Random Things, Really Quickly

[oakenguy]

* I know it won't surprise anyone to learn that the creator of 'Girls Gone Wild' is a shithead, but oh my god, WHAT a shithead: http://www.latimes.com/features/magazine/west/la-tm-gonewild32aug06,0,2664370.story

* Today I discovered I'm not only on three panels at Pi-Con, I'm MODERATING two of them! Whee! And the Con starts...today! Double whee! Come out to West Springfield this weekend, and watch me improvise!

* Something that only occurred to me weeks after the actual event. When the loved one you lost has been wheelchair-bound or bedridden for the last 25 years, is reading "Footprints in the Sand" ('But I have noticed that during the most trying periods of my life there have only been one set of footprints in the sand. Why, when I needed you most, you have not been there for me?”
The Lord replied, “The times when you have seen only one set of footprints in the sand, is when I carried you.') oddly fitting, or one of the tackiest things it's possible to do?

This is how I spend my last minute at work, yes.

Comments

[callunav.livejournal.com]

God. That's a hell of an article.

[sairisse.livejournal.com]

That guy should be castrated with a rusty screwdriver.

[bigc975.livejournal.com]

No no screwdrivers are to be driven into the head of your victim.....I think a butterknife would be better.

[hazeleyedfae.livejournal.com]

Somebody needs to do some time and be a bad-man's boyfriend.

[mystilafae.livejournal.com]

May I suggest picking up a copy of Ariel Levy's "Female Chauvanist Pigs: The Rise of Women and the Raunch Cultue"? It's an amazing book and it goes further into the shit surrounding GGW and even Playboy, in an attempt to understand why women buy into such things.

[ngakmafaery.livejournal.com]

...for the 'footprints' thing, I would go by what the person herself felt: if she thought it touching, it's touching; if she snorted milk out her nose over it, then...*shrug*...

[scixual.livejournal.com]

Gosh, you'll probably be too busy Sunday afternoon then, huh? Or is it a 'con that ends early?

[retention.livejournal.com]

heh, qwerty.

[aquagirl.livejournal.com]

Shithead? Try rapist! The reporter details his rape of a girl, intoxicated but still saying "no", and this f**ker isn't in jail? Wow. That piece made me angry for so many reasons.

[that.livejournal.com]

That's a damn good piece of reporting. I'd like to asee what else that woman has written.

[discojesus.livejournal.com]

Seriously, that piece was riveting.

[that.livejournal.com]

What amazed me about it was the degree to which she opened herself emotionally, yet kept a writer's eye for all that was going on around her. That's the kind of writing to which I aspire.

[kip-w.livejournal.com]

The place I lived before this used to have an alternate paper called "Catharsis" with an occasional comic strip called "Catharsis Joe." One week, CJ retold the touching "Footprints" story. In progress:

"But in some of the worst times in my life (Like the time I lost my eye. "A glass eye costs how much? Never mind, just gimme an eyepatch."), there's just one set of footprints!"

"Those were the times, my son, when you were too weary to walk, and at those times, I carried you."

"How about here, where there's one set of footprints with a wavy line between them?"

"At those times, you were too heavy to carry, and so I used a wheelbarrow."

"How about where there's just a bunch of dots in the sand?"

"Pogo stick."