / condoms) to both explosive population growth in catholic countries wracked by poverty and to the spread of AIDS, especially in Africa. I know, I know; part of me just wanted to pinch his pudgy cheeks and pat his wobbly little head too, but the man was hurting the world.
(And for christ's sake how about the way the media has him pretty much single-handedly tearing down communism. Can't Gorbachev sue or something?)
And now the white smoke (actually gray... hmmm) has come out of the catholic club treehouse, and the German guy, Ratzinger -- eine uberconservatischtebastard -- will wear the funny hat for the next few years. This is basically a more conservative version of JP. "He has denounced homosexuality as evil and other religions as "deficient". He also reined in proponents of Latin American liberation theology," for example; and though JP did this stuff, he at least did it in more circuitous, ambiguous language.
There are bright sides to this!
One is that the Deutscher is already 78, so he's not far from his final reward.
The other is that the catholic church is totally hemorrhaging the faithful in Latin America. Although its been a major stronghold of Catholicism for ages, Latin Americans have been jumping ship to protestantism like mad, owing to the fact that Catholic dogmas are so blatantly contributing to the poverty and cultural erosion taking place there. This is why the church was making noises about considering a Latin American pope. There was no way they actually would have done it, but clearly it couldn't hurt them to say that oh yes by golly we're certainly considering it, and I'm sure they hoped this would make some Latin American believers feel all squishy and loved inside. But since the church can't bring itself to take the steps that would actually stop this mass exodus, it's assured that for years to come, Catholicism will shrink and shrink and shrink.
(By the way, I want to be clear that I certainly don't think there's anything wrong with Catholicism per se, as compared with other religions; it's only the kind of dogmas being spit out by the recent* papacy, and the hierarchical imposition of these dogmas on all constituents of the church. But since the current catholic church officially supports heinous shit, I'm all for the phallus of catholicism shrinking down to greek-statue size.)
Also, Ratzinger isn't nearly as cute as JP was, so you don't have to feel quite as bad about taking pot shots at him like I am right now.
* where "recent" = the past two or so millenia.
current mood:  Pious
current music: my own tourettic exclamations
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| Tuesday, April 12th, 2005
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11:22 pm - These assholes are choking your chicken
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Hey Lexington peepage, there's a party goin on and it's called protest KFC, the one on Winchester road, 1015 Winchester, starting at 11:45am on Thursday. Woohoo! It's Peta-sponsored. Believe me, you don't have to be a vegetarian to be against the heinous shit that KFC does and that their customers pay them to do. So even if you don't wanna protest or you're not a Lexington kind of person, and you like that finger-licking goodness, buy elsewhere, yeah okay?
Why why why, why you ask?
The Reverend Al Sharpton would be more than happy to explain this to you. Click here and he will sit you on his streaming video knee and tell you and show you exactly what the fuck is going down. The video includes three wonderful instances of Al's gravely regarding the camera and grating, accusingly, "KFC... that's foul." There is even one rapturous instance of "KFC, that's filthy--and it's foul."
If you want more, you can go to Kentucky Fried Cruelty dot com, and read and view various things, and even see a video where Bea Arthur takes up where Al left off.
Anyway I'm totally gonna be at the Winchester KFC at noon on Thursday, hope to see some familiar faces there, and also here's a news story about the recently-disclosed contents of W's iPod (really).
current mood: Kentucky Fried
current music: Skinny Puppy - Pro-test
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| Monday, April 11th, 2005
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11:36 pm
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| Thursday, March 31st, 2005
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5:41 am
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| Tuesday, March 29th, 2005
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1:08 pm - I'm not naming any names but
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I just watched a man rub elmer’s glue into his hair, on purpose, to fix his faux-hawk on the go.
current mood: shocked
current music: Something by LCD Soundsystem
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