Some of the spinwinders that hang in my trees.
Saturday, April 18, 2009
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Some things about me those silly surveys overlook...
I am obsessed with kitchen utensils. I don't know why. I have 99% of a BA in psych but all that has told me is that I really don't want to go there. There are somethings man should know know and the source of my obsession is one of them.
Whatever the reason, I have a large and diverse collection of spoons, bottle openers (ok, that one is obvious), stove-top toasters, snail serving sets (to serve snails in butter and garlic), collapsible cups, and odd and forgotten time-saving devices, mostly from the 50's and early 60's many of which are recorded in the wonderful book 'ATOMIC KITCHEN'. Bear in mind that I do not cook.
Devices with a definite but completely unknown (to me) purpose are irresistible. I will spend hours on the net trying to identify them. Today, in between job hunting and dishes and mad bouts of sneezing, I am trying to identify what I think is a Tofu press I bought for 50 cents. It has a screw top with a spring and a round disk attached to the spring. There is Chinese and Japanese writing on the bottom.
Ok, so I am easily amused.
Whatever the reason, I have a large and diverse collection of spoons, bottle openers (ok, that one is obvious), stove-top toasters, snail serving sets (to serve snails in butter and garlic), collapsible cups, and odd and forgotten time-saving devices, mostly from the 50's and early 60's many of which are recorded in the wonderful book 'ATOMIC KITCHEN'. Bear in mind that I do not cook.
Devices with a definite but completely unknown (to me) purpose are irresistible. I will spend hours on the net trying to identify them. Today, in between job hunting and dishes and mad bouts of sneezing, I am trying to identify what I think is a Tofu press I bought for 50 cents. It has a screw top with a spring and a round disk attached to the spring. There is Chinese and Japanese writing on the bottom.
Ok, so I am easily amused.
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
On Blog-o-lap
I have just realized that there will always be some points where PINK and BLUE blogs will overlap if only because certain subjects are both tragic and funny by their very nature...like stupidity.
On the Diverse and Wonderous forms of stupidity
For my own amusement I continue to work on defining clear differences between LEFT and RIGHT (liberal and conservative) culture. Here is one that just occurred to me.
LEFT stupidity is loud, passionate, highly energetic and juvenile; whereas RIGHT stupidity is so often calm, measured, thoughtful and quiet.
Far too many humans mistake style for substance. As has been said many times, "no matter how thin you slice it, it is still baloney".
LEFT stupidity is loud, passionate, highly energetic and juvenile; whereas RIGHT stupidity is so often calm, measured, thoughtful and quiet.
Far too many humans mistake style for substance. As has been said many times, "no matter how thin you slice it, it is still baloney".
On the Diverse and Wonderous forms of stupidity
For my own amusement I continue to work on defining clear differences between LEFT and RIGHT (liberal and conservative) culture. Here is one that just occurred to me.
LEFT stupidity is loud, passionate, highly energetic and juvenile; whereas RIGHT stupidity is so often calm, measured, thoughtful and quiet.
Far too many humans mistake style for substance. As has been said many times, "no matter how thin you slice it, it is still baloney".
LEFT stupidity is loud, passionate, highly energetic and juvenile; whereas RIGHT stupidity is so often calm, measured, thoughtful and quiet.
Far too many humans mistake style for substance. As has been said many times, "no matter how thin you slice it, it is still baloney".
On the murder of Angie Zapata
This case is a perfect example of three maxims, 'if it bleeds it leads', 'half a truth is a lie' and the best one of all, 'never spoil a good story with the truth'.
I suggest watching the excellent movie, 'To Wong Foo with love, Julie Newmar'.
The mob wants to believe that Angie was killed because she was a Shemale when in fact she died because she lied. This fact is no excuse for the killer, there is no excuse for murder. (I do make a clear, even biblical, distinction between killing and murder but that is another story.) So the cold facts are not that the murderer decided to act because he hated the trans-gendered but because, believing he was with a woman, he reached down while they were fooling around and found the girl was a boy down below. Me, I would have jumped up and run. This thug defaulted to his cultural biases and beat her to death, thereby reaffirming his machismo.
So tell me, where's the "hate" crime? It was just another collision between stupid people that only one walks away from. Happens everyday.
I think the whole 'hate crime' concept is evil because it is a reversion back to the old feudal concept of tying the worth of a life to the persons social class and status. Kill a serf, pay a fine; kill a noble, hang.
So now, with the supposed deep desire for equal social justice, a system of levels within the category of a particular crime has been instituted. To paraphrase a wise man, 'all murders are crimes, but some murders are more crime-y than others'. Consider this, a straight man murders a straight man, crime; a straight man murders a gay man for any reason (even road rage) OMG hate-crime! White murders Black = hate-crime (HC), Black murders Vietnamese = mere murder (MM); man murders woman = HC, woman murders man = MM.
Even more destructive to equal justice is the often blatant fact that any self-defined victim class (SDVC) is automatically treated as if they have an innately higher level of justification for their actions (no matter what those actions are) then any member of the victim-class defined oppressors (VCDO).
Now that we have our acronyms in a row we can move to equations, venn diagrams and syllogisms.
I suggest watching the excellent movie, 'To Wong Foo with love, Julie Newmar'.
The mob wants to believe that Angie was killed because she was a Shemale when in fact she died because she lied. This fact is no excuse for the killer, there is no excuse for murder. (I do make a clear, even biblical, distinction between killing and murder but that is another story.) So the cold facts are not that the murderer decided to act because he hated the trans-gendered but because, believing he was with a woman, he reached down while they were fooling around and found the girl was a boy down below. Me, I would have jumped up and run. This thug defaulted to his cultural biases and beat her to death, thereby reaffirming his machismo.
So tell me, where's the "hate" crime? It was just another collision between stupid people that only one walks away from. Happens everyday.
I think the whole 'hate crime' concept is evil because it is a reversion back to the old feudal concept of tying the worth of a life to the persons social class and status. Kill a serf, pay a fine; kill a noble, hang.
So now, with the supposed deep desire for equal social justice, a system of levels within the category of a particular crime has been instituted. To paraphrase a wise man, 'all murders are crimes, but some murders are more crime-y than others'. Consider this, a straight man murders a straight man, crime; a straight man murders a gay man for any reason (even road rage) OMG hate-crime! White murders Black = hate-crime (HC), Black murders Vietnamese = mere murder (MM); man murders woman = HC, woman murders man = MM.
Even more destructive to equal justice is the often blatant fact that any self-defined victim class (SDVC) is automatically treated as if they have an innately higher level of justification for their actions (no matter what those actions are) then any member of the victim-class defined oppressors (VCDO).
Now that we have our acronyms in a row we can move to equations, venn diagrams and syllogisms.
On the murder of Angie Zapata
This case is a perfect example of three maxims, 'if it bleeds it leads', 'half a truth is a lie' and the best one of all, 'never spoil a good story with the truth'.
I suggest watching the excellent movie, 'To Wong Foo with love, Julie Newmar'.
The mob wants to believe that Angie was killed because she was a Shemale when in fact she died because she lied. This fact is no excuse for the killer, there is no excuse for murder. (I do make a clear, even biblical, distinction between killing and murder but that is another story.) So the cold facts are not that the murderer decided to act because he hated the trans-gendered but because, believing he was with a woman, he reached down while they were fooling around and found the girl was a boy down below. Me, I would have jumped up and run. This thug defaulted to his cultural biases and beat her to death, thereby reaffirming his machismo.
So tell me, where's the "hate" crime? It was just another collision between stupid people that only one walks away from. Happens everyday.
I think the whole 'hate crime' concept is evil because it is a reversion back to the old feudal concept of tying the worth of a life to the persons social class and status. Kill a serf, pay a fine; kill a noble, hang.
So now, with the supposed deep desire for equal social justice, a system of levels within the category of a particular crime has been instituted. To paraphrase a wise man, 'all murders are crimes, but some murders are more crime-y than others'. Consider this, a straight man murders a straight man, crime; a straight man murders a gay man for any reason (even road rage) OMG hate-crime! White murders Black = hate-crime (HC), Black murders Vietnamese = mere murder (MM); man murders woman = HC, woman murders man = MM.
Even more destructive to equal justice is the often blatant fact that any self-defined victim class (SDVC) is automatically treated as if they have an innately higher level of justification for their actions (no matter what those actions are) then any member of the victim-class defined oppressors (VCDO).
Now that we have our acronyms in a row we can move to equations, venn diagrams and syllogisms.
I suggest watching the excellent movie, 'To Wong Foo with love, Julie Newmar'.
The mob wants to believe that Angie was killed because she was a Shemale when in fact she died because she lied. This fact is no excuse for the killer, there is no excuse for murder. (I do make a clear, even biblical, distinction between killing and murder but that is another story.) So the cold facts are not that the murderer decided to act because he hated the trans-gendered but because, believing he was with a woman, he reached down while they were fooling around and found the girl was a boy down below. Me, I would have jumped up and run. This thug defaulted to his cultural biases and beat her to death, thereby reaffirming his machismo.
So tell me, where's the "hate" crime? It was just another collision between stupid people that only one walks away from. Happens everyday.
I think the whole 'hate crime' concept is evil because it is a reversion back to the old feudal concept of tying the worth of a life to the persons social class and status. Kill a serf, pay a fine; kill a noble, hang.
So now, with the supposed deep desire for equal social justice, a system of levels within the category of a particular crime has been instituted. To paraphrase a wise man, 'all murders are crimes, but some murders are more crime-y than others'. Consider this, a straight man murders a straight man, crime; a straight man murders a gay man for any reason (even road rage) OMG hate-crime! White murders Black = hate-crime (HC), Black murders Vietnamese = mere murder (MM); man murders woman = HC, woman murders man = MM.
Even more destructive to equal justice is the often blatant fact that any self-defined victim class (SDVC) is automatically treated as if they have an innately higher level of justification for their actions (no matter what those actions are) then any member of the victim-class defined oppressors (VCDO).
Now that we have our acronyms in a row we can move to equations, venn diagrams and syllogisms.
Dr. Blog and Mr. Hyde
I had to create a second blog to that I avoid the mental judder that alternating angst driven rants and cute kitty tails caused. I hope that from here on no more explanation will be necessary. Run along now and play outside, it's a beautiful day.
Dr. Blog and Mr. Hyde
I had to create a second blog to that I avoid the mental judder that alternating angst driven rants and cute kitty tails caused. I hope that from here on no more explanation will be necessary. Run along now and play outside, it's a beautiful day.
I have my reasons...
Well of course the reason for having two semi-dentical blogs is that the juxtaposition of angst driven rants and cute kitty tails is too jarring even for me. It's a lot easier just to switch between them as my mood changes. There I've answered your question, now go outside and play.
Monday, April 13, 2009
bluetoadinthehole: February 2009
"The Tail of FrankenBrucie..."
Brucie loves her mother Zoe and love to lick Zoes face. Mostly Zoe tolerates the attention but Brucie can be a little obsesive. Brucie loves to lick the edges of books for hours making tiny zip-zip-zip noises as the pages slide off her rough little tounge and she does the same thing to Zoe. So Brucie is cleaning Zoes face and always ends up working on the inside of Zoes ear, rooting around inside with her nose like a dog digging up a bone. If you've had a cat lick a sensative part of your body you know it feels like a small belt sander. Eventualy Zoe (not the most zenlike of cats) has had enough. She'll growl, hiss, twitch, and if that doesn't work, it's thumpity-thump time with paws and claws.
Brucie just closes her eyes and cowers like 'but mama mama i luv you'. Finally Zoe will get up and run cursing.
I guess what happened this time was that Zoe hooked the top of Brucies head. She got an abcess and by the time I noticed there was putrid pus leaking out of the top of her head. Off to the Vet! (plug for Planned Pethood Plus.)
Poor little thing. Brucie was the runt of the litter and she is really small. The smallest adult cat I have ever seen in 50 years of having cats. She is also pompous, pretentious, arrogant, demanding, and has a ego the size of Godzillas'. So she had to put up with weeks of us saying 'oh poor brucie', and then bursting into uncontrollable hysterical laughter. Oh and she's still rooting in Zoes ears.
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Brucie loves her mother Zoe and love to lick Zoes face. Mostly Zoe tolerates the attention but Brucie can be a little obsesive. Brucie loves to lick the edges of books for hours making tiny zip-zip-zip noises as the pages slide off her rough little tounge and she does the same thing to Zoe. So Brucie is cleaning Zoes face and always ends up working on the inside of Zoes ear, rooting around inside with her nose like a dog digging up a bone. If you've had a cat lick a sensative part of your body you know it feels like a small belt sander. Eventualy Zoe (not the most zenlike of cats) has had enough. She'll growl, hiss, twitch, and if that doesn't work, it's thumpity-thump time with paws and claws.
Brucie just closes her eyes and cowers like 'but mama mama i luv you'. Finally Zoe will get up and run cursing.
I guess what happened this time was that Zoe hooked the top of Brucies head. She got an abcess and by the time I noticed there was putrid pus leaking out of the top of her head. Off to the Vet! (plug for Planned Pethood Plus.)
Poor little thing. Brucie was the runt of the litter and she is really small. The smallest adult cat I have ever seen in 50 years of having cats. She is also pompous, pretentious, arrogant, demanding, and has a ego the size of Godzillas'. So she had to put up with weeks of us saying 'oh poor brucie', and then bursting into uncontrollable hysterical laughter. Oh and she's still rooting in Zoes ears.
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