Another Electronic Sheep

From Shapley Prose:

Robert Blue was arrested for chaining his 15-year-old daughter to a bed, because he thought she was fat and wanted to stop her from eating.

Kate labels the post, "No words". I've got words. And they're WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK?

THIS! THIS IS THE PART THAT FUCKING KILLS ME!

Blue said he was upset because his daughter weighs around 165 pounds, and Blue wanted her to weigh between 140 and 145 pounds, explaining that was her fighting weight in mixed martial arts.

FUCK YOU, YOU JACKASS. I was doing martial arts AND competitive dancing at 15, and my fighting weight was 245 lbs. Yes, that's 100 lbs. BIGGER than your daughter, you fuckwit.

Fuck fuck fuckity fuck fuck fuck.

And did I mention fuck?

Good. Fuck!

I've finally decided what I want to be when I grow up.

And that is Warren Ellis.

Only problem: i'll need to take up smoking again.

The things we do to realise our goals. I swear.

(often and loudly)

I'm at Sckavone's!

I *drove*!

It's been raining steady and heavy for most of the night, reducing the snow to slush on the sidewalks and completely clearing all but the least-traveled roads.

I was going to write something here, but I got distracted by what they call scones and what I call yummy lemon shortbread cookies.

OH! Yes! Mommy and Daddy sent me a handheld GPS for Christmas! I want to go geocaching, but I think I'll wait until tomorrow because 1) I don't want to go digging for caches in the snow, and 2) stupid Garmin and their stupid not-Mac-compatible maps.

I've seen Iron Man, what? Seven times now? Every stinking time, the grammatical error on the cover of Forbes magazine during the montage at the awards ceremony annoys the ever living fuck out of me.



It should be reins! Not reigns, you fuckwits! You don't take the reigns! You take the reins!



(it's at 4:59 if you want to boot up your copy of the DVD.)

- Ha ha! My religion has dragons and yooours doesn't!

- They're interring my grandfather on Monday. But my 'rents have informed me that they do NOT want me flying through an ice storm to attend a 10 minute ceremony when they're having the memorial at some point in the next one to five months.

- I still haven't fallen apart. I'm expecting that to happen at any minute now.

- Kingdom of Loathing Stuff: I really hate Crimbo, and for a really stupid reason: I use Mafia and I get B-O-R-E-D having to manually burn ~300 adventures a day. Although I've pretty much figured out that ( smurf smurf smurfy smurf ).

- The best movie I have seen all year is a Korean monster movie called The Host. THIS is what Cloverfield wanted to be when it grew up.

- So. Facebook. I have all of three friends, yay! If you're nice to me, I'll tell you my Facebook email, which is different than the email I usually give out.

- I appear to be coming down with a cold, and I have a big scratch on my arm whose provenance I am not privy to. It hurts when I type.

- I love that one of our main vendors has two sites: DENTAL and VETRINARY.

- Yes, I probably spelled Vetrinary wrong. I haven't had coffee yet, and I've been at work for close to an hour.

- Oh, hey, wierd thing: My mom asked me while we were still at Disneyland if my future plans (we'd been discussing retirement portfolios and how I'm going to seriously reevaluate my career path in about 10 years when my student loans are gone) include, and I quote, "A partner". Y'all, this is the closest my mom's ever gotten to the "When are you going to have babies?" speech.

- I did not tell my mom that the term for the kind of partner I'd likely have is "Accessory before the fact" or "indicted as a coconspirator", BUT YOU KNOW I WAS THINKING IT!

- Twilight fanwank is the most hysterical thing I have seen in a looooong time. Imagine Harmonians, then take away that second braincell. The whole kaboom this week is that the female director got bounced from the project for various nefarious reasons (including OMGSEXISM) and that they are four months out from production on the next film, plus they will be filming the second and third film back to back, a la LOTR. This is going to be a straight up trainwreck. Where is my popcorn?

- And someone needs to remind me to go to DEQ and to go to the Aladdin to pick up JoCo tickets.

Amazon.com preorder of the Doctor Horrible DVD! For nine dollars!

Okay, after shipping it was closer to 13.

And yes, I did pay money for the digital download on iTunes. And the soundtrack.

But in Disneyland, going up the ramp for Pirates, a woman pointed at me as she turned the corner and started babbling incoherently to her companions. I looked down at my shirt and saw it was my Joss Whedon is my Master now shirt. She turned around and I clearly saw her say, "Joss!" I gave her the two thumbs up.

Because that is how us fangirls roll.

International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women every year kicks off the 16 Days Campaign for an end to gender violence.



In the move, I still cannot find a lot of things, including my white ribbon. So this virtual one will have to do.

I display it in rememberance of those who died.

I display it as a witness for those who are hurting, that they are not alone.

I display it as a survivor.

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Okay, so about 90% of those words are about my MC's hair, and his SO is about another 100 words from comparing herself to Anita Blake, but still.

(Yes, I know this is not actually what I'd planned for today, but someone seems to have hidden the gorram zipper on my emotional baggage.)

(And also? Why are all my fanfic pairings queer and my original fic pairings het?)

( And also? I know y'all are just dying to read what I wrote about Anita Blake's hair fetish )

I did not vote for President-elect Obama, but I am not displeased by the results of the election.

I see lots of people doing little happy dances at the moment.

I also see lots of people doing this dance and shaking it very disrespectfully in the general direction of those who didn't vote for Mr. Obama.


Knock that shit off.


Number one, you're buying into the partisanship that destroyed this country last time around. Why do you think McCain's supporters were booing him during the concession speech? Because they had bought into the partisanship to such a level that the mere concept of loss is unbearable, game over, the Phillies have won the World Series, the Rays go home. This isn't a game. There are no winners or losers, just elected officials with work to do.

Number two, to get this nation back on track, you are going to need to work with that person. When someone's pissed you off, how much do you want to work with them? Yeah, that's what I thought.

We are Americans. We have a big mess to clean up, and a lot of the mess is our individual fault.

We are Americans. We complain about our government forgetting that in a democracy, we are the government.

We are Americans. We throw a big party every four years to remind ourselves that we can, have, and will again completely overthrow our political structure in a bloodless coup. But every day, we Americans have a responsibility to keep informed on what is going on, to speak out about injustice, to make sure that our elected officials from the city councilperson to the President of the United States of America are doing what we want.

We are Americans. We are tasked to remember our past, to act on the present, and to plan for a brighter future.

We are Americans. Don't you dare forget that for some silly little line on your voter registration card.






{cross-posted all over hell and gone}