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crankygirlie
crankygirlie
Wonder Woman
Thu, Nov. 12th, 2009 05:28 am

you thought by now you'd be
so much better than you are
you thought by now they'd see
that you have come so far

hold on
one more time with feeling
try it again, breathing's just a rhythm
say it in your mind until you know that the words are right
this is why we fight

Current Mood: crushed
Current Music: One More Time With Feeling-Regina Spektor-Far (Bonus Track Version)

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deadflowers
deadflowers
deadflowers
Thu, Nov. 12th, 2009 04:41 am

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tehdely
tehdely
Dely.
Wed, Nov. 11th, 2009 10:00 pm

Today:

  • 21:21 I had "retweet" feature for like half a day, and now I don't. I no longer feel special. #twitterfail #really,twitter,really? #mememememememe #
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tidus
tidus
Chris
Wed, Nov. 11th, 2009 07:00 pm


  • 21:38 * Suh-weet! I guess that Google decided that 'cause I gave away all 20 of my Google Wave invites, they'd give me 30 more! Want one? #fb #

- Chris (cK1)

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hawkdancer:
seattle
seattle
Seattle's LiveJournal Community
Wed, Nov. 11th, 2009 06:19 pm

Hello, all you wonderful people!  I hope this isn't going against the rules or anything; I just think this is a fun event that needs to get the word out.

This Thanksgiving weekend, think about heading over to the Indie Banditas handmade craft bazaar!  There will be around 70 local artists and craftspersons from all around the Northwest.  It is on Bainbridge Island, 10 AM to 5 PM Friday the 27th and Saturday the 28th.  There will even be a concert on Saturday!

You want to buy Christmas/Kwanzaa/Hanukkah/Solstice/Festivus gifts for your loved ones, right?  Then why not support local, independent businesses AND give your loved ones one-of-a-kind handmade gifts?  It's win-win!

You can find more information on the website: http://indiebanditas.com/Welcome.html
And a sampling of the vendors who will be there can be found on the blog: http://indiebanditasbazaar.blogspot.com/

Hope to see a least some of you there!


Current Mood: cheerful

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rochelle:
seattle
seattle
Seattle's LiveJournal Community
Wed, Nov. 11th, 2009 06:02 pm

From Real Time 911:

11/11/2009
5:35:51 PM
F090106381
A14 A85 B5 B6 DEP1 E17 E9 L7 L9 M18 M44 R1 SAFT2 STAF10
4500 Aurora Av N
Rescue Heavy

What the heck is happening out there? It sounds like the whole dang police department and all of their helicopters are out there.

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p0stmdrnpr1mt1v
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Wed, Nov. 11th, 2009 03:52 pm

http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/story/949629.html

Beltway sniper John Allen Muhammad spent most of his adult life in Pierce County and Tacoma.

During his 17 years in the South Sound, he married for the second time, raised three children, started a business that failed and saw his second marriage crumble.

Muhammad joined the Army in 1985 and transferred to Fort Lewis. After he was honorably discharged in 1994, Muhammad and his wife, Mildred, moved to a house on South Ainsworth Avenue in Tacoma.
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thespellout
The Spellout
Wed, Nov. 11th, 2009 03:14 pm

The Misfits are playing Studio Seven, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum are playing Neumos, and I'm hidin' under the bed.

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daisy
daisy
daisy
Wed, Nov. 11th, 2009 02:43 pm

If you were close to death, what would you choose for your last words? To whom would you want to say them?

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"I'm right."

To everyone. ;)


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daisy
daisy
daisy
Wed, Nov. 11th, 2009 02:42 pm

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Sadly, I think I'd have to go with Mozart or something equally as "wait, is this still daisy posting?" ish.

There are a lot of albums I LOVE (Appetite for Destruction, Nevermind, Doolittle etc.) but I don't want to hear them for the rest of my life.



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dwell:
lj_maintenance
lj_maintenance
LiveJournal Maintenance
Wed, Nov. 11th, 2009 02:00 pm

On Saturday the 14th at 4AM UTC/GMT we will be upgrading the operating system of our network load balancers to a newer version, one that will allow us to use both CPUs! Nifty, because multiprocessing is nice.

Since we have 2 load balancers, the plan is to upgrade 1 at a time, and there really should be very little impact to our website. Hopefully you won't notice a thing and I'll get to go back to the hotel and watch some wonderful late night infomercials.

We've got a lot of exciting projects coming up for 2010 and we're hoping that we'll be able to deliver them all to you, that you will find it useful/cool/lovely and then you will use the site even more. Behind-the-scenes work like this will give us the capacity to handle the anticipated traffic, so expect a few more maintenance windows especially in the beginning of next year as we've got some neat ideas to improve performance around here! We had the recent 30-45 minute outage yesterday due to one of our logging databases filling up disk space -- not so great design coupled with my human error in handling the initial problem -- and it looks like we're going to finally have some resources to eliminate stuff like that. I can't wait!

As usual, I will be updating status.livejournal.org before and after, just in case you are not able to reach our main website during the work.

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suxdonut
suxdonut
Night Moves
Wed, Nov. 11th, 2009 01:53 pm


we're sick
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the eyes have it - charlie and i are home sick with our new outfits from china!

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wingedcorset
wingedcorset
Molly Mayhem
Wed, Nov. 11th, 2009 01:30 pm

  • 13:34 My slow kitchen sink is no longer draining into the sewer, but backing up my bathroom sink instead. Argh. #
  • 14:37 @Margrethe thanks, but the landlord is sending a plumber. *hugs* #
  • 15:01 This song by @markgrowden always sends shivers down my spine. www.vimeo.com/7503865 #
  • 17:17 Plumber is here! Not the hot plumber I've had before, but hey, as long as he cleans my pipes out... #
  • 20:12 "This isn't bumfuck Egypt. This isn't even fellatio Egypt!" #
  • 08:05 @languid Good morning, Ranty McRanterson. /I completely agree. #
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janinedog
janinedog
Janine
Wed, Nov. 11th, 2009 12:24 pm

Happy birthday to my wonderful, awesome husband. :) This is the first birthday he's had since we've been married...a milestone!

We'll just eat dinner and cake at home tonight, plus watch TV (we're almost done with the first season of Dexter). On Friday we're going out to a nice dinner. It'll be yummy!

So yes...happy birthday my Marky. I hope you have a great day. :)

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suxdonut
suxdonut
Night Moves
Wed, Nov. 11th, 2009 12:14 pm

day 3 of being sick at home with this monster crud cold, oh with the guilts! i only get one guilt free sick day then i feel like i SHOULD be better and back to work already, if i was a good person. lol. esp like im not puking or running a fever, just sleeping constantly and feeling like a woozy snot pool.

well thank you swine flu for finally getting it across to corp. america that when we are sick we should STAY HOME so we don't spread it to our coworkers. ive been pushign that agenda for years. not to mention you heal faster if you rest.

that being said i HOPE im better tomorrow. im ready to return to the living.

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animikwaan
animikwaan
they called her styrene
Wed, Nov. 11th, 2009 11:19 am

I only caught two feature documentaries last night, and I really only have the capacity to talk about one. The other served as a kind of cleansing after the first. This story hits extremely close to home and I've met and heard the stories of dozens of other lost birds whose story can be found in some or most of this film.

The film "Lost Sparrow" left the audience in a dead silence for several minutes after it had ended. The white adoptive brother of the two Crow boys that were the focus of the film is also the filmmaker and was there to answer some extremely difficult questions from the audience. I can say that I don't think the movie settled everything, which is probably alright, life is far from perfect. I can't fathom the amount of courage it took to make this film. I can barely fathom the amount of healing this will have among ndns in both Canada and the U.S.



- - - - -

Lost Sparrow

Some questions are never answered. Some answers are hard to take. Three decades ago, two Crow Indian brothers ran away from home and no one knew why. Their sudden and mysterious deaths sent shockwaves through a tiny upstate New York community.

This is their adoptive brother’s journey to bring Bobby and Tyler home and confront a painful truth that shattered his family.


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sgtred
sgtred
Sgt. Honeybox
Wed, Nov. 11th, 2009 10:59 am

There's a certain place in Pike Place Market that serves some really good juicy/greasy fried chicken, where the skin is perfectly crispy and salty. G grabbed some for an early lunch and a piece for me - much to my pleasure.

Much to my displeasure, fried chicken of this calibur is not appropriate for consumption in a corporate office.

It's a lustful endeavour. The salty flavor embraces salacious tendencies. It must be grabbed with both hands, sink the teeth and enjoy the savory gush in the mouth, tear each morsel with a low growl of pleasure, keeping the lips hovering a whisper upon the crispy flesh as one chews in preparation for the next vigorous bite. The meal is finished by slowing sucking the remaining flavor from the bone, probing each crevasse and stripping any remaining bits with the tongue until it's completely spent.

Definitely not appropriate for the office.

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jeremyrichards
jeremyrichards
Jeremy Richards
Wed, Nov. 11th, 2009 10:00 am

  • 13:20 Sequestering phone booth repair man with vague theological questions and sharing a zebra flesh sandwich. #1hitwonderfollowup ... anyone? #
  • 14:08 Srivani Jade reveals why she left her engineering career to pursue Hindustani music: kuow.org/program.php?id=18776 #fb #
  • 17:14 Think I miscalculated my Total Health Tactic of caramel corn necklaces and Purell martinis. The caramel wards off weak-toothed zombies! #fb #
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p0stmdrnpr1mt1v
p0stm0dern pr1m1t1ve
Wed, Nov. 11th, 2009 12:28 am



http://www.seattlecrimeblog.com/tags/ivette_gonzalez_davila/

almost every day I drive past the murder house and wonder if the new tenants know.

and I wonder if the tub was replaced.




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Current Mood: in love
Current Music: Ministry ~ NATURE OF LOVE

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savagelove
The A.V. Club - Savage Love
Wed, Nov. 11th, 2009 12:00 am

I am a 30-year-old woman, married for five years to a man eight years my senior. Lately I have become more aware that I am turned on by the idea of bondage, specifically men locked up in chastity devices. I am ashamed of myself, because it seems, well, pretty perverse and disturbed.
My husband is a pretty dominant alpha-male type. I am a relatively dominant personality, but I’m a bit submissive around him in order to keep the peace, as he will not tolerate any disagreement in certain situations. So I am wondering: Is this new fetish springing from ...

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thespellout
The Spellout
Tue, Nov. 10th, 2009 09:16 pm

The Seattle International Cabaret Festival, running now through Sunday, November 15, is jam-packed with things that are good.

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tehdely
tehdely
Dely.
Tue, Nov. 10th, 2009 10:00 pm

Today:

  • 12:45 OK, I finally listened to 1 minute of a "Lady Gaga" song today. It was awful. Why the fuck am I supposed to care about her again? #
  • 13:03 Wow that got a lot of responses. OK, she really does look like Orly Taitz, and her music shallowly panders to gays. I'm sold! #
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wesa:
seattle
seattle
Seattle's LiveJournal Community
Tue, Nov. 10th, 2009 07:48 pm

Saw this on Twitter: normal November rainfall for Seattle 1.58", so far this month we've had 2.90. It's only the 10th!

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jito
jito
Joi Ito
Tue, Nov. 10th, 2009 09:38 pm
Joined Public Knowledge board http://ping.fm/wWB8b

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sfgabe
sfgabe
Gabe
Tue, Nov. 10th, 2009 07:02 pm

  • 11:26 thinks it's weird to live in Oakland (5th in crime in US) and see hostages at his tiny little high school in NY - alturl.com/yysv #
  • 17:24 overheard at a Crixa: "I just read Julia Child's Biography and it seemed like she was having so much fun & she didn't even have #twitter." #
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jito
jito
Joi Ito
Tue, Nov. 10th, 2009 07:31 pm
Landed Newark

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suxdonut
suxdonut
Night Moves
Tue, Nov. 10th, 2009 03:55 pm

a toast to my most bestest brother [info]drinkyclown

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jimthecat:
seattle
seattle
Seattle's LiveJournal Community
Tue, Nov. 10th, 2009 02:32 pm

I am taking part in a 6 part reenactment of the "first" homogenized milk processing plant in Western North America this evening.

I will playing the part of a Colloid Mill.

I don’t sing but I do read a little poetry.

[UPDATE]
i don't have a flyer for the event BUT agree that having one would be a "shot in the arm"

[UPDATE]
thanks for those of you who attended this evening. here is the flyer we had made up. I am the Colloid Mill on the right NOT the one on the left.


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jito
jito
Joi Ito
Tue, Nov. 10th, 2009 04:24 pm
At Island Airport in Toronto flying Porter - flight to Newark 45 min delayed...

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wingedcorset
wingedcorset
Molly Mayhem
Tue, Nov. 10th, 2009 01:30 pm

  • 17:35 It's amazing how running into a friend and seeing her ever-increasing happiness totally turned around my foul mood. #
  • 10:03 The state of my kitchen says much about the state of the rest of my life. /messy and neglected #
  • 13:09 I know as soon as I start making lunch, the plumber is going to show up. #
  • 13:25 @beckastar Oh no! What happened? #
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4hour_ramona
4hour_ramona
8 inches wrong
Tue, Nov. 10th, 2009 12:40 pm
tonight i am going to attempt to make sock monkeys. or at least a sock monkey.
this should be interesting...

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animikwaan
animikwaan
they called her styrene
Tue, Nov. 10th, 2009 10:31 am

So, I made it to the American Indian Film Festival going on in San Francisco this week. It technically started last Friday, but I've had a number of other social and non-social engagements to see to (o, my oppressive social life!). This morning, my emotions feel like they were run over by a truck. It's fine, I willingly submit myself to the emotional roller coaster that is the Film Festival -- and typically, it's painful in subterranean landscapes. What did Sherman Alexie say? To be Indian is to be tragic. And I don't think that's a statement of victim hood, but maybe a statement of sobriety. Our collective post-Apocalyptic survival is no joke.

Last year, I wanted to throw myself off of the Bay Bridge after watching an extremely rare showing of "The Exiles." Several years ago, I forced myself through documentary after documentary from ANWR to Ipperwash with the effect of wanting to lose my lunch when I left.

So, the program last night (Monday, Nov. 9, 7:00 p.m.) started with music videos that were mildly entertaining. Having worked in Ohsweken for a year at my first job, I could have sworn that they filmed the video for "Two Lane Road" on Six Nations. The song was cute, but I'm not a fan of mainstream country. However, I will never diss a piece of art that has an ndn woman as the object of beauty, even if she is a kind of damsel in distress, there's just too few ndn women in any mainstream media.

"Totem" was well constructed and certainly well acted (oh, thank you, Canada Council for the Arts, we grovel to your hefty fundings), but the message was far less subtle than I would have liked. It was nice to see some cameos of Ryan Red Corn's Demockratees in it (if Ryan ever starts an army, I wanna be Sergeant-At-Arms). It was refreshing to see new ndn actors and of course, the overall message of rejuvenation and survival was empowering, I just hate how it gets wrapped up in such a cliche of Native culture as "craft," i.e., in the Canadian mainstream, our culture is all-too-often wrapped up in reductionist-portrayal of traditional "crafts" that I have issue with, more on that another time. What I would give to see the application of racial formation theory to ndn identity in Canada.

"Burn the Wagon" was hella real, which I loved. More importantly, it depicted personal heroes in my world: ndn lawyers (and damn if the protagonist wasn't frighteningly like a particular hero on my f-list, grrl, you know who you are)... but it totally lacked any motivation of plot! It was really frustrating. To which, I told myself, maybe it doesn't need a plot... which is a plausible answer, I'm particular to the suspense of a plot.

And really, what nearly had me in tears was the very short documentary of local Bay Area ndn, LaVerne Roberts, "A New Frontier." Getting back to what made me want to lose my emotional cookies at the other films, it was here, in this one. The simple compacted serving of several individual stories of painfully young ndns who were disenfranchised, abandoned, neglected at the hands of various federally-mandanted bureaucratic programs and just left to (die?) figure it out. Imagining an 18-year old LaVerne, scared shitless on a park bench in San Jose overnight, because she had the audacity to think that someone was going to escort her to the Indian Relocation Office from the Greyhound station (did anyone bother to give her a map?) because had she been home, a relative would have done the same. And yes, it also comes with the restitution of her finding the local ndn community, Alcatraz, and making herself a life in the great urban reservation of San Francisco; but it's the sudden feeling of realizing that an entire army of LaVerne's found themselves in her helpless position and the collective grief is too much to bear, cue: regurgitation.

The night ended with the long documentary of the life of Adam Fortunate Eagle. I won't speak to it. It was made by a white man, and it showed. There was a powerful dynamic of apologism and performitivity for a non-ndn audience that I struggled to appreciate. But that struggle existed in Fortunate Eagle's life and he found his peace with it and I have to appreciate that were it not for his struggles and defeats, my righteous ndn ass would not be here right now writing this blog. And there it is, where we all fit on this timeline of survival, each generation overcoming some other tidal wave of genocide, digesting and forming new (and eventually problematic) defense mechanisms, until the waves settle down in some bright future that we're all moving towards -- or so, we hope, lest we throw ourselves off of the Golden Gate. Let's throw a film festival instead.

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lishd:
speazy
speazy
Little Punker Slutz
Tue, Nov. 10th, 2009 11:12 am
[kyle] heh.. S just asked me if J was gay
[lish] haha
[lish] which J
[mika] tall, no, JH, closet
[sean] obviously not JK
[lish] haha
[lish] i wish JK were queer
[lish] then i could get joe to fuck him :D
[mika] lol
[sean] hahahhaah, you are a fucking pervert Lish, which is why I like you so much
[lish] well sean i know i have no chance with JK
[lish] so the best i could hope would be being in the room while joe nails him!
[sean] why not Lish?
[sean] "Hey JK, does this rag smell like choloform?"
[sean] what is so hard about that?
[kyle] Hahah
[lish] reaching his nose :(

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thespellout
The Spellout
Tue, Nov. 10th, 2009 10:43 am

There are a number of great sub-$25 club shows happening in Seattle this Wednesday, November 11 -- and that number, sweetness, is three.

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degram
degram
Marged
Tue, Nov. 10th, 2009 01:00 pm
i put in cat adoption papers and the kids are uniformly mopey. And the science teacher can't seem to do squat but show videos. I can only spice these up so much, lady.

but it's sandwich time and i am, like the kids, learning to eat real slow. Savor every tasty bite. It's a reflex in response to oppression. The eating habits in the cafeteria really are something to behold. What gets eaten, when, and the various dialogue, debate, and neuroses surrounding each item of edible is pretty astonishing. I am not a fan of the teachers who take advantage of this monkey-house-ish situation to parade around handing out extra cookies.

But enough about keeping children on rations and baiting them with sugar, how are you?

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janinedog
janinedog
Janine
Tue, Nov. 10th, 2009 07:35 am

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jito
jito
Joi Ito
Tue, Nov. 10th, 2009 07:55 am
In @tucows board meeting listening to @enoss

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malwae:
seattle
Seattle's LiveJournal Community
Tue, Nov. 10th, 2009 10:36 am

http://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2009/11/pacific-storms-museum.html

I think this is a fantastic idea - the obsession with "OMG0dZ0r WEATHER!~" is one of the things I love about Seattle and the PNW in general.

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p0stmdrnpr1mt1v
p0stmdrnpr1mt1v
p0stm0dern pr1m1t1ve
Tue, Nov. 10th, 2009 02:04 am
my dreams are all dead and buried
sometimes I wish the sun would just explode
when god comes and calls me to his kingdom
I'll take all you sons of bitches when I go


THE BIG GAY THROWDOWN - The best bloopers are here

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p0stmdrnpr1mt1v
p0stmdrnpr1mt1v
p0stm0dern pr1m1t1ve
Tue, Nov. 10th, 2009 12:51 am
Ken needs to chat with the WWWYZZERDD.com



cause his connection SUUUUUUUUCKS

how the hell am I supposed to play anything with a connection this bad???

HOW AM I GONNA PLAY LEFT4DEAD 2 WHEN HE GETS IT???

Current Mood: annoyed

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