i planned on doing a collage of still life with beer photos and us on fire island drinking beer from paper bags and is drunk and sprawled out on the bed. but i quickly realized that we have no old pics on the blog.
between the both of us with our computer issues and giving up servers and the great hard drive meltdown of ‘07 there are no more.
i was really sad about it and then i thought maybe, just maybe, thats a good thing.
we can make more
i love you and im happy that you are happy finally.
happy birthday and howzabout we get some new pics tonight to put up tomorrow?
Paris. Get the camera out of your crotch for one second.
Ready?
Just because a single “boo-hoo-larry-they-just-dont-understand-how-much-i-want-to-be-good” trip to Rwanda was canceled isn’t any reason to be STRIPPING IN NYC.
I’ll admit it. I devoted a free five minutes today to idiocy.
Can you guess what I was doing? That’s right, I was trying to figure out how much free time the pigeon people (who are obviously too busy googling themselves to be out saving pigeons) could devote to the heavy research around allusion for their cause… and then (like an engagement gift) these two gems from another Johanna (maybe it’s the name?) found themselves on my IM:
Urban Wildlife Coalition founder Johana Clearfield sent Quinn a letter calling her “clueless…pigeons have nothing in common with rats.” And Clearfield also wrote that saying “flying rats” was an “epithet… much like the n-word.”
And while this recent quote is hip-deep in ignorance, Johanna has apparently been chatting up the horrifying plight of pigeons for years. Her letter to the editor of New York Magazine [“ Intelligencer: Die, Pigeon, Die!,” by Corrie Pikul, May 16]:
There was an eerie resemblance between the photos of tortured pigeons and those of the Abu Ghraib victims. I’m furious that the only animals we respect are fuzzy ones on leashes. — Johanna Clearfield, Brooklyn
Joanna, and Johanna… listen. I’d like this to be the last post. But I’m quite sure it won’t be. My guess is that you will respond with something inane about how much Ronald Regan loved pigeons, and Gothamist, the Post, and the random blogs of NYC will keep pulling quotes from you beacuse your insanity spikes their page views, and ultimately makes them more money. And the rest of us will continue to take a sick delight in our free five minutes every fucking day knowing that people like you run around Central Park in bikinis because it means when we see someone who actually gives a shit about the plight of pigeons, and uses the accidental soap box for good rather than trying to let the paparazzi take a shot of your pantyless crotch we’ll give a damn and help.
Well, Landry won’t. She hates pigeons. But you get my point…
Jennifer 1: The actress Elizabeth Berkley runs self esteem workshops for girls. Yes, that’s right, the actress from SHOWGIRLS is showing girls how to be empowered.
Jennifer 2: At least the site is pink with sparkles. How do I put hearts over my ‘i’s in email again?
Jennifer 1: There’s a great Flash plug-in that does that, and also puts lipstick kisses when you sign every email.
Jennifer 2: I assume it shortens my skirt by a few inches before job interviews too?
Jennifer 1: Yes, and you can toggle the blouse unbuttoning feature, too.
ok…i didnt plan on another post today but this borders on an emergency.
i was looking at gothamist which i almost never do because its what everyone does and im contrary.
I have nothing against them, i just figure that if there is something on there that i should know about, i will get an email from one of the 200 other people that i know who read it religiously or it will be someones gchat mood message.
i digress.
so there was a stabbing in front of jbls house in park slope last night and Gothamist was apparently the only local blog carrying anything about it so i looked. there wasnt much info about it so i was poking around and came across this
Quote:
“…..Joanna Tierno who moderates a pigeon Internet group, “It’s definitely going to kill pigeons by starvation. It’s just a horrible idea just to kill off all these innocent animals, and for what reason? You can’t help but remember the Holocaust. Jews were killed because people didn’t want to look at them anymore.”
im pretty sure i dont have to start screaming about her allusionary use of the holocoust right? people are already looking up her address to off her. what im concerned about is:
“moderates a pigeon Internet group”
i am officially blaming her post facto, for my not being a vegetarian anymore.
one of my favorite bands growing up was Prefab Sprout. Nik and I spent countless hours listening to “Two Wheels Good”
its is angst for the over achieving teen. as was most of the stuff that we were listening to at that time. no one knew who they were and better than that they made fun of our taste in music when those fuckers were rocking out to Hughey Lewis and the asswipe News . They couldn’t tell music from the sound of nails on a chalk board…
wow…its really easy for me to start to spiral into hate isnt it?
so, for my birthday, one of the things i didn’t hate was the remastered box set of “Two Wheels Good” that Bryce gave me. Though this time, its called by its original name “Steve McQueen” and it is phenomenal.
It has acoustic versions of everything; some brilliant, some…eh.
I still listen to the original pretty frequently and luckily at least 1/2 of my Prefab stuff was salvaged in the “Great Hard Drive Meltdown of 2007″ so I was easily able to switch back and forth between the songs from the original and the remastered songs.
……and *that* is where i turn into a big nerd.
over the years i have gone on and on about just how horrible Rudy Giuliani is. and that “America’s Mayor” is nothing but a fascist bastard. He has no diplomacy and he ran NYC like a dictatorship. he was NOT…i repeat NOT single handedly responsible for “cleaning up NYC” (aka “disney-fying”). if he is responsible for that, then he is also responsible for how completely fucking boring its become.
not to get myself too deep into a swirling vortex of hate i will get on with my point…
this shouldn’t surprise me and yet, it does.
im not sure if thats because im secretly optimistic that people will see right through that Stalin-esque rat or because i know people are so fucking gullible that if they didnt live through his iron fisted reign, they will see him as the hero with the bullhorn.
i think Andy Borowitz at Huffington Post sums it up nicely
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ps…im working on a cross post with kyle called: 2007: The Year In Conservative Sex Scandals. however its going to take awhile and i have had to make an excel spreadsheet so im sure you can *guess* how long thats going to take.
