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| Tuesday, November 10th, 2009 |
bipolypagangeek
[ bifemmefatale ]
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2:15p |
clearing up a few issues
1. 4 or 5 out of 6ers are welcome here and have always been. *However*, this is a bi-centric comm, and a kink-centric comm, and a gamer-centric comm, and so on. Entries are generally expected to be about at least 1 of the 6 interests, and you do not get to tell bi people "chill out" when they protest their lack of inclusion. You're expected to be an ally. 2. This community has always strongly valued civil discourse. Criticism may happen, especially of someone's ideas rather than their selves, but ad hominems and responses like "fuck you!" are not tolerated. I try to give a warning first, but repeated offenses are not tolerated. 3. ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) melssexysecret was warned and continued to behave badly, so zie was banned. After zie sent a private message consisting of nothing but 300 "Fuck you!"s to my inbox, zir sockpuppet was also banned. Please remember this is only the second user who has been banned in the history of the comm. Don't be afraid that I'm on a power-tripping rampage. I have no desire to micromanage this community and rarely even have to comment wearing my mod hat. I have no intention of banning a ton of people. |
sinboy
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1:19p |
Motivation
I sent out a job application and resume. Not hearing back from them is less frustrating than hearing back, getting an interview, and *almost* getting the damn job. Going back to school is looking more and more appealing. Of course, what if that's not an option either? The general pop-psych answer is to get emotional validation from something else. |
bipolypagangeek
[ liamstliam ]
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1:36p |
For pro-marriage folks in New York . . .
Gov. Paterson is trying really hard to get the State Senate to pass a same-sex marriage bill duringt he ession that started today. I live in Sen. Betty Little's district (the Northway, basically), and I am in favor of same-sex marriage in new York. I think it's important for our citizens, and I think it's important to take the momentum away from the decision in Maine. Our senator, Betty Little, who is generally and good and supportive senator, has oppsed same-sex marriage in the past, and I have express my concern about that. I called her office at (518) 455-2811 and talked to Kathy, who said the senator does not think the state should redefine marriage. She also said they are keeping track of the number of calls they receive expressing an opinion. Honestly, if you have a strong opinion on this, I urge that you call either way. In case you are not up here, this site will tell you how your senator stands on the issue -- http://tools.advomatic.com/24/nyequality/totalsEven if your senator has declared opposition to same-sex marriage, please contact him/her so our voices can be heard. Update: Fom the Albany Times-Union's "Capitol Confidential" blog a little while ago: As for legislation legalizing gay marriage, the Senate Democrats engaged in heated discussion during conference earlier — a conference meeting that did not include Sen. Tom Duane, the lead Senate sponsor of the bill. But so far, there’s been no indication that it will be brought on the floor today. |
transversecity
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12:51p |
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moviegrrl
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4:41p |
ARRRRRRRRRRRRGGGHHHHH
People tell me you can help me. Around 2001ish when the Got Milk? Ads were all the rage, SMG did some as Buffy. Then some bright spark did a Spike parody one. Does anyone still have it stored away on their Hard Drive? Because I sure as hell did NOT dream it, and now its driving me crazy. *runs off, flailing, into the distance* *runs back, embeds this because it has milk in it, and music that sounds vaguely like Torchwood, but nothing to do with Buffy* *runs off, flailing again* |
corvaxgirl
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11:44a |
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sinboy
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11:07a |
Meta criticism
If you are writing a review of a book, and claim to have been annoyed over something that clearly didn't happen if you read the book, I hope you're good and ashamed. But moreover, I hope your editorial staff posts a correction. ( spoilers for Child Of Fire ) |
ratontheroad
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3:02a |
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heldc
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2:05a |
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| Monday, November 9th, 2009 |
teawiththecheat
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10:30p |
Living in the Here and Now
In an effort to be more present, I enlisted the advice of the ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) ask_me_anything folks, "where do you get your news and why?" I am very much a person who focuses on the past and the future, but not really the present unless food or sex is involved. That's not entirely true, but it's a fair bit true and that "fair bit" says a lot about the kind of person I am. Anyway, I am trying to incorporate some positive change and live more fully in the present. I added CNN to my google reader (obligatory: I LOVE you google!) and the first article I read is about three teens setting a fourth teen on fire. On FIRE?! Fuck, what a world we live in. I'm going to keep reading, try this out for a bit, but damn, you know? I welcome any suggestions you might have either for news feeds you subscribe to OR features you enjoy about google reader. Note that I do not watch television, nor do I care to, and I do not have a fancy shmancy phone that I can read the news on; it's just me and the all knowing oracle that is the internet people. :) |
| Tuesday, November 10th, 2009 |
bzero
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12:06a |
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destinyrose10
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12:03a |
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| Monday, November 9th, 2009 |
polyamory
[ melssexysecret ]
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11:33p |
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bipolypagangeek
[ melssexysecret ]
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11:14p |
Hello, I apologize if this is not allowed here. I have published a couple of books and my current one is going to be potentially called "Coming Out" or "Knocking the Closet Door Down". It is going to be made up of various people's coming out stories. Whether gay, lesbian, trans, poly, kinky or even funny ones like Republican (kidding!) So I need stories. If you are interested in being in the book please email me your story to shampoo150@gmail.com and out "coming out story" also let me know here if you're interested so I can look for you email. thanks! |
nyghtowl
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8:28p |
Ugly Doll Art I have to share
This isn't mine. But it's fabulous, an Ugly tribute to the cover of U2's "The Joshua Tree".  Songs (this part is mine)
- Where the Cookies Have No Name
- I Still Haven't Found the Cookies I'm Looking For
- With Or Without Milk
- Cookie the Cookie Sky
- Running to Get Cookies
- Red Hill Cookie Tollhouse
- In God's Bakery
- Milk With Your Cookies
- One Cookie Hill
- Exit (to get more cookies)
- Bakers of the Disappeared (Cookies)
Current Mood:  cheerfulCurrent Music: Where the Cookies Have No Name |
transversecity
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5:39p |
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flotsomnjetsom
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2:24p |
GVP
Feeling self indulgent enough to be repetitive in posting this. Current Mood:  dorky |
flotsomnjetsom
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2:16p |
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savorie
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1:56p |
Health on the half-shell
This morning, I began to feel the first signs of either a cold or flu-- too early to tell which. Darrell was sick all of last week, so we both took 1,000 mgs of Vitamin C every day, starting from the onset of his symptoms, and we avoided kissing and holding hands. I don't have sick days so I was particularly diligent. However, with the onset of symptoms for me, I figured it was time to supplement the Vitamin C by other means. So, as an experiment, I dropped by the local Whole Foods and asked the fish department to shuck me a couple of Blue Point oysters. They were happy to do so, placing the oyster halves in a container lined with shaved ice. When I mentioned that I was going to buy a lemon to sprinkle on them, the fish guy held up his hand, walked over to the produce isle, came back with a lemon and a lime, sliced them into quarters and arranged them artfully among the oysters in the container and handed it back to me, without charging for the fruit. He even gave me a free oyster to slurp down while I waited for him to shuck its companions. All for $5 - much cheaper than going to a restaurant for your oyster fix, and a lot faster. I like oysters for many reasons. They're basically concentrated nutrition for very few calories. If you get them fresh, they taste pleasingly oceanic and feel good sliding down your throat. I don't care for them cooked - raw, please, all the way. To boost their immune-boosting power, I grabbed a few additional supplements - garlic tablets (a known antimicrobial) and a blend of echinacea, elderberry, and ginger root in a liquid capsule. And of course there will be the frequent hand-washing, getting plenty of sleep at night, and general taking-it-easy, yet another benefit of a mostly-telecommuting career. We'll see if this works! |
sinboy
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4:38p |
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wickedfaire
[ transversecity ]
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3:50p |
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nyghtowl
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3:41p |
Shopping and Dropping--CostCo
What is it...about the caffeine and meatball-fuelled one-two shopping combination of Ikea then Costco that makes it even more exhausting than flying to Europe? I mean, Ikea is not so bad if you actually know what you are buying before you walk in and know the downstairs shortcuts to get you out of the store in five minutes. But even then the process of the registers is exhausting. In Costco the shopping experience is mostly punctuated by truly bad driving, bad in the parking lot and even worse in the store where people try to take your fingers off with their goddamned shopping carts. But the DROP happens almost when you are out of the store! It's worse than the top-drop I used to get at the club! I find that the Costco Drop hits me right when we get to the registers with the hundreds of dollars of bulk food in your mega-cart, having threaded the needle through aggressive Brooklynites who use their carts to cut you off like they're driving SUV's....and you just ppfffffft run out of gas. At that point the hard part is getting ll your crap into the trunk of you car (I bring some giant canvas shopping bags) and humping all of it across the street, into your apartment and then into the proper cabinets and cramped fridge space. And now I'm just bloody exhausted... But I write real purdy don't I? The Owl Current Mood:  exhaustedCurrent Music: Bruce--"The River" |
savorie
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11:59a |
Gardening thoughts
It's nice to have picked up a hobby that has stayed with me. I only started gardening in April-May, after I moved to a place with a front yard garden, a courtyard garden, and a relatively plain backyard that contains mostly grass, patio, and uninteresting large shrubbery. I've since purchased a steady supply of flowers, plants, and trees. My widely varied inventory includes a dwarf key lime tree; a burgundy Japanese maple; draught-tolerant but showy specimens such as Mexican bush sage, fountain grass, and New Zealand flax; a fuschia; not-enough-succulents; azaleas; and almost a dozen dahlias. I've had mixed success. My dahlias haven't been happy since spring gave way to a dry, hot summer, and they're now too cold to bloom. My beloved courtyard-dwelling Japanese acer has one leggy branch stretching to the sky, but isn't turning the promised brilliant-red fall colors or filling out much, but I'm trying to keep it protected from wind and sunburn. I haven't transplanted it to the ground since I don't know yet if the courtyard is really the right place for it. I seem to have surprisingly terribly luck with bouganvillas. They're all over my neighborhood, but they don't seem to bract or even really grow in my particular yards. My North-facing front yard came with a bunch of flowers and trees already - tall roses of many colors (sadly most of them dealing with rust diseases), poppies, some citrus we haven't yet identified, and a young, graceful jacaranda that shades our driveway. I've had zero success with the azaleas. They died really quickly, or stopped blooming, so I'm thinking I just don't live in the right area to make them happy. I have a gardenia plant in the courtyard that's teasing me with bulbous bulbs, but has yet to bloom since I moved in. And no matter what, I can't seem to keep lamb's ear alive. I have a mini herb garden with a shallot, dill, tarragon, and spearmint (for mojitos) but it isn't being very robust, probably because of the seasonal changes. We planted it in early fall. The happiest plant I purchased and own seems to be the catnip. It grows quickly and fully and provides much entertainment for the neighborhood and household felines. Understanding the light changes in my yards seems to be an issue. My South-facing backyard gets considerably more shade as the days are shorter this winter, but in the summer, all my south-facing windows bring scorching heat into the house that not even the tall shrubs and curtains can stave off. To try to solve two problems at once, I came up with an idea this morning-- creating moveable trellises that are the height and width of the floor-to-ceiling South windows and train some dense vines to fill them during the winter. A climbing bouganvilla might perform better if I trained it to climb a trellis placed flush against the south windows during the summer, providing shade to the house against the sun and drinking in the nutrients. I might try cutting back all my bouganvillas so they can strengthen their root systems over the winter and try again to encouraging bracting in the spring and summer. I also dream about having wisterias, but they're brutal to structures and the bloom only lasts a few weeks in the spring. Perhaps I'll just enjoy them when I return to Hakone Japanese Gardens in Saratoga in the spring. Another goal for my next phase of gardening is to grow my own produce. I love fruits and vegetables of all kinds and I spend a lot of money on them in grocery stores. But again, I worry about issues like sunlight, proper fertilizing, and keeping growing young edibles safe from birds, squirrels, and other critters that come into my yard. I have a huge desire to get two or three Earthboxes, which are raised, self-watering, and inexpensive, and use these for the vegetables I want. I've only been resisting because it doesn't feel like genuine, bona-fide gardening to go that route. Part of the appeal of gardening, at least for me, is the intimate and attentive nurturing experience when pruning, watering, feeding, repotting, and observing my plants. Earthboxes, while wildly popular and tauted as a huge success story for beginning gardeners, feel sort of.... corporate. :) |
feyandstrange
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10:21a |
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wickedfaire
[ transversecity ]
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1:10p |
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