Andymatic

Month: July 2005

  • DoD Refuses to Turn Over Abu Gharib Media

    Today the government was supposed to release the rest of the media surrounding the abuses at prisons in Iraq. They’d asked for and were given a month to redact the media, blurring faces etc. In a letter filed at the eleventh hour, the Department of Defense claims that photographs and videos of abuse that the…

  • Best Part

    The best part about today? Coming home from the coffeeshop to a anxiously waiting cat and then laying on the bed, with him standing on my chest petting and scratching him as he purred like a diesel engine – all the while Heart’s ‘Alone’ playing in my iPod.

  • Joe Accosts the Accosters

    Joe gets attacked by fundie Christian nutterbutters at the train station: She tried to hand me a pack of Big Red, along with a card that asked "What do we really know about Jesus?" I spotted a second carton of gum on the ground by her feet. "If you’re giving any of those away, I’d…

  • Turning Heads

    This old Sony Vaio PCG-SRX87 still turns heads as people walk by. I think because laptops really haven’t gotten all that much smaller since I bought this beauty three years ago (that first scratch will kill ya!)  unless you are talking about the Fujitsu Lifebooks. Even two cops just walked by in admiration.

  • Mookie Jam 2005, Body Worlds, Toulouse-Lautrec at Montmarte

    At the cafe. The guy heard me say ‘passionfruit smoothie’ when I’d really said ‘jasmine green tea’. But the smoothie is good so I’m pleased. Teleseminars start next week – got about 50 people in the blogging course. Not sure how many are in the podcasting course. Ran today. Didn’t make it running all the…

  • Natural Born Same-Sex Lovers

    I was just imagining a serial killer couple movie like NBK but with a gay couple. Maybe they only kill fundamentalist Christians or they bomb bigots. Maybe a fundie priest shot their surrogate mother for their child.

  • Salon on Ex-Gay Therapy

    A straight journalist goes undercover and participates in a session of reparative therapy: (because obviously they couldn’t find any gay or lesbian journalists….?) His counselor says: "Take the young boy who is more sensitive, more delicate, who doesn’t like rough-and-tumble, who is artistic," he says. "He can’t hit the ball, fire the gun or shoot…

  • Introvert's Motto

    A MeFi discussion on introverts pointed me to Caring For Your Introvert which has the gem: For introverts, to be alone with our thoughts is as restorative as sleeping, as nourishing as eating. Our motto: "I’m okay, you’re okay – in small doses." 

  • Grand Theft Auto San Andreas Hot Coffee Patch Reveals Porn and Hypocrisy

    Mark Mumford tells it like I see it with There’s Sex in My Violence! Shouldn’t someone be outraged over the fact that 17-year-old virgin geeks who play endless hours of ultraviolent video games might somehow be tainted to their very cores by two minutes of badly animated sex, despite how you are, as a typical…

  • House Renews PATRIOT Act

    The House of Representatives, ignoring protests from civil liberties groups, renewed the USA Patriot Act on Thursday mostly along party lines, to make permanent the government’s unprecedented powers to investigate suspected terrorists.