Monday, June 30th, 2008
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11:36 am - Kerry's Shakuhachi Radio Program
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I'm showing Kerry how to post a blog. He's got a new show on Radio Free Nashville called "Samurai Songs" during which he plays cool shakuhachi music (that's a Japanese bamboo flute for all you ignorant).
Kem
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| Friday, January 18th, 2008
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10:15 am - billed as the most boring game of all time...
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| Thursday, September 20th, 2007
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6:42 pm - Very funny fanfic cartoon
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| Tuesday, February 20th, 2007
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1:31 pm - tired
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So after two days off, I went in to the library this morning at 7:30 a.m. after having dragged an ungodly heavy bag of garbage, containing a few grocery bags filled with rocks of cat-pissed clay scooped from the cats' box, one hundred yards to the dumpster and heaved it in using my entire body. I felt very clean after that, so got in my car and heading off. All of the book bins were crammed full, even overflowing because the library was closed for the holiday yesterday. It took Miss D and I a half an hour of intense labor to get the books inside. Then, thanks to some fuckheads next door at the community center screwing with the water main, the men's toilet started doing the exorcist thing, gushing like some out of control fountain, flooding the floor and carpeting. This was, as you might expect, a mess. Several people had to be called, the noise level rose unmanageably thanks to the shop-vac and then the shampooer. It ruined my Happy Tuesday (happy because although I arrive early in the morning, the library doesn't open until noon and thus it is usually quiet and work-conducive).
Now it's 1:30 pm and I am just exhausted. My back hurts. I can barely manage to give enough of a crap to wait on the public today, much less smile. Luckily, all of my patrons today have been sweethearts. No jerks. This can't last, but I'm grateful so far. I have dinner with my girl tonight at Red, a gay-owned restaurant on Church Street, and then we are going to book club where we will discuss the new Sarah Waters, The Night Watch, which I enjoyed much more than Tipping the Velvet, although it is depressing.
Did I mention that we still have no bathrooms at work? Icing.
current mood:  exhausted
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| Thursday, January 11th, 2007
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10:39 pm
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I'm reading Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters for a GLBT book club meeting and finding that I really, really like the slang "toms" for lesbians. It's cute. It's short and to the point. And its meaning seems obvious to me anyway.
I'd like to spread that meme.
In other news, Cin and I are looking to buy land near Nashville and build a house. Anybody knowing the area realizes that this is a very expensive proposition. We'll probably end up a way west of the city as we both now work out that way.
I am starting the South Beach Diet on Monday. Good times.
I'm also reading The United States of Arugula: How We Became a Gourmet Nation by David Kamp, which so far is extremely entertaining. My biggest gripe is that Jeff Smith, otherwise known as the Frugal Gourmet, gets only one footnoted paragraph. Granted, the man was a sexual predator and an abusive dickwad off camera (or so I'm given to understand), and I remember thinking that his relationship with his protégé, Craig, bordered on the uncomfortable, yet I'd have to say that Smith's show was probably the most pivotal for me in terms of learning to love cooking. I imagine this is true of many people my age (36).
Might watch the first ep of season 4 of The L Word tomorrow night (on tape). Season 3 left me a bit shaken though. When Jenny comes off as the most together person, you know you have a problem. And what is up with Moira/Max? Moira is my parents' greyhound's name, so I think of dog when I hear the name. I haven't decided whether the L Word character is as tolerable yet.
Note: Shane, despite the wedding and the freak-out, remains smoking hot. I wish they would release Moennig's early TV show Young Americans on DVD. I would be all over that.
Is anyone writing House slash anymore? Thank god I got into SG:A Sheppard/McKay, or I'd have nothing to read. I wish there was another show out there that could open up fandom again like The X-Files did back in the day.
Also, I miss Xena.
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| Friday, July 14th, 2006
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1:45 pm - to hugh or not to hugh
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Apparently loads of losers with excess time on their hands spend it creating fake myspace.com profiles for celebrities. Hugh Laurie has several. My favorite by far is the Hugh Laurie with the blog entry titled "Read This!" which follows:
Ok guys...I am getting a little bit aggitated because so many people are thinking that i am actually the real hugh laurie.....I must say this again...I AM NOT HUGH LAURIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am just a huge fan of his work. Please people.....do not think that I am the real "Dr. House" because you are sadly mistaken. So far I have seen that almost 600 people have read my previous blog and so those 600 must know that I am not the real hugh laurie. Please everybody.....be smart......I am not hugh laurie. Anyways guys.....I hope you get the real picture now......and plus.....to all you guys who think that I am impersonating.......once again...i am not......I have stated this more than once and by now you people should know that I am not hugh laurie......thanks guys for reading this and hopefully realize by now that i am (once again) NOT HUGH LAURIE!!!!!
Get it, Forrest? She's not the real Hugh. But thanks for reading her myspace blog identifying her as a 47-year-old male from Oxford anyway.
*snerks*
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On another note, I've developed a social & sex life at long last. I feel quite fortunate. She is just about perfect.
current music: New Amsterdams Worse for the Wear
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| Thursday, May 4th, 2006
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9:14 pm
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I didn't realize this until today, but Drew has a blog which is, like him, mildly insane and hilarious. Case in point:
Oh my god that MCL Cafeteria is a quiet and mournful place. It's like a welcoming room for the dead. You die and the walls are just drapey blue velvet and little white plastic letters in little black foam boards. "WELCOME NEWLY DEAD" Everyone is all somber cause they die, I mean, first that happens, then they have to be in the cafeteria, and THEN they dig into their green beans and it's just like "man, I really am dead, I guess." It just sets in. Half of the people in MCL are just sitting, just bugging out staring at their green beans, because they think they're dead.
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In other news I got a weird phone call tonight at work from a guy who first said he was looking for books that might "help" him, but later it was apparent that he just wanted to talk to someone. Unfortunately, I became his mother confessor. He seems to have had *gasp* an unexpected homosexual incident with a friend and is now, expectedly, confused and bothered. Of course I assured him, once I guessed his problem which he would not refer to by name, but simply hinted at ("...like the friendship changed into something different..."), that it was all perfectly normal and natural. That Kinsey reported that up to 46% of males have had homosexual experience. And that birds do it, bees do it, even educated fleas do it...
Poor bastard though. Just wrecked for now. I wanted to say, "I guess you've phoned to find out you're normal, so let me say that the library staff tonight, which is 2/3rds queer, thinks you are. Plus we're a bit jealous that you're getting some."
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I was going to go spend money at the bookstore tomorrow, but I forgot I'm going to pick strawberries at my uncle David's. He lives off the grid in southern Tennessee in a cool octagonal cedar cabin on the Buffalo River.
current music: Mozart's Idomeneo (Gardiner version)
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| Saturday, April 29th, 2006
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6:52 pm - **chokes**
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Ha! The brill guy who does toothpaste for dinner does another comic with his wife. I think that this one would be a great bit in a Fraser/RayK Due South slash story.
**completely amused**
current mood:  amused
current music: Iron & Wine
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| Monday, April 24th, 2006
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9:40 pm
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Amused me quote of the day - from ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) sam_storyteller's House story Synchronicity:
He put the coffee in the microwave and pressed the minute-plus button. A thousand Starbucks baristas screamed out in agony, and then were silent.
I love random Star Wars allusions. Story is definitely worth a read, especially considering the dearth of good House/Wilson. Links follow.
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3
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| Thursday, April 20th, 2006
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9:19 pm - movie review
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Watched gay-themed (although the one "sex" (word used loosely) scene is het) Almost Normal in which an unsatisfied gay 40-year-old professor returns via magic (or something unexplained anyway) to his high school days only now everyone is gay and it is straights who are ostracized. The idea is amusing, but the acting is so bad as to be laughable and the plot is full of holes. Everyone who is straight in his old life, including his best (girl) friend, should be gay in his high school life, but that isn't the case which furthers the story perhaps, but makes no sense. The hottest guy in school looks like he's wearing a really ugly wig so one is left going "wha....?" Still, there are some funny ha-ha parts and if you're with other people and wasted it would be fun to watch and make fun of. Notable quote: protagonist has just wrecked his car and is weaving about through a dark wood toward a light in the distance - "Great. Just what I need, a Blair Witch moment."
Rating: **
current mood:  tired
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| Monday, April 10th, 2006
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7:07 pm - brief update
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If you're bored, you're boring, so I...godammit, there are like five giant bumblebees teasing my cats out here on the balcony. I guess I'm going to have to get the plant-based Raid. Hold on.
Insects. I like these bees because they're so unlikely, evolutionarily speaking. So ungainly and ridiculous. But I don't want to have to deal with a stung cat. So they must go.
The cats are now avoiding the balcony...must smell more like poison to them than this clove-scented formula does to me.
And. I have Bryan Ferry on the CD player, very soothing. I'm a bit annoyed because I had to stay late at work with these geezers from the AARP who are giving free tax help to other geezers, although I told them in advance that they would have to be out before the library closed at five-thirty. But I have a glass of Cotes du Rhone and Roxy Music, so I'm feeling a bit less homicidal.
What I'd like to find tonight is some good House recs. Season Two showed up on Netflix finally so I have it in my queue, although they don't have a release date.
And I'm going out to lunch with a guy from work this week (as friends! He's married and I'm friendly with his extremely hot wife too), which makes me happy as I have few friends here that aren't family. We tend to sit around talking about men and women we find attractive and commenting on the potential for world disasters. Fun, fun.
Dammit, Mulder is vomiting on the carpet.
I have promised a coworker that I will give the muchly hated (by me) Russell Crowe a try and watch A Beautiful Mind, so I have that, Supernatural, a season 3 X-files DVD, a gay movie- Almost Normal and, hmm, something else from Netflix that I can't remember. Which is too much video for me, really. And I'm really only in the mood to watch House season one again. Okay, maybe a little Krycek as well.
Time to get my vegetarian lasagne out of the oven. Only 3 more meatless days (I always end Lent on Good Friday since that is when I thought it ended when I started and I'm not doing it religiously, just consistently).
Oh, Margaret Cho: Assasin is quite deadly funny. She's a bit hard on the Bush ladies, but I'm no fan so don't much care. And Cho is v. sexy. Watch the extras for her bellydance.
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| Monday, November 7th, 2005
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9:09 pm - movie reviews
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Tonight I watched about 2/3rds of a crappy movie, which might be an okay date movie for straight-but-not-narrow people, called Kissing Jessica Stein about this 28 year old woman, Jessica, who is fed up with lousy blind dates with men and answers an intriguing personal ad from Helen, who is just curious and looking for a first time experience. Wow, run-on sentence. Apparently they become friends and kiss a lot, but they have absolutely no sexual energy or chemistry there. Watching them kiss is like the least sexy thing I can imagine, outside of lamprey eels mating. Also, Jessica is a huge sack of neuroses and Helen is a slut. So neither is particularly likable. Unfortunately, there are no developed secondary characters to root for either. Everyone is a plastic clone. So, dumb movie. Two stars at most **.
BUT, last night I watched Greg Araki's Mysterious Skin based on the novel by Scott Heim which I read a while ago, about a couple of eight-year-old boys abused by their little league coach and how it fucks them up in very individual ways. Joseph Gordon-Levitt (who is just the sexiest young guy I've laid eyes on in ages, just completely compelling - I want to lick his belly and pet his head), who played the youngest alien on 3rd Rock from the Sun, is almost unrecognizable as Neil McCormick. Raw acting genius there. Anyway, the movie, as you may have surmised from the synopsis, is disturbing, yet there was something lovely about it, too. Oh! And Elizabeth Shue, still beautiful, plays Neil's mother. She's great, perfect. ****!
So, one to avoid, one to put on your must-see list.
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| Monday, July 25th, 2005
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2:40 pm - HBP
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No spoilers here per se, but I just wanted to note that what I'm hearing about the novel's development of a couple of main characters does not bode well for me remaining with the fandom. I know it's petty, but! I suppose there are ways I wanted the books to go and since they're apparently not I just can't easily switch my mindview. Rather ridiculous, but that's me.
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| Saturday, June 25th, 2005
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2:04 pm
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1:19 pm
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Curses! I no longer have a paid LJ account and thus cannot edit my sidebar menu. Why am I so poor?
Oh, yeah.
current mood:  frustrated
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11:56 am - Latter Days -- review
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I am never online anymore it seems. Except for today. Actually it's some ridiculous number of degrees Fahrenheit outside today and I lack central air in my upstairs apartment, so I decided to pay the folks a visit. At my parents' house the Internet is connected 24/7. If only I too had the money for this.
Watched Latter Days this morning in the wee hours. It was flawed, but enjoyable. Overall quality was excellent for a gay flick. Steve Sandvoss, who is teh hottt, plays a Mormon missionary, Aaron, in L.A. who moves in next door to circuit boy Christian (that's his name, not his religion eh), played with a certain vapid flair by Wes Ramsey (also yum). The two fall in love, of course, but this causes interesting upheavals in both of their lives. Joseph Gordon-Levitt *hearts* plays an amusing supporting role.
Good points:
1. reasonably longish erotic sex scene, non-gratuitous (ah mostly)
2. multiple kissing scenes
3. amusing banter between Christian and his waiter friends
4. Steve Sandvoss looks hotly cornfed throughout
5. Wes Ramsey has amazing eyebrows
6. Joseph Gordon-Levitt
7. makes humorless religious fundamentalists look like the pricks they are
Bad points:
1. Christian's wardrobe (funny though)
2. subplot involving a minor character who is trying to break into the music biz
3. horrible live music and music videos related to #2
4. fake crying by Jacqueline Bisset
Still, I quite enjoyed it.
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| Friday, April 15th, 2005
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6:06 pm
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Gakked from my best friend: Raising Children with Secular Values in a Religious World. So worth reading, I promise, even if, like me, you're not a parent and never intend on being one. It is 5 pages printed.The evidence that humans evolved from prehominid primates...is incontrovertible, is based on a Himalayan chain's worth of data. The evidence for divine intervention is, to date, nonexistent. Yet here we have people talking about it as though they were discussing whether they prefer chocolate praline ice cream or rocky road, as though it were a matter of taste. I've just recently had a conversation with a coworker who in all seriousness said that science and religion are pretty much the same as far as who can prove what. This stunned me for a minute, then, regaining my common sense, I said stiffly, "We disagree strongly on this issue" and left. It's not a discussion I want to have. Did I mention I'm living in a midwestern, Dubya-votin', conservatively lutheranish town?
Note to self: find librarian job! move! soon!
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5:32 pm - misadventures
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Today's good points:
- perfect hair day
- rode bike a bit
- received "Sideways" from Netflix
- still have half a large bottle of carmenere wine left
- sunshiny
- lazy
Today's bad points:
- got monthly "friend" at parent's house - forced to wear a Poise Pad in lieu of actual menstrual product
- ate the rest of dad's ice cream - must go to the grocery before Monday
- work night - must drink carmenere in order to fall asleep by 7 pm for my pre-work nap
- did not write any cover letters for jobs
- did not find any new job listings
- feel the beginning of a certain black disheartenment concerning job search
Lessons learned:
- empathy with older stroke patients at work (rehab unit of hospital) - Poise Pads quite uncomfortable
- must do kegel exercises more faithfully
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| Sunday, April 3rd, 2005
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6:47 am - good to be green
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The v. depressing Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) Synthesis Report, conducted by 1,300 experts from 95 countries, reports that "approximately 60 percent of the ecosystem services that support life on Earth – such as fresh water, capture fisheries, air and water regulation, and the regulation of regional climate, natural hazards and pests – are being degraded or used unsustainably."
Greenpeace has some tips for living green.
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6:46 am - article rec
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Frank Furedi writes about the medicalisation of everyday life:
One of my hobbies is to read press releases informing us of the existence of a new illness, the 'illness of the week', if you like. Recently I received one that said: 'Psychologists say that love sickness is a genuine disease and needs more awareness and diagnoses. Those little actions that are normally seen as the symptoms of the first flush of love - buying presents, waiting by the phone, or making an effort before a date - may actually be signs of a deep-rooted problem to come. Many people who suffer from love sickness cannot cope with the intensity of love and have been destabilised by falling in love or suffer on account of their love being unrequited….'
Having a character reading this press release would make an amusing opening for a slash story. Here is the original article (PDF) by Frank Tallis from The Psychologist to which Furedi refers.
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