cigfran lwyd

withdraw

2009-03-23T15:10:03Z

getting really damned sick and tired of being triggered.

qotd

2008-11-10T11:24:29Z

" I often find that people who seek to understand me are people who have some barrier or discomfort in accepting me."
- rachel pollack

getting what you want

2008-11-09T18:21:56Z

words have consequences.
and sometimes "shut the fuck up" will achieve exactly that.

on last night

2008-11-05T17:02:09Z

the most memorable and poignant moment for me was when the news camera panned the crowd in chicago and landed on jessy jackson. he had a thousand-yard stare, and was completely inside himself. and then his eyes pulled tight and his lips pulled apart in tears, and i could see him thinking about his friend who'd been to the mountaintop and had died to make this night possible.

---

isn't obama not only the first black US president, but the first black head of state in the Global North?

---

i think we are not seeing a "shift to the left." bush was the worst president in modern memory. mccain was an awful, mean-spirited candidate who chose an ignoramus for a running mate. the economy has crashed and the republicans have no credibility in the area of governance. and yet obama's electoral landslide was still in the 50th percentile of the popular vote, california prop 8 passed even while they elected obama, and palin is widely viewed as the face of the next republican wave. i think we remain - and will remain for at least another couple of generations, and probably longer than my lifetime - a sharply divided nation with a strong tendency toward hypocritical sanctimony and belligerent ignorance.

pruning

2008-02-14T14:32:29Z

i had thought i might be more participatory.
i find that in fact i am inclined to exactly the opposite.
neither do i feel nourished, so much as drained, by the disconnected, shifting nature of online acquaintance.
accordingly, i've done some pruning, and will probably remain behind the "friends lock" for a while... which is new to me, and contrary to what used to be my purposes here.
but things change. i change. not always for the better.
to those few who i have jettisoned, please know that i consider you all interesting and excellent people. this is about me, not you.
i need to focus.

namaste.

as it happens...

2007-12-13T20:10:44Z

... i was born in the year of the rat.

Your Score: The Rat

You scored 67% domestic, 36% gregarious, 53% trickster, and 70% intellect!

Domestic, Solitary, Intelectual Trickster: you are the Rat!

Ambitious and adaptable. Rat people tend to be creative, intelligent, impulsive, and ostentatious. Rat medicine teaches interest, involvement, and the ability to live in the moment. Rat is both a symbol of luck and misfortune, of taking things as they come and the ability to deal with whatever comes your way.

This test categorized you based on four different axes of personality, which were then associated with a different animal. The four axes, as well as all possible results are explained below.

Wild/Domestic: This first axis categorizes you based on how much you are drawn to the outdoors, versus how much you are drawn to civilized situations. Domesticity has many shapes and forms, and varies from the joy of dolphins leaping next to a ship to the steadfast loyalty of a family dog.

Gregarious/Solitary: This axis measures how solitary you are. If you scored high, it means that you enjoy the company of other people, while a low score indicates that you prefer a more solitary lifestyle.

Trickster/Serious: This axis measures how well you line up with conventional trickster archetypes. People who fall into this archetype have a sense of humor and an excitable, highly chaotic streak. Scoring low doesn't mean that you don't have a sense of humor; it just means that you probably don't think dynamite is very funny.

Intellectual/Emotional: This last axis determines whether you are more emotional -- acting based on feelings and instinct, or rational and intelectual -- acting more on thought than on your gut feelings.

Wild	Gregarious	Trickster	Intellectual	The Hyena
Wild	Gregarious	Trickster	Emotional	The Otter
Wild	Gregarious	Serious	Intellectual	The Antelope
Wild	Gregarious	Serious	Emotional	The Wolf
Wild	Solitary	Trickster	Intellectual	The Weasel
Wild	Solitary	Trickster	Emotional	The Coyote
Wild	Solitary	Serious	Intellectual	The Raven
Wild	Solitary	Serious	Emotional	The Frog
Domestic	Gregarious	Trickster	Intellectual	The Fox
Domestic	Gregarious	Trickster	Emotional	The Dolphin
Domestic	Gregarious	Serious	Intellectual	The Horse
Domestic	Gregarious	Serious	Emotional	The Dog
Domestic	Solitary	Trickster	Intellectual	The Rat
Domestic	Solitary	Trickster	Emotional	The Ferret
Domestic	Solitary	Serious	Intellectual	The Cat
Domestic	Solitary	Serious	Emotional	The Squirrel

Link: The Animal Archetype Test written by crumpetsfortea on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the The Dating Persona Test

gnash, gnash

2007-11-29T16:54:16Z

i tell you, this guy has the most impressive set of onscreen teeth since brian blessed:

i have friends who will like this

2007-11-28T20:20:24Z

lammas

2007-08-01T23:23:56Z

and so it goes

2007-04-12T13:03:23Z

a greatly compassionate cynic has finally been sucked into the chronosynclastic infundibulum.

i wonder how he'll feel about that?

so long, kurt.

and i thought we were supposed to be fabulous

2007-03-13T15:43:21Z

does "harry benjamin syndrome" mean that we're all going to all wind up balding and bespectacled?

we feel eclectic

2007-03-09T13:04:45Z

show me a spiritual seeker/inquirer who isn’t to some degree eclectic, and i’ll show you either someone who hasn’t traveled more than ten miles from their home, read a book, watched television, or participated meaningfully in any modern culture in the past one hundred years - or someone who is operating under self-defined constraints as artificial as “eclecticism” is often considered to be.

paraphrasing nixon, “we are all post-modernists now.”

the recursive argh

2007-03-05T21:57:17Z

are most people really that stupid?

scratch that... stupid question.

monday again

2007-03-05T19:03:29Z

i want a raise
i want to go home
i want sex
i want a cookie

—evolution control committee

daily affirmation

2007-03-05T15:52:24Z

There are decent bragging rights associated with getting through life on the Hard difficulty setting.

—alison

Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Sant

2007-03-01T11:55:05Z

for daphne

2007-02-16T18:24:58Z

Dogs pees upside down

via warren ellis

and the winner is...

2007-02-09T20:47:21Z

in the "fantasy fiction" category of the 2006 bulwer-lytton contest:

It was within the great stony nostril of a statue of Landrick the Elfin Vicelord that Frodo's great uncle, Jasper Baggins, happened to stumble upon the enchanted Bag of Holding, not to be confused with the Hag of Bolding, who was quite fond of leeks, most especially in a savory Hobbit knuckle stew.

backlash... almost as painful as actual oppression

2007-02-02T18:42:14Z

have i mentioned lately that i detest disingenuous rightwing queers?

oh yes... i think i have.

idolatry

2007-02-02T17:45:36Z

i need this

spider would pummel me, of course.

big sleepy rodent day

2007-02-02T15:28:19Z

glowy noise touchy thingy

2007-02-02T14:31:30Z

i know a few people who will probably go batshit over this:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=MPG-LYoW27E

testing, testing, 1, 2, 3...

2007-01-31T14:53:19Z

hello.
yes, it's still me.
just making a netwide linguistic correction.
since i'm not *really* a plural, after all.

many thanks for making the switchover with me.