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| Thursday, January 7th, 2010 |
the_paulk
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scaddude
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| Wednesday, January 6th, 2010 |
hapachan
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9:26p |
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highendmakeup
[ missgorejess ]
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6:31p |
LOT OF HIGH END MAKEUP FOR SALE / LOT OF BEAUTY BOOKS FOR SALE!
Will trade, show me your journals or lists if interested in trading for these items.
( Get glamorous! )
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fengi
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3:32p |
I'm just saying, maybe the mid-80s "Dragon" aesthetic needs a rest.
This is an interesting post debunking the latest non-controversey involving the magazine Realms of Fantasy. What caught my eye is a passing mention about previous controversies involving women on the covers. For me, the problem isn't just the gender content. It's RoF being stuck in the rigid Frazetta / Brothers Hilderbrand / Heavy Metal / Julie Strain / Etc. which still dominates the genre. If they moved towards, well, anywhere else, the gender content thing might solve itself. There's such a vast range of design and art out which can accomodate the fantastic, some radically different, some a small but significant step. I'd rather see a knockoff of any of the following: Chip Kidd, Carol Lay, Mark Ryden, Remedios Varo, Chris Ware, Lynda Barry, Dave Eggers, Jill Thompsonm Rene Margitte, Molly Crabapple, Charles Burns, ...there's such a vast range of design and art out there - why not change it up? Hell there's a spectacular fantasy illustrators on livejournal who would easily fit RoF yet be a welcome change, and they'd probably within the magazines budget. I mean, if the goal is to further the cause of the genre, then how about putting out a product which the ever shrinking crowd of people who buy see print as a desirable consumer good will feel excited to purchase? It worked, and still works, for McSweeney's and others. Even the freaking Invincible Iron Man - about as mainstream a comic book you can get - has been changing it up with the covers. So why not Realms? |
disgruntledgrrl
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3:29p |
Remember - Texan Femmes
Boots tomorrow - incase we get errant patches of "ass hole dumped their thermos here 2 hours ago". And if you can - something to cover those legs. I'll be pulling out the inverness. |
caffeineguy
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11:04a |
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disgruntledgrrl
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11:51a |
BET OR NO BET
Nadya Suleman will sue her doctor this year for the 8 embyro implantation. (I'm going to create a tag for this type of thing) Reply! I'm going with Bet |
disgruntledgrrl
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11:28a |
Pondering some hypocrisy...
The society recommends no more than two embryos for women under 35 years old and no more than five for women over 40, for whom it is harder to get pregnant, according to guidelines published on its Web site. Suleman was 33 when she gave birth to the octuplets. The reproductive society expelled Kamrava from the group in September.Hmm... they implant more embyros because there's the chance that one or more won't take. Meaning they die. Meaning they are implanting living embyros - knowing the body will abort some. So are these "lives" are considered "acceptable losses"? Are they implanted with the care and reverence of tucking a sleeping babe back into the womb? No, I'm sure someone's sipping coffee and regretting leaving his watch on during the procedure. Meanwhile, I think I finally figured out Nadia "DeepOne" Suleman. Other than that she's a DeepOne*. She wants to take care of babies all day. She didn't think to turn this into a career as a day care worker. She is still striving very hard to not work. All she could think of was babies, babies, babies. Maybe she hoped some glory grabbing guy who might be father material would crave the limelight enough to come marry her. Then he'd work hard to provide while cameras followed him around showing what a great guy he is for marrying this Anti-Virgin Mary and providing for her brood. Well thanks to Steam's buy-a-thon, I purchased Left4Dead for a few friends. Thanks to Steam being a jerk with their time outs and their anti-theft triggers, I bought the game at full price for a friend instead of the discount (switched RIGHT after the Purchase button was hit) and sadly could not buy one for her hubby which sucks. It would have been nice to have a couples only server. I sadly fell short buying the game for 5 more friends. :( Note: 2 games at full price = 4 games at the discount. pooh In case you don't live here, Texas is about to get cold. We'll be facing temps in the teens tomorrow morning and every morning until Sunday. Our high tomorrow should be 25. I may need to lay a heating pad in Tom's amazing Feral Friends Cat Coop. I would have uploaded images of this thing - but the computer doesn't want to see my camera anymore and I can't reload the software because I have no disk (and the website carries only updates not the full version). Oscar still farts. He tried to bite The Cheat on the neck twice on Monday. Funny thing, Kevin said it appeared the Cheat was going to let him. WTF? He stole Kevin's sandwich, too. He's hell on Kevin during Mondays. He doesn't try that crap in front of me. And if I get mad at him, he runs and hides behind Kevin. Well time for lunch. Next month, I plan to start my diet. It'll be rough because 1: Eating healthy is not cheap. Seriously - get a Taco Bell burrito and a salad. Which cost more? Which tastes better? 2: Convenience: Sometimes it's easier to grab something on the way in than make it in your kitchen at 5 fucking am in the morning. ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) flemco's working my old schedule - he knows what I'm bitching about. So even if I prep 3 days of salads, I'm still stuck for breakfast. Must research caloric count for smoked salmon slices. * while their heads were the heads of fish, with prodigious bulging eyes that never closed. At the sides of their necks were palpitating gills, and their long paws were webbed. They hopped irregularly, sometimes on two legs and sometimes on four. I was somehow glad that they had no more than four limbs. Their croaking, baying voices, clearly used for articulate speech, held all the dark shades of expression which their staring faces lacked ... They were the blasphemous fish-frogs of the nameless design - living and horrible. The Shadow Over Innsmouth |
fengi
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10:47a |
Overheard in the office
My single female boss: "For me, stupid is way worse than ugly. Ugly can be fit from the gym. Ugly can get in bed with the lights out. Stupid is always stupid. He could feed himself - well, he knew when it was time to eat, but that was where his brains ended. He was cute once and that was it." |
fengi
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8:25a |
It's New To Me And It's Awesome
Thanks to the podcast "Tom Vs. The Flash", which began as a recap of 70s-80s Justice League comics, I just discovered one of the more hilariously ludricous editorial decisions of any major comic title in the 1980s. I'm talking about Justice League Detroit. Granted, the JLA began as a cash-in title, combining DCs top selling characters with a few semi-popular also rans in hopes of hoovering up any leftover dollars from fans. As such, as DC attempted to mature (or at least match the sprawling soap opera of Marvel) it remained a continuity warping exercise in how goofy superheros can be. Even by these standards, Justice League Detroit is "wack" as Vibe - the parachute pants wearing, breakdancing, cringe inducing inner city latino stereotype - might say. Listening to a verbal description of each issue makes one laugh and wince. There were creepy sexist (a woman ends up with her torturer) and racist elements, but the low point has to be when the production team forgot continuity entirely and had the abandoned Justice League Satellite crash to earth twice in two years. Anyway, it's awesome in way things which aren't can be. There is a blog, although it's more about tracking any character remotely connected to those books than the series itself. |
the_paulk
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scaddude
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| Tuesday, January 5th, 2010 |
rankingranqueen
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11:07p |
Made it through my trip home without making my mom cry. A resounding success! However, she's drinking so much wine at night she slurs her words and can't understand anything, which I'm going to have to confront her about at some point in the near future, which will make her cry.
I was awoken today by the collective flatulence of boredom with which the world greeted the Nexus One's debut. If you're a tech geek who wants to be able to reprogram stuff on his phone, it's a great device. From a consumer's point of view, it's great hardware and also has some neat stuff -- turn-by-turn car navigation, you can speak to write in any text field, Google Goggles and Voice in full non-crippled glory, and you can buy it unlocked. However, it just isn't as magical as the iPhone, and the iPhone apps are still generally better. It probably would've helped if the coming of the Nexus One hadn't been leaked a month ago. People had set expectations very high. I do think the business press got it way wrong, though. This isn't about making an iPhone killer. Google has a great partnership with Apple to have the default iPhone search engine be Google. Before iPhone, most phone browsers sucked and people didn't search much, and thus didn't run into Google ads and services. All Google has to do is to help get all devices in the world to have a decent search experience (via a decent browser, most likely), and it wins big. Android does that for Google by providing a free OS and browser that anyone can build a device out of.
Things were going well until I rediscovered butter.
I don't think I've made a New Year's resolution before. I'm tempted to say that I'm going to work out more than the current 3 times a week and actually do my cardio with the goal of losing enough body fat that my abs are really visible... but that will also require some serious food management... and I tend not to feed myself regularly or well.
WooOoo..... sigh. |
fengi
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4:58p |
Fair Trade Sure, But What About Fair Wage?
Here's something I only found out last week: Starbucks employees are classified as tip earning labor, making them subject to a mandatory tax - in Chicago it's calculated based on an assumed a dollar per hour. I suspect many people, like myself, thought Starbucks workers are different from waitresses and bartenders and the register tip jar is merely a hopeful presumption. Starbucks perpetuates this impression by limiting tip solicitation and not educating consumers. This lack of information is likely partially motivated by the detail tip based employees have less protection by labor regulations, including minimum wage. Starbucks may currently have better labor practices than McDonald's in some ways, but their employees are more vulnerable in others. For example, Starbucks has a policy of compensating managers by allowing them to take a cut of tips from employees, which was the subject of class action lawsuits (you may have heard about this when employees won, but not when they lost on appeal). This applies to more than Starbucks. Some independent coffee houses make ends meet by running a similar game on their baristas - it's probably worth asking. It's bullshit to make tipping a necessity for level of service many consumers choose because tips aren't involved. Employees are at a strong disadvantage in telling them otherwise, both due to work rules and consumer hostility and the possibility some might be motivated to give up a luxury option if tips are added to the cost. Governments and businesses are exploiting labor with a bogus loophole then trying to shift the moral burden on people who don't tip. |
scathedobsidian
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3:26p |
the glass is half empty.
FULL OF WIN: last night's discovery that vodka enhances the gingery goodness of ginger beer. FULL OF FAIL: I drank half a bottle of vodka last night. Current Mood: perky |
caffeineguy
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| Wednesday, January 6th, 2010 |
bad_robot
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12:45a |
today's line
I spent all day sleeping and woke up in the evening. Now I'm high watching the slowest movie of all time, Jeanne Dielman 23 quai du Commerce 1080 Bruxelles. While watching I'm also simultaneously working on scripting out that music video I was suppose to make last month for my friend but didn't. It's going to really surprise some people I think what I can do with a DSLR, a 55MM @1.8 and a fucking tripod. But film was never about the equipment or the format. In fact, coming from a non-film background, I really enjoy physical or otherwise restrictions. Its forced me to be more creative. Also I'm working on the short screenplay I was talking about earlier this week. I finally have a little free time now that the holidays are over and projects are on hold due to the extremely cold weather here in Beijing. Here is a line of dialogue I thought up today for the untitled shanghai project: int. nightclub. "That's some dress you're wearing" "Thanks. Comme-de-Garcon, very expensive" "I didn't mean it as a compliment" "You're such a silly boy!" (playfully) "Really, you look like a retarded whore" "What'd you say, couldn't hear you! THE MUSIC IS LOUD but I love it!" Anyhow I'm wondering why everything smells like cum. Is it my pants or do I need to wash my fingers? edit* now I'm on flicker stealing photos to replicate for shots in the video. Ha Ha Ha. |
| Tuesday, January 5th, 2010 |
fengi
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10:29a |
Wanting Your Best Long Posts
Though I read a great deal of LJ, stuff you'd never think anyone reads, I miss vast amounts as well. This is especially true in December when holidays and other issues eat up my time. I'm an especially big fan of long posts. So please provide links to the best long posts you've written or read in the last month or months. If you've posted a list of your best sometime time in the last month, link me to that. Also: If you do a great deal of awesome writing somewhere besides Livejournal - or have migrated to another service* - let me know that as well. I'll even except twitter, but you have to be a master of substance in that form. * Yes, I realize if someone is no longer using LJ they are unlikely to read this. |
fengi
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9:51a |
Excellent Blogging About Blogging
dexfarkin has a thought provoking essay/rant on how we often forget the internet is a world wide broadcasting device. His specific topic: LOATHED PHRASE: "It's your journal/blog/webspace/etc and you should be able to say whatever you want and people jumping up and down on you for it is bad." or any such derivative of said opinion.Much like with a broadcast signal, you can only truly control what is in the signal and your source of distribution, and not how it is received, and what arises from it.
In real life, we can control our privacy by various means, primarily by not broadcasting; being silent, keeping our thoughts in private journals under the bed, going for long walks in remote woods and being attacked by feral dogs....the very point of interaction with the Internet is to broadcast, carving out a digital footprint that says to any and all that will listen that you're there at the very least, whether you want it or not. The open nature immediately puts us in the manner of action/reaction outside of our sphere of control...You are posting to be heard. Whether you want it to be one person or a million, whether you personally consider it to be the same as a private diary, you are broadcasting to an audience. And, as we know, the audience wants to be heard in response. |
the_paulk
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scaddude
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| Monday, January 4th, 2010 |
elanswer
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12:40p |
Maui Twenty-ten
Participants: Myself, cirrushi, krazykased, Jenny of unknown LJ status Day One
- First stop, Krispy Kreme!
- Dropped off luggage at hotel.
- Sam Sato's!
- Sam Sato's turned out to be closed for the entire duration of trip, ate at Wei Wei BBQ & Noodle House instead.
- Visited the ʻĪao Valley, did official hike and unofficial hike.
- Kepaniwai Park Heritage Gardens, where we walked a secret path from Japan to China!
- Hotel much nicer than anticipated!
- Longhi's - pretty much all ordered pasta and other non-standard entree items - Good!
- Lahaina - very cool, many galleries, feel was similar to Monterey or maybe a hint of La Jolla
Day Two
- Broke fast at Tasty Crust! Yum yum!
- Stopped off at Island Kitchen/Chicken to pick up some lunch.
- The LONG road up Haleakalā.
- Messed up knee again, unbearable pain.
- Air so much clearer up high, everything in sharp relief. COLD! Beautiful.
- Could not check in on Gowalla due to spotty reception = sad.
- Wine tasting and tour at the Tedeschi Winery at Ulupalakua Ranch.
- Field trip lunch.
- Back to hotel for rest and swimming!
- Pizza Hut + Mike's Hard Lemonade + True Lies + Disney Channel = Fun times!
Day Three
- SLEEP
- Check out, leave luggage at hotel.
- Tried to keep it real at Denny's.
- Bought beach mats, BEACH!
- Oh shit it's 3:27pm and we just found out Tasaka Guri Guri Ice Cream closes at 4:00 - GO GO GO!
- Tasaka Guri Guri Ice Cream, 4:03pm: They've been closed the entire time, Jan 1-3.
- Kitchen Chips Scavenger Hunt.
- Picked up luggage from hotel, off to Koho Grill & Bar for dinner. Interesting Koho sauce.
- Everyone is closed because it is Sunday and Maui.
- Airport, airplane, leave Maui.
- Come back to Maui.
- Finally reach Oahu.
End.Flickr. |
disgruntledgrrl
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highendmakeup
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