Erasing Memories
Posted on July 23, 2008 - Filed Under ABOUT ME, Blog 'em and Weep
Cleaning out a bookcase I came upon a disc of images given to me by my ex. I knew I’d want many of the photos since they show my little girl so young. But unfortunately they are also photos of the early days of our ill-fated relationship. Naturally this led me to Leonard Cohen. For reasons known only to me. But oh, I wish I could take time back sometimes. It’s just the one life.
Oh Hello Stupid!
Posted on July 23, 2008 - Filed Under Blog 'em and Weep
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I just read that insurance giant and some time annoying advertiser Aflac has decided to pull its advertising for Michael Savage’s nationally syndicated talk show after the dickwad opened his mouth and inserted his muddy foot:
Summary: On his nationally syndicated radio show, Michael Savage claimed that autism is “[a] fraud, a racket. … I’ll tell you what autism is. In 99 percent of the cases, it’s a brat who hasn’t been told to cut the act out. That’s what autism is. What do you mean they scream and they’re silent? They don’t have a father around to tell them, ‘Don’t act like a moron. You’ll get nowhere in life. Stop acting like a putz. Straighten up. Act like a man. Don’t sit there crying and screaming, idiot.’ “
Okay, time to start getting medieval on someone’s ass. How stupid do you have to be to make a statement like that?
Oh but it gets worse. Says the NY Times:
On his Web site, Michaelsavage.com, the host posted a letter on Monday in which he iterated the central point he said he had been trying to make on his July 16 program: that autism is too often misdiagnosed in the cases of children, or falsely diagnosed, at least partly as a means of wringing resources. “Let the truly autistic be treated,” he wrote. “Let the falsely diagnosed be free.”
As someone who has a quasi nephew with autism (thus I’ve spent a few afternoons at birthday parties with kids who have also been diagnosed) I can tell you first hand that this moron has absolutely no clue what he’s talking about. And that’s putting it nicely. At worst he’s someone who should be immediately fired and exiled to the island of stupid people. It’s the only answer. I wouldn’t even insult a low-paying job with his presence. He deserves the worst humanity can throw out.
First, it is very difficult, read: not easy, to get a diagnoses of Autism. ADD, ADHD and Bi-Polar disorder in children, sure, over-diagnosed and over-prescribed. Autism is a whole different thing. It takes countless phone calls and pleas with doctors to take a look at a child before they will diagnose the kid at all and many who are probably somewhere on the spectrum never do get diagnosed. No one wants to give the diagnoses and no one wants to get it, as cool and wonderful as many of the kids are - no one wishes that kind of descrimination on their child. My best friend has been fighting the school district in Santa Monica just so that they will teach her child to READ. She had to fight to have him educated at all. The truth is, Autism is coming at such an alarming rate no one knows what to do about it or how to properly educate kids whose brains work differently. And until that happens, morons like Michael Savage will be free to draw their own idiotic conclusions — though you gotta admit, this takes the cake!
Bravo to Aflac. And here’s to hoping every single advertiser follows suit and this idiot is made to sit in a corner while a brutish fatherly type tells him to straighten up, act like a man and stop crying and screaming, idiot.” Lock and load.
Oh, and let’s send this one out to Michael Savage for getting the Moron of the Day Award.
Moment Vanishing
Posted on July 23, 2008 - Filed Under POETS
by Elizabeth Spires
Now, in the quietude of evening, the dove comes.
It does not flash its feathers, does not
make a sound, but feeds on what the finches
leave behind. How little it needs.
A few hard seeds. A drop of water.
It is late summer. It is always
late summer here. The air is hot and dry.
Brown leaves lie like hands in the yard.
There is no place to turn. No place to stop.
We are hurried along, pushed farther into our lives.
Moments are vanishing all over the earth
as bombs explode, the victim is hooded,
great populations scatter on endless dust roads.
It is too much. We avert our eyes.
We wait like children for the coming of the dove.
And if I were allowed a question,
one question, of the evening dove
who asks for nothing, whose pleasure
is a few small seeds, whose heart I covet,
I would ask, O what will I become?
Maddox, Pax, Knox
Posted on July 13, 2008 - Filed Under CELEBS
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Just saying.
Down the YouTube Rabbit Hole
Posted on July 11, 2008 - Filed Under Rock Gods
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You know, it’s so weird to have lived through most of the trends on the net - and there was a time when I put all of my favorite songs on cassette tapes. This song made it onto many of my love mix tapes to guys (and subsequent heartbreak ones, maybe more often?). And it’s just so surreal to live in a time when you can find this just a search term away. I know I’m old and all but it will never cease to amaze me, this whole internet thing.
Untouchable Face
Posted on July 11, 2008 - Filed Under Rock Gods
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In contemplating this whole Lindsay Lohan/Samantha Ronson career makeover it led me down the dykerock path. Ani Difranco is considered dykerock but I’m not so sure she herself is a lesbian. Anyway, the weird thing about Lindsay Lohan is that the second it was presumed/discovered/decided that she was a lesbian with Sam Ronson the gossips completely left her alone. She went from loathed to adored in one blog post. Strange, huh? So a blind item popped up recently, I don’t even know where, that said that two people were pretending for the sake of publicity and I wondered if it wasn’t Lindsay Lohan and Samantha Ronson. Either way, this is really just an excuse to air one of my favorite Ani Difranco songs (NSFW)
Weird Dream
Posted on July 10, 2008 - Filed Under In Dreams
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I had one. You know those really vivid dreams that you’ll end up remembering forever? I once had a series of dreams that were so god-awful and terrifying, it sent me into therapy for five years. They were a series of serial killer dreams. I couldn’t shake them. But it’s been years since I had one (I think I had one during my last hideous relationship, though). Anyway, so in my dream I find the perfect apartment. It has everything I wuld ever want - a balcony, a yard for my cats , hard wood flooring, gorgeous tiled kitchen. And it isn’t just any old apartment - it’s unique and full of interesting things like lofts and stained glass windows. So I find out that it’s recently on the market and no one else is interested in it so far. But who should walk in? Princes William and Harry. They wanted to buy it. I mean, can you imagine? I would have no shot up against those two, who would? It was nice to meet them in my dreams - William was very smiley and Harry was, of course, smoking hot.
He Got Rid of Hill, Now it’s on to Obama
Posted on July 10, 2008 - Filed Under POLITICS, Uncategorized
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This WashPo story about Drudge is fairly illuminating; at least someone is really paying attention to why Drudge has so much influence. He has an uncanny ability to play into what his readers (silent majority) most fear. He’s the guy at the party with twenty people standing around him waiting to hear what observations he’s going to make next about the other guests at the party. He’s the only one who can do this. Part of that comes from his place in line - he got there before anyone else and his content never goes stale. That, and his rigid sameness. His headlines are the only things that change. The design is completely branded - many have tried and failed to copy it/him.
Yeah so it’s not looking good for Obama now that the attack dogs are hard at work. McCain seems easy to beat suddenly, though, especially after admitting he didn’t use a computer. Not ever? That is somewhat terrifying to me. Obama - a cool and evolved smart man on the one hand, well, the same ol’, same ol’ on the other. I’m going to seriously dig it if Obama wins, though. I don’t care if he slides to the middle or doesn’t cowtow to the bloggers — he’s fucking black! Or half-black. In our racist country, a half-black president? Awesome, dudes. Righteous.
Speaking of Illusions - The Bachelorette is SO Fake
Posted on July 9, 2008 - Filed Under Blog 'em and Weep
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Somehow I found myself caught up in, of all things, the Bachelorette finale. It’s odd to me the lengths to which people will go to believe something is real when it isn’t. During the final date, Deanna Pappas and Jesse Csincsak were on an island in the Bahamas and one of them actually said “it was just the two of us on our own island.” Yeah, just the two of them and the producers and the director and the camera crew! I mean, come on. Most people think that Jesse was just some nice old honest fellow when the truth is the guy is looking to make the move to TV. I found this article where he talks about being on a reality show and how it made him so much more money than snowboarding. It’s so obvious both Deanna and Jesse are looking to cash in here. They happen to like each other, maybe, but this exchange really shows you what it’s all about, doesn’t it:
DeAnna, is there one thing about Jesse that drives you insane?
DEANNA: [Laughing] He’s always been single, you know, so he has his routine first thing when he wakes up in the morning and all he does is get up, make coffee, and sit down in front of the computer to start answering e-mails and doing his business, and that drives me up the wall. I’m like, geesh — get up and get awake first before you start ignoring me.How about you, Jesse?
JESSE: The one thing is that she’s a very busy and popular woman and she’s on her phone either e-mailing, texting, or talking, and trying to carry on a conversation with her while she’s doing that drives me insane.How excited are you that ABC gave you that honeymoon gift to go to Greece?
DEANNA: We’re ecstatic. It’s always been a dream of mine to get to Greece, and I would love to go with my entire family, and this just makes it that much better. It was a long, hard road, and the outcome is just better than I could ever imagine, and that ABC gave us that gift is awesome.
There is a moment in every relationship when the guy hops right out of bed in the morning to go on the computer and check his email but the first two months in, even six months in, isn’t that time. I’d be very wary if I were Deanna. On the other hand, she is the one who dumped the guy who really was looking for love, poor old sad sack Jason. I didn’t think she would pick him only because he seemed so overly needy and confident that he could win her over. But the truth is, if marriage and family was what she really wanted? Jason was her guy. If cashing in big time on her persona and her relationship then her wedding then her birth (like Trista and Ryan!) the camera-craving, media whoring Jesse is her man. I mean, come on, people. Don’t fall for it. Not only did people fall for it but already there are scads of Jesse and Deanna love videos on YouTube.
Dudes, they already have their own site, www.DeAnnaAndJesse.com. And he has pics of her all over his Myspace. Zomg. These are two very ambitious, very media-friendly and willing whores, folks. I like them okay and I don’t begrudge anyone the opportunity to make a good living but the pretense of it is what bothers me I guess. Think of the cash that’s gonna start pouring in. Here is a taste from their website:
July 8, 2009
Jesse and DeAnna will be on America’s Best Dance Crew THURSDAY Night.Jesse and DeAnna will be throwing out and catching the first pitch at the Dodger’s game this Thursday July 10!
New Site will be launching soon! Check back daily for more info- things are happening fast around here!
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David, Call Me
Posted on July 9, 2008 - Filed Under ABOUT ME
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I love the advances of modern technology. David, I have no caller ID and I cannot find your number. I am thinking of looking in your neighborhood for apartments. I’ll be in and out all day but hopefully I can catch you. I have to memorize your number after all of this time. I know that makes me a bad friend or a spaced out loser but hey, pobody’s nerfect. 
p.s. thanks again for the freebie CPK. And Emma loves her cup.
And while we’re on it, hey Keith - long time no hear. Thanks for being the one person who ever comments on this site when you have a mind to. Hope all is well out there with Robin. I do think of you often and apologize for being such a flake of a niece. On the bright side, I need to interview you at some point about the early days for a book I’m pretending I will write but that I will probably never write.
Dear Clara,
You’re such a good friend and I don’t know if you even read this but if you do, hang in there pal. Love ya.
Dear Emma,
Sorry to be so surly lately and such a bummer mom. I try, you know, but as my crazy mom always says, trying isn’t good enough. I’ve learned that things can always get worse even when they’re getting better because the better part is often an illusion to lull you into thinking that life is easier than it actually is. On the other hand, never underestimate the power of a really good illusion - isn’t that what a positive attitude is all about? So you just asked me what the “C-word” is. Someday you’ll already know what it is but I’m not going to be the one to tell you - just like when your friend told you she saw “mommy drinking daddy’s pee.” You know, someday it will all be clarified and hilarity will ensue.
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