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Thursday, December 20, 2007

she got balls

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interesting that after calmly and quietly coming out the jodi foster deal has not hit the news like i'd expect. lesbians must not be in fashion right now.


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Wednesday, December 19, 2007

left by the back door and threw it all away

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i'll tell you all about it in a few days. but just know, i threw it all away. i won't take that any more.

too much respect. not enough, but too much for that.


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Sunday, July 22, 2007

7 minutes of your time...



Generation Chickenhawk: The Unauthorized College Republican Convention Tour from huffpost and Vimeo.

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Friday, June 29, 2007

notes from the detour, part 3

Imagea hard day's night
mind if i ask a question? d'you get a hard on when you're asleep? wake up with wood? ok, pretty normal, fine... let's go on...
ever dream of having sex with someone? ever dream about getting-off when you're getting your zees? two words, wet dreams?
well, here's the end of that scale. people who are actually having sex when they sleep. apparently it is a 'sex related sleep problem'. this paragraph caught my attention...

Among other things, they found that people—mostly men—sometimes masturbate, initiate sex with a partner and reach orgasm during sleep. They usually have no memory of these activities when they wake up, learning about them only if a partner or roommate tells them. Some of these activities can also have legal consequences, such as if someone initiates sex without a bed partner’s consent, noted Schenck.

ok, i have thoughts, first of all, what the fuck are you doing being someone's 'bed partner' and then complaining if the other person initiates sex? and secondly, this 'mostly men' demographic who get off in their sleep and then have 'no memory of these activities' isn't a mystery at all... just go to xtube and search for 'jocks+straight+handjob+sleeping'.

personally i think i've found a new tag to put in my criteria on manhunt, scrub 'mustard players go to the front of the queue', i'm now exclusive for 'sexsomniacs'. and of course, wikipedia already has an article about it.

and while reading that article about people who have sex in their sleep (they call it a disorder, i don't really see it as a problem) i came across this list of the 'ten fastest ways to self-destruct'.

lack of sleep
ignore your health
dumb down your brain
be promiscuous
drive a lot
drink a lot of alcohol
stress a lot
watch tv more
smoke
eat junk food

and i thought, so what are we supposed to do, leave america? my next thought on this was whether we should be worried that american life, in general, can be summed up in ten bullet points. what does that say...

Imagewe came from outer space
thinking about storage media: paper records archived in vaults. gold discs encoded with the sounds of human life and images of the world. flash memory storing hundreds of illegally copied songs. pre-historic rock carvings showing primitive hunting parties. flesh tattooed with children's birthdates and names. millions of discarded and unerased floppy discs occupying landfills around the world. growth rings inside centuries old redwood trees. storage media.

now we move to dna, and the ability to insert strings of code into 'junk sequences' but not just any old code. data storage. researchers at keio university have successfully conducted trials with bacteria doing just that and of course, when the organisms reproduce they are automatically creating backups of that data. i have a question about dna mutation due to genetic generational corruption or other causes such as the effect of UV rays on molecular structure but i suppose those will have to wait.

the article talks about plans back in the heady days of 1999 to embed a years worth of the New York Times in the genetic code of a cockroach. i call this market insertion, after all, most coackroaches in new york are probably more used to seeing the New York Post than the Times. but here is where i got thinking... cockroaches are natures ultimate survivors, UV rays are nothing to them, radiation is like a light drizzle on a spring day. so maybe cockroaches could be our ultimate message into the future. of course, how we would let the future know where we have planted the information, i dunno.

and just as we could throw such useless information into a cockroach, the creature said to be the heir in waiting to the planet once we've had our inevitable nuclear bomb party... well, couldn't messages have been sent to us in the dna of organisms that have landed on this planet.

and before you think i've lost it, go read about these organic living cells that descended upon us from space back in 2001. technically the critters didn't contain dna as we know it, but the links in the theory are there to put together. especially if you read too much arthur c. clarke as a child.

maybe messages are awaiting us in the closest of places.

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Thursday, June 28, 2007

notes from the detour, part 2

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King of the Jungle
first off, lions don't live in the jungle and never have. but kevin richardson is king on my chart. and my vine is available if he ever wants to swing from it. anyway, a] he's a rugged stud (see pic above) and b] just look what he is doing... no really, go look. bet you just found your new boyfriend...



Imagein the continuing chronicle of a life, an article about al gore and his financial rise from humble veep to rock star status. i can't decide whether he needs to go away or should make one final full frontal push to attain the heights he sometimes appears to desire.

al gore is like that headache, the one that isn't bad to take anything for, but you eat lunch and drink water and get some fresh air thinking that will do it, and it just stays there, in the periphery of your focus.

powerful enough to be the ross perot of the democrats, his split of the votes may mean that an in-house wrangle over the democrat ticket may bring the last thing the donkey's need, a public squabble. while the democrats seem to be on a roll, i think it's got a lot to do with default status brought about by the slo-mo imploding catastrophe of the right wing elephants. in some ways al gore seems a fitting representative of what is going on - a fantasy league presidential candidate. we're dreaming about something new or different, something to clear the air, in some ways i think that's what fred thompson is within republican ranks, another ronald reagan, combination father figure, actor (dreamer, imaginer, creator) and right wing too!

is it too much to hope for a truly independent man of the people who could represent this country? if al gore ever jumps down off the fence will he continue his progression to become that kind of man, someone who everyone (generally speaking) could get behind?

via nighthawk is the list of words that the wapo selected from entries for their mensa invitational. the rules are simple... take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition. below are some of the best.

Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with.

Bozone (n.): The substance surrounding stupid people, that stops bright ideas from penetrating. The Bozone layer, unfortunately, shows little sign of breaking down in the near future.

Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period of time.

Karmageddon: It's like, when everybody is sending off all these really bad vibes, right?
And then, like, the Earth explodes and it's like, a serious bummer.

Arachnoleptic Fit (n.): The frantic dance performed just after you've accidentally walked through a spider web.

Ignoranus: A person who's both stupid and an asshole.


ImageThis is Your Field on Drugs
it's not often i get a giggle out of the news. a field in the netherlands was ripped to shreds by a driver trying to escape police chasing him. apparently high on drugs, the chase ended up in a corn field and continued for quite some time (as you can see) before he planted his car in a ditch. can't help feeling that miro or kandinsky would approve in some way of the result... click on the pic to see the full effect.

report by way of the daily mail. not a paper i usually read but recently it's had some decent diversions.



And Now a Warning
Yes, we're going back to maps soon. Just thought a heads up would be good.

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Wednesday, June 27, 2007

notes from the detour, part 1

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the gory images of smushed babies on asphalt and mangled limbs in car wreckages didn't work. not scary. apparently because people have become desensitized to such images in movies and video games. so now the australian government is trying a new campaign to get people to slow down.
the "no one thinks big of you" road safety and speed awareness campaign is targeted at men and the size of the "engine under their hoods" with images of women holding up their little pinky fingers in a display of what they think the speeding motorist is trying to make up for.
you can watch the video here:



here's the question though, why is speeding a predominantly male phenomenon? the material on the Australian RTA site says it wants to make speeding 'socially unacceptable' but what made it acceptable in the first place? and is the first guy in the ad just slightly hot? or is it the button nose and big ears. call me weird.


ImageAbout a Bridge
while we're talking about size, one of my pleasures - salivating over architecture - got a healthy dollop of visual stimulus this week. those wacky chinese have done it again! the longest sea-bridge in the world was joined up! spanning 22 miles across the hangzhou bay at the mouth of the qiantang river and will eventually connect shanghai to ningbo. i know, it sounds like something out of star wars. but peeps, get used to these names, china is emerging into the global Imageconsciousness and as unlikely as that may sound (probably as unlikely as the thought of me ever saying the phrase "china is emerging into the global consciousness") these places will become known as time goes on and sooner rather than later.

the bridge's details are amazing, with a rest stop half way across with facilities and viewing areas as well as a docking port for large ships..

dubai also is roaring into a future that the USA can only manage to think about if it stops worrying about paris hilton (bless) and who will replace jay leno. the skyline of arab countries are creating the visions of the 'future' that we all thought we would get to be a part of, something cool, something modern, something 'tomorrow'. meanwhile americans are still oohing and aahing over front loading combination washing machine/dryers. we are very backward in this country on some things.

what's holding us back from great building projects here? why is our sense of scale so reduced?

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Friday, June 22, 2007

pro tem tempura

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well, i got my homo boots on tonight and went trawling for some juicy lucy text and i wasn't disappointed. i hit up on this article in The Advocate about serving members in the military being 'out' and not kicked out. odd that everyone claiming it will be dangerous to morale and be a risk to discipline are basing this on what?

there's hasn't been a situation where you can judge this from. therefore it is based on fear of what might happen, there is no empirical evidence for these claims. but there is evidence from other countries' whose military accept openly gay people serving, who, while somewhat of a novelty and focus factor, once the hullabaloo calms, end up integrating and performing just as well as their 'straight counterparts'. and honestly, saying such phrases makes me nauseous. this shouldn't even be an issue. the amount of military guys, and i mean the chick-fucking, beer chugging guys, who have either pushed the idea of going the rounds with me/someone else or actually have with others is a list i lost count of a long time ago. the joke and innuendos are a part of the culture, so even if there is name calling and someone is called 'faggot' in the army by a colleague because they are gay... well i'm going to go out on a limb here... so fucking what!

i mean, if you are in the army, sure there are always base levels of respect, but it's the goddam army for fuck's sake, not "Miss Prim's Proper School for Girls with Delicate Constitutions", so toughen up and get with it, deal with it, stop making it so sore by crying about it and rubbing it, let it go, show the ignorant buggers out there that it's no big deal, that's the quickest way to dissipate interest. i mean, so you got called a name about where you stick your dick, awww! people need to desensitize and lighten up. so you're a faggot, and guess what, he's a motherfucker in your eyes. i don't see why one name is worse than the other. to be honest, at least 'faggot' only involves you and doesn't drag somebody's mother and her personal life into the picture gratuitously. the power of normalization is always in the hands of the thing perceived as 'not normal'.

now, get this...

Imagebeing innocent of so much in life it's always a pleasant surprise to come across a new depravity. figging. the practice of inserting peeled ginger root up one's ass. apparently the effect is amazing, if not a tad disconcerting.

"It takes a while to get going – I was surprised at first to feel almost nothing except a chilly, finger-like rod penetrating me – but once the sensation starts, it comes on a like a blowtorch and gradually builds in strength. It burns, and it makes you focus to an extraordinary degree on the square inch of your body that contains your rectum – that place becomes all you can think about."
Source: I found that description on some sort of spanking forum.

i'm going to walk around now wondering if i am talking to people who have done this. how does one introduce the subject in to a conversation and remain polite and appropriate? how will i find out?

urban dictionary has a precise and well thought of article on figging too although i am still a little lost as to why the use of ginger is referred to by the name of a differently fruit entirely.

Imagebuzzfeed alerted me to a slew of articles dealing with sexual prefs in youngsters, with headlines like "What do you say to your Gay Fourth Grader". The article deals with the how various LGBT groups steer very clear of talking about anyone who may have such components to their makeup that are pre-teen, presumably for fear of reinforcing the pedophile and depravity labels that gay people have rongly been labeled with.

The point the article makes is, gay people don't just appear when they are a teenager, and most when asked about childhood experiences can remember very distinctly and very early on that certain things alerted them to their situations.

So why don't we talk about gay children? Good question. And I'm not going to talk about it...

Leading from this was another piece about some time, in the not so distant future, when parents will be able to 'test' their fetus for 'gayness' as well as down's syndrome and other 'conditions'. This isn't news, when the topic surfaced a while back it was declared appalling and offensive. But where do we draw the line in what a parent can choose to produce? Is it ok to choose superficial things like eye color? What about illnesses? Is it ok to screen for horrible deformities and diseases? Where is the line?

I support a woman's right to choose. But do I support a mother's right to choose the sex life of her offspring? Do I support a parent's right to have a blond haired child? Do I support those same parents in making a choice not to bring a child with spina bifida into the world? What about bringing a child into a world that will be filled with prejudice against what his or her choices may be?

ImageLoved this article also, for just the fact that it introduced an individual talking about his four moms. He has lesbian parents who split and who both then found other partners. So... two moms and two step-moms. Ain't life grand!

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