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last modified Dec 22, 2001 at 22:31


Tuesday, December 30, 2003

a little secret.

I gave my first haircut today to someone other than myself. And I did a pretty good job. Texturizing with scissors, using the clippers and comb. Maybe I should have been a gay male hairstylist.

84271 | posted by AussieAri at 21:39 | 0 comments

Second Round

Cheers little plain looking but content filled weblog of mine! Here's to two years of you!

84270 | posted by AussieAri at 21:32 | 2 comments

Worthy of lousy bad points:

Saying you’ll work till close on your first day back in town and then realizing ‘close’ is 2am on a Friday night.

84269 | posted by AussieAri at 21:28 | 0 comments

While she probably thought I was a walking abomination- I just thought she was incredibly annoying. Ultimately, I think I got the better deal in the relationship.

84268 | posted by AussieAri at 21:26 | 0 comments

More Things To Do:

Learn how to not dance like a white girl.

84267 | posted by AussieAri at 21:25 | 0 comments

The beatings will continue untill morale improves

What is so often wasted on children and rarely enjoyed by adults? A Spanking!

As I realized after reaceiving one with a wet bar rag at work the other night, a spanking administered unexpectedly throughout the duration would make me work much better during shift, though used excessively I may just end up walking funny.

84266 | posted by AussieAri at 21:25 | 0 comments

Monday, December 29, 2003

Go Ambidextrous!

Learning to use the computer mouse with my left hand because of space restrictions with this current set up.

84136 | posted by AussieAri at 19:24 | 0 comments

If we can hear her hammering through the wall....does that mean she can hear...?

84127 | posted by AussieAri at 18:36 | 1 comments

They have little hogletts at the pet store! It made my week to hold those little soft white fur bellied spiky babies again! Oh prickly joy! I'd forgotten how much hedgehogs enthrall me. Move over Mr. majestic gerbil, make way you sodomizing Axolotls, and forget about trying to see zygotes from sea urchins that don’t breed in the winter and die when you send them in the post.

84126 | posted by AussieAri at 18:34 | 1 comments

In the City Different you can get your tips for nothing and your news for free.

I got a free paper on x-mas eve from a street vender because he’d never sold one to someone on a bike before. Wave to these people.

I got tipped for nothing just because the jar was empty and the guy who was slightly intoxicated also worked in food service, ‘just for being here to serve us food whenever we want it’. That's exactly right- and i can rarely eat pizza now a days.

84122 | posted by AussieAri at 18:29 | 0 comments

Holy hell balls.

Soar all over except for my face and my obloques. Why pray tell? Did I have to face a pack of winter starved coyotes? Did I have to haul my bike several miles up hill in a snow flurry? Naw, I played with a Russian Kettlebell. At least we don’t have to smile while we’re doing it, I’m sure the grunting agony we sometimes display does the same for the facial muscles as for the rest of our bodies.

84121 | posted by AussieAri at 18:27 | 0 comments

Gone to the dogs.

I’ll get a malamute someday or a kelpie (and won’t it be the most cat like dog you’ve ever met?) but sure as hell not a golden retriever. After house sitting for a 9 month old one I’m pooped out when it comes to that breed. Maybe it just means I’m not ready to give that much time or sort of attention to the care of a puppy dog. None the less, golden retrievers are quite destructive with items. Even when not left to their own devices.
Thanks fully she's not a retarded animal.

84120 | posted by AussieAri at 18:22 | 0 comments

Friday, December 19, 2003

Oy moi.

I'm back in Santa Fe all safe and well but someone ran into my bike and pranged the rear break lever a foot out from where it should be, twisting where it's attachement from the main skeleton of the bike. Thunderbolts of arse fire. I need a cheap mechanical welder. If i had been any less tired i would have cried over my little bike- i was already zonked from travel, the sleepless but inebriated night before. I consumed all the mead my parents bought me to drink on the last night of my visit. Why let it go to waste eh? I'm not sure why they have been so readily buying me grog but hey- it was my christmas and their's too.

83183 | posted by AussieAri at 11:04 | 0 comments

Wednesday, December 17, 2003

Luckily for Kiwis everywhere, sheep come with their own lubricant.

And the other day, mum pulled out a tube of lanolin.

82985 | posted by AussieAri at 18:51 | 0 comments

All rightallrightallright. A drink through the generations.

My grandfather drank gin. In fact I have memories of his giving me his gin soaked martini olives each evening we visited my grandparents. Now in my own young but grown enough age, I love gin. It was interesting to find that Boodles was his brand of choice, where as mine is Citadelle or Bombay Sapphire. I'll have to give his a go. Oh well, old habits die and with us.

82984 | posted by AussieAri at 18:47 | 2 comments

Tuesday, December 16, 2003

girding up.

Something has definitely slipped and could have died in my moral consciousness. Decisions that five years ago gave me such a sense of moral fortitude and superiority because i was in adherence to metaphysical ideals that should strengthened a character, are now tiresome in that, as moral decision usually go, they just don't satisfy the loins. Nope. But i'm still making decisions in favor of those virtuous things that are inevitably superior to my physical satisfaction.

Maybe moral fortitude in older age is simply what you don't want to waste energy on because you either have and learnt better of it or never wanted to before- so why bother now? Nothing so emphatic... and it's not anything to do with an exuberance and passion of serving some virtuous ends throughout your life.

"you crazy baby bathsheba" - Dead, The Pixies

82831 | posted by AussieAri at 15:29 | 0 comments

Monday, December 15, 2003

"Why does man kill the thing he loves most, only to set it free to see if it will come back to him in a bloody heap?"

AAAASSS! Yet again, one of those few starlit odd joys that a person has which you can't really explain to another and which few others share to begin with has passed me by and i'll i'm left with is their last cd signed from when i saw them play weary from their travels in Santa Fe.

i missed Rasputina playing in Buffalo.

Ass.

82700 | posted by AussieAri at 18:08 | 0 comments

Having a mouthful doesn't mean your dumb.

Thanks to Karen for telling me about the strange sounds that come from the activity of two deaf people having sex. I'm not trying to be mean here- it's just something i hadn't thought of before. For that matter, nor had i thought how funny sex between the hearing able could be to a deaf person. Really- if you don't love the person you're with or even like them, or if you keep your eyes closed, you'll never see how silly we all look when we orgasm. *insert sub argument about why even ugly people should get laid simply on this fact, if not anything else*

I'm actually fascinated by deafness and blindness and in the future intend to learn ASL. I asked for a flame-thrower and an ASL dictionary for Xmas but i'm happy enough with my long johns, maybe for my birthday. In the mean time, i'm remembering PUNCH DRUnK's 'Phone Sex For the Deaf' skit and thinking that someone should publish a deaf sex handbook in ASL or 'How To Talk Dirty With One Hand In Bed With The Lights On'.
BUUHhh! DDDUHH!!

82689 | posted by AussieAri at 15:19 | 0 comments

You go girl.

Big bottom girls are doin' it for themselves, yo. Or if you prefer, something more traditional in name...

82677 | posted by AussieAri at 12:34 | 0 comments

Saturday, December 13, 2003

Do not underestimate my will to power.

Apparently I'm 100% in agreement with Nietzsche. Also 85% with Ayn Rand which makes me just want to run around in the snow naked then take a long shower.

82494 | posted by AussieAri at 21:36 | 1 comments

You know, i don't like Ligers either.

82492 | posted by AussieAri at 21:32 | 0 comments

Like David Copperfield

Wow. Where do I begin? By making something disappear before your eyes? Instead I think i'll just relocate it. Leaves gone from all the skinny tall toothpicks of maple trees and strange sticky white stuff that falls from the sky whenever it feels like it. Not much sun, usually covered over by gray clouds and not shinning for long each day. Well i'm in NY- Niagara Falls area visiting at my parent's house where my beloved cats (who are slowly getting older), all the knickknacks from my travels, books, and my comic book collection are. On a good day you can see Toronto from the mansions that line the ridge on the other side of the street across from us, or if you happen to wander around the local golf course situated down the road. I haven't trespass...er...explored yet but golf would be so much more fun for me at this point in my life if, say, you were running from people with paint balls at the same time as you were playing, or wild boars. Talk about factor complications in making a good shot. Percy, my male cat is happy to see me as ever. He is currently sitting calmly in my lap emitting a little rumble of a purr as he rests his head in the crook of my arm as I type this.

Enjoy your relationship with domestic cats people- they may not be as intense as the ones I had with the wild cats, nor do people probably have any grand under informed conceptions of kitties, but you could never live as you are with wild cats, you could never share all that you do with your domestic cats with the wild ones. Feel just as lucky that these cats deign to entertain your company, non?

I went to visit an old high school friend, Poiny, in Rochester and went out in drag to the local drag show there. Kinda older crowd but still a friendly homey bar and the performers were entertaining enough. Poiny's friends are all film majors- smart funny people who seem to be a little overworked and in need of release, but hey hey, they love what they do. They like to talk and sometimes end up actually doing the funny things they talk about. I learnt two important things: one, and it's comforting for me to know this, there is always a lack of good writers in the business. It gives me another opportunity I had previously considered unfeasible and it means that yes, the weak plots, characters and dialogue crap on the big screen is really crap, and two, that Actors that only act are, as they so emphatically put it, 'sheep to be herded before the camera'. I'll send off my absurdist skit as soon as I get past this hangover. Maybe there is a future in setting up a script exchange between Johnnies and RIT people who want to produce them. They've got a herd of deer on that campus you know, and a football field no one uses. I now have dialogues whirling around my head that need characters, but characters that would be saying those things- not characters to say these specific things. It's been ages since I worked with characters OR actors, but i've been working with them this year off starting to keep profiles again if only for the practice. Go figure. Maybe in 10 more years i'll be lead to writing novels.

Speaking of actors, and specifically of those who write, produce and act in their own constantly new work, isn't Ms Rasa amazing as ever?

82488 | posted by AussieAri at 20:43 | 0 comments

Tuesday, December 9, 2003

A little bad mouthing never got me anywhere- especially not into east coast writing programs or literary circles.

So i've been going though my book shelves here at my parent's home. I had a grand time reading 'The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas' and actually learnt things from it besides quick whipped Texan quips. So much I have learnt from the whores in literature. I also stumbled upon a book of the former Poet Laureate, Pinsky's, work. He used 'umphalos' in his poem, 'Ode to Meaning'. I couldn't help but giggle and I don't know if I can finish the rest of the book- it's so preposterous. Does anyone else think he's pretentious?

Well at least he can translate and he's not as horridly self important a man as Allen Mandelbaum. Ahem, i hope Pinsky remembers to translates the Purgatorio and the Paradiso too. It seems like translating the Inferno is for modern translators what painting Christ on the stick- er, cross was to painters after the Renaissance ...well what about the rest of the story and stations then mate?

81977 | posted by AussieAri at 10:14 | 0 comments

Monday, December 8, 2003

Is there an online nightlife?

81892 | posted by AussieAri at 18:16 | 0 comments

snowbunnies

damn they've got as much snow in boston as brazil has coffee. And not to mention good looking models for it, like Val.

81891 | posted by AussieAri at 18:13 | 1 comments

Friday, December 5, 2003

Do you know the way to Santa Fe?

Back safe but with a cold. The city welcomed me and as luck has it, and because i am loved- not because i am hopelessly poor, i'm well kept till mid January.

81571 | posted by AussieAri at 14:54 | 0 comments