saturday morning me//
ran/showered/java'd/juiced/
navy sports bra & leggings/tennies/
huffing/puffing/trying to stay alive/
packing my lunch for work til 5/
listening: jane's addiction's kettle whistle/
so how about you?/

So many blogs; such a small attention span.

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Satirical Living Will

I, _________________________, do not wish to be kept alive by artificial means. Under no circumstances should my fate be put in the hands of a pesticide applier/congressman who couldn't pass ninth-grade biology, or a doctor/ congressman/ chain hospital owner who thinks that AIDS can be transmitted by tears.

If a reasonable amount of time passes and I fail to sit up and ask for a cold beer, it should be presumed that I won't ever get better. At such time, I instruct my spouse and attending physician to pull the plug and call it a day.

Under no circumstances shall the members of a Legislature enact a special law to keep me on life-support machinery. It is my wish that these boneheads mind their own damn business, and pay attention instead to the health, education and future of the millions of Americans who aren't in a permanent coma.

I don't care how many fundamentalist votes politicians are trying to scrounge for their run for the presidency in 2008, it is my wish that they play politics with someone else's life and leave me alone to die in peace.

I couldn't care less if religious zealots send e-mails to legislators in which they pretend to care about me. I don't know these people, and I certainly haven't authorized them to preach and crusade on my behalf. If any of my family goes against my wishes and turns my case into a political cause, I hereby promise to haunt them with a set of chains to make sure they never sleep well again.

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Signature

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Witness

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Fire up your media device, mp3 player, and set to random play, and then list the first ten songs that come up.

My Friday Random 10 - April 2

1. Beck - Girl
2. Frank Zappa - Motherly Love
3. Malcolm Holcombe - I Never Heard You Knockin'
4. Sonic Youth - Skink
5. Rolling Stones - Waiting On A Friend
6. CSN&Y - Ohio
7. Alice in Chains - Right Turn
8. Robert Plant - Shine It All Around
9. Dead Meadow - Heaven
10. Animal Collective - We Tigers

Now it's your turn to play along. Either in the comments, at Feministe, (who originated Friday Random 10) or on your own blog.

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Tripping Thru The Web, April 1 Edition

Happy St Stupid's Day!
Celebrated by The First Church of the Last Laugh. The 27th annual absurd parade wanders, totters and meanders around, starting at the Embarcadero Plaza. Bring old lottery tickets, pennies and socks for the stations of stupid, and dress accordingly. Free. Noon. Justin Herman Plaza. (SF, CA) I feel a little silly, does that count?

Ilustration Friday is a photo meme with a weekly challenge. This week's topic is, "Crowded".
(via: Anne?)

And speaking of photos, take a look at this one Marie took of the Blue Ridge Mtns. Adjectives fail me.

Comedian Mitch Hedberg dies at 37 - That's sad. He had the dry-est delivery of any comedian I'd ever heard. A truely unique individual. I saw his first television appearance, which was on Letterman several years ago, and every chance I had after that.
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Sez the Rev Falwell:
"Grown men should not be having sex with prostitutes unless they are married to them."
[more noxious gems...] (via: maru whow gets best quote of the day honors for this: Boy, will he be suprised to find out that the Almighty is a liberal black lesbian... )

I Spy A Screw-Up - Latest column in which Maureen Dowd calls bullshit.

NYPress's 50 Most Loathsome New Yorkers list is relentless. It must have been a blast constructing this column. Better duck, bloggers. The shit's slinging in your direction, too, as the first target is the " Franken-headed Gawker Media emperor Nick Denton". Priceless.
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There's a brand spanking new collaborative blog in town. The Scarab Dreamer, is ticking with wild anticipation. Go on over and have a look.

Art With Latex Designs has great looking necklaces and chokers uniquely make of latex so I'll be having one when I can make up my mind. (via: ollapodrida who's in the midst of a posting frenzy of most excellent links and we're all the beneficiaries.)

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In The Realms Of The Unreal is a celebration of the power of individual creativity. Henry Darger (1892-1973) is in many respects the prototypical "outsider" artist: a recluse who created a startling imaginary world in his rented room, unbeknownst to anyone but himself. In 1973, at a Catholic poor house in Chicago, an 81-year-old retired janitor quietly died. Just months earlier, he had moved from the rented room where he had lived for over 40 years. When his landlords, Nathan and Kiyoko Lerner, cleaned out the clutter room, they discovered paintings: hundreds of brilliant watercolors, some over 10 feet long. The images were disturbing and mysteriously beautiful: little girls frolicking under stormy skies, little girls fighting soldiers, little girls being rescued by fantastic winged creatures. In many images, the girls were drawn naked, with penises.

The landlords soon found the other half of Darger’s life’s work, perhaps the longest novel ever written: the more than 15,000 page, single-spaced typed In the Realms of the Unreal, an epic story of the virtuous Vivian girls and their religious war against the evil Glandelinian army. For most of his life, Henry Darger, a recluse whom others called "Crazy", had lived in this rich fantasy world. It was a world he had kept to himself.

Today, Henry Darger is considered to be one of America’s foremost outsider artists: an untaught artist working in isolation from the commercial or public eye. IN THE REALMS OF THE UNREAL, an adventurous documentary feature, explores the fantastic vision and shadowy life of this enigmatic artist. trailer; Artwork

via: true names

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