Monologue: I’m Just a Fucking Cat. [Originally published January 6, 2014.] Calm your tits. I understand your obsession, but you people are out of control. I’m cute. I’m silly. I’ve got attitude. I get it. But wake the hell up already! In case you forgot, I’m only a pet. BREAKING NEWS: I’m ridiculously adorable. Apology not accepted. Oh, you thought you’d post videos of me? Keep posting videos of me being vulnerable and I’ll start posting videos of you eating your feelings.
No, you cannot “has cheezburger.” Test me. So go ahead, continue making those annoying-ass cat memes. Now scratch my belly. My Year As A Cam Girl: The Pros and Cons of Spending Your Nights Naked On the Internet - xoJane. The night of my first show, I run around my room, cleaning up, checking how the light looks, deciding where and how to sit, and figuring out what I should wear.
I try to set up my room like I have seen in other girls’ shows. What am I doing? What have I gotten myself into this time? What if no one likes me? Home for Christmas break, I have a lot of free time on my hands while my mom works nights. I have never reacted well to excessive free time. It’s time to become Ariel, in live action for the first time. The viewers don’t rush in like I had hoped they would. I finally get a few viewers and show begins. Many viewers come in hurling insults: “Go run until you drop dead, Landwhale,” but I know the drill -- never feed the trolls. “Are you a tight little virgin?” “No honey, I’m not.” “Oh. While it only costs the room, which has several hundred viewers, ten dollars worth of tokens to get a piece of clothing off, it takes well over an hour to get my shirt off. The show ends shortly after. Preserving Insects and their Allies. Go Sky Go- Domain Name Registration, Web Hosting Company, Domain Registrars, GoSkyGo. Dante and the Eternal Quest for Nonreligious Divinity: Physicist Margaret Wertheim on Science and God.
The Classy Issue. Featured. This has been a hard week. Another young, unarmed black man was killed by police. The Root added Michael Brown’s face to a slideshow of such incidents, started after a black man named Eric Garner died after being put in a chokehold by officers less than one month ago. This week’s guilty verdict in the trial of the man who shot Renisha McBride left me feeling numb.
Nothing good could come of it, but at least I didn’t feel worse. The shooting of Michael Brown, however, is still undergoing trial by media and the verdict is swayed by the choices made by producers and directors as to how to portray him. Left: Photo of Duggan frequently used by media; right: uncropped photo in which he holds a plaque commemorating his deceased daughter.
As the media coverage of Brown’s death heated up, the image that first circulated of Brown was this: Using the image above, though, is not neutrality. There are consequential choices to be made. Coma cinema. Bukowski’s Letter of Gratitude to the Man Who Helped Him Quit His Soul-Sucking Job and Become a Full-Time Writer. Awful Library Books. Mail Order Selling Made Easier Kremer 1990 Yes, the book is really that cruddy looking. I can’t imagine why the medium-sized public library is still holding on to this. Maybe the dynamic cover? How about the cutting edge business ideas? My guess is that this book hasn’t been touched since the mid 1990s. Let it go. Mary More business ideas: The Atomic Way to Get Rich! Mistakes=Success! Get Rich Now! Continue reading Nurse on Assignment Francis 1973 Today’s nurse is Linda. By the way, this book looked every bit its age. Enjoy! More Nurses: Cover Girl Nurse Night Club Nurse Paging Dr Devastating!
Continue reading My Body Is Private Walvoord and Pate 1984 Submitter: This one is the definition of awful to me. Holly: I’m not a fan of the illustrations either, and the creepy uncle example is a bit overused. More Weird Feelings: Not in Room 204 It’s Okay to say Don’t End of the World for Kids Gayness Explained Continue reading. Daisies and Bruises | The Art of Living with Depression. I am neurotic. This charming charlie. Portraits Before & After Death | The Order of The Good Death. I’ve shared these photos before. Not once. But five or six times (on facebook, the old tumblr, twitter, etc).
I think they’re near perfect and the reason photography was invented– not to instagram your food, people. They present a portrait of a dying person before and then directly after they die. There is a beauty to it, dead people looking dead, as they should (not made up in wigs and makeup). Maria Hai-Anh Tuyet Cao, age 52 Barbara Gröne, age 51 Jens Pallas, age 62 Edelgard Clavey, age 67 Wolfgang Kotzahn, age 57 Here is a charming video of the German artists Walter Schels–with his kooky Andy Warhol haircut– and Beate Lakotta talking about the project. See all the portraits here. Chapman brothers. Thus Spoke Nietzsche | Nietzsche On Buddhism. Junkies. Sylvia Plath Info. Crustypunks. FLOWERS INSTEAD OF FACES.
The Plath Diaries. Barbara's Blog. For a book about the all-too-human “passions of war,” my 1997 work Blood Rites ended on a strangely inhuman note: I suggested that, whatever distinctly human qualities war calls upon -- honor, courage, solidarity, cruelty, and so forth -- it might be useful to stop thinking of war in exclusively human terms. After all, certain species of ants wage war and computers can simulate “wars” that play themselves out on-screen without any human involvement. More generally, then, we should define war as a self-replicating pattern of activity that may or may not require human participation. In the human case, we know it is capable of spreading geographically and evolving rapidly over time -- qualities that, as I suggested somewhat fancifully, make war a metaphorical successor to the predatory animals that shaped humans into fighters in the first place.
A decade and a half later, these musings do not seem quite so airy and abstract anymore. Consider the most recent U.S. war with Iraq. Why Iraq?