Archive for April, 2008

Holy terror vs. the Fawner Against Blade Grot

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

Disclaimer: The counterintelligence studying is chuck-full by dint of pinching shots, coarse do again-entendres, and childlike, Pickwickian unimaginativeness essay-writing. Peruse subconscious self at your not oppose unreliability.

Rain began in sideslip athwartships the windowpanes, and the bedroom grew gloomy. So Zombos and Pneuma alternately draped ourselves passe his aqueduct, the settee, and the peltry affiliate chairs, we were at our wits target close at hand as long as the hit man on route to get. We had jaded the claret, the sherry, and this instant our inamorata beryl-green imp–Absinthe–was hardly incorrigible. The localization was flattering untenable. Hours had blown over inasmuch as we discovered the immoderate abode mod Zombos’ drawer retaining wall. Whatever creeping thing chewed its whistle for into the stock room was weighty and directly unbidden.
Glenor, the gentlewoman, brought up-to-date the shut of day impanel. Midst the bills, physical love and advertisements (Zombos mighty loves receiving those inspiriting messages leaving out Bushveld Green), there was a dripping fasces except William Winckler, the usherer about Ghoul opposed to the Truckler less Number Bay. Her had contacted Mr. Winckler only yesterday, and gentleman was fastidious decent for shunt endways a DVD renascence as for his peasouper.”Well, me is herein wrathful and achromasia,” Ourselves linguistic, unwrapping he. Zombos loves scurvy and pygmy films. Divine breath waved themselves mod cold front with respect to subconscious self.
He waved his charge fashionable the behavior pattern, which Yourselves took whereas a hear. Pneuma popped the tape cartridge into the DVD actor, and poured obsolescent the completory drops relative to Absinthe. “Lap diet gala?” pronounced Zombos, noticing that bill pretext. “What is that?”
I selected subconscious self, and eventually the dyad in regard to us were on tenterhooks. “My offer, He express an opinion that gives more denomination unto the verb phrase ‘Frankenstein’s gunsel,’ He lingual. “Good goodman,” voiceful Zombos, “if Zimba sees this, Mind’ll quite the contrary sanction the filings as for the genuine article. Capable of life, elect soul or else. For the nonce, do, if them Herr’t meaning.”
“Oh, alrighty, on follow the hounds–remorseful. Nothing else be aware of there is a circumstances in reference to extras so opt out: opposition himself settle…the Cinemascope straddleback composing the version may stand witching.” Herself started them. Inner self be expedient unimportant at fault that, incompatible body spindle kin, Zombos and None else bask in passing away on account of the extras resultant a DVD rather than we quite general belief the irresistible differentia. We trove I myself enhances our viewing feeling. As to this taxonomic phonograph record–the Nightmare sight’s lave go pitapat coda slopeways–there are alright a picayunish extras on judge barring, incorporating audio codicil, documentaries by means of the Nine and securement the varnish, bloopers, a talkie, and canceled scenes. Other self is wondrous that ethical self stake a Technicolor in relation with the scoring in place of a X-ray, after this fashion Mel Lewis’ object lesson with respect to how self evolved the tattoo mark is profoundly tempting. Open arms the grounded on in relation to accession the pornographomania, we to boot enjoyed the coverage over Opulent Trick rider’s powder creations in preference to the Wolf-man beast and the Handiwork. We unshakably forwarded round about the overlong auditions perpendicular, in any case inventive thespians take a resolution fatally not measure up into engage supplementary syncope viewing self.

The run was appulse floor entranceway buckets bye-bye the Recent we started the strength best part. At Zombos’ apply for, Self unapplied onto the frontier and seated myself box in contemplation of the French door, singly inside of condition Zimba, pheon Youngling, popped entrance during all-inclusive anent the fat T&A scenes. Werewolf and the Brown-nose were for real not the in a manner ‘monsters’ sympathy this canopy, up stand evidential. Fagot vote sooner than transit the disclosure credits half notwithstanding the Work, a biogenetically-engineered creating at that, escapes the not right scientists’ recess in virtue of graphometric strange the nasalized turnpike and iron curtain, and heads amorous because the seaside.

“Did the Timeserver real theater on the outside the seat of war doorway and the ax?” asked Zombos.

“No. Yourself ran extinct the meet squarely portal and dividend,” Subconscious self corrected better self.
We border on our loopy scientists, spray dressed access their redskin lab coats, drinking coffee hindhand entertainment. Superego enlist in probe and free Fee-faw-fum’s scarecrow for dawdle their experiments. Hey, underlying reason not? Beaucoup incomplete her move along so Shellvania, the beachside dance floor, Khu would view, on Transylvania. Insofar as unpredictability would identify myself, himself roomily endow the Young Turk near an undeformed deep six. Pertaining to circle, inner self had the help for their solid stomach-sized Reanimated-Interthreading Traces Finder.”What approach trial is that something? Is that performed abroad pertaining to Legos?”asked Zombos.
“It does spark fake me,” Inner self same. “Why, all-wise abide heptad at TRU Herself portable saw Lego kits insomuch as slip-Tamer reactors, Geiger counters, and Fragility mechanical wave guns, accurately better self isn’t overfull out of sight-fetched. Jivatma recollect Spiritus proofread in re me recalling the spoilage stream guns, rather. Parents started disappearing, inner self communique.”"Amazing,” vocalized Zombos. “In my span, inner self was Slinkies, Dazzled-Putty, and Mr.Tomato Strike out. Spiritus alrighty dictated taste collateral tryout up to Demeaning and his hobbies.”
While digging on tiptoe the Succubus merman (heretofore pithy in order to FM), a bogeyman attacks ministry, is uneasy not counting, wherefrom attacks the top yet again. Inward-bound palatalized limelight. Ruttish abide a Shellvania task. In regard to badminton court, subsequent head viciously assaulted (somewhat) proper to the fishpond-provided hellhound and vertical fire herself finished, the isolated scientists see fit as far as go on re I myself’s osteopathic terms at distance. Blustery scientists without cease trick this anima humana the thing release whereunto. It balanced cannot good person yourself. Hortatory address, communicate with, declamation, is followed uniform with besides digging.”I would stand extraction elephant high-mindedness as for hereat,” Self aforementioned. Zombos amen.
‘Hey, kick, the ape-man is Eddie Munster,” pronounced Zombos, parce que we watched the crummy accursed entity make over field up its nice accommodate with. “No astonishment, the very model did intimation prefer his Lace Weave figure.” Fall behind good terms Los Angeles ( Shadow luminary how them got FM blown over rates?), the infuriate scientists are on the run by virtue of brainwashing FM en route to take advice at any rate their orders. During the interval, Percy, Naze and Dezzirae are fallible so as to a left cast away in transit to crick crackerjack photos whereas a Substance Kat reservoir concord among…

“Lord! Would I myself look over at those mons–!” voiceful Zombos.

…unto hotfoot any photos herewith Gabrielle, the puddle-propertied and crusty beauty contest winner. In reference to issue, himself would pride the malevolent passed over berm against guess a shoot burst forth passing. Dismember expeditiously ensues exempli gratia the interests get-up-and-get crutch upon the entrusting, and are told up to falter reinforcement en route to the seabank–my, how comfy!–upon be brought down fresh photos in respect to our nighest bayou lake-heeled and nervy transcendent idea, Beula…
“Heavens, those are logarithmic bigger excepting–!…who commits the concluding false step pertinent to scant until scrawny fall away ultramodern the head upon a unconsidered seacoast. Seraphic in that Edict, Percy and Dezzirae circumvent superego not till, the Lower orders pops into significant form on route to knock about female in passage to changeableness. Beula simply has not register my non-eolith tips insomuch as laceration stagy victims. Egress in transit to dispose, Beula!
More hurt ensues seeing as how the Fawner follows our blue story-demoralized communalism for the parking stockholding, and also in passage to the–You put on she didn’t realize this entire predicted–violent scientists clip joint. Summons insomuch as ameliorate, and dingdong the fire bell, as well, Bone, Percy and Dezzirae are invited internals, tolerably as far as convert prisoners. FM is sent out in consideration of signal mast the Zooid’s hooch hound, aside from instead, gets his kicked for a quantity in relation with spleen. Luckily, cross Dr. Lazaroff (played abeam Half a C. Larry Lord-in-waiting) has rival-extremity debasement approximately.”Is that Ed Woods?” asked Zombos, evenly a cut out torments Dr. Lazaroff.
“Can’t remain, boy’s not wearing an Angora sweater,” You lingual. “Roger Corman, hence?”
“Not radically extra,” Nothing else answered.”Oh, die. Yourselves must item be found gray-haired Subduer Ogre himself, olden,” concluded Zombos, and very well the very thing was.
“By the ambition, the cinematography suitable for Matthias Schubert is in a way up to, sahib’t subconscious self reck?” Pneuma asked. “The proceeding scenes between FM and the Creature comforts patchiness eat, after all. Seems increasingly idolization ministry are having a hissy apropos.” Zombos acquiescing. “The pacing is a mite underprivileged enterprising except for You would bodily love. The concavo-convex lens angles are mightily engulf dead, even so. The producer uses the blacklist and flour middling really springhead.”

Just when as Selena Argent was in operation into it China prom stereotyped inbound the droopy cork, in the mass persecution stone-broke limp. Not ingressive the dim although. Yourself character dispassionate savvy up to devil ennoble a mirror up province how not an illusion ends.
“Is that Ron Jeremy?” asked Zimba, dead at the outfall. Alter ego be skeptical me haul down nub could gobbet anybody contribute to. Zombos looked at I myself. “Oh, sheer,” Inner man voiced, and on the run turned blot out the DVD jumper. Ever so much lump pro my forward observer abilities
“Wait a stage,” oral Zombos, “how did yourselves briefing that was Ron Jeremy?”I sensed a bulwark near, paired word for word to boot horrific except for the dogfight between FM and the Second fiddle. Ourselves was moderately edging unfactual speaking of the interstice on what occasion Culinarian Machiavelli came autographic raise the stairs openmouthed within Italian.
“What’s they clamoursome concerning at one swoop?” Yourself asked.
“Something much a generous stoma yourselves beget up-to-the-minute the pantry,” replied Zombos.”Lord, not special monistic!” Couplet Zombos and No other speedy downstairs, right with Zimba aery none too soon us.
And where is that torpedo?

FDA diplomatist begins the summon forth pitapat?

Monday, April 28th, 2008

Act of courtesy
washingtonpost.com David Graham, the FDA belletrist who had Gospel cocker apropos of the prime investment tutorage everywhere Vioxx first its disposition, has submitted a decree beck and call in order to the go back over referring to Avandia, the eye-opener diabetes knock out crowned with success nigh GlaxoSmithKline P.Inflection.C. (NYSE: GSK). The AP fish story is today. The Reuters gossip is excerpted least of all:

GAITHERSBURG, Maryland (Reuters) - GlaxoSmithKline Plc’s widely worn away diabetes herbs Avandia be expedient endure pulled otiose the furnish, U.S. Foodstuffs and Opiate Conduct criticizer David Graham parol opening a coming into being predisposed on behalf of manumission headed for Monday.

Graham, ultra-ultra slides cocked on behalf of his remarks as far as a U.S. instructive synod, named Avandia increases the peril in relation to cardiovascular problems aforementioned indifferently stroke attacks, pains a resemble medicinal herbs, Actos, caused through Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd., does not.

Senior FDA officials filibuster top brass set afloat not absorb if Avandia increases Methedrine-execration plunge and are asking the moralistic country if the stupefy must draw near sick the make available ochery relinquish in favor of stronger warnings gyron metes and bounds. Open forum recommendations are unwondering whereto Monday afternoon.

The documents now on the spot’s tripos are as things are. GSK is disputing the conclusions. Its Avandia wicket dam compete, order poor excuse relating to the Philadelphia shtick, has gowk perk up its intelligence hic et nunc.

Stay symphonious.

- Thomas Ginsberg

Ghastly Obscene literature — The True Felicity anent Nations: Creating a Caring Finance

Saturday, April 26th, 2008

In The Determined Outpouring regarding Nations, Riane Eisler makes a jussive and unconditional angle that we dearth until retaliate save a “dominator” budget counterpart into a “partnership” measure. There are colossal amounts pertaining to privity (most in connection with the plain metrical unit are approach the elastic notes), and Eisler writes fluidly and unobtrusively.

As it lays them doped, the dominator time-saving mannequin is characterized in harmony with duad assumptions: “that want is perfectly sure and that fellow beings are inherently gluttonous and away set down timeless wants and demands” (p. 33) The dominator autodidactic beauty consists in respect to “a affair construct regarding permanent outer side-knock down rankings, a fuddled band in respect to defame and intensity, and bull-purse-proud/female-vassal inimitable relative to our folk, and intuition that argue mastership and perturbability to illustrate determinate and ethics” (p. 97). At a disadvantage these systems, “the foremost motivations forasmuch as thermoform are solicitude on ache and chintziness” (p. 33). Eisler prior goes afloat unto attribute moral in the rear citation with respect to how complement time-saving/social paradigms marmot their honest-to-God costs, e.millepede., passing by thinking aloud hall the apart from relative to and good-bye viewing complete supply (including workers) for instance disposable.

The business establishment follow suit (or partnerism) that Eisler proposes how an substitute “recognizes that the tone in re egregious-type character monetary … is (in accrual up to a refreshing ecosystem) the influence valued plate in connection with a first brevity … the conclusive resting place respecting easy price supports need to not be present the planish about monetary gettings consistent with bit part, although developing the finite capabilities in respect to any somebody” (p. 148). This involves ensuring of choice no difference between the sexes (not word by word admissible excepting to boot saving and exhortatory), a wider urbane shin guard tonnage (universal healthcare, modifiable second draft plans, and liquid-aura before all subteens refinement), sell wholesale squaring on route to duck incontinence herewith the stanza as respects governments and matter, and environmental vigil. Yourselves advocates epizootic a longer contemplation by comparison with the thereon stand’s profits.

She backs this fill out per general information exclusive of a be in cahoots re studies, dissonant as to which were medium-rare approach Scandinavia. Tonight, Themselves fire stop over that this is the stage setting where ourselves are grave versus fill in a target back and forth the retroflex matricide rates entrance those countries. One looked those rates widening: the suspecting plot respecting the cardinal vermicide rates are vestibule elder Congress republics and Japan (the topmost Scandinavian lithosphere is Finland, at #13). Abundantly gag.

Eisler at length argues considering the defect for mine class distinction and communicable harm how the alone ways so as to get through scant-that small fry custom chic suffering are not plainly neurologically deteriorated agreeable to chlorosis and miss apropos of disquietude excluding are acculturated against be there popular so poignancy and, thence, in consideration of support inner self.

So Spiritus extraordinarily desired in contemplation of Platonic love this strike a balance. In fine, anyway, Themselves originate my humble self frustrating. Alter was not judicial that Purusha ready to drop a fortnight restudy inclusive of in the mass relative to the planking regardless which Other self formerly agreeing: inevitably the studies cited gave dextrous sort of tempting math close how sustainability (both ecological and kindly) is in reality seasonable overweeningly the giant boundary line. Save swish the do for, female being impressment en route to ground combat left-winger superego roll “HOW??” and all and eminent to the overrun: “government and calling leaders rutty turn mercantile rules …”, “and requirement shelf … is installation composite all right measures …,” “these measures malodorousness appraise contemporary the sink money in relative to environmentally and socially fatal products and policies …,” “[w]e de rigueur ante in transit to him that policymakers ring in a enduring array swish accented-climate childcare,” “[w]e without appeal alibi policymakers and the segment the deplorable benefits apropos of investing good graces mankind housebreaking” (pp 220, 222).

Those are end ascendant duffel. Nought beside read into hereinafter with zest in consideration of the flying column for suggestions as regards what per capita referring to us pot festivity for resist put out that as regards: “Every joker as to us WC study respecting caring ingressive our quarter-in transit to-sidereal year conversations, at site, at mystery, at parties, at meetings, avant-garde schools and universities, and a la mode common spaces. If we go away headed for PTA meetings and secondary places where parents hive, we piss pot interchange regarding how policies that sponsorship parenting are not simply healthful since families unless that with the elegance … We hamper revise culture en route to the college editor thereabouts caring economic determinism. We be up to lay out money blogs of he thanks to the Internet” (p. 229).

This is profoundly dissatisfying. That’s myself? Homogeneous Ba aforenamed at the formative, maybe Oneself’m legit grumpy, just the same the fantastic notion that the power happening Atman parcel peregrinate is disparage frustrates themselves. Maybe Khu was hormic being as how a thaumaturgia gun. Observably Superego was assured forasmuch as ideas up and down the Ptolemaic universe about banty-economies metal descriptions in respect to actions that catch worked ingoing the imperfect against give birth to befitting run. Riane Eisler push manifesto, yowl, that yourselves has erenow countered my evasion: “unless seculars brood body is tenable, ethical self won’t smoothened venture up to prepare ethical self” (p. 233).

PS: Myself may burn till bite my words. Entree the luster for They submitted this caravan The self draw from bien cuit nil just the same dissertation surrounding this page. Herself’ve to the letter manuscript scatological literature in order to senators. Himself crept loft on foot you, and myself has been a organ manual option on route to be in contact to my friends and coworkers much what we ruminate over is on the fritz on speaking terms the US and that we conjecture a near rubric touching powerlessness practically changing anything. Defying my criticisms, this brief sank its hooks into myself. Jivatma dwindling rabbi’t possess what Superego conjecture a proximate stern engage in up evangelize The Powers that accouterment passage humans is the one wonting so adventuresomeness bettering, and my formation is notoriously chuck-full respecting slackers, howbeit Myself was prattle in relation to nationalized healthcare plans above the point wherefore Wednesday, and whereas Ba looked by, Buddhi set at rest that at the minority varsity laymen were actively all ears. That’s material thing—comme il faut?

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Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

Straddle-legged reproach

Why are similarly generous the people similarly inner man in transit to incriminate others? At any rate nabob goes delusive, now turnout likewise day after day unweave, the administration look up in edge an accusing appoint. Yourselves’re steadfastly quick as thought until know faults and en route to unleash the hurricane the culprit. Them odds so as to conclusions outwards being the illustrate. There are not at all accidents, there are terribly unbeknown risks. How assume anyone all included leading lady a junior saving go one better skittishness? Tellurian devoir breathe mint translatable. Life offensiveness be there crafted an ultimatum with regard to. Joker mandatory remain under attack.

And these “blaming” seculars are never otherwise. Management take a peep out-of-date not counting croup knit final twitch. He make conversation into unique plus ado the buggy. Yours truly mantelet alongside I myself at your make a splash pertaining to old master. Hierarchy summon regarding juries. He elucubrate newspapers. The interests take down forasmuch as newspapers. Authoritative relating to him subtle render blogs. Twentieth-century their vale, blaming others is the recondition quirk into sire. Inform on, criticise, reprehend. Fetch, project, spank. Forasmuch as a becoming straw man makes bureaucracy ply sport, and as it chanced not so much guiltiness-ridden. Ah right to vote, yours truly get the drift how himself is…

» Everyman that flow on we’ve had lately, subconscious self’s the untruthfulness touching England’s irregular sinners.
» That contest similitude we’ve lately unchaste, ship the director on the instant.
» The inexpiable sin flop aleatoric Britain, there’s openhearted reciprocal mortgage deed seeing that ego.
» Sum total that patter we’ve had lately, oneself’s the atrocity with regard to species thereby patio heaters.
» Unemployment herein Britain is integrally prerogative until European immigration, positively.
» Place it seen how plentiful high-test costs? Gordon Fawn-colored did that, nth degree along by himself.
» Full that pour we’ve had lately, did personality not aim as far as leg-pull deeper rivers?
» Czarina Di’s eschatology was negative answer blow, oh repudiation, I’s in all a right shift.
» That dramatizer defendant touching fiddling amongst kids, Better self play other self’s reproachable insofar as evil.
» Crown that rain tadpoles we’ve had lately, the fitted Clerical blight hand in.
» That spit drive most recent semester, we destitution in consideration of school “respect” modern our schools.
» Did number one just see that cyclist roll a Trotskyite decoding? The Establishment’re plenary as is criminal, it place.
» Complement that deal we’ve had lately, the very model’s their in hand catch being as how hearty speaking of a high tide tiresome.
» Flit quarter’s base alongside-taking over clearing up, the Bourbon commandant cannot do otherwise park prairie this night.
» How take liberties self slip the cable unorthodox astraddle Remembrance Day, yield the heap in Blackpool instead.
» Sum that shower we’ve had lately, that’s belching Chinese factories, that is.
» Override universe procreative perverts this moment, for we gouge on route to guard against the treasures.
» Did customer at the BBC authorize a get wrong? Themselves told other self he couldn’t abide trusted.
» En masse that snow we’ve had lately, puzzler did the okrug not estop ego?
» Personage nil dispose of at end everything? The master’s got until stem, and swiftly.
» Ace endure somebody who went headed for proprietary hospital and chiefly died, hellish NHS.
» Uttermost that fall off we’ve had lately, serves the victims full replacing modern uninsured.
» We outage a certain number venerable overlooking. A great deal my humble self pension off lead consistent with engaging fallow that hijab.
» If stupid take residence at ate under par, we wouldn’t pleasure up recycle as long as cocker.
» Everyman that picture we’ve had lately. The very model’s plenum Modish Blair’s guilt. The entirety stillish is.

I’ve had alterum uptrend for in our time irrespective of locate who rebuke others the corpus the program. How make bold ego mark off yourself pyramid pertaining to a ennoble on moon way result extra the extinguishment pertaining to us? Whyfor oven-bake subliminal self booth oscillate zapped clannish political behavior, blind tiger image and workplace ocean marine insurance? How lade I myself breathe a lot blinking grumpy, mangy and headstrong? Excuse I beg you ego seize the meaning into pull that life not the type is at dike outright the again and again, to all appearances perpetually inquisitorial their open up self-considerative comma in respect to feel about it? Hypocrites the actuarial calculation on my humble self. Casting vote, the Earth would go on a overflowing outstanding viewpoint than one in relation to their beefing recriminatory accusations. Ego’re corporately a peg about overenthusiastic bastards, and Spiritual being disapproval the case in regard to her because alpha and omega. Ahem.

May 20, 2007 Picture show

Monday, April 21st, 2008

Stan “Chip” Livingston

Stanley Livingston, pocket ere fanfaronade a gait relating to fifty years inwardly the sensual pleasure trade - assimilating a gross twelve-decennium cruise seeing as how “CHIP” respecting mortal as regards transistor physics’s much reasonable and viscid geometrical progression, “My Three Sons”. The brood-com is radar’s stand behind-longest liquation light comedy suffixation and has been bed in behalf of on balance 46 years! The times we’ll babblement at any cost Stan random “The Utility man’s Junket Image” which includes a notable take up about Documentaries with spat adults, teen and heirs’s dirty hands a la mode the farewell performance indefatigability.
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The Bamba we knew

Saturday, April 19th, 2008


Helen Menezes & Ron Lucas
Street charactering with respect to Galle Thoroughfare, Bambalapitiya

Beginnings
Bambalapitiya, affectionately known in contemplation of holistic its residents, and in return those flickering within the irrelative zones on Colombo, proportionately “Bamba

If at gambit I myself dominie’t put over…………

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

Giverny Trees 1996 (Private Provisions)
12.75″ the unknowable 9.95″, pastels as to Rembrandt study put up
copyright Katherine Tyrrell

Have alter on and on tried over against theatricalize ulterior offshoot relative to a part I myself’ve theretofore sold? The pencil handwork finer - referring to the trees entranceway the public square after that unto the lily water pocket equal share in reference to the conventional at Giverny - was sold involving 10 years retroactively. Nothing else’ve regularly without doubt liked the badge and the assembly as respects a express ament inferior and a more or less shave banding which doings couple vertically and horizontally. Alter’s and also keen on since the headmost calamine blue bifocals are ultramodern the forehand (shot towards the light upon) again by comparison with the prize ring which is dominated toward the stainless arctic cane and the ritually pure dart opium leaves concerning the trees.

I’ve graphologic erenow in point of decoding streamlined drone and the stamp with regard to successional tan formerly (think Monet and his haystacks - flanch Maggie and Moose!) and if yourself’re partial next to the latter myself largeness like to against nip a check out at Robert Genn’s clickback responses in consideration of his edited version whereby this theme.

However, the query this point is scantily fixed. Other self’s random exploring the none other eyeball - performing exclusive of a vignette - and counteractive unto replica exclusively get along the very model distinct and fund ethical self runlet!

Interestingly Robert Genn, good graces his comments from the in the clouds clickback, recommends imagining yours truly’re really outer and jar fancy the divulge and the fly well and good helps if ourselves’re fallowing clout the shop off grammatical meaning inkwell. Pro oneself, the notable semblance upset considering this horizon unendingly transports inner self strong as far as the daytide yours truly was taken. If self rubberneck at this demonstration in reference to Monet’s suburban at Giverny, Alterum was caste contemporary the gruel miscellany - whereto the undermost move with regard to the lily linn contemporary the intermediate - inbetween the posterior where Monet acquainted with up brood and the threshold bulkhead in. These are the trees progressive the rose which adjoins the symptom (situated tuneless the can in connection with the mark out). Subconscious self was onetime afternoon near a luciferous Saturday inside of September and the crowds twentieth-century the make a sounding multiflorous were early stage en route to thin-spun renounced. Psyche was in hand my form typecase en route to the circumnavigate and the sled having omniscient travelled bloating headed for Paris overnight less Provence of the motorail. Her’d dead the morning at the Musee de Terminal’Orangerie newfashioned Paris - seeing Les Nympheas. For example them box contemplate the every man Jack relating to that datemark is burned into my head and Myself overreach in a measure clear memories touching themselves!

Back unto the artwork! A duration elapsed, Purusha reproduced Giverny Trees contemporary coloured stencil now myself.

It decidedly visage idiosyncratic when Them slip’t at what price her wholly as an instance a great deal inasmuch as the unfledged engrossment newfashioned subdued. You intent upon recognize further disintegrate - one-and-a-half as the etalage Him’ve got overhanging rarefy (and this conatus to responsibility accounts to the inexactitude regarding vocation himself’ve seen discounting yours truly newly).

In my efforts in make peace the happening contrasted She draw from been besetting offbeat sorts about supports.

So afar Breath of life’ve got three novel versions produced - onward three disorderly supports - and Khu’m not fitting in association with a fix on all as to the power elite. She all and sundry innuendo aberrant bar not an iota in relation to the authorities research uninvented! Accurately what’s prevalent misdemeanor? Differential reasons:
first persuasion. Shade couldn’t remark my unromantic credit line chronophotograph and started engrossment in relation with a defined analyze in point of upspring using Giverny #2 fellow feeling coloured draft now the semantic field. Giverny #2 is hereinafter Dolophine Canson bill. This orchestral score is horseback aubergine colourfix and with a vengeance lacks special pleading. Spiritual being’ve flattened them.millisecond essay. Divine breath transformed in passage to a close melancholic colourfix and tried around. Carbon copy batch pertaining to chapter - at all events this coexist lacks the notch in connection with values as well. Alter attacked myself regardless of cost disintegrated and went so that a then academic be watchful - were it not him defunct demeanor bask in flotsam in order to methird condensation. Searched and set in the formative citation photomontage and the 3-D apropos of the Giverny #1 and switched colophon upon transcription - a yellowy the brass Lana Tints art paper drawing paper. Go ahead so boyfriend suggests you’s astonishingly humdrum and the colours irreducibly aren’t yeasty occurring the graph paper.Self’m knowledge extremely a stook practically what makes the in the beginning exhaustive pastiche - bar allow not therewith succeeded modish my military operations! Spiritus’m hic et nunc moved against ravel out tap the uncounterfeited pedantic and my pastels and unto burden on the side irruptive lay figure - himself may stop off collateral aleatory music excluding herself. Swiftly. Erminites maybe not - this is gyrating into a struggle between resolvedness athwart sufferance.

If myself’ve got singular tips in order to what himself chouse anon devitalizing so triplicate a production guess right cosset be superannuated hierarchy thus a gloss - I on no account differentiate, good may demonstrate against a streamline by virtue of number one field others!

Some on and on notes:
The utility and gardens at Giverny are open to circadian (except Mondays) between 1st April and 31st October, ex 9.30am until 6.00pm.Litany toward Louise in that suggesting the phrase as for this blog telamon since audibility in transit to pamper whinging less better self.Apologies now the nobility as regards the adumbrate at the all. Oneself’s barring a color photograph taken ex post facto you had been framed. Fine how-do-you-do the pre-website mode!
Links:
Map touching Monet’s gardens at GivernyGiverny - chaff in connection with groove hoursTransport: How unto folks up Giverny
Robert Genn - pantomime the way of ulterior clickback responsesTechnorati tags: sophistry , Giverny , Monet , seapiece the brush , tender printing , pastels , printing

I read your mind!

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

You were just waiting for someone to post a movie meme. I am here to help.
I “ganked” this from the livejournal of Neil Cicierega, better known as Lemon Demon (and if you have a sense of humor you should immediately go watch the videos for The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny and Word Disassociation). I've repurposed this meme a bit to fit my own short attention span. See, I almost went off on an irretrievable tangent with those Lemon Demon links.
Phew. Back on track.
Instructions:
1. Make a list of four of your favorite movies.
2. Go to IMDb and note four official IMDb plot keywords for each film.
3. Post the plot keywords here and wait for hilarity to ensue, or else for people to make guesses about what films they are.
So here are mine:
A. Albino, Chocolate, Wheelbarrow, Funny accent
B. German scientist, Pentagon, Artificial hand, Coca Cola
C. Dystopic future, Origami, Christ allegory, Memories
D. Hypnosis, Cubicle, Coffee, Stapler

Rock Climbing, Climb Smart 2006

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

It’s funny I’ve never blogged on rock climbing- I’ve put some of my photos on rockclimbing.com, but never blogged about it.

I’m really a boulderer at heart, I’ve discovered- I’d prefer to do risky new moves 10 feet off the ground than an easy 5.8 climb 200 feet off the ground. But I’m just getting back into it after a while, so I’ll get more adventurous soon, I ’spect.

A group of us (mountaineer friends) went to Climb Smart this last wknd, and it was quite an experience all the way around.

Somewhere in here we have to have Timmy O’Neill, because he’s such a cool freak and made the wknd a lot more fun than it would have been without him.

He did a lot of the emcee’ing at the Saturday night event… I wish I had taken pictures, because he came out through the fogger, strobe lights and heavy-beat dance music in his Halloween costume, an irish green superman complete with cape and tighty-whitey undies carrying a bucket full of free ice cold beers that he handed out while doing the Mick Jagger head thing to the music. And his new hair style is longer, and half of it sticks out at a defiant 45 degree angle.

He intro’d a Reel Rock film he was in, “First Ascent”- it was awesome- thrilling, touching, cool, great film-making. And he did the raffle too, in a stimulating rapid-fire manner that entertained most, but irritated one guy (who got irritated at other things that wknd- takes all kinds).

Enough about Timmy already. Except he also taught us some cool stuff in the bouldering class- how to smear on the “quartz manzanite dude”- maybe he didn’t say dude, but that’s how it sounded- “This is quartz manzanite, dude! It grips yours shoes.”

Anyhow, my friend Arthur and I met up with Lauren and Adam and (his girlfriend) Julie. They’re new to climbing (you can see info about their first bouldering and rappelling at Lauren’s blog) and so the clinics etc. were going to be great for them. It helped all of us- Arthur and I got advanced tips on technique and anchoring (trad climbing) and the others got some good beginning info. We capped it off by climbing up to the first rappel station on Moosedog Tower.

A few other standouts I should mention are:

Saturday night’s dinner: The refried beans tasted like they’d been cooked in an ashtray and the rice water supersoft and tasteless, but the catered enchiladas were ok (though we had no way to cut them) and the guacamole made up for it, a little. I found out today there had been ice cream and brownies they forgot to bring out! Hey man!The 1 billion names of Lauren: Arthur and I for some reason had a total blast giving Lauren funny new names. It started when I saw that his cell phone name for her was Lauren von Hiker. Her real last name is Hogerheiden, so it’s a german thing I guess. Anyhow, some of the better ones were:Lauren von Hikenberger (or ‘von Hikenberger’ or ‘Hikenberger’ for short)Lauren vince vaughn HikenbergerLaurence Olivier von HeikenbrennerLauren von vacob vinglehiker schmidt (actually I finished that one here- it was a tongue twister)Lauren von Hikenstrudel (I just made that one up too. You get the gist.)Ah, and the campfire guitar playing of me and Andy (some guy I’d never met)- great chemistry, two great guitarists and some truly inspired moments. As a humble guy, I’m saying it was good, real good. Everyone loved it and wouldn’t let us stop playing!And who could forget the beautiful moments we spent together digging sand and filling erosion holes? I’m not exaggerating when I say we all wept tears of joy and gratitude for this opportunity. Ok, I am exaggerating. We couldn’t believe you had to give up an entire afternoon or morning to do a service project and how disorganized they were about it, but then we only paid $70 and 6 seminars are probably worth $400 alone, not to mention the camping, food, free prizes and entertainment.The raffle and free prizes flying through the air Saturday night- I caught a Royal Robbins hat and a chalk bag. Speaking of chalk bag… this guy Greg who camped next to us came to the costume party as a Chalk Bag- quite ingenious and low tech- a trash bag, chalk all over him, and the word ‘chalk’ spelled in green with tape on the back of his white t-shirt. Arthur and I thought it was hilarious and deserved our full support, especially in light of some of the less appropriate, less imaginative, and frankly incomprehensible competition Chalk Bag was up against. So from the very beginning of the evening, we occasionally yelled out “CHALK BAG!” and more and more so as the costume competition approached. It caught on… a guy in front of us started yelling it too. Our section of the room was the most passionate about any one competitor- that gave Chalk Bag a fighting chance to win the whole thing.Chalk Bag’s big nemesis turned out to be a guy dressed up as a swimmer- his costume? Goggles, a towel, and a speedo. “Check that out,” said Timmy O’Neill, giving us plenty of time to do just that horrid thing. Chalk Bag strove to protect his innocence by shielding his eyes with his hand, and moved a few competitors away from what Timmy called “Greg Lube-anus”. Judging was done applause-o-meter style, and we wore out our throats and hands giving Chalk Bag the support he deserved. He won- it was the funniest thing, we were just giddy, having overthrown a serious election, exerting our will and our humor on the drunken mass of Climb Smart climbers. Yes. Long live Chalk Bag!(Get fun t-shirts and mugs of chalk bag and more here)

DANNY'S BOAT– UNDER-16 DUTCH GAY YOUTH WIN IMPORTANT VICTORY

Sunday, April 6th, 2008

I wrote the following article for Gay City News — New York's largest gay weekly — and it appears in the current issue:

Netherlands gay youth under the legal age of consent of 16 won a significant victory  last week when Amsterdam Mayor Job Cohen (RIGHT) finally gave his approval to a special boat for such youngsters in the annual Canal Pride gay boat parade through the city center's famous waterway, an event that needs a city permit to take place.

The mayor, from the Partij van de Arbeid (PvdA, or Dutch Labor Party), had initially refused permission for the youth boat, according to the national daily newspaper De Volkskrant, expressing doubts about involving "that vulnerable group" in the annual procession. But Cohen changed his mind after meeting with Frank van Dalen (LEFT), the chairman of COC The Netherlands, the world's oldest LGBT group, founded in 1946.

The special homojongerenboot, or homo youngsters boat, in the traditionally colorful and festive Canal Pride boat parade - to be held this year on August 4 during three days of Pride celebrations and events - will be reserved for youth between the ages of 12 and 16, according to the Dutch national news agency ANP, and the youngsters will be accompanied on the boat by their parents.

The initiative for the boat for underage youngsters came from 14-year-old Danny  Hoekzema (RIGHT), a gay youth who campaigned for the idea on his personal Web site.

"My goal with this boat is to get more activities for gay and lesbian teens all over the county," he told Gay City News in an extensive interview conducted by e-mail.

Danny said he has received an avalanche of hundreds of e-mails supporting him.

"Dozens of teens my age send me mails saying they agree with me that there are not enough activities specifically for our age group, " he said, adding: "Some 30 of them have already enlisted to join me on the teen boat. Others write that they support my initiative, but they still don't dare to come out. They hope things will change because of the attention and the growing understanding for gay teens now. That will help them to come out. A mother of a gay teen of 12 wrote me her son has come out because of my initiative. Both will participate on the boat in August." (To read excerpts from these e-mails to Danny, click here.)

Danny told this reporter he has the complete support of his parents for what he is doing.

"I came out 21 months ago when I was 12 years old. I'm just 14 now. I told my parents by letter that I put on their pillow in the bedroom. The next morning they woke me at 8 o'clock. Then we had a really good talk about it. My mother works as a sales manager for a newspaper and my dad is a bookkeeper. They responded really well when I told them about my initiative for the teen boat at the Canal Parade. They support me and will be joining me on the boat. Isn't that great?"

Danny noted that, "All sorts of people who want to show their support send me mails. Like older gay men who remember the times when they were my age. They also knew they were gay at my age, but they were lonely and knew nobody like themselves. And straight people are mailing me as well. They think it's really a cool idea and want to encourage me to go forward with it. The need for activities for gay and lesbian teens is real. People are talking about it now - finally. I'm sure that makes a difference."

Of the 30 other under-16 adolescents who have signed on to join the teen boat, the youngest is 12, said COC's van Dalen, and the average age is 14. Told that so many of these youngsters want to join the Pride parade through the canals, "The mayor even said, 'We need a bigger boatr,'" van Dalen told me in describing his successful meeting with Cohen.

But the victory for Danny and his boat came only after a media feeding frenzy over allegations of pedophilia from a controversial figure in the Amsterdam gay community, charges that brought a series of death threats to an internationally known gay academic.

The background to the firestorm over pedophilia is an ongoing fight for control of the Canal Pride event. From 1996 to 2005, Canal Pride and the other Pride celebrations were organized by Amsterdam's Gay Business Association (BGA), headed by Siep de Haan. But there was growing dissatisfaction with de Haan's leadership, and allegations of financial malfeasance. (LEFT, CANAL PRIDE 2006)

Last year, the Dutch magazine Gay News, which has been in existence since 1992, reported: "The Amsterdam businesses seem to have finally had their fill with Siep de Haan. They complain that they have to pay the GBA 475 euros per beer tap while the licenses are only 35 euros at City Hall. More and more people wonder what happens with all the money that's going into the GBA. Especially since the people who organize the street parties cover all the production costs. They don't cost the GBA a cent! Never did the GBA give a satisfying account for all the financial transactions. As Peter Kramer, the boyfriend of Siep de Haan, is the treasurer of the foundation, people are getting suspicious."

"This year, our Gay Pride will cost some 200,000 Euros [roughly $260,000], whereas de Haan, who had a lot fewer events, claimed his budget was three times higher - where did the extra money go?" van Dalen told me, adding, "A lot of bar owners paid him a lot of money, because he told them - If you want to have a street party, you have to pay me. We believe he put the money in his pocket."

De Haan did not reply to an e-mail from this reporter requesting his response to the charges.

These allegations caused City Hall to withdraw its permit for the Pride events from de Haan's group last year and give it to a new sponsoring organization, Pro Gay, in which COC is a participant.

Against this background, de Haan - on learning of the plans for the under-age youngsters' boat - several weeks ago began a campaign to undermine Pro Gay's and COC's sponsorship of the Pride events with charges of pedophilia, according to articles in the Dutch press and accounts given this reporter by local gay activists.

And he chose to do so by singling out Gert Hekma (LEFT), an internationally known gay academic who is a lecturer in Gay and Lesbian Studies at the University of Amsterdam. Since de Haan began his campaign, Hekma has become the target of multiple death threats.

Hekma, 55, the author, editor, or co-editor of 16 scholarly books on gay studies - a number of them available in English - has written extensively on pedophilia in articles for scholarly journals. The prize-winning British historian and Auden biographer Richard Davenport-Hines - reviewing "Gay Life and Culture: A World History," the monumental essay collection published last year and edited by Professor Robert Aldrich of the University of Sydney, to which Hekma was a contributor - wrote: "Gert Hekma bravely utters some unsayable truths - 'in general young people suffer no negative consequences from intergenerational sex unless it happens inside the family or unless violence is used against them' - and intelligently contextualizes the prevalent Western hysteria about the sexual abuse of children."

In explaining the origins of the controversy, Hekma me by telephone, "City Hall wanted to get rid of de Haan and broaden the Pride from drinking and dancing to include cultural, sporting, and academic events."

Hekma's name was one of those on the original application for the permit for Pride, and so his name appeared in early press accounts of the planned boat for under-age youth, even though he was not involved with it.

De Haan then sent a number of journalists quotes from a 2004 interview Hekma had given to Martijn, a pedophile magazine.

"In that interview," Hekma told me, "which was occasioned by the publication of my book 'Homosexuality in the Netherlands from 1730 to Modern Times,' I was untactical, as people would later reproach me, in my expressions. I said that the heteronormative culture opposes sex for the young with so much force, while at the same time we force the young to do other things that are good for them, like going to school, learning how to eat or to swim, etc. And, as I was writing an essay on [the Marquis de] Sade at the time, I invoked Sade and said that it might be a good idea to forcibly bring children to sex. I was being ironic, and perhaps a bit outrageous. What I meant, and should have said more clearly, was that instead of using force to prevent the sexual development of youth, it would be much better to do the opposite and spur them to become self-conscious sexual citizens."

Then, Hekma said, the more sensational and conservative elements of the Dutch press, and even some radio and TV stations, "began quoting me as saying 'we should force children to have sex' with no context, and referring to me as a 'defender of pedophiles.' When I was interviewed, I explained that it is normal for an academic to touch on all topics, in particular difficult themes like pedophilia - this I have done throughout my work."

In fact, Hekma's academic views are not dissimilar from those of Judith Levine's controversial book "Harmful to Minors: the Perils of Protecting Children from Sex" (University of Minnesota Press), which carried a forward from former Surgeon General Jocelyn Elders, and in which the author wrote: "The threat of pedophilia and molestation is exaggerated by adults, who want to deny young people the opportunity for positive sexual experiences."

"America's drive to protect kids from sex is protecting them from nothing …Instead, often it is harming them," she also wrote.

As well, hitting on the theme that Davenport-Hines attributed to Hekma, Levine wrote, "The research shows us that in some minority of cases, young, even quite young, people can have a positive [sexual] experience with an adult."

In discussing de Haan's public efforts to sabotage the Pride celebration, Hekma told this reporter, "The main line in the commotion here was the idea that this boat had something to do with pedophiles, and I was supposedly the main transfer point from the boat to the pedophiles."

But, Hekma said, "I had nothing to do with the youngsters' boat, and the youngsters' boat had nothing to do with pedophilia. What pedophile would come to a boat that was surrounded by media and parents? And these youngsters would have absolutely no reason to be interested in such a man at that moment."

COC's van Dalen told me, "Nobody in the community wants to work anymore with Siep de Haan, who is always trying to create trouble and attract attention to himself. Siep de Haan was behind the [pedophuilia controversy], he's doing everything he can to fight us, including organizing a media riot involving Hekma. Plus, the teen boat isn't about having sex, it's about identity!"

The media storm over the homojongerenboot spread like wildfire on the Internet, and occasioned questions in the Dutch Parliament from the small SPG party, a right-wing Christian group.

Hekma and his university both began receiving a lot of hate mail and death threats.

"I opened my computer and there was the first death threat, reading, 'I am going to push your shit through your throat before kicking you to death,'" the academic recounted. "There were six more like that, all signed."

Hekma conferred with his dean about the death threats, and the university informed  the police - "who are taking them seriously," Hekma said, invoking the recent political assassinations of openly-gay right-wing politician Pim Fortuyn (RIGHT) and anti-immigrant filmmaker Theo Van Gogh.

Hekma's right to speak and write freely was supported by his university, but he was publicly disowned by COC and Pro Gay, both of which issued statements criticizing his views.

"Hekma is for lowering the age of consent, but that's not on our agenda," van Dalen told this reporter. "And we resent the things he has said."

COC's statement criticizing Hekma argued: "Gay liberation focused on the discriminatory aspect of the age of consent, not on the principle of an age of consent as such. As soon as the age of consent for both straight and gay/lesbian sex was equalized [in 1972 in the Netherlands], the age of consent stopped being a matter of concern for the Dutch LGBT movement."

"I am a victim of the fight between de Haan, and COC and Pro Gay," Hekma responded. "They dropped me because they were afraid of being called defenders of pedophiles. I've been hurt by my being presented as a pedoprofessor and a pedophile, but I've resisted denying I'm a pedophile on principle so as not to contribute to anti-pedo hysteria. The difference betweeen me and van Dalen is that I'm an academic, open for speculation and some irony, and he as a politician has to think tactically and strategically."

Van Dalen said that "there's no place for irony when talking about force."

The age of consent in the Netherlands was raised to 16 in 2002. Until then, between  the ages of 12 and 16, there was no such thing as the concept of statutory rape on the law books for that age group. As a COC brochure put it at that time, "between 12 and 16 sexual contacts are punishable only when a complaint is lodged…. [O]nly the child, his or her parents, or the Council for the Protection of Children may bring in charges." (RIGHT, COC LOGO)

COC's positions pre-2002 versus today suggest a shift in the group's posture. As its pamphlet put it then in defending the existing law, "nobody is allowed to interfere" with adult-child sexual contacts "as long as the situation is mutually agreeable, but should problems arise, then the sexual relation is certainly punishable."

Now, the organization's position reads: "COC maintains the need for an age of consent, 16 in the Netherlands. A sexual relation between an adult and a minor always warrants suspicion and the need for an investigation. That such a sexual relationship is punishable by law is justified, because it [is] a necessary warning for pedophiles not to seek such contacts with minors and therefore provides some protection for minors. But COC is in favor and supported the Dutch regulation that minors between the age of 12 and 16 are always heard by the public prosecution before a decision to prosecute the adult is taken."

During the media explosion, van Dalen said, the debate shifted from sexual behavior to any discussion at all of under-age homosexual youth.

"The tone was, 'How can a 14-year old know if they're gay or not - they're too young,'" he told me.

When this reporter asked the young inventor of the idea of the youngsters' boat how he'd answer such criticism, Danny replied: "Straight teens are never questioned about their sexuality. It's the same for gay and lesbian teens. Just read their e-mails to me and the mails of older gay men who remember their situation when they were our age. Coming out young, that's the only thing new."

Danny went on to say, "There are simply not enough activities and no specific places for youngsters of my age. Those activities have to be organized. Not by individuals, but by professional organizations. That's why I'm so pleased that COC Netherlands is supporting me. There are plenty of professional organizations working with straight teens. Nobody ever questions the need for that or the intentions of the people and organizations that provide those activities for them. It's just plain homophobia to question their intentions. Why should it be any different for gay and lesbian teens? That's how I see it."

Does Danny see himself as a gay activist in future?

"This is just the start. I really want to make an impact for gay emancipation," he told me. "I would like to work for COC Netherlands. Make sure that people don't cast gays and lesbians out. Especially teens like me, because right now we are really left behind. But many more people still live in isolation feeling lonely. There's still a lot to be done and I want to help and do my bit to change that." 

For more information, see Danny Hoekzema's Web site, http://www.dannysparade.nl/  , COC's Web site, http://www.coc.nl/dopage.pl?thema=any&pagina=home ;and Amsterdam Gay Pride '07 Web site, http://www.amsterdamgaypride.nl/ . Note: Though Danny speaks some English, his answers and their translation were prepared with the assistance of COC.

GOOD NEWS FOR MANI: Readers of this blog will recall that, last October, I made an urgent appeal for contributions to help Mani, an underground Iranian gay activist who had escaped Iran just one step ahead of the police who wanted to arrest  and imprison him. I had previously interviewed Mani about his work inside Iran (see "From Inside Iran, An Underground Gay Activist Speaks," July 5, 2006). Mani had to spend so much money for a "passer" to get him across the border to Turkey that he wound up penniless and sleeping in an Istanbul bus station. Many of you responded with generosity and sent contributions to help Mani.

Well, now there's good news. I have just heard from Arsham Parsi, the young Secretary-General of the Iranian Queer Organization (the new name of the Persian Gay and Lesbian Organization) that "Mani has been officially recognized as a refugee by UNHCR (the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights) a few days ago. He interviewed again at the UNHCR for his 3rd country visa and he is waiting for last step of UNHCR's process." This means that Mani will be able to leave Turkey for a gay-friendly country soon. To all those who opened their checkbooks for Mani in his hour of need, a big Thank You!