This story about a gypsy childhood just hits me in the chest.
I changed schools 17 times. If I could, I’d live out of a suitcase bouncing around the world from one place to another. But the Kid, the Kid still complains because we changed houses once in the last 6 years- not schools but houses.
Oh to be on the road I would give anything.
And in the very very near future- I will be. (Details are still top secret- I shall fill you all in when I can).
h/t to Od (yes, we spend way too much time together chatting online- what of it?) for sending me this most impressive piece of awesome.
You should know, before reading this, that my gmail status is set to “Hold on there Margaret Atwood, you’ll get shaken baby syndrom” and that is why I am Margaret. OD is Sparkles because she is mildly peeved that I stole that for my staus before she did. Sucker.
me: Yes- sparkles- I know you are off doing important things, but i thought I should tell someone that i appear to be in the center of a silent police action- lots of flashing lights but no sirens, and a helicopter circling around with big spotlights
Ouyang: i am horribly underread
Edited to add
Ouyang: you forgot to mention my obsession w/ spam
me: if they can’t remember that I posted an entire video about spam dedicated to you then they are too dumb to be reading
Ouyang: bwahahaha
I have to learn how to make a gluten free version of this plus add the lights and sound effects in time for the Kid’s birthday next March.
I am fairly sure that peace in the middle east is an easier prospect than a wheat free, special effects ladden tardis cake.
Ah the moralizing middles, what would us poor people do if they weren’t around to preach to us about the goodness of fresh, organic fruits and veggies and lean meats and unprocessed foods. I mean here I’ve been subsisting on a diet of macdonald’s and frozen pizzas when all along I could be feeding my family nutritious salads and whole grains!
Seriously, virtuous foodies are just one more aspect of the middle class values that don’t solve poverty. The whole spiel about eating healthy means jack shit if you don’t give people the money and the access to actually eat healthy. It’s just another way to make poor moms (and it is specifically moms) feel like shit because organic apples are 4 bucks a pound and that’s out of the budget.
We poor moms,we know about nutrition. We’ve had it pounded into our brains the same way you have that more produce, less processed is good. Some of us (ahemmmm) are even foodies ourselves.I’ve been cooking since I was way younger than the kid, and the Kid has his mom’s foodie tendencies. He reads cookbooks like he reads comics. And there are very few women in America who don’t know what the calorie per gram amount is for sugars, fats, proteins and alcohol- even poor women. We get it.
What we don’t get is the money to make that standard of living possible. We have to pack as much caloric punch into a dollar as possible. And I’ll tell you, when all you’ve got is a buck and you’re starving, a snickers goes a whole lot further than a bucks worth of organic celery and carrots.
So unless the virtuous foodies are gonna go screaming to congress about food stamp allotments that allow for organics and farmers markets that take ebt cards and tax incentives to get grocery stores into food deserts, then suck it.
I don’t need another lecture.
I play to win.
So Joe Wilson- douche du jour (douche du jour may have to become a regular feature)who heckled Obama’s healthcare speech (still not a fan of Obama- but what would the reaction have been if a dem had done that to Bushy).
So someone set up this lovely site to help garner support for Wilson’s opponent.
After refreshing a few times, I gotta say if you’re gonna play, go all out. So I think these need to be added to the Wilson Disses
Joe wilson has an unusual relationship to hood ornaments
joe wilson doesn’t wear a flag pin
joe wilson inhaled
joe wilson loves to smell his own farts
joe wilson bites his tonails, fungus and all
Joe Wilson eats endangered species eggs for breakfast
joe wilson took candy from a baby
Joe Wilson kicks puppies
Feel free to add your own in comments -but any insult that insults more people than just Joe Wilson- ie sexist, racist, classist, ableist, homophobis, etc- will be turned into the barney song.
One more time folks-
There is no magical piece of clothing that will save you from oppression. A bikini is no more freeing than a burka, and vice versa. Women all over the world, in every kind of clothing imaginable, have been raped, harassed, groped, cat called, killed, etc.
There is no magic piece of clothing because clothing is always just an excuse or a symptom, and not the cause of abuse.
We will know we are free when a woman, any woman, anywhere, can walk down any street naked as the day she was born and not be bothered. Since that day is still very far off, arguing over the merits of one form of clothing over another as tools for liberation is silly.
The clothes don’t dictate the oppression, the oppression dictates the wardrobe.
Who says feminists hate men, or that women aren’t visually stimulated?
For Gidget Commando- Cade Courtly (how have I been missing him on my tv?)
And since I tend towards the very British when it comes to imaginary crushes:
And from the best spy show ever (Spooks) :
(Ruth watched one episode of this show with me and her immediate comment was something about how I was totally having gay sex fantasies about these two- and she was right)
And the ONLY thing that make the Twilight movie worth watching is this guy- granted he is totally breaking the french rule for age difference (half your age plus 7) and my own personal “if they can’t buy their own drink they are too young” rule. But he’s still pretty to look at.
Leave your lusty requests in comments.
It should not be the only option available to poor young people. It should only be performed by people who truly want to do it, and not people who are only selling their bodies into service because safer methods of making a living are unavailable. And the people that choose to perform these kinds of jobs should have every single measure of protection available to them.