wish I heard his voice more often

[foxtongue]

BABIES AS WEAPONS is the most twisted thing you will see today, even if you're a regular at ModBlog. It's the inelegant site of XenoSapien, a man in the States who believes he is "suffering from deep feminist-culture side-effects." I hope he never discovers gifs, as the flame motif is bad enough already. (Warning: for reasons unknown he plays inappropriate music very loudly). The front page has a pencil sketch named MyPain of a woman dressed as a stripper about to whip a prostrate man with a baby that's still attached to her by an umbilical cord that snakes from between her legs. For added wtf, the diapered baby seems to be angrily shouting into a microphone. The entire thing gives me the quesy feeling he watches Wicker Man and touches himself on Friday nights.

"NASA can no longer afford the future."

Plans for making a Jacob's Ladder from readily available parts.

Today has been full of unexpected phone calls, disco light moments, when the blare of music fades into almost silence at the exact moment you see her face. Theatre people, friends, night and day. Someone's finally read my pen written letters, public transit edited. A long distance shout from an ex-lover, three defeated countries away, sunburned voice peeling across the lines, unexpected and welcome and a little puzzling. I love him, but why now? Little mirrors refracting light, circling in the room. Another chrome ring, pick-up-the-phone - a potential investor, in town from Memphis, surprise, someone I've been considering handing the project off to once I get it up on its feet and properly connected to my city. (We all know I want to leave.) I'm cancelling my plans this evening so as to see him.

Just as a reminder: Bertolt Brecht's Life of Galileo opens tomorrow at The Western Front. Further details here. I'm going, are you? Especially quick comments have a chance at a comp.

Comments

[skonen-blades.livejournal.com]

That NASA news saddens me on an almost spiritual level. It feels like I should just start digging.

[porphyre.livejournal.com]

I'm already looking at the price of shovels.

[inri33.livejournal.com]

The weirdest bit to me is that I know (and like) the song being played at XenoSapien. It's 'Erase/Rewind' by the Cardigans

[porphyre.livejournal.com]

I know the song too, it's just very strange to have playing.

[umbriel.livejournal.com]

Hurrah for Brecht! (particularly the Caucasian Chalk Circle, which if it had been playing instead of Life of Galileo would have created a spooky conjunction with babies as weapons)
Hurrah for ESA! (the future's not over juuuuust yet)

[metrocentric.livejournal.com]

That BWA thing - you know when you're reading something, and you're thinking 'This is a parody, there'll be some kind of punchline in a minute that reveals it all as a pisstake...' And then there isn't and you're left with the dreadful truth that someone really thinks that way.

On the other hand, webpages like that were what used to make the internet so road-kill fascinating back in the late 90s...

[porphyre.livejournal.com]

I think the greatest shame is that rather than address his unhealthy relationship, he's shifting blame so far to field. There's very little discussion about how PEOPLE are like this, no, it's only women, the oppressors, not even just the one he referred to as HIS woman, but all of us. It's end of the spctrum stuff, and just as badly thought out and insupportable as the opposite arguement, that all males are violent rapists.

[(Anonymous)]

He was thretened and forced to close his site, because of the comment about the fraud company.