484 posts? I deserve a little sugar.






(I'll just let that sink in a minute)




Who is that beautiful man, you ask? Well, where the hell have you been? That's David Tennant, Scotsman, star of Doctor Who: Seasons 2 & 3. And, wow.
Now if I could just see him in a kilt I'd die a happy woman.

Happy fucking Monday, y'all!

Who needs a friday for a happy mashup? I don't know who did this (VJ Jaren is on the YouTube piece), but wow, it just made me happy. I love the Cure, always have, and Missy Elliott really epitomizes a strong female image in hip hop. She's the one who said - Don't have a cellular? It's all right...Don't have a gun? It's all right.... Making money, legally? It's okay....
Yep. I like her. Talented, strong, and in the face of everyone who says it can't be done.

Bat for Lashes

This is great. I seldom hear new music that I really like, and I stick with my old standbys. Also, the music world is overrun with men. Actually - the world is overrun with men. Lets see less of that.

Stout for health?

I was reading the BBC and came across this article about the health claims of Guinness being proven by some folks in Wisconsin. Why am I not surprised?
We in Wisconsin knows our beers, youse. What I didn't know, however, was that Guinness is so high in iron. I'm getting more and more anemic - I know the answer now! I've never typically enjoyed Guinness except when it's on tap in the UK, but I am revising my outlook.

Drink up, yo!

Overheard in NY - a good chuckler.

Splenda's Actually Sugar with Augmented Breasts and No Pubes

Chick #1: I always use Equal.

Chick #2: Why?

Chick #1: Well, I like to think of Equal as the women's lib of sweetener.

Chick #2: So... What does that make Sweet'N Low? The pre-lib? Feminine mystique?

Chick #1: Yeah... Just look at it -- pink and pretty, sweet, and bowed low. C'mon. It's like, 'Hey, ladies, be sweet and pink for your man -- use Sweet'N Low and stay in shape and he'll love you more!' Then there's Equal -- it's blue, it's bold, it demands attention. It says, 'Yeah, we're an artificial sweetener, marketed towards women, but we're equal!'

Chick #2: Um... Okay, so what does that make Splenda?

Chick #1: I guess post-lib feminism?

Chick #2: Uh, I don't even know what that is...

Chick #1: Well, see, Splenda's in court now because apparently neither does anyone else.

Chick #2: Wow... The history of feminism, as interpreted by Deborah, through artificial sweetener... I don't think I was ready for that at eight in the morning on a Thursday.

Chick #1: Yeah... But that was the only time it was gonna happen.

--71st & West End

Something new in Crohn's research!

Holy shit. Do you think this means they might find a way to cure me finally? I fucking hope so. I'm sick of this disease and all that it entails. I'm sick of the cramps, and the migraines, and the soreness, and the tiredness, and the joint pain, and the diarrhea, and the food intolerance. I just want to be normal again one day. That's it.

Novel Intestinal E. Coli Linked to Crohn's Disease

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) Aug 21 -- A selective increase in a novel type of invasive Escherichia coli relative to depletion of Clostridial species appears to be involved in the etiology of Crohn's disease, according to a report in the July 12th issue of the ISME Journal: Multidisciplinary Journal of Microbial Ecology.

In the study, Dr. Kenneth W. Simpson, from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, and colleagues used DNA analysis to compare the ileal microbial flora of patients with ileum-involved or colon-only Crohn's disease and of healthy subjects.

Compared with the other groups, the ileum-involved Crohn's group showed an increase in E. coli species and decrease in Clostridiales. Moreover, the severity of the ileitis was directly related to the number of E. coli present. Lastly, only invasive species of E. coli were found in inflamed mucosa.

Further analysis showed that the invasive E. coli exhibited novel phylogeny with characteristics similar to that of extraintestinal pathogenic E. coli and Enterobacteriaceae.

"Our findings raise the possibility that a novel group of E. coli contains opportunistic pathogens that may be causally related to chronic intestinal inflammation in susceptible individuals," Dr. Simpson said in a statement. "They suggest that an integrated approach that considers an individual's mucosa-associated flora in addition to disease phenotype and genotype may improve outcome."

Date Posted: August 22, 2007

in response to "gray rape"

No, I'm not your mother. Look it up.

“With No Immediate Cause”, Ntozake Shange

every 3 minutes a woman is beaten
every five minutes a
woman is raped/every ten minutes
a lil girl is molested
yet i rode the subway today
i sat next to an old man who
may have beaten his old wife
3 minutes ago or 3 days/30 years ago
he might have sodomized his
daughter but i sat there
cuz the young men on the train
might beat some young women
later in the day or tomorrow
i might not shut my door fast
every 3 minutes it happens
some woman’s innocence
rushes to her cheeks/pours from her mouth
like the betsy wetsy dolls have been torn
apart/their mouths
menses red & split/every
three minutes a shoulder
is jammed through plaster and the oven door/
chairs push thru the rib cage/hot water or
boiling sperm decorate her body
i rode the subway today
& bought a paper from a
man who might
have held his old lady onto
a hot pressing iron/i don’t know
maybe he catches lil girls in the
park & rips open their behinds
with steel rods/i can’t decide
what he might have done i only
know every 3 minutes
every 5 minutes every 10 minutes/so
i bought the paper
looking for the announcement
the discovery/of the dismembered
woman’s body/the
victims have not all been
identified/today they are
naked and dead/refuse to
testify/one girl out of 10’s not
coherent/i took the coffee
& spit it up/i found an
announcement/not the woman’s
bloated body in the river/floating
not the child bleeding in the
59th street corridor/not the baby
broken on the floor/
there is some concern
that alleged battered women
might start to murder their
husbands & lovers with no
immediate cause”

i spit up i vomit i am screaming
we all have immediate cause
every 3 minutes
every 5 minutes
every 10 minutes
every day
women’s bodies are found
in alleys & bedrooms/at the top of the stairs
before i ride the subway/buy a paper/drink
coffee/i must know/
have you hurt a woman today
did you beat a woman today
throw a child across a room
are the lil girl’s panties
in yr pocket

did you hurt a woman today
i have to ask these obscene questions
the authorities require me to
establish
immediate cause
every three minutes
every five minutes
every ten minutes
every day.

You're saying to yourself, "wow, the TG seems quite angry these days, when she bothers to show up at all." Consider this my existential crisis.