Declare Independence - Linguobatics

One way you can tell a subject is particularly contentious is if you see me taking two sides of the argument on two separate occasions. Especially if I’m the one starting the argument each time and I’m the most vociferous each time.
Particularly when I still can’t decide where I stand.
And especially when I change [...]

Male Feminism - The Other Side of This Coin (Including a confession)

There appears to be fire in my belly.
I was in a distracted state all through Tai Chi yesterday (extra long session) and didn’t feel settled or improved afterwards. I think my head was in an angry state yesterday (I did all the washing up, cleaned the bedroom, though you wouldn’t be able to guess, and [...]

Sleazed to Meat you

Disgusting people in this world.
Still feel smypathy for them, it’s hard not to. People end up having grown up with a warped and stunted view of socialisation. I’m not sure how it happens (though I have my suspicions) but some people seem unable to communicate wholly and fully, naturally and openly with other people.
Their goals, [...]

Too Much Information - Smells and Hair

So, I’m a smelly person.
This has been pointed out to me by strangers and co-workers.  This is a constant source of self esteem issues for me. The awareness that even if I look pretty and am charming,there is a cloud of atmosphere around me that may still make me unnattractive and unpleasant.
It’s not nice. I [...]

When I grow up I want to be a Monkey

So, interesting day in the news today, various bits I could mention. But what struck me as something I wanted to talk about was this business about equality in careers advice.
Obviously, I think this is a good move. It’s ridiculous how gender biased some career expectations are, and it means that we end up with [...]

Bizzarity - Physical Emotions

So, something strange happened to me last night at the pub. I was a little drunk, and kinda moody, but that wasn’t the problem, that’s just what happens when I drink whilst tired. I either go nuts hyper, or I go grumpy. You’d think I’d know this by now.
Anyway, this is supposed to be breaking [...]

Definitely Not Gratuitous - Erotica Eroica

Troublesome.
That’s what it is.
Troublesome.
I’ve hit the climax see. Well. Not the climax, but the crux. This is pretty much the emotional core of the novel, which, if I need to remind you, came to me whilst masturbating and hallucinating at the same time.
Fever’s do weird things, as does not sleeping. Put the two together and [...]

Everybody’s talking at me (about sex)

So.
The world appears to have it in for me today. I’m finding it hard to write, yet a thousand interesting things are being thrust in my direction.
You see, even my metaphors are sexing it up. That may be part of my novel mindset, which is currently still slightly sex obsessed, but for a reason. Basically, [...]

Unholy Matrimony - An Experiment in Ambivalence and Offensiveness (with some Love)

So, Sulz made an intriguing post recently, about love versus faith and the like.
Then I went to a wedding, and I spent a lot of time thinking about things.
Weddings are strange things lodged in modern minds. A lot of me is dead set against them. After all, they represent a victory of tradition over modernity.
They [...]

Crying in the Staff Room - Unimaginable Suffering

Well, not quiet, but seriously, news like this makes me feel physically sick, and reading it at work when I don’t feel like there’s anyone around I can express that kind of distress to is not a fun way to spend your fifteen minute break.
But then, it’s much easier to deal with than trying to [...]

Excitement, Anticipation and Grumpiness - Lots going on right now

Soooo,
I was planning on writing a big Nanowrimo encouragement post, to celebrate the site getting back in business for the 2007 session…and then realised that it’s not going on until the evening…in another country…so I’d be early.
So I’ll do that tomorrow, but for now I anticipate.
Then I stumble upon some great news and spend too [...]

Alternatively Mainstream - Whatever you do don’t Smash the System

So what am I grumpy about today?
Well……Where to start?
We’ll ignore my immediate physical state, which is one of tiredness in the midst of a thirteen hour day of incredibly busy working. Well….we won’t ignore it, so much as briefly mention it in hopes of a sympathy vote.
Elsewhere in the Alabrain…
I work in the AV section [...]

Satisfying - Sex and the Pretty

Innacurate title really. I’m not feeling particularly pretty and I’m not getting any sex. Still…should ramp up the stats a little.
First though, an aside. I lvoe my blog surfer, occasionally I find someone on there who I can’t remember putting in there. Brightfeather is one of these, I can’t remember what made me add her [...]

Misogyny? Probably.

(Three posts in one day….I do spoil you people sometimes…not that anybody is reading them. What the hell.)
Sooo, I read this last week and agreed with it. Then I read this today and kind of agreed with that too.
I can’t really talk, about it as I haven’t seen the film, but I do think that [...]

Out of my Skin - Gaming and Inclusion

Soo…
I’ve talked about Beyond Good and Evil Before. I’ve been playing it again this weekend. I swear…I will never grow tired of that game (interesting note, the opening sequence of the game can synch up absolutely perfectly with ‘In the Court of the Crimson King’ by King Crimson….spot on..including drum breaks as Uncle Pey’j jumps [...]