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give this one a go too |
You must be hanging out w/Nate on the sly... |
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by the way if any of you Sorabjites are interested in seeing what the waffledude looks like. I am featured on a book cover for a book that will be released in August, |
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Am I correct in assuming that you & Agatha & the baby & the pets are all fine? No property damage? Wait -- you guys have a dog, right? Aren't dogs supposed to be able to 'predict' earthquakes? Or was it ground hogs? I swear -- the 1st time I felt the ground tembling under by feet/I'd be on packed & on a plane the next damn day! |
And tell us the book name so we can watch for it. |
actually RC supposedly cats start acting real funny before an earthquake. But we have so many earthquakes daily here it s hard to tell, becasue you don't feel them ...they are only like 1.0-3.0. |
There was a small quake Fri./then a much larger one Sat. Several homes were destroyed. And now I'm worried abt Agatha et al. |
My mother's best friend is gay, and he's very very Very out. He and my mother are really close, and he usually refers to himself as Queer Boy, and my mother as Squaw Bitch. Last year he sent my mother a tee-shirt that said "SQUAW BITCH" in great big letters, and down in the corner it said it was a "Queer Boy Inc." product. I had a crush on him when I first met him. He's Very intelligent. Kind of a slut, though. |
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Probably no one would pay you to live in California. Those healthy persons on About Now--I'm sure they are from California. |
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i've come to the conclusion that the needs of the mind are very different from the needs of the body. this has been my food mantra lately, when i am trying ascertain real vs imaginary hunger, real vs imaginary caloric/nutritional needs of a typical day. but this also applies to sex as well. sex or sexual release is of course an innate biological human need. however, the degree of need or desired frequency for sex is not a body issue, but rather a mind issue. food and sex bring us pleasure so the mind wants more and more of that pleasure. the body, however, does not need to eat as much as our mind would like us to, nor does it need to have sex as much as our mind tells us we should. i used to want to have sex a lot, back in my early 20's. i think even then it was more a need of the mind than the body. now, still, there is no sex drive. this has been the case for a long, long time. i used to masturbate 3-6 days a week and have vivid fantasies. now i force myself to do it about once a month, just to take care of the innate biological need of the body, perhaps even just for stress relief. maybe this is a result of the endocrine meltdown. disabled adrenals. having a body that is unable to convert the thyroid T4 to T3; having, basically, dead ovaries - cystic ovaries that produce inconsequential amounts of estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone. the thought of having sex with anyone is actually revolting. perhaps this also is because i have never been in a relationship where sex was shared with love or meaning or tenderness or... or anything but just fucking. but, that is a need of the mind [or the soul, as the case may be] and not of the body. the mind wants to be held [maybe even the skin] and the genitals want to fuck. of course, i'm full of shit most days. so, i don't know, that's all i wanted to say, i guess. |
funny to see what my sorry ass was into way back when. clits. still into em, no doubt...but still. i think that was when i actually surfed the web. nothing shocking and jane says. ironically dave speaks of an earthquake above. damn i really miss jim |
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i am going to see The Vagina Monologues sunday night with my friend Cecily. it stars Tootie from The Facts of Life! |
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"The buffoonish hooting and hollering incited by Ensler's supposedly naughty play is really the hysterical desperation of aging women who have never come to terms with the cruel realities of nature and who cannot face the humiliating fact that, despite their accomplishments, they will always be culturally swept away by the young and beautiful. That in the year 2001 the group chanting of crude four-letter words for female genitalia is viewed as some sort of radical liberation implies that the real issue in the "Vagina Monologues" isn't male oppression but bourgeois repression -- the malady of the dainty, decorous professional class that was created in the first century after the Industrial Revolution." -Camille Paglia more on that here if you give a damn |
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I think there ought to be a male equivelent. I'd opt for satire. |
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paglia didn't like it because it was hardly at all political. the best monologue was the one about childbirth. the second best one was about the woman who slept with Bob, a man who enjoyed looking at her vagina for long periods of time, before having sex, and how it made her feel (strange at first, then very good). i could write a lot about the play and the topic of vaginas and female sexuality, but i'm tired and don't feel like it. i will say that i enjoyed it very much. it was organice, not overproduced. it was sad in parts but mostly very funny. i laughed my butt off, and tootie was great. i highly recommend it. |
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Paglia seems to prefer a more sex positive brand of feminism. |
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men bashing? hmmm hard to believe that's what she got out of it. sure, some of the monologues were about some women's bad experiences involving men, but there were an equal number about good experiences. i found it neither overly positive nor overly negative. |
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maybe that's the case, i don't really know much about the history of the monologues. but fuck almighty, does everything have to be an issue? paglia needs to lighten up and have a laugh. it was mostly quite funny. you know, as in "ha ha ha!" |