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last modified Dec 22, 2001 at 22:31


Thursday, May 27, 2004

He got the ill-coordination

Does anyone else despise having to look at a blue suit with a yellow tie, or even a yellow shirt with a blue suit, in general, blue and yellow in a suit? Why is this even popular?

108041 | posted by AussieAri at 20:14 | 0 comments

Fire starter

I saw the Pants On Fire mobile tonight going down Alameda. Yee-haww! Some dips in their SUVs even yelled at the driver while the pedestrians were amused and cheered it on.

107945 | posted by AussieAri at 1:11 | 0 comments

Wednesday, May 26, 2004

I played the rubber band game with the wholesome crew this past weekend. Another wonderful pointless hilarious game involving possible damage to your physical self made up by kids whos families disdain a cup of wine. You get a very long length of stretchy fabric and sew it together well at the ends to form a continuous loop. Four people stand in a perfect square with the 'band' stretched against their backs. As the first pair of opposite people run full tilt to one another's rights the other pair of opposite people run as hard as they can backwards. The force of the first lots impact sends the second pair hurling to each other's rights and you keep this crazy game up as long as you can before you get hurled somewhere, run into someone, get close lined or wipe out.

107729 | posted by AussieAri at 1:52 | 0 comments

Girl fight tonight

I’ve been thinking about fighting- ring fighting before a crowd. I did some stand up practice with a BJJ purple belt striking and grappling. It was really fun. She is going to be in a NHB (no holes bared) pay-perview event that takes place in Japan. She even wants to start some NHB events in New Mexico. Keep in mind there is no official organization for women’s fighting, there is no governing committee and there’s often more allowed than in the men’s events at Ultimate Fighting Championships, King Of The Cage, and Pride Fighting. It’s a bit like cage fighting since it hasn’t caught on yet- only, some people are really not there to watch how good a fighter these women are. I'm not a show person even if i love attention, this is to be considered as Dojo fighters don't always make good ring fighters. I may be afraid of popularity when you consider the tumults of maintaining a fighter career. I can't really see the honor in the sport as it is now. Anyway, i think I’ll help my NHB fighting friend practice because it is a thrill and a challenge but lord help me keep my good looking face intact and my brain with as many cells in it as possible.

107727 | posted by AussieAri at 1:45 | 0 comments

Has anyone noticed that a lot of tranny FTMs look like little boys and MTFs look like old women?

107725 | posted by AussieAri at 1:41 | 1 comments

Kick booty. The Senior's gift to the school is a personally sculptured astrolabe by local Blacksmith/Artist Tom Joyce. It will be an ongoing project but considering my interest in metal working etc, I’m definitely going to get in on this one.

107724 | posted by AussieAri at 1:39 | 0 comments

Hello Santa Fe.

And goodbye not yet bloomed Apricots, rains of the monsoon, so many more technicolor sunsets, the open aired opera, the endless packed nights at the Paramount, the over spilling porch of The Cowgirl, the boygirl ball, the January Freshman going nuts, the lack of turn signal used, the inability to navigate a four way stop, precariously packed vehicles, un-prosecuted sexual crimes by public figures, no emissions standards, recognizing people as you pass by them on the road, the huge jack rabbits, fresh looking young punky/mad/new age/tranny people, the coyotes howling over the hills, the prairie dogs with monkey-pox, the tour busses, the tourists gawking with big hats and cameras around their necks, forest fires, plutonium in the water, the guy odd sideways bike riding guy with a hairbrush, friendly vagrants on the plaza, the clique clingy dykes, hippie foods, the newspaper street vendors, bicycling everywhere, green chili, the SJC gym, sweating when you step outside, the murderous koi of the fishpond, the axolotls, a lab assistant position, Buildings and Grounds guys who let me borrow tools, the Reporter and it’s not quite expose news coverage, farmer’s market, and water shortages.

107723 | posted by AussieAri at 1:36 | 0 comments

The great souled man is a piece of BS and are the ethics that Aristotle put forth in the Nichamachian Ethics only really supportable in a society in which slaves do all the tedious manual labor?

P.S. Now Socrates may have been a shitty person to his family and may have laughed much at other people’s expense but hell- compared to Aristotle he’s far more entertaining, creative and has a better mastery of language than Mr. ‘scientific enquiry without any god damn tests’.

107722 | posted by AussieAri at 1:35 | 2 comments

That all comparisons are false is a Tibetan Buddhist saying. Any likening or metaphor... but similes- ah, I rest my work on them.

107721 | posted by AussieAri at 1:34 | 0 comments

3rd time is no charm with me. You only get a second chance. Fool me once not three strikes.

107718 | posted by AussieAri at 1:33 | 0 comments

A wild tuesday night for everyone under 21 in santa fe.

I got IDed at Wal-Mart tonight. I got IDed because I was buying crafts glue. Yes, that’s right, the wisdom of old Walt says that if you’re under 18 you must be buying white out/spray paint/super glue/permanent markers for nefarious purposes.

107717 | posted by AussieAri at 1:33 | 2 comments

What have I learnt from my family? I know their stories, I know the interplay of our personalities and our shared history, but I still don’t know what I’ve learnt.

107716 | posted by AussieAri at 1:32 | 0 comments

A Poet’s Achilles heel.

Of the few things that I have not forgiven people for, they are all verbal. Something the other person said. These things hurt me much more than actions. A punch in the face if very strait forward, a lapse of faith understandable, but at crucial times when things were being said, there are some I can’t relieve the sting of.

107715 | posted by AussieAri at 1:32 | 0 comments

I don’t understand people who are simply athletic without a sport or art. Sure there are a lot of fun exercises to be done and many different types of fitness to train for, and there is a lot to be said for being healthy and the feeling after a good workout- but what then?

107714 | posted by AussieAri at 1:31 | 0 comments

If I ever open up a ranch it will be called The Circle Pi ranch and our brand with be a logarithm

107713 | posted by AussieAri at 1:30 | 0 comments

Shreds of Sanity

As long as I remember during the second semester of my junior year that Kant got no cunt or cock and if you watch Tank Girl the movie the back license plate to her TANK says ‘KANT’ I think I’ll stay sane.

107712 | posted by AussieAri at 1:30 | 0 comments

The same thing happened when I left my parent’s house:

"I must've been sleeping when you called.
I'm not feeling well at all (cough, cough)
I got this thing that's been going around
called please pretend that I'm out of town, okay?

Do you wanna stay in bed all day? (yeah!)
Do you remember feeling any other way? (no!) x2"

107710 | posted by AussieAri at 1:29 | 0 comments

And other hideous plans.

I think I’ll go as a drag queen for next Halloween.

107709 | posted by AussieAri at 1:29 | 0 comments

Goodness gracious great globs of snot are the undesirable side effect of working in a place that has much second hand smoke.

107708 | posted by AussieAri at 1:28 | 0 comments

Are they still naked if they’re wearing socks and shoes? Ewww!

What the church needs now is another anathema like I need a cross through my chest.

107707 | posted by AussieAri at 1:28 | 0 comments

Monday, May 24, 2004

field trip!!

Remember that while not all fat-arses are good fighters, those with experiance and skill can really squish you.

You've got to milk the potato for all it's worth- even if it may not sound good.

107512 | posted by AussieAri at 23:15 | 0 comments

I have no explanation for why her dog likes to lick the same patch of carpet in front of him ceaselessly.

107510 | posted by AussieAri at 23:12 | 1 comments

Friday, May 21, 2004

'Stumpside' and 'the Donner Party'.

Wheeell this is interesting. And i don't mind if i wouldn't have made it as an AMERICAN colonist thanks very much.

107039 | posted by AussieAri at 2:34 | 0 comments

I love the queens that come to the bar for happy hour and drink a lite beer out of a rocks glass with ice.

107037 | posted by AussieAri at 2:19 | 0 comments

Gyrotwister? Where's the Gynotwister?

107036 | posted by AussieAri at 2:18 | 0 comments

Series to pay too much attention to:

Thundercats, Silverhawks, He-man, She-ra, Absolutely Fabulous, The Simpson’s, The Family Guy, Gargoyles, The Muppet Show, Faulty Towers, Keeping Up Appearances, The Young Ones, Married With Children, Monty Python, Samurai Jack, Rocko’s Modern Life, Johnny Bravo, Adult Swim, Aeon Flux, Phantom 2040, Liquid Television, Mr. Bean, Are You Being Served?, Star Trek Next Generation, Star Trek Voyager.

And no, not TMNT or Seinfeld or Curb your Enthusiasm.
Does anyone remember a cartoon about a wandering long black haired man from Arcadia? I seem to remember his playing the jew-harp in one episode.

107034 | posted by AussieAri at 2:13 | 0 comments

“Did I ever tell you that you have pretty eyes?”
“Why no! You never have!”
“Oh good- I go through these phases of chronic lying and I wanted to make sure.”

107033 | posted by AussieAri at 2:13 | 0 comments

Why is it so hard to appreciate and communicate someone’s beauty without coming off like an intrusive weirdo or like someone hitting on them to get somewhere. It’s not sexual at all, nor wanting, nor selfish, it is an expression of a realization, and sometimes it’s about sexiness- not sex. Something like Donnan did tonight when he mentioned to me the sexiness of a couple just 4 feet around the corner of the bar. They were two young fresh looking women slowly and sensitively making out. Now, not that he interrupted them to tell them they were sexy then in that act that we had witnessed but would they have inferred the sincerity of his complement through eye contact? Would he have to say it a second time, ‘No I mean it!’ nod his head and raise his brow? Would they laugh it off? Make a bee-line for the women’s restroom?

In Italy it is not uncommon to be passed on the street and have someone whisper a compliment to you and simply keep on walking. This is if you don’t get pinched on the arse, mind that does happen too. I should develop the actual giving of complements- I rarely do, and even then I usually keep them to myself.

107032 | posted by AussieAri at 2:12 | 0 comments

Wednesday, May 19, 2004

"Time not important. Only life important." -The Fifth Element
We've all got to die sometime though. I suppose the quote infers a trade off for me, how much life can you really save by saving time?

106823 | posted by AussieAri at 16:13 | 0 comments

We have lost our poker, a metal fork taped to a wood broom handle. Long live the pizza bubble poker.

106821 | posted by AussieAri at 16:04 | 0 comments

Q: What’s your number?

A if you like them: 69
A if you don’t like them: 86

106820 | posted by AussieAri at 16:04 | 0 comments

Move to adjourn

Excuse me Mr. President, where is Saddam now? And will Mr. Bin Laden be making an appearance before the next election?

106819 | posted by AussieAri at 16:03 | 0 comments

If you don’t trust me it isn’t my problem. A friend encouraged me to believe this.

106818 | posted by AussieAri at 16:03 | 0 comments

The shaved ice place is open. Yay summer!

106817 | posted by AussieAri at 16:02 | 0 comments

Forget Texas,

I’ve seen some of the jankiest rigs on vehicles here in NM- Last night a huge husky parking it’s head off at me from the back of a truck with no back gate and on a long lead. Also today in traffic, a hatchback with back completely open and an aluminum ladder sticking out being HELD dawn by the driver hooking an arm through one of the rungs.

106816 | posted by AussieAri at 16:02 | 0 comments

Tuesday, May 18, 2004

meme

Take ten books at random from your bookshelf, find the 5th line on the 23rd page of each one and arrange them to form a short story. And yes i took a few linking word and pronoun liberties. I'll tell you which books they are later.

1 If there is any question concerning a gun’s condition, a knowledgeable gunsmith should look at it. 2 She had to make a decision: To succumb to the preponderance of one set of influences over another set.
3 She didn’t use to be that way.
4 …But that was some other era, burned out and long gone from the brutish realities of this foul year of Our Lord, 1971.
5 Long after the time when throughout the lower valley of the River of the Amazons, where stone is totally wanting, primitive peoples must have armed themselves with another material.
6 ‘Is that all?’ said the Visitor. ‘Only the Third Dimension?’
7 Then she was told to relax, not to tense her muscles, and to concentrate upon a point beyond her extended fingertips- perhaps the wall in front of her, or the other side of that wall.
8 In this particular case and in the plane of intelligence I can therefore say that the Absurd is not in man (if such a metaphor could have meaning) nor in the world, but in their presence together.
9 Likewise, the appraising sidelong gaze, however surreptitious, seldom fails to offend when it is noticed.
10 It would probably be fair to say that the overriding popular image of Buddhism is that of an abstruse, complex and mystical teaching of ‘the meaning of life’, one which is studied in monkish isolation, practiced in silent meditation and whose goal is ‘inner peace’ as an end in itself.

106567 | posted by AussieAri at 1:18 | 0 comments

another horrendous idea.

I’d like to see a Christian WWF show- perhaps Wrestlers for Christ, or Holy Rolling Wrestlers. Anyway, wrestlers on this new organization could have colorful names such as ‘God Father’, ‘Conscious Pilot’, ‘The Roman Senator’, ‘The Holy Ghost’, ‘The Crucifier’, ‘Angry Mob’, and ‘Ascension’. Ring girls could be Mary Magdalene and the Jesus Gang. Female wrestlers could be ‘the Flying Nun’ and ‘Joan of Arc’. Teams could be ‘The Four Riders’, ‘The Apostles’, and ‘The Vatican’. The judges could be called ‘The Wise Men’. The list goes on as do the possibilities.
What is secular that isn’t spectacle in this country I ask you?

106565 | posted by AussieAri at 0:40 | 3 comments

I’ll never fall for the ‘Wanna see my new beltbuckle?’ trick again.

106564 | posted by AussieAri at 0:38 | 0 comments

Angelo has an ebonics phone with the names all phonetically spelt.

106563 | posted by AussieAri at 0:37 | 2 comments

I’m regaining vitality to my mortal envelope.

106562 | posted by AussieAri at 0:37 | 0 comments

‘We’d be so sued’

How about a sandwich café/dinner place where the menu is a long list of slang and dirty words. You’d order a Hot Carl through the Poop Chute with dingle berries if you wanted a hot Portobello sandwich to go with a side of beans. We could refer to the oven as the Dutch Oven, The Back Door could be the bathroom. Ad Nauseum.

106561 | posted by AussieAri at 0:37 | 0 comments

I get around, apparently (or my bad spelling does).

Hemeroids, Kid Bowling Parties, Whitty Pick Up Lines, and Roulette Gambling.

106560 | posted by AussieAri at 0:36 | 1 comments

Tuesday, May 11, 2004

What an Autograph.

Dave served a 'John Hancock the Sixth' at the Cowgirl the other day. Yep.

105556 | posted by AussieAri at 14:43 | 0 comments

This should be the big cicada year.

105555 | posted by AussieAri at 14:42 | 0 comments

I caught a tumble weed! I chased it down the road and soon i will set it free in the arroyo.

105554 | posted by AussieAri at 14:42 | 0 comments

April was a cruel month none the less.

"Whan that Aprill, with his shoures soote
The droghte of March hath perced to the roote
And bathed every veyne in swich licour,
Of which vertu engendred is the flour;"

It’s spring (sweet blossoms on trees, little seedpods swept onto the dance floor by the wind through the open door of the nightclub, the Santa Fe river flowing and making river sounds, crocuses, tulips, cool evenings with a clear bright moon, pinon in the air, t-shirts and shorts at day, open side tourist bus tours to be flash) and I’m thinking of Chaucer again.

105553 | posted by AussieAri at 14:40 | 0 comments

wow! I found ‘the bra' for me!

105550 | posted by AussieAri at 14:35 | 0 comments

The spirit of the art.

O-sensei was in the Japanese wars, saw his father get beat up as a little boy, purposefully got into fights, and trained in many martial arts. It wasn’t till around 1925 after one particular fight when he was 42 where he simply evaded his opponednt, after all of the above violent experiences, that he found Aikido as ‘a way to make all humans one family’ or, a peacefully approach to counteracting all aggressive action. So. With that in mind, do you think an Aikido black belt is really well set as far as self defense only having done aikido in a dojo?

105549 | posted by AussieAri at 14:32 | 0 comments

Golden Calves grow into Mad Cows.

After five months I finally finished the damn story. Next up: Maybe sci-fi-ish story about Mad Cow disease.

105548 | posted by AussieAri at 14:21 | 0 comments

Copping it.

Being a Santa Fe cop must be like being in a social club. You know there are only 5 cop cars on duty in the whole of the city at that time and yet there they all are on a Friday night lined up down Don Diego at the four way stop with Alameda swapping cars and cups of coffee. Why don’t they just go to Denny’s or Carrows or any other of the four 24 hour food service place in the city when they’re taking a break and not breaking during work?? There are some cops that go the dojo by the way. I try to ignore it when they talk about how ‘fucked up’ some situation was or how much they want to make someone or other in their precinct ‘cry’.

BTW. 'It's never about the pickle', or the parking spot that two people have been shot over in seperate circumstances this year.

105547 | posted by AussieAri at 14:19 | 0 comments

Tehehe!

Kick him around in the ball'?
I feel a rescue coming on.

Jirds

I never really liked them (except for that one a childhood friend owned who was retired from the circus and could do flips) but Poodlena Pompadour is one amusing poodle.

105545 | posted by AussieAri at 14:16 | 0 comments

So i'm getting notifications of background research being done on me via Word of Mouth Research. Should i be annoyed or disturbed?

105544 | posted by AussieAri at 14:09 | 1 comments

Wednesday, May 5, 2004

right that aren't all right?

The right to pursue happiness may have doomed America from actually finding happiness.

104217 | posted by AussieAri at 0:34 | 1 comments

The bathroom door at work reads:

This restroom is for on duty employees and on duty performers only. NOT FOR SEX.

104216 | posted by AussieAri at 0:33 | 0 comments

How about a corn meal sand box?

104215 | posted by AussieAri at 0:32 | 0 comments

Things I learnt from the Terry Moore and Paige Braddock talk in Santa Fe: Most short fiction writers are finding their way to comics, It is so easy to self publish and at least break even (if your stuff is good), don’t be ego centric or so within your own clique- be able to write or draw about anything/anyone, go ahead and go crazy and be able to see the characters as people, don’t make the character your hero, your ideal of yourself, or the way you would have wanted things to happen but they did not. Oh, and a college degree actually does help.

104214 | posted by AussieAri at 0:30 | 0 comments

Stall ‘em till you can hide the sex toys.

104213 | posted by AussieAri at 0:29 | 0 comments

Cute little maxims I’ve come by.

Dyral the saintly bum told me once, “If they’ve got to ask questions when you ask for their help [about something so important], they’re not your friends.” And if they don’t come to your aid period, fuck em.
Also, “I will only lie in the service of truth” –Alec McGarry by Eddie Campbell
And, “Because we refuse to be embarrassed about the mistakes and faults and choose to move forward…” –Tres Bien, Le Tigre

No, I have little mercy but a lot of sympathy. Yes, I am prepared to suffer for great things, but what about these lapses of faith?

104212 | posted by AussieAri at 0:28 | 0 comments