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Rules for Radicals

Pornified : How Pornography Is Transforming Our Lives, Our Relationships, and Our Families

Pretty Little Dirty

Get in the Van: On the Road with Black Flag

Vegan Freak

Vegan Planet

The Founding Mothers: Abigail Adams
Abigail Adams was the wife of President John Adams and was widely considered his intellectual equal. (He must have been pretty stupid!) In fact, she once wrote to her husband, "Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors", making her one of the countries first fenminists. My guess? She was a dyke.
-Rob Corddry

Ok, so I might as well make this post the ironically offensive post, so here's a way to really spice up your ipod. Go here and download some Jerry Blank quotes and put them on your ipod, and shuffle it around your playlists so they come up randomly.
My favorite: "You don't wanna beat me or screw me!? What kind of marriage is this? Bring a book."

I'm still trekking on with Battlestar Galactica. I love how the Sci-Fi channel airs the new episodes Friday nights ar 10pm. They are not even trying to sugar coat it, it's like they are saying, "ok, we know you nerds are home Friday nights anyway, so why not give you something to enjoy?" I'm halfway through the first half of the second season. I absolutely have avoided any sort of websites or anything about it, first because I might see reference to something that will spoil the rest of the episodes for me. That, and of course it opens a whole new can of worms. I don't want to get suxked into those message boards or conspiracy theories or anything. Although, I am sure that there is some amusing fanfiction somewhere out there (and by that I mean I already wrote some). My theory so far is that if there is a guest star in the show, they will most likely be killed off or abandoned somewhere in one to two episodes. Pity, because they are usually the hot ones.

Here is one of those lame youtube fan-made videos with some action clips (and by lame I mean awesome) using the music from Requiem for a Dream.

Ok, if you haven't heard about The Streets, I'd be surprised. You know how bad I am at describing music in words, so I plagarize:

It's not what we consider hip-hop. It is a parallel universe, with unfamiliar beats and a different rhyming style (more sort-of spoken word), referred to as "British garage." It was born in the clubs over there around 1996, and combines elements of house music with bass lines. It is evolving into a British rap scene, but is not quite there yet. Skinner's lyrics are extremely detailed and quick flowing, but it takes getting used to. American's ears, so finely tuned over the years to our hip-hop, have yet to fully adjust to this overseas version.

I listen to it also to pick up his accent. Here is the newest album, The Hardest Way to Make an Easy Living, which is actually has more of a light tone than the earier two albums.

Matt Pond PA is rock/pop/indie singer sonwriter type stuff, but not that hippy-dippy crap you find in suburbian open mikes. Here's Several Arrows Later, which I find quite good.

Ok, aside from the fact that the circus is stupid and trite, it is insanely unecessarily cruel to animals. The New York Times is all over it, citing it for nostalgia and crap. And they are pretty sexist about it, stating
The plot also reaches back to the mythology of circus life: a family that has always dreamed of being in the circus is selected from the audience. Dad becomes the Ringmaster (Chuck Wagner), Mom becomes a trapeze artist (Gisela Riquelme), their daughter, Jan (Lucilene Correa), turns dancer, and their son, Dan (played by both Ruirui Zhu and Dashan Hou), is seeking his special role. Essentially, the entire family runs away and joins the circus.

It's bad enough we had to endure the tired, scared elephants being dragged across the island of Manhattan only to be led to their new home, the cramped quarters of the bowels of Madison Square Garden.

Check out this video here.

I got in trouble at work today. My job is not in danger or anything. Ok, not so much in trouble, but got a "talking to". About what is not important. However, this rarely happens, it really upsets me when it does happen. I pretty much am one who always followed rules, always did what was expected, etc. I don't know how to take it. I mean, I can take the criticism, I certainly didn't argue or protest, but I mut have some strong self-preservation instinct, because I have taken the criticism to modify my begavior, but my subconscious is still insisiting that I was in the right. It's funny, my job is to dole out constructive criticism all day, but when it happens to me I am all up in arms.

I am pissed that I am actually emploed, because otherwise I would have been able to watch Star and Joy go at it on The View.

Watch it here!

Prince Harry now has a wax figure at Madame Toussaud's. Schwing! I love how "Museum officials then engaged the two princes in a pretend make-out session"

It looks like I will not be able to make it to DC for Ruth's bridal shower. It's too bad, because I wanted to be there when we all help Ruth calm her nerves about "her first time", which is what bridal showers are for, right? And how effing cool is this- when guests book their travel arrangements through this site, part of the cost gets donated to Lambda Legal or Planned Parenthood. Love it, love it!

This is an advertsing campaign for a Viagra-like pill. Call me old-fashioned, but I find it rather vile.

Classroom Activities: Democracy Before America
Give your students a taste of Athenian life before democracy by implementing a "Draconian" measure, like forcing them to wear togas to calss every day for a month. Then celebrate democracy by being named the princicipal defendant in a class-action lawsuit against the school.

Two Hipsters Angrily Call Each Other 'Hipster'
March 29, 2006 | Issue 42•13

AUSTIN, TX—An argument between local hipsters Dan Walters and Brian Guterman has devolved to the point where each is angrily calling the other "hipster," those close to the pair reported Monday. "Hey, hipster! Here's 12 bucks—why don't you go get yourself a bucket of PBRs at the Gold Mine?" Walters, 22, is said to have told Guterman, 22, invoking the name of a local bar known for its "poseur" clientele. "Whatever you say, scenester," Guterman allegedly replied. "Don't you have a Death Cab For Cutie show to be at right now?" Acquaintances of Guterman and Walters trace the long-running conflict back to high school, when they reportedly threw pencils at each other and argued about who was more "emo."

or at least it will be me in 5 years.

Up With Grups*
* Also known as yupster (yuppie + hipster), yindie (yuppie + indie), and alterna-yuppie. Our preferred term, grup, is taken from an episode of Star Trek (keep reading) in which Captain Kirk et al. land on a planet of children who rule the world, with no adults in sight. The kids call Kirk and the crew “grups,” which they eventually figure out is a contraction of “grown-ups.” It turns out that all the grown-ups had died from a virus that greatly slows the aging process and kills anybody who grows up.
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If being a Grup means being 35, and having a job, and using a messenger bag instead of a briefcase, and staying out too late too often, and owning more pairs of sneakers (eleven) than suits (one), and downloading a Hot Hot Heat song from iTunes because it was on a playlist titled “Saturday Errands,” and generally being uneasy and slightly confused about just what it means to be an adult in these modern times—in short, if it means living your life in fundamentally the same way that you did when you were, say, 22—then, let’s face it, I’m a Grup.

Pedophile Less Interested The More He Views 13-Year-Old's MySpace Profile (The Onion)
"I'm looking for a cell-phone number and a home address, not your life story," he said.

So, you'd think after months of going to the gym, I would have had this experience before, but it kind of shicked me when it first happened tonight. I experienced that person, you know, the one that struts around the locker room completely nude. And not one, but two. Um, why is this necessary? I know I am all lefty-vegan-liberal whatever, but I'm kind of old fashioned when it comes to nudity. As in, do it in the privacy of your own home. And god help me, I looked. Now, before you judge, please know that I walked in minding my own business, just to throw my sweatshirt down, and out of the corner of my eye I see a wall of flesh. My initial reaction is to turn and look out of sheet knee-jerk reaction, so I do for a second, and then…make eye contact! Awkward! Awkward! It's called a bathrobe people. Look into it. WTF.

I was going to joke about it before, but apparently Craig Nichols DOES actually have Asperger's!

Please don't let this make autism be trendy.

This was one of the best laughs I had all day.
Grey's anatomy a fever in the ratings.
"Patrick Dempsey, when he nearly kisses Meredith, it's like nearly kissing me," said 37-year-old mother of two Jacki Moore of Burbank, Calif. "I've gone to a few of the fan sites and I look for pictures, and I Google his name pretty much every day to see if anything comes up. Oh, I'm telling you, I'm ready to put a poster up on my wall."
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Moore, who replays episodes on her TiVo late into the night, says her husband thinks she's crazy. "But he's fine with it, because I told him, 'Honey, you're starting to look like Dr. McDreamy.' "

Here's another one to add to the "cool vegans" list- Nick Zinner of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

What are some of your favorite places to get vegan food in New York City? And elsewhere?
NYC is the easiest place to be vegan—it’s truly awesome. My favorite is Zen Palate in Union Square. Pukk is a newish vegetarian/vegan Thai place on First Avenue and Fifth. Also, the vegan Sicilian frittata at Old Devil Moon on 12th between A and B is great, and the place used to be Lydia Lunch’s bedroom. Kate’s on Fourth and B is probably the best punk rock vegan/vegetarian greasy spoon.

Famous presidential quotes: The economy

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself"- President Frankin D. Roosevelt, March 4, 1833
"Oh, and starvation. We might all starve."- President Franklin D. Roosevelt, March 4, 1833

I don't know much about this church, but I do like their ad campaign.

Battlestar Galactica? More like Crazystar Galactica! So, as promised, I watched the whole first season this weekend. Holy crap, it's good. At first you think you are watching another Seaquest/Stargate crap show, then suddenly you watch four episodes in a row and can't stop. I usually don't get sucked into the suspense of anything, but it makes me really tense. Well, every episode there is some sort of attack and everyone's lives are in danger, but somehow seven minutes before the show ends they manage to slip by and survive. That's actually kind of lame and predictable. However, there are some suspense situations in movies/television that do make me squirm.

One is when somebody is telling the truth about something, or warning people, and no one believes them. This freaks the hell out of me. Remember that movie with Kurt Russell, Breakdown? Where no one believed him that his wife was kidnapped? The movie was not so great, but I just couldn't handle it. Anyway, BG has a lot of storylines like that.

Well, only 23 more episodes to go- that's at least 17 more hours. Plus, I Amazon just shipped my Andy Milonakis Show and Wondershowzen dvds, so I can be a happy hermit for a while.

So, I've been almost 2 weeks vegan. That's a lot, considering I usually don't stick to anything. Turns out I can't cook so well. Here are some of my accomplishments:
-falafel patties. I used a mix, but added some things to it. It was ok, until it turned rock hard on day 2.
-twice baked potatoes, with stramed tofu, rosemary, garlic whatever else I had laying around. Not too bad.
-I just made a chilli tonight, but I'm a little wary because it has cinnnamin in it. So far, not bad. But I'll have it for lunch tomorrow.
-I can always fall back on quinoa with tamari, which is what I end up having in a pinch.

So, I'll have to be more creative this week. My theory of cooking is that if I am not sure about something, I just keep adding more garlic. It's coming out of my pores.

I just got myself some (illegal, obvs) copies of the new albums from The Streets and from The Stills. Score!

I saw Giant Drag open for Stellastarr* and thought they were the most obnoxious things ever. They actually were booed. However, their album does not even sound like I thought they did. Weird. The moral is, listen to the album, don't see them live. I think they sound like a cross between Mirah and Mazzy Star. It's good stuff. Get it here.