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[Feb. 2nd, 2009|09:55 pm] |
wtf is this shit with Michael Phelps apologizing for smoking some weed?
People, come on. GET OVER YOUR GODDAMN WEIRD HANGUP ABOUT MARIJUANA AND DECRIMINALIZE IT SO WE CAN TAX THAT SHIT AND TURN IT INTO AN INDUSTRY PRODUCING TAXABLE INCOMES. Just tell the fundies to shut the fuck up and enjoy the extra dollars that they get to benefit from. Duggar family, I am looking in your direction.
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[Jan. 20th, 2009|08:04 pm] |
GAWDFUCKINGDAMMIT!
I was standing outside my apartment building fidgeting with my keys, when this dude totally tries to GRAB MY ASS.
The Krav Maga training kicked in, and I punched him in the stomach. He buckled over and started coughing. I didn't know what to do, so I just squeaked, "I'll fuckin' kill you!" In a super girly voice and ran in my building. |
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[Nov. 7th, 2008|10:25 pm] |
Wow.
So I just came back from a protest against Prop 8 passing.
We started blocking the street. I grabbed other people's hands and starting blocking the street with them. Organizers walked up to me and everyone else in the line, and said "If you stay here, you are probably going to be arrested. We need you to promise that if you do, you'll go peacefully. We will provide you with lawyers, but you need to go peacefully."
I looked to my left, and saw a transwoman that I'd never met before fiercely holding my hand, and also looking terrified. She looked at me and said, "I'm not a citizen."
I told her to go and get out of the street. She said that she had to stay, that she had to have her voice be heard.
People kept joining us in the line. More and more people came into the street, and we blocked the street in an act of civil disobedience. SFPD began to form a cordon around the area.
Eventually the tension died down, and we were corralled back onto the sidewalk. I ran into my friend from the line earlier again, and we immediately began talking about reasons why we were at the protest and how long we'd lived in San Francisco.
When the protest dispersed, me and my new friend, Danielle, decided to get Mexican food. I asked Danielle about why she was ready to throw away EVERYTHING she'd built for herself in San Francisco. Danielle said that she needed to be heard, because recently, her family "decided that it was best" if she didn't come home for Christmas.
This is wrong. Denying people their basic civil rights is wrong. Families forsaking their children and family members is wrong. But I really, truly believe that change is coming. |
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[Nov. 4th, 2008|10:39 pm] |
When I called my parents today, my dad reminded me that when he was young, he remembered segregated drinking fountains for white people and colored people. He remembered adults talking about lynchings that had happened recently.
Today my father, his wife and his daughter all voted for a man who is black and who would become the President of the United States.
Oh yeah, and Church of Latter Day Saints? Go fuck yourselves. You're a tax exempt organization based out of another state. How DARE you pour millions of dollars into amending my state's constitution to make it okay to deny a group of people the rights that they are entitled to. One day, we're going to make it so that your bigotry and the bigotry of people like you will never have the power to hurt people anymore. Yes we can, and yes we will. |
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[Nov. 1st, 2008|01:00 pm] |
Oh man. I did NOT pick a good year to be Batgirl for Halloween.
Joker was everywhere. EVERYWHERE! Bad news for a Barbara-Gordon-not-Cassandra-Cain Batgirl! |
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[Oct. 27th, 2008|10:34 pm] |
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Undead journal? Whoa, WTF! Are you threatening me livejournal?! |
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[Oct. 17th, 2008|05:45 pm] |
Please pass this along wherever you can. Troy Davis has 10 days left, and for whatever reason, the courts seem to be determined to murder an innocent man:
Troy Davis is on death row because he was framed for killing a cop in Georgia. He intervened when a drug dealer was pistol-whipping a homeless man. An off-duty cop ran in shouting and the dealer shot him. Everyone scattered. The dealer was a suspect until he volunteered a statement that implicated Troy. There were nine witnesses, of which seven have recanted (at peril of being prosecuted for perjury) and claim extreme police harassment being the reason they lied. There was no physical evidence and no murder weapon ever found. Since then there have been other people who have come forward with stories that implicate the dealer.
Being a poor black man in Georgia with a shitty public defender and accused of killing a white cop, Troy got death. He got an execution date a year ago and massive international protests forced the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles to intervene. A month ago, with a case pending with the US Supreme Court, GA gave him and execution date of the 23rd. We stopped them with less than 2 hours to go. Almost 100,000 people contacted the Board of Pardons and Paroles, completely shutting down their phone, fax, and filling their e-mail. The US Supreme court stayed the execution so that they could decide if they would hear the case.
They decided on Tuesday that they would not hear the case. They gave no reason. The constitutional challenge they decided wasn’t worth their consideration was whether the 8th Amendment ban on “cruel and unusual punishment” should be interpreted to prevent the execution of people who can prove their innocence.
We have 10 days to stop this execution. 130 people have been exonerated because of innocence. Let’s make Troy #131.
This is the person to contact, ask for a stop to the execution:
Chairman Gale Buckner
State Board of Pardons and Paroles
2 Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive, SE
Suite 458, Balcony Level, East Tower
Atlanta, Georgia 30334-4909
Telephone: (404) 657-9350
Fax: 404-651-6670 and (404)651-8502
For more information:
nodeathpenalty.org
amnesty.org |
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[Oct. 15th, 2008|08:49 pm] |
I am so ridiculously furious over tonight's debate that I couldn't even watch the whole thing.
Senator McCain, there is NO such thing as the pro-abortion movement. Just because I am concerned about health exceptions for women does NOT make me a baby-killer.
And Senator Obama, why did you not correct your opponent when he used the term "partial-birth abortion"? IT'S NOT A MEDICALLY ACCURATE TERM. No medical textbook will EVER have that term in it. It's called a fucking intact D&E. Get your fucking facts straight. |
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[Oct. 13th, 2008|06:29 pm] |
This election has made me lose a lot of faith in my country.
I'm fine with disagreeing with people. I disagree with people all the time, it's practically a hobby of mine.
But what I really want to know how anyone can vote for McCain/Palin, when their campaign has clearly adopted a strategy of inciting racism, religious intolerance and xenophobia in their voter base. And for WHAT? For a few more measly votes? How can you possibly defend that! How can Governor Palin say that she'll put our country first when her comment about how Senator Obama is "palling around with terrorists" was a deliberate attempt to appeal to the racists and the xenophobes?
And Senator McCain, when a woman at one of your rallies stated that she thought that Obama was an Arab, you replied "No, he's a decent family man." You don't get it! You don't get that the root of this woman's problem is that she equates "Arab" with "dangerous". Considering the fact that there are at least three million U.S. citizens who self-identify as having Arab ancestry, you at least owe America an apology.
And they continued to harp on the Obama/Ayers connection, even when people at John McCain rallies were shouting "kill him" and "terrorist" at the mere mention of Obama's name. (And never mind the fact that McCain has a far more immediate connection to domestic terrorists than Obama ever has.)
Racial violence is very real. It happens, all the time. And I'm very worried that McCain is doing far too little too late, and as a result, someone will get hurt. |
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| LOLEconomy |
[Sep. 27th, 2008|01:56 pm] |
I think I'm going to start collecting these. Anyone else have one?
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[Sep. 25th, 2008|11:29 pm] |
Maaan, I liked Washington Mutual.
Hopefully the finance industry isn't so fucked that I can't pay my rent next week.
Fuuuuuck. |
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[Sep. 2nd, 2008|09:14 pm] |
Okay. So, Palin.
I don't agree with Palin's politics, obviously. I don't think that Creationism should be taught alongside evolution because Creationism isn't science, I think that consenting adults should have the right to marry each other regardless of their gender identity, I think that abstinence-only education is about as effective for preventing unwanted pregnancies and STDs as removing safety belts from cars to prevent careless driving, and I think that other people's reproductive choices are none of my fucking business.
Emphasis on that last part.
I am SO annoyed with how the media is buzzing around Palin's personal life, mostly the idea that A) Palin's baby is actually her daughters and B) The insensitivity towards Palin's 17 year old pregnant daughter (Although I'm very glad that the Obama campaign has declared the subject "off-limits" in the upcoming debates)
WTF cares about the parentage of Trig Palin? There are plenty of reasons why someone isn't qualified for an elected positions. There are plenty of reasons why I personally oppose Palin getting into office. But you know what? THIS IS NOT ONE OF THOSE REASONS. Palin's private reproductive decisions are her business and they have NOTHING to do with her qualifications for elected office.
And for the love of ponies, can we just leave her teenage daughter alone? I mean come on, seriously.
And you know what really pisses me off? I want some real fucking answers from these people. I want to know why McCain and Palin think that they're qualified to be my leader, when they can't even face the facts about the issues that I've named above, among other critical issues (Iraq, Iran, American dependence on a non-renewable source of energy and our clusterfuck of an economy and healthcare system) And this bullshit about Palin's family is just detracting from that.
I want answers. I want to know how this country got it so wrong. And I believe that I'm entitled to those answers, from both the Republicans and the Democrats. And I'm not going to get those answers if we're all just going to giggle about Palin's family like a bunch of high school mean girls. |
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[Aug. 30th, 2008|10:10 am] |
HELLO LIVEJOURNAL! Guess what? I'm still alive!!
I know, I know. I haven't been around. But I've been crazy busy!
First of all, I really like my new apartment. Although lemme tell ya, living in a studio with two cats? It's a constant battle against me and the cat hair. And I think that the cat hair is winning.
Still, my studio is pretty awesome. I have a big eat-in kitchen, a full bathroom, and a fire escape that makes a lovely reading spot. I also love how insanely close I am to everything. I can walk or take muni everywhere, and now that I don't have a car, I spend exactly $45 a month on transportation. Suck on that, dependence on a non-renewable energy resource!
ANYWAY.
I also really like my new job. My office is really dingy because it's basically storage space for art, but I spend a lot of time running around the galleries so I really don't mind. But I get to see all the new art that comes to the gallery before anyone else does, and I have drawers full of unframed art by 18th century French painters, Dali, Chagall, Picasso, Miro and Rembrandt in my office. I also have my very own vault in my office for the super secret artworks that no one else can have access to, and a library of reference books so that I can verify that we receive the correct art from auction houses and the authenticity.
My job also has a lot of physical aspects to it, such as hanging art in the gallery and hauling around heavy pieces of art. But I actually kind of enjoy that. Except that slow-walking tourists are about a billion times more annoying when I'm hauling a 60 pound painting down the street (SERIOUSLY! WE ALL APPRECIATE THE RIDICULOUS AMOUNT OF MONEY YOU SPEND ON STUPID TOURISTY SHIT AND EXPENSIVE FISHERMAN'S WHARF FOOD, BUT COULD YOU WALK A LITTLE FASTER?! Or at least keep out of the way of the girl who is obviously hauling a painting that's larger than she is?)
But yeah. I work almost completely independently, and my supervisor really doesn't jump in unless I ask him for help. I fucking LOVE having a boss who doesn't whine about how I didn't CC them on an e-mail or confirm something. Micromanagers are fucking awful and should be slapped in the head.
Anyway, I'm going to jump in the shower and head to Artfibers. See you darlings later!! |
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[Jul. 14th, 2008|04:05 pm] |
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I GOT THE APARTMENT I WANTED!!!!!!!! I'M MOVING! |
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| Your Gaze Hits the Side Of My Face |
[Jun. 21st, 2008|12:40 pm] |
There's a reason why the following promotional posters for the Spirit make me angry:
i mean, okay. There's the obvious reasons why someone like me would find these posters offensive. But what really disturbs me about these posters is their striking similarity to this famous work by feminist conceptual artist Barbara Kruger:
Kruger was known for blending text and images as a way of critiquing traditional art. In this image, Kruger blends a photograph of a statue that epitomizes classical, passive, female beauty in traditional art history with the words, "Your gaze hits the side of my face." Which points out how the male gaze is an aggressive, violent tool which ultimately prevents women from taking a subjective role in art and visual culture.
And I am disturbed to find Kruger's work imitated for the sake of the violent act that she herself has struggled with all throughout her artistic career. That is, the objectifying male gaze.
Maybe it's a coincidence. Maybe these posters are an attempt at some kind of homage to the comic book medium that the Spirit originated from. Sure, that's possible.
But I'm not buying it. Kruger is a well-known artist, her work has been widely discussed by critics and art historians, and Your gaze hits the side of my face is probably her most famous work. I'm not buying that this collage had absolutely no influence on these promotional posters whatsoever. I find it hard to believe that an art director or a graphic designer involved with these posters have never seen Kruger's work before. This image is in pretty much every art history textbook that touches on postmodernist art, feminist art, conceptual art and American art after the 1970's.
And I find it frustrating that it is so goddamn easy to appropriate a concept by somebody like Kruger, and turn it into the exact thing that Kruger was challenging. Really, Kruger probably said it best herself:
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[Jun. 21st, 2008|10:42 am] |
Dear IRS,
STOP SENDING ME NOTICES ABOUT HOW I'M GETTING A CHECK FOR $600!!!! I AM AWARE OF THIS FACT JUST SEND ME THE GODDAMN CHECK ALREADY!!
SERIOUSLY THIS IS RIDICULOUS THIS IS LIKE THE FOURTH NOTICE I'VE RECEIVED TELLING ME I'M GETTING MY CHECK! GAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!!!
Not your friend,
Leslie |
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[May. 31st, 2008|10:10 am] |
Man. Aslan really comes across as a total punk ass in the Narnia movies. You just see scene after scene of the Narnians getting slaughtered, and what's Aslan doing? Chilling in the woods, being all like "Well why didn't you come to me sooner? Maybe you didn't really WANT my help." Dude, you're a huge freakin' omnipotent lion! Lose the passive aggression and get to it! Sheesh.
Oh yeah, I saw Indiana Jones too. It was shiny and stuff went boom. And of course it was ridiculous and goofy, because it's an Indiana Jones movie!
Okay that's it. I'm going to go get belligerent at a baseball game now. |
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[May. 24th, 2008|11:49 pm] |
Dear random asshole who apparently didn't approve of the fact that I don't shave my legs,
Fuck you. Do YOU shave your legs? No, you don't, and your leg hair on your pale legs is WAY more visible than mine. So why the fuck should I shave my legs if I don't want to? And don't give me that, "Well, as a GUY..." because A) You are not qualified to speak on the behalf of all men and B) My legs have never gotten in the way of me getting what I want. And guess what? I DON'T WANT YOU. You never had a chance, and you never will. I do hope that you use lube on that right hand of yours, because otherwise I can only imagine how uncomfortable the chafing would be.
Your friend,
Leslie |
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