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Friday, June 30, 2006

drooling over my favoritist cars:

The Shelby ‘Eleanor’ in front of the Las Colinas mustangs. What a trip! I spent kindergarten in that city!

I had no idea they put out this version. It makes you wonder, Dear god WHY!

As a finaly thought, there maybe some of them that are not as stupidly expensive as I first thought!

154832 | posted by AussieAri at 2:35 | 0 comments

Too pissed to be talking about this…

I’m shedding as much as my burmese cats these days. Buggery be.

154831 | posted by AussieAri at 2:31 | 0 comments

Extras to add to the list of things that I shouldn’t have to think about:

GAH. Landlords being stupid, I say this by way of meaning they’re not doing what I want them to and are certainly not being logical. I can’t really work this out from here through my room mate so I’ll have to bloodywell do it myself when I return. Such is picking up your life again I suppose. Why should I be surprised that yet again I’m having problems with my living situation there? In the 5 or so places I’ve lived in Santa Fe, I’ve only ever had one decent landlord. And I lived with her in the house! Is it because people in Santa Fe can be:
a) soaked in unrealistic expectations/impracticality
b) are generally weird
c) can be less truthful
d) or is it something to do with the lack of apartments and the fact we all have to rent houses in a horrendously inflated real-estate market?
Anyway- it’s enough to make me wanna give in and get locked into a mortgage on a faux-dobie condo on the southside just to not deal with the hassle when a condo isn’t what I want at all.

In other ear blisteringly wonderful news, Mum told me my sexuality was a ‘family secret’. Oh good! I’d always wondered how to classify that particular part of me! Thanks! She refereed to it as something that I should never tell her side of the family, how it wasn’t their business and would break their hearts. This is somewhat funny in a crushing way since I was just talking with a friend the night before about our experiences of ‘coming out’ to our respective families. I doubt my cousins will care and I figure at this point if Auntie has problems with it and they don’t outweigh who she knows me to be well then c’est la vie! Can’t change that one!
I certainly don’t want to have some sort of sit down and state it affair. I’m much more a fan of answering with non-evasive questions when asked. Only, if I wait in that manner it could be years before they ever ask the right question. God I thought I was done with this all this shit 6 years ago.

154830 | posted by AussieAri at 2:30 | 0 comments

Thursday, June 29, 2006

Freedom of Speech At Work.

“Americans are so charming but they never tell you what they really believe.” – My Aunt Carmel

154803 | posted by AussieAri at 0:25 | 0 comments

Links that don’t fit anywhere:

Cards to show her you really understand and care you Faggot Girl. Why don’t you go visit the Exotic World Museum?
If that doesn’t do it for you, try playing dress up with a cartoon German female body builder. If you think its funny like me you can sit back and contemplate some otherwise impossible surreal photo manipulation and then go ahead and round it off with deciding what bad fad you're going to revive next. My suggestion? POGS.

154802 | posted by AussieAri at 0:22 | 0 comments

Wednesday, June 28, 2006

Fine, so for some it’s a de-evolution, but I still wanna run around on all fours.

154801 | posted by AussieAri at 23:52 | 0 comments

“A total psycho, but he's a mate, so what can you do?” -Renton, Trainspotting

Answer: Glass ‘em a course.

154800 | posted by AussieAri at 23:51 | 0 comments

Dad on modern vs. ancient culture:

“You know the original Goths would have kicked the modern Goths asses.”

Can you imagine what the battle field line up would look like? Oy.

154799 | posted by AussieAri at 23:51 | 0 comments

Tuesday, June 27, 2006

Poor Kate is all hopped up on goof balls cuz her face is missing 4 teeth of wisdom.

No you may not have my jaw. It’s an heirloom passed down from my father’s father’s father’s baby’s daddy.

154759 | posted by AussieAri at 0:05 | 0 comments

Monday, June 26, 2006

Please laugh, if you don't no one will.

The undertaker wants to meet with us. He’s already got all the info on what’s to be done. He’s probably just going to let us know we need to pick out a dress etc., sign here, these are your options for flying on the plane with the casket, and have you considered an open casket viewing with lots of expensive extras?
I told Dad I’d talk to him. Why? Because it'll be a change from the inside of the hospital and because I really want to see what an undertaker looks like when he’s been shocked. If, of course, an undertaker can be shocked in the first place. Yes it's dark humor. What, you want Six Feet Under the musical?? You do what you can with the material you're given.

154756 | posted by AussieAri at 22:36 | 0 comments

Fighting odds

The shortest female fighters in my weight range are all above 5’6”. With the exception of Mayra Conde, who’s the closest to my height at 5’4”. However, she’s a 165lb body builder. I don’t think so. Anyway- if you just go by weight range my opponent will always have a reach advantage over me.
I’m 135 at the moment. I’ve gained a lot of muscle while working stock in the butcher shop, heavy lifting constantly through the day. I don't know if i could drop back down to 125 again even if i tried. There is some fat I could lose but as with the last time I lost the last fat I had- it’s also easy for me to lose too much. A very thin line indeed- especially when you’re not solely focussed on the endeavor. So now the challenge becomes not loosing the fat that makes me menstruate while converting muscle into as much active muscle as possible. Looks like a long summer of cardio interspersed with some explosive workouts folks.
It's still uncertain as to WHY i care so much about measuring up to the best female fighters in the world.

154744 | posted by AussieAri at 2:34 | 0 comments

Health things I should figure out.

How best to get rid of my dark circles and how best to not get sore from my workouts. Sleep cycles people?

Polyphasic Sleep and alternate ways of sleeping. I would definitely do two 4 hour naps a day, even four 2 hour ones. I don’t really care about needing less sleep and being awake more often, i care about being more awake in the hours that I am awake. I have done the power napping thing on travels but I’ve still required a ‘rest up’ day in the end.

New Studies seem to advocated less sleep than the once recommended 8 hours, Glen Rhodes suggests it’s all about being a multiple of 90 min. This longer look at sleep schedules conforms the biphasic sleep patterns in humans and my above assertion that it’s not about getting less sleep but about being more awake by virtue of being more attuned to natural rhythms. So perhaps a split sleep pattern where I take a main night sleep and then a day time nap would be best. A night sleep of 5-7 hours combined with a 15-90 min. nap.

154742 | posted by AussieAri at 2:04 | 0 comments

When I wax Anthropological nothing happens.

Why aren’t there bacchanals these days? You know, wild orgies of abandonment and frenzy, or even lamentations with self abuse to the gods. There’s hardly even a carnival here and there. of At least ones of huge stature have gone with New Orleans; the Venetian and Brazilian Carnivals just aren’t on the same tier. What has replaced the need for these wild celebrations in modern culture? What made people need them in the first place? Maybe I just don’t live in L.A.

154741 | posted by AussieAri at 1:32 | 0 comments

Do we fictionalize our lives, not embrace the true gravity of things most of the time, so that we can make fictions more real life to ourselves?

154740 | posted by AussieAri at 1:32 | 2 comments

caging a wild thing

Oh yes my precious. It’s 3:52 and I can’t sleep again.
You know what I hate?
Being here.

154739 | posted by AussieAri at 1:31 | 0 comments

Sunday, June 25, 2006

Dear Ari,

Watching UFC at night will not help you get to sleep.

--Your sleep and jiu-jitsu deprived self

154726 | posted by AussieAri at 0:13 | 0 comments

Saturday, June 24, 2006

All you can do is smile.

I thought about 'grillz' again tonight because I really do not understand the appeal of not only having your mouth spell out something in gold but carrying around what must be a bloody thunker of stones attached to your TEETH. That and I can’t believe that modern music has come to songs purely about how utterly neat it is to shove shinny jewelry up in your mouth. In fact the first time I heard the grillz song I thought it was a damn joke. To me it’s like a comedy group’s parody; say the ‘John’ song by the mock NSYNK group on MAD TV. Get right out of town! This is too silly to be real! This is why I listen to the radio ever once in a while- just to check and make sure that human culture at large is still absurd and stupid.
The concept of a grill is like having gaudy mouth gear all over again without any of the orthodontic benefits! I should write a song about having hot colored braces or a really cool glow in the dark retainer. Say sexy with me now: Sheechshee!
I have questions for any fly bling blinged pimp out there: Do you take your ‘grill’ out to eat? What if stuff gets STUCK in it? Does Tiffany’s do ‘grills’? Do you have to get it maintained in any way? Doesn’t it chip your teeth?

154709 | posted by AussieAri at 4:07 | 0 comments

Failed pick up line # 29

“I ain’t Fred Flintstone but I can make your bedrock.”
(AAAAAAHHHHHH!)

154708 | posted by AussieAri at 4:06 | 2 comments

Down the tresses of her hair.

After reading up on Locks of Love and Wigs for Kids I feel uncertain about donating to them now.
Why are only children getting the wigs? There are no American charities for adult cancer patients who need wigs though when you are diagnosed they give you one free.
Given the fact that at about $6 an ounce, even if they did sell some of the donated hair it’s not exactly the most useful and beneficial source of income for this non-profit. I have no idea how they pay for the actual wig making though; if they use the above strategy or not. I assume they must pay for the wig making. I feel like my hair will be less useful after reading info about how long it takes to make a wig, how much hair is used, how some hair is just too damaged and the fact that a $12 donation would be as useful as a donation of hair. Do I feel gypped? Not exactly but they certainly put out a different spin than the reality of their operation.
It did occur to me that as was the western custom up until the twentieth century, giving locks of my hair to loved ones may be a more meaningful use for my hair. I shall poll around- maybe this custom is so long passed people would just find it gross now a days.

154707 | posted by AussieAri at 4:04 | 0 comments

My father and i don’t exactly ‘communicate’.

Dad: “They (cats) are cleaner.”
Me: “Like they don’t eat their own crap?”
Dad: “Yes but they do eat their own vomit. I think they like it because it’s warm.”
Me: “Well it makes more sense than eating excrement. Haven’t you ever puked up a dinner and been really mad that you lost a good meal?”
Dad: “You know the Romans did it on purpose.”
Me: “Because they’re Roman. Yeah. That’s what I want in the next house I build. A Vomitorium.”
Dad: “It would make an interesting real estate add.”

154706 | posted by AussieAri at 3:55 | 0 comments

A horrendously wonderful horror comedy: TerrorVision.
Besides, the theme song is awesome: “I dance by the light of the TV screen and my own reflection I’ve never seen. Terror Vision! Terror Vision!”

154705 | posted by AussieAri at 3:45 | 0 comments

This post curtesy of my whacked sleep schedule.

K-Okey songs I intend to rock out to:

Chicago Musical- When You’re Good To Mama and Cell Block Tango if Kate with back me up.
Sarah Vaughn- Whatever Lola Wants
Fiona Apple- Get Him Back
Frank Zappa- Fine Girl/Catholic Girls
Sublime- Wrong Way
Missy Eliott- Work It, or Pass That Dutch
Little Anthony and the Imperials- Shimmy Shimmy Ko Ko Bop
Roger Miller- King Of The Road
K.D. Lang- Rose Garden, Full Moon Full Of Love
Bette Middler- You Don’t Own Me
The Waitresses- I Know What Boys Like
Franz Ferdinand- Do You Want To, Don’t Start
Devo- The Girl You Want
Space- Female Of The Species

154704 | posted by AussieAri at 3:43 | 0 comments

mmmm. I am addicted to these turkey sausages. I've discovered I love taking the cream off of the top of the organic yogurt and applying it to a berry mix.

154703 | posted by AussieAri at 1:34 | 0 comments

Friday, June 23, 2006

Stop singing ‘Sail Away’ damn it.

T.I.A.I.L.W.: Ellen MacArthur
She looks a bit like Sarah Waters don’t you reckon?

154702 | posted by AussieAri at 23:36 | 0 comments

Hey Gideon- How do you say, "Opse, i did not mean to stab your chest with a sword beloved husband! I was merely enacting that little game we like to play!" in Chinese?

154701 | posted by AussieAri at 22:56 | 1 comments

I don’t think I’ll ever get tired of the sight of NYC from out the airoplane window as it takes off for Buffalo from JFK. It circles all the way around the east side of Manhattan over Brooklyn and Queens, then a sharp bank over the Bronx, then once past, evening out on to a straight shot.

154700 | posted by AussieAri at 22:51 | 0 comments

The Mighty 'Mus, Kirstin, with the last word on blogs:

“Okay, blogs are stupid. Nobody has that interesting of a life for people to actually want to read these little ditties of crap. And if you want to pay attention to my day to day comings and goings, you need help and I need a restraining order.”
I heart Kirstin.

154699 | posted by AussieAri at 22:50 | 0 comments

For future reference

Cock block = Cunt trump

154698 | posted by AussieAri at 22:49 | 0 comments

I’m missing the best event off of the plaza all year- out little (sometimes so small it’s a joke) pride parade.
If you happen to be a woman with a motorcycle (first give me your #) please I beg you, take my place with the dykes ok bikes in the parade!

154697 | posted by AussieAri at 22:47 | 0 comments

When ‘I love you’ isn’t enough.

I realized what it was I wanted to tell her- that she is a wonderful loving mum. Seems obvious right? Maybe to you.

154696 | posted by AussieAri at 22:42 | 0 comments

Things I do not need or want to hear:

1. ‘I’m sorry’ Not as much as I am, ok? This rings regret in my ears and that is the last thing I want to hear right now. It is the bitterest course on any plate.
2. Thoughtless well wishes. There is no joy or happiness in this. Encouraging me to live through it, telling me you love me, or even to keep my chin up are all very welcome. Anything else that might slip out your mouth like verbal diarrhea you can put into a fucking halmark card addressed to me.
3. ‘You are angry and confused’ NO SHIT. There’s these things called therapy and healing. Both of them take time.

154695 | posted by AussieAri at 22:42 | 0 comments

Sad sad technology.

Does the act of recycling waste more non-renewable resources in the energy it takes to do than simply landfilling the waste?

154694 | posted by AussieAri at 22:40 | 0 comments

Bad news spreads faster than the speed of life.

Strange to think the most well attended party that you ever throw may be your funeral.

154693 | posted by AussieAri at 22:39 | 0 comments

IUD earrings. An anti-cause looking for a slogan.

Send contraceptives to the 3rd world, not greater amounts of food for greater amounts of starving people every year.

154692 | posted by AussieAri at 22:39 | 2 comments

I’m not looking for perfect- I’m waiting for right.

Love, mutual respect, shared interests, great sex, living compatibility- do not a LTR make. At least for me. So what is it then? That odd state called 'being in love'?

154691 | posted by AussieAri at 22:38 | 0 comments

A rain check on the windy city.

Right, trip to Chicago cancelled for now. Too risky to go at this time.

154690 | posted by AussieAri at 22:37 | 0 comments

Wednesday, June 21, 2006

Something in very wrong- Emo music is starting to sound good.

These one liners and song lyrics that would mean nothing and make no sense to anyone else keep circling through my head. They tell an entire story and emotional space to me but I can’t find any other lines to expound on them. Just the same lines running through my head.

154659 | posted by AussieAri at 23:57 | 0 comments

Monday, June 19, 2006

"I want to have good news to report every time I come up for air."

How many times to do my relative have to wake me up in such a manner as to provoke a violent reaction from me before they figure out how NOT to wake me up? Well they woke me up to tell me that mum’s headed to the hospital again. She says she’s short of breath and can’t get comfortable here at home. After hearing what the doctors had to say, she’s not going to be coming home.

In the only other interesting good news up here: I broke my record for Hindu Pushups. 100 in a row. Also, giving yourself a pedicure is a very difficult thing.

154619 | posted by AussieAri at 21:47 | 2 comments

Things to do in Chicago next weekend besides not catch the wedding bouquet:

Dine here
Snack here
Be prideful all over again
Stroll through this hood
Listen to poems around a martini here
Watch one of these
Participate and laugh myself silly in this
Get spatially oriented
Wonder if going on this will make me loose my dinner
Walk the beach

154596 | posted by AussieAri at 0:38 | 2 comments

Sunday, June 18, 2006

6 hours later

The recent drawing i'm willing to show you. Since i didn't have a stencil for the lettering and because of a few other things i'm out of practice on it could use some photoshop touch up. I'm now trying to decide if i want to do a version in photoshop that has a heart shape instead of an actual heart. Hum. Suggestions?

154575 | posted by AussieAri at 15:59 | 1 comments

Rigid erotics.

Ahem.
IT’S ALL THE SAME IN THE DARK.
And now back to your regularly scheduled Internet surfing.

154572 | posted by AussieAri at 13:43 | 1 comments

A little nothing

If the elevator should stop, here are the different ways of looking at deer. Maybe I’ll just go join the football team. But even then, my connection would still be so worthless that I couldn’t watch Vin Diesel break dance.

154571 | posted by AussieAri at 13:42 | 0 comments

In a pain delirium yesterday she actually said ‘I don’t want to go on. Why are you making me go on?’

154570 | posted by AussieAri at 13:38 | 0 comments

Saturday, June 17, 2006

How very odd. My long locks have become a comfort recently.

154551 | posted by AussieAri at 13:06 | 2 comments

What a freaky night. There is nothing quite as disturbing as listening to your mother moan unintelligibly from a constantly wide open mouth as she makes small kind of wobbly movements while being totally unconscious. All night. What a night.

154550 | posted by AussieAri at 13:06 | 0 comments

Friday, June 16, 2006

A Baudy old song for the Black Alley Cats

Nan Bakstone- 'A Lady's A Lady No Matter What Cooks'

Miss Emily Post has long been able to boast her authoritative abortionative rules and regulations that we seem to accept as the things to do and not to do. And as late as last week she was still refusing to speak when asked how she felt about Bakstone’s new definitions on the conditions of what does and does not constitute a lady’s position. Is that clear? In this social world it is time for a change from shy city gallops to ridding the range of good taste. And with this in mind folks, I speak for myself and perhaps for the rest of my kind.

A lady’s a lady no matter what cooks
Conditions should never affect her
Her library never contains dirty books
And she’s not a French postcard collector
Though collecting is better than posing they say
At the postures they ask and the wages they pay
Still a lady would never be snapped in the hay
No girl ever would who’s a lady!
A lady’s a lady and never unbends
No sexy sarong ever draped her
And if caught compromised with her husband’s best friend
She explains that the guy must have rapped her
She never gets stickin until after dark
Never takes nude sun baths up in central park
And she never gooses young waiters
Such things leave their mark
You couldn’t and still be a lady
A lady’s a lady by night or by day
Never walks unannounced in men’s showers
And if beach boys at Miami offer a lai
She insists on one made of flowers
She’s subtly disguises young lady like lusts
Never cuts dinner guests with left over crusts
And she never drops ice cubes down fat women’s busts
No girl ever would who’s a lady
A lady’s a lady whatever occurs
Never makes intrigue an issue
I’m reluctant to mention it but she prefers
Using Kleenex in place of scotch tissue
She never goes out with another girl’s guy
Though she gets mad as hell she won’t spit in your eye
And she never feeds fuller brush men’s panties fly
But who ever called me a lady?
Smile when you say that madam
Ring that bell
Cause class with tell
Who in hell
Called me a lady?

154545 | posted by AussieAri at 22:00 | 0 comments

Finally drew tonight. The challenge to make subversive visual art triumphs in my spirit! Now to keep momentum and make sure I start doing the actual comic pages.

154524 | posted by AussieAri at 2:50 | 0 comments

Lookit here. I want this kind of bike: Over 700ccs, seat height <27”, Chain Drive, Street Rod style with the pullback handlebar, bobbed rear fender, double slash cut exhaust (preferably on both sides of the bike).

Prime candidates: Honda Magna ‘95 in candy red.
Problems: Harder to find these days, parts must all be ordered.
Alternates: Honda VLX and Honda Shadow Spirit.
Problems: Not enough ccs, low power, only 4 gears. Just doesn’t look as nice, cramped position for passenger.

After careful consideration i say screaw it. I'm totally getting a Magna.

154523 | posted by AussieAri at 2:37 | 2 comments

Go on and save the world.

Finished reading Ishmael. I am slightly disappointed. Though it outlines a different history of the world based on stories and ruling perceptions, and a few nice insights here and there, that’s about all it does. When talking about the sort of social revolution the character Ishmael states much happen in order to save the world he references the rise of communism. The different attempts at communism would not have happened if someone had not written a book about how things can be done, not about what should be done or what is/was. Karl Marx also stated that unless ever country adopted communism, communism would always fail. Replace ‘communism’ with ‘leavers’ and ‘capitalism’ with ‘takers’ and you have the same story only told from Ishmael’s POV.

So leaving aside political structure change, at this stage even if there were a huge decrease in human population the remained are still going to want a leaders, still want someone to tell them what should be done and how, and still want prophets. I don’t see any reason why we would think that last left are people not affected by current culture or will want something different and will still have hope. The last two are imperative for success. So with giving us a history and the faintest of vision without filling in the blanks, Ishmael is calling for a rise to personal accountability towards the world’s environment but has not the faintest whiff of how to accomplish it. Why? Perhaps because you can’t teach anyone accountability like that if they don’t want to learn it. And there is no common prompt to want to learn it at present- simply the feeling that things are not right.

The most ironic thing is this Gorilla teacher of man was given the name of Goliath by the menagerie owner to drum up the misconception of Gorillas as man killing vicious beasts. A gross misunderstanding of the herbivorous Gorilla’s nature. It was only when a man truly looked at Goliath he realized he wasn’t Goliath by nature at all but instead Ishmael.
My wild animal teacher was also named Goliath. Just like Ishmael, his name was horribly inappropriate. Unlike Ishmael, he was a pure carnivore. Does that make his lessons or his wild nature any different? No, not at all. It simply means he had a different point of view.

154522 | posted by AussieAri at 2:23 | 0 comments

I’m looking forward to viewing My Super Ex Girlfriend. I think the Luna Brothers did a better take on super womens every day lives in Ultra. They didn’t exploiting the obvious powers corrupt angel and instead looking at the human one.
Newsflash: CBS is making an "Ultra" TV series. Yay! Can't you Hollywood schucks write a damn thing yourselves? Obviously not- but hey, more money for the hard working comic book folks!

154521 | posted by AussieAri at 2:13 | 0 comments

Wednesday, June 14, 2006

What do you lot make of this?

154493 | posted by AussieAri at 18:46 | 0 comments

New Knife Discoveries

California Cobra, another take on recurved combat knives. I'm a little doubtful as to its actual usefulness.
A Shock Knife for training. The possibility of pain and being out of my comfort zone makes me far more serious when I practice and makes the practice a far more worthwhile lesson. Ouch.
Cherokee outpost has some sleek modern Italian folders.

154492 | posted by AussieAri at 18:44 | 0 comments

T.I.A.I.L.W.: The other Domino of a hundred aka's. Doesn't she remind you a bit of Lady Door as far as looks go?

154491 | posted by AussieAri at 18:39 | 0 comments

Hey hey party people. For the first time in my life I am switching to a night schedule. Mum need attention around the clock and I’m the only one in the house who’s fit to do it so there we go. 10-6am in general. Goodbye daylight. Maybe I’ll stay up long enough to see the sunrise each morning before I nod off.

154490 | posted by AussieAri at 18:27 | 2 comments

i like fuzzy bunnies and makeup and...oh wait...

In between working out and finally making myself draw something I set up an e-harmony account. Yes, I know, the sight is for heterosexuals you silly girl. Let me assure you, it’s absolutely an experiment. Like the time in highschool when I was still figuring things like ‘dating’ out and put out a personals add looking for a boy. Not that I got any closer to figuering out about dating but the excercise did help with the sexuality issue.
I mainly want to see what sort of parameters they use to match people- how much they conform to socially accepted gender rolls. I’m not on it to mislead any ladies; I’m simply curious as to what sort of women they would set me up with. Does this produce any similarities between the women i have dated/am attracted too? As far as the pictures go, it helps that I make a convincing guy in drag.

154489 | posted by AussieAri at 18:27 | 2 comments

Tuesday, June 13, 2006

Pardon Mademoiselle, did you order another side of merde?

Guarrrgg.
Got a call from the roomie. Our rent just went up $100. This. Is not. Acceptable.
Why? Because our house, as centrally located as it is, Is Not up to code.
What am I going to do? Play hardball. Because that’s what I do.
Fix the house and we’ll pay the rent increase.
Don’t and we won't. But we will be sure to:
a) bring this fact to the council’s attention so that the house will be closed.
b) leaving you without a tenant for however long it takes you to make the repairs which will probably cost as much as two month’s rent,
You greedy bastards masquerading as caring down to earth simple New Mexican folk.

154468 | posted by AussieAri at 20:44 | 0 comments

Shaking the peach tree to a crappy back beat.

Bad amusement this morning.

154462 | posted by AussieAri at 9:15 | 0 comments

The trip to Boston rocked my socks. Oh favorite of my east coast cities! Dancing walking talking and fooding. All the things that make good leisurizing and indulging. What a perfect weekend away from everyday life.
Particular highlights that you won't find anywhere else included: Pride weekend drinking and dancing on a dance floor packed with women from 4pm onwards (overpriced as the drink/cover were in general and as the music degenerated), I have tasted of the substance called 'Quorn', translucent jellyfish floating around the harbor, harbor seals at play in the aquarium, a living statue performance duo of girls draped in rainbow, and of course Lindsey!

I am sad i missed Nick and Z, but i was well occupied otherwise.

154461 | posted by AussieAri at 9:08 | 0 comments

Oh god it’s all so true.

We’ve had Mr. Winkle and now I have been told of Sam, The World’s Ugliest Dog. If looking at the two in succession doesn’t leave you nauseous I’m impressed.

Link thanks to Lindsey.

154460 | posted by AussieAri at 8:39 | 0 comments

Horrible stupid gossip stories and hearsay.

It seems like the two queer e-mail lists I’m part of for Santa Fe/NM are being used to let people know when one person feels mistreated by another and how we can all protest that other person. Poor babies. God bugger it.
I wouldn’t care if I didn’t know half of the people involved. It frustrates me people take the time to do this shit that only serves to put more mal feelings into an already very loose community. If someone took you out the back and beat you senseless, if they don’t pay you for your work, fine- these are good reasons to let people know they should be weary and outraged. If it’s not something that could stand up with the help of a rain stick in a court of law then shut the hell up and don’t clog my e-mail. Go cry on someone else’s shoulder about your feelings being hurt or your disapproval- this community’s back is already too weak.

154459 | posted by AussieAri at 8:37 | 0 comments

OMG. Sweatdrop! Heartthrob!

BBC took on Fingersmith! Yayyy! Now that they’ve done two Sarah Water’s books let’s see them do Jeanette Winterson! Then you can all watch me have a very joyous heart attack.

154458 | posted by AussieAri at 8:35 | 0 comments

Friday, June 9, 2006

A bloggy shame

I was led to looking at older posts on this blog the other night while doing some maintenance. Now that this blog is 4+ years, has quite a bit of size to it, and is fully searchable through engines, I’ve noticed that many comments have been made by people long after I made the initial posting. All sorts of things and people have popped up in the history of these pages that i had no idea about. Danchan.com has no way of notifying me when a new comment is made to my blog so if it’s from a previous month/page I most likely won’t see it.
Which is utterly too bad. The most extraordinary example of this that i found last night?
Xtian posted a comment on my blog from two Novembers ago. I had never read this comment before last night. He mentioned Xtel and he lived in Santa Fe and also inquired if I still did as well. I was introduced by a mutual friend to both of them this past November. I could have met them over a year ago!

154383 | posted by AussieAri at 6:38 | 0 comments

I don't know what it is with the drag names but they just keep coming to me...

Suren Dear
Ovary Acting
Miss Gnomer (for a dwarf drag queen)
Nat Choman

154382 | posted by AussieAri at 6:35 | 0 comments

Wednesday, June 7, 2006

the leopard has it's tree limb but where do i get to bed?

I really need to find bedding that is soft/malleable and will let me sleep on several layers/at angles. Any suggestions beside old couches and bean bags?

154330 | posted by AussieAri at 12:48 | 2 comments

Did you ever met a person who has foul body language? I don’t mean obviously meant to attract- I mean FOUL. Just down right inappropriate and well- skanky.

154329 | posted by AussieAri at 12:46 | 0 comments

Do you ever keep secrets for yourself? The sort where you have something happen or go somewhere or see something alone or with no one you know and you simply do not relate it to a soul? You are out or elsewhere when it happens, you don’t bring it home in any other way, no one else need know what it consisted of- stopping at a bar for a drink, taking the long way home,- benign as it actually is. I find I need these secrets. At vary least as variances in my routine.

154328 | posted by AussieAri at 12:45 | 0 comments

Monday, June 5, 2006

I wonder if Tank Girl's mum ever made her one of these:

Tank Cozy

154281 | posted by AussieAri at 19:38 | 0 comments

The surprising confessional list...

...of things I have not (yet?) read (past a first chapter) dispite the attempts of exs and therapists:

Ruby Grapefruit Jungle
The Count Of Monte Christo
Under A Tuscan Sun
Stone Butch Blues
The Well Of Loneliness
Watership Down
To Kill A Mockingbird
Fried Green Tomatoes
The Princes Bride
Writing Down The Bones
Lord of The Rings (entire series)
The Hobbit
Really anything at all by J.R.R. Tolkin
Anything by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Anything by Anne Rice
Anything by Chuck Palahniuk
Anything by Orson Scott Card
Anything by Stephen King
Anything by Ayn Rand
Anything by Jane Austin
Anything by any of the damn Bronte sisters
Anything by Michael Moore

Do you notice any patterns? I do. Feel free to berate me for being an insensitive literary lout.

154280 | posted by AussieAri at 19:37 | 3 comments

Sunday, June 4, 2006

I've got plans. Ha!

I plan to be in Boston from the 9th till the 12th of June. I would love to see anyone in the area at that time. It is much easier to see people in the area you are in at the current time you are in it than trying to see someone way across the other side of the content in that same time. ya dig?

I realize i've been boring you all with the inane chattering of my mind but besides general distress that runs through each day up here and the above 'plan' that's all i got.

154265 | posted by AussieAri at 21:53 | 1 comments

Uh-oh. I feel like doing Very Bad Things. Better go work out.

154263 | posted by AussieAri at 21:39 | 2 comments

Yet Another Drag Name:
Brickget House

154262 | posted by AussieAri at 21:39 | 0 comments

Why i'll murderize me.

I am a lonely jiu jitsu girl. There’s really no point in trying to act out the moves by yourself even if they’re probably really entertaining to watch as a spectator. I’m left with playing the moves through my head over and over again, shifting my body a bit as i get the motions worked through my brain.
Not that I don’t do that already but this time i brought this along.

154261 | posted by AussieAri at 21:37 | 0 comments

I watched the Aussie movie City Loop and might I say, this has got so much of what’s been missing from every single mainstream movie I’ve seen over the past two years.

154249 | posted by AussieAri at 12:20 | 0 comments

I’ve been watching old Felix Cartoons.

Here’s a device they inspired that I can play with:
Comics made to ‘bleed through’ pages so that the lines make composite images when pages lie flat together.

154248 | posted by AussieAri at 12:16 | 0 comments

Reading speeds.

The first half always goes quickly, the third quarter slows, and in the last quarter each page takes me longer and longer to read.

154247 | posted by AussieAri at 12:16 | 3 comments

Tsai Chih Chung who has re-done many a classic Eastern text into graphic novel form making them just that much easier to grasp. The problem is most of his works translated into english are horrendously expensive over here.
*big tear filled anime eyes look across the pacific ocean in Gideon's direction*

154246 | posted by AussieAri at 12:13 | 0 comments

Thursday, June 1, 2006

Well DC, you've sold me at least one more comic.

I think DC might be on to something with their new 52 series- getting rid of all the superheroes and how the people with 'talents' rather than 'powers' deal in a world without the likes of Superman and Wonder Woman.
Oh, and BTW- the new Batwoman is a lesbian.

(thanks to Susan for the link)

154211 | posted by AussieAri at 20:42 | 718 comments

My main physical occupation for the past three days has been sweating and/or remaining slightly sticky all day long. Someone decided to release the mugginess and bugs upon Western NY this week.

The 30+ hours without power didn't help. Don’t know what irks me more- the fact that when I lived in a 3rd world county with civil war they’d get the power on faster than these sad yobbos or the fact that so much modern housing is absolutely good for nothing without it’s appliences. Oh give me a home with a power source (that’s green), a well, and a wood fire stove! Right- now to chuck out an entire fridge and freezer worth of food.

154210 | posted by AussieAri at 20:34 | 0 comments

Words about my home

That’s what we do in Santa Fe

154209 | posted by AussieAri at 20:33 | 0 comments