i saw you as you walked across my room
you looked out the window, you looked at the moon
and you sat on the corner of my bed
and you smoked with the ghosts in the back of my head

lisa loeb - do you sleep

i realized how old this song was when I heard it for the first time in a long time and remembered talking about it with John Michael, in his living room, and him saying it was "a good song for us, because it's so talky". I don't know what that meant, but that's what I remember.

i am listening to "living in clip" and the orchestra at the beginning of "both hands" gave me chills.

i should make a whole playlist of chill-enducing music. what would that do to me, all at once like that? :)

Ally,

I am sure your cherry pie will be delicious, but when you said strawberry rhubarb I started drooling over the one we made together. Homer Simpson-style. Mmmm, piiiie.

That is what this weekend has felt like.

I am eating seeds from a pomegranate. Opening a pomegranate is quite a procedure, and by the time I was done I had drops of juice on my face and all the way up my arms. It was wonderful. :)

here is the place, now is the time
let's invent the kiss

today i had hot apple cider and smores. :)

because bagelz sells smores complete with mini fire things, so you can toast them! and vicky, lindsey, carrie lynn, ian, and carrie lynn's friends-i-don't-know had a campfire party.

granted, the marshmellows were easier to torch than to toast, but it was still fun. :)

one of these days i'll have more than 5 minutes to post something not pasted-in, really.

but tonight is not one of those nights, my friends.

to bed i said!

"The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled today that same- and opposite-sex couples must be given equal civil marriage rights under the state constitution. The ruling in Goodridge et al. v. Department of Public Health makes the state the first in the nation to grant same-sex couples the right to a civil marriage license."

YAY MASSACHUSETTS! :)

HORRIBLE LOVECRAFT/WOODRING MUTANT LEMON

AAAH! :)

From an LJ friend - this is pretty cool.

An interesting spin on things...

Heterosexuality Questionnaire, Martin Rochlin, Ph.D.

1. What do you think caused your heterosexuality?
2. When and how did you first decide you were a heterosexual?
3. Is it possible your heterosexuality is just a phase you may grow out of?
4. Is it possible that your heterosexuality stems from a neurotic fear of others of the same sex?
5. Isn't it possible that all you need is a good gay/lesbian lover?
6. Heterosexuals have histories of failures in gay relationships. Do you think you may have turned to heterosexuality out of a fear of rejection?
7. If you've never slept with a person of the same sex, how do you know you wouldn't prefer that?
8. If heterosexuality is normal, why are a disproportionate number of mental patients heterosexual?
9. Your heterosexuality doesn't offend me as long as you don't try to force it on me. Why do you people feel so compelled to seduce others into your sexual orientation?
10. Why do you insist on being so obvious, and making a public spectacle of your heterosexuality? Can't you just be what you are and keep it quiet?
11. How can you ever hope to become a whole person if you limit yourself to a compulsive, exclusive heterosexual object choice, and remain unwilling to explore and develop your normal, natural, healthy, God-given homosexual potential?
12. Heterosexuals are noted for assigning themselves and each other to narrowly restricted, stereotyped sex roles. Why do you cling to such unhealthy role-playing?
13. How can you enjoy a fully satisfying sexual experience or deep emotional rapport with a person of the opposite sex, when the obvious physical, biological and temperamental differences between you are so vast? How can a man understand what pleases a woman sexually or vice versa?
14. Why do heterosexuals place so much emphasis on sex?
15. With all the societal support marriage receives, the divorce rate is spiraling. Why are there so few stable relationships among heterosexuals?
16. How could the human race survive if everyone were heterosexual like you, considering the menace of overpopulation?
17. There seem to be very few happy heterosexuals. Techniques have been developed with which you might be able to change if you really want to. Have you considered trying aversion therapy?
18. Do heterosexuals hate and/or distrust others of their own sex? Is that what makes them heterosexual?
19. Why are heterosexuals so promiscuous?
20. Could you really trust a heterosexual therapist to be objective and unbiased? Don't you fear s/he might be inclined to influence you in the direction of her/his own leanings?
21. Since AIDS has struck so many more heterosexuals than male homosexuals around the world, and female-to-female transmission is extremely rare, don't you worry that your sexual practices are a risk to your health and/or God is trying to tell you something.

The Onion on the Anti-Abortion Campaign"

"Why can't more American women be like Jessica Lynch? What do you mean, what do I mean?" :)

19:48:53) teh theremin: you are the MOST cute
(19:49:09) mang0fandango: pshaw. you are the queen of hawt :)
(19:49:17) mang0fandango: COMPLIMENT WAR
(19:49:24) teh theremin: you're so hot that you melt the ice colds
(19:49:26) teh theremin: oooohhhhh
(19:49:45) mang0fandango: you're so hot i bet yo' momma can't keep butter in the house
(19:49:50) teh theremin: zap
(19:49:59) mang0fandango: okay that one was random ;)
(19:50:05) teh theremin: that one was hilarious
(19:50:12) teh theremin: you're so hot that it's no WONDER your ice cream came out wrong
(19:50:14) teh theremin: hahahahahahahahahahahah
(19:51:10) mang0fandango: you're so hot...i sweated until my clothes came off (a la christina aguilera, thank you ;))
(19:51:13) mang0fandango: sweated?
(19:51:55) teh theremin: uh....
(19:51:58) teh theremin: you're so hot...
(19:52:00) teh theremin: ...
(19:52:12) teh theremin: that people pour water on you in a sauna.
(19:52:14) teh theremin: HA.
(19:52:16) teh theremin: and i am win.
(19:52:22) mang0fandango: YOU DO WIN
(19:52:33) mang0fandango: YOU KNOW WHY?
(19:52:38) teh theremin: WHYYYY?
(19:52:41) mang0fandango: cause you're the hottest! ;)
(19:52:48) teh theremin: oh mayyyyun
(19:52:49) teh theremin: tricked again!
(19:52:52) teh theremin: blasphemer!

and here i dreamt i was a soldier
and i marched the streets of Birkenau
and i recall in spring
the perfume that the air would bring
to the indolent town
where the barkers call the moon down
the carnival was ringing loudly now
and just to lay with you
there's nothing that i wouldn't do
save lay my rifle down

and try one, and try two
guess it always comes down to
alright, okay, guess it's better to turn this way

and i am nothing of a builder
but here i dream i was an architect
and i built this balustrade
to keep you home, to keep you safe
from the outside world
but the angles and the corners
even though my work is unparalelled
they never seemed to meet
this structure fell about our feet
and we were free to go

and here in spain i am a spaniard
i will be buried with my marinettes
countess and courtesan
will fall beneath my tender hand
when their husbands were not around
but you, my soiled teenage girlfriend
or are you furrowed like a lioness
and we are vagabonds
we travel without seatbelts on
we live this close to death

and try one, and try two
guess it always comes down to
alright, okay, guess it's better to turn this way


(the decemberists, "here i dreamt i was an architect")

Today, President Bush signed the ban on partial birth abortion into law. Hopefully, it will be overturned soon, as it is already being contested as unconstitutional. But I am really upset, anyway. Because in the eyes of the people in charge, I am less important than the child I might carry? Why should it's right to live automatically override mine?

Between this and the "third-party consent" rape case, I'm really beginning to think about women's future in this country as more and more likely to involve forced breeding. We are being reduced to cattle. (I'm being dramatic, but I'm also kind of serious about the feeling this gives me).

Action Figure Librarian! Complete with sssshing action!"

Unfortunately, action figure librarian is stereotypically old, wears glasses, and comes complete with ssh-ing action. Siiigh.

You are

Tara

"Tell me if I said something wrong. Otherwise I know I'll say it again -- probably often and in public."

What "Buffy" Character Are You?

Everybody remember the Rainforest Site, the Hunger Site, etc? Well, they've been back up for a while but I didn't realize, so I'm passing it along. Go click the button every day and save the rainforest and feed the hungry and stuff!

This guy does some pretty interesting art.

He does things like take the average of every Playboy centerfold or all of the top 25 grossing films and blend them together to make a picture that is an average of all of them. It's pretty interesting. :)