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Sarah vs. Sarah

09.05.2008 06:42 PM

If you cannot see the video above, please view it here:
http://current.com/items/89270795_target_women_sarah_palin

It is interesting how Hillary never marketed herself as a mother, but Palin can't stop brining it up. From what I hear, it's her husband who does most of the heavy lifting around the house.

No, I don't think Palin is a great opportunity for women. Having a vagina does not make you a feminist. Palin's anti-choice and supports abstinence-only education. She is not my girlfriend.
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Comics setback...

09.02.2008 10:49 PM
Hey guys,

I know I said that I had more comics coming your way, but unfortunately I just got wind that gURL.com isn't in a position to take any more on until December. I'm sure it surprised them as much as it surprised me, and I assure you that it is through no fault of their own that this has come to pass.

However, I realize that everyone is waiting for comics, and I desperately want to get back to making them.

So, over the next few weeks/month, I will build an updater onto my site and promise you something, something comic-licious to read at least once a week.

I hope you will understand the delay and will not be too upset with either gURL or me for it.

Thank you,
Rachel Nabors
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Greater Bird of Paradise sorbet, mmmm, tasty.

09.01.2008 01:18 PM

McCain still isn't fooling anybody--and I want to point out to anyone even considering voting for him that if he becomes president and dies (which, considering his age, is likely), we'll have a young person with only two years of governing experience running the country. Did we learn nothing from the first and second time around with Bush?

But I digress. This is supposed to be a happy diversion from things political. Today, I bring you birds of paradise and their mating habits.

When I was a teenager learning at home, my grandmother sent me a few books on birds, one on seabirds, another on perching birds. I read them both, of course, and even requested further books, at which point she sent me a few newer books on flight and migration. There may have been a few others in the old series, and there was at least one on birds of prey, but I didn't get to read them.

The books were old and consisted of full color illustrations of representative species from all of the bird families around the world along with detailed chapters about each family, its habits and habitat, and the forces that made it what it was. From reading this I learned that birds of paradise and bower birds are actually both descended from stranded crow-like ancestors who developed eccentric mating strategies just so they could tell which species they were mating with! Or at least that's the theory. (Imagine Gilligan's Island, only each person was a slightly different species of black bird.)
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Late sorbet is better than no sorbet at all.

08.31.2008 11:08 PM

The rain today has put me in a drippy mood, so today's sorbet is the very wet "On" by Aphex Twin.

The video may not appeal to you if you are not fond of abstract things, but the music is one of the best instrumentals I've ever heard.
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Political Sorbet: Day 2

08.30.2008 11:24 AM
I've noticed that most of my friends are being driven insane from the current rash of political dust ups, which are known to lead to brain hemorrhaging and incontinence among other things. So I will try each day to go out of my way to plunge into the depths of YouTube to bring you video sorbet: Videos with absolutely no bearing on politics, usually funny, and sometimes just interesting, to help cleanse your palette.

Today's installment brings us Tom Waits for No One, a rare rotoscoped treat from 1977 featuring Tom Waits and Donna Gordon. I found this while looking for Fish Police clips.

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Sorbet, anyone?

08.29.2008 10:34 PM
I need a sorbet from politics:

That feels better.

Wait... that has political copyright violation undertones! Aww, dammit!
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A letter to Mr. McCain

08.29.2008 06:10 PM
Dear Mr. McCain,

Please stop trying to get attention. Inviting a woman to join your little stag party is hardly impressive considering the way you've treated your wife--in public, no less. We already know you have no respect for women. So why bluff at it this late in the game? Your views on women's rights parallel those of rulers in the Middle East!

Although I was a huge fan of Hillary and her pro-women, pro-gay agenda, I will nonetheless continue to support the Democratic party and vote for Obama. Why? Because I would like to think that elections are about more than the color of someone's skin or whether or not their giggle bits are tucked inside or swaying in the breeze. And while Obama's views on gay and women's rights may not be as strong as I would like them to be, they are certainly far more to my liking than yours.

So you can take your self-proclaimed hockey mom and scoot, because the decent women of America can see right through this, and we are insulted that you think us so blind and stupid.

If you want to bring girly stuff into the ring and appeal to the "miffed female voters," then expect the harsh judgment that comes from appealing to such facile ends. Expect the bitch claws to come out as Palin is torn limb from limb by a female and male audience scrutinizing her every move, just like Hillary.

I'll gladly be the first to criticize her: Palin looks like a painted fool the likes of Condoleezza Rice. Governing a country is about dignity, not spending two hours in front of a mirror applying various shades of "sandy taupe". At least Hillary never went out of her way to look like a tarted up prom queen. That woman had sincerity and a level head. Yours is, well, a hockey MILF with a vagina five babies wide. You think I want to vote for that? Hell no!

Perhaps I have gone too far, but get used to it. That is but a sample of the lashings yet to come from a public eager for gossip and hungry for snark. Has she got the strength to handle living in a fish bowl? Hillary never gave up. She hung on to the end and fought, even when the media and voters were being utter beasts, and when it was over, she honorably gave Obama her full support for the good of the party! Who is this woman you've picked out of nowhere? What is she? She is just a red politician who knows little of the world she aspires to control, like Bush, like Cheney, like the rest of your lot, to your own kind be damned.

For future reference, please do not offend the very delicacy of my nature by stooping to such low tactics again. You will not be getting my vote, nor an ounce of my respect. You make yourself look like more and more of an old fool by engaging in these shennigans.

And shame on anyone who falls for this ploy. Just because she is a woman does not make her my or any other woman's friend.

Good day,
Rachel Nabors
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So sick and tired.

08.29.2008 08:39 AM
I am so sick right now. So very sick and full of phlegm. I am contenting myself by making my LJ match my site and playing AGD Interactive's free and super-awesome remake of Quest for Glory II. It is fun.

But I feel like a shut in. I've not left the house since... Sunday. Going a bit buggy.
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Greyhound

08.27.2008 12:02 PM
I used to ride the Greyhound to get to conventions and to go on other trips. I once was on a bus going from Jacksonville, Florida, to Washington DC. It was an overnight trip, a long, grueling overnight trip. The buses always get strangely quiet when the night settles in. All you can hear is the rumbling of the engines and rush of things passing by in the darkness on the other side of the window. When you go through a city, all you'll see is lighted billboards, chain signs, and other neon emblems of corporate America.

On that trip from Florida to Washington DC, I tried to sleep. But I would often wake up long enough to see the pavement roaring past underneath us and the same signs float past. I blinked in and out like this over some eight or twelve hours, and then it dawned on me as the sun was coming up:

It's like this everywhere. It's the same signs, same pavement, same world. I can't escape it. It's the same same same. The lights go down, and the people go home, but the truckers and buses keep going. The lights come on, and every day the same dance start all over again. Get in cars, go to work, eat food, go home to bed. The same same same. It's an oiled machine that just grinds on and on. How much of this country is paved? How much land has been covered by crappy chain stores that bring us crappy food or crappy goods? Morning comes, the machine fires up, it brings profit to the ones who own it, and we blindly go about our lives as though ours was the only KFC and Walmart in the world. We feel content because we bought some thing that crawled its way up the highway into our arms or because we had a particularly satisfying meal that came from a freezer compartment on an eighteen wheeler supplying the same dinner to every other Applebee's on the eastern seaboard.

That one night on the Greyhound, when I covered all that ground between the south and north but couldn't tell one town from the next, had a very strong effect on me, although I'm not sure what effect that was.
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Managing a comic: what do you use?

08.27.2008 11:22 AM
ComicPress, the Wordpress-based comics blog theme, seems to be the comic manage of choice these days. But I'm curious, is there anything else that is popular? And if not, what sort of additions to people add to their ComicPress installations?

I'm getting ready to put comics on my site again and need to make with the instally.
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Men cheat because girls don't like sex and aren't sexy enough.

08.25.2008 11:20 AM
Leigh turned my inexhaustible rage to this video on CosmoTV, by way of femisting, of course:
WARNING: This show features gross generalizations from an idiot who has no idea why the guys in her life keeping having sex with women who aren't her. Does she have a degree? Probably not. She's just an editor in chief for Cosmo, which is little more than advertising tarted up with annoying quips and some slick design. From the sound of it, she doesn't even have sex. By no means is this woman an authority on anything but editing a tarted up advertising rag, but she's being interviewed by another woman, so the unsuspecting public automatically assumes, oh, this must be some kind of psychologist or marriage counselor. Why do men cheat? Truth is, she has no f-ing idea.

That would make even Carrie Bradshaw throw up on her Manolo Blahniks.

This little show is filled with so much condescending stereotyping that it's a disservice not just to women, but to men as well! I would go so far as to say that Kate, the woman being interviewed, hates men far more than even the most zealous feminist ever could. She certainly doesn't give the opposite sex much credit by painting them as little more than drooling apes who must be forced to wear chastity belts because, hyuk, there's just no helping them! Gosh and golly, the poor things are unable to think with anything but their penis and can't be expected to make decisions or practice self-control. The little dears! Is it me, or does that sound a little like how men regarded women back in the Good Ole Days? Poor little dears can't be trusted with money or responsibility!

When I hear men talking about women like we're irrational creatures that think of nothing but shopping, I get pissed. When I hear women talking about men like they're irrational creatures who think of nothing but sex, I get pissed. I'm a woman, and I think about sex. A lot. Even now that I have a mate who can regularly help me with that, I still think about it. By Kate's description, because I can't stop thinking about sex, I should be running around screwing lots of guys because one just isn't enough. She completely disregards the emotional and psychological reasons people cheat--or can't cheat.

Let's break it down! (Queue the 90's rap intro.)

It seems like men are hardwired to cheat.
What? Why would anyone say that? Does every man cheat? No. What about women? We're the ones who can have orgasm after orgasm. Aren't we hardwired to cheat, too?

Well, of course women cheat to sometimes, I'm sure.
Let's just blow right past the (probably equally) large number of women who fool around on men. I mean, they're just sluts. They're not like you and me. They totally would stab their own kind in the back. Not like this whole video isn't doing that already by blaming you for the emotional and sexual shortcomings of your mate choice. Pfft, silly!

Men aren't as discriminating.
Seriously, anyone who can decorate an entire house in brown must have horrible taste in everything. And face it, every time a guy cheats, it's always with someone far inferior to our awesome-ness.

They get restless.
Oh, like girls don't get restless. Normal people, when they get restless in a relationship, don't run out and ruin it by having sex with someone not their partner because that tends to end the relationship. I'm not a psychologist, but I'd be willing to go so far as to say that when a man cheats, it may be his cowardly way of trying to end a relationship without actually having to say the words, "I don't love you anymore." It's a glorified form of procrastination that involves the thrill of possibly getting caught at any moment. I totally pulled that out of my ass and it makes more sense than what Kate is saying. That's so bad.

You're not paying enough attention to him.
Oh, honey, look at me! Look at me! I made you a macaroni picture of Jesus! That didn't get her to put down the dishes, leave the kids to their homework and start giving me head? Darn, I guess I'll go down to the bar, drink myself silly, and take a complete stranger to a hotel. Sigh.

There's just not enough excitement. Guys just love variety.
This is beginning to remind me of the French and Saunders skit about the so-called television expert who just makes stuff up as she goes along, depending on the topic. Kate thinks that all men need a harem to be satisfied. Need I remind you that a woman is capable of far more orgasms in one day, but when we start fooling around, no one suggests the we need a hotel packed with sexy, exotic men trussed up in all sorts of bondage gear and... long... flowing hair... to be... satisfied... with little... boots...

I'm sorry, where were we? Right. Men crave variety and lots of sex. Women want macaroni and cheese and romance novels. We have absolutely no thoughts about crazy bondage hotels filled with men who have no problems getting naked with each other. No thoughts at all. Men are the ones with the imaginations and crazy sex drives, not women. Right.... vinyl boots...

Guys cheat primarily because they really love sex.
And I bet they rape because they really love sex, too. Wait, by leaving women out of this statement, it's implied that women don't really love sex, and hence are incapable of cheating, except for those oversexed slut whores mentioned above. They'll cheat on anything that moves! Poor boyfriends should be dating someone nicer and undersexed, like you. Oh wait, that interferes with our next tip...

There's not enough sex.
From what I hear, there can be too much. Remember Peg from married with children? It is possible for a woman to hump a man to death. I know this. You know this. Kate, she does not know this. And I always thought that women's number one complaint when a man started fooling around was that there was less sex than before. So obviously the woman has needs! I'm just saying, it's not about needs not being met. That undertone irked me in the Sex and the City movie. It was it's one faltering point.

Cuddle less, copulate more. In more poses. With more outfits. And maybe with another girl as a prop.
But, but I like cuddles! Obviously men don't need emotional closeness. They just need sex. Lots of it. Keep the sex coming, and they'll be happy forever, even when you want it more than they do. But, hey, society won't be understanding if you need a little external "help" to get your own needs met. You're a girl. Girls aren't supposed to like sex. It makes their makeup run.

If he's cheated before, he'll probably cheat again.
Okay, that is pretty solid advice. When a man cheats, there's really nothing he can do to repair that. It's like a dog that bites, even if it did it just once, it's a loose cannon that is not to be entirely trusted ever again. Studies show that people who cheat tend to be repeat offenders, and I've been told first hand that the first time is the hardest and after that, it gets easier to do.

But they cheat because they're addicted to sex.
Not because they're mentally messed up in any way. No, that's just how normal, healthy boys act! And don't be alarmed if he starts torturing baby ducks or burning anthills, either!

But you can forgive him if he was cheating on a self-absorbed bitch.
Because you would never expect him to put your career and happiness first. You're not a bitch.

If you think he had a valid reason for cheating and feel you can forgive him, sure! It could work out!
And monkeys could fly out of my butt. First of all, is there ever a valid reason for cheating? Secondly, can you ever forgive someone for betraying the trust you so openly gave them? Can you ever fully give them that trust again?

Mass media tries to push on us that if we aren't Perfect Women 100% of the time, with perfect hair, perfect bodies, perfect makeup, teeth, shoes, houses, kids, husbands, pets, vacume cleaners--the list goes on--then of course our pitiable, primative man-creature husbands and lovers will go crawling off to some other, far more perfect but much more evil, woman to get their rocks off because we have failed in our womanly duties. OMG, you couldn't juggle bringing home the bacon, cooking it, raising your kids and rubbing your slimy husband's feet while reciting "she sells seashells by the seashore" thirty times fast. Bitch, you deserve what you get! Hire a nanny and get back on that bed with your legs spread in some $100 negligee from one of our advertisers!

I love this guy's response to their video. It's surprising that a stuffed animal has so much wisdom:

I am severely disappointed at the naivety of Cosmo's editors. I'm so sad there are still women this in the dark.

Have some Dawn French sorbet:

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Sarah Haskins plugging time! CHICK FLICKS!

08.22.2008 11:41 PM

If you can see the above, go here: http://current.com/items/89225444_target_women_chick_flicks

I love you Sarah.
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Comicker friends attending SPX: step forth!

08.22.2008 08:24 AM
Are any of you going to SPX? I need to know! (Hint: There might be an award in it for you. Shh.)
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Art post.

08.20.2008 12:16 AM
Listen up, you. Huzzah:

Heheheh, I bet that made you look twice. No, the art is not mine, but the colors, the flowers, and the general design are. You can see the original inked pencils by Leigh Dragoon here. You're looking at artwork for a comics/graphic novel synthesized by Leigh and I. It's the chapter cover for the first part. I'll be writing, coloring, and laying out the panels for the comic, and Leigh's on character development and art. We both work on the story.

Now for shameless promotion!

Do you know my friend Justin Jordan? Well, he's got a creepy, mechanical, mysterious comic up at Zuda. (If you want to know how it ends, you'll have to vote for him so he can stay on the site!) Best of luck to him! I enjoyed reading it!

A friend of mine asked me to spread the word about a friend of hers who is looking for his missing daughter. Hey, the internet sometimes does wonderful things. Lets see if it can reunite a family. Please check out this video if you have a spare moment.

And just a reminder that if we can cobble together an additional $300 or so to push the donation drive pas $8,000, Sequential Tart's Katherine Keller will donate $500 of her own money to help fix me jaw.

And Salon is doing a series of essays on being, well, poor. How in keeping with the times. (But if it ever becomes so widespread as to come in vogue, I was poor long before it became fashionable! Hahaha, just kidding. It will never be fashionable.)
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I need a new MP3 player for my computer.

08.19.2008 01:41 PM
Urgh. I had to install an IE7 standalone so I could make sure my sites display properly in it as well as IE6.

IE7 kills Musicmatch Jukebox. Yes, my beloved Jukebox refuses to work. So I need to move on. Only, I can't think of what else to use. What do you recommend?

I remember someone once telling me you can stream radio using Winamp. That could be a neat feature.

And no, iTunes will not suffice! Like most of Apple's products, I find it confusing. Plus, I don't use iTunes, so any benefit their interconnectivity provides is lost on me.
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Katherine Keller is a good woman: Sequential Tart lends a hand

08.18.2008 10:53 PM

Katherine Keller posted about my toothy dilemma on Sequential Tart. She said that if we reach $8,000 by the end of September, she'll pitch in $500 of her own.

If you like comics, and you like women, you need to check out her site, SequentialTart.com. She's head Editrix there, and it shows through the quality of their offerings.

Once again, I am touched by the kindness of others. Economic times are rough, and there's little to go around. I don't expect anyone to have much to spare at all. But here's a woman kindly offering so much. I feel honored.
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I have returned from the orthodontist: of poverty and teeth.

08.16.2008 10:13 PM

Before I start, I would like to thank everyone who has donated in the past few days. Thanks to you guys, we're at $7637.21 USD. That's over $100 in one week. Thank you so much. It's people like you who keep me from giving up or despairing.

So I recently went to see my new orthodontist, and now I have a shiny estimate for 20 months of braces. I posted the estimate on flickr for you to read, but in short, it comes to about $6000.

I paid the $25 for the visit, but the $280 setup fee will have to wait until I've consulted with an orthognathic surgeon first. If I pay all $6000 up front, they knock $350 off. I will probably do that because I already know I'll be going through with this, and thanks to the generous donations of people, I have enough cash to do that. In that news, I've applied for a PayPal debit card so I can pay for it all without the donation money ever touching my bank account. Nifty, huh? And Leigh is auditing the PayPal account, too, so rest assured I won't use the money for chai lattes :) I'm still sort of in shock that so many people have made it possible to get braces. But, there's still so far to go with the surgery, which may be more complicated than originally estimated.

They gave me a copy of the evaluation that states that I really do need surgery (no, it's not in my head)! Look for yourself.

I'm sure there are people out there who have the notion that this is some sort of cosmetic whim. Trust me, if I gave cared about how my teeth looked, I would have insisted on getting braces when I was teenager (and I'd have wanted my teeth whitened, too, to get rid of all the tea stains). It was only when I was too old to qualify for any state help that I learned that, oops, I have a crooked jaw that is shifting my teeth around and causing my jaw bone to thin, my joints to wear out, and my teeth to loosen.

It's not just crooked teeth. It's a crooked jaw. A crooked face.

We have enough in the fund to cover the braces, but he thnks I might need some extra surgery on my upper jaw (so, um, right, expect that $10,000 estimate for surgery to jump to $15,000). So we're about $9-14k away from surgery.

Anyway, he doesn't want to slap the braces on until I get a second opinion from an orthognathic surgeon. He also thinks I should get some kind of insurance (being unemployed right now, that makes me laugh), and said he'd call some fellows to see which, if any, insurance companies pitch in for this sort of thing. Although, he did warn that often they will tell you they will cover something until you send them the bill, leaving you stuck with the fees! Isn't that fun? Isn't it? This uncertainty??

So I'm waiting to hear back from him with those insurance companies, but I have a suspicion I won't, as dental people are notoriously absentminded. I also don't have any faith that insurance is the answer, as I have not received one email during the fund raising from a person with my condition where it was covered by insurance. I have received many from people who had my condition who stated the opposite: insurance companies have little to no interest in paying for your expensive surgery that prevents your teeth from falling out of your head. But they might cover replacements!

I liked the people at the office. No bullshitting. No pressure tactics (in fact, he said that my teeth have been out of whack for so long another month or two to straighten things up with the surgeon won't hurt). I also got to look at x-rays (which they didn't charge for, but wouldn't let me leave with copies of, or I would show them to you). They took one of my entire head, and damn if I don't have the biggest jaw I've ever seen on a girl.

The assistant, when she was getting my information before we started all this, was fairly optimistic, as they all are, actually playing with the idea that my crossbite might be fixed with orthodontry and braces alone. And then she took the x-rays.

There's a point during all of these visits when the people involved realize you aren't some kind of hypochondriac and you aren't overreacting. You can watch as it dawns on the uninitiated that, oh shit, this girl needs expensive surgery in her face! And she's poor! How's this going to work? The assistant looked at the x-ray of my head and said what I've always known. "See, no one would ever know you have such a deviation. You have a perfect profile."

Other bits of useful information I gleaned from the visit:
1. My teeth will start moving around faster and faster as I age. (This is why I can't put this off until, say, I've gone to college, made a career for myself and become a billionaire. My teeth/jaw will be severely damaged and thinned by then.)

2. For the first year of braces leading up to surgery, I will feel like my bite is getting worse rather than better. (This is why I didn't buy that lipstick the other day. Try feeling good about putting something on when you don't recognize your face in the mirror.) As my teeth are hauled into their correct positions, they won't be able to compensated for my bad bite. I'm actually cool with this, because it means I'll be on the road to a fixed jaw. Appearance doesn't matter to me. Functionality, longterm use, those matter.

3. For the love of god, don't eat chewy things, including steaks and chicken breasts! No gum, caramel or taffy. No carrot sticks. No crunchy cereal. (I already know this, but it was reiterated to me so I thought I would impress upon it here.)

4. My jaw joint that's coming unhinged will probably never be good as new, but at least it won't get too far gone. I'm actually really happy that all it does is pop out of place from time to time. I've gotten emails from people whose mouths get stuck open or won't open much at all. A weak joint seems like nothing in comparison.

5. I will have to wear a retainer two or three times a week for the rest of my life. That saddens me, but I accept it.

It could be worse, yes, I could live on the streets or have expensive-to-cure but deadly cancer. But my problem could also not exist. I could also spend $15-25k on a college education that sets me up for a life of reasonable employment. But no, every little scrap I get is going to go into fixing something that's wrong with my body, something that shouldn't be broken. It makes me so sad. And my case isn't even terminal! I'm not going to die, just wear out my jaw! What about people with horrible illnesses in my position? What happens to them? Do they fall through the cracks, too?

I have been reading a set of blog entries about firsthand bankruptcy and poverty that Leigh linked to. I'll repost them here:
Broke Part 1
Broke Part 2
Broke Part 3

I haven't finished reading them all yet, so expect further ranting to come, having been impoverished for most of my life (I even qualified for medicaid while I was under 19). I will say this much, though. People don't get it. Like that assistant who was surprised that my profile was normal, perfect even, but it masked a deviation. You can't see it, so I must not have a problem. You can't see poverty, so I must not be poor.

The working poor are all around us. They check you out at the grocery store. They clean up after you at Target. They have their own dreams and aspirations, and we would like to think that they are stuck there because of a lack of determination or effort, but more often than not, the causes are external.

But we like to place the blame on them because it removes the guilt we would feel as a failure of human society. But what are we doing to help them, to lift them up, to prevent them from falling so far? It's hard to live your dreams when you're struggling to keep your head above water.

The next time you're out and someone is serving you, at a checkout, at the diner, driving your bus, please, look them in the eye and thank them and mean it.
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Front page, ho!

08.16.2008 01:02 PM
I think I've got my front page looking the way I want it. Lookit!

I'll be feeding my latest LJ post onto the front page. Right now I'm testing for whether or not LJ posts can be trusted to validate.
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You know the site design is coming to a head when I pull out the And One.

08.15.2008 10:34 PM

My site redesign is quickly progressing to a close. It's time to play some Metalhammer.

"Thank you for the money. Help me to survive. Metalhammer, Metalhammer. Help me to stay alive."

I guess I like the metallic clank. Goes well with hitting keys.

Now for some puffery. The CSS behind this baby is so tight. I am proud. I made this the hardest project I could think of. Fluid widths, golden ratios, bulletproof boxes, sIFR, image replacements, pixys. I wanted to be able to say, "Yeah, I can do that," and point at my site for an example. The nicest part is that it's all brilliantly subtle. There are bells and whistles, but you won't hear them for the symphony.

I hope to show you soon.
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28 GHOSTS IV - Nine Inch Nails ("I always meant to say goodbye.")

08.15.2008 08:55 PM

Linky-poo to a music vid for a Nine Inch Nails song I renamed "I always meant to say goodbye."

I find I do that a lot with NIN songs, especially from the Ghosts set, which have no names.

Here are some others (my names in parens):
16 Ghosts II (Casbah party)
33 Ghosts IV (Jittery Cat Dancers and Dead Birds)
15 Ghosts II (In the Dead Colonel's Garden)

What are yours? Please share.
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Thirsty for more?

Try these on for size:

Earlier entries from my Livejournal.
January 2005-2006 Archives from the defunct Greymatter blog.