Comments (0) I’m super busy this week. The yearly fund-raising benefit for my full-time job is this Friday, and we have tons to do. Likewise, my evenings are pretty packed with various and sundry get-togethers. So I probably won’t be posting all that much this week. See you on the other side!
Should I get a tattoo?
I’ve been thinking about it as a way to claim authority and control over my body. I’m not sure where or what, but the general idea has been resonating with me.
Since around the beginning of 2009, I’ve used Wordpress.com Stats and Google Analytics to track traffic at The Thang Blog. I’m a fan of statistics and numbers; even though I I never really expected this blog to have a huge following, I figured the graphs would be fun to look at.
So it surprises me when – on days like today – I see that Wordpress.com Stats shows The Thang Blog has been viewed 50,000 times in the last year or so. And it really surprised me to see a graph like this:
February is only half-way over, so its numbers are looking pretty good, too
Colbert takes on the hypocrisy of Harld Ford, JR – Hilarious, as usual
Tea Sub – I want one! I want one! 
Do Abled Folks Think We Have Magical Powers? – I mean, can’t you just stop being [thing]?
“But I was just curious!” The Fail of Invasive Questions – The post title says it all
Nostalgia for vintage ads – Oh, Legos . . . How I love you.
I have a complicated relationship with Judaism, at best. I don’t need to get into my whole life experience . . . but (briefly) I really enjoy the cultural aspects of Judaism and appreciate its long history, yet have serious problems with Judaism as a religion and integrating the less-positive parts of Jewish history into the modern functioning of the religion.
Expanding on that, slightly, I have moved from being ambivalent to how I feel about Israel to being specifically anti-Israel. To wit, the ends don’t (shouldn’t) justify the means: The (sort of) peaceful (mostly) democratic State of Israel as a beacon of Western Civilization to the rest of the Middle East can’t, to me, excuse its horribly colonialist founding or head-in-the-sand attitude toward the idea of a Palestinian state. (I know things are much more complicated than that, and the obvious fact that Israel does exist today means grumblings over how things came to be this way are somewhat moot. Nevertheless…)
All of which means I’m not sure how I feel about Birthright Israel.
Dentist results: two friggin’ cavities.
In a number of ways, I feel like I did well in the genetic lottery. I’m not overly tall or overly short (desires to be shorter for gendered reasons aside), don’t have a horrible metabolism in either directions, like my skin tone, love my hair, and so on.
But for a few things, I drew my cards pretty poorly.
There was a recent discussion over at Slashdot about airport scanners. Specifically, the scanners that can show something close to a naked image when used correctly. During the discussion, someone said:
I’m so sick and tired of people saying “if you have nothing to hide why whine?” or “you must have a small penis if you’re so concerned with body scanners”.
It’s just none of their damn business and we’ve given the terrorists EXACTLY what they wanted, mass paranoia and giving up our freedoms for “the war on terrorism”.
To which I replied…
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My job allows students to take classes for barter, meaning they have to do one hour of work for us for every hour of class time. The work varies – it’s usually filing in the office, but sometimes it’s painting sets, helping clean storage, helping to manage the first day of class, and so on.
We have one barter student, I’ll call him Steve, who is a bit much. He’s really friendly, and very enthusiastic about helping out. He loves taking classes and, without a doubt, is dedicated to doing whatever job is given to him. And yet…
Sorry I’ve been so absent lately. I’ve been stressing about a lot, and avoiding thinking about Things. Since that’s usually where I get my material (thinking – it’s what’s for blogging) I haven’t felt like writing much.
Anyway, I wanted to share a few things I’ve been avoiding thinking about, in hopes they’ll prompt me to sit down and write full posts.
George Carlin saying “It seems like these conservatives aren’t pro-life, they’re anti-woman!“
Bond write Cut and Polished, a nicely poetic post on the Butch Body.
Sex-positive women aren’t out to steal your man. ‘Nuf said.
Speaking of music, enjoy Boy George’s She Was Never He.
Happy New Year!
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