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30 September 2004
Woe to tresspassers  
I am armed. I now have a sword. Yay sword! It's for sword dancing, of course, that I can be cheeky and saucy and dangerous when I dance--more dangerous than I already am. It's a very giddy sensation, holding a scimitar, feeling the weight and the total sense of seriousness that accompanies it. After all, it is an object that could seriously hurt if not kill other people, and I don't want that.

It's a great resposibility to dance with it, and not just have it on the wall or something. It's a very great responsibility, but it's also a beautiful thing to be able to dance with one. Beautiful, impressive, and really fun.

Now, I have to go find that translation of the poem in Monteverdi's "Songs of Love and War" in which there is a female fighter going up against her lover (it's sad, they don't know it's each other as they're fighting).

Liz the Mischievous renovated @ 08:11 (0) scribes commenting

29 September 2004
Nip/Tuck  
I about bawled my head off at the end! It was so sad. Then again, that was my 'ship in Nip/Tuck. I don't want them to kill off Gina!

As for the serial rapist/mutilator, something makes me think that it's the chippie life-coach. We already know she's deranged. After all, she slept with her (adopted) son when he was 12 on up to when he was 17-18. And when the Cutter got to Sean, s/he got in through Matt's window.

Of coruse, the season finale is next week, and then no more new Nip/Tucks for a while. *sigh*

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23 September 2004
Not a political rant! Goodness!  
Not that I couldn't find something to rant about if I desired... I just choose not to at the moment. right now, I choose to remark about my growing addiction to Nip/Tuck. Okay... grown addiction. It was already there last season. Of course, this current season pushes more buttons. There's a rather squicky subplot about a Life-coach sleeping with her son. Well, it turns out he's adopted, as if that lessens the squick factor. As if that makes her any less of a predator. I hope she gets what's coming to her. Knowing Nip/Tuck, she will in a creative way. *crosses fingers*

I'm also disappointed in what they're doing to Christian's love life. No Kimber! Kimber sucks! Okay, Kimber was all right with Sean, even though Sean belongs with Julia... but Kimber and Christian? *shakes head* I really want Christian with Gina again, because they were way too amusing. Then again, there was Wilbur in the early moments (Christian's non-son that that he loved as if it was his own little baby).

Ah well... Nip/Tuck amuses me.

And yes, this post is a day late since Nip/Tuck is on Tuesdays and it is now Thursday.

But look... not a rant on W!

Liz the Mischievous renovated @ 08:50 (0) scribes commenting

16 September 2004
Being informed makes me angry  
I feel very sorry for my friend Liz because she has to listen to it all day. I only get it in the morning, and it makes me angry. I hear self-contradicting stump speaches from the Shrub and all the cheers that go along with it (from the greatly screened and hand-picked audience), and I cringe and I get angry.

I wonder how it is that W. thinks that he can both have a hands-off government (since he accuses the Kerry campaign of wanting government in your business) and yet propose a bunch of programs that would make for an even-larger government than there is now. AND at the same time, talking about his goddamned tax cuts (of which I never saw a change, so thanks W. for helping out those at the bottom of the pay-scale *rolls eyes*) and making them permanent. So how the HELL is he going to pay for all these programs he proposes?

This only convinces me more than I'm already convinced that W. talks out of his ass.

The current president is a moron, and deserves to be voted out of office. He's royally screwed the country, and that's bad. Very bad. We can change this. We can.

Liz the Mischievous renovated @ 09:11 (0) scribes commenting

03 September 2004
Permit a moment of panic...  
The joys of home-ownership. I was greeted this morning when I went to go pack my lunch for work by a pool of water under my fridge. This greatly displeased me, furthermore, it worries me. I have a sneaking suspicion it's got something to do with the water line running from the cold water to the fridge that there might be automatic ice made and cold filtered water. What worries me, is that the water might have been leaking long before now, and if it was, that it may have rotted the floor.

I am not in the mood for an emergency floor-replacement. This is my greatest fear. I know replacing the kitchen floor was something of a "need to do in the future" but I don't want it to be NOW. NOW is a bad time for this to happen. It is a VERY bad time for this to happen. It makes me cringe thinking about it.

The worst bit is that I can't find out the situation until I get home from work. *sigh* There goes my mental concentration!

Liz the Mischievous renovated @ 09:44 (0) scribes commenting

02 September 2004
More Soapboxing... because I can.  
Sometime soon, I'll have to sit and blog about my vacation. Until then, just these little bits of information that I like pointing out, because I believe in being informed. I know it's standing on the political soapbox, but this is my space on the web, and I live in a country where (supposedly) there is free speach, and it is my right. So, another article:

Imperial President - Opposing Bush becomes unpatriotic.

Quote from the article:

In a democracy, the commander in chief works for you. You hire him when you elect him. You watch him do the job. If he makes good decisions and serves your interests, you rehire him. If he doesn't, you fire him by voting for his opponent in the next election.

Not every country works this way. In some countries, the commander in chief builds a propaganda apparatus that equates him with the military and the nation. If you object that he's making bad decisions and disserving the national interest, you're accused of weakening the nation, undermining its security, sabotaging the commander in chief, and serving a foreign power


It's no secret where I stand on my feelings about this. I don't subscribe to saying something over and over and thus making it true. That makes me sick to my stomach. If you hit the same points over and over again, blatant lies, you'll convince people that it is true.

I'm sick of people who will go and not admit that they were wrong. I'm sick of people going through and framing things in black and white, when there is so much going on in Washington, so many unrelated things attached to bills in congress that you can support a piece of legislation, but not all the riders that are attached to it.

I'm sick of people who see things only in black and white, deliberately hiding the truth and misleading the public. I'm sorry, that is NOT Democracy. It is not democracy when people who question the policies of the president are branded unAmerican and unpatriotic.

And when it comes to analyzing the records of what happened in a war 30 years ago when did:

Decorated Veteran = bad military leadership
and
AWOL National-guardsman = good military leadership

Huh?

Anyone who disappeared from the air national guard for a year has NO reason to blackball someone who actually saw combat.

"No president wants to go to war."

BULLSHIT.

Iraq was a target from day one. They were just waiting for an excuse.

I'm disgusted. And I'm a voter. And guess who is NOT getting my vote this year.

Liz the Mischievous renovated @ 12:05 (0) scribes commenting