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| Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 |
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So I flipped on the TV and it was playing MTV's "My Super Sweet Sixteen". For the record, this is a show about the sweet-16 parties of kids whose families have more money than any of us are ever likely to see over a lifetime, and the parties are characterized by the presence of luxurious, one might even say ostentatious, surroundings, as well as expensive gifts and celebrity performers. Upon catching sight of the show, I was inspired to flip the TV back off and attempt to look up the root of the "sweet sixteen" celebration. It seems to vary from culture to culture. Nearest I can figure, it either celebrates a girl's virginity, or her reaching marriageable age, not sure which. Both definitions seem pretty moot these days. The general modern consensus seems to be the celebration of reaching driving age, but since the driving age in many states now has been changed to 18, that's slowly becoming moot, too. Curiosity quelled for the moment, I jumped to the Wikipedia page for the show "My Super Sweet Sixteen", expecting a huge controversy section over the portrayal of the kids involved. That's when I found this: "2008 MTV announced that they will launch a new series called Exiled. A number of parents to the participants on My Super Sweet 16 will banish their teens to a remote dangerous countries in order to see whether if their offspring will survive the primitive conditions [1]. The big twist occurs when the parents show their apathetic attitudes about their child's wellbeing." I honestly cannot tell if this is a loss or a win. *edit* - For those of you who doubt the accuracy of Wikipedia, behold! |
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bioshock finally loses the install limit now if they can just make the game more interesting and the engine less shitty i might actually play it again. |
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Heh when I clicked into LJ, this old "saved draft" from months ago, popped up: Goals for the day WERE: 1 - mail CALSTRS paper, in hopes of FINALLY getting $1400 that has been due me since last June 2 - buy fresh-squeezed OJ at local stand 3 - turn in toppling tower of recycling, plastic and cans, that now graces the kitchen 4 - go see I Am Legend at my local rag-tag theater 5 -finish cleaning my room 6 -clean my car 7 - thrift-shop for boots, because all I have are sneakers and sandals, and the sneakers look almost like clown-shoes..yeah I have one pair of heels, but with my long old hippie-skirts, nothing goes like boots. :) 8 - buy echinacea 9 - take more garlic, echinacea, wash down with OJ and, if I can stomach it, more yerba santa. I know I recommend it to everybody cuz it works, but gawd that stuff is foul. 10 - spend some comp-time, doing everything I want to do. Also go through 5000+ unread e-mails (not including spam). Sign up for Yahoo IM again..had to close it down because ALL I was getting was sexual-spam, and some of it was resistant to being erased. Revised list of goals 1 - stay conscious. 2 - mail something, anything, from yon pile-o-paper 3 - buy OJ, echinacea 4 - clear a path so I can walk through my room 6 - MAYBE see movie 7 - yerba senta ok ok oh yeah gotta buy honey too. Okay, typing this much has left me exhausted Watch this space. If you don't hear from me for a week, send a lily. *cough**hack* *moan* *faint* Well, some things are better these days..but in other ways, not. True enough, I am no longer under that long-lasting virus of some months ago. On the other hand, I came to the comp today because I was frustrated, overwhelmed, and fed up. And strangely nostalgic. A couple of decades ago, yeah we were dirt poor and I was angry most of the time, but with my kids at home and each day's financial survival not a given, dammit I had focus. And few possessions. My home was always dusty, askew, and somewhat cluttered, but not clogged like it is now, and we lived in a good clean natural place. Now: coughing and hacking at a glue-y clot that seems never to leave the back of my throat, from the smog, I scurry in circles: clean the car, no, take in the recycling--again-- burn the trash, no, sort the mail first--what a tower of crap-- no wait, pick up the dirty dishes next to and on top of it --no, fix the broken window so the flies quit coming into the kitchen, so I can clean without feeling like a harrassed corpse-- no, wait I have to call the appraiser for the landlord; --no I've GOT to take some time to get out and move around; going day after day without exercise and next thing you know you're all stiff and fat-- and no the laundry needs hanging, since the dryer's broken-- no wait I'm supposed to call the IRS or something to see if the letter announcing that refund bonus is for real or...? and no wait gotta make a list prioritizing what to do with said check if it is coming and realized: I don't want that onus. People will expect me to do something responsible with it, or else something fun where they can join in. And I don't want to be bothered with either. I have enough of a yawning, huge debt that it would swallow the check in one gulp, without pause and without having much effect.. if I get that bit of money, I'd rather just let it sit. Yeah I need a clutch tires dryer-repair swamp-cooler-repair window repair comp repair more-hard-drive a full tank of gas for once etc. etc. Screw it all. I actually miss having that simpler, harsher, intensely focused life. High among the rocks and the trees and the clear air, where at night it was silent and truly dark. I am still a hillbilly. Not a redneck southerner, a HILLbilly, i.e. a "mountain person" (as Simka, Latka's wife, once proclaimed on "Taxi") Living in unreal-seeming poverty there, years ago, I sometimes felt immeasurably rich. Cuz no money can buy that kind of clear-lung'd health, and that odd, detached sort of freedom. These days, I feel mired in this polluted insanity some call civilization. Drowning in it. Stop. I should count my blessings, count my blessings: First and foremost: my fambly. Got about a dozen souls out there, all related to me and beloved of me and who at least tolerate me with some affection; you can't buy that either. Good friends who miss me when I don't spend enough time with them A man in my life who makes me feel better than infinite (forget a million) bucks and who, after my half-century on this rock, has answered my quest for love and loving. And we sing our souls' songs together. Not to mention..well let's not mention. I'd rather avoid the shrieks of "TMI!!" :) :) :) But yeah. And yeah this is new. Sort of new. He's away for the nonce, being's how he lives out of state--still amazes me that he comes so far to be with me--but I am happy, in that area of my life. I mean HAPPY. Oh, and he's druidic. Though he pronounces it differently. And doesn't go round making any fuss of it, he just...is. SHUT UP and he calls me all the time and sends me pictures and plays Runescape with me and.... :) :) :) Okay now, what was I all fussed and discouraged about? I forgot. ********************************** I need to go find a dress. |
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| Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008 |
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I have intarnets in Colorado!! We have arrived and the computer is set up at Mom's place. :) We made it in about 12 hours, towards the end of which we were a bit insane but functional... barely. We only stopped for gas and to check on the babies while we got gas. The first stretch of the drive was *beautiful* and we saw a total of 4 rainbows guiding us northward. I took pics, and we'll see how many come out. :) It was a HUGE relief to be on the road. It's amazing what we could fit in our little toyota, and we didn't have any problems. I really felt for those poor boys from the moving company though. It was 115 degrees out there and even after giving/throwing SO much away we have a lot of crap. :P We thanked them muchly and watered them. The animals traveled well, thoroughly traumatized but doing Ok now. The rabbits are just SO happy to be out of the carrier. The reptiles aren't at all thrilled, but the tubs are temporary. Just while we're here, they'll get their fanciness back laters. Gomez scared the hell out of us though, he tangled himself up in his pillowcase in such a way, tieing it into a knot and making us think he'd throttled himself with it! We had to cut him out of the pillowcase. He's fine now, but OMG WTF Gomez! From now on, big deli cup for him!! Mom's cat Zoe is also terrified of the rabbits, and thus far as spent most of her time hiding in Mom's room. Dana is our biggest worry, because she's stressed and doesn't seem to want to eat. But she didn't when we first got her too, just the change of environment stresses her out I think. We basically feel like we're vacationing/visiting my family with the fur-scale kids. It doesn't feel at all real that we don't live in AZ anymore. The weather here is *gorgeous*, the water from the tap is actually *cold*, it's rained for us, the grass is soft and green, and it's awesome to see my folks. We're all just feeling really good and relaxed. It's all falling neatly into place, despite our panicking and moving stresses. :) Needless to say (I imagine) I'm still really distracted and probably won't be posting as much as I usually do for a while. But we're safe, happy, and kinda just... wow. We resisted the idea of moving back to this conservative military town for so long, but it's so... peaceful. We're really more small town girls than big city girls. We still adore the idea of Portland, and maybe our whole little clan here will pick up and go there someday. But this is really nice. We're good. |
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This put me in a good mood. |
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Here's this: MY STUPID LIFE This is the penultimate comic in the "Ants!" story arc. The final chapter will go up on Friday, and then you can all stop getting the heebie jeebies every time you read my comic (NOTE: I make no promises that the comic will, at that point, cease giving you the silly willies, the loosey goosies, or the flabby habby babbies). New flyer, the top part of which features a not-so-subtle Evan Dorkin homage:  Now that the Marked Men are breaking up, the Copyrights are officially the best band in America as of right now. |
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Does anyone out there have good, TESTED (i.e. you have made this recipe you, yourself, and it was successful) sugar-free dessert recipes? I'm looking particularly for things like cookies or bars using Splenda sugar substitute, and it needs to be something relatively quick and easy to bake. I usually search Recipezaar, but they're a bit lacking in reviews and Splenda is too expensive to waste. I have some get-togethers coming up over the next few weeks, and several diabetic family members which I'd really like to provide worry-free treats for. Any help, advice, or recipes are appreciated. |
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| Tonight bar room charcoal sketch. Assdip-chan and Gym-chan dancing together. | ||||||
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a remake? a port? who knows. knowing square it'll probably just be a port of the PSX version and i seriously doubt it'll get released in the US. |
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| Tuesday, July 1st, 2008 |
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Large kudos to XKCD, who filked it first, and of course, The Discovery Channel who created it. I love the whole world Although it's full of chores To-DOOM-de-yada DOOM-de-yada DOOM-de-yada DOOM-de-yada I love the whole world It makes me bounce and grin To-DOOM-de-yada DOOM-de-yada DOOM-de-yada DOOM-de-yada I love edit-by-line I love to iron my head I love the whole world And all its finished things To-DOOM-de-yada DOOM-de-yada DOOM-de-yada DOOM-de-yada To-DOOM-de-yada DOOM-de-yada DOOM-de-yada DOOM-de-yada! 1: That's how many I just ordered for ComicCon International. PANIC! 2: To those of my female friends who I randomly IM'ed today with "DO YOU SLEEP IN THE NUDE?" before realizing that was not the most elegant way to ask if one would be interested in some new or nearly-new silk nightwear I am trying to divest my armoire of. |
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Doyle Davidson is a televangelist. This pretty much sums him up completely: Notice how, when he walks into the "congregation," NO ONE turns to look at him from the front rows. |
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| "If you guys can't look forward to something new because it uses more than 256 colours then I hope you never enjoy anything ever again." | ||||
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Abortion: for or against? marginally for, but i really wish chicks would quit fucking using it as a way to get out of fucking up and taking responsibility. don't people know that sexual intercourse is the leading cause of pregnancy in the united states? Would our country fall with a woman president? i will vote for black lesbian if i thought she would fuck up the country less than her opponent. i'm sorry, but there are no good candidates anymore. Do you believe in the death penalty? to a point. the average murderer belongs in prison, but not dead. but if you have some scumfuck who really needs to go, like a serial child killer, string him up. Do you wish marijuana would be legalized already? yes, and i also think we need to have potheads anonymous. because there are some folks who just really shouldn't be smoking weed. are you for or against premarital sex? i don't believe in marriage so this question is moot. just be responsible. Do you believe in God? i'm an apathist, therefore i don't care one way or another if god exists, because even if he exists (i've seen evidence on both sides of the argument) i doubt he cares either. Do you think same sex marriage should be legalized? let's solve the problem altogether and just end the real purpouse of marriage: the financial and legal benefits it grants. relegate marriage back to the simple ritual it always was. Do you think its wrong that so many Hispanics are moving to the USA? if you're here legally then i don't have a problem with it. if you're here illegally, but you're just trying to feed your family, well i have a problem with you but try for citizenship and we'll talk. if you're here illegally to help cousin paco with his cocaine business, gtfo. also, speak english or die. A 12 year old girl has a baby should she keep it? good lord. i think a more important question is why is a 12 year old having a baby? Should the alcohol age be lowered to 18? in countries with a significantly lower drinking age DUIs tend to be lower as well. that won't happen in the united states, though, because our kids are fucking retards. Should the war in Iraq be called off? we made our bed, now we sleep in it. Do you believe in spanking your children? kids are little monsters without some discipline. asses are made fleshy for a reason: so it won't hurt too much when you spank them silly. Would you burn an American flag for a million dollars? on the one hand, the flag is merely a symbol- destroying a flag isn't going to ruin the country- and old flags are disposed of by burning anyway. on the other hand, i'm not sure i would anyway. A mother is declared innocent after murdering her 5 children in a temporary insanity case what do you think? i followed that case. that bitch knew what she was doing. Are you afraid others will judge you from reading some of your answers? they can judge my cock. 'cuz they know i'd smash their houses with it if i wanted to. |
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Happy, Happy, Happy Birthday hologrammatical!! I have presents for you, but unfortunately, they'll likely not be sent until late tonight. I'm behind on, well . . . pretty much everything. :( |
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Friends LiveJournal for Jason Lutovsky.
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ecstatic.