**Gives Jaily a hug**
How was Hip Hop Abs, DJ?
I haven't done it yet. Yesterday with the nephew getting sick and us taking him BACK to the doctor today . . . I haven't felt like it. If he keeps this up, he is going to put in the hospital by tomorrow. YIPES!
I come bearing gifts (kind of); http://community.livejournal.com/ohnotheydidnt/18520602.html
How's everyone this fine evening? (Or early morning, whatever your preferace may be).
Reading back it seems like baking's the thing, and now I feel like making a batch of cookies. (Perhaps, tomorrow).
I spent the night watching The Soup, Brecht/Weill's 'Mahagonny' and a brief programme that featured Lotte Lenya. Musical theatre fix is fed for the night.
"Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, men recognize that the human race has been harshly treated but it has moved forward." - Les Miserables
I'm sorry you're nephew's sick, and I hope he starts feeling better.
We're watching Mahagonny tomorrow. My TiVo could only find the 1AM airing, so that's what we're doing.
Thanks for more pictures of Lee!
*the cows slap not scott in the head*
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! I just put two and two together! I didn't realize The Pie Maker played Calpernia!!!!
harris, how come he doesn't get thrown to the lions?
Girls are pretty and funny and sweet and they smell good.
I can't believe Kringas posted that god awful comment on the Jay* thread.
That horse died a long time ago!
Rath's avatar makes me smile.
I'm in a surprisingly cheery disposition right now.
"Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, men recognize that the human race has been harshly treated but it has moved forward." - Les Miserables
Lions wouldn't like me, I probably don't taste very good.
Unlike hamburgers. Yum. Definitely hitting McDonalds tonight for some mass bovine murder
I think it's my favorite Christmas movie, unless Meet Me In St. Louis counts.
"I probably don't taste very good."
So not going there.
scott, the trick is to make like Daniel and you'll come out unscathed.
Heh, I figured you'd catch that. Anyway, Daniel was probably a little more down with G-O-D than I am, unfortunately.
well lets find out,
*tosses not-scott and sm2 to the lions* but in the spirit of the season, i'll give u guys 5 mins to feel each other up and what not before they come out of there cave,
Yikes! I think I'll take the lions.
oh please it could be worse ya remember then one that was mad trying to get in your pants the other night, so take your pick
Yeah, I'm with scott. I'd prefer the lions eat me instead.
oh please u know u'd be on your knees for that boy in 10 seconds flat
Men are more my preference.
One of my best friends just posted this and since it made me laugh and cry and realize how damn fortunate I am to have such remarkably cool ****ing people in my life and how dysfunctional and ****ed up that this amazing family has to move around and worry about whether or not their family is acknowledged and covered by her medical plan because of the unfair stupid patently biased and what is no more than legal hyperbole I wanted to share it with you all.
101 things you should know about me
Current mood: validated
1. I have the best relationship of anyone I've ever met
2. My wife moved in on day 1 and never moved out
3. We move A LOT
4. We are restless souls
5. Who are more in love than anyone should be
6. And we don't work at it at all
7. My kids are werewolves, untrained monkeys, and evil villains
8. But we hate the concept of punishment
9. This does not mean we don't believe in discipline
10. Discipline means "to teach"
11. I give more respect than I want in return
12. My disrespect is 100% reserved for those who screw over my Gulf and ASUW kids on a daily basis.
13. Those kids will more than likely be screwed over daily, by everyone else, the rest of their lives.
14. This makes me want to die, puke, and send Jehovah's Witnesses and Mormons and pizzas to their oppressor's doors
15. I vehemently believe that treating those with less power than you badly is WAY WORSE than treating those with more power than you badly, which I think is often perfectly o.k.
16. This could be my life motto: power matters.
17. I believe that very, very few other people think this way
18. I am a recovering academic. I have much baggage from many academics.
19. I have also found support there, from far fewer colleagues
20. I don't think my family has ever been very interested in who I am
21. I love to dish about it with the few people who understand how anyone can be so messed up coming from a place with NO ostensible abuse
22. My kids will always be "allowed" to change and grow
23. I would never cut a healthy newborn's genitals
24. Or vaccinate my children
25. Bodily integrity is VERY important to me. Not being "allowed" to pee and eat at will is probably my biggest problem with schools.
26. I would home school even if it weren't for the peeing thing
27. Because I can
28. And because I can stick my own kids' heads in the toilet and call them sluts, so I figure they'll get socialized just fine (j/k)
29. I think time out is forced isolation and is ironic as a "teaching" device
30. I think people who do illegal things to poor children because they know they cannot fight back are sick assholes
31. Even when they have breast cancer
32. So some people think I'm mean
33. I make my own laundry soap and household cleaners
34. With vodka and lime, which smells yummy
35. Unless I'm cleaning up cat urine from my sweet Mali with fast progressing kidney failure
36. It's more antibacterial and disinfectant than the toxic crap most people use
37. And cheaper
38. I feel smug about this
39. But I still make my mother-in-law bleach some clothes every few months
40. I get most angry when I get sweaty in December
41. And when I have to change 3 poopy diapers within 30 minutes
42. And when people pray in public
43. Or tell my children that fat men in red suits are watching them
44. I'm a pagan/agnostic/atheist
45. Who'd probably be 100% pagan/wiccan if it weren't for all that straight-centered ying/yang male/female god/goddess balance business
46. Because I'm a postmodern queer, academic recovery notwithstanding
47. That does not mean I believe physical pain is culturally constructed :)
48. The world's worst movie is "Dancer in the Dark" starring Bjork, who I otherwise think is cool. Three hours of total postmodern pain.
49. Tivo is better than cocaine
50. I dream of living off the grid or urban farming
51. But it's a dream
52. I barely have time to mow my lawn
53. And I like the mall too much
54. I'd vote for Dennis Kucinich
55. I'm from Cleveland
56. My favorite part was the "sands of love for all people mini market"
57. I used to skip my high school job to go to pro-choice protests and skip school to go to guitar stores and (Bill) Clinton rallies
58. My jobs were Christmas Elf and Macromolecular Modeling
59. Not that I can help my niece with high school chemistry anymore
60. I grew up in a place that we called "Bubbletown"
61. They were big on fear, sheltering, and shame there
62. I was once ratted out by a neighbor for getting off at the wrong bus stop
63. Which led to an extra 30 minute bus ride daily for the rest of the year, taking the long route
64. Luckily, I mostly didn't get caught
65. I did get out
66. I have never wanted to be merely content
67. Which is why I couldn't understand my friends in high school when they said they wanted to leave, then didn't
68. I still wonder why, especially since I get the urge to take off every 2ish years
69. And it changes my whole world perspective
70. For the better, even when I hate it
71. Though Iowa did bring suckiness to new levels
72. But have you ever lived next to a latte-colored creek with magic owls in your crabapple tree? Didn't think so. So peaceful. Til the poison ivy episode...
73. I don't tolerate the bitter and stupid well
74. I think many people are stupid. It's nicer than believing that they know what they're doing, and are just hateful for fun. So I try to continue believing this.
75. Arizona was uninspiring.
76. I think I lost most of my spirit there
77. But I made some great friends that I was too bored to keep
78. But while visiting, my partner had a whole conversation with a dead copper miner who who perished in a motorcycle accident but still played open mike at the haunted hotel where we stayed once
79. I am so jealous of this experience
80. I should never have gone back to Iowa after moving to Seattle
81. I should have more tattoos
82. I should have pierced my eyebrow
83. I should have gone to "Hanukk-erotica" when invited in the supermarket
84. I crave little Seattle-isms, like Bubble tea and waiting for drawbridges
85. In the past few years, Seattle closed all their good restaurants, and I miss it far less
86. We lived there twice. Did I mention we move a lot?
87. I miss living around random strangers who could be counted on to be sex-positive, which is an important moral and personality trait to me
88. I cannot stop acting on my 6th grade habit of designing my future house. It's looking good by now.
89. I also read the same books over and over and watch the same movies ad nauseum. I like the same 5 songs for months in a row.
90. Being organized and having a goal is very important to me. I wither without projects.
91. Like the bloggers, I also want a president who's a dyke of color whose been on welfare with no healthcare.
92. I am working on my sugar addiction.
93. And my coffee addiction
94. And my addiction to coffee additives containing partially hydrogenated oils
95. My coffee is banned in Europe
96. That can't be good for you
97. I am working on creating a gentler generation
98. But my daughter's favorite online game is called "Spank Frank" which involves Santa beating penguins with paddles
99. I mostly have no idea what anyone else is thinking
100. This makes me relatively cool, since my ignorance and apathy are often mistaken for aloofness.
101. I must remember that very little is as it seems.
Now I am going to sleep. Good night my friends.
Very inspiring, I really enjoyed that.
(Although I'm not sure how in favor of non-vaccination I am, but to each their own.)
Anyway, I'm too young and pretty to be offended at being called a boy. As long as it's not spelled with an i.
Incidentally, has anyone had a Scotty Boy? It's a COCKtail, naturally. A mixture of vodka, sour mix, and soda water.
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