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Someone who wishes to copulate the South and a place to find out the current composition of your farorite stars. A discordian band named Deerhoof off of Kill Rock Stars. A comic out of Canadia land i've been reading with the timely advice, "Don't be a crotte!" and a comic Nico likes but i don't really understand.
Slinging and some knot resources.
Lorem Ipsum.
Go Go gastro intestinal system! 3 Thanksgiving dinners in one night with three great groups of people! I’m taking more and more to gorge eating good food elsewhere in an attempt to avoid eating most of the cafeteria foods. And I did find a turducken and some lamb. Mission accomplished.
This morning at 4 the power went out on campus. I was woken by a bright flash of light and perhaps a noise accompanying it (lightning?) and several alarms and electrical things resetting themselves. I thought it might be some sort of nasty electrical fire downstairs. A minute later there was another bright white flash tinged at the end with green. I was sure something had blown up. This time the power and phone lines went out completely and some car alarms went off. I decided it was safe enough to dispel my general confusion and fall asleep. I woke up at 8 (except I didn’t know this, since the clock was out), showered with what was the last of the hot water, and hobbled through the foot of snow to breakfast. Someone had been up early erecting large snow phalluses outside my dorm. The cafeteria responded to the situation as best they could, trying to give us some hot food, coffee and tea. If only they responded as well to a non-crisis. We had a psudo math class for about 40 minutes. Only people maxed out on absences came and those who lived on campus. I had only gone affirm that it would be cancelled. Our teacher, as I had guessed, jumped his anxious little self over snow and fallen power lines to get here. God damn it.
After a nap and lunch Sandeep and I booked it into town to where civilization had gained its force back again and where we could get some fucking hot tea. Other Johnnies who had the same idea were at the tea house. All seemed normal and pleasantly subdued by the snow. I don’t mind not living with power but it has to be a place that can accommodate that sort of living. In other words, not a structure built like anything on campus. I tried to get one of the small camping stoves from the gym but that too was completely shut down.
By sundown there was a meeting and the dean’s mandate said we should all gather in either lower commons or the student center for safety and health reasons. I kept remembering how the old president accommodated the January Freshman over the summer when the main water pipe broke to campus. I doubt we’re going to get that treatment again. It’s about 12 degrees tonight and who knows what hoodlums would raid the dorms while the lights weren’t on. As if the sun’s shame is the only thing that keeps us good. Anyway… it was then I decided I needed to find the girl for significant other body warmth, mobility by automobile, and general good times while the power’s out. The college was the ONLY place in Santa Fe that was still disconnected from the grid. The lights on the corner of the main street were on but we weren’t. We went to Peggy and Susan’s, had a real dinner, they did Gongyo, then had some wine and watched the fab 5. So I feel loved, but I also feel quite civilized now, or at least acceptably so. Not to worry thought- I’m sure the latter won’t last long.
I get paid tomorrow and my appetite is dreaming of goodies and things to be done with my free time.
The Grey Sweatsuit Revolution.
T.I.A.I.L.W.: Grace Brannagh as Promethea.
"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron." - H.L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
T.I.A.I.L.W.: Stevie Smith. I mentioned her before, but she deserves an official place amongst the ranks.
If I keep practicing sabre enough and don’t get any better I’ll not have to get any marking tattoos, I’ll have stripes all over.
a paper clip as a tie clip
Those rocking philipino midgets. It's winter time now so you better rub the lotion on it’s skin, precious. Have you ever wondered about Ebonics Airways? Well I wonder who my baby daddy is. But it really all comes back to my love of graceful felines.
I'm sorry D.V., mathematics, though so clean, will not describe the motion of the soul.
Wear a mirror on your face to class or work. See how they respond to that one.
T.I.A.I.L.W.: Otagaki Rengetsu. The 19th century Japanese budo trained, calligrapher and painter, potter, poet, and Buddhist nun hermit.
T.I.A.I.L.W.: Shirley Jackson. Crazy crazy.
I will do well to practice Puss In Boots’ technique of subduing with cuteness then attacking.
There’s a theory out that agriculture may have developed more for the production of beer than for bread.
Picnic knickknack
Me thinks the end of the school year ‘Reality’ party is going to suck. The sophomores apparently lost some of the funds at the last fundraiser party they threw. Not to mention the new alcohol policy will mean that there will be a separate ‘drunk play pen’ for those over 21 and no alcohol allowed outside. Adam said buy a crate of whiskey and stay in your room with friends. I’m thinking flasks. Lots of them. With ready made martini in one pocket, cocktail olives in the other and some single malt elsewhere.
Ha! Hollywood made a movie about Australia's version of Billy the Kid, the legendary outlaw: Ned Kelly! It reminds me of what they did with Rob Roy the cattle thief in making him Braveheart.
Speeking of, here's an offensive little ditty about Australians.
“Always follow your intuition but never trust her.” –V’s old Russian Prof
Franz Ferdinand and oh my god!
Harry Potter in Ancient Greek.
I found out today that necrophilia isn’t illegal in any states in the USA. California is trying to past some law to the effect though, and there are laws concerning the handling of the dead and graveyards etc.
So what are you doing when you’re dead?
The universe is infinitely structured?
(One day i will be punished for these things, hopefully it won't be with a copyright infringment lawsuit.)
There's a destination a way up the mountain From the habitations and the polis we know A place we once saw the planets glow God's order and the eternal flow Pulling out truth and reality fallouts Got two winged horses and a charioteer! Ambrosia and plans and just clap your hands and just clap your hands Where it's at! Got two winged horses and a charioteer! Where it's at! Got two winged horses and a charioteer! Where it's at! Got two winged horses and a charioteer! Where it's at!
semblablement Blable blah-bleh. ment?
Well then, that just proves you can never be sure what's going to come out of your dorm shower next.
You get to go back in time and sucker punch 3 people. Only 3 and only one punch.
Who'll it be then?
So we moved e out of her trailer out in bumblefuck a half hour from Santa Fe. As she was giving her key back to the landlord(hoard) I had time to reflect on the unkempt dogs on tethers about their metal drum kennels outside as the snow feel, and the dead crow remains hung wings stretched from a post of the pasture that had horses in it. I noticed something that’s meaning I didn’t understand at first or couldn’t place. It was a slightly rusted basketball poll and hoop. Only.. the back board was a large blackface caricature. What? Keep in mind the land..slum…lord is Hispanic, family has been here for generation. Granted you really don’t see a ton of black people in Santa Fe, I’d forgotten just how everyone is capable of enjoy their very own prejudices.
I’m losing fat faster than the temp is dropping. It snowed softly all day today. I need to eat some fish and order those long johns right quick.
It’s a cold universe of silence out there.
Therefore, convoluto-
Opse- we stopped asking why.
You know, it’s really good to be able to hold your own (and then some) against big bastards when wrestling.
"It’s no fair fighting giants" -Alex "That depends on if you can kick them and run away" -me
Subnote: most women fight dirty (eagle claw to throat, hair pull, eye socket gouge)
Eat Steak.
The Pedagogy of Bullshit. 10 things to do in the 2 hours you would have spent in Seminar. Usefully Johnny Pick Up Lines. Philosophé and Martini. The black art of seminar. The Love of Beautiful Young Boys.
Saw Nomy Lamm live tonight at CSF. It was refreshing, different and challenging. Informative too, eh! I was afraid her particular view on fat culture would be something to the effect of ‘if you’re fat, you’re fat, and you’ll always be fat, so that’s that and you'd better deal with it.’ But she emphasized knowing your body, regardless of weight, and never once said anything to the effect of dising exercise or activity in and of itself- in fact she endorsed activity and challenge and had us do a singing excercise. Yay Nomy! You haven’t heard "free bird" till you’ve heard her and her accordion solo it.
From an Al Qaeda training manual which was discovered during a series of police raids in the United Kingdom between 2001 and 2002:
"The confrontation that we are calling for with the apostate regimes does not know Socratic debates..., Platonic ideals..., nor Aristotelian diplomacy. But it knows the dialogue of bullets, the ideals of assassination, bombing, and destruction, and the diplomacy of the cannon and machine-gun....Islamic governments have never and will never be established through peaceful solutions and co-operative councils. They are established as they [always ] have been by pen and gun, by word and bullet, by tongue and teeth"
Well then, we’re doing something right here at St. John’s...that is apparently totally offensive.
Other people walk their dogs, when I go walking I have a big cat of my imagination with me. You see it? It’s right here. It says hi.
A strange desire to escape suffering and struggling.
No one got my Bartleby reference in Math class. *hangs head*
Fuzzy indeed. Are you skilled enough to be a Canadian? Maybe you could just marry one. This is how ping pong should be. Why cat’s don’t write rock songs
Jenny- The Mountain Goats
I currently weigh: 127Lb(=57.6Kg)
Women's record for 58kg class: SNATCH 110.0kg C&JERK 133.0kg TOTAL 240.0kg
Women’s 60kg/132 lbs. class Bench Press record: 145.0Kg/319.5Lb
My fighting weight division would be: Lightweight (or sometimes Welterweight depending on the organization)
I'm hurling a 16kg(=35lb) kettlebell at the moment but i need to move up. The next one we have is 24kg(=52lb). That’s 2/5 of my own body weight. Big change.
List of weird workout things needed: 100Lb punching bag 100Lb granite Ball A wine barrel 75-200Lb Sand Bag with variable weight Old tires of different sizes
In other news CJ is now working at the student indoor activities coordinator. This is excellent. This means that whenever i have free time during the day i can go down to the gym and practice Jiu Jitsu with her. Oh, and also i have another cohort in acquiring cool/odd equipment for the gym. Once my grappling gloves arrive we'll see who can do stand up practice.
Here. This is a perfect example of so many things:
1. If you have a mullet but you’re European it’s ok, it’s even sexy. 2. There are official drag kings out there that are men. 3. You can be from Sweden but consider yourself European. 4. Women have been duping men for ages by their psudo lesbian antics and selling just about anything featuring them to the heterosexual male population 5. Even if you have lesbianism and female bisexuality expressed in a pop video, it’s going too far when you have two guys touch one another. Sexuality in mass media does have its limits. 6. Coming up with silly words solely as sexual innuendos will always sell pop songs. 7. Just watch the fricking video.
I was talking with my mum on Sunday about current U.S. politics etc, I respect to what she had experienced before my life time. I realized that all the race riots in the States got something done in the whole nation legislatively that before with all the works of great people and that constant civil disobedience had not gotten done. As soon as people were mad enough to break the civil contract, to risk personal safety, the government responded. It finally got of its arse to begin to address the particular problem instead of keeping it moot and distant. "You've already got you desegregation? You're not slaves! What more do you want?" What I see is a government that only pays attention to its citizens when they become a threat to the nation's stability. It doesn’t pay attention to what they actually want. Perhaps we’ve forsaken the process of the government in not telling it what we want-we’re certainly more sedate these days. But it still seems like a riot would do more good long term (and more harm short term) than any of the letters we’re sending, the petitions, the kiss outs, the speeches, the open platforms, the fucking for marriage, the marches, the slogan and signs. Now granted that I am susceptible to angst (and this is probably a product of it), I’m not a violent person. I love rowdiness and randomness but I don’t like hurting people. I believe destruction is a powerful necessary thing, even creative. So maybe Hobbes has his place right here in the American social/political heart, a good heapin’ helping of fear for all and with a side of the mind-numbing. Have a common enemy Hitler said, and Stalin added, ‘especially amongst your own citizens’. The necessity of War time makes it the most productive time after all.
Must we exploit each other to get anything done? At least the old die, but it's ambiguous if the next will do anything better.
“Amplifiers & old guitars Country music sung in bars & when she sings the revolution's near.
Beauty holds the microphone & watches as we stumble home & she can see the revolution now. ... Beauty goes, to her address, she shuts the door, and climes the steps, and when she sleeps the revolution grows.
Beauty rests on mattress springs, Wearing just her under things, & when she wakes, the revolution’s here. & when she wakes, the revolution’s here.” -David Bryne
Well this looks interesting, if not utterly bizzzzarre.
Christian Blood, (the best name for a gay man ever aside from Oscar Wilde) gave me the best advice on the perfection of a paper. You need to rock out with your paper, get a little tipsy or stoned- whatever it is you do that gets you out of your usual state, both at the beginning to get your ideas flowing and then again at the end to make sure it can make sense to an altered mind.
MuffDyver, the lesbian McGyver!
Old people are so much better at keeping up letter correspondences. I aspire.
"St. Francis loved people. He just couldn’t stand being around them." -L. S-D.
Wieliczka salt mines
A Subway conductor so bored instead of announcements he played electronic music.
A squirrel stealing a donut peach from a squatter in Central park.
Meow Mix is closed. Well shit. One and One’s bartender came by and by to offer me a free 4th Guinness after the other three I had at a tilted table on the sidewalk. I had to decline so that i wouldn't be tilted.
I got to see a photo taken by William Henry Fox Talbot, My Great great great...I don’t know how long ago...grandfather. It was the last stanza in Ode 1 to Napoleon in Lord Byron's hand.
A day sky oppressive and a people somewhat textureless.
What a marvelous interesting distraction the city is.
Warning: the light at the end of the tunnel is actually an on coming train.
Land Lubber- On gods, these NYC taxi rides are making me "'figna to vomick"
It’s fun to find where the old buildings at 3-5 stories end and the new highrises were built on top.
The rats in the NYC subways aren’t actually that big.
A woman driving a whale of an RV with a parrot on her shoulder.
I am a 1 woman act from abroad and here is a whole city circus of people trying to get their own show.
When they invent technology to interface directly with the brain I want picture taking ability sort of like Spider has with his glasses. That and personal thought recording. Till them I’ll have to settle for good ol’ fashioned retractable fangs.
I’m still not sure what it is that scares me about the East coast more than other places in America. The sort of Colonialism maybe?
I’m such a sucker for old katanas. Any old Japanese arms really. In them I see perfection. Art, beauty, form and function so exactly balanced they are inseperable from the skill it took to make the blade, or from the Japanese ideas of death. These blades have survived utterly intact as if they were newly made in comparison with so many European blades from the same time mass produced for the military and rusting away. The katans are still so sharp and ready you can hear the air around them sing.
"New York, New York I won’t go back Indelible reminder of the steel I lack I gave you seven years What did you give me back? A jaw-grind, disposition to a panic attack" – Soul Coughing
I took my earrings out 4 weeks ago and today I decided to put them in again, I had to re-pierce two of the holes. Guh!
You know you’re getting old when you have a fake student ID. You know you’re older than your when you wish you had a senior citizens ID.
Asses, assassinate, assimilate, assurance, assumption, assailant, assistant, assonant, assorted, associated, assuage, assay, asset, assign, assize, asset, assent, assertion, assembly.
"Je parle Française like a bastard!"
T.I.A.I.L.W.: Jennifer Shahade
I want a micronation.
Some new political maps that may be helpfully for any foreign travellers to the Northern Americas.
Hey! Someone more desperate and crazy than i am tried to get back to Australia!
T.I.A.I.L.W.: Lee Bontecou
Well at least that's over. Now to work on temporary citizenship/student visa to Canada or France. Probably Canada- 'le stick' just doesn't cut it as far as martial arts go, and Toronto isn't too far or too close to the rents.
In other news of note, i think i better know how it must have felt to a Roman in the generation where they decided they wanted a ruler instead of a republic.
Clear nail polish Emergen-C (tropical flavor) Pomegranates Block chocolate Beer (stout, Irish) Green wool army sweater with reinforced shoulder/elbows Buffalo leather scrap Grappling gloves Lamb Chops
Could this be a picture of my very favoritest little big cat, Goliath, when he was still of a formative age, before the Sanctuary ever knew of him? Hum...
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