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Well, that was my magic for the week.
I spent today -- the occassion of my first missed Mermaid Parade in five years -- at a retreat in the park. Eve spent most of today catching daddy long-legs of all sizes and letting them run about her hands and arms; some of the other little girls there shared in her fascination but not her adventurousness in letting them touch her. At one point ( Read more... ) -
"WTF, Rape Culture BS?" laid out real simple
I didn't write the following; it's from one Michael Fehle, a Facebook friend-of-a-friend, commenting on the George Will's recent words about rape (or, as George would presumably have it: words about "rape"). But it was so beautiful and reflective of my own thoughts that I wanted more people to see it ( Read more... ) -
Memory
I’d recently stopped being married. She was the first woman I’d dated since then - a bizarrely amazing first date, we both agreed - and it had quickly not worked out. She was very type A. I was very type B. And of course I was emotionally a wreck (even more than I was a couple of years later, when I was still… far from a catch). I hadn’t fallen in ( Read more... ) -
Experiment.
Time winds and rewinds and plays out, blindly repeating while still drawing always nearer its end. More precisely: my time, my end. Then comes a moment where the record skips, and in a desperate instant one looks frantically for an escape from the groove, before the needle lands in it again.
It's time to switch things up.
I'm going to try an ( Read more... ) -
My Final Original Cyn
"Life gives these and also takes them away and the great difficulty is to say Yes to life.”
- James Baldwyn
Original Cyn is over.
For over six years, it said Yes to life, in letters the height of a worn bar and a steel pole, in one of the most gloriously divey bars in Brooklyn. For the last three and a half of those years, it was my privilege to be ( Read more... ) -
Evil. Plain and simple.
Please watch this:
And read this:
'Muslims & Buddhists: Get Out!' Says Preacher Applauded by Santorum
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Okay, so here's my new analogy for the current political climate.
It's like you've got a ridiculously huge country that was formerly linked by a few major roads, lots of local streets and, in many places, dirt roads. Individuals had a hard time getting places by car, and so were dependent on train lines (how good or bad a job the trains actually did serving this need is not, for this discussion, material).
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Looking for a Droid App: An Allegory
OP: "Hey, I just got the new Teleportrix X3, and I love it, but I notice there's a minimum range of 20 miles. I want to use it to get some milk from the supermarket a mile away. I used to do that with my old Teleportrix Mundane all the time, why did they put in a minimum? Is there a workaround/way to change the setting?"
Commenter #1: "Well, the X3 ( Read more... ) -
gogo
She doesn’t think she’s beautiful,
except on the very best of days
when a threesome of accomplishment,
compliment and endorphins
gives her courage to look into the mirror without filters.
She’ll admit to sexy, grudgingly,
if bolstered by makeup and corsets
and other accessories.
But anyone can be sexy, she reasons madly,
and sets the stage for the jest ( Read more... )
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