Sex in the Scary Rural Parts of Indiana

Seven Deadly Sin Motivational Posters. Found through Fireballs and Tsunami. Awesome!

pink spider

Also! My Other and I (but mostly me) are going to come up with new holidays celebrating things other than the birth of a man whom we do not believe is the savior of humankind/consumption, Saints that we don't believe in, or any other irrelevand crap that's just an excuse to buy certain-colored crappy products. More later!

flesh and bone by the telephone

Wow. This person is mad. And has no idea how to direct energy into anything other than bitching. Sad.


Yesterday I was looking back at this thank-you card my grandma sent me a couple months ago, and I noticed that the stamp was of a reindeer. A cartoon reindeer wearing hotpants and holding a gift as if it were a running back. Yellow and purple hotpants.


And then I wondered, why would anyone *want* a stamp depicting a cartoon reindeer wearing yellow and purple hotpants and running with a cartoon gift? Why would my grandma? And this question still puzzles me.

I guess I bitch a lot, too, but I also knit things and write papers. Knit your anger away, angry person, knit your anger away. And end up with a scarf.

i'm hiding out in the big city blinkin

You know, it really pisses me off that every damn restaurant owner and her brother are jumping onto the incredibly stupid atkins diet bandwagon, when a potentially enormous vegetarian market has been around for decades. At least we're villifying an entire food group for ethical reasons.

uh-oh, hippie showdown...

Today I ate a spinach burger sandwhich with sliced tomatoes and Miracle Whip. And I can remember how the Miracle Whip felt to taste, but not how it actually tasted.

Shit, other stuff is happening I'm sure but alas I can't remember what it is.

go tell it on the mountain, sister.

Welcome to another (another?) installment of "I Read Fox so you don't have to." I was happy to see links* to Dean's campaign site and a couple other things acknowledging that the Democrats exist, but alas, is it a coincidence that they're in an article entitled, "America Enjoys Rich History of Election Hijinks"? Hmm.

This story is about an outcry in minority communities in Florida and contains a link to "hispanic marketing," so I'm inclined to think that there is at least a little effort being made to match content of stories with content of ads.

*"sponsored" links at that... sponsored by whom, I wonder? Why would Democrats sponsor links from stories that they wouldn't want their names associated with?

Ugh! Dean Lite!

A Lame-Duck Congress Impeached Him on a Saturday.

My lovely and talented significant Other has started a blog: Sentences. At this point, it consists of a single sentence - a lame-duck congress impeached him on a saturday, if you must know - but at some point in the future - tomorrow, say - there will be more sentences. And you should read them.

In other news, my man Howie continues to rock the world with his amazing greatness.

I won't go into the whole Howard Dean experience that I've had over the past 4 months, because it's painful. I would just say, if you plan on voting in the Democratic primary, please at least consider Howard Dean, despite whatever you might have heard in passing on the news. Here are a couple points to consider:

1) Anyone who voted to support Bush's war, Bush's tax cuts, or Bush's (unfunded) education program will be very hard pressed to beat said Bush in the general election.

2) The "yell" that made the news over 700 times in the span of 3 days was taken out of the context of the crowd noise that was drowning out everything Dean was saying. There's a story about how that was done here, along with the real audio. Check it out to see for yourself what they did to him for ratings.

3) I've heard people criticize him for sealing his own Governor's records while criticizing Bush for the same thing. He has explained that he's only sealing those documents that contain private information about his constituents. (Many people, for example, wrote to him on the civil-unions issue and talked about being gay, which he doesn't believe is his place to make public.) He has a judge going through all of his records and determining which ones should be sealed in order to protect voter privacy. The rest will remain unsealed. George W. Bush cannot say the same thing.

4) He's no angrier than lots and lots of Americans (myself included) who want Bush out of office.

5) He's a doctor, and has a great record in Vermont of providing health insurance to those in need of it, especially children. Health issues are going to be huge in the coming election and his experience of several different perspectives on the industry will be a great benefit.

6) He's a generally good guy.

In still other news, I desperately need a redesign.