(There are some other really great ones, like coccyx, synechdoche, and carpe diem.)
Category: whimsy
Ringtone.
Posted by – January 23, 2012
or there’s always this option.
As someone who goes to see a great deal of music these days – go figure, but it turns out I love chamber music – I tend to leave my phone somewhere in the entrance / antechamber to the actual performance hall. It would make sense if people could check their phones before walking into an event.
Home Again, Home Again
Posted by – December 28, 2011
We’re back in Appleton after three weeks away, & I can’t tell if it feels like we’ve been gone more like 3 years or 3 minutes.
Either way: here we are again. High on my list: hot bath, laundry, sleep, cats.
Very Merry
Posted by – December 24, 2011
A very Merry Christmas Eve to you & yours tonight. I’ll be borrowing a bike and taking a ride to the beach today; later, we’ll join my other brother and (new!) sister in law for dinner.
Compassion
Posted by – November 18, 2011
Occasionally, human beings express compassion for the rest of the critters on this planet.
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We got to walk a family of ducks across a busy avenue here a couple of years ago, maybe a total of a half mile from where they started to the river.
Happy Halloween
Posted by – October 31, 2011
If you’ve never read it, then listen to Neil Gaiman’s “Snow, Glass, Apples” in five parts, read by Bebe Neuwirth, instead.
Part One * Part Two * Part Three * Part Four * Part Five
This is one of our very favorite stories, and a rare chapbook edition is one of our prized possessions.
No, Really: Sexy Droogie
Posted by – October 27, 2011
Honestly, someone is actually marketing a Sexy Droogie Costume for women who want to be Alex of A Clockwork Orange fame. You know the movie – the one with one of the most horrifying rape scenes ever filmed? But sure! Just add thigh highs and cleavage!Of course they don’t call it that, since I’m guessing anyone selling or buying this costume hasn’t actually read the fucking book.
So while I’m thinking, who the hell is going to buy that, my google-fu turns up this exchange in Yahoo! Answers:
Sexy clockwork orange costume. any ideas?
so me and my boyfriend are trying to think up halloween costume ideas and i thought of being droogs from clockwork orange. so i was thinking get the white button up shirt, the white suspenders, derby hat, but with thigh high fishnets, stilletos and lots of clevage. oh and of course the one fake eyelash and cane. not so sure what to use for pants/skirt. maybe highwasted shorts.
any ideas on how to improve this costume?
& Yay, someone has an idea! Boots and tight shorts to go with the cleavage! That does it!
Best Answer – Chosen by Voters
I am also going to be Alex for halloween this year. I am a female and will be wearing short white shorts and knee high black boots to make the outfit a little sexier. There are lots of different versions of this theme. If you google it you can see lots of pics. Im also going to do the bloody eyeballs. Good luck with your costume!
Some days I just want to stay in bed until the planet gets less stupid.
Badass Barbie
Posted by – October 25, 2011
= This is kinda what I made my Barbies look like, as well as I could, but apparently, some parents are not happy with Barbie’s alt makeover. She is a limited edition, however, and not the type of Barbie to be found in children’s toy stores. Too bad.
Happy Friday!
Posted by – October 14, 2011
Anyone else remember Human Sexual Response or this song “Cool Jerk”? Nifty video I’d never seen before, too:
(You may remember their song “Jackie Onassis” instead.)
Have a lovely weekend. If you can, do try to make it to an Occupy Your Local City: Saturday the 15th should be a remarkable day all over the country. (I’ll be in Madison.)
No Worries About Westboro
Posted by – September 30, 2011
This amazing group has already been invited and will be doing the work of keeping Phelps and his gang away from the service.
What a relief, and the perfect response for Appleton.
The LGBTQ community can stay home.
No Gender for Social Security
Posted by – September 17, 2011
NCTE has been working on the bureauacratical mess within Social Security viz a viz gender markers. If you’ve noticed, there is no gender marker on your Social Security card, but somehow gender started getting added to people’s files anyway, & the category started to be used as a “no match” category – meaning that if the gender marker on someone’s SSN file didn’t match their current gender marker, they were sent a letter saying the two didn’t match and that additional documentation was needed. The SSN did this with other categories, too, such as date of birth, etc.
That all said, NCTE filed an FOI (Freedom of Information) claim:
The extent of the problem was made crystal clear when NCTE’s Freedom of Information Act request was answered showing 711,488 gender no-match letters were sent in 2010 alone. Mara Keisling, executive director of the National Center for Transgender Equality says, “Ending this practice, which has endangered transgender people and our jobs, has been a priority for NCTE and we are pleased that the SSA has updated its policy.”
There’s a good article in The Miami Herald with more info, and the Social Security W-2 News Page has the official announcement.
Lawrence King Mistrial
Posted by – September 4, 2011
It is entirely fucked up that a mistrial was declared in the Lawrence King trial. A kid brings a gun to school and shoots another, unarmed kid for being feminine, and they couldn’t come to a decision on whether it was murder or manslaughter.
Jurors told Ventura County Superior Court Judge Charles Campbell they were unable to reach a unanimous decision on the degree of Brandon McInerney’s guilt for killing 15-year-old Larry King. The nine-woman, three-man panel said they took a series of votes with the last one being seven in favor of voluntary manslaughter, while five others supported either first-degree or second-degree murder.
What complete goddamned horseshit. He threatened to kill him, and then he killed him. How on earth is that manslaughter?
Close Call
Posted by – August 26, 2011
This has nothing to do with gender or transness, but I loved it.
(because you know who did it first, ahem).
Trans Care & Medicare
Posted by – August 21, 2011
For those of you on Medicare who are seeking trans-related medical care, NCTE has created a document that can help guide you through what should be covered. Share it with your doctors.
Testing
Posted by – July 15, 2011
I’ve undone spam filters for a bit, so I’d love it if people who have had trouble in the past would try commenting here to see if they can post.
Thanks.
I’ll add back one of two eventually to see if it was one over-zealous filter or the other.
