ferretiger
ewwie ewwie ewww
06 oct 2008 | 04:12pm
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Gah! No more medical icky!!! NO MORE, I SAY!!!!!
I had my gallbladder out 5 weeks ago and had internal, "dissolvable" stitches at the incision sites. Two healed normally. One got infected.
And the fourth one today had a stitch sprouting out of it, surrounded by oodles of blood.
Thank goodness for well prepared people at work, with bandaids and neosporin a-plenty.
I think this merits going home early, don't you? Especially since I'm still light headed from hyperventilating and nearly fainting when I saw the stitch waving its little tail in the air at me, along with all the blood it decided to bring to the party.
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unhipster
writer's block: eat your vegetables
06 oct 2008 | 03:55pm
[ mood | blah ]
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When I was a kid, my parents forced me to eat liver, and I literally couldn't keep it down. Ugh. It was disgusting.
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rollick
just briefly
06 oct 2008 | 12:44pm
[ mood | wistful ]
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Greetings from the free wi-fi at the Portland airport, where we're waiting for our plane home. We've been gone a full week, and by this point of a vacation, I'm usually rarin' to be home, where I can relax and absorb all the new experiences and chill the hell out. But this time, I'm really regretting not having a couple more days in Portland. That's likely because our hosts have been awesome, but also because we've spent so much time at the film fest that we've barely seen the city, and it seems like there's a ton to see. Alas! Maybe next time.
And now they're boarding, so more later.
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cunningminx
today's minxy tweets
06 oct 2008 | 02:30pm
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What is Minx up to Tweeps?
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mrsbenglish
it's been awhile..again.
06 oct 2008 | 02:40pm
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I do have a peeve today though..
I have had some recently but some have been too personal to post just because I keep my journal public right now... ANYWAY
There are these two Asian girls that live 2 floors above us and they have this bichon frise dog. They don't know how to discipline it and they take it out on one of those leashes where it can get longer or shorter or you can lock it at a certain length. (you know what I'm talking about right?)
Digressing... they ALWAYS let the dog go at the longest length and chase after whatever it wants. If my cats are sitting in our window (which is at ground level) the damn dog BARKS at them and scares the piss out of them.. or when I am outside with Sebastian their dog is going so effing insane that it's barking like a maniac at Sebastian and I'm trying to avoid it because it's leash and IT are all up under my feet tripping me and the girls are like "ohhhh no worrry it no bite you" and I'm like "I AM NOT AFRAID IT IS GOING TO BITE ME I AM SEVEN MONTHS PREGNANT AND DON'T WANT TO FALL".. they don't understand though because the do not speak English very well..
okay I'll let that be the end of my rant for today...ugh.
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spot
aussie disappointment
06 oct 2008 | 11:10am
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Well, LCA rejected both of my presentation proposals (and both of Dennis Gilmore's too). That's rather disappointing, but it makes me wonder what they actually accepted. So, no trip to Australia for me in the near future. Maybe I'll try again next year.
This weekend, I had originally planned to:
* Attend Ohio LinuxFest
* Attend my 10 year high school reunion
Thankfully, I remembered in time that it is also the weekend of my 5 year wedding anniversary. So, instead of doing either of those things, I'm going to Cape Cod for the weekend.
Started doing some SPARC work lately, the installer is starting to take shape. We'll see how long it takes to actually get working installs.
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cunningminx
new york poly pride, day 2: a ny adventure
06 oct 2008 | 09:10am
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The day dawned a bit dreary and drippy, not the sunlight I'd been hoping for. But I drug myself out of my lovely host's bed--he's the best host EVER, not only because he's a cute bi boy who obligingly kissed other cute bi boys for my titillation, but also because he provided me with an adorable cat to sleep with! Yes, cat. Two live with him now, and the runty black one, Lucy, curled up in the crook of my legs last night! Awwwww!
Google Maps told me the rally site was four miles away, directly up Central Park West, so I wandered over to the nearest main street, found a bus stop, checked the route and schedule and determined I had just enough time to grab a decaf latte at the Starbucks. On the bulletin board:
The second bus was equally easy and dropped me off right on 106th street, and I found the rally site, no problem. And what a rally it was! I've never attended a poly pride event, and it was inspiring! Everyone was there; Birgitte with her two adorable pups, Trace with his cute puppy Keno, the adorable Jenny Block--oh, hell; I can't name all the names. It would be silly. Everyone who is anyone in poly was there. For me, it was a real treat to finally meet in person Alan, the Poly in the News guy (wow; he's really tall!), Anita Wagner, Robyn Trask of Loving More and Serena Anderlini d'Onofrio, all folks I've talked with on the phone/via Skype/electronically over the past few years but never met in person!
I think there is real value to events like this. Participating in Poly Pride made me realize just how isolated our communities are--when I started chatting with folks and hearing stories, it seemed that every community, from Portland to Chicago to New York, had a different vibe.
And none of them know about or communicate with the others. When people asked me about the poly scene in Chicago, they were surprised to hear how differently it is structured compared to New York. Or Oregon. Or Berkeley. In a way, the poly movement reminds me kind of like the first year of my own poly relationship--intelligent, energized, great intentions, but without the support of a strong network of informed, experienced polys, it was fraught with unnecessary difficulties.
The New York scene is crazy organized. There is a leadership committee of 13 people, each with a specific role and willing to commit hours every week to outreach and organization. More than just one or two people trying to make a difference (although that is certainly where Poly NYC began), this is a well-oiled machine with many devotees spending many hours working together to produce popular, inclusive events.
Birgitte Philippides, President of Poly-NYC
And the scene is highly tied in to the GLBT community and frequently meets at the local GLBT center. In fact, many of the plethora of acts from Poly Pride were GLBT oriented--from gay club singer Houston Bernard to the Pixie Harlots to the three gay Jews to Hedda Lettuce, the fabulous green-bewigged MC, the acceptance of diversity of sexuality, orientation and spirituality was obvious.
But I digress. The rally itself was amazing! I spent most of the day running around, trying to grab speakers for audio interviews. And there are some fantastic ones coming up--the stunning goddess Birgitte Phillippedes herself; Justen, the founder of Poly NYC; Anita Wagner; Alan from Poly in the Media (speaking of his activism, not giving news reports!); Pete Benson (The Polyamory Handbook); and Reid and Marcia, relationship coaches and founders of Cuddle Parties.
I think my favorite acts were the three Jewish poly gay boys singing a capella; how adorable!
Singing, dancing, hula hoops, a big earth ball, dogs barking, frisbee, cuddle piles, great speeches--too much to say; too much to catalogue. I took a ton of photos and video, too, so check my Flickr for photos of the fun.
One last thing, though--Tristan Taormino's keynote kicked fuckin' ASS! Inspiring, charging, challenging--she's seen the gay movement organize and demand recognition, and she challenged the poly movement to do the same. And seeing what Poly NYC has done, I believe we can get there!
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atlanticat
zombie apocalypse political cartoon
06 oct 2008 | 09:11am
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I wish I could draw. Unfortunately, my artistic ability begins and ends with jewelry. I can draw basic images and stick figures, but I always wished I could at least draw well enough for some basic cartoons.
I wish I could draw because I've had a really great idea for a political cartoon in my head for many years. This election season, I could adapt that particular cartoon to reflect the politics involved.
The 'toon in question assumes that a zombie apocalypse has occurred in Canada or Mexico (or points South or North, you get the idea) and that the zombies have taken over that entire country and are now looking for new feeding territory. Naturally they look to the US as the nearest border.
The left panel is captioned "US Under Obama/Biden" and has the zombies all saying "Brains!" and shuffling in to take the country.
The right panel is captioned "US Under McCain/Palin" and has the zombies taking one look at the country, saying "No Brains!" and boarding boats for Europe and Asia.
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2049live
dennis: not quite hip to the trek movies.
06 oct 2008 | 09:16am
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Dennis: Remember the slug that got into Sulu's ear in Trek I? With V'Ger and...
Sal: It was Checkov, actually.
Dennis: Thank you. Checkov, the author, somehow got into Sulu's ear....
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japlady
what i've been reading
06 oct 2008 | 03:01am
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So I'm firmly hooked on the Sookie Stackhouse series by Charlaine Harris, its the series that the new HBO vampire series is based on. Right now I'm on book 4.
These things are a shmorgusborg of genres. Vampires, werewolves, and other mythical beasts all apparently real, and each with its own society. The Vampires have outed themselves to humanity as a result of some Japanese company having developed a blood substitute that they now drink like beer (the HBO series is named after this product), but the rest of the mythicals are still all in the closet.
Every book has at least 2 parallel mysteries running through it, lots of hot sex scenes and a full out romance going on in each book, and each book extends the story out beyond the last. No wonder HBO bought the rights.
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febrile
chicago
06 oct 2008 | 12:07am
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| Not saying I don't love New Orleans, but damn, I kinda miss this town an awful lot.
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unhipster
loldog or lolpooh?
05 oct 2008 | 11:50pm
[ mood | amused ]
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see more puppies
So cute!
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cunningminx
friday in new york
05 oct 2008 | 10:29pm
[ mood | thankful ]
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First, poop on Networkk4B for not providing me with speedy free, stolen access.
Second, NY is awesome! I'm fairly certain I could never live here; I feel my neuroses clawing their way to the surface as I type, but man, is this place cool! Apparently, I'm crashing with a lovely poly bi guy in the West Village, and on his block (not on his street, mind you, but his block,) I can get a tattoo, buy leather gear, get sounds, find crystals, get a $12 haircut, get my fortune told and buy a custom $1,000 suit with a steampunk twist that would make ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) clockwerkdragon jealous.
So I'm in this silly, touristy place where everything is fun for me because it's IN NEW YORK. I rode the subway IN NEW YORK! I ate at a diner IN NEW YORK! I had a black and white cookie a la Seinfeld IN NEW YORK! I walked a mile IN NEW YORK! I ordered pie a la mode iN NEW YORK!
Such a silly girl I am.
Last night's Cuddle Party was interesting/fun. One of the big thrills of this trip is the chance to meet people I've only known online and via Skype--Serena Anderlini d'Onoforio, Alan from Poly in the Media, the stunning goddess Birgitte Phillippides, T, my cute host Simon, poly therapist Beki, Mark from Poly-NYC... and there will be more today. It's kind of nice to be able to put faces to all these amazing poly activist names. The scene her is so very vibrant--not just socially, but politically. They don't just have a few munches here and call it a day; these are the rock stars of polyamory. And I get to be here, too!
Speaking of which, I should run my short talk through and pack my purse. Oh, and figure out which way Central Park is...
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pink_grrl
tweets for today
05 oct 2008 | 10:15pm
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Summary of random blogging by phone for today:
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raven_ap_morgan
the 36 things meme!
05 oct 2008 | 09:06pm
[ mood | curious ]
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controuble is to blame for putting this on my Friends Page...
If you're on my friends list, I want to know 36 things about you. I don't care if we never talk, or if we already know everything about each other. Short and sweet is fine... you're on my list, so I want to know you better!
Comment here and repost a blank one on your own journal.
01) Are you currently in a serious relationship?
02) What was your dream growing up?
03) What talent do you wish you had?
04) If I bought you a drink what would it be?
05) Favorite vegetable?
06) What was the last book you read?
07) What zodiac sign are you?
08) Any Tattoos and/or Piercings? Explain where.
09) Worst Habit?
10) If you saw me walking down the street would you offer me a ride?
11) What is your favorite sport?
12) Do you have a Pessimistic or Optimistic attitude?
13) What would you do if you were stuck in an elevator with me?
14) Worst thing to ever happen to you?
15) Tell me one weird fact about you.
16) Do you have any pets?
17) What if I showed up at your house unexpectedly?
18) What was your first impression of me?
19) Do you think clowns are cute or scary?
20) If you could change one thing about how you look, what would it be?
21) Would you be my crime partner or my conscience?
22) What color eyes do you have?
23) Ever been arrested?
24) Bottle or can soda?
25) If you won $10,000 today, what would you do with it?
27) What's your favorite place to hang out at?
28) Do you believe in ghosts?
29) Favorite thing to do in your spare time?
30) Do you swear a lot?
31) Biggest pet peeve?
32) In one word, how would you describe yourself?
33) Do you believe/appreciate romance?
34) Favourite and least favourite food?
35) Do you believe in God?
36) Will you repost this so I can fill it out and do the same for you?
Raven
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2049live
the one that started it all... well, the one after that.
05 oct 2008 | 07:56pm
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Halloween is coming up. Time for a visit from our ol' friend Radiskull.
( Cut since the animation/music starts right away. )
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ragecarnuu
picspam! fried pickles, the big o's, frank lloyd wright and more!
05 oct 2008 | 06:50pm
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2049live
the plot thickens...
05 oct 2008 | 06:49pm
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| The Sox continue to fight another day.
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rollick
more portland
05 oct 2008 | 02:03pm
[ mood | chipper ]
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Yesterday it turned lovely out, and we went to the market at Skidmore Fountain. This was a tremendously awesome place that made me want to move to Portland all on its own. On one side of the fountain, there were tents and kiosks and stands of people selling jewelry and other accessories: hats, scarves, sunglasses, kids' clothes, jewelry stands and boxes, and so forth. Directly on the opposite site were the food kiosks, with Mexican, African, Tibetan, Chinese, Thai, and BBQ stands, plus a whole bunch of other stuff. (I had a fantastic African lemon-chicken wrap called an "ambatita" that I'd love to know how to reproduce.) Then in another direction was an indoor artisans' market, filled with fantastically creative people selling glassware and handmade jewelry and pottery and photographs and paintings and I don't know what all else.
Probably the best thing at the market was the Spoonman booth, which featured tablewear made into everything imaginable: spoons bent into candleholders and bud vases, forks made into wall hangings and wind chimes, and in particular, everything under the sun made into a wacky arrow-through-the-head gag.
Okay, that was the second-best thing, after the place in the middle of the food area where all the aromas came together in the same place. Mmmmmmmmm.
So we spent hours just wandering around — I bought a bunch of jewelry — and then Cass and I went back to the Lovecraft Film Fest. We started the day with the animated Hellboy movie Sword Of Storms, which was heavily invested in Japanese myth and was pretty entertaining while we were watching it, but didn't hold up to any examination later: The plot is really straightforward and the story doesn't do anything with the characters. It's pretty much "Hellboy meets a kitsune. Hellboy meets a kappa. Hellboy meets Jorōgumo. Hellboy meets Rokurokubi. Hellboy meets some Nukekubi. There's a big spirit story that needs resolving. The end!" The writers did their homework, and it was neat seeing all these things onscreen, but it just didn't feel like there was much story.
Mike Mignola came out afterward for another frank, interesting Q&A. His involvement was minimal, and the discussion rapidly went off into other Hellboy and Lovecraft stuff, and that was just fine. He's an interesting, funny guy, and he seems like an authentically nice dude.
The next movie on the agenda was Dark Paradox, the only film I've seen so far at the fest that I thought was a complete waste of time; if we hadn't been sandwiched into the middle of an aisle, I would have left. Bad DV images, really bad acting, bad editing, and above all, a story that was just pointless and incoherent. It could have lost 20 minutes of unnecessary detail and boring, go-nowhere plotting without in any way effecting the story. The twists were dumb and poorly communicated, people kept laughing at the "scary" bits, and all in all I would have rather been watching a wall.
After that, we ate dinner at a local Chinese place, killed some time with the Internet at Panera, and went back to see Alien Raiders, the best of the fest so far. Cass will indubitably be acquiring this when it comes out on DVD in February, and will be encouraging people to watch it. It's a low-budget ($2 million) rather than a micro-budget film, and it was introduced as basically a late-stage Call Of Cthulhu game — the PCs/progatonists charge into a grocery store, take it hostage, and start doing incomprehensible, horrible PC things (like making everyone drink milk, or having one of their members touch people and yell "She's one," whereupon the PCs shoot her). It's essentially showing what a campaign is like to all the little people who aren't playing it. At the same time, that sounds very geeky, and the film isn't — it's a solid suspense/action film, well-written and well-acted, just made on a small scale. It was the first thing I've seen at the fest that got screams of delight and violently enthusiastic applause. Very cool. It's showing again tonight.
Finally, we went to the one-man Lovecraft stage thing, which turned out to be a guy sitting on a stage telling spooky stories. He was spectacular. He's a dude from Cambridge who does this show as a touring event, and he had a whole stage set and a tremendous understanding of the theatric. He was basically just telling ghost stories by candlelight, in a chatty, discursive, very Lovecraftian after-the-fact kind of way. But he seemed to know exactly how much we could and couldn't see, and there were points where he took serious advantage. For instance, when miming the movement of a phantasm during the scariest part of a story, he stood up, moving forward from the light, and lowering his head and hunching up his shoulders so he was just a dark, inhuman blob with a calm, reasoning voice coming out of the middle of it. It was horribly chilling. Cass and I were both flagging at that point though — it was close to midnight — and we were enjoying it but we were glad when it ended and we could head back to the homestead and sleep.
After all this Lovecraft, I should be expecting scaaary dreams, but I slept like a rock. Which is good, because today's our last day of adventure before it's home-time.
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cunningminx
today's minxy tweets
05 oct 2008 | 02:31pm
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What is Minx up to Tweeps?
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atlanticat
breadmaker strangeways
05 oct 2008 | 08:38am
[ mood | amused ]
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| In reference to dough in bread machine: "It's supposed to look like a ball, not like Cthulhu."
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mattstratton
why? why? why do i care?
05 oct 2008 | 08:21am
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From the book True Believers by Joe Queenan.
A friend tells a story about taking his ten-year-old son to a Jets game. The game was being played during a driving rain on a freezing cold day, and the Jets lost by twenty points to a team they were supposed to beat. As they headed toward the exits, the boy looked up, with tears in his eyes, and asked, "Dad, why are we Jets fans?"
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0595
neil diamond is the king of all hot pepaws
05 oct 2008 | 07:06am
[ music | "cath . . ." -- death cab for cutie ]
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| I've felt really domestic and happy lately. Whenever I feel misanthropic and hate humanity, which is generally like 46 or maybe 47% of my life, the first person to get the brunt of my misanthropy is Matt the guy I live with. By and large, we're getting along pretty well. Although he's been hanging out at home a lot recently because he doesn't work on Jewish holidays which is annoying. "You know I'm not actually Jewish, right? Not that there's anything wrong with that, but you know I just work for Jews, right?" Ever since he said that, I've been pounding him with like, "Yeah whatever you dumb Jew. Why don't you go do some Jew things? Why don't you go put on your yamaka and celebrate Yom Kippur?" He's getting better about deciphering my bullshit. The first time he came to see the apartment, we'd only met at a couple of parties and we were talking about something and I said, "Yeah Liz said you're a big whore," and he got really upset and went off on a tirade at Liz. "She said that? Really? I can't believe she would say that! I mean, I guess it's kind of true, but I can't believe she said that!" Like elephants who can sense oncoming tidal waves, he is uncanny about knowing when I'm about to get angry at him and he usually diffuses the situation with some valid defense for his fuckery. I try to limit my hateful thoughts about him to only twenty or thirty per day. I do not say that he is stupid, but I can certainly understand why other people think he's stupid. On the night when we got our internet and television hook-up, I was on the couch with Colin when Matt came in and wanted to see what the internet looked like. Yeah I know. I was not thrilled but told him to open my laptop and turn it on anyway. He actually spent a couple minutes trying to figure out how to open my laptop. I mean, he actually said, "I've never opened a laptop before." I guess there need to be more detailed instructions. The arrows on the latches just aren't clear enough. He never did figure out how to open my laptop and I wasn't giving any hints. I was so embarrassed since Colin was there to witness it. What I like about Matt though is that he doesn't give a shit what people think of him because he's too busy getting pussy. He had three different women in his bedroom last week, and those were just the ones he introduced me to. He has some female companion visiting him almost every night. David the guy I lived with said once that if he was a foot taller, then he'd be getting it on with stupid girls all the time. Well Matt is seven feet tall and he does get laid all the time which pretty much proves that theory. How else could it be explained? I think short David is way hotter than tall Matt. Matt is scrawny and pale and has crazy eyes and zero body hair, plus there's the intelligence issue and the fact that Matt's voice is of a vapid straight guy variety. He sends me messages that begin with "D00D!!!" He broke the washing machine. He wastes electricity. He opens all the windows when it's cold outside then cranks the heat way up. He's a bit of a liar. The only positive thing about him is that he pays the bills mostly on time and he's mostly quiet and nice. Well, plus he brought a big chocolate cake home once. And there was the Neil Diamond concert.
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blistermoth
cubs
05 oct 2008 | 05:55am
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I'm a jumble of emotions right now. But mostly angry.
I seriously think the Cubs just gave up after the Loney grand slam. The dugout was dead for all 3 games, someone should have showed some leadership and tried to rally the team.
I've been a Cubs fan since 1984 and this is the one that hurts the most probably because it was the first Cubs postseason since 1989 where I was able to see every pitch. 1984 was a heartbreaker too but my mom and I were fortunate enough to go see Game 1 where the Cubs whooped on the Padres.
Here are a couple of things that could ease the heartbreak over the long winter:
I want Soriano gone NOW. I'm tired of the hop, I'm tired of the long stints on the DL and I'm tired of paying him $14 million a year to suck in the postseason. (I also wouldn't be sad to see Aramis ubsgo...he's a talented player but I don't think he cares half the time)
Mark Cuban needs to be allowed to buy the team. I don't even care right now if he wants to tear down Wrigley Field and move the team to Schaumburg. After 100 years of suckitude something drastic needs to be done.
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rollick
we don't need another hero
04 oct 2008 | 10:05pm
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One thing that struck me about one of the Lovecraft films we've seen at the fest… there was one that was nerve-wracking for most of its length. And then the protagonist got taken over by the unnameable evil… and all the tension immediately went out of my body. It was a tremendous relief… because the worst had happened, and whatever happened next, it wouldn't happen to him, because he was part of it now. And he went on to do unspeakable things, but it wasn't scary any more, because the protagonist was already gone. He was just a bad guy doing bad stuff, and that was perfectly acceptable.
Which got me wondering. People of my acquaintance, and writers going back to my youth, all seem to agree that villains are more fun to watch than heroes. And the explanation I've always heard is that villains tap into our darker impulses. They do the things that the presumedly moral audience won't do. They aren't bound by the strictures most people live with, the rules of law and society. They get to do whatever they want. Whee!
But watching this film (which I'm deliberately not naming, so as not to spoil it for people who might see it someday), I started wondering if it was something else. Maybe it's fun to watch villains because we never have to worry for them. If they succeed in their evil… well, that's just more they have to atone for or be punished for later, and it's fine. If they fail and die horribly… well, isn't that what's supposed to happen to villains?
With heroes, though, they might fail, and that would presumably be terrible. We're supposed to want them to win, which puts more pressure on them to be admirable and interesting and cool, and which makes it harder to just sit back and enjoy whatever happens to them, good or bad.
Or maybe I was just happy that the scary part was over. You tell me.
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madresal
summer is over, my momentum slows
05 oct 2008 | 12:10am
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| I had all these ambitious plans for the weekend, but man I am tired. I was lazy most of the day today and I wonder if I need another day of nothing tomorrow. I had been planning on canvassing in Iowa tomorrow. I guess I'll see how I feel in the morning.
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pam
dinner with holly and joe
05 oct 2008 | 12:10am
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Holly and Joe came over for dinner tonight. It was a lot of fun. We played Betrayal, and Holly won, she killed us all! When they left, she said, "It was a lot of fun, sorry about all the killing!"
It was a good night. Tomorrow we have a tour of our CSA farm, followed by a dinner with farm ingredients. Yay!
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