you, you right there?

you're a monkey.

it's good that you've learned to wear clothes and talk, but you're still a monkey.

augh!

want! want want!

Mikael's Mix | CafePress

(make sure you read the back of the shirt, too.)

if any of you reading this win the lottery, let me know so that i can go clothes shopping.

[sigh]

pretty pretty things.

i seem to have become a knitting fanatic.

i blame lt.

why centrism is not a useful concept, by mittel.


mittelschmertz: If the entire world except for twelve pe:

If the entire world except for twelve people thinks it should be the king's prerogative to stick noodles in the noses of random subjects until said subjects expire in noodle-induced agony; and four people think the subjects should do this to the king instead, if they can catch her; and eight people think that people shouldn't stick noodles in other people's noses at all -- which is the 'centrist' viewpoint?

i think the two questions that i didn't answer yes to are dumb questions and shouldn't count.

How bisexual are you?: "

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i took the dogs over to my parents for thanksgiving. they were good, and didn't make my parents' nice old lady alpha dog lay a smackdown on them. dinner was good, but i didn't have much of an appetite. the dogs rolled around in the yard and found something deeply smelly to roll in. sadly, i'm sleeping with them tonight (i usually do) so they'll be right by my head smelling like weird plants. i hope that petco can de-stink them tomorrow.

i think that the thing that i am most thankful for this thanksgiving is not having been run over by a cushman this year.

(i think that if while in college a person got to use that one once a semester when asked every week, as an alleged grownup, a person can be thankful for that once every decade or so. that's my theory and i'm sticking to it.)

you, you there. you don't look depressed enough about the war.

Body and Soul:

Although it isn't back to its 1996 peak, when the sanctions were doing their greatest damage, the rate of acute malnutrition among children under 5 has doubled since we invaded Iraq. The main reason seems to be continuing lack of access to clean water, which can cause chronic diarrhea. Other things hurt as well: humanitarian organizations like CARE and Doctors Without Borders have had to leave as it became more and more dangerous to work there; Iraqi doctors are prime targets for criminals. But mostly children are malnourished because we've done a worse job than Saddam Hussein after the first Gulf War in getting clean water to them.

bolding mine.

how come i can only think of things to write when i'm not here? hmm.

oh, too funny.

except my winter coat is black and down filled.

emotionaltoothpaste: Ode to My Winter Coat:

But today, by the reading on the thermometer
It was cold enough for me to burrow into your entrails
Just like Han Solo and Luke Skywalker burrowed into the entrails of that giant thing they killed in that one Star Wars movie.
The Empire Strikes Back, I believe it was.

wanna know what i did last weekend?

CBLDF - Press Releases: Fiddler's Green Sets CBLDF Fundraising Record!:

Last weekend just over 300 Sandman fans made Fiddler's Green the most successful fundraising event in CBLDF history. In three days the limited membership show devoted to Sandman and featuring several of its creators as guests of honor raised an early estimate of what will be $45,000 for the CBLDF.

aw, yeah.

if a person were to need moving karma, a person could come help me move.

i'm moving december 4th, starting at 8am. email me at lundsten at gmail dot com for details about where i'm starting from and where i'm going to and about the other moving excitement that day.

(why am i moving? well, i'm getting divorced, and it just seems like the thing to do. things are going about as well as they can here, and i am hanging in. i expect i'll have more to say about it later, but first the getting moved.)

i am home from fiddler's green and am very very tired. so tired that i am no longer smart enough to go to bed. no brains, me.

i think that "molly's lips" may be one of the finest nirvana songs ever.

lt rocks because she came to the fg hotel on no notice today to help with a minor shipping problem and then stuck around to help pack up the art show and then we went out for german food for dinner. sadly, the german food attacked both of us and we wore some of it home.

sleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeepy girl. more later.

ginmar talks about trolls, feminism and learning about same, and lesbian day in her lj today.

(lesbian lesbian lesbian lesbian, that's all i have to say.)

ginmar: Lesbian day and trolls:

You're not post feminist if you never were a feminist to begin with. You really can't talk about feminism unless you read about it from feminists--and then anti-feminists if you feel like it----and have lived it. I don't get my opinions on the civil rights movement from Tom Delay, or my information on the Holocaust from David Irving. If womens' issues make you uncomfortable enough that you react badly, you might want to examine why.

teresa excerpts some correspondence from john m. ford in her blog. so as to not steal her entire post, i'm just grabbing the first paragraph, but go read the whole thing.


Making Light: From correspondence:

I refuse to use the word "fundamentalist," or any of its variations, for their usual shorthand meaning these interesting times. The first reason is that it is an inaccurate term; these positions do not reflect the fundaments of either Christianity or Islam. They are old emergent strains within each, but the premise that these are the root principles, and everything else, like, oh, tolerance and compassion, are poisonings of the spring, is a lie and a slander.

terry seems to have lost his frog.

ps. i'll find my frog

my friend james just got a livejournal. a small note of caution-- if you're as prone to accidental self-injury as, well, he is, i'd recommend against reading it, because you'll likely snort your beverage out your nose and die.

More Words, Deeper Hole

thanks to kos and to my friend debbie for the reminder.

i was an election judge this year, and it was really empowering. i helped at least one person vote who might otherwise have been turned away, and i watched one of my fellow judges help someone else vote who i wouldn't have been able to help. ("i'm sure there's a rule to cover that, but heck if i know what it is", would have had to have been my response.)

i saw a lot of people voting for the first time yesterday, and that's amazing and fabulous.

and while the thought of the supreme court's likely upcoming makeup (and as a woman who is on medications that cause severe fetal malformation, you're damned right i care about the supreme court) makes me queasy, there's still some hope here. and there is still work to be done. don't lie down, don't let them flatten us. keep working. it's awful, it feels hopeless, but there are bright bits, and the only way out is through.

Daily Kos :: Political Analysis and other daily rants on the state of the nation.:

Not a few people have spoken in the past few hours about an Americanist authoritarianism emerging out of the country's current leadership. I think that's not far-fetched. Fighting this requires that we stick together, not bashing each other, not fleeing or hiding or yielding to the temptation of behaving as if "what's the use?"

It's tough on the psyche to be beaten.Throughout our country's history, abolitionists, suffragists, union organizers, anti-racists, antiwarriors, civil libertarians, feminists and gay rights activists have challenged the majority of Americans to take off their blinders. Each succeeded one way or another, but not overnight, and certainly not without serious setbacks.

After a decent interval of licking our wounds and pondering what might have been and where we went wrong, we need to spit out our despair and return - united - to battling those who have for the moment outmaneuvered us. Otherwise, we might just as well lie down in the street and let them flatten us with their schemes.

The Onion | U.S. Inspires World With Attempt At Democratic Election

NEW YORK—Observers from around the world report that they were inspired and moved by America's most recent attempt to hold a public election in accordance with the standards of a democratic republic.

"After all of the recriminations, infighting, and general madness before the election, the people of this fractured nation still found the courage to show up at the polls," said Anas Salman, an Afghan U.N. official who was in New York during the American electoral experiment. "More than half of America's citizens—a large portion of them women—made a valiant attempt to choose their own leader, even though there was no guarantee their votes would be counted. It was truly inspirational."

betty mccollum won!

wooo!

i am talking to elsie. we agree that we hate people.

i'm watching the election returns and drinking cider. so i am irritated and my feet are warm.

but go go california!

okay, two poll questions. (except, you know, not as polls, because i don't think blogger does polls.)

first: should i grow my hair out?

second: i need a new domain name-- what do you think it should be?

leave a comment here, or else email me at lundsten at gmail dot com.