May 2009
32 posts
“Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges.”
—“The more corrupt state, the more laws” -Cornelius Tacitus (via Varg Vikernes)
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Aaah ! Quel bonheur ! J’aime bien la vie, j’adore ça !
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Aaah ! What a joy ! I like life, I love it !
” —Capucine, happy to go to bed with a kitty laying next to her. (via capucha)
This child blows my mind. I wish more people - myself included - were as passionate about life & love & happiness as she is. She reminds me to enjoy the small details that make life really beautiful (like kitties in my bed!)
A New Plateau Of Awesome
This tumblr is the 2nd thing that comes up when you google “tumblr nude girls” and I feel great about it.
Feral child found in Russia →
thesun.co.uk
She has likely never been out of her parent’s apartment in the 5 years since her birth. Neighbors have seen her relatives outside walking their three vicious dogs, but never knew they had a child living with them. She cannot speak and communicates by barking. She doesn’t know how to eat with utensils. Authorities have deemed that she is NOT mentally retarded, but starved for affection and human interaction.
Her parents could face up to three years in jail. Three years. Less than the amount of time that their own child spent locked in a tiny, filthy apartment with no working utilities. I find that so incredibly horrifying that you can screw up a child, possibly for life, and pretty much get a slap on the wrist. Why bother pressing charges at all?
Rob is fixated on spiders now
- Rob, laying in bed laughing at me, which I should be thoroughly used to by now.
- Me: What's so funny?
- Rob: You typing.
- Me: What's funny about me typing?
- Rob: It sounds like a bunch of little spiders.
- Me: ...spiders?
- Rob: Yeah, happy ones! When you type it sounds like a bunch of happy spiders are tap dancing on the keys!
- Big scary spider update: Rob poked some holes in the top of the ham container last night & named the spider Chester. Then he took it to work this morning so he could let it go in nature. I think he's a closet Buddhist.
My Personal Commandments
Robert Fulghum was right. If you never absorbed any advice in your life except what you learned in kindergarten, you might still be ok. I think if everyone dropped the social expectations and the religious rhetoric and the politicking and went back to basics we would all be living pretty nice & easy.
These are my personal commandments, as boiled down as they could possibly be:
1. Don’t hurt each other.
2. Share.
3. Clean up after yourself.
4. Don’t be greedy.
5. Try new things.
6. Say what you mean.
7. Mean what you say.
8. Pay attention.
9. Respect yourself & others.
10. Try your hardest.
Prop-8 Rant
I wrote this as a comment in this mofo Jake’s blog, in response to an anti-prop 8 rally he attended in Chicago with his partner. I like how it turned out and maybe if I post this I won’t feel compelled to reblog every emotional anti-prop 8 thing I see all week… maybe. Here it goes.
“[Can] you think of any other group of people more devoted to making others miserable and unhappy than the religious zealots? (Besides terrorists & politicians, of course, but if you think about it they’re religious zealots too.) I’m not surprised that atheism is on the rise. We, the young whippersnappers of the world, have gotten pretty good at sniffing out hypocrisy and these Bible-thumping lunatics are filled to the brim with it.
I don’t mean to stomp all over any specific religion because I’m not even sure what religion these pro-Prop 8 people actually think they’re practicing where it’s ok to judge & hate & be closed-minded & interfere with the lives of people whose lives don’t interfere with theirs & set double standards & to twist the supposed “word of God” into something that supports & excuses their hateful beliefs.
I also don’t mean to make a blanket statement (like, religion = all bad) but clearly it’s the only thing in this Prop 8 equation that might possibly explain how difficult & controversial this decision has been. If religion was truly left out of this it would come down to economics & fairness, both of which would demand that gay marriage be legal. To me, this shows that religion is NOT being used as a tool to help enhance people’s lives, but as a weapon to attack people who are different and that makes me SO ANGRY. Stupid humans. Leave it to us to take something so inherently good & pure and turn it into something so evil that it has nearly wrecked all of humanity.”
Then I wrote a new set of commandments. Stay tuned.
What the fuck, California? →
sfgate.com
Besides palm trees, San Francisco & SaraLiz you really have nothing good going for you anymore. Way to be a big, dumb loser.
Never Nude Land →
nevernudeland.com
My morbid fascination with strange sexual neuroses got me wondering about the feasability of an actual Never Nude subculture, so I googled it. Of course there was a website in the top five which appeared to be the gateway to such nonsense, and it seems that it will be. However, it also seems that the mastermind behind it is Zach Braff. Interesting twist.
Never Nude Land is clearly sinister in spite of its roots in pure goodness. I feel like it’s an allegory for religion, but with cutoff shorts instead of sandals. Another fine twist.
Now that it's obvious...
I admit it. I go all fangirl when people start talking about the L Word.
Go ahead and question my sexuality, I don’t even care. I’m more concerned about the terrible picture they used on the Showtime banner for the official website. Six seasons of beautiful women looking incredible and that’s the best they could come up with?
Help Special Needs Children in the Philippines →
peacecorps.gov
Another good cause. My friend Loren is serving two years in the Peace Corps and she’s stationed in the Philippines. One of her fellow local volunteers just set up a program to expand educational services for low-income special needs children in the area. They just need some money to put together training materials for the teachers and to buy some special tools to help teach children who lack verbal communication skills.
If you have some dollars laying around, maybe a few that you found on the sidewalk or in an old pair of pants, maybe you’ll consider clicking the link and donating some of them. It will make your heart feel good, then you can deduct it from your taxes next year. $1 is the minimum donation and it’s seriously easy. You don’t even need a paypal.
Who funds anti-drug advertisements? →
en.wikipedia.org
Those cheesy far-fetched commercials about using marijuana and killing yourself and your friends are produced by the organization, ’Partnership for a Drug-Free America.’
What isn’t very well known is that major alcohol, tobacco and pharmaceutical companies paid millions of dollars to fund this so-called ’Partnership for a Drug-Free America.’
If we really wanted to remove drugs from our society wouldn’t it make sense to ban the most dangerous drugs first? Alcohol and tobacco kill more people than any other drug in America. Not that they should be made illegal, but this shows how ridiculous it is for them to be targeting a relatively harmless drug; marijuana.
I wonder if there’s a fuckyeahhypocrisy tumblr yet.
