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last modified Dec 22, 2001 at 22:31


Sunday, November 30, 2003

A real live British superhero.

Angle Grinder Man.

81013 | posted by AussieAri at 15:05 | 2 comments

Saturday, November 29, 2003

So... does anyone know someone in Amarillo who would let me crash at their domicile for a night? Or perhaps a minor offence that will land me in jail for one night only and not go on the record?

80967 | posted by AussieAri at 19:14 | 2 comments

how do fruitcake companies stay in bussiness??

Talk the paint off a brass doorknob
doorknob ranching
get off my doorknob
dumb as a doorknob

80959 | posted by AussieAri at 14:53 | 0 comments

Getting ready to leave. Getting ready to leave the Sanctuary. I will miss these cats and memories of them will haunt me.

80958 | posted by AussieAri at 14:35 | 0 comments

Tuesday, November 25, 2003

Two places that shouldn't have closed because i'll never get to drink at them now.

The Cockeyed Parrot- Deep Ellumn.
Moby Dick's- Port Aransas.

At least there's the Gay bar Moby Dick in Dallas, but i don't know if their T-Shirts are as cool.

80705 | posted by AussieAri at 19:56 | 0 comments

Monday, November 24, 2003

Forking, Spooning, or Knifing? But please, no Sporking.

80629 | posted by AussieAri at 18:50 | 2 comments

Sunday, November 23, 2003

Leo. Leo Pard ma'am.

Blaf. Blampfh!

80494 | posted by AussieAri at 14:26 | 0 comments

The other night I had a dream- a nightmare when I woke and realized it. I was a strait guy in an unfamiliar bar with no friends or anyone I even recognized. And in this agonizing space of all unthinkable activities, I was trying to talk to women. I am so sorry. I didn't know it was that shitty.

80493 | posted by AussieAri at 14:15 | 0 comments

"Excuse me stewardess, but I speak Jive."

And today i learnt that i do in fact speak several different dialects.

80487 | posted by AussieAri at 13:33 | 0 comments

We didn’t start the fire. But we have replaced the source of our attention.

See, as a very drunken conversation of a friend turned up, in the beginning when our thick protruding brows still obscured it, there was the sun. We could not dare keep the cruel gaze of the flaming cycloptic overlord even when we did finally lift our heads. Then there was fire to tend to, promethean that seemed to descend from skies above, a gift of the gods that probably came out of the swift weapon of their wrath. Then- and this was the turning point- like little lightning bolts regulated into volts, and after many mad and dangerous experiments- electric wires lit our bulbs. Soon there was white snow and blue glaze of TV glare lighting every window at the evening’s setting. Now we’ve got a whole lot of 1 & 0’s that came with a green screen and not fire burn but radiation.

80486 | posted by AussieAri at 13:22 | 0 comments

Thinking about characters again.

Chimerism and Mosaicism (OR who needs singularity when you've got genetic stripes). Not that i want to making slights on nature VS. nurture in the genetic make up of a person VS. their personality, but it would be great to write a story involving a character of each.

80485 | posted by AussieAri at 13:09 | 0 comments

Films set in/about Texas i should eventually see:

Last Picture Show, Texasville, The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas, Paris, Texas, Greater Tuna, The Alamo, Dancer, Texas Pop. 81, She Wore A Yellow Ribbon, Happy, Texas, It’s In the Water, The Prophet, The Bullfighter, JFK The Whole Wide World, The Road To Galviston, Waltz Across Texas

And maybe that Texas Chainsaw Massacre crap.

Any others?

80483 | posted by AussieAri at 12:35 | 0 comments

Saturday, November 22, 2003

Dearth

In the words of Jaeger, “There seems to be an ass famine upon the land”

80443 | posted by AussieAri at 17:40 | 0 comments

Wednesday, November 19, 2003

in other animal adventures....

Dang possums are not bright creatures. They're not pretty or even that endearing in a cute-ugly pathetic way.

The Tenrec, a lesser hedgehog, may just be cuter than the African Pygmy hedgie. Go see for yourself.

Rhino skin is one of the roughest, thickest thing i've ever touched. Two ton lawnmower indeed.

80249 | posted by AussieAri at 22:29 | 0 comments

Monday, November 17, 2003

An internally bruised muscle and an overpaid account. Well this is a day for personal firsts.

80013 | posted by AussieAri at 19:09 | 0 comments

Lions are highly overrated says i.

I can't watch the Discovery Channel anymore. I use to love it when i was younger and when i had the access to the channel in the past. But in the last two years it's programming content and willy-nilly, unaware of the repercussions attitude towards the different animals it portrays is getting far too absurd.

80012 | posted by AussieAri at 19:08 | 1 comments

Sunday, November 16, 2003

like there's an elephant dump worth of money to be made in the bussiness

Only if i get to put the gazelle in with the tigers. Otherwise it makes my head hurt.

79908 | posted by AussieAri at 19:02 | 0 comments

In the spirit of those people who love to define a person by the media they consume, here is a wanting list of waiting for, because, no, I have nothing better to say of my own right now:

Strangers in Paradise (Is Tambi Pregnant? Where did she get those scars? Oh, and that tattoo?? And yeah I suppose I want to know what happens in Katchoo’s life 10 years separate from Francine.)
Daredevil Comic Book(about the only mainstream superhero I pay attention to anymore.)
Star Wars (I’m having a problem with trilogies, sagas etc. [i.e.: the Matrix] but I’m willing to see them through to their end before judging...and then watching them back to back.)
Lord of The Rings (see above, only I like LoTR better.)
Kill Bill (Damn those rationalized plot loops are just so amusing.)
Age Of Bronze (well because I love Ancient Greece, and also: )
Troy (because Brad Pitt is just vain enough to be Achilles.)
Alan Moore’s series comic books (please, please, enough with the writings about writings about the man while he is still alive and very well capable of finishing those longer projects he does best and not the one shots off the cuff.)
David Mack (waiting for the next evolution of his comic book art.)
Spiderbait (my favorite Australia Band.)
Mary Pranksters (fun fun fun in a punk hand basket.)
Mary and Mars (not too big and famous to not still kick it for a bunch of drunk folks at the Cowgirl once a week.)
Devotchka (already too big to play at the [only worthwhile] Santa Fe nightclub, the Paramount.)
Charles Simic (because he and…
Derek Walcott …rock my proverbial literary world as legends of poetry and are still both alive.)
The Breeders (Will we ever see that new album? Will Kelly Deal ever get off cocaine?)
Janette Winterson (because I really loved her previous stuff.)
All the blogs I read (because it’s one step closer to actually talking real time with people out there in the world who don’t go to/have gone to my college.)

79906 | posted by AussieAri at 18:52 | 0 comments

Things to give big cats for x-mas:

Giant Plastic Pickles

How do you say goodbye to a wild cat?

79899 | posted by AussieAri at 18:01 | 0 comments

congenial visits people!

Sometimes i wonder if I'd be better off in prison.

It would at least be an interesting social experiment- though it does go on the damn record. As is, my clean one has its advantages.

I know though, that this is a self defeating thought, made falsely to evade the real question that only experience has been able to shed light on: what i really wonder is if i will find something i can be mostly satisfied with doing day in day out for years at a time.

79897 | posted by AussieAri at 17:55 | 0 comments

Friday, November 14, 2003

Only God can judge me.

So now I know how Dyral felt. Before I only understood his situation- so many talents so strong and real and yet rendered useless by society’s standards. Because of things like hating to pay rent when you won’t leave a trace anyway and the whole of the land use to belong to yours, not being your own boss or simply being a cog in someone else’s monetary dream, and oh yeah-wearing a shirt.

Also- adult Kafka has a complex I think I’m now sharing in. Eh? No! Not the one about his Pa or the one about sex- the one about not wanting to support himself financially by his writings. This is something that when I first read I was alarmed by- “Franz! How much more could you have left us with? Did you not trust your art and skill enough?” So sure he helped save many a Prague working man’s fingers from the open steal jaws of factory machines after the turn of the 20th century. It’s a more humanitarian occupation than Wallace Stevens set himself up in. And by golly did it allow Franz to write himself to sleep in his parent’s house every evening without worrying over assets. Now I know we must do what we must do to make ourselves happy, to justify and feel justified, to find some satisfaction in our lives with peace of mind about our actions in our lifetime. How can you see beyond then? How might I admit there is a relation between the fulfillment of duty and the fulfillment of desire? Because I really do want to.

79795 | posted by AussieAri at 16:05 | 2 comments

The smell of ripe seafood and laundry detergent is strange- coming from a strip joint as you ride by is downright disturbing.

79792 | posted by AussieAri at 15:45 | 0 comments

havin' fun and loosin' teeth honky tonky style.

Kinky Friedman's Guide to Texas Etiquette : Or How to Get to Heaven or Hell Without Going Through Dallas-Fort Worth or (Abridged Version)

79791 | posted by AussieAri at 15:38 | 0 comments

Thursday, November 13, 2003

This is almost as amusing as the surprises i get from the Baptist church down the highway, or, the current president. Now if i can find one that makes fake IDs...

79670 | posted by AussieAri at 18:06 | 0 comments

Wednesday, November 12, 2003

Well now that i've found what the slang for 'man boobs' is i may be able to find a male bra to buy as a gag gift. In the mean time, you can keep yourselves occupied with this.

79604 | posted by AussieAri at 22:08 | 0 comments

Tuesday, November 11, 2003

god- please no, not the tv again. I know she doesn't mean to be annoying- it's the way that she lives that is to me.

79491 | posted by AussieAri at 18:42 | 0 comments

Luddite methods over repetitive actions- regardless of convenience, efficiency, simplicity or complexity.

79490 | posted by AussieAri at 18:40 | 0 comments

mmm…venison. *licks chops* mmm…lamb chops. *drools*

I have, of recent, had a desire to simply use my hands to eat at every meal- not just for the usual: snacks, munchies, ‘finger foods’, sandwiches or pizza. No utensils. Dive right in, so to speak. It’s really a glorious experience- tasting first by touch the food before you about to be devoured. Tasting in a way which the mouth, nose or eyes can’t. Fulfilling immediate oral anticipation and deepening others instead of having all your focus on the movement of a small morsel through the air to your mouth of however much you managed to precariously perch on the end of some piece of wood, plastic or metal which will also have to go into your mouth with that food.
When we went to Bridgeport, a soon-to-be sanctuary for big cats one town over, we watched them doing some of their much debated carcass feeding. There are many pros and cons to it all but that’s not what I want to write about here. It wasn’t the gay male leopard, or the one in ‘Passion in the Dessert’, or how the keepers would thread their fingers through the chicken fence wiring as they lent their backs up against the cat’s enclosures. What I remember most with utter fascination were the tigers bloody whiskers and maws.

79489 | posted by AussieAri at 18:33 | 0 comments

Fill the hole where your heart should be in, Richard D. James.

79487 | posted by AussieAri at 18:13 | 0 comments

I know it's just a comic strip, but I can relate to their reality from mine.

"Ms. Bandy, the lions smell funny."

"Richard, will you give me a reference?"
"What am i holding?"
"A pen..."
"OK, i'll give you a reference."

79486 | posted by AussieAri at 18:03 | 0 comments

Merde and other lovely perfumes from the Seign.

Sometimes, I miss Paris. But for very odd reasons. Oh, and the nudist club where you check your clothing at the door.

79485 | posted by AussieAri at 17:52 | 0 comments

Monday, November 10, 2003

he-he -hehe *snort*

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79430 | posted by AussieAri at 17:46 | 0 comments

Saturday, November 8, 2003

But oath those boat figuerhead maidens aren't made pretty.

79352 | posted by AussieAri at 17:14 | 0 comments

*a lone banjo plays*

I'm really getting down with my inner Hick out here. Today i found a pair of Dickie's bib front work overalls with all the pockets everywhere. They fitted over my sweatpants/longjohns and numerous layers of shirts and i was warm all morning (fairly dry too) and looked sort of good in a hokey kind of way. So Wham: Farmer Girl Ari. Ye-haw, praise the lord and pass the ammunition, we'll be playing like we're from tha' thar movie Deliverance! Yes, i can speak fluent redneck. Schite i hope i don't go home talking like a Texan. My pronunciation survived through high school but not out in the BOONIES. As long as our very texan director can't understand what i'm saying every once and a while, i suppose i'm ok.

"Does anyone need anything else?" -him
"A hug." -me
"A HOG?? I saw an add in tha local paper..." -him

"What'r ya'll cookin'?" -him
"Tuna." -me
"Shootin’??" –him

79350 | posted by AussieAri at 17:05 | 0 comments

Thursday, November 6, 2003

Don't you ever make fun of marsupials again. I give you, the pink fairy armadillo.

79186 | posted by AussieAri at 19:24 | 1 comments

So this is fun. I've been composing lines without context but with content in my head since i've come here. They're short and they don't go anywhere else with me but they could. I think i'll start collecting my own for an extra section to my current book- there's nothing better to be done with them and i do so hate to waste things.

79179 | posted by AussieAri at 18:37 | 0 comments

fear of the furry butt

I don't care what kind of a martial artist you are or your physical prowess. Given the situation, it was nearly impossible to escape three eager tigress arses backed up against the fence all spraying.

Also: domestic cats can spontaneously shed on black.

If I came here with an image of wild majestic beasts, I don’t have one anymore. Not that I think badly of the cats in any way now- it’s just that they are as stinkier, less clean, and often as silly as domestic cats.

79142 | posted by AussieAri at 11:04 | 0 comments

Tuesday, November 4, 2003

I don't know why, she swallowed that lie...And then there were none.

"We're bringing about the Apocalypse Ari, and i'm OK with that." –Tim

78899 | posted by AussieAri at 20:24 | 0 comments

hmmmmmmm..flabberflabberflabber.

78892 | posted by AussieAri at 20:13 | 0 comments

Highschool Dances:

The dog with worms
The sprinkler
The lawn mower
The shopping for groceries

Anyone remember the others we came up with?

78890 | posted by AussieAri at 20:11 | 0 comments

"What the...some chicken stamped a mark on these damn eggs!"

Why do the men wear their full hunting camo gear to Walmart on a weeknight?

78887 | posted by AussieAri at 20:10 | 1 comments

Monday, November 3, 2003

Their cognizance works with associations of emotions to objects, and the compounded worth of experience in these events. Ours is by figurers, symbols and the relation of separate instances.

78730 | posted by AussieAri at 17:22 | 0 comments

Saturday, November 1, 2003

All it takes is one mistake and it may not even be yours.

Fuck. I am sure in those two second i doomed myself to the world of men forever. I'm too torn to realize all the ramifications, only the ones that are easily verbalized and don't even define the lines of the rift.

78540 | posted by AussieAri at 18:33 | 1 comments