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Micro-Fiction Roundup XLVIII: Paging Dr. Embarrassment to Emergency

December 31, 2011 in Micro-Fiction Roundup

(Wow, not only a winner, but you wrote the whole MFR? Careful, a gal could get used to this kind of treatment -Ed.)

Sorry for the delay in getting back results. I was squeezing in a quick set of 10 on the hack squat. After that some serious bicep curls, some flies, and a little time on the Pec Deck.

 

But before I get in to the results, a quick story about “abs.” This old guy I was treating for back pain (nothing serious–not like the guy who felt his pain with every beat of his heart. Yikes! That was a scary one). This was just simple, mechanical lower back pain. Anyhoo, he’s a guy about 70 years old. During the evaluation process he wanted to show me how hard he’d been working his abs,working his “one pack.” 

 

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Empty Hands Part Five – Oh Lord Stuck in Samsara Again . . .

December 31, 2011 in Life, Philosophy, Poetry

Thinking you hold the root,

you hold only a branch,

a stem – why not let your hand

become a hand again

empty as the root you seek

– Peter Levitt

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Live-Blogging New Year’s Eve: Drunkmailing, Celebrities, Porn, Thanks

December 31, 2011 in Drugs

This is a picture of me in my swanky bedroom using my shiny laptop while looking fabulously dishevelled, bitches.Hey I hate New Year's Eve! For me it's always spent cleaning (during the day/evening) with the foreboding of those final fucking seconds dying away, never to be seen again, beating like an emotional migraine in my left upper thigh. New Year's Eve is for the birds, everyone. Read the rest of this entry →

5 Second Movie Review: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

December 30, 2011 in 5 Second Movie Review

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This bitch needs an intermission; I liked it but jeez! Pare it down a bit, would ya? Also, there is no cellphone service in Sweden. Oh, and fuck social workers. 

The End Is Here If You Want It

December 29, 2011 in Wordsmoker Publishing

I'm actually feeling optimistic about 2012, apocalypse aside.

I fully intended to shuffle off the mortal coil in 2011. For about a week or two an ending was all I could think of.

I disappeared, electronically. From Facebook, which – if I'm honest – is my one connection to anyone else 99% of the time. Friends from far away helped me down off the ledge. As breakdowns go, it was a beauty. I'm now glad they didn't give up on me. Hence me feeling optimistic about the year ahead.

If I'm being honest – and believe me, I will be here – I'm mostly optimistic about 2012 not being fucking 2011.

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You Never Call, You Never Write: One Woman’s Existential Internet Crisis

December 28, 2011 in This Is The Internet

Twinings Tea from Irish BreakfastIrishBeakfast here.

Funny, it’s been so long that I’m not quite sure whether I’m Irish Breakfast, Irishbreakfast or IrishBreakfast—call me IB. It’s odd, how soon we forget—really forget, not in a clichéd “oh god I just can’t remember” way. I can’t remember my Wordsmoker, Facebook or Gmail password, and because my IB “identity” was set to a not-really-me gmail, it’s all gone. Well, it’s all still there but I can no longer access that part of my life, at least in those particular venues.

I ducked out from Wordsmoker and Facebook last May, when I went off on the usual summer adventure. It didn’t turn out well, and that’s all I’m saying about that.  The physical, emotional and financial repercussions were such that I didn’t think about IB until sometime around October, and then it was only to wonder that I’d ever had so much free time to write (outside of things that I’m required to write).  And, to be honest, to wonder that I’d ever ‘cared’ so much for people that I didn’t know.

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OMG Christmas is Here!

December 25, 2011 in Wordsmoker

 

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The Evolution of Sperm

December 15, 2011 in Sexsmoker

For some reason that is still unknown to me, in the late nineteen-seventies, I began drawing pictures of individual sperm cells that supposedly represented what mine looked like just before devouring an egg. I'm fairly certain that I was aware that the sperm cell doesn't actually eat the egg—or that it doesn't have a mouth for that matter—but I wanted my sperm to be all angst-driven and formidable, so this concept made for a better presentation. Below are recreations of actual sperm images that I drew repeatedly from about 1978 to 1983 and then (shudder) gave to girls.

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by Vaquero

American Horror Story: Spooky Little Girl

December 8, 2011 in television

Pretty Los Angeles in 1947. A wide street and tall palm trees. Sunshine. The Murder House is now a dentist office. We have a lovely lady with long raven hair coming to visit the dentist. Femme Fatale? We learn quickly that the Dentist is not married. This lovely lady found out about this guy because her friend said that he did a good job FILLING her CAVITY. He makes special arrangements for girls with no money. I think it’s called Doggy Style these days. This girl does not care about her teeth at all, she just wants to get him hot for her. Maybe she’s here to have him remove her front teeth or something? That is how you really break into HOLLYWOOD, my dears. TAKE NOTE: she has a White Dahlia in her Black Hair. She gets the nitrous oxide and everything disappears.

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