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last modified Dec 22, 2001 at 22:31


Friday, October 31, 2003

White tea rocks me.

78468 | posted by AussieAri at 18:53 | 0 comments

Even the movies weren't this good.

78467 | posted by AussieAri at 18:53 | 0 comments

Thursday, October 30, 2003

Form and Function my friend.

Got a haircut, spiky again- it's a fun change, my reflection strikes me. The lady nicked the mole on my neck however- yay Supercuts. It's not that i think $6 haircuts look good, it's just that i know that they can look good.
Arrive into Dallas at Tim's work to find him going to New Orleans for a Magic tournament. At least someone is having fun with my old deck.
Went to a one man one night Halloween special show at the good ol' Pocket Sandwich Theater. It was the first i've ever seen (both for the solo effort and..) that utterly makes fun of drag queens and drama boys. Tips to think of when constructing drag king shows in the future. Although, are drag kings so well known as to have the public realize when they’re being made satiric loving fun of? Perhaps an old game of 'beat the fag' by fags for the overtly P.C. who don’t like the word ‘fag’ is in order.
Arrived on another friend's doorstep right as she was in the shower and the family's oldest cat was having a seizure. Drove to their animal clinic to help calm the cat and smiled at the extremely cute new vet. The kitty will be alright, and with any luck will get better.
I found out i know some of the people in the 'Dyke Deck', they're Santa Fe people- surprise, suprise. A strange claustrophobic social circle began to swirl in the base of my gut again. I guess I have an emotional-socially guilt conscience.
Next book of poetry is dedicated first to everyone who ever put me up for a night or more and second to everyone who puts up with me regularly.

78395 | posted by AussieAri at 21:34 | 2 comments

Tuesday, October 28, 2003

That reminds me, i need to get toothpaste too.

78141 | posted by AussieAri at 18:24 | 0 comments

What a day, we did the work of two day's worth in one and the only reward was once again the company of these wild cats as the sun set unremarkably. We were not even told when certain cats were given a pumpkin to play with for Halloween- we only saw the left overs (which we will be cleaning up) and the dissinterest of the cats in the objects that had been there for them hours before.
Hiss and smite.
Changing seasons send my body spinning into uncertainty with my environment. I think i'll lay down somewhere outside soft and dark in the Sanctuary and listen to the cats call to one another.

78133 | posted by AussieAri at 17:41 | 2 comments

Monday, October 27, 2003

'Of lonely Ariadne on the wharf
At Naxos, when she saw the treacherous crew
Far out at sea, and waved her crimson scarf
And called false Theseus back again nor knew
That Dionysos on an amber pard
Was close behind her, memories of what Maeonia's bard'

78028 | posted by AussieAri at 18:57 | 0 comments

Sunday, October 26, 2003

Oh well, off to make obscene collages.

77890 | posted by AussieAri at 18:32 | 0 comments

Sabre Duel To The Death

Yay, i made a fencing t-shirt!

77885 | posted by AussieAri at 18:08 | 0 comments

After i planned out a vanity page for my drag king character, Xavier Long John's, I found myself planning out a personal website the other night in my notebook. Like most online things i do the majority of it is going to be archival list of sorts of mostly personal importance. It’ll be a place where i can store things for latter use and share them with those who either want to know about me or have similar interests. Yep. Otherwise it’s going to be pretty boring. After high school and the amounts I did then I can’t stand computer programming- hence part of why the appearance or set up of this weblog hasn’t changed at all. Oh well, thought you’d like to know, no delivery date affixed as of yet- i don't even have a computer set up here that would facilitate the making of it.

77874 | posted by AussieAri at 16:47 | 0 comments

Never in my home:

‘Don’t you think that…’, ‘As a rule…’, ‘Do you want to (do a task that is already expected of you)’

77871 | posted by AussieAri at 16:08 | 0 comments

The biggest hindrance and failure in my early education was never being taught what was truly necessary.

77870 | posted by AussieAri at 16:07 | 0 comments

Who saved the endangered fowl, the deer, then helped with the bear and the cougar- the hunters, not the killers- but who knows if they also hand fed the game before hunting season and then...

77869 | posted by AussieAri at 16:06 | 0 comments

We were just confronted and accosted by a cold front. Arse. Something about this temperature is so significant in my memory. Regardless of Texas' erratic winter weather, today the atmosphere says to me: this is it; this is a cold season that will not turn warm for a long while and will be getting colder yet. Bundle your thoughts of summer away and gird up your loins in so many layers.

77867 | posted by AussieAri at 16:04 | 0 comments

mmm…the warm curdling of CO2 in the stomach.
mmm…protein highs.

eat and sleep, work a bit, sleep and eat.
I almost always like the day after a big communal potluck event better.

77866 | posted by AussieAri at 15:59 | 0 comments

Wow. Just amazing. Today i learnt how to go in with the bobcats and other smaller ones to give them companionship. I'll definitely be spending more time with Poncho, our male Margay, and this time, in his enclosure.

77865 | posted by AussieAri at 15:58 | 0 comments

Saturday, October 25, 2003

i like to slam into things...

With a motorcycle helmet, you are privy to all kinds of conversation starters.

77765 | posted by AussieAri at 14:29 | 0 comments

I now know...

The differences between:

starving,
fasting,
keeping yourself just slightly under fed,
keeping yourself just slightly over fed,
gorge eating,
eating whatever you like,
eating nothing you actually like,
and grazing.

77763 | posted by AussieAri at 14:27 | 0 comments

I have a secret fear I am only a poet or intellectual’s poet.

I am constantly aware that nothing can re-assure the safety of or guarantee life- coming or going- that it is, despite our best attempts, still fragile in important and necessary ways.

I have a secret thrill while watching performers in the middle of their acts that I might through some bizarre proximity be placed in their position in that instant and have to continue.

77762 | posted by AussieAri at 14:21 | 0 comments

Strangers in Paradise

Is it strange to have just a few people you are hung up on for all your life? Through anything, and everything, (re)connecting or relating regardless of change (or at least trying to), returning to thoughts of them often, and for whatever sake.

77761 | posted by AussieAri at 14:20 | 1 comments

cry for an edit

I’d forgotten how i need an audience of some sort, however small. I simply can’t hear my own words with fresh ears as well as others can.

77760 | posted by AussieAri at 14:19 | 0 comments

Cool! We need to use one or the other of these for the labs at St. John's. It would off set the already black lab tables.

77746 | posted by AussieAri at 11:18 | 0 comments

Friday, October 24, 2003

don't worry.

If you don't understand me at all, it's because i don't what you to.

77664 | posted by AussieAri at 17:26 | 0 comments

I have had dirty hands since i got calluses

And i will verily miss all this-
the grit, spit exchanged in every kiss,
the sweat, and smell of so many stale drinks and cigarettes
blood in the morning-
Every item passing and reoccurring.

77663 | posted by AussieAri at 17:17 | 0 comments

Thursday, October 23, 2003

i think i have a problem with enjoying the journey. I'm always looking to the destination.

77585 | posted by AussieAri at 13:51 | 0 comments

'mild peril', what the fuck?

life is R rated. Sometimes worse.

77581 | posted by AussieAri at 12:35 | 0 comments

Sunday, October 19, 2003

God what boring speech we humans put up with day to day when they have so many languages and words to use otherwise. It’s worse than not bursting out into song every once in a while.

“Have you done the laundry?”
“I don’t remember the last time the law was cut and dry, but I’ll get the ride on and the sheets can be bleached at the same time.”

77081 | posted by AussieAri at 14:02 | 2 comments

Saturday, October 18, 2003

fuzzy wuzzy

I know I’m not a furry but I still maintain that it would be better (for me at least) to have fur (not the monkey sort though, a nice full short haired coat with summer and winter phases) than to not.

Pros:
No more scrapes and light cuts
Less bug bites
No more clothing
Always dressed for just about any occasion

Cons:
Shampoo costs OR Hairballs
Picking up your sheddings
Fur in your food BUT it does work as a floss
No point in getting a tattoo

On a related note, I met one of the leopards last Wednesday who was in Passion In The Desert. It was through several turns of events (as with most cats that share his fate) that he is now in a sanctuary. He’s the one that did the jump, he actually overshot it the first time. Yes, he did. Judging by his enclosure- i doubt he will be doing a jump like that again.

77026 | posted by AussieAri at 19:14 | 3 comments

Thursday, October 16, 2003

It's a French company run by the British with its headquarters in Texas. I shit you not, my friend works for them. I don't know how he doesn't giggle all day long.

76774 | posted by AussieAri at 10:28 | 0 comments

Jenny math.

Vagina + Boner = Vagona

app. eq.: Vergona
def: packing a beer in your pants.

additionally: Vagonarona
def: The edible italian version.

76765 | posted by AussieAri at 9:25 | 6 comments

Pass the Mission Plan

Things to investigate the reasons of:

The joy of a memory than the joy of the event that made the memory.
The desire for anachronistic living.
The properties of silence, and different kinds if any.
Cultural beautification through painful ritualistic processes.
The desire to destroy what is overtly cute.
The difference between cuteness and beauty.

76764 | posted by AussieAri at 8:52 | 0 comments

Tuesday, October 14, 2003

It’s all about the sauce.

But I have no idea how to make any good sauces. :o(

76635 | posted by AussieAri at 20:17 | 0 comments

Sunday, October 12, 2003

I've never admitted how much i really like satire. It's probably my favorite form of comedy, going so closely along with the absurd to make a very good point. It's ageless to me despite its referential objects. It's nice to know that we have made fun of ourselves and each other for such a long time. It's just that much more funny when you know exactly who they're referring to.

76407 | posted by AussieAri at 15:36 | 0 comments

I have more reasons now and ask less questions about them. Am i becoming a sensualist of just growing older and more set in my ways?

76405 | posted by AussieAri at 15:27 | 0 comments

The leopard has spots that the Shakespearians didn’t trust.

It disturbs me how easily circumstances of food, weather, sleep and exercise will affect my mode of thought and my mood even if I have a strong will and am stubborn.

76404 | posted by AussieAri at 15:26 | 0 comments

Religion panders to or producing a certain kind of personality scares me. But don't most of them?

76403 | posted by AussieAri at 15:24 | 0 comments

I see no sound theological reasoning that can support the idea of a corporeal body in the afterlife. Could someone please explain it if they have any clue?

76402 | posted by AussieAri at 15:23 | 3 comments

Do not disturb the sloth as they dream of many possible worlds.

Possessing of intelligence is not defined with words or by the use of language per say, and to the dismay of etymologists and psychologists everywhere, it's by the ability to recognize.

76401 | posted by AussieAri at 15:22 | 0 comments

For those with cats and herb gardens (with a fucking 'H' in it) or those who have one and want the other.

Well I don't know if it's all sound but they seem to have quite the following.

76400 | posted by AussieAri at 15:16 | 0 comments

What The Month Of April Gives Away To May

She collects scars
As if they were postcards
One for every event
She could think to lament

76397 | posted by AussieAri at 15:07 | 0 comments

Names to be given.

Jayne West, Ripe Meat, My Burlap Sack, Well Tempered Steel.

76396 | posted by AussieAri at 15:05 | 0 comments

Thursday, October 9, 2003

How to Train A Tiger

Well here's one way to do it but let me fill you in on how we figure it works:

1) rub raw meats on body, try to let the juices soak in.
2) approach the tiger or his area making odd frantic noises and hand motions. Make sure you fall over a few times before getting any closer.
3) if the above did not work, or even if it did, poke tiger vigorously to make sure it's aware of your annoying presence.
4) if the tiger has not by now gone for your neck/head then open it's mouth.
5) insert your head/neck.
6) bop the tiger on the nose with a microphone or whatever is available, bite his nose if you can.
7) flail legs around wildly.
8) scream 'it's only a flesh wound from my pit bull'
9) and you're done (for).

at least i know what i'm doing tonight. It occurs to me that social activities from st. john's to here have simply been replaced, adequately or not. It also occurred to me i'm one of those people who really likes a defined relationship and flounders emotionally not in what is inarticulate but in what is undetermined.

76192 | posted by AussieAri at 14:24 | 1 comments

Monday, October 6, 2003

I'm will randomly continue to post odd links in a mix of bizarre sentence that are haphazardly connected but in the mean time, just go here, because she's not martha and she's much better at finding interesting products than i am.

75926 | posted by AussieAri at 20:16 | 0 comments

Good enough to snort.

Ginger Altoids.

75925 | posted by AussieAri at 20:11 | 0 comments

knock on bone

Of all the stupid, dangerous things i've done, and all the scars, scrapes, punctures, bruises, chipped, sprained, torn, and twisted injuries i've incurred; i've never broken a bone.

75924 | posted by AussieAri at 20:05 | 0 comments

Saturday, October 4, 2003

"Early to bed and early to rise, Makes a man and woman, Miss out on the night life"

Went to see Geroge Clinton and the P-Funk at Deep Ellum Live. Pretty good show, nice mix of people (including a large guy who had a pvc pipe didgeridoo he was playing on intermittently, and a home girl wearing one of these). Not to many of them were too inebriated for their own good. I was so tired the whole show that the moments not entirely well defined by the shifting music and slower music grated by for me. The smoke, of varying sort, didn't help. Every time i go into Dallas now my eyes start to burn and i develop charming loogies. After the show Reagan bought this lady's cd and talked with her for a while about violins. People can look so different on stage then off of it, and it’s not even costume or makeup, simply perspective. She was little people like me, only 3 inches shorter. Reagan, being the bomb, with her equally wonderful friend got us invited into the main bus of the band where the majority of the members were winding down with a movie on the tv in the front half while a few people were trying to sleep in the beds stacked three high lining the walls on either side. In the back smoking cigarettes there were several men that i'd definitely call 'dirty old' simply because they weren't afraid of the fact they still wanted to get in the sack with highly attractive young women like the ones i was with and with all their funky musician hood, had more of an opportunity than most. Of course, Clinton wasn't there and Reagan could not get confirmation of her dream of having him play at her white girl wedding reception. On the way out of the bus, but not before my not so necessary chaperoning of Reagan and her friend was done, as my guts were practicing making knots from the boy scout handbook, i passed by this lady who smiled nicely at me but all i could managed was a weary smile in return and a 'goodnight' instead of a 'You were wonderful to watch perform on stage' because she absolutely was.

75729 | posted by AussieAri at 20:55 | 0 comments

Thursday, October 2, 2003

More hedgehog shit.

I really just want a pair of undies saying 'don't be a prick' with a pic of a currled up hedgehog.

75470 | posted by AussieAri at 12:47 | 0 comments

“These are the interns. Stay away from them, they’re no good. They eat all the food and make a lot of noise.” – George, a volunteer, to the people on his tour.

75466 | posted by AussieAri at 12:37 | 0 comments

Digital killed the video.

After tapping the cats here I really want a video/digital camera of my own. I’ve always known I’d enjoy it. Something not sluggish or cumbersome would be nice, doesn’t have to be new, can’t be expensive. It’s just so much fun for me to be able to direct attention in a view, specifically my view at that moment. Any suggestions?

75463 | posted by AussieAri at 12:24 | 0 comments

I cringe at the word ‘career’.

I find myself mostly making remarks to my coworkers to fill gaps in our conversation. Non sequiturs, related anecdotes, oblique comments, silly stories, my favorite jokes: nothing of any real insight is conferred between us in words. Just talking to pass the time and less interesting tasks that any job inevitably has. So that is what it was like; I never have been in quite as isolated a place.

75461 | posted by AussieAri at 12:17 | 0 comments

"Fast slow fast fast slow" and other rhythms that sound like dance steps.

Fast:
With weapons and strikes, At physically demanding labor tasks, Packing up, At getting board with TV, At leaving and appearing, At writing and art pieces once inspired, With organization, With witty sparing and slights of sarcasm, At taking off after the light changes, At asking any questions I come across, At responding to communiqué, At getting ready in the morning, At finding things/people, At walking in the city, At eating, At making most decisions except when I’m...

Slow:
With matters of the heart and asking questions that will leave me without regret, At becoming stably satisfied with environment and routine changes, At editing, Proofreading, Finishing entire creative projects, And preparing to write, Cruising on my bike, With compliments, At shopping for unnecessary things, At cooking for myself, At contemplating, At wandering, At falling asleep, At drinking, At getting songs and poems out of my head and off to elsewhere.

75460 | posted by AussieAri at 12:07 | 0 comments

Oh my G-D
Or if you prefer...
Oh my Gods!

75458 | posted by AussieAri at 11:01 | 0 comments

Hope for dyslexic poems yet, but not bad spelling.

Birllaint Obsrevatoin...
Aoccdrnig to extnesvie rseeacrh conudcetd at Oxofrd Uinervtisy in Enlgnad, it deosn't raelly mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The rset can be in a toatl mses and you usulaly can sitll raed it wouthit much porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by it slef but the wrod as a wlohe.

75457 | posted by AussieAri at 10:53 | 0 comments

Smut, because “dirty books are fun” – Tom Lehrer

Certain anatomy is silly, but certainly no sillier than me making my breast ‘talk’ to one another in ‘The Mammary Memoirs’. I like that he checks his nails while he’s at it. I wonder if he had a tip jar- odd thing about that, with a tip jar you take the money out and people give you more, with charity jars, they only give if there’s already some in there.
And in other news, getting along with Canadians (also being from a bastardized nation that likes to make fun of the Brits who generally fight like pansy holligans) and their cool laws, I think I’ve found myself a new job. I wonder if they’ll open up a section in the Mounties. I love those odd bloody Mounties. And just think of all the food i could get ahold of that doesn't comes from a Wal-mart in Decatur.

75454 | posted by AussieAri at 10:35 | 0 comments