tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-183751732024-03-18T10:09:28.399-04:00Fetch me my axe...we've all got something to grind.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1420125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18375173.post-26196522358148081002011-08-01T23:02:00.002-04:002011-08-01T23:04:19.903-04:00New blog!Bookish Foodish GeekishUnknownnoreply@blogger.com209tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18375173.post-20047988643243400962010-10-24T18:01:00.004-04:002010-10-24T18:08:41.085-04:00"Well, it's certainly uncontaminated by customers."Dear used bookstore proprietor person:Yes, you did remember me correctly as the same person who had sat down with a handful of books for roughly half an hour, and then left without buying any the other day. Yes, I was about to sit down with a handful of books again when you told me that unless I were going to buy something, browsing was not okay.Speaking as someone who owns roughly a metric Unknownnoreply@blogger.com122tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18375173.post-82943712728453765692010-10-24T17:48:00.007-04:002010-10-24T18:10:25.411-04:00Dear political robocallers of various ilk ("live" included):I am currently registered Apathetic. I am going to vote for (or against, respectively) the people and measures who/which seem least likely to fuck shit over even more than the alternative(s), based on what I READ from sources I trust, and that is It. No donations, no forwarding the emails to four thousand of my best friends, no joining your zombie blob campaign for no remuneration so that I canUnknownnoreply@blogger.com734tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18375173.post-59742481602732450222010-09-29T01:49:00.008-04:002010-09-29T02:16:10.793-04:00All you can eatSo apparently the world championship for karaoke singing (you knew there was one, right?) was in Moscow this year. Some guy from New Mexico won (Usher: "DJ Got Us Fallin' In Love," if you want to know). The prize: a million dumplings. It seems wrong, somehow, that the gastroenterologist was only the runner-up.There's video somewhere, but it's not that interesting. At least not compared to whatUnknownnoreply@blogger.com46tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18375173.post-2944644995129354432010-09-24T00:58:00.003-04:002010-09-24T16:55:07.101-04:00I etn't deadbut, I'm not sure if/where this blog is going at this point. I have some vague thoughts of clearing out the blogroll and redesigning this as a writing/fan blog, with some food, or something along those lines. Maybe.Basically, I'm busy with real life, and I've been rethinking a few things. I'm not posting about them because, bluntly, in the inchoate form I'm in it'd basically come out as a lotUnknownnoreply@blogger.com76tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18375173.post-1198785757173928822010-08-04T22:11:00.002-04:002010-08-04T22:14:56.809-04:00HOLY SHIT SOME ACTUAL GOOD NEWSPROP 8 OVERTURNED. BOO YA.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com130tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18375173.post-78967548358445456372010-07-26T00:00:00.002-04:002010-07-26T00:02:18.252-04:00Spam spam spam spamYou know, if blogger came up with a way to ZOT all the spam comments that have been collecting on my blog like dust bunnies in one go, that'd be ace.Just saying.and yeah, I think I *will* buy that Nigerian term paper about Viagra, thanks.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com36tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18375173.post-64786984966418451912010-05-11T04:30:00.005-04:002010-05-27T15:15:32.591-04:00Gender and color survey results the xkcd wayI WILL EAT YOUR HEART WITH A FUCKING SPOON IF YOU ASK ANY MORE QUESTIONS ABOUT COLORSOn a related note:"Women like pink things, possibly because of berries in a forest."Unknownnoreply@blogger.com97tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18375173.post-73985261572334383062010-05-09T00:46:00.003-04:002010-05-09T02:14:36.209-04:00p.s.I've pretty much given up trying to update my blogroll-it seems to have fallen to classic Hoarders'/Clutterers' Syndrome-but I need to say that this woman and her blog are full of win. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18375173.post-70543351226886475632010-05-08T06:09:00.005-04:002010-05-08T06:19:07.847-04:00L'chaimA riff from elsewhere, on the general mantras regarding "you're too fat" messages, which in turn was based on this article with the shocking news that Bullies Target Obese Kids (who knew?):I'm just thinking: the "it's for your health" crap. I mean, even besides the whole, it sort of gives the game away that someone doesn't necessarily have your best interests in mind when they also call you an Unknownnoreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18375173.post-53385461741068587132010-03-29T03:44:00.004-04:002010-03-29T03:48:07.698-04:00Attack on Moscow metroNatalia Antonova has the story from a Muscovite perspective.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com25tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18375173.post-49232937317198480322010-03-19T00:33:00.001-04:002010-03-19T00:35:18.274-04:00Quote of the day, 3/18/10Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.--e. e. cummingsUnknownnoreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18375173.post-70181832426362455312010-01-25T03:14:00.009-05:002010-01-25T13:50:06.559-05:00Fucked up books of my childhoodRespectively, the Sweet Valley High (and satellites) books, as examined at The Dairi Burger and VC Andrews (Inc), Trapped in the Attic. If you, too, had your formative years at all warped by these literary classics, and had blissfully put most of the details out of your consciousness, now's your chance to have it all come flooding back to you, with hilarious commentary. If you don't know what I'mUnknownnoreply@blogger.com103tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18375173.post-65738981539581812172009-12-24T02:18:00.019-05:002009-12-24T23:39:53.156-05:00Oh joy, just what we all needed: PUMA 2.0aka: "Shut up, Hamster."Srsly okai.Or, I guess, I had a long sit, as my partner drove. I read Deoliver47's post about 'Ms. Hamsher' and it rather annoyed me. I've lived for most of my life amongst those people who now go by "tea baggers" (their own moniker) and I knew that no matter what happened in politics, I could never accept an alliance with such hate-filled individuals and I couldn't Unknownnoreply@blogger.com23tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18375173.post-75838207121583042652009-12-11T21:38:00.003-05:002009-12-11T21:45:26.572-05:00Yes, that'll work. Maggie Gallagher of NOM! sez conservatives should have Moar Babeez in order to stave off gay marriage.Which will totally work, because if there's one thing that never happens, it's the children of right wing conservative homophobes growing up to be Teh Gay. Trufax.Of course, none of this has anything to do with any -other- right wing Population Anxiety...Oh.See what The Nation had to say Unknownnoreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18375173.post-50116509148940337302009-12-11T01:58:00.026-05:002009-12-12T22:29:43.892-05:00"'No' to the notion of Bilerico"On edit: You may want to start here. Or, for a more charitable view, here.**a follow-up, less charitable view by the same author Otherwise, here's the direct link:http://www.bilerico.com/2009/12/transgender_a_disease_that_doesnt_exist.phpAnd no, Bil, it's not good because it's (ffs) "controversial," already. You get a modest increase of hits now, because people rubberneck at the transphobic Unknownnoreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18375173.post-43673629962702071572009-12-09T05:08:00.000-05:002009-12-09T05:09:28.941-05:00Quote of the day, 12/9/09Speaking of love, one problem that recurs more and more frequently these days, in books and plays and movies, is the inability of people to communicate with the people they love: husbands and wives who can't communicate, children who can't communicate with their parents, and so on. And the characters in these books and plays and so on, and in real life, I might add, spend hours bemoaning the factUnknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18375173.post-8460645726817530512009-12-06T17:31:00.007-05:002009-12-06T17:49:22.578-05:00On female socialization and grimly logical conclusions Read this post by fugitivus. If women are raised being told by parents, teachers, media, peers, and all surrounding social strata that:it is not okay to set solid and distinct boundaries and reinforce them immediately and dramatically when crossed (“mean bitch”)it is not okay to appear distraught or emotional (“crazy bitch”)it is not okay to make personal decisions that the adults or other peersUnknownnoreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18375173.post-67202732278769942592009-12-03T18:14:00.003-05:002009-12-03T18:16:20.106-05:00And now, a spoonful of kitteh to make the ughsome go down.(h/t Ethyl)WANT KITTENNNNNNNNNUnknownnoreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18375173.post-59590233914229711272009-12-03T17:38:00.007-05:002009-12-03T20:55:51.338-05:00Sure thing, Joan Kelly, will do. Re this post and the preceding ones.Yeah, enabling Howly Blog does put you beyond the pale. I'm afraid so. I mean, truthfully, personally, I never cottoned to you much anyway, so no great loss. But, seriously? You are sucking up to a couple of vile trolls who would basically be Fred Phelps with a couple of small adjustments. Glad to see you've found a "spine" of some sort, though. It does Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18375173.post-91024797749427499692009-11-14T19:33:00.005-05:002009-11-14T19:50:37.858-05:00"Voracious hunger is a sign of manliness"Footnoote to two preceding posts, off a snippet from one of the links. That line, "voracious hunger is a sign of manliness:" Whopper commercials and certain sportsy or fratly subcultures aside, you may not have seen that as being particularly true these days, even though its converse clearly still is. Ever since at least the 80's and the spawn of yuppie culture there's been an uneasy Unknownnoreply@blogger.com124tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18375173.post-18929355289003195692009-11-13T20:13:00.002-05:002009-11-13T20:17:32.519-05:00"Sometimes...you just need to stand around in a massive gyroscope and this is one of those times."(h/t Queen Emily)"Having been purchased, Lady Gaga is on her way to The Rumpo Area wearing a frock with a polar bear hanging out of the back of it. You may laugh but we've all at one point or another been out in a bar or club and started walking out of the toilet with a bit of loo roll stuck to one of our shoes, and this is exactly the same except with a polar bear."Unknownnoreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18375173.post-44062714888446836582009-11-13T13:30:00.006-05:002009-11-13T19:21:49.636-05:00Oh if only wank were a fossil fuelUnknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18375173.post-41540912442645362562009-10-18T16:59:00.012-04:002009-10-19T05:28:51.568-04:00"The flip side of this charming worldview..." (riffing off the same SP post that inspired this one)I hadn't even gotten into fillyjonk's other point, the one that started me commenting on this piece, before I got distracted by what felt like the main point. Said other point being: The flip side of this charming worldview, of course, is male anger at women who don’t make themselves available — see many of our friends in that now-closed Unknownnoreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18375173.post-77901517000202262882009-10-18T16:05:00.007-04:002009-10-18T17:04:44.274-04:00"Nothing interferes with a man’s ability to score like a woman who doesn’t think his ego trumps her safety."Via guerrillamamamedicine, over at Shapely Prose hits all the points that -should- be obvious, but apparently still aren't, to any number of dudes like o f'r instance this one.We’ve recently had a number of dudes dropping in to complain that asking them to be sensitive to women’s boundaries is essentially cock-blocking them. Sure, they say, if they don’t talk to us when we clearly don’t want themUnknownnoreply@blogger.com54