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Hey guys? Guess what’s gone live today?
If you guessed “No, Seriously, What About Teh Menz?, a blog that currently consists of a blogroll, a picture of some dew on a grass stem and the brand-new Nazi-free edition of Who Cares About Men’s Rights? but in the future shall contain feminist thought about misandry, anti-male sexism, and all that good stuff,” then they should probably hire you to do one of those psychic shows or something, because that was good.
http://noseriouslywhatabouttehmenz.wordpress.com/
Oh my God, so much love for the Louis Wain portrait. As crazy artists go he was always my favorite.
Incidentally, has anyone heard of this?
http://www.sentinelsource.com/news/local/last-statement-sent-to-sentinel-from-self-immolation-victim/article_cd181c8e-983b-11e0-a559-001cc4c03286.html
Surprised I haven’t heard an article on this site about it yet.
Do you need a sports columnist? xD Or a sprots columnist? :3 I can do either xD
a little old-fashioned blog-whoring, and a LOT of professional pimping:
project just finished, on a blog that is not long for this world, as I figure out how to migrate to another platform, and whether I care enough to….
So does anyone have plants to clean their homes’ air?
So does anyone have plants to clean their homes’ air?
No, we have a dog. Plants could never keep up.
Re: plants and home’s air.
Nope. My housemate had plants (mostly bromeliads) befoe we met, but when we met, and I zonked her into acquiring cats (she’d never had cats), and then we moved in together with MOAR cats, the plants……did not survive. We were working with an animal rescue group, and ended up with 13 indoor cats and four outdoor dogs at the height of it all (we’re down to 7 cats, 2 dogs).
We decided that one could have either cats OR indoor plants, either cats OR good furniture.
We had cats.
What was your most recent fun book?
Mine was Oscar Wilde and the Vampire Murders which had I kid you not Oscar Wilde and Arthur Conan Doyle solving Mysterious Murderse.
Gyles Brandeth is the author.
V fun especially if you are a Sherlock Holmes and Oscar Wilde Fan.
Doyle and Wilde had the same publisher and did know each other!!11!
Ozy, congrats on the new blog! I will put it in the Antidotes to Boobery list in the sidebar, which I finally got around to putting up today.
Zombie, very nice, too bad it’s in Wisconsin.
MRAL,congratulations on your accomplishment as well.
Louis Wain! One of my favorite crazy guys! And I have a lot of favorite crazy guys.
Zombie, very nice, too bad it’s in Wisconsin.
EVERYTHING NWOSLAVER SAYS ABOUT YOU IS TRUE.
I’m about to see the third opera in Wagner’s Ring Cycle - Sigfried. At the opera house now. Power classical! Sunday we see Gotterdamerung. Mostly I hate opera but… Wagner!
Hey Zombie, I know a little bit about moving to different blogging platforms. Once you’ve recovered, I might be able to help you pick a new one.
Ithiliana, I was just thinking I need some new books to read. I think that one might be the first one on my list!
One of my favorite bloggers is playing agony aunt to the denizens of Tumblr today. She’s getting some really heavy questions and answering them in a beautiful way.
I’m drinking cold Nigiri sake right now, out of tiny new sake cups I got at the Japanese market down the street for 99 cents each.
It is delicious.
I wonder what it would be like if I sliced up fresh strawberries and steeped them in sake for a month or so.
I’ve started the Chronicles of Chrestomanci series today. It’s really good. I will never get over how human Diana Wynne Jones’s characters are. Their fallibility makes them feel like people, you know?
Thank you, David. I’m on the blogroll twice! I feel loved.
Ami: You are welcome to be a sports commenter or a sprots commenter.
Send me your email and get a WordPress account and I’ll set you up with the Google Group and the group blog.
Oh, that’s right, I have a wordpress account now. I forgot.
Hey, where do I lodge a complaint?
Dan Savage is not an antidote to Boobery. He is a Boob.
I mean … I don’t care. I read him occasionally. I think he does a lot of good work — when he’s not being transphobic, fatphobic, or misogynistic. I like the It Gets Better project. I like the redefining of the word santorum. I guess I just wanted to point out that he’s a bit problematic.
Imma go back to lovingly working on my toenails now. Oh boy, is Subby missing out! TOEJAM!
Victoria, yummy! I have a little sake set that I got as a gift a while back and has mostly just been gathering dust in the back of the cabinet but you’ve inspired me to use it now. I don’t have any sake but vodka should do.
Dire Sloth - I couldn’t get all the way through that, seems to me it was essentially “I love my children so much I refuse to be pushed around into paying for them, because I am SO ANGRY at the system for daring to tell me not to hit them and/or arresting me for domestic violence” not dissimilar to “I will kill myself so that bitch will REALLY be sorry she divorced me!”
Since it’s an open thread-does anyone know how NOT to share your itunes library with people in surrounding areas? And how you can lock remote access to your computer? I live in an apartment complex and just realized that I’m sharing the itunes library of someone I work with, which means that mine is visible, too. As a technophobe I may be missing an obvious solution…my computer can access wi-fi but I’m using ethernet and don’t understand why other people can view what’s on my computer. This sounds neurotic, I know, but it’s freaking me out.
I wish I could add a feel-good book to the list, but the only thing I’ve been reading lately is Octavia Butler.
Ozy: *applauds you and the others who semi-accidentally banded together to go where few feminists have gone before*
Crap, I’m so behind! Gotta remember to refresh before posting.
Bee, couldn’t agree more about Savage. He can really rub me the wrong way.
We got a new kitteh tonight! We rescued her from my boss, who is not smart.
I can’t have plants, I freeze them to death in the winter. Maybe I should try growing tundra grasses or something.
I don’t have any pets right now (I’m not allowed any in my apartment). However, my mother used to have a lactose intolerant cat. He would ruin my cup of milk by slurping it and then go puke. A big twenty pound beast of a tom cat puking on your carpet isn’t the most pleasant thing. This cat also bullied the dogs, and caused us to put a lock on the door of the room where the bird cage was. Though he lived on tuna, he would go outside and murder small animals for sport. He wouldn’t eat them, but damned if he would let anyone else (i.e. the two small barncats or the dogs) have them either. Though his homicidal tendancies got him in the end, when he picked a fight with a raccoon that was bigger than him by killing its babies and lost. Raccoons are tough things.
My poor little birdie that had to be protected with locks has outlived that cat by a good four years, and he is a very old little bird (he’s a ten year old Society Finch). Though he is almost totally blind from his cataracts and has been for some time, he sings beautifully. I pay my mother and little sister to look after him and his cage mate (a younger female society finch). So I guess I do have pets now, they just don’t live with me?
I went shopping for new work jeans since my old ones have holes in my upper thighs, knees, and just below my ass. I wonder how long these new ones will last…
NWOSlave is my first post.
Unfortunately, he’s not gratuitiously hateful or offensive yet, so I can’t fairly ban him.
Ozy! I’m excited about the new blog! I’d love to contribute in some way, because I think it’s a totally nifty idea, and I’m a feminist who is loves many men! (Is that a weird phrasing? It feels like a weird phrasing.)
Re: Potted plants. We have a few flowering pots, and a few non-flowering cats. The trick is to keep them in separate rooms, and get hardy, nontoxic plants.
I actually read The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, which actually wasn’t as bad as I thought. But the main character still drove me nuts. He was clearly an author avatar. *grump*
And bee, I’m sure you have lovely feet. I bet Slavie is totes jealous.
And now it’s time for some lovely beer! I got some of Flying Dog’s seasonal beer, Woody Creek White. It’e delicious. =3
Ithiliana, if you don’t already know about it, I recommend Nicholas Meyer’s The West End Horror. Holmes & Watson meet Oscar Wilde, plus GB Shaw, Gilbert & Sullivan, and Bram Stoker.
Sent you an email Ozymandias! (i hope thats the right email, I got it from your blog :3 )
Sarah: Same thing with Ami: send me an email and I’ll set you up. (Is it a bad sign that my male-centered feminist blog has more female contributors than male…?)
You could always invite MRAL and NWO
Yeah, regarding the article from the Sentinal: the guy slapped his 4 year-old daughter-drew blood-because she licked him? Seriously, WTF? He acts as though it’s no big deal, but child abuse is generally defined as a “non-accidental injury.” A split lip counts as child abuse.
I just got in from an after-ceremony celebration for my sister’s residency graduation. She and her class graduated tonight and she won an award for being her class’ most Outstanding Resident. She was nominated and selected by her peers. I’m so proud. My folks are so proud.
And now I get to spend the rest of the weekend cutting flower beds in the heat because she’s trying to sell her house.
Still proud, though.
Yay!!!!
DDD *hugs Nobinayamu* congratulations to your sister! 
I’d help you w/ the cutting of flower beds if I could :\
No worries, Ami. Gardening is kind of my thing, even in the heat. I just don’t like to be rushed; I’ve got to be finished in two days. And the soil in NC is basically clay and the space she’s marked off is huge. I need a ridiculous amount of top soil to make this happen.
But I’m genetically incapable of telling my little sisters “no”. They know this and behave accordingly.
I think my dad might have teared up a bit when she accepted her award.
Hey, I’m at the 2nd intermission of the opera. There were actual trolls! They died
Hay guyz
The guy I like txted me back saying that he’s been working a lot of one off jobs which is why he’s been too busy to contact me back and I… on the encouragement of my friend (cuz it was what I WANTED to say but was scared to) txted back
“Awww
*hugs* wish I could give you a RL hug or a neck rub :\”
is that too forward? :\ i worry cuz we still have to work together
but it’s what I would say, even to a friend 
I’m sure it’ll be find Ami. You say you work together so he must know you at least a little by now. Enough to know that you are in fact Abby from NCIS. Don’t try to deny it I know this is you -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8huWISiTrwg&feature=related
@ Ami
I wouldn’t consider it too forward, but that’s me. And I am all about the neck rubs.
@Snowy oh btw, I forgot to respond to you on the blog… I’m not sure.. I think I’m going w/ the Navy.. but I’m gonna try on both just to make sure… (maybe the ppl from the meet up will help me decide! xD ) I rly want to like the grey… it’s just I never wear grey
Awww but I never dress that dark! xD And my hair is no bangy or dark xDDD
BUT, ANGELWINGS!!!!!!
I WANT THAT SHIRT *_*
(unfortunately I cannot always wear my giant angelwings w/ me w/e I go :\ nor the cuter fluffier angelwings I sometimes pin to my back either xD )
“Hey, I’m at the 2nd intermission of the opera. There were actual trolls! They died
”
You do my almost-Asatru-turned-Internet-geek heart good.
Well poot…I was hoping for some plant suggestions rather then just the stuff I randomly pick up.
Ami, you could always just get both colors if you like the style of shirt a lot, then you’d never have to decide.
Elizabeth I also have the problem that my cat eats any plant I buy so lately I’ve been just buying little things of what I think is wheat grass (it just looks like grass from a lawn) and putting them around the house for the cat to eat if she wants. It’s very cheap and easy to take care of. I’m not sure if it’s particularly going to clean the air, for that you want a Peace Lily. I know this from watching Hot Fuzz.
Hrm.. my cat doesn’t eat house plants
(as far as I know…) but she does LOOOOVE spinach. xD I dunno why 
Plants: Apart from Orchids I don’t tend to indoor plants. This may be because I have lived in paradise (i.e. Coastal Calif.) for most of my life. I am going to have to keep some of my plants (the bonsai olive, and my potted oregano, as well as the barreled grape) alive over the winters, in New Jersey, which will mean moving them indoors.
Books: I’m presently enjoying, “The Crusades” by Thomas Asbridge. I recently finished (and very much liked, though it was tragic, and enraging) The 11th Hour, of the 11th Day, of the 11th Month, which is about the last day of WW1, and how so much life was wasted in the lead up to a known armistice.
So far my cat has not started eating or knocking over plants, I am growing a herbal garden so we will see if she tries to eat them. Off to Lowe’s in the morning….after committing a gazillion crimes like um…*tries to think of one that being a girl would be a get out of jail free pass*
Nobinayamu, if your sister wants anything you plant in those beds to grow and live, even just for house-selling purposes, I strongly suggest investing in some weeping hoses.
…posted too quick! Meant to congratulate your sister and commiserate over the challenges of cutting new beds and amending red clay.
min0o, thanks for the congratulation and the weeping hoses tip. I’d done a bit of research on weeping hoses once she explained what kind of soil she has and I was, admittedly, waffling. On the one hand, I don’t want to create beds that will give “curb appeal” for a couple of months and be either hideous or useless by the time she finds a buyer or renter.
On the other hand, there are cost concerns. Not so much for the hoses; that process seems cost effective. The real problem is that she doesn’t seem to like any of the low maintenance, drought resistant, ornamental plants that are common to the area and doesn’t understand why she can’t just have whatever she wants.
She’s all “I want roses like the kind at Mom and Dad’s house. Why can’t I plant those and not these stupid shrub rose bushes?”
It’s frustrating.
Still proud, though.
Bee: used to read Savage, gave up in disgust fairly soon, for the same reasons you mention here.
I see him as the representative [white middle-class able-bodied cis urban gay] homonormative man who can be good addressing some issues, but his lack of awareness or other matrices of oppression AND his relative privilege is definitely problematic. As a queer fat woman, I don’t even consider him an ally anymore, and his racism over Prop 8 was just ugly.
Johnny: ooooo, thank you! *makes note* I had not heard of that one!
Ozy: I suspect it won’t be long until he does. Although it might be fun to see how long he can contain himself before spewing.
Have to say that I am at Louisville airport, awaiting my plane, watching the rain, and drinking chai tea (ruining the rhyme).
Got here nice and early because there are probably 2000 English teachers leaving day toafter an incredibly successful week of grading AP (there were 359,000 Eng/lit testbooks, and since each has three essays, that’s about a MILLION essays read). Cannot talk about any of the specfics (CONFIDENTIALITY), but it was a hoot. Probably equal numbers over in the Eng/comp test.
Just picked up The Lies of Sarah Palin: The Untold Story Behind Her Relentless Quest for Power by Geoffrey Dunn whch I will be reading on the plane….which will be taking off in the rain….unless I fall asleep.
I fucking love Louis Wain. That’s all.
Also! I rescued a kitten today! He is the most adorable black and white ball of fluff and I’m looking for a home for him. Some asshole cut most of his whiskers off
In other news, the sociopath that assaulted me made another appearance in my (very small) town. I did not run. I did not get scared. I got very, very angry. And as trite as it may seem, I named and shamed him on my Facebook. And I’m not going to back down.
sarahejones, the whiskers will grow back. One of my dogs got too close to the barbecue when it was being lit and got half her whiskers singed off. They were back to normal in a month or two.
Good for you for naming and shaming. I hope you don’t have too much blowback to deal with. *hugs*
My kitten says “meow”. Ok, so my “kitten” is like 3 years old. But she’s still a kitten. If I get to be 35 and still be a girl, my 3-year-old feline can be a “kitten”. (and don’t anyone fucking tell me I can’t be a girl. Dumbass society made me pick a gender identity and that’s the only one I’ll bloody accept! I’d really rather just not have one.)
xD my cat is like 9 years old but she still acts so young… like me! :3
Meow! Our other cat is 9 but she’s kinda chubby and lazy and not at all kittenish. But I call her kitten sometimes too
It’s Father’s Day, and I’m currently enjoying breakfast in bed prepared by my wife and oldest son.
If this is the feminist dystopia, then I’ll take it.
Also, cats.
The whiskers will take a while. One of our cats singed his and I could still tell about 6 mos. later.
Can we get a forum? I think the demand is clear.
Following up on Elizabeth’s plant question: I bought a plant, and then it died. Do you think it will affect my new plant’s morale if it’s sitting where it can see the dead plant? I don’t want to throw away my old plant, because I think that maybe it will come back to life somehow. But I’m worried that the new plant will be scared if confronted with such stark evidence that I’m a bad plant owner.
I do have bigger, more important worries in my life. (Like, what if the dead plant comes back to life and the two plants don’t get along?) Also: spitting on short men. It takes up so much of my day! What to do.
Ok… I don’t know where else to put this, and I had to share. Radical Masculist Manifesto
I don’t want to say that Human Stupidity has a corner on the market… but they sure have collected a bunch of it.
Yeah, there are at least two more Human Stupidity posts I’ve been meaning to write about; that’s one of them. He’s also sort of obsessed with the whole Underage Girl Question.