Anybody else wanna push this guy over in his foodscaped yard and ride him to his eyes roll back in his head?
Monday, June 4, 2012
Friday, June 1, 2012
Wish I Were Here
Via MensRoom
You all have a good weekend. Hopefully with my bulletin board done, I will be able to be more social next week.
Thursday, May 31, 2012
Goodbye, Towleroad
I sent a link twice to Towleroad (about the anti-gay billboard here in Lexington that was taken down and possibly put back up in a bar) and they've yet to post anything about it.
I've sent a handful of links to Towleroad as news tips overtime, but I guess they can't be bothered, so I'm not going to their website anymore nor posting any more of their links here.
I get the hint. I guess I'm not "gay" enough for Towleroad to pay any attention to.
Wooty Woo!
I would've posted the video of the news report but apparently no one at lex18.com knows how to make an embed code that isn't thousand of pages long. So if you wanna watch, just click over.
Via Lex18News:
A controversial Lexington billboard condemning abortion and homosexuality went missing Wednesday and turned up inside a Lexington bar.
The Bluegrass Church of Christ in Georgetown put up the billboard along New Circle Road, near the Leestown Road exit. It read, "Homosexuality is an Abomination" and "Abortion is Murder" with scripture references.
On Wednesday, the billboard disappeared, replaced with graffiti - three cartoonish characters wearing cowboy hats. The creatures have what look like bar codes stamped on their torsos.
The billboard appreared to turn up at Trust Lounge in Downtown Lexington Wednesday night. It hung on the wall and had nine similar figures painted on it, but made up to look like devils, including horns and pitchforks. Workers at the bar said an anonymous person dropped off the sign. One of the owners of Trust Lounge contacted LEX 18 Thursday morning saying the billboard on display at the bar was a replica created for an art display.
Police say they don't know who might have removed the billboard.
The graffiti figures resemble those popularized by an organization known as Dronex Inc. The organization's website offers as vague description of its origins.
"Founded in 2004, Dronex Inc. is a collective of creative dissidents working to challenge our visual landscapes to empower the people who occupy them.. What started as water and dust seven years ago has grown into army of subtle influence that dots the landscape, growing ever greater in number with each passing day."
The Dronex Inc. Facebook page featured a post put up around 1 p.m. Wednesday advertising an event at Trust Lounge.
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
I Need a Cuddle
After my last post in which I first depressed myself and then terrified myself, I decided that I (and you) probably needed 8+ minutes of a baby monkey being fed bits of grape and pineapple.
Also for the record, that regardless of what my grandparents used to say to me as a child, no, this is not home video footage of my mother feeding me.
Sad and Scary
Via The Independent
Thirty-three years to the day after 6-year-old Etan Patz vanished without a trace while walking to catch a school bus, a man accused of strangling him and dumping his body with the trash was arraigned on a murder charge in a locked hospital ward where he was being held as a suicide risk.
Pedro Hernandez was a teenage convenience store stock clerk at the time of the boy's disappearance in the landmark 1979 missing-child case. Hernandez's lawyer told the judge that his client is mentally ill and has a history of hallucinations.
Hernandez, now 51, appeared in court yesterday evening via video camera from a conference room at Bellevue Hospital, where he was admitted earlier in the day after making comments about wanting to kill himself.
The legal proceeding lasted only around 4 minutes. Hernandez did not speak or enter a plea, but his court-appointed lawyer, Harvey Fishbein, told the judge that his client was bipolar and schizophrenic and has a "history of hallucinations, both visual and auditory."
A judge ordered Hernandez held without bail and authorized a psychological examination to see if he is fit to stand trial.
Hernandez was expressionless during the hearing. He wore an orange jumpsuit and handcuffs. A police officer stood behind him.
Via USNews
Last weekend, news broke that a Miami man likely high on a drug known as bath salts was involved in a violent, cannibalistic attack on a homeless person. So naturally, one of the Web's leading sellers of the quasi-legal drug began offering a 15 percent discount on the drugs after the news broke.
AM-HI-CO, one of the largest distributors of "synthetic" chemical drugs, posted on its Twitter and Facebook pages Tuesday that it was offering a discount on all bath salts. On the company's official forum, an administrator posted that there was a "special coupon code" on all "Stimulating Bath Salts Powder Blends."
On Twitter and Facebook, just days after the gruesome Miami attack, the company posted: "All our Bath Salts Powder Blends fans check out our Promo page! We have prepared a little surprise for all of you! Have a great day!"
Be Bad of One's Own Free Will
Via BoingBoing:
The current volume of The New Yorker is the "Science Fiction issue." In it, a previously unpublished 1973 essay by Anthony Burgess about his novel, A Clockwork Orange.
In “The Clockwork Condition” (p. 69), an essay written in 1973 but never published, Anthony Burgess reflects on the “true meaning” of his most famous novel, A Clockwork Orange. In addition to commenting on the inspiration for the work, and its main character, Alex, Burgess offers an argument about the nature of good and evil and the necessity of free will, as seen through the prisms of Nazi Germany and the Resistance, Catholicism and Calvinism. “We probably have no duty to like Beethoven or hate Coca-Cola, but it is at least conceivable that we have a duty to distrust the state,” Burgess writes. Conformity is natural, and perhaps preferable for many people, he explains, but “when patterns of conformity are imposed by the state, then one has a right to be frightened.” Ultimately, he writes of A Clockwork Orange, “what I was trying to say was that it is better to be bad of one’s own free will than to be good through scientific brainwashing.”
You Are Never Far From Me
Thank you, boy culture
The song is You Are Never Far From Me by John Garrison.
Happy Hump Day
Given that I started my Hump Day trapped in my work's staff elevator for about 5 minutes...ALONE...the rest of the day should be smooth sailing.
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
I Want...and NOW!
Via Chart Rigger
Saint Etienne's new album was released today in the US! *does seating and quite quiet happy dance at work
Tuesday Books
A hilarious guide to the lost art of artisanal pencil sharpening
Have you got the right kind of point on your pencil? Do you know how to achieve the perfect point for the kind of work you need out of that pencil?
Deep in New York’s Hudson River Valley, craftsman David Rees—the world’s number one #2 pencil sharpener—still practices the age-old art of manual pencil sharpening. In 2010, he began offering his artisanal service to the world, to the jubilation of artists, writers, draftsmen, and standardized test takers.
Now, in a book that is both a manifesto and a fully-illustrated walk-through of the many, many, many ways to sharpen a pencil, he reveals the secrets of his craft. How to Sharpen Pencils takes the novice pencil sharpener through a variety of sharpening techniques and includes chapters on equipment, current practice, and modern technologies. It also points at essential new trends in sharpening, including "Celebrity Impression Pencil Sharpening (CIPS)," a warning about the “Psychological Risks Associated with Pencil Sharpening”, and a survey of "Wines that tastes like pencils."
As Rees implores, "Sharpening pencils should be an activity that enriches the senses."
The exploits of the famous never cease to captivate our imaginations—rulers, artists, explorers, and all the great personalities of history. Yet many quieter lives also have the ability to impress, to teach us something about the remarkable qualities of human nature.
In this book, Robert Aldrich presents a fascinating portrait of gay men and women throughout history that reveals the full diversity of gay lives as lived in their times. He gives a voice to more than seventy people from around the world and all walks of life, from poets, philosophers, and artists to radicals and activists. Along with celebrated names such as Michelangelo, Frederick the Great, and Harvey Milk are lesser-known but no less inspiring individuals: two men of ancient Egypt whose lives were closely linked over four thousand years ago; a Renaissance nun who blurred the boundaries between spiritual and physical love; and “Aimée” and “Jaguar,” whose love defied the death camps of wartime Germany.
Often colorful, occasionally tragic, but all in some way extraordinary, these life stories reflect—and have sometimes helped to shape—contemporary attitudes toward same-sex intimacy.
Argentine doctor and revolutionary Che Guevara married the Cuban Aleida March in 1959 as Castro's revolutionaries were solidifying their hold on Cuba's government. Their story, first published in Spanish in 2008, is told from March's perspective in an often remarkable look at the figure many 20th-century idealists consider history's greatest revolutionary. Married only eight years before Che's death in Bolivia in 1967, the couple had four children. March's narrative—romantic, courageous, and insightful—is powerful and noteworthy for the author's honesty and commitment to rebellion and revolution. March relates her daily life of danger and fear among the targets of the Batista regime, and her reflections on Castro and other revolutionary leaders make for first-rate history. She does not address Che's brutality and ruthlessness toward perceived traitors, but what does come across is a love story against the backdrop of revolution. Countless family pictures and samples of Che's personal writings highlight an exciting addition to the literature of Che, Castro, and the Cuban revolution.
First-time author Mikey Walsh provides an unsentimental and compelling look at the louche and brutal culture of Romany Gypsies in the U.K. Walsh’s education began at age four with training as a bare-knuckle boxer, a family tradition. “Training” meant a decade’s worth of his father beating him up. Walsh’s sensitivity left him open to further abuse, both sexual and otherwise. His sole escape was the company of other semiferal Gypsy children and in school; unfortunately, Gypsies frown on school, and he was put to work at age 12 in his father’s scams. Walsh’s realization of his homosexuality drove him to escape a world where he would always be a pariah. Walsh analyzes the grotesqueries of Gypsy life in painful detail—garish trailers, stifling family ties, crime and crudeness, and the constricted options for women who are considered old maids at 21. Yet despite his gruesome experiences, he also praises the fierce loyalty and cultural continuity that have allowed Gypsies to maintain their dignity in the face of hatred for centuries.
A community of more than 5000 young farmers and activists, the Greenhorns are committed to producing and advocating for food grown with vision and respect for the earth. This book, edited by three of the group's leading members, comprises 50 original essays by new farmers who write about their experiences in the field from a wide range of angles, both practical and inspirational. Funny, sad, serious, and light-hearted, these essays touch on everything from financing and machinery to family, community building, and social change.
Marriage today isn’t what it used to be: for better, not for worse. As same-sex weddings are becoming more common, the classic love-story happy ending is taking on a decidedly new twist, everyone has a fresh role to play, and supporters and opponents of gay marriage alike are finding themselves in the midst of a revolution that’s redefining marriage—both as a personal choice and as an institution—as we know it.
In Here Come the Brides!, editors Audrey Bilger and Michele Kort gather together the voices of women taking part in—and shaping—this major historical shift. Representing a diversity of points of view in terms of race, class, ethnicity, and gender identification, this collection of essays, stories, and visual images takes a multidimensional look at how opening up the traditional order of "man and wife” to include the possibility of "wife and wife” is altering our social landscape. From wedding pictures and images of protest signs to comical anecdotes and sober philosophical analyses, Here Come the Brides! is an exploration of how the legalization of same-sex marriages has irrevocably changed the way lesbians think about their unions and their lives—and a celebration of the dream of lesbian happily-ever-afters.
Friday, May 25, 2012
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