| Archaeboozeology |
[Nov. 16th, 2009|08:22 pm] |
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| | Kate Bush -- Under Ice | ] |
Drilling for Scotch whiskey on frozen continent A beverage company has asked a team to drill through Antarctica's ice for a lost cache of some vintage Scotch whiskey that has been on the rocks since a century ago. The drillers will be trying to reach two crates of McKinlay and Co. whiskey that were shipped to the Antarctic by British polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton as part of his abandoned 1909 expedition. Workers from New Zealand's Antarctic Heritage Trust will use special drills to reach the crates, frozen in Antarctic ice under the Nimrod Expedition hut near Cape Royds. Al Fastier, who will lead the expedition in January, said restoration workers found the crates of whiskey under the hut's floorboards in 2006. At the time, the crates and bottles were too deeply embedded in ice to be dislodged. The New Zealanders have agreed to try to retrieve some bottles, although the rest must stay under conservation guidelines agreed by 12 Antarctic Treaty nations. [...] Richard Paterson, Whyte & Mackay's master blender, said the Shackleton expedition's whiskey could still be drinkable and taste exactly as it did 100 years ago. If he can get a sample, he intends to replicate the old Scotch and put McKinlay whiskey back on sale. "I really hope we can get some back here," he was quoted as telling London's Telegraph newspaper. "It's been laying there lonely and neglected. It should come back to Scotland where it was born. Previously, previously, previously. |
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[Nov. 16th, 2009|10:12 pm] |
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8353578.stm
The Master has been kidnapped. =[
Dear BBC: "The Master" is not about e-mail scamming. It is about duping chemical supply manufacturers with a long con. Only the theme song is about e-mail scamming. You should watch a movie before you make outrageous claims about it.
Full Disclosure: I have a conflict of interest on this particular film because I did the pirate encoding and torrent distribution of this particular VCD. |
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| Time... |
[Nov. 16th, 2009|07:40 pm] |
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| |  frustrated | ] |
The door is always opening then closing again.
Can life stop hurtling past at light speed?
Can a moment be suspended?
I have, as of late, become keenly aware of time's passing. I have no sense of permanence. Some days I feel I have come to terms with this, embracing the constant flux as necessary to change and growth. This is not one of those days.
I think this is why I model. Capturing images within frames is like having a small piece of immortality. But it is never enough... I want to suspend time. I want moments to slow so that I can savor them before they disappear... before I disappear.
Is there any practice or routine that can lend me at least the sensation I seek?
On a connected note, one of my lovelies sent me this definition today:
"Polysaturated" - "Polysaturated" is a term for a polyamorous individual not currently open to more partners either due to to the number of partners, or time constraints.
There are TRULY not enough hours in the day for those whose visage my heart has captured.
That second hand, oh she mocks me. Spiteful bitch. |
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[Nov. 16th, 2009|07:26 pm] |
Adam is now the proud owner of a one-way ticket from Charlotte, NC to San Francisco, CA.
o_o
>_<
Dec. 30th, so we get New Year's together.
#faggotry |
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| Unter Null opening for Nitzer Ebb in Portland, OR 11-20 |
[Nov. 16th, 2009|06:24 pm] |
We're excited to be opening for one of the most influential bands in the electronic/industrial music realm on the 20th of November in Portland, OR.
Joining me on stage will be a full band, including Eric Powell of 16 Volt awesomeness on guitars.
This will be an epic night. See you!
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| I Can't Talk to Famous People |
[Nov. 16th, 2009|04:31 pm] |
I can't talk to famous people. I'm always afraid that I'm going to gush and make an idiot of myself, so I overcorrect in the other direction and ignore them. This is why I don't wait in line to talk to Animatronic Trent Reznor. This is why China Mieville will never realize that we were meant to be together. This is why if Neil Gaiman is on one side of the room, I am guaranteed to be on the other side, shrugging my shoulders and pretending that I've never heard of this guy. I did once tell Meg Lee Chin that I was very impressed by the fact that she did a lot of her own production work and she hugged me.
So my first instinct when Adam Savage came to visit the Mysterious Workplace was to hide behind my desk and busy myself with the vagaries of keeping the crazy people away from the attorneys. I had very important complaints involving demonic Nazi-style remote-directed energy weapons to decipher! Unfortunately, Adam Savage was standing between me and the corn pudding left over from the lunchtime chili cookoff. Nothing stands between me and corn pudding, at least not for very long. I stuck around for long enough to talk about Adam's kids, and next season's myths and math and science, and that recent episode where they kept launching cars off of cliffs, trying to get them to explode, and then I retreated to my desk because the phone was ringing.
I returned to a dozen mocking messages from J, lovingly describing the posh new offices of his corporate overlords. Look at this view! Look at this kitchen, which is full of delicious free Italian food! Look at our custom-built inlaid marble conference table!
The conference table at the Mysterious Workplace is not made from inlaid marble. It is a second or third-hand oversized dinner table situated at an awkward height. I have suggested that we hold all of our future meetings seated around a table made of Adam Savage frozen in carbonite. This would allow me to handily win all future bragging contests with J: so what if your employers have hired servants to carry you to work on a golden litter -- we have the frozen body of Adam Savage! All we'd have to do is dress his wife up in the Slave Leia costume and lure him into...my Mysterious Employers were strangely unenthused.
And besides, we're all out of carbonite. |
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| Forces of nature |
[Nov. 16th, 2009|06:58 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| |  pensive | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Nick Cave - Red right hand/ Barry white - I'm gonna love you | ] |
Hoping to get out of here (I started this at work waiting for J to pick me up, finished it at home) and find a nice place w/ low light pollution to watch the Leonid meteor shower tonight. I'm trying to just lighten up and not make everything so heavy. :sigh: Ah, life... what a strange puzzle. Seeing a beautiful and mysterious force of nature can only help w/ my aim to take it just a bit easier. :) I hope others will think about everything wonderful they have ever known and how we're all under the same vast sky, and all connected at the exact moment I do, b/c that would be cool to have the ability to share consciousness, in some way, shape, fashion or form...Cool and scary, but more cool b/c it is just for one moment- then it's back to all alone inside our own heads. ;) So, hey - there was my serenity inducing thought for this cosmically eventful night, now I wanna know yours: What sorts of beautiful things do you enjoy sensing, or thinking about when life becomes septic and you must suck the poison out of your heart? |
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| Saturday, November 21st: VILLAINY - Star Wars Night |
[Nov. 16th, 2009|02:27 pm] |
Saturday, November 21st
Strangelove presents:
VILLAINY
The Dance Club with a Dark Side
STAR WARS NIGHT
Electro/Dance/Indie/New Wave in the main room.
with DJs TOMAS DIABLO (Strangelove)
PARTY BEN (Bootie)
MITCH (Death Guild)
and STARR (Bondage-a-Go-Go)
Goth/Industrial upstairs.
with DJs MELTING GIRL (Death Guild)
and FACT50 (Shadow Society)
Sexy Sci-Fi Go-Go Dancers
from Jabba’s Palace
Mini-Lightsabers for the first 300 people!
(12" Glowsticks)
Imperial Stormtroopers from the 501st Stormtrooper Legion!
and visuals of the greatest villains from
outer space and galaxies far, far away...
9PM - After Hours
$8 before 10PM, $10 after
21+ with valid photo ID
at DNA LOUNGE
375 Eleventh Street, SF
http://www.villainysf.com/
http://www.dnalounge.com/
http://www.goldengategarrison.com/
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| How news headlines frame the discussion: rhetoric subtleties |
[Nov. 16th, 2009|07:12 pm] |
In this blog post The Last Psychiatrist looks at news headlines following the Ft. Hood incident, and asks us to guess by publication, which headline goes with what publication.
Political inclinations aside, it is an interesting example of how language shapes us, and how it can be used to bias our opinion one way or the other, establishing the frame for the discussion. Or if you prefer, to underline what we should look at by what the publication believes matters.
The author finds this especially important, as he believes most people only skim the headlines to begin with unless they are specifically interested.
In my experience, headlines often have little to do with what's actually written in the content, and in fact, can instigate beliefs contrary to reality which will persist for years.
One such example from my own experience relating to the 2007 Internet attacks against Estonia, what is now often referred to as "The First Internet War". A story came out when Estonia arrested one student for participating, but the title was that the Estonian student was behind the attacks, which is ridiculous, but a lingering belief.
Gadi Evron,
ge@linuxbox.org. |
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[Nov. 16th, 2009|12:10 am] |
Someone from some porn company just emailed me and offered $1500 for me to do a boy/girl scene for them. Look, I've had porn companies vulturing me ever since I was 18 and I will NEVER do mainstream porn. EVER. What I do, I do on MY terms, MY way, with who *I* want to do it with...I will never ever ever fuck some random stranger just because someone pays me to. EVER.
I have no moral issue with pornography or the people who do it, but I am a one-man kind of woman. The sleeping around I do in my rare single off-time I do for the lolz, not for a paycheck. I am not your product and I will not be repackaged and sold as just another a watered down, anonymous commodity for the masses. I have done porn with my exes and profited from that, sure, but those were people I was fucking anyway and they didn't have Herpegonnosyphilaids. I'm not about to risk getting some incurable vagina-dissolving disease just so I can have some extra spending money.
So to all you weird fuckers who troll porn forums and try to get the companies to "recruit" me, cut it the fuck out. It ain't happening. I don't give a flying fuck how butt hurt you are over my constant rejection of your lucrative offers to put me on low grade slut sites. If I ever decide to put material of me out there again, it'll be with my boyfriend and not some poxy porn meathead who leaves his socks on during sex for some freakish reason (like all the guys in porn do...wtf).
kthx. |
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