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.
thank “Bob” for Pay Day!!
and ESPECIALLY: the most sincerest possible thanks ever to all the Discordians and Subgenii who came to my rescue in ways far too innumerable to count (at least in base 10). (you know who you are.) THANK YOU!!!
should you happen into the books & magazines section of the Krogers [grocery store] on Dayton-Yellow Springs Rd in Fairborn, OH, and should you happen to look at the endcap in the middle row, containing, as it were, mostly current-events titles, and should you happen to run across a package of falafel, sitting somewhat conspicuously next to Bill O’Reilly’s new children’s book…
i didn’t do it.
i’ve noticed, Doc, that over the course of the last coupla weeks, i’ve begun writing words, particularly first words (of a sentence or phrase), starting with the second letter. were i not watching myself do this, i would be omitting the first letter entirely. it happens more often than i can say i’m comfortable with.
ME: well, actually, i thought it was, er, very, uh, sort of… erudite… and astute.
HER: erudite?
ME: it was “well put.”
HER (choking): them big words don’t do right by me!
LJ’d by Lisa:
i’ve been learning more about republicans and what they stand for. i still instinctively yell “EVIL!!!!” inside my head when i learn someone is republican, but i’ve also finally admitted to myself that the world is not so black and white.and i think i’ve finally put my views of current politics into a consise passage on another message board (filled with mostly 11-24 year-olds, some of whom are intelligent, many of whom repeat the cliches of their parents and the news, and many of whom place a large emphasis on the candidates’ personality traits), which i will relate to you here.
bush stands where he stands, even if that’s on a country needlessly running itself into the ground and alienating itself from all its friends.
kerry flipflops just as much as every other politician throughout history who is trying to get elected.
presidents do not weild supreme power. the work of people throughout the country determine its destiny, and regardless of a democrat or republican in office, the house and senate perform checks and balances to make sure that neither party “ruins” america.
unfortunately, the balance has been thrown off by corporate politics. meaning, big businesses have been running the show through money and pressure. when CEOs control the country, you know the government has failed, and needs to be replaced.
terrorists strike on the basis of foreign policy, not because we’re “free” or we have kerry in office. they strike because we decimate their countries, humiliate them, and then leave them to clean up our mess.
america is a superpower. but nobody survives long without help from the rest of the world. bush has put us on the path toward destruction. most of you cannot imagine a world where you can’t just do and say and buy anything you want, but that’s not how most of the world works. in the days following sept. 11, we knew how a lot of people around the world have to live every single day of their lives, often because of america’s poor choices in foreign policy. if our politics in general don’t change, we’ll very likely begin to get more and more doses of what we have been dishing out to (currently) less powerful countries.
time to look at the bigger picture.
couldn’t agree more.
thanks to the brilliant and ever-helpful saint_durrutti for pointing out that The Smoking Gun has the entire complaint up. it’s quite amazing to behold.
btw, i’ve never seen so much airbrushing. i bet whoever doctored up that photo of Bill must have had to run down to the hardware shop 6 times or more just for paint. this, of course, after the original photographer probably caused a run on gauze that very likely contributed indirectly to the deaths of scores of honest, hardworking Americans in Long Island emergency rooms.
Bill O’Reilly, FOXNews’ Head Bully, has [allegedly] been sexually harrassing an associate producer of his show, “The O’Reilly Factor.”
no, seriously, you’ve GOT to see this:
“If any woman ever breathed a word I’ll make her pay so dearly that she’ll wish she’d never been born. I’ll rake her through the mud, bring up things in her life and make her so miserable that she’ll be destroyed.”
oh.
yikes.
Go, Republica! voter registration fraud… on the loose! (thanks to retrev for the link)
also: Why Conservatives Must Not Vote for Bush (thanks to pope_guilty for the link)
Seymour Hersh, speaking at UC Berkeley, as transcribed by Jonathan Schwarz:
HERSH: I got a call last week from a soldier — it’s different now, a lot of communication, 800 numbers. He’s an American officer and he was in a unit halfway between Baghdad and the Syrian border. It’s a place where we claim we’ve done great work at cleaning out the insurgency. He was a platoon commander. First lieutenant, ROTC guy.
It was a call about this. He had been bivouacing outside of town with his platoon. It was near, it was an agricultural area, and there was a granary around. And the guys that owned the granary, the Iraqis that owned the granary… It was an area that the insurgency had some control, but it was very quiet, it was not Fallujah. It was a town that was off the mainstream. Not much violence there. And his guys, the guys that owned the granary, had hired, my guess is from his language, I wasn’t explicit — we’re talking not more than three dozen, thirty or so guards. Any kind of work people were dying to do. So Iraqis were guarding the granary. His troops were bivouaced, they were stationed there, they got to know everybody…
They were a couple weeks together, they knew each other. So orders came down from the generals in Baghdad, we want to clear the village, like in Samarra. And as he told the story, another platoon from his company came and executed all the guards, as his people were screaming, stop. And he said they just shot them one by one. He went nuts, and his soldiers went nuts. And he’s hysterical. He’s totally hysterical. And he went to the captain. He was a lieutenant, he went to the company captain. And the company captain said, “No, you don’t understand. That’s a kill. We got thirty-six insurgents.”
You read those stories where the Americans, we take a city, we had a combat, a hundred and fifteen insurgents are killed. You read those stories. It’s shades of Vietnam again, folks, body counts…
You know what I told him? I said, fella, I said: you’ve complained to the captain. He knows you think they committed murder. Your troops know their fellow soldiers committed murder. Shut up. Just shut up. Get through your tour and just shut up. You’re going to get a bullet in the back. You don’t need that. And that’s where we are with this war.
horrific. absolutely horrific.
hello! i know you’re out there! care to introduce yourselves? there’s not much that i know about you, but i’d sure like to become friends!
http://www.boycottsinclairbroadcasting.com/pages/1/index.htm
http://boycottsinclair.blogspot.com/
http://www.stopsinclair.org/index.php
Sinclair Broadcasting Group will be pre-empting it’s regularly scheduled television programming just a few days prior to the upcoming presidential election, by airing an anti-Kerry propaganda film made by Carlton Sherwood, who apparently worked for Tom Ridge, landed a gig running part of Homeland Security’s media operations; and whose previous films also include a movie about the U.S. government’s “persecution” of the “Rev.” Sun Young Moon (better known as the confidence man behind the so-called “moonies” sect). according to Josh Marshall,
Sherwood’s report was so ‘independent’ that he let Moon’s representatives pre-screen it and make changes to the text. They also reportedly agreed to buy 100,000 copies of the book for good measure.
Mark Hyman: [email protected] Vice President for Corporate Relations
David Smith: [email protected] CEO
Joe Defeo: [email protected] Corporate News Director
Slashdot: Censoring the Net with a Hotmail Account. Also featured: companies to avoid (or possibly consider) hosting your website with.
Summary:
a bunch of people post public-domain work on ten sites hosted various places on the internet, then fake like they own the copyright, and complain about their own former iterations to the hosting companies – 7 of which promptly pulled the plug on the respective site (and only one pointing out that the work in question was indeed public domain).
Summary:
the last home game for the Washington Redskins before the American presidential election presages the outcome of the latter contest. From Snopes.
days to go until Pay Day: 7
number of U.S. Dollars to name: ~$7
number of cigarettes left: ~25
number of unpaid bills: 3
percentage of psyche devoted purely to freaking out: ~78%
…and i’m so hungry i could cry.
my first [almost useful[ blogging over at the Vat includes some pretty interesting news. read about the biggest single eBay videogame auction, the forthcoming Nintendo DS, the Doom 3 movie, and the cool site of the day. basically just links to other people’s stories, but a decent collection of Interesting Things to Know If You Are a Gamer.
The Vat Magazine
happy birthday to redrosebud, who doesn’t post nearly enough, but is one of the coolest people on the intarweb!
Donald Rumsfeld:
“We have what we consider to be very reliable reporting of senior-level contacts going back a decade, and of possible chemical and biological agent training. And when I say ‘contacts,’ I mean between Iraq and al-Qaida.”
(09/26/02)
“To my knowledge, I have not seen any strong, hard evidence that links [Saddam Hussein & Al-Qaeda].”
(10/04/04)
(source)
awwwww… isn’t it bittersweet to watch Our Little Man grow up?
i just got about 3 or 4 answers wrong out of all of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy quizzes (excluding the Marvin one). it’s cool to know that after all these years, i’m still such a HHGG fanboy.
which is why it excites me tremendously to know that there is in fact a movie being made (official site | fansite), and that principal shooting is in fact already completed. you’ll be quite surprised at the cast. of particular interest is:
now, most of you are probably rejoicing at the casting of Tim Freeman, wondering just what the fuck Malkovich will be doing, cursing or loving the new Marvin, etc.; and more than that, wondering quite seriously at the notion of having not just a fucking American as Ford Prefect, but a Black American, and one best known for being a rapper.
i was a little shocked at first (i admit – hey, i’ve been seeing David Dixon as Ford in my head for years), but after about a half a second, agreed that there is nothing weird at all about Ford Prefect being black, and got on with the business of wondering why the hell he was going to be an American (note: at least HALF of the cast is American anyway, so whatever), and wondering just how Mos Def would pull it off. he’s well-known as a prodigy in many areas already, so that’s cool… but you really have to see a picture of him as Ford to know that he’s going to make one zarking hell of a Ford Prefect!!
(teaser trailer here)
(and, of course, the new radio series here)
i have, at this moment, and for the past several days, had two (2) browsers open (the supurb Firefox and the sublime Opera), with well over a dozen tabs up in each.
i’ve got to get around to dealing with all of this.
for now, though, i think it best to just free up some space. so i decided to just post the bulk of the fuckers up here and the hell with it. therefore, i present to you:
debate transcript here. watch it here. (thanks to the great saint_durrutti for the CSPAN link).
i haven’t yet caught it, but i will definitely read the transcript tonight.
we are SHIT poor right now. i rolled up pennies and nickels and dimes and (thank “Bob”) quarters today, not for the EXTRA cash, but for the CASH ITSELF! we still have 3 weeks to go before we gets paid, and we’re rapidly running out of Ramen (and gasoline)! we can pay our rent (otherwise, we’d have outrageous late-fees that increase daily), but after that, not any other bills (rent is virtually every dime we have right now, and it’s due by Friday). i’m not sure how we’re going to get through this period.
so if you wanna help out, give me an assigment (i can make you a website, a picture, a poem, a story, a song… whatever you want!) and paypal me at [email protected].
seriously… a, for example, ten page website for $50 is a steal and a half (times 10, actually). and i will most certainly negotiate! a song will cost you at the very least $15, since i have to get guitar strings or risk tetnus. give me a topic with as much detail as necessary!
i may be a whore, but at least i’m YOUR whore!
