A Conversation in the Street:
Two men are walking about three feet behind me. I am the only woman on the street. One says loudly to the other, "Damn, that girl has a nice walk."
Turning around, I say, "Hey, guys, could you please not make comments on my body? I think it's really rude."
"Well, I was just saying you have a nice walk."
"Look, if you said 'you look nice today' it wouldn't be so bad. But I don't appreciate comments about my body. And don't say it behind my back, ok?"
"Uh, ok. Merry Christmas!"
Awesome. They probably made plenty of observations to each other once I was out of earshot, but then that's their problem.
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04:29:15 PM,
Friday 19 December 2003
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That's it. More food needs to be processed and shaped into vague approximations of dinosaurs. Is this not self-evident?
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02:58:04 PM,
Friday 19 December 2003
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Anybody else whink it's hilarious when people pronounce the acronym "LOTR" as "loater"?
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01:14:01 PM,
Friday 19 December 2003
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Last night my boyfriend adopted the voice of Snake to leave me a message. Huh ho! How romantic, duhude.
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12:56:45 PM,
Friday 19 December 2003
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And in case you thought my threats were empty: Awesome!
I suppose the only real effect this will have is diminished readership. Alas.
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06:55:13 PM,
Thursday 18 December 2003
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Something that's been in the back of my head lately: Where do psychology and social/political forces intersect? Examples from all over: a relative of mine, prone to racist/sexist/homophobic speech, whose sister describes him as insecure; my irrational loathing of George W. Bush (just because I disagree with almost everything he's done as President doesn't mean I should hate the sound of his voice -- does it?); Adolf Hitler's pre-Nazi personal history.
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06:52:45 PM,
Thursday 18 December 2003
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Cassie's post here reminded me about the coffee wars at my offfice. (From what I hear this is a pretty common minor conflict.) Here it's not about who makes the coffee, but entirely about the quality of the coffee itself. For a few weeks (until my bodd labeled one of the two pots "STRONG") people would regularly complain about the weakness of the coffee. Turns out one person made coffee with half the recommended amount of grounds. (Why he didn't just fill up his cup halfway with hot water? I don't know either.)
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06:25:31 PM,
Thursday 18 December 2003
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I'm with T. on this one.
Note: I will continue posting qwantz.com links until somebody (besides Sumana) demonstrates that they have read these FRIKKIN' AWESOME comics.
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02:52:11 PM,
Thursday 18 December 2003
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"Violence can also be an effective way of saying, 'no'! For instance, I find stomping to be unambiguous."
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06:40:31 PM,
Wednesday 17 December 2003
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"I Found A Reason", especially the opening vocals, is all the proof I need of Lou Reed's complete awesomeness.
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01:32:46 PM,
Wednesday 17 December 2003
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The Amazing Sumana sent me this link: Daily Dinosaur Comics. Dinosaurs! Stomping! Text-heavy comics!
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12:16:16 PM,
Tuesday 16 December 2003
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Reading Invisible Man for the first time. So far the funniest bloggable bit went like this:
"You weren't being smart, were you, boy?" he said, not unkindly.
"No, sir!"
"You sure that about 'equality' was a mistake?"
"Oh, yes, sir," I said. "I was swallowing blood."
(And yes, I'm reading it for the jokes.)
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08:01:15 PM,
Monday 15 December 2003
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A study by the Impact Fund demonstrating pro-white/anti-black bias in temp agency hiring and job assignments. (In San Francisco, whites had a 2-1 advantage over blacks with more relevant experience. Now I know how I got that shitty temp job so fast.) I wonder why I never heard about this back in the '90s when the affirmative-action "debate" was going on. Blame it on the white-owned media.
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12:06:29 PM,
Monday 15 December 2003
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Have I mentioned how completely frikkin' awesome David Choe is? Have I? Well now I have. You can see a short film about him here (love how he does skate-by tagging). Also, according to his latest book, Bruised Fruit, he goes tagging with Shepard Fairey, so all' y'all OBEY fans best pay attention.
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04:30:20 PM,
Friday 12 December 2003
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Tom Jones on Fresh Air. From the program description: "Jones' name today connotes hipness and romance."
Has irony swallowed its own tail, or am I just in the wrong demographic?
Which is not to say that "It's Not Unusual" and "Sex Bomb" are anything less than totally awesome.
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12:56:39 PM,
Friday 12 December 2003
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This American Life story on Nauru, an isolated island in the Pacific that launders a lot of money and used to mine a lot of phosphate.
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12:22:12 PM,
Thursday 11 December 2003
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But No One Ever Noticed the Walrus. Via Alas, A Blog.
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11:33:05 AM,
Wednesday 10 December 2003
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John Waters Christmas Party Highlight: Watching Moss eat a penis-shaped Christmas cookie.
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06:38:52 PM,
Monday 8 December 2003
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Scary MSN "headline" of the day: Gifts from a Sensual Santa.
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11:24:59 AM,
Monday 8 December 2003
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What is it with people assuming other people are stupid, and correcting them when there's no need? Not that I've never done it myself.
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04:04:03 PM,
Friday 5 December 2003
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Does anyone else totally hate hearing their name in a song? I'd expect that I'm just prejudiced because the songs with my name seem to be expecially sucky (::cough::"storms are blowing in your eyes"::cough::) but I don't even like that one song by Low, and it's pretty good. So yeah. Julia, do you hate that Beatles song? Anne, do you hate "Ann Don't Cry"? (Is it disqualified on account of misspelling?)
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07:20:15 PM,
Thursday 4 December 2003
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Today my roommate sent me an email with the postscript, "FUCK WORK."
I concur.
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06:38:31 PM,
Thursday 4 December 2003
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Best Usenet spam I have seen:
From: Jaison (jaison01@naver.com)
Subject: [Big Times] I'm walking with my new Diet Handbag
Newsgroups: alt.fashion
Date: 2003-12-03 00:40:32 PST
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How are you feeling today?
I'm walking with my new diet handbag.
How's yours?
If you say like this "my handbag is not good", please use this my diet handbag.
It's very fashionable, practical and sensitive.
If you want to know about this diet handbag, please visit this web site.
I hope this information will be good.
Thanks.
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http://www.dietbag.com
http://www.diethandbag.com
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01:16:42 PM,
Thursday 4 December 2003
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re: Mirabai's entry here.
I think infatuation with a fictional person can be more serious (in a way) than infatuation with a non-fictional person. What I mean is, even though we don't interact with them, fictional people set their full characters before us in a way that real people do not.
About two years ago I fell in love with two people in succession: one was real and one was Alyosha Karamazov. In retrospect I think my feelings for Alyosha had more to do with the content of his character than my feelings for the other guy. (Though his rosy cheeks probably didn't hurt.)
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01:10:34 PM,
Thursday 4 December 2003
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I really miss the standard-issue desk lamps at St. John's.
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07:34:15 PM,
Wednesday 3 December 2003
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Buzz buzz.
Today a coworker offhandedly revealed something about his background that was totally not surprising at all, something that I had suspected based on observation. I had to choke back some wry comments and feign surprise.
I feel like a jerk sometimes. A lot.
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03:43:29 PM,
Wednesday 3 December 2003
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"Ripple" on repeat.
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03:35:45 PM,
Wednesday 3 December 2003
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glossomania: dude, i am turning into a hippie.
Dave: congrats
Dave: what signs are there?
glossomania: i've been listening to American Beauty over and over for the past month or so
Dave: oh
Dave: my
Dave: wow
glossomania: yeah.
Dave: that is pretty serious
glossomania: i know
glossomania: damian asked if i was going to start wearing those patchwork pinafore dresses and growing cracker dreads.
glossomania: but i'm drawing the line at the macrame jewelry. that shit is wrong.
Dave: LOL
Dave: pooka shell is more your style
glossomania: pooka shell embedded in the dreads.
Dave: and little jade buddas
glossomania: little swirly fimo beads in there.
glossomania: natural peanut butter. carob treats.
Dave: Carob? lets not get out of hand
Dave: any religion that embraces carob is not for me
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12:54:46 PM,
Tuesday 2 December 2003
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Songs that have been stuck in my head this weekend:
"Box of Rain"
"She's Losing It"
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04:50:48 PM,
Monday 1 December 2003
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Any advice for going through minor caffeine withdrawl? I'm scaling back, and trading in half my coffee for black tea is hurting right now.
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04:56:26 PM,
Wednesday 19 November 2003
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One more reason to love Emily Flake.
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04:42:34 PM,
Wednesday 19 November 2003
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Written on an apple crate at the farmer's market:
EL COWBOY ES BIEN CHINGADO PARA VENDER
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03:52:20 PM,
Wednesday 19 November 2003
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(To borrow a leaf from Martin's commonplace-book)
O.o.C.Q.o. Yesterday: "random quantum events in the genitals."
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12:10:16 PM,
Wednesday 19 November 2003
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Damian told me last night about a scene he'd observed: A couple (male-female) at a party, with a pin-up magazine in front of them. Whenever man would start to look at it, woman would try to stop him by snatching the magazine away or something lame like that. A discussion of "why pin-ups are bad" followed, with woman arguing that they were anti-feminist.
Trying to analyze this scene (lots of political, social and psychological content) reminded me of those force diagrams from high school physics (and junior lab), but with electromagnetism and nuclear forces thrown in. There is just so much going into a moment like that. It's a particularly provocative example, but I suspect that this sort of thing goes on under the surface of our interactions all the time.
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08:00:12 PM,
Tuesday 18 November 2003
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There are billboards up around town advertising the new movie version of The Cat in the Hat starring Mike Myers. The sight of his face in the Cat makeup terrifies me. I shudder whenever I see it. I think it's something about the eyelashes. (And no, you don't get a link. You think I want to see that thing again?)
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07:03:29 PM,
Tuesday 18 November 2003
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Hanging out with my parents' (is that apostrophized correctly?) cats made me realize just how twisted my affections are. I had no idea how deeply ingrained my tendency toward unrequited love had become until my parents told me that their standoffish cat Claudette (cheesy spelling "Clawdette" optional) had been away from home a lot lately and was probably getting food from some other humans. I felt like I'd been catapulted into a Tammy Wynette song. My arms stay open late, Claudette, so you'll come home.
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02:00:30 PM,
Monday 17 November 2003
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