•May 15, 2007 •
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So, this weekend was the big annual beltaine campout. Every year it’s different – temperature, mood, location, and the people involved.
“Everything is gonna be alright when summer comes
The darkest stars will burn so bright when summer comes
We will open up our bodies to the warming of the sun
When summer comes”
This year, I was the first to arrive. I whipped out five chairs and hung out with Dave and Lisa until more peeps arrived. Karinny was back from her trip around the world! I said, “You smell like horse!” and she said, “I know, isn’t it great?” She’s so cute.
I do go on a bit
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•May 14, 2007 •
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I decided to get creative for dinner tonight, so I boiled up some egg noodles in a chicken broth, drained, added margarine, cooked chicken breast, garlic salt, oregano, rosemary, fresh black pepper and mozzarella cheese.
It was awesome.
And now, back to processing photos from the camp trip.
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•May 14, 2007 •
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The Crazy Secretary Lady (CSL) is at it again:
“she enticed and kissed her half-sister’s husband
she’s a piece of work that one
she’s sneaky, she even convinced him it was his doing.”
At least I have to give her one bit of credit – she keeps reminding me I could be listening to music instead of her.
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•May 13, 2007 •
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I promise to post in detail, with plenty of pictures, once I recover a bit. I’m torn between playing a little on the wii or taking a nap. Perhaps both, though I don’t suspect that will work as well as I’d like. ;)
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•May 12, 2007 •
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So I’m using images.google.com to look up a picture of Naomi Watts (I had no idea who she was), and it strikes me that we flip out if you can see the color of a girl’s nipples, but we’re absolutely fine with the exact shape and texture being visible. I mean, if a thin silk dress is so revealing you can see the bumps on a girl’s areola, that’s acceptable, but whoa, no fully uncovered nipple, that means SEX is right around the corner!
I’m not the first person (or the thousandth) to say we have an asinine set of moral standards, as a whole.
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•May 12, 2007 •
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The Pidgin bird in the background during the installation of the latest version of formerly-known-as-GAIM reminds me of the rabbit in that song, “Everyone Else Has Had More Sex Than Me”.
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•May 11, 2007 •
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Sometimes I’m moving along life, absorbed in my own daily minutae or that of those in my direct circle of friends, and then I’m struck by something. It seems random, perhaps, but it’s always in the category you might call (if you’re religious), “there but for the grace of god go I”. It was a phrase my grandma used (stop rolling your eyes, you), and it took me awhile to understand it on my own terms.
There’s no reason at all that I, specifically, had to be born into the circumstances I was, with the experiences I had that made me who I am today.
Today, I was driving, listening to music, just thinking my thoughts, and it came to me unbidden: What would it be like to have been put in a chain-fence prison on an island for five years without having been charged with a crime? I talked to the wrong person at the wrong time – easy to do when you have family and friends at home in a society at war with your own. Even if you were telling them to get out of this crazy mess, you’ve incriminated yourself, and without any lawyers or habeas corpus filing or “your day in court”, you have nothing to prove, and no one to prove it to.
So there you are. Any time you spend outdoors is in blindfolds and chains. Interrogated for years. YEARS. I mean, your life will never be the same. You will be fucked up, like the absolute worst abusive relationship you’ve ever had, and you will never be the same. You’ll never think the same thing about the country you’ve been living in for years. No matter how much love you might have had for it, when -you- are spending your nights in a fully lit chain link cell for FIVE YEARS without representation or any day of freedom to look forward to, it will change you, and you will be no friend to that country. The most they could hope for is that the constant strain has ingrained a deep fear in you.
That could have been me. If I’d been born to someone else, that could have been me. I try to wrap my mind around the idea of celebrating FIVE YEARS in detention with NO sign of ever being let free, and it makes my brain scream in anguish.
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•May 10, 2007 •
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I’m really, really impressed by this archival article from Slashdot.com about the removal of an anonymous comment due to the threat of a lawsuit under the Digital Millenium Copyright Act by lawyers for Scientology. Someone quoted a passage from their high-level restricted ‘holy text’, and someone somewhere flipped out, despite its common availability on the intarweb.
I’m not only impressed with the clear and convincing way Cmdr. Taco explained the situation and Slashdot’s limitations on this matter, but I am extremely impressed with the article as a response to the DMCA takedown. It’s mature, it’s civil… and coming from a major news aggregate, it’s the best “You didn’t want to make us do that” that I have ever seen.
One anonymous comment about a topic many Slashdot people are not interested in (Scientology) became a major article about freedom of speech, the DMCA, fair use, and Slashdot itself … which are very important to those who use the site.
This is all water under the bridge, mind you, I just happened to find it through some linking, and found myself deeply admiring the thought that went into this post. The writerly part of me feels sparked by it – it would make a great jumping-off point for coffeehouse talk.
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