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Category Archives: Rant
As follows natures flan
Okay, so I always get a bit grumpy about the nature/nurture debate. It seems entirely obvious to me (not the most scientific method I know, but I don’t understand how it could be otherwise) that genetics plays a huge part … Continue reading
Posted in Inchorent, Ramble, Rant, Sexuality
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Gendered Fucking – GenderFuck
More sex and sexuality for the boys and girls and, particularly, the in betweens or outsiders. Spent this morning flicking through a book on Genderqueer identity this morning. Particularly a chapter on definitions of transgender and how they fit into … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Feminism, gender, Language, Mind, Politics, Postmodernism, Rant, Subversion
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Fear and Loathing on a Happy Monday
Stuck in work. This is the second to last shift at the internet place. The place is rammed, due to the Bank’s going on holiday. The only appreciable difference to me is more high pitched squealing all around, and a … Continue reading
Narrativomania – Stories across Genres
Wow, that’s a weird title. I think this is going to be a long and rambling weird one. I’ve been thinking about writing it for too long, and right now, a lot of peggle has made my eyes bleary and … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Fiction, Narrative, Perception, Ramble, Rant, Reading, Reality, Strange, Television, Writing
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Buy Real Estate in Imaginary Places
So, Busdriver’s been inspiring me, but more below than above. I just thought you might want to know why I called the post that. Also, would anyone who wants to help my creative composting pass comments on yesterday’s post, as … Continue reading
Posted in Conflusion, Confused, Creativity, Imagination, Music, Ramble, Rant, Shoddy Conclusions, Weird
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Gimme Some Sass – Gender Funk
So, be warned, this may not be my most forward thinking post, but I’ve been thinking about the contradictions inherent in myself recently, and thought writing about them, whilst posting some relevant videos might be something I could do on … Continue reading
Posted in Aggression, Analysis, Androgynism, Body Image, Boundaries, Changing the World, Chauvinism, Commodication, Confusion, Consumerism, Critique, Culture, Dancing, Debate, DJing, Electronica, Empathy, Equality, Everything, Femininity, Feminism, Gah, gender, Gender Equality, Gender Identity, Gender Play, Gender Roles, Genderfuck, Glamour, Humps, Identity, Ideology, Individuality, Language, life, Mild Mania, Music, Objectification, Observations, Personal, Personal Growth, Perspective, Politics, Problems, Punk, Ramble, Rant, Rude, Self Image, Self Obsession, Self-Identity, Sex, Sexuality, Sexy, Swings and Roundabouts, Thoughts, Transgender, Women
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Take a Picture – On Objects and Souls
Careful everybody, this could be a bit of a bumpy ride. I’ve been reading up on the objectification in porn arguments again. Some interesting and potentially controversial points show up here, and lead me to here. So there’s a lot … Continue reading
Posted in Consumerism, Controversy, Culture, Debate, Empathy, Equality, Ethics, Everything, Feminism, Ideas, Imagery, Imagination, Lechery, Meaning, Media, Objectification, Oppression, People, Photography, Porn, Pornography, Ramble, Rant, Society
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Depressing Results from Online Quiz – Just What I Needed
Picked this up from HPS…what’s my ‘dating persona’? Oh joy I’m: The Manchild Random Brutal Love Dreamer (RBLD) Hopeful. Awkward. Soft-headed. Fire intrigues you. You are The Manchild. Okay, Manchildren have some good qualities. They can be unpredictable, … Continue reading
Posted in Abuse, Analysis, Apathetic Fallacy, Broken, Circles, Confusion, Damn Lies, Depressing, Detachment, Diary?, Emotion, Emotional, Emotions, Empathy, Entropy, Everything, Experience, Feeling Rough, Fire, Fucked up, Gah, Humanity, Identity, Incoherent, Insecurities, Insignificance, Insomnia, Introspective, Kipple, life, Lost, Lost Myself, Love, Mania, Me, Memories, Mild Mania, Mood swings, Personal, Personal Growth, Problems, Processes, Ramble, Rant, Reality, Relationships, Screwed up, Self Indulgent, Self Obsession, Self-Hate, Self-Recrimination, Swings and Roundabouts, Thoughts
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A Peal Four Scents
The bells, the bells. Anyway. Basically, I (being the subversive I am) use Pandora despite not being entirely based in America (I do however have the ability to find out zip codes), and so I’ve been informed of some apparently … Continue reading
I have no voice and I must dream
Damn, damn and damn. I was all up for writing a story today…I started, and it’s just crud. I know where it needs to get to, but I just ended up writing loads of exposition without any actual interest. All … Continue reading
Hopes and Schemes – The Promise of Fiction
So, I have this problem. I love reading, I really love reading. I’ve got huge stacks of books left to read and I’ve read huge stacks of book. The one problem is that bigger than either of these stack, is … Continue reading
Posted in Artistry, Being a 'writer', Books, Creativity, Critique, Hope, Imagination, Narrative, Possibility, Ramble, Rant, Sci-Fi, Science Fiction, Telepathy, Thoughts, Writing
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What the Folk are you on about? – Putting Musical Pigeons in their holes
Music has been treating me grand recently. After a less than satisfying set on Saturday (not enough people there that early, and only about fifteen to twenty minutes of the set really worked….the ending was rushed, I thought it was … Continue reading
Posted in Critique, Culture, Do Make Say Think, Elation, Electronica, Elegaic, Ellis Island Sound, Emotion, Emotional, Empathy, Everything, Folk, Folktronica, Freedom, Genre, Imagery, Imagination, Lost Myself, Mild Mania, Music, Music Theory, Perception, Pigeonholes, Post Folk, Post Rock, Rant, Rock, Self Indulgent, Things that make me Smile, Thoughts, Waves, Weird, Wonderful
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Bald head in the Morning -Not worth the trouble of an argument
So, once again, a shaven area of Britney Spears’ body has grasped the attention of the blogging sphere (or whatever the cool kids are calling it these days). I can’t remember where I first saw this, so I’m satisfying Raincoaster’s … Continue reading
Posted in Britney Spears, Critique, Culture, Equality, Fucked up, gender, Gender Equality, Gender Roles, Haircuts, Identity, Objectification, Rant, Silliness
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Intellectual Detachment – Emotions (are) for Idiots
So, in my previous article on The Squid and the Whale, I commented on the fact that intellectualising stuff can make emotional experiences more troublesome, stressful, painful and more difficult to react to. I think I actually succeeded in entirely … Continue reading
Posted in Abnormality, Apathetic Fallacy, Broken, Detachment, Emotional, Emotions, Empathy, Everything, Experience, Fear, Fucked up, Gah, How to think, Identity, Idiots, Incoherent, Intellectual, Investigation, Language, Learning, life, Logic, Lost Myself, Mania, Meaning, Memories, Mental, Mild Mania, Mind, Mood swings, Multiple Personality Disorder, Music, Nonsense, Observations, Pain, Paranoia, Perception, Personal, Philosophy, Problems, Psychology, Radiohead, Ramble, Rant, Reality, Security, Self, Self Indulgent, Self-Hate, Self-Identity, Self-Recrimination, Squid, Strange, Stupid, Swings and Roundabouts, Terror, Thoughts, Vaguely Postmodern, Weird, Weirdness, Werid, Whale
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