transmothrajae lethe (he/she/they) is a blogger, musician, artist, poet, web developer/designer, armchair philosophizer, teller of tales, and gadabout. Also, something he calls a "behavioral artist." (Not sure.) She has plans. BIG plans.
Among the things that he has done for a laugh are minor fractures, cuts, scrapes, and various scabs. Though she's quick to point out that they're no imbecile, we're fairly certain that he thinks the word means some kind of medieval pharmacist.
This is her latest home on teh internets - where jae stores their swear words, when they're not hurling them at the sun in vain.
Texas arresting people in bars for being drunk
Interesting article about hypocrisy and “pro-life”
V for Vendetta: fucking completely awesome. They did it right, and they did it well indeed. We need V here in the Former United States.
Prince’s new album is so good, it’s scary.
tomorrow, i’ll be making an appearance at the Bigger Rd Veterinary Clinic, and then it’s off to see V for Vendetta! wheeeeee!!!
installed a ton of new plugins for my WordPress. still have to get Gravatars, Ultimate Tag Warrior, and In-Series installed. those ‘uns are too heavy to lift at the moment.
Jackie Corley‘s manuscript for At the Slaughter is fantastic so far. everything that made the earlier drafts i’ve read so damn good, and more. when you see it in the bookstores, PICK IT UP. it’s so heavy, and yet such a fun read. a wonderfully tragic story about a wonderfully tragic character. i’m only a little ways through, though. must read more tomorrow, and also figure out how to get networking fixed so i can print it out and read it at work.
The prodigious and prolific Jackie Corley has provided me with what looks to be one yummy manuscript.
The thrillride is called At the Slaughter and within a couple of years you’re going to have read it, too. This is going to be the book that changes people’s lives, like The Catcher in the Rye and On the Road once did (and continue to do so today). It’s going to break records and win every award there is on Earth.
It’s about a tragic kid named Foster O’Reilly. Remember that name. Foster is the most complex and compelling character i think i may have ever run into, in a book, or even in real life. She will grab you by the balls someday and not let go.
The first paragraph is amazing. So far, i’d bet my life that she’s nailed it, in her inimitable way.
Jackie Corley. Foster O’Reilly. Two names, one crushing heartfuck of a book. Remember.
Must go read it now. L8r sk8rz.
My name is jeremy, and i am a whore.
Yes, i now have Google AdSense on my site. What do you expect? No self-respecting self-taught creative type with no prospects of bettering themselves through landing a gig in their chosen field without having actual formal training would want to work in a customer service call center forever!
Ok, i may be dreaming here. But at least Your Clicks can help me pay for this site.
If i can at least pay for my hosting, i’ll be happy… and have YOU to thank.
Another fantastic night out at the Stockyard’s Inn. The Razor Ridge Band (currently Holly’s dad Tim, uncle Matt & best friend Sarah – Matt’s wife) played better and more confidently than last time. Sarah and Matt did amazing harmony. Tim sang better and stronger too, and played such a fine and harmonic dobro. My new hero Dennis Rotterman played in a three-piece and they sounded terrific. I actually had three whole entire beers. A great time and many laughs were had.
I’m just posting this in the hopes that some day she’ll Google herself and find me. She’s my half-sister, who i’ve always wanted to meet, but never got the chance to, because during those precious few weeks where we were more or less in touch, i was a pathetic loser drunkard.
Thankfully, now i’m just a pathetic loser.
It occurred to me the other day that it’s been well over 6 or 7 months now since i’ve actually been drunk. I’ve had up to two beers at a time, about once every month or two. But it only gives me a headache now.
But i digress. If anyone stumbles upon this post and knows where Karma is, or can tell her i’m out here, then please be kind and share my info with her, or let me know how she’s doing at the least.
Thanks.
[UPDATE, 2012] Thanks to Facebook, my sis and i have been in touch! Hopefully someday one of us will be able to come visit the other.thank you, LJ, for the more Userpics
jesus, what happened in here?
nobody hardly posts on LJ anymore? nobody comments on anything? did everyone leave for that nasty-assed MySpace? or, hell, was it something i said?
i dunno, it just seems so… empty in here lately.
picture pages, picture pages,
omg i thought my dog was disgusting!
My good friend (and Tecumseh Local Schools alumnus), the erudite, highly regarded, intelligent, and witty Kathy Espich (a.k.a. howdypumpkin) has this to say about the local “civil rights” case:
I called Jim Gay the day after I last posted here…The student that was harrassed is alleged to have been harrassed simply by being present while another student wore Klan attire. The student that wore the Klan attire was presenting a book report on a book that was anti-racism and pro-equality. The student did, in fact, don a Klan outfit at a point in a presentation and then removed it prior to ending the presentation. It was to be a demonstration of what certain people in the book looked like – what they wore. There was no active harrassment of anyone. At worst, the student giving the report made a bad call – thinking that it was just going to be a great way to boost their grade. At best, it would have been a non issue.
My question is, who is really the victim here? The student who viewed someone in Klan attire for a few moments? The student who worked hard on a report and went out of their way to give a complete presentation and is now, effectively, being harrassed for it? The mother who saw an opportunity to get at the admin/teachers she had some problem with? The teachers/admin people who will have to justify their actions in allowing a student to do something extra in a report that someone chose to interpret in a negative way? My children, who might now be further limited in their ability to express themselves in school? Or me – as a taxpayer – who is funding this exercise in futility? I’m kind of sick about the whole thing, really.
And, my biggest question is this: at what point would wearing a Klan uniform be quantified as harrassment? Surely, if someone’s in your yard and menacing you while wearing Klan attire, that’s a problem. But, if the child was harrassed simply by being in the presence of someone wearing the outfit in a historic presentation of such, then wouldn’t they be equally harrassed by visiting the Smithsonian or doing a google image search for same, or by viewing the movie “Fried Green Tomatoes“? Where is the line drawn in this case?
(linkage inserted editorially)
Kathy works as a local 911 dispatcher, and knows how grotesquely evil-hearted the media can be, having fielded numerous calls from bloodthirsty reporters looking for the latest deliciously morbid scoop.
If you ask me, and i’m not saying if you did or not, but i’d say Shanee Stevens is just out to make a fast buck. I don’t know the woman, so i can’t say what she’s like, and i’m no big fan of white people, but this case is starting to stink of greed, or at the very least, a gross misunderstanding of events.
Remember that Civil Rights case involving a local student at Olive Branch Middle School? New information is coming to light. It turns out that the offending party was indeed wearing a Klan outfit… briefly, as one part of a book report on an anti-racism/pro-equality book. The Klan getup was meant to demonstrate what some of the people in the book looked like. The kid may not have used the very finest judgment, but it sure seems now like it’s much ado about nothing. (A fuller report will come later, courtesy of a certain “Deep Throat”, who courageously went in where i dared not to uncover more details.)
Two questions spring to mind:
We’ll have to wait and see what the answers to these questions may turn out to be….
for now, until i get some, ahem, actual content up, i’ve at least managed to put some pictures on all the pages. (see menu, top)
what’s your URI? if you have your own site, please give me your web address so i can link to it on www.jeremyjarratt.com. friends only, please… and it has to be your site, not some stupid site you found that you like to laugh at. don’t bother with your LJ or MySpace address. i’ll get to those at some point.
thanks, and yer welcome!
Word Riot, a monthly online literary magazine, is celebrating 4 years this month! If’n you read books, you’ll want to head on over to their publishing node and buy a couple, because they’ve got some of the best and brightest new talent around these days.
Now if ever their incredibly talented EIC herself would get her own Great Work done… that girl is like James Baldwin or something! Come on! But she does have an awful lot on her plate these days, career-wise and et cetera.
Anyway: Throw the goat (and dollars) at WR!
I’ve been getting the music bug. This weekend i had the pleasure of seeing Holly’s dad Tim, uncle Matt, and, er… “aunt” Sarah play a pretty darn good quasi-bluegrass set (including a great cover of Neil Young’s “I Am A Child” – Matt & Sarah sing amazing harmony, and Tim is a tasty dobro player) at the Stockyard’s Inn on Springfield Street in Dayton (which, incidentally, used to be a brothel and still has red velvet wallpaper), but also a fantastic musician named Dennis Rotterman, who is an amazing player and songwriter. I hope to see him around lots more. If you haven’t seen him, you’ve been missing out; and if you have seen him, you probably wonder, like me, why he isn’t, like, famous or something.
In case you’re wondering, i’m not into bluegrass. It’s ok, i guess, but so much of the songs are either religious (yuck!) or sad-assed backward-staring gave-up boo-hoos. There are simply far too many better things to do than cry into a glass of beer in between pretending that you’re filled with something called “the holy spirit”.
my god, it is far too late to be up. i have to be at work in 8 hours! enough for now.
…and now the site passes XHTML validation (with some few per-post errors)! i moved a couple things, added a copyright, changed the lists on the sidebar very slightly, and generally cleaned house.
i swear to “Bob” i will also eventually put content up under the new links (up top).
cleaning up the layout a little bit. no more yucky slowdown in IE: i figured out that IE doesn’t like to repeat a background image, at least one with transparency, too many times; so instead of using the smallest possible denominator of pixels to show a grid, i simply repeated the pattern within the image itself a few times. in this case, i changed the grid to vertical lines; but where i might have liked to use, say, 2×1 pixels to repeat across the element, i used something like 2×75 to reduce the overall repeats. not sure why this strange behavior isn’t better known or more widely documented, but i may have to experiment with it more in the future.
also fixed a couple of positioning errors on my part. the sidebar isn’t the most consistent, because some of my sections there have heading elements within list tags, while others don’t, possibly owing to different plugins having been created for different versions of WordPress, or for different themes, and so on.
Merrill Keiser Jr. is running for office, and he wants to kill gay people.
seriously: wtf? and what’s with the forfeiting of rights with the “belief” in evolution?
please… if you happen to support this man’s views: don’t vote. you’re an idiot. kill yourself now.
(thanks to the brilliant pope_guilty for the link)
George W. Bush is an idiot, and most of us are ready to acknowledge that now. Thanks to Aimercat for the quick post!