Electricity | Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band
Deron and I been going back and forth about Walt Whitman, and and now I am meditating on Whitman and my other main man, William Blake. Sometimes one or the other of them feels present to me in a way that is electrifying.
Sex and Asperger’s
We had sex two times in six years after we had a kid. And I got pregnant both times because I have studied my ovulation since I was 24, and I’m an ace at sticking my finger up my vagina and 1) gauging how open my cervix is and 2) pulling out some mucus on my finger and checking to see how elastic it is.
Even now I can’t help getting excited about ovulation. Go to the bathroom right now and check your cervical mucus. It’s fascinating. If it’s elastic you are ovulating. I can peg my ovulation to the hour if I check every half-hour, which I can do because I can stick my hand in my vagina anywhere—even in a job interview, if the person leaves the room to get some water. So that’s why I was able to have a kid (and a miscarriage) only having sex two times.
on Thanksgiving, socialism, contemporary politics, Iraq, and a dozen other things
As for Jamestown, there was famine. But historians dispute the characterization of the colony as a collectivist society. “To call it socialism is wildly inaccurate,” said Karen Ordahl Kupperman, a historian at New York University and the author of “The Jamestown Project.” “It was a contracted company, and everybody worked for the company. I mean, is Halliburton a socialist scheme?”
headline of the day
Lindsay Lohan Loses Lead Role in Linda Lovelace Biopic
Dogs Don’t Understand Basic Concepts Like Moving.
Packing all of your belongings into a U-Haul and then transporting them across several states is nearly as stressful and futile as trying to run away from lava in swim fins.
I know this because my boyfriend Duncan and I moved from Montana to Oregon last month. But as harrowing as the move was for us, it was nothing compared to the confusion and insecurity our two dogs had to endure.
headline of the day
Facebook-banning NJ pastor acknowledges threesome
two Saturday night ditties
Ukranian 60s pop.
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Cretan Stowaway
We recently found this little guy in the house. He is less than an inch long and very dead. It looks like some kind of Gecko, which we don’t get in England. I can only assume he travelled back from Crete with us and just starved to death, which makes me sad.
This Is Where the Road Took Us
Carretera Federal 186. Escárcega, Campeche. Mexico.
MapCrunch mesmerizes me at times, but I’ve learned that if I spend too much time idly gaping at its random displays of Google StreetView images, I can get to feeling queasy. So today I told myself, “Okay, as soon as you arrive at a place you’ve been even near, that will be the signal to stop.” I was thinking along the lines of a location anywhere within the state of Texas, say. Or the Greek mainland.
It was kind of strange that the fourth image displayed was of a stretch of road I have actually driven from the Mexican town of Chetumal to that of Escárcega.
It Would Have Been Cooler as a Van
We were here, we were queer
(Reuters) – Two undertakers in the northwestern German city of Cologne are trying to tap into the gay market by selling coffins adorned with images of male nudes.
coming out of sleep
I used to begin my presentations with a slide — bent in half — that said insert face here.
Makin’ movies.
I’m in Turlock making a movie. That’s me and Dustin the prop master. We just dressed that tree with umbrellas for two hours with the help of a few more people. Sorry for the poor picture quality, just wanted to share one of our sets.
That was unexpected
headline of the day, II
Is Harry Potter Partly to Blame for India’s Pet Owl Crisis?
Cookin’ With Coolio
So I guess someone decided to give Coolio his own online cooking show.
It’s awesome.
I’m archiving it here for future generations.
The increasingly common use of “archive” as a verb
This issue comes up pretty regularly, and it’s on fire this morning on Twitter as a result of this post on ReadWriteWeb (which certainly has other issues, too). As I said on Twitter, I hate the use of “archive” as a verb. It makes my flesh crawl. It has been my experience that people who talk about “archiving” frequently have no idea what constitutes actual preservation in an archives. I have seen it used often by IT people referring to creating a backup copy of digital information. I question whether this usage is ever uttered or written by someone who actually has training as an archivist.
Make we wanna holler. Throw up both my hands.
Read what Kate has to say.
(Thankee, Kate Theimer and Mark Matienzo.)
Boy Warriors of the Militia
Protoype: Clusterflock Militia Uniform
I’m thinking something along these lines for clusterflock militia jackets.
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I think I’ve told this before. I rode 14 hours, from Savannah to Northeast Arkansas in the backseat, with a flatulent dachshund named Hans. Hans did not seem embarrassed in any way. The odor was sharp and dog-foody. Tangy. I finally pretended to sleep, burying my face into a pillow crammed in the corner between the seat and the door where some fresh air was seeping in.
Teenagers
It’s true, they have a tendency to refuse a morning sip of juice or a bite of nourishment even on big test days. And my son insists he’ll continue to wear a short sleeved tee and thin hoodie when it snows. He travels light. He is only now carrying his cellphone with him, at 16. Sometimes. He doesn’t take money unless he is certain he’ll need it, but no billfold, only an exact amount crumpled and shoved into a pocket. His one constant companion is his iPod touch, which is filled with Beatles songs.
Today I handed him my phone, with a problem my husband and I couldn’t fix for weeks. Our pride hadn’t let us ask him before. Silly. The boy went click click click. About five seconds. No more problem. He probably couldn’t say exactly what he did.
So, I plan to reframe our situation, mentally. Instead of worrying about coats and food, I’ll think of him as the live-in technical support. He’s no grumpier or high-maintenance than the professional tech teams I’ve worked with in the past. And they probably cost about the same, all in all. I’m also thinking about marketing him to the neighbors. Teen Tech Support in your home. I’ll take most of his earnings, of course. Call it room and board and college tuition.
And I’ll buy myself a nice winter coat.
headline of the day
Study finds Wi-Fi makes trees sick
The Simultania Project
The Simultania Project is about having people from all over the world film and record sound during the same 1-minute-moment in time on Saturday, November 13, and then assembling the resulting footage into a video installation that plays back all the simultaneous perspectives together and in sync.
There’s a sample audio track (here) that I can’t figure out how to cleanly embed. The project is expected to be on display in Spring of 2011.
quote out of context
P.S. Kubrick also stated that HAL was not gay — “HAL was a ‘straight’ computer”.
Deserted Army Base. Prinias, Sitia (Πρινίας, Σητεία, Κρήτη) Crete
