the single women's dinner is at the rathskeller on thursday - yummy! haven't been before, but a look at the menu makes me hungry!

amazing the spiffy stuff you can find online with google...mom and i were discussing the poem in the new chevy tahoe commercial, performed by james garner..."nobody knows it but me" sounds like a classic - but guess what, it isn't! it was copy dreamt up by some ad exec...found this out in an article at bayarea.com by joan morris - she's got an interesting column, answering questions to all that random crap that ya wonder about, but gets stuck in the crevices of your brain and forgotten...

i am SOOOOO glad i didn't go to work today...holiday schedule means i worked friday instead of today...so i decided to go shopping and go see catch me if you can - alas, i didn't get to see the movie cuz i got a flat tire and had to wait forever to get the damn spare put on...guess i'll be doin a little tire shopping before work tomorrow...at least it was a flat in the middle of the meijer parking lot and not out in the middle of 465 on my way to work...

mom and i just finished watching birthday girl - strange movie...guess i agree with roger ebert's review - it was just not quite right...nicole kidman was interesting as a mail order bride, but ben chaplin needs to go back to roles like his in the truth about cats & dogs - sweet guy with the brit accent...

here's the t-shirt i got my kid sister for xmas - do ya suppose it encourages lesbianism? *8-)

Happy White Trash Christmas, Y'All!

heh heh heh...this is awfully tempting...
http://howandwhy.org/marquee.html

merry xmas! woo hoo!

my latest read: Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six MIT Students Who Took Vegas for Millions by Ben Mezrich - very interesting...a bunch of math geeks took to counting cards while playing blackjack...i find it interesting to read books like this (the scrabble book is another good example) filled with geeks that find their magical calling...

also read Bill Maher's latest book - When you ride alone you ride with bin Laden : what the government should be telling us to help fight the War on Terrorism - don't agree with everything he says, but he does make some very interesting points...

	You are Fozzie! Wokka Wokka! You love to make lame jokes. Your sense of humor might be a bit off, but you're a great friend and can always be counted on..
Take the What Muppet Are You? Quiz!

ruh roh...i picked a grand time to shout "BOOBIES!" here in the office - apparently Carol (the sales chick on the other side of our cube farm) has a client in with her now...it got DEAD quiet over there in the sales department...it's all debbies fault anyways, she's the one sending pix of nekkid chicks...

heh heh heh - put new wallpaper on my desktop here at work today - Fruitcake!

amusing article...

interesting..."scientists have pinpointed a part of the brain that leaves people unable to stop humming annoying tunes"..."American researchers have found an area behind the forehead that processes music and helps retrieve memories. They said the rostromedial prefrontal cortex was where information about the harmonic relationships of music are stored. The region is also connected to the temporal lobe, which is involved in more basic sound processing." - so is the fact that i have Temporal Lobe Epilepsy related to the fact that I can't get "Who Let The Dogs Out?" out of my goddamned head whenever Carol gets out her little stuffed doggie that sings the damned song?!?!?

an update to the evil wal-mart story i posted a while back...

i sent em an email and told them i wasn't spending ANY money at their evil store this xmas...and the more i think about it, the more i realize that needs to extend beyond the holidays - i can get stuff i need at places that don't treat people like crap and care only about the bottom line, and it probably wouldn't save me all that much money anyways...

so anyways, they sent me a reply back:

From: "CUSTOMER REPLIES: WM Stores & Sam's Clubs"
To: "'lorib@crapmail.com'"
Subject: RE: LtrToPres# 000000001303146: Subject: SUGGESTIONS/FEEDBACK
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 09:03:55 -0800

We apologize for any misunderstanding concerning the Toys for Tots collection box in our store. This is an isolated situation where the box was located inside the store and was being used as a trash receptacle. There was a very small amount of items in the box and had not been picked up. To rectify the issue, the store removed the trash, the few items in the box, and provided $425 in toys. This was in addition to the $1,000 cash grant provided to the Toy for Tots organization.

Thank you,
Customer Relations

yeah, okay.

now i need to find a new place to get the oil changed in my car...

hee hee hee....time for a joke (or two):

Two couples who have been friends for years decide to spend the weekend at a fancy hotel. When they get there, one of the husbands suggests they get a little wild and swap partners.
After two hours of solid sex by the fireside, the man turns to his new partner and says, “Wow! This is the best sex I’ve had in years.”
“Yeah,” his new companion agrees.
“I wonder how the girls are doing.”

A woman is in her doctor’s office and suddenly shouts, “Doctor, kiss me!”
The doctor says, “I’m sorry, it’s against my code of ethics to kiss you.”
Five minutes later the woman again shouts, “Doctor, please kiss me!”
Again he refuses and says, “As a doctor, I simply cannot kiss you.”
Finally, after another five minutes, the woman pleads with the doctor again, “Please, please kiss me, just once!”
“Look,” he says, “I’m sorry. I cannot kiss you. In fact, I probably shouldn’t even be humping you.”

oh, the things you can do with Jell-O!

hrmm....i already bought some pre-made ones, but it'd be cool to make my own christmas crackers...

so, we're having a "christmas around the world" pitch-in at work...i'm thinking of making something norwegian...er, what the hell to make?

i've googled around, looking for recipes, and have found a few sites to check out at a later time:

http://www.sofn.com/norwegianculture/recipes/index.html
http://www.geocities.com/infonorway/kitchen/recipes/index.html
http://www.rootsweb.com/~wgnorway/recipe.html

interesting article on photoblogs - perhaps if/when i upgrade to Blogger Pro/Blogspot Plus (or just get my own damned URL) i'll integrate more photos into my blog...

gotta love those amazon automated recommendations - ya look up Pat Robertson's Six Steps to Spiritual Revivaland get a recommendation to also purchase The Ultimate Guide to Anal Sex for Men - *rofl*....

(don't worry, i'm not buying men's anal sex books - i read an article about this thang here...)

i also like the customer suggestion for an accompanying purchase to Now That's What I Call Music! 11 - the cd compilation of current top 40 type music...someone's suggested Super Leight Pre-Shaped Foam Ear Plugs to accompany that cd purchase...

oh god, can i pleeeeeeeeeeeze be her fluffer?

amusing - an internet spammer gets pissed when anti-spammers, using the snail mail address of the guy's new home, sign him up for tons of unwanted mail...

so this guy in michigan decides to use FedEx and their minute by minute tracking to see where a letter to Santa Claus would end up...check it out here...

i love this comment, posted to fark:

"Most relgious (sic) people that I know are "Cafeterians". They pick and choose the parts of the Bible that they like, and ignore the rest."

pooky's amazon wishlist

if you weren't convinced already - more proof of just how evil the wal-mart corporation is...

Congratulations, you're syphilis!

Transmitted by direct contact with one of your infections (usually through unprotected sex), you're one nasty STD! In your initial stages, you cause sores, usually on the genitals or in the rectum, but that's only the delicious beginning. Later on, you'll cause a rash, and then slip away ... but you won't be gone. No no, my friend. You're far too cunning.

You'll still pass yourself on to anyone the poor soul you've infected has sex with (anal, vaginal or oral), and you'll start to erode their muscles and nerves! In fact, you'll eventually lead, if left untreated, to malcoordination, blindness, paralysis, dementia and then death!

And that's not all - if you infect a pregnant women, you'll also be passed to their child! A single shot of penicillin will kill you, but shhhhh .. I won't tell anyone if you won't.



Take the Affliction Test Today!

Eleanor Roosevelt! Nice to see you.

A Roosevelt yourself, you married your fifth cousin Franklin; despite the obvious incestuous overtones, your six kids were happy and healthy.

When Franklin got elected, you became perhaps the most controversial first lady ever - you spoke out for the rights of women; for the rights of the poor; for world peace. You were even a member of a union while your husband was in office - and when he died, you were the head of the UN Commission on Human Rights.

All of which is pretty kick ass, but to top things off you had a hot and steamy relationship with the lesbian journalist Lorena Hickok, who was so madly in love with you that she halted her career for you. Unfortunately, you couldn't give up your public life that easily - leaving her heartbroken.

Bitch.



Which Famous Homosexual are you?

Hailing from sunny Transylvania, your first blood-related incident was when you stabbed a servant girl in the face with a pair of scissors for underperforming. Some of the red spray landed on your hands, and as you washed it off, you noticed that it left your skin fresh and young looking. From then on you were convinced that the blood of young girls was the secret to eternal youth.

Rather than killing girls outright by stabbing them or slitting their throats, you enjoy torturing them for weeks on end by pricking them with needles or prodding with sharp spikes - all to bathe in their blood. You've killed over six hundred women, all without raising a peep from the authorities.


Which Evil Criminal are You?

a-ha! my fave 80's norwegian musicians make the news once again...well, one of 'em did - Mags, the cutie keyboard player...*swoon*

so, if i'm reading in a magazine or online about a book that sounds interesting, i'll reserve it on the indy public library's website - every once in a while, everything comes in all at once - i'm deluged with books right now and they all have to be returned asap!!

here's a glimpse at some of what i've gotten:

I rant, therefore I am - Dennis Miller - luckily, this was a book on CD, so i burned it for listening later...

The carbohydrate addict's cookbook : 250 all-new low-carb recipes that will cut your cravings and keep you slim for life - Richard F. Heller - haven't had a chance to look at this one...don't really care about the slim for life part, it's the carb addict part that i relate to - definitely a problem for a diabetic...

The F word : how to survive your family - Louie Anderson - i'm about halfway through this one...damn, louie's gettin pretty philosophical...

The Sopranos on the couch : analyzing television's greatest series - Maurice Yacowar - damn, and here i just thought the Sopranos was just a good mobster show...apparently each episode is packed with layers and layers of meaning...interesting, but i didn't finish the book - not my cup o tea...

What's my line? : The inside history of tv's most famous panel show - Gilbert Fates - thought this one would be interesting after reading "Backstage With the Original Hollywood Square" by Peter Marshall, a b-day gift from mom...i thought wrong, the what's my line book was rather bland...what i read of it, at least...

Shop, save, and share - Ellie Kay - hell, i could've written this book (without the religious references, that is)...guess it would be useful for someone that doesn't know the right way to use coupons, but i've got that system down...

The complete Tightwad gazette : promoting thrift as a viable alternative lifestyle - Amy Dacyczyn, a.k.a. The Frugal Zealot - interesting, but didn't really learn anything new here....

Feng shui at work : arranging your office space for peak-performance and maximum profit - Kirsten Lagatree - haven't cracked this one open yet, but i know it's desperately needed - a good vibe in the workplace would be spiffy...

LOTD = laugh of the day...

here's today's...

http://www.jesus.com/merchandise/plates.html

Which Harry Potter Candy are you?
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Which Sesame Street Muppet's Dark Secret Are You?
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Make your own Fairy Tale at fuali.com

Take the test, by Emily.

add this to the xmas list - a multimedia refrigerator! the damned thing has TV, internet, a digital camera, and - oh yeah - it'll keep your food cold too...

interesting - burger king has a disclaimer at the bottom of their website that reads "Burger King Corporation makes no claim that the BK VEGGIE™ Burger or any other of its products meets the requirements of a vegan or vegetarian diet."

My Music Personality

must make pilgrimage to see the Leg Lamp!!!! ahhh..."the soft glow of electric sex gleaming in the window"...hell, maybe i should just buy one of my own...

ya know, i just LOVE the Internet Anagram Server - it's far too entertaining! ya type in a few words, it'll give ya anagrams...

so, Lori Beth yields (amongst other things):

RIBLET HO
THROB LIE
LIE BROTH
BRIT HOLE
LITHE ORB

Turkey day '02 was a success...went to Aunt Sherry's for dinner with Mom...woulda been cool to have Pooky there, but he was with Codi and her family.

sheesh there was a TON of food...yummy! er, i think i might have misplaced my blood sugar monitor...yeah, that's it, i can't find it...*8-)

after stuffing ourselves full o food, we made some christmas ornaments...i still have paint on my hands from helping Tre make his ornament - of course he's most attracted to doing whatever is messiest...but now the kids will have a little memento of thanksgiving '02...

i searched through the ads in the paper yesterday - there's a few good deals out there, but nothing that's making me go to the store 2 hours early to get something extra cheap...dunno if i'll actually be observing Buy Nothing Day, but it's definitely more likely than in years past...

Happy Thanksgiving!

it was 24 years ago today that Harvey Milk was assassinated by Dan White in San Francisco...

"If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door." - Harvey Milk, 9 days before his assassination.

Which HP Kid Are You?

OHMYGOD! (literally - heh heh) - it's Buddy Christ!!

Ya know what pisses me off? This medical reimbursement account thang that says if you overestimate what you're gonna spend in a year, they keep the extra that they've deducted from your paycheck! It's that time o year again, to decide how much they're gonna get out of me each paycheck - adding up my list of prescriptions is a bit depressing - we're talking close to 150 bucks a month! But who knows what i'll be taking med-wise in 3 months...6 months...and so on...so i conservatively estimated, based on my current meds, and will deduct $50 a pay period...if i do the vagus nerve stimulator thang and cut back on the meds, i'll probably still manage to rack up plenty of bills...why Manley should get to keep the money i might not spend is beyond me tho...

they're encouraging us at work to make our little cubes more personal - wonder if i'd get fired for putting up this calendar...*8-)

HOW TO . . . TALK GOOD
10 Useful Hints for Everyday Grammar

usually trapped at work on sunday nights, so i don't get to watch tv then...i'd forgotten how much i missed queer as folk - the damned thing's gonna be in reruns till march '03!!! and they're not releasing season 2 on dvd till freakin february...why do the cable channels do this shit?!? waiting over a year for the sopranos sucked too...yeah, i understand perhaps fewer episodes as a good trade-off for the quality they put into these shows, but i can't imagine being off the air for such long periods of time can help things....oh well, at least we've got queer duck online to keep us entertained...

woo hoo, finally got the pix developed from the cowboy junkies show / the party at angela's / the ani difranco concert...

here's a pic of me with margo timmons, lead singer for the cowboy junkies...man that woman can melt by boxer shorts!!! check their tour diary for their perception of the evening of october 13 here in indianapolis

these pics weren't taken with my digital camera, but rather with a disposable i had sitting in the car...dunno why, but the kodak picture CD that this image came from looks a hell of a lot worse than the actual pictures themselves...oh well...i'll photoshop em later...

*grin*

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What Kind of Coffee are You? by Medox



*grin* not bad for a non-coffee-drinker....

Lesbians win!

Celebrity or Lookalike?

the neurologist once again has brought up the option of a Vagus Nerve Stimulator as a way to control my seizures. with my insurance changing at the first of the year, i suppose it's time to think about it some more...the idea of being able to be completely off seizure meds is awfully tempting, that's for sure...but will it work for me? dave's website had lots of info from a patient's point of view...yeah, it's an invasive procedure, but it's better than going in and taking out a big chunk o brain...

well, at least i've got some time to think about it...

once again the conversation turns weird at work...current topic - Camel Toes...

the indy star gave a positive review to ani difranco's show last nite...

so, pooky and i did the family bondage thang and went to see ani difranco last night at the egyptian room...good show, considering ani had broken her foot and spent the evening sitting down - the show was a bit shorter than usual, but she still managed to pack the same punch...Hamell On Trial was her opening act - pretty good, i'll hafta look into his stuff...

ani closed the show with a poem, self evident...pretty powerful shit...

managed to get some halfway decent pix with the digital cam - surprising considering how far from the stage we were...

i guess i'm turning into an old fuddy-duddy - the general admission thing sucks ass - i would've much preferred regular seats...

more later, now i hafta get ready for work - bleargh!

fatwallet.com has forums with lots and lots of freebies in em...now i'm expecting lots of goodies to come via us postal service!

pooky sent me this link - check out blackpeopleloveus.com

adam got his url (djadamjay.com) though http://hostica.com/ - maybe someday i'll get my own website...*8-)

Bi-Partisan Unity - cute...

all you never wanted to know about the oscar meyer weinermobile...

Take the What
animal best portrays your sexual appetite?? Quiz

ya know, there's a "what kind of _________ are you?" survey for everything...

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I'M 48.5% X-rated. HOW HORNY ARE YOU?

I'm a Gin & Tonic, discover your ALcoHoLiC personality!

not that celebrity opinions should carry any special weight, but Sean Penn's open letter to George W. Bush is good - he put his money where his mouth is by spending 56 grand to place it in a 3/4 page ad in the washington post...

from Bob & Tom's Joke of the Day page:

A man follows a woman with a parrot out of a movie theater. He stops her and says, "I'm sorry to bother you, but I couldn't help but notice that your bird seemed to understand the movie. He cried at the right spots, he was fidgeting in his seat during the boring parts and he laughed at jokes. Don't you find that unusual?"
"I do indeed," she answered. "He hated the book."


A carrot crosses the road and is hit by a car. He is rushed to the hospital, where he goes through hours of surgery.
After surgery the doctor comes into the carrot’s room and says “Well, I’ve got good news and bad news.”
The carrot says, “Give me the good news first, doc.”
The doctor says, “The good news is you’re gonna live.”
“And the bad news?” asks the carrot.
“The bad news is you're gonna be a vegetable for the rest of your life.“

ahhh, i just love TotalFark - it's got ALL of the links that are submitted, even those that don't get posted to fark.com - for instance: all you never wanted to know about farts...

here's the playboy playmate of the month when i was born - September 1972 - and if you wanna see a different month/year, click here...

Even Superman once worked in a team

Take the Cartoon Hero Quiz?.

if the evil earlham college is to get the money from me that they claim that i owe them, it'll be like this - in pennies.

i'm definitely gonna hafta check this out - women's ice hockey - the circle city sirens - strictly as a spectator of course...could be a really good event to take my kid sister to see...

$24,668.14 - that's twenty four thousand, six hundred sixty eight dollars and fourteen cents. that's the total of claims submitted to my health insurance company this year, not including trips to the therapist or shrink (dunno why they don't list that online)...

woah...that's a big chunk o change...

Men plan to collect, return AOL CDs

next saturday is the 2002 international rps championships - rps, you ask? Rock, Paper, Scissors! damn, too bad it's in toronto - it'd be cool to see - alas, i hafta be in town to see ani difranco next sunday...

'tis amazing where you can end up when you're googling - i ended up on a page for people addicted to lip balm - Lip Balm Anonymous - now i can't even remember what i was looking for...

*clever*


What fuzzy creature are you?

hrm, hafta check this out later - http://www.ifproject.com/

okay, yeah, a bit racist, but amusing nonetheless:





How BLACK are you?

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Does it work? that's the premise of this website, which has reviews of all the "as seen on tv" gizmos that you know are crap, but ya just hafta buy anyways...like the Perfect Pancake - dunno why, but i've wanted one ever since i saw the commercial the first 48,281 times...the thing sells for twenty bucks, but CVS had em on sale for $14.99 and i had a $15 gift card from 'em for transferring a prescription...so, since i didn't have any real financial investment in it, i decided to get it...have yet to try it, but the review doesn't give me much hope...a previous time i used another freebie gift card to get the quick chop, and i can say from my own personal experience that it's nothing like they show on tv and is totally worthless...figured it'd be great for chopping onions - so i tried it...first time, the onion got stuck in the blade. okay, so i'll cut the onion into quarters - still, it didn't chop very well, and that was after i'd cut it into small enough pieces to make it easy to chop - a few more cuts with the old-fashioned knife, and the damned thing woulda been chopped anyways!

don't forget to VOTE on tuesday!!

"Something is rotten in the state of Denmark." - Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 4.

well, whaddaya know...apparently the human resources department at work is Denmark. definitely something rotten going on there...

stuff to read later, after i get a bit o' sleep...

http://www.thismodernworld.com/
http://www.doonesbury.com/strip/dailydose/
http://www.nowarblog.org/
http://michaelmoore.com/index.php

i just love molly ivins - she's good at putting into words the sort of things i think about politics - from a recent article:

My, what fun we are having this festive fall campaign season. Ads running coast to coast informing us that if the other guy wins the election, pestilence will fall upon the land, weevils will eat the corn, our children will be sacrificed to Baal, and we'll all be afflicted with piles. It makes me miss the warm, positive, upbeat, people-loving candidates of yesteryear. Like Richard Nixon.

Tough times for those of us who are just little rays of sunshine all the damn time. I was trying to think of a single area where the country appears to be headed in the right direction.

The economy? Flop. Health care? Disaster. Homeland security? The director of the CIA says we're about to be attacked again. Foreign policy? Even our allies are starting to hate us. The environment? Please.

Meanwhile, our only president continues to insist that we need to go bomb Iraq, as he so lucidly explained the other day, "for the sake of peace." We once had a war to end war, but we've never actually tried a war for peace before.

saw a couple of movies today - went and saw Punch-Drunk Love, the adam sandler movie that's not really an adam sandler movie, it's a paul thomas anderson (of boogie nights and magnolia fame) movie...weird, but good...i won't give it the rave review that roger ebert did, but it was enjoyable...

after Punch-Drunk Love, i made it a double feature and snuck into The Ring, which had just started...it was okay, but not as creepy as i expected it to be...

the previews before Punch-Drunk Love showed some good movies coming up...About Schmidt (with Jack Nicholson) and Catch Me If You Can (with Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks, directed by Steven Spielberg)...

hrmmmm....the nonsense generator - isn't that all of the internet?

invasion of the goofy online tests!!







What's your claim to fame?

guess all the soda/pop/carbonated beverage companies are jumping on that put out a new drink bandwagon...7UP is putting out dnL, saying it's 7up flipped...it's caffeinated, colored, fruity tasting...are they trying to be a new mountain dew? i like the flipit logo, very cute - if you flip it upside down, it still reads flip it - ooooh!

doesn't look like they've got a diet version out yet, but perhaps in the near future....

i tried the diet vanilla coke a while back and was thoroughly unimpressed...

diet code red mountain dew totally rocks though! i go back & forth between it and regular diet dew as my fave drink...

not interested in the red fusion that dr. pepper's put out - can't stand dr. pepper...blech!

and there you have it - my views on pop...*8-)

You're loyal to your friends and family. You try not to let people know when you don't like them, because you try you best to treat everyone equally. You're not a leader, you tend to follow orders and respect those who tell you what to do. You're smart and a quick thinker. You take life as its handed to you, and try to make the best of it. You're constantly surrounded by friends and family, and you're a respectable person.

happy halloween!!! *8-)

no big plans for me tonight, just staying home and passing out candy - don't get to do that too often, being a night shifter...luckily, this year halloween falls on one of my nites off...

ahhh, winter...the epic work slowdown...we've run out of work with 6+ hours left in the shift...so, let the netsurfing begin!

thanks for this link, cristella! - http://www.dictionaraoke.org/

ready to poke the doughboy? - http://www.whoohoo.net/poke/index.htm

*8-)

interesting article re: Halloween - "And forget those Transylvanian villagers and superstitious medieval peasants -- Halloween is as American as the Fourth of July."

ever wonder how various celebrities (like cybill shepherd) lost their virginity? well, me neither, but it's something to read on a boring sunday afternoon...

What
lesser-known Simpsons character are you?

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"insluting others" - ha! slight typo there...*grin*

What
cartoon dog are you?

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hrm - seems that sacwriters.com needs a spell-check and assistance in writing their code properly (i had to fix it so the graphic would properly show up), but other than that...i guess i'd agree with the charming and loveable bit...*smirk*

my left arm's got the flu, and my right arm has pneumonia...went to the doc and got shots on friday...the flu shot arm's still a bit sore, with a big hard lump where i got poked...pneumonia shot arm's just fine and dandy, and i won't hafta get another one of those for 6 years...

also got muscle relaxers from the doc, to help in breaking up the big knot o' tension in my back - the deep breathing and relaxation exercises that sheron taught me in my session on thursday did make a big difference, but i think we'll hafta use some pills to get it totally gone...

speaking of the appt with sheron - kinda weird when your therapist reads your journal and bursts out laughing a few times. guess it's a good sign though - she says it appears that i'm getting my sense of humor back. and i suppose that's true - these days, i'm much more likely to laugh at things rather than make them depress me all the more...

spent way too much money at out word bound last night - went there for girls games night and ended up spending forty-some bucks on goodies...i found something AWESOME - if you're NOT clara, go ahead and click this link to see it...*8-)

certain to be a unique halloween costume for kids this year - Pimp Daddy!

What if all of Indianapolis read the same book? Check out One Book, One City and nominate something good! it'd be cool if we could get all of indianapolis to read a queer book, like fried green tomatoes at the whistle stop cafe or something like that...

click HERE to see what kinda druggie
you are!

hrm - colorquiz.com - pretty accurate, i'd say...

my results:

Your Existing Situation
Dissatisfied. The need to escape continued involvement with her present circumstances makes it imperative for her to find some solution.


Your Stress Sources
Has an unsatisfied need to ally herself with others whose standards are as high as her own, and to stand out from the rank and file. This subjects her to considerable stress, but she sticks to her attitudes despite lack of appreciation. Finds the situation uncomfortable and would like to break away from it, but refuses to compromise with her opinions. Unable to resolve the situation because she continually postpones making the necessary decision as she doubts her ability to withstand the opposition which would result. Needs the esteem of others, compliance with her wishes, and respect for her opinions before she can feel at ease and secure.


Your Restrained Characteristics
Feels listless, hemmed in, and anxious; considers that circumstances and forcing her to restrain her desires. Wants to avoid open conflict with others and to have peace and quiet.
Wants to broaden her fields of activity and insists that her hopes and ideas are realistic. Distressed by the fear that she may be prevented from doing what she wants; needs both peaceful conditions and quiet reassurance to restore her confidence.

Feels that she is burdened with more than her fair share of problems. However, she sticks to her goals and tries to overcome her difficulties by being flexible and accommodating.




Your Desired Objective
Longs for a tender and sympathetic bond and for a situation of idealized harmony. Has an imperative need for tenderness and affection. Susceptible to anything esthetic.


Your Actual Problem
Greatly impressed by the unique, by originality, and by individuals of outstanding characteristics. Tries to emulate the characteristics she admires and to display originality in her own personality.


Your Actual Problem #2
The tensions induced by trying to cope with conditions which are really beyond her capabilities, or reserves of strength, have led to considerable anxiety and a sense of personal (but unadmitted) inadequacy. She attempts to escape into a substitute world in which things are more nearly as she desires them to be.

I am Mario. I like to jump around, and would lead a fairly serene and aimless existence if it weren't for my friends always getting into trouble. I love to help out, even when it puts me at risk. I seem to make friends with people who just can't stay out of trouble. What Video Game Character Are You?

goin to a movie tonite! i'll be meeting angela, robin and diana after work to see a film that's part of the Heartland Film Festival - it's called Touching Wild Horses and has Jane Seymour in it...hey, anything that gets me outta work a little bit early is always good...*8-)

trip to the eye doc today - time to get a new pair of glasses...i'm long overdue, actually...the ones i got a couple of years ago from eyeglass world were shit...

got a new diagnosis to freak myself out about - the doc noticed changes to my macula, so he's concerned about macular degeneration - argh...that's some scary shit.

i just love the cockeyed guy - he's quite a rascal...

interesting blog - http://thehomelessguy.blogspot.com/

it's your god-given right to send email to the president of the united states - so do it now! tell him you want monday night football replaced with pig racing!

monday, 14 october, 1:06 am - argh, blogger seems to be down so i'll hafta blog and then copy/paste!

went to the cowboy junkies concert at birdy's on sunday night - it was so cool! i love going to small venues like that, where you can get close to the performers and they'll come chat and do small talk after the show - i got my pic taken with margo timmons - what a hottie!

the show started off a bit awkwardly - margo didn't really seem into it. she looked like she was strung out on drugs, actually...but she warmed up to the crowd and it was a great show - looking on their website, it's obvious that i don't know much of their recent material, but now i'm gonna give it a try - the few albums after black eyed man didn't really do it for me...hard to believe that was TEN years ago that black eyed man came out. still one of my all time favorite albums - the whole thing is great!

went to the concert with diana, greg's wife. when we got there i saw angela and robin, from games night, so we hung out together throughout the show. (can't remember robin's wife's name - crazy, since i had such a major crush on her before. didn't ask her where she was - erica, that's it! - cuz i couldn't tell if she and angela were just there as friends or not - ya just never can tell with lesbos. i think angela may have thought diana and i were together, cuz when she invited me over to her house for a party for christine next friday, she told me to bring diana...

i've done more socializing the past two days than i have in the past four months...and i've missed it - i definitely DO need to get out more often...

still perky after the Cowboy Junkies concert last night (i'll hafta post my blog about it when i get home) - weird how nobody seems to have heard of 'em - kim told debbie i was going to the "Spastic Cowboys" concert...i got the DVD, and after the show Margo autographed it for me! got my pic taken with her too! she's soooo hot...

after mahjonng last night, the boys took me and diana out for birthday drinks (her b-day was last week, and they hadn't seen me since my b-day)...we went to talbott street...apparently it's recent incarnation has been open for about a month...it was jam-packed with people - including chris, head of HR at work...saw samantha sinclair there (at least i think it was her - she introduced herself to diana as "melissa" though...) and she showered me with love about being an iyg volunteer. i wish things could be the way they were back in the good ol' days of IYG. so anyways, talbott street was packed, ya couldn't hardly move in there, so we headed over to OP's to dance - it's not Our Place anymore though - been renamed Greg's Place...had a gay ol' time there, tho it's obvious that Talbott's has taken a HUGE chunk of their clientel...

finished the book mom got me for my b-day, "Backstage With the Original Hollywood Square" - Peter Marshall's account of hosting Hollywood Squares is very interesting...

i've now moved on to some of the holds i got from the library last weekend...currently about 40 pages into "Stupid White Men ...and Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation!" by Michael Moore - holy shit, he tears into Dubya!!

heh heh heh - get yer Evangelist Name here!

i'm Reverend Oral V. Colon...care to make a donation?

don't like that? how about your white lesbian name?

i'm Powerful StickySister...*8-)

a gangsta name?

Off Da Hook Prison Fish right here...*8-)

"He's an ungodly gay waffle chef on the run. She's a beautiful tempestuous fairy princess trying to make a difference in a man's world. They fight crime!"

cute.

check out the crimefighting characters generator at http://www.rain-street.org/fightcrime.htm

stupid joke time...courtesy of a joke thread on fark:

Two parrots were sitting on a perch. One says to the other "Do you smell fish?"

Q: What do you get when you cross a Saint Bernard with a Chihuahua?
A: A bloody Chiuaua.

Two muffins are baking in an oven.
The first says, "It sure is hot in here."
The second replies, "Wow, a talking muffin!"

What's brown and sticky?
A stick.

mommy sent me this link, since i'm gonna try to restrict the carbs in my life, as painful as that may be...

do you know where your polling place is?

wow, what an amazing clock!

a search link to transcripts of the celebrity jeopardy skits on SNL - where'd the whole sean connery mispronouncing the categories thang come from? connery wants "the penis mightier" category, trebek tells him no, it's "the pen is mightier"..."therapists" is connery-ized as "the rapists" and so on...funny stuff...

last night's birthday dinner was at buca di beppo...i ate with mom, pooky and his gf cody...it was great - well, pretty good - the food was awesome, the service sucked. never had chicken marsala before, but i really enjoyed it - might hafta try making it myself sometime...for dessert, we stopped by ritter's - rocky road with hot fudge - yummy!

cody's a cutie, and it's obvious that being in a relationship's having a good effect on pooky...she was a bit shy last night, but she'll warm up to us...it's obvious she doesn't take any shit from adam...*8-)

alright, now this is fucking ridiculous...sunday, i decided to make piggies in blankets for lunch - the damned hot dogs now have a freaking warning label on them! "Keep Kids Safe! For younger children, cut hot dogs into small pieces before serving. They should always be seated and under adult supervision when eating." they even have a fucking WEB SITE for more info on feeding kids! ya just have to wonder - what freakin lawsuit came up or what was the reasoning that they had to warn people - hey, don't let yer kid run around with a whole hot dog or she'll kill herself! crazy...

oh goodness...dunno what made me think of it, but i was wondering about friends of old, on a mud (multi-user dungeon) i hung out at long ago...Kender's Kove - my "marriage" was in 1994, and i'd been on it quite a bit before that...wonder what ever happened to my old mud.wife, Ryke...

very cool site - www.liquidgeneration.com - funny as hell!

modern humorist wants us to head over to amazon to contribute cash to buy dick cheney a segway! i donated $2.47, so why don't you? *8-)

(as you can see, i'm surfing the web on my birthday...)

so, today's the big 3-0. can't say i feel all that different - guess i've had a few days to let it sink in since my surprise party...

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another name change at work...bye trader.com, hello Trader Classified Media....lessee how long this name lasts...

*grin* check out http://www.redpantiesforreproductivechoice.com/ - think i'll be wearing red boxers that day, thanks. *8-)

for those brain novelty needs: http://www.brain-mart.com/brain_novelties.html

woah...a lego version of van gogh's starry night - http://www.brillig.com/lego/starry_night/

hrmmm...Caligula's Budget Orgy Calculator. *8-)

Interesting: The National Low Income Housing Coalition, in its annual "Out of Reach" report, found that the average U.S. employee must make nearly three times the federal minimum wage, or about $14.66 an hour, to afford a modest two-bedroom rental and still pay for food and other basic needs.

$14.66 an hour...

more proof that angelina & i are destined to be together! Null and Voight - like myself, ang is dropping her father's last name as her legal last name...

went to the neurologist on thursday - said what i'd figured he would, that the seizure i'd had on sunday was probably due to my being sick - infections will lower my seizure threshold and since i had more than one going on at the same time, along with the vomiting et al, it was bound to happen. doc hasn't changed my Rx, but did mention the possibility of new meds - Keppra or Topamax. we'll see. he also gave me some info on the Vagus Nerve Stimulator, though i think we both agree that my seizures don't warrant it at this point - 3 or 4 tonic-clonic seizures a year is still too many, but it could be a hell of a lot worse.

magic 8 ball!

Pop, soda, or coke? I tend to call it pop, but coke's probably a close second...

oh sheesh - EPILEPTIC TOLD: PAY £3500 TO WOMAN WHO SAW YOU HAVE A SEIZURE - glad i'm not in the UK...in US dollars, that's $5,445.87. rather ironic finding this article this weekend, after i had a seizure and spent an evening in the emergency room. just having a seizure wouldn't be enough to hit the ER, but since i've had a urinary tract infection and upper respiratory infection as well, it was necessary to make sure something horrible wasn't going on - nope, no West Nile virus or anything, it just happened that i got slammed by a variety of stuff all at once. still not 100% - it's very obvious that the seizures are fucking with my brain more and more - having verbal problems still, tho it's relatively minor compared to the seizure i had in june.

heading to target? drinks are on me! *8-)
go to http://server40.hypermart.net/insanecodes/coupon_coupon.gif for a coupon for a free coke.

hrmmm - i think they underestimate me...

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tis amazing the knowledge you gain from farking - "A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes", according to firstscience.com - now how do they know the pig wasn't faking it?!?!?

damn, maybe i should become president:

"Bush has spent a whopping total of 250 days of his presidency at Camp David (123 days), Kennebunkport (12) and his Texas ranch (115). That means Bush has spent 42 percent of his term so far at one of his three leisure destinations."

i've also registered with wheresgeorge.com - a site that you can track where your spent money travels...this stuff is neat, gives ya a sense of wonder - what could possibly happen to the $5 bill i just entered and will probably use for dinner tomorrow night?

i've registered with bookcrossing.com - maybe i can empty out a few boxes of books and put them to good use. *8-) i'm totally into the good karma thang that this site gives off...

the South Park Studio has been updated, with new outfits and features et al...check it out! i'll post a new likeness when i get around to it...

i spent a buttload o money at compusa today, buying a bunch of shit i don't need but bought anyways cuz it was free after rebate. *8-) one program has lots of crafts projects on it - you can make your very own cootie catcher! remember those? very cool! there's an online cootie catcher at eCrush - not quite as fun as having a real one, but interesting nonetheless...

according to the densa test, i'm a genius - i got all 12 right!

wow - a website about the state quarters!

hrm, i'll have to read this article i found while surfing the net during a break at work...the headline is "Internet Addiction May Be Form of Stress Management"....

whoo hoo - i got a jukebox - now i can put all my music on it and take it to work! well, not now, really - the damned thing has to charge for 8 hours first - why the hell is that? can't they charge the damned thing up at the factory so that you can take it outta the box and go?

lots of legal stuff at nolopress.com - might be handy sometime...

wow - a transcript of Eddie Izzard's stand-up performance, "Dress To Kill"...the guy is hysterical!

chinese food for lunch today - my fortune cookie reads, "You will have good luck and overcome many hardships." hrmmm...where to start...

do you agree that not everyone needs an SUV? get a free car talk bumper sticker!

oooh - the internet anagram server

went to my first-ever colts game saturday night with my sister paige. mom won a pair of tickets at work, and then decided she didn't really wanna go. they were 4th row seats, on the 20 yard line, worth 65 bucks a piece! so i called to see if my brother matt wanted to go but paige answered the phone and when i mentioned the game, she begged to go. so it turned into sisters' night out. paige is a trip - the girl will talk your ear off! and she's in everybody's business as well, wondering why people were doing things and such - as we were finding a parking space, a couple of boys in colts shirts walked past - she said, "they must be friends, they don't look like brothers, they must be friends." in the first place, why's it matter? so i asked her if she thought people would think we were sisters, since we definitely don't look alike (she's rail-thin, and a thin rail at that!) and there's that 20 year age difference. she still said yes though, that people would assume we were sisters. the game was good, though the colts lost - we had a really good time. i told paige i'd look into the women's pro football league i heard mentioned somewhere - the indianapolis vipers - perhaps we'd go to one of those games.

woo hoo! got my puter hooked up to the router, meaning i'm now using momma's cable modem! whoo hoo! porno downloads, here i come...heh heh heh, just kidding. although buying the router through amazon did score me a free webcam, so maybe i'll make my name into the porno industry soon! ;-)

yet another name generator - i love these thangs! check out the Magix Black Woman Name Generator...from the page: "This be Mo'Nique speakin to you straight from tha Internet. Lass week, one of my girl's axed me how she can get a name so sexy and luxurious as mine. Mo'Nique ain't no average name, and I ain't no average woman. I be tha sexy, full-figered, outspoken glamor doll known as Mo'Nique. Say it, girl!"

and i be Shoonua Houston. *8-)

phil at work gave me this URL - pee-mail.com - cute!

so, ya post a note on your blog saying you hate a specific event, and then months later post pics of yourself at that very event? interesting...

and you thought the thighmaster was bad - this thing scares me...

dontcha just hate it when you get a song stuck in your head for no apparent reason and can't get it out of your head no matter how hard you try?

for some reason, i have a summer camp song in my head - you know, the one about great green globs of greasy grimy gopher guts...that link's got some different lyrics than i remember singing at the Y, but it's all still basically the same - the nastiest stuff you could think of. damn, would ya believe a google search for "greasy grimy gopher guts" would return 664 hits?!? and there's even a book by that name!!

so, charleton heston has alzheimers...how ironic, Mr. NRA man might have to forfeit his weapons because California has laws prohibiting gravely ill people from possessing weapons...

pooky and i may be going to the indiana state fair - seems he wants to try out the latest in fair food - deep fried snickers bars...

you just learn of the weirdest stuff on the internet by going to fark...Perverted Justice is a website that posts the IM conversations of guys that think they're talking to 14 year old girls...they post it all too, the guys pix and phone numbers and everything...

bummer - Josh Ryan Evans, who played Timmy on "Passions" died. the freaky thing is that on the day he actually died, the soap had his character dying! guess those plans for resurrection aren't gonna happen...he was the only halfway decent character on that show...not that it matters now, i have cable - back in the apartment though i'd usually wake up and it'd be the only thing i could get on the tv...i suppose "Passions" is better than other daytime soaps because it IS so cheezy - pure camp!

i'm in a nine inch nails sort of mood right now, here at work. ARGHH!!!!!!!!!!! but i suspect popping the NIN cd into the player would just make things worse - i'm feeling aggressive enough as it is...

interesting salon article about expired domains - for example, bitemedoughboy.com was a reserved URL at some point - alas, it's no more...same goes for sluttydykes.com - hrmmm...not gonna say it. ;-)

aww crap. clara isn't coming for the buffet concert. anyone wanna buy my tix?

this sucks.

*8-(

time for a bowl of cereal- how about some chocolate frosted sugar bombs?

stumbled across a website for PCOS - i just LOVE the name - soulcysters.com

Vote for me! *8-)

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so i've been doing the Fark Photoshop Contests more lately...the latest one was "failed dot-coms"...so i did one for "DoughBoySexToy.com" and put in a graphic of the pillsbury doughboy holding a blue jelly butt plug. *8-) it also said "guaranteed to make her giggle" and "absolutely NO yeast infections!"

*grin* let's just not mention this to the pillsbury corporation, alrighty? certainly they couldn't sue me, since it's a parody, right? right? *8-)

oh sheesh, i forgot to clear out the google search and the links - nothing like using mom's puter and putting "blue butt plug" in the search box....*8-O

if the prison bitch name wasn't to your liking, how about a Smurf name? go to the smurf name generator...

mine's totally cool - i am Erotic Smurf.

quit laughing!

*8-)

if you've ever wondered what your prison bitch name would be, go to the Prison Bitch Name Generator

for the record, i'm Rim Shot. *8-)

current workplace discussion topic: Epsom Salt. (like i've said before, we talk about the WEIRDEST shit) so, everyone knows you use it to soak your feet - but WHY? well, it soothes achy muscles and the magnesium is said to help the body heal...

didya know there's a web page just for Epsom Salt? me neither....but now we do!

well FUCK. clara's hubby john needs back surgery and will probably be in recovery for 6 weeks or so - so now she's not sure she'll be able to come visit in august. she said perhaps she can visit some time after that, but i want her here in AUGUST for the Jimmy Buffett concert!! argh, perhaps it's a bit selfish on my part - it's obviously pretty serious if he's gonna take over a month to recover - but i was really looking forward to the concert. i guess it's not totally off just yet, perhaps she'll know more after the doc's visit on tuesday.

major bummer. *8-(

thank god for free email sites!

so, do you agree that bush's Operation Tips plan is a complete crock of shit? well, now you can rat out those people that are ratting everyone else out - Operation TIPS-TIPS: Report TIPS informants. ;-)

ben franklin had it right - "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

we're getting closer and closer to becoming a police state and it's all just a crock of shit.

what does Hello Kitty say about you psychologically?

apparently, i "easily feel stressful" and could remedy this with exercise and karaoke.

karaoke?!?!? i think that would INDUCE stress - me singing in a public arena? not to mention the poor eardrums of anyone in listening distance...

obviously someone not totally fluent in english made this site...for more japanese english, aka engrish, check out www.engrish.com...

woah. very vivid dreams today.

is it a bad thing when you dream your office building is burning down and you're happy about it?

perhaps this weekend i'll make it down to the outlet mall in edinburgh - i think they've got new stuff down there since the place was bought out...

i just love headlines...

ugh, time to clean out the emailbox - damned thing's filling up...

so, every once in a while i find a website or something i wanna check out...so i email the url to myself and then forget all about it...the following are some examples - wonder how many of these sites don't exist any more...

http://www.antibloggies.com/

http://www.trailertrashfamily.com/

http://live.curry.com/stories/2002/02/19/bloggingTuneOutAndSwitchOn.html

http://live.curry.com/

http://www.weblogs.com/

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1443958/20010522/story.jhtml

http://www.songtitle.info/

http://www.modestneeds.org/

http://home.swipnet.se/mooamp/wallpapers.html

http://www.holisticonline.com/stress/stress_home.htm

http://www.frontiernet.net/~cdm/age1.html

so, what's your Glam Rock Superstar name?

I'm Diamond Freak. no, really. *8-)

time for a little poetry...

can't say i've read any walt whitman before (yowza, hope they don't revoke my queerness for that) but clara posted to the list with a subj line of "Icing the Body Electric"...i knew that "I Sing the Body Electric" was a poem of whitman's, but i'd never read it before...and now you can share it with me!

I Sing the Body Electric
Walt Whitman
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

1
I sing the body electric,
The armies of those I love engirth me and I engirth them,
They will not let me off till I go with them, respond to them,
And discorrupt them, and charge them full with the charge of the soul.

Was it doubted that those who corrupt their own bodies conceal themselves?
And if those who defile the living are as bad as they who defile the dead?
And if the body does not do fully as much as the soul? And if the body
were not the soul, what is the soul?


2
The love of the body of man or woman balks account, the body itself
balks account,
That of the male is perfect, and that of the female is perfect.

The expression of the face balks account,
But the expression of a well-made man appears not only in his face,
It is in his limbs and joints also, it is curiously in the joints of
his hips and wrists,
It is in his walk, the carriage of his neck, the flex of his waist
and knees, dress does not hide him,
The strong sweet quality he has strikes through the cotton and broadcloth,
To see him pass conveys as much as the best poem, perhaps more,
You linger to see his back, and the back of his neck and shoulder-side.

The sprawl and fulness of babes, the bosoms and heads of women, the
folds of their dress, their style as we pass in the street, the
contour of their shape downwards,
The swimmer naked in the swimming-bath, seen as he swims through
the transparent green-shine, or lies with his face up and rolls
silently to and from the heave of the water,
The bending forward and backward of rowers in row-boats, the
horse-man in his saddle,
Girls, mothers, house-keepers, in all their performances,
The group of laborers seated at noon-time with their open
dinner-kettles, and their wives waiting,
The female soothing a child, the farmer's daughter in the garden or
cow-yard,
The young fellow hosing corn, the sleigh-driver driving his six
horses through the crowd,
The wrestle of wrestlers, two apprentice-boys, quite grown, lusty,
good-natured, native-born, out on the vacant lot at sundown
after work,
The coats and caps thrown down, the embrace of love and resistance,
The upper-hold and under-hold, the hair rumpled over and blinding the eyes;
The march of firemen in their own costumes, the play of masculine
muscle through clean-setting trowsers and waist-straps,
The slow return from the fire, the pause when the bell strikes
suddenly again, and the listening on the alert,
The natural, perfect, varied attitudes, the bent head, the curv'd
neck and the counting;
Such-like I love--I loosen myself, pass freely, am at the mother's
breast with the little child,
Swim with the swimmers, wrestle with wrestlers, march in line with
the firemen, and pause, listen, count.


3
I knew a man, a common farmer, the father of five sons,
And in them the fathers of sons, and in them the fathers of sons.

This man was a wonderful vigor, calmness, beauty of person,
The shape of his head, the pale yellow and white of his hair and
beard, the immeasurable meaning of his black eyes, the richness
and breadth of his manners,
These I used to go and visit him to see, he was wise also,
He was six feet tall, he was over eighty years old, his sons were
massive, clean, bearded, tan-faced, handsome,
They and his daughters loved him, all who saw him loved him,
They did not love him by allowance, they loved him with personal
love,
He drank water only, the blood show'd like scarlet through the
clear-brown skin of his face,
He was a frequent gunner and fisher, he sail'd his boat himself, he
had a fine one presented to him by a ship-joiner, he had
fowling-pieces presented to him by men that loved him,
When he went with his five sons and many grand-sons to hunt or fish,
you would pick him out as the most beautiful and vigorous of
the gang,
You would wish long and long to be with him, you would wish to sit
by him in the boat that you and he might touch each other.


4
I have perceiv'd that to be with those I like is enough,
To stop in company with the rest at evening is enough,
To be surrounded by beautiful, curious, breathing, laughing flesh is enough,
To pass among them or touch any one, or rest my arm ever so lightly round
his or her neck for a moment, what is this then?
I do not ask any more delight, I
swim in it as in a sea.
There is something in staying close to men and women and looking on them,
and in the contact and odor of them, that pleases the soul well,
All things please the soul, but these please the soul well.


5
This is the female form,
A divine nimbus exhales from it from head to foot,
It attracts with fierce undeniable attraction,
I am drawn by its breath as if I were no more than a helpless vapor,
all falls aside but myself and it,
Books, art, religion, time, the visible and solid earth, and what
was expected of heaven or fear'd of hell, are now consumed,
Mad filaments, ungovernable shoots play out of it, the response
likewise ungovernable,
Hair, bosom, hips, bend of legs, negligent falling hands all
diffused, mine too diffused,
Ebb stung by the flow and flow stung by the ebb, love-flesh swelling
and deliciously aching,
Limitless limpid jets of love hot and enormous, quivering jelly of
love, white-blow and delirious nice,
Bridegroom night of love working surely and softly into the
prostrate dawn,
Undulating into the willing and yielding day,
Lost in the cleave of the clasping and sweet-flesh'd day.

This the nucleus--after the child is born of woman, man is born
of woman,
This the bath of birth, this the merge of small and large, and the
outlet again.

Be not ashamed women, your privilege encloses the rest, and is the
exit of the rest,
You are the gates of the body, and you are the gates of the soul.

The female contains all qualities and tempers them,
She is in her place and moves with perfect balance,
She is all things duly veil'd, she is both passive and active,
She is to conceive daughters as well as sons, and sons as well as
daughters.

As I see my soul reflected in Nature,
As I see through a mist, One with inexpressible completeness,
sanity, beauty,
See the bent head and arms folded over the breast, the Female I see.


6
The male is not less the soul nor more, he too is in his place,
He too is all qualities, he is action and power,
The flush of the known universe is in him,
Scorn becomes him well, and appetite and defiance become him well,
The wildest largest passions, bliss that is utmost, sorrow that is
utmost become him well, pride is for him,
The full-spread pride of man is calming and excellent to the soul,
Knowledge becomes him, he likes it always, he brings every thing to
the test of himself,
Whatever the survey, whatever the sea and the sail he strikes
soundings at last only here,
(Where else does he strike soundings except here?)

The man's body is sacred and the woman's body is sacred,
No matter who it is, it is sacred--is it the meanest one in the
laborers' gang?
Is it one of the dull-faced immigrants just landed on the wharf?
Each belongs here or anywhere just as much as the well-off, just as
much as you,
Each has his or her place in the procession.

(All is a procession,
The universe is a procession with measured and perfect motion.)

Do you know so much yourself that you call the meanest ignorant?
Do you suppose you have a right to a good sight, and he or she has
no right to a sight?
Do you think matter has cohered together from its diffuse float, and
the soil is on the surface, and water runs and vegetation sprouts,
For you only, and not for him and her?


7
A man's body at auction,
(For before the war I often go to the slave-mart and watch the sale,)
I help the auctioneer, the sloven does not half know his business.

Gentlemen look on this wonder,
Whatever the bids of the bidders they cannot be high enough for it,
For it the globe lay preparing quintillions of years without one animal or plant,
For it the revolving cycles truly and steadily roll'd.

In this head the all-baffling brain,
In it and below it the makings of heroes.

Examine these limbs, red, black, or white, they are cunning in tendon and nerve,
They shall be stript that you may see them.
Exquisite senses, life-lit eyes, pluck, volition,
Flakes of breast-muscle, pliant backbone and neck, flesh not flabby, good-sized
arms and legs,
And wonders within there yet.

Within there runs blood,
The same old blood! the same red-running blood!
There swells and jets a heart, there all passions, desires, reachings,
aspirations,
(Do you think they are not there because they are not express'd in
parlors and lecture-rooms?)

This is not only one man, this the father of those who shall be fathers
in their turns,
In him the start of populous states and rich republics,
Of him countless immortal lives with countless embodiments and enjoyments.

How do you know who shall come from the offspring of his offspring
through the centuries?
(Who might you find you have come from yourself, if you could trace
back through the centuries?)


8
A woman's body at auction,
She too is not only herself, she is the teeming mother of mothers,
She is the bearer of them that shall grow and be mates to the mothers.

Have you ever loved the body of a woman?
Have you ever loved the body of a man?
Do you not see that these are exactly the same to all in all nations and
times all over the earth?

If any thing is sacred the human body is sacred,
And the glory and sweet of a man is the token of manhood untainted,
And in man or woman a clean, strong, firm-fibred body, is more beautiful
than the most beautiful face.
Have you seen the fool that corrupted his own live body? or the fool
that corrupted her own live body?
For they do not conceal themselves, and cannot conceal themselves.


9
O my body! I dare not desert the likes of you in other men and women,
nor the likes of the parts of you,
I believe the likes of you are to stand or fall with the likes of the
soul, (and that they are the soul,)
I believe the likes of you shall stand or fall with my poems, and
that they are my poems,
Man's, woman's, child, youth's, wife's, husband's, mother's,
father's, young man's, young woman's poems,
Head, neck, hair, ears, drop and tympan of the ears,
Eyes, eye-fringes, iris of the eye, eyebrows, and the waking or
sleeping of the lids,
Mouth, tongue, lips, teeth, roof of the mouth, jaws, and the
jaw-hinges,
Nose, nostrils of the nose, and the partition,
Cheeks, temples, forehead, chin, throat, back of the neck, neck-slue,
Strong shoulders, manly beard, scapula, hind-shoulders, and the
ample side-round of the chest,
Upper-arm, armpit, elbow-socket, lower-arm, arm-sinews, arm-bones,
Wrist and wrist-joints, hand, palm, knuckles, thumb, forefinger,
finger-joints, finger-nails,
Broad breast-front, curling hair of the breast, breast-bone, breast-side,
Ribs, belly, backbone, joints of the backbone,
Hips, hip-sockets, hip-strength, inward and outward round, man-balls, man-root,
Strong set of thighs, well carrying the trunk above,
Leg-fibres, knee, knee-pan, upper-leg, under-leg,
Ankles, instep, foot-ball, toes, toe-joints, the heel;
All attitudes, all the shapeliness, all the belongings of my or your body
or of any one's body, male or female,
The lung-sponges, the stomach-sac, the bowels sweet and clean,
The brain in its folds inside the skull-frame,
Sympathies, heart-valves, palate-valves, sexuality, maternity,
Womanhood, and all that is a woman, and the man that comes from woman,
The womb, the teats, nipples, breast-milk, tears, laughter, weeping,
love-looks, love-perturbations and risings,
The voice, articulation, language, whispering, shouting aloud,
Food, drink, pulse, digestion, sweat, sleep, walking, swimming,
Poise on the hips, leaping, reclining, embracing, arm-curving and
tightening,
The continual changes of the flex of the mouth, and around the eyes,
The skin, the sunburnt shade, freckles, hair,
The curious sympathy one feels when feeling with the hand the naked
meat of the body,
The circling rivers the breath, and breathing it in and out,
The beauty of the waist, and thence of the hips, and thence downward
toward the knees,
The thin red jellies within you or within me, the bones and the
marrow in the bones,
The exquisite realization of health;
O I say these are not the parts and poems of the body only, but of
the soul,
O I say now these are the soul!

feeling a bit shaky right now - paul, the daytime proofreader, snuck up behind me and whispered into my ear "get to work!" - had no clue he was behind me, and it scared the hell out of me...i screamed and freaked a bit...i think he felt worse about it than me - i told him that scaring the epileptic is NOT a good idea.

in other news, i just dropped a hundred bucks at the pharmacy on prescriptions. sad thing is, is was only about half of what i typically take...*sigh*

lori got a router! now i just hafta get the little bugger hooked up to mom's computer, get the other doohickey plugged into my usb port, then VIOLA - i'm using mommy's cable modem! whoo hoo!

thought for today:

Carpe Genitalia!

hee hee hee. *8-)

nope, it wasn't an original lori thought...i was on unamerican.com - srini's a cool dude, man...

other cool stickers from his site: DSL is LSD backwards • Satan works for me now • Stop fucking swearing • Who would Jesus do?

damn, it's amazing the stuff you can have done with pix from the digital camera these days (or those old-fashioned prints, for that matter) - www.clubphoto.com can put your pic on the standard stuff, like mousepads and coffee mugs, but also cookies or lollipops or all sorts of other funky stuff...

my sea monkeys are thriving! damn, they're itty bitty tho! haven't decided on names yet....

picked up a couple of books that i'd put on hold at the library...i see books in the QPB catalog that look cool and then just end up checking them out instead of buying them from the book club - tis a good source for finding interesting reading material...

so, anyways...an internet buddy mentioned that "Dr. Bernstein's Diabetes solution : a complete guide to achieving normal blood sugars" by Richard Bernstein was a must read....i've poked around in it a bit, but not gotten into it because i'm currently hooked on the other book i checked out this week - "Word freak : heartbreak, triumph, genius, and obsession in the world of competitive scrabble players" by Stefan Fatsis. in this book, the emphasis is definitely on the word FREAK - there's a whole subculture of people playing scrabble competitively, and they're certainly a group of colorful personalities. i forgot how much i liked playing scrabble as a kid, and knowing that mom's at-home internet time lately has consisted of word puzzles, i figured i'd go get a board and give it a go again. we had a lot of fun with it!

also in my purchases today - The Sea Monkeys Ocean Of Fun! i'm not sure how i ended up there - a link on fark, perhaps? - but i ended up on www.sea-monkeys.com earlier this week, and i was amazed...so now i'm gonna try to be a breeder - of Sea Monkeys, that is! *8-)

hrm....scrabble...sea monkeys...am i regressing?!? naah, don't think so, just trying to chill out a bit and not be so uptight...

so, i got an email from Bia a while back, who'd stumbled upon my blog and liked it...i asked her what her blog address was - she told me it was in portugese. knowing absolutely no portugese, i thought i'd run some of it through freetranslation.com - scary! i don't think what they told me she said was anywhere near what she said... "I am happy. I have faucet." ?!? or maybe she is happy about having a faucet...*shrug*

alrighty, got that Far Side cartoon scanned that i mentioned on 6/30...yup, definitely gonna give it to the therapist...*8-)

"I pledge allegiance to and wrap myself in the flag of the United States
Against Anything Un-American and to the Republicans for which it stands,
two nations, under Jesus, rich against poor, with curtailed liberty and
justice for all except blacks, homosexuals, women who want abortions,
Communists, welfare queens, treehuggers, feminazis, illegal immigrants,
children of illegal immigrants, and you if you don't watch your step."

~ Matt Groening, "Life in Hell", 16 Dec 94

(yowza - wonder what Groening would think if he knew in '94 how things were going to be now in '02....)

then there's the more lighthearted version, from "School Is Hell" -

"I plead alignment to the flakes of the untitled snakes of a merry cow,
And to the Republicans for which we scam, one nacho, underpants,
With licorice and jugs of wine for owls."

Click my name to see me as a South Park Character...Lori

took that dateline stress quiz - i scored a 720, which means i "run a medium risk of stress-related illness"...they underestimate me! *8-)

can i just say - i love google!!! apparently, that's how josh riley found me! (hi Josh!!!) i got an email from him last week - it's brought back quite a few earlham memories...sheesh, it seems like so long ago, and yet it doesn't....

so, i'm on an internet list with jo, who's pregnant - her due date's july 25 - and i suggested we throw her an online baby shower...now she's registered at amazon...i just hope our list buddies also contribute - it's been really cool reading her posts throughout her pregnancy, particularly since i know i won't be going out and getting knocked up! *8-) it's amazing the baby stuff that's out there - i never knew there was a John Lennon collection of baby stuff, featuring his drawings of animals and such!

David Naess has a cool site with an article titled "The Vagus Nerve Stimulator (NCP)
From A Patient's Point Of View" - sounds like it didn't really work for him in the long run, but he still has lots of info on the site for people looking into it...

the cartoon for the day in my gary larson far side calendar cracked me up - i'll have to scan it in at some point. it's from the point of view of a guy at his therapist, and the guy's holding a couple of inkblots. the caption reads, "It's just a simple Rorschach ink-blot test, Mr. Bromwell, so just calm down and tell me what each one suggests to you." well, the ink blots very clearly resemble the guy choking the therapist and such. it's much funnier if you actually see it, i suppose, and i think it's particularly funny to me cuz i've just recently started therapy...i'm gonna give a copy of it to Sheron at my next appointment. *8-)