“It’s All Sticky!”
Since most of us have long forgotten (though I can name specific people on my friends list that I know haven’t), today is the 35th anniversary of Neil Armstrong’s landing on the moon.
Of course, the Apollo missions were all complete fakes, as reputable psychics and conspiracy theorists will tell you. The truth is that both Americans and the Soviets have been on the moon since the early 50’s, where we have established a diplomatic post for our continuing negotiations with the Xothar Dominion. There is, however, no truth to the rumor that German war criminals escaped Earth around that time to set up their own base in the southern hemisphere of the dark side. Fnord.
Monday POEE e-supplement
Officials discuss postponing Election Day, fearing terrorism: would this not be another case of handing terrorists the very victory they ask for, that of disrupting our society and political process? Assuming an attack was planned, would not competent terrorists be able to adjust their plans for a postponement? Do we really want to give our government the power to delay elections as long as they feel necessary? When I was younger, I read the Reader’s Digest version of The R Document; a tale of a government conspiracy to declare martial law in the US and suspend the Bill of Rights indefinitely. Of course, I enjoyed it as a fantasy tale that “can’t happen here”.
Speaking of reading, I finished Perdido Street Station this weekend. I picked up the book after hearing much hype about this winner of multiple awards and runner-up for others. Book review
Technicon 21 report
The element of Technicon that has stayed with me most this morning is the great pain in my legs from dancing too much too quickly Saturday night. Oh, yes… and I think that next time raininva and I go to India Garden, we’re ordering just bland chicken “tanders” and the garlic “naan” (bread). Our stomachs aren’t international enough for much else.
The Few, The Proud, The Odd
Found this while looking up some furry info:
Furry fan to web columnist: I’m offended by how you bid for cheap laughs by portraying furries as sexual deviants in your previous column. Some of us just suit up and role-play for the experience of being a fur!
Web columnist to furry fan: Chill out. The Trekkies learned to accept being made fun of years ago, you’ll have to also. Besides, wearing a fursuit for the purposes of kinky sex makes more sense to me than wearing one for any other reason…
Why am I referring to this? It’s beginning to seem to me that openly, honestly weird folk seem to get a lot more back-handed respect than the timidly weird, the “weird only on weekends”, the “weird as a form of social protest” types. When one’s cheerfully, openly different, yet basically functional in society, they’ll still be made fun of, but there’ll be an undertone of sneaking admiration for someone brave enough to take a different path and make it work.
On the other hand, the posers, the people who only act different ’cause they’re not getting enough attention, the ones who need to constantly defend their differences to people who really don’t care, seem to draw more honest scorn.
Hmmm…
So, there’s frequently this guy at the convenience store where I pick up my Cokes for work. He’s often there in the early morning, and he stands in the store talking loudly and incoherently to nobody at all. Sometimes he’ll stand near the counter, going on about something (something important to him, from his tone) and one of the clerks there will give me an apologetic grin… then he’ll wander outside and stand next to the pay phones for a while, all without pausing in his rambling.
He disturbs me. I try not to look directly at him.
That is all.
The Basics
My LiveJournal “interpreted”:
Nothing like getting ready to Lisa and Vond’s Leaving for a whirlpool jacuzzis to avoid unnaturally repetitive motion And Halloween costumes to post my Borg parts I probably can probably hover walked two of my car, I miss costuming pics of my hip. Walked a location. Nothing like I’m going still under Gene Roddenberry’s inflexible hand, told me? The copies I already have to catch up with what I’d like some of.
Soon, I’ll be an air conditioned, level track to the combined Books.
(Try it yourself at: http://www.antispin.net/~martine/cgi-bin/insanity.cgi?mikailborg – you’ll probably want to replace my username with yours)
