Flying Shortbread

The gay people of America seem to want this simply inexcusable level of boundless, unchecked normalcy. It’s true. For some reason, they believe the utterly disgusting idea that they should be able to live their lives in peace and trust and health, with full support and assistance from their schools and hospitals and government, just like everyone else. I know. Shudder. It is, in fact, remarkably similar to what heteros want. And women. And black people. And immigrants. And dwarves. That is, to be able to fall in love and maybe even get married (or at least have the option) and have decreasing amounts of sex and raise a family and hold down a good job and pay their taxes and argue with their lovers over who the hell spent 200 bucks on long distance to their mother, all while not having to worry about getting the living crap beaten out of them with tire chains by Arkansas and Alabama and most of Texas, or secretly loathed by small-minded pseudo-Christians who wouldn’t know Jesus’ true ...

Are what teenage shut-ins are called in Japan. Typically male and between 15 and 30 years old they stay in their rooms playing video games and surfing, rarely eating and never speaking. They avoid contact with their pressure-inducing families and shun their pressure-inducing social roles. Afraid that they cannot achieve what is expected of them, they hide. When I read this article in New York Times ( Shutting Themselves In ) I realised that there is a hair's breath sometimes between pitching daily, or staying at home.

In response to some man who first quotes his myriad 'qualifications' for being allowed to have a stupid opinion - then says that Mary Daly advocates gendercide. The difference between advocated gendercide against women by men and advocated gendercide against men by women is that women are doing nothing wrong and men are murdering, raping and warmongering, AND are BUSY COMMITTING gendercide against women and nature just as an exercise in power. Men are doing something wrong. Anyway, the use of the word 'gendercide' to describe what Mary Daly advocates is inflammatory. Mary Daly advocates A REDUCTION in the amount of men, not by murder and rape and war, but by 'mister-ectomy' - the act of getting rid of the men in your life that coerce you into being the conduit through which they plant their sperm, they then abandon the resultant child to a woman to nurse through infancy into adulthood on her own dime. This REDUCTION in the amount of men removes murderers, rapi...

How do you know when you have to do the washing and the dishes? Well, you look in your pants, and if you see a penis in there, you don't have to do anything.

My homosexuality on the other hand, is NOT A CHOICE. I didn't pick it. I wouldn't change it if I could, any more than any black person would deliberately go out and change the color of their skin. It's a part of me. But I certainly didn't choose it, any more than the color of my hair, my height, or any other part of me. I've written this a billion times, and I'm writing it again. What makes me gay isn't my behavior, it's my feelings. Homosexuality isn't about behavior, it's about who you fall in love with and are attracted to. Choice has nothing to do with it. Of course I could choose to marry a man and have a monogamous relationship with him for the rest of my life. But that wouldn't make me heterosexual. That would make me a gay woman in a relationship with a man. A miserable relationship that I hated, he hated, and any children we had hated. It would be a destructive mess to everyone concerned. Want proof of that? If you're heteros...

I pay good money for that smut and expect it to remain on my television, thank you. I won't be the unwilling babysitter of other people's kids. Steph Mineart

If you see a sign that says, "Say no to Crack.' and it reminds you to pull your pants up - you may be a redneck.

A man phones to 702 who thinks it's totally unfair that when you hire a woman, you, in effect, hire her family. Why must he provide after-school care or a creche? Why must he put up with her taking days off to care for sick children, or sick relatives? It's not his problem. He hired her to do the work and if she doesn't do the work why can't he fire her. What amazes me is that women don't say, "Fuck this for a loop." and stop having children, stop taking the children after a divorce, why don't they let the men have the children, sterilize themselves and see how the fuckers like that.

Jenny made such a good point. Amy Biehl was an Aid worker who was murdered here in South Africa. Her parents forgave the killers and even went to a wedding of one of the relatives of the killers. So, Amy will never be forgotten, the courageous act of forgiveness that her parents did will make Amy unforgettable.

Nobody cares how much you know unless they know how much you care.

Every six hours a woman is killed by an intimate partner in South Africa.

One person was fined R1 000 for not having a TV license. Another was released on bail of R500 after being arrested for murder. The moral of this South African story: If you do not have a TV license and the inspector comes round, kill him. You'll save R500.

Canada 9 000 000 sq/km South Africa 1 000 000 sq/km Canada population 34 000 000 South Africa population 44 000 000 (whites are 5 000 000 of the 44 000 000) Canadians with HIV 56 000 South Africans with HIV 5 200 000

Jenny Crws-Williams made an excellent point under interrogation by the radio presenter. The topic was the name change from Johannesburg International to Oliver Thambo Airport - from lauding an apartheid-era guy to lauding a post-apartheid guy. She said, why change it from one form of apartheid to another.

Women who will not identify as feminist cite a fear that they will be identified with hairy, ugly, man-hating bulldykes. How strange that they use patriarchally hegemonized thinking to frame the issue. They shave the hair the paedophillic men eschew, they paint 'beauty' onto their faces like geisha masks and they blind their brains to the inhumane perpetrations of men on society and then they fuck the men. Essentially they are us, hairy and ugly. They just fuck the enemy.

Note I didn't send to the corporate owners of the place I work for, for fear of reprisal. Sad, really sad. I believe this page was blocked in error because: Dan Savage is an advice columnist. The content of his columns includes, granted, fetishism, note 'includes', as opposed to 'solely consists of how-to's'. Dan Savage's advice is sane and safety oriented. You should be glad that students would be looking up how-to do things safely, both in terms of the things they do and with whom. I can assure you that it would be unlikely for students to be sitting masturbating over Dan Savage's sane advice. Dan tells it like it is: “With all due respect, Glen, fuck your complex underlying factors--and don’t change the subject. I wanna talk about gay men who infect other gay men with HIV. Like a lot of HIV-positive guys, you would no doubt prefer to discuss HIV-negative gay men who take foolish risks... HIV infection rates among gay men continue to rise despite...

Yuck. Skins kill the look and feel of whatever they are applied to. Homogenizes. Prevents looking at the totality of the item, cutting out everything the skin doesn't recognize because it hasn't been included in the formula. Imagination and creativity of creator killed. If the idea is to cut out the vile designs, the too-full pages, the attention grabbing by the irrelevant, then I suggest we take the hint and attention grab only the relevant and do it the hell beautifully. If 'Homogenize' was a billboard who would do it? I want a list, damn it, some stats. Get onto it.

From left to right: Zambo, Cuzco and Tintin. I saw Zambo and Cuzco in Napier in December. I swear Zambo recognized me, although it has been six or seven years. I cried. Helen has gone, but in a way her soul lives on in her dogs and in her friends and in her house, that is still as it was when she died last year.

1. Estimate the total number of books you’ve owned in your life. I’d say there are roughly 6000 books lurking around the house. A trillion years ago I read Mills & Boons and when I gave them away finally there were 486 ~ and in those days you handed two books into a second-hand book store to get one. And then there was the discovery of Better Books, a credit card hell where the owner only gets second-hand books in that are on his discerning list, NOT just anything. And then there was the discovery of the safeness of ordering from Amazon. And the collection of uteral feminist books from Exclusive Books back when I was studying. Yip, I need a bigger house. 2. What’s the last book you bought? Can one operate in the singular when finding oneself in a book department? I really only read the books on palmistry and feminism, the others I just put my eyes onto the words. Macho Sluts by Pat Califia The Pythons by Graham Chapman Public Sex: The Culture of Radical Sex by Pat Califia...

Maintained goals from before. * separate my rubbish * keep pollution generated by me to a minimum * rescue stray animals and find their owners * rescue broken winged creatures of all kinds * maintain high quality love in my relationship In the mood I am in 'survive' would be at the top of the list. * write outlines for the next 40 scenes of my book * think of a title for said book * blog more, exercise my 'voice' once a week * summarize one document a week * read a book a month * rebuild my friendships * change my mind, consciously not maintain my status quo * do 30 minutes of exercise per week * lose 20 pounds In a different universe, but maybe, just maybe, in mine. * finish my book * surf 24 hours per day * write a video game story * apply to Ubisoft for a job * move to Canada to do the job * build a room for myself where everything fits in and put a big fat gate on it * make a vagina dentata/menstrual art...