Angels and Demons (Dancing in my Head)

bipolypagangeek

bifemmefatale

02:15 pm - clearing up a few issues

1. 4 or 5 out of 6ers are welcome here and have always been. *However*, this is a bi-centric comm, and a kink-centric comm, and a gamer-centric comm, and so on. Entries are generally expected to be about at least 1 of the 6 interests, and you do not get to tell bi people "chill out" when they protest their lack of inclusion. You're expected to be an ally.

2. This community has always strongly valued civil discourse. Criticism may happen, especially of someone's ideas rather than their selves, but ad hominems and responses like "fuck you!" are not tolerated. I try to give a warning first, but repeated offenses are not tolerated.

3. melssexysecret was warned and continued to behave badly, so zie was banned. After zie sent a private message consisting of nothing but 300 "Fuck you!"s to my inbox, zir sockpuppet was also banned. Please remember this is only the second user who has been banned in the history of the comm. Don't be afraid that I'm on a power-tripping rampage. I have no desire to micromanage this community and rarely even have to comment wearing my mod hat. I have no intention of banning a ton of people.

yesthattom

03:07 pm - Cookie Monster Sang About Google 27 Years Ago

http://gizmodo.com/5397485/cookie-monster-sang-about-google-27-years-ago

lady_anemone

02:52 pm - Touchstone by Laurie R King

( You are about to view content that may not be appropriate for minors. )

dot_gimp_snark

coldneedles

07:22 pm

Dear classmate,

When we're talking about perception and sensory distortion in philosophy and I bring up the fact that a psychotic episode is more common than diabetes, you might not want to object by saying "Well if you're not a PSYCHO..."

Way to make anyone in the room who's experienced psychosis feel stigmatised.

Yours,

that physically ill chick who doesn't like it when other people with disabilities are attacked.

tagonist

02:25 pm - Bike ride

Hey, if the weather holds tomorrow (Wednesday) anyone interested in coming on a bike ride to Tinicum with me and Alison?

A

bipolypagangeek

liamstliam

01:36 pm - For pro-marriage folks in New York . . .

Gov. Paterson is trying really hard to get the State Senate to pass a same-sex marriage bill duringt he ession that started today.

I live in Sen. Betty Little's district (the Northway, basically), and I am in favor of same-sex marriage in new York.

I think it's important for our citizens, and I think it's important to take the momentum away from the decision in Maine.

Our senator, Betty Little, who is generally and good and supportive senator, has oppsed same-sex marriage in the past, and I have express my concern about that.

 I called her office at (518) 455-2811 and talked to Kathy, who said the senator does not think the state should redefine marriage.

She also said they are keeping track of the number of calls they receive expressing an opinion.

Honestly, if you have a strong opinion on this, I urge that you call either way.

In case you are not up here, this site will tell you how your senator stands on the issue -- http://tools.advomatic.com/24/nyequality/totals

Even if your senator has declared opposition to same-sex marriage, please contact him/her so our voices can be heard.

Update: Fom the Albany Times-Union's "Capitol Confidential" blog a little while ago:

As for legislation legalizing gay marriage, the Senate Democrats engaged in heated discussion during conference earlier — a conference meeting that did not include Sen. Tom Duane, the lead Senate sponsor of the bill. But so far, there’s been no indication that it will be brought on the floor today.

arashink

10:12 am - Coincidental, not ironic

Steel City Con spams me. The following two guests are listed consecutively:

Robb Demarest - Lead Investigator from the SYFY's Television Network "Ghost Hunters International"! ( ... )

Ernie Hudson: Best Known for his role as "Winston" from Ghostbusters I & II. ( ... )

fibromyalgia

onnawufei

09:56 am - It's me again Margaret.

I have yet another question for people who have been on Cymbalta. I did see the doctor for my shakiness and he wanted me to try taking it every other day which is not happening. I tried it once and while I felt fine on the day I missed the pill, the next morning I was in pain, dizzy, fuzzy headed and just generally not good. Yeah, I'm not doing that to myself on purpose. I'll learn to deal with shaking all the time vs that.

Today my questions are about muscle twitching and sleep, not necessarily together.

Recently I've started getting twitching muscles that are sometimes small and other times it's to where I'll kick my leg out or something. I thought maybe it was in my head until without me mentioning it first, my husband said he had noticed seeing it. So it's not just me! Have others experienced this, and if so did it go away?

Also, did it change the way anyone slept/dreamed? I don't know if it's related or not, but for the past few weeks I've started waking up violently far more often than I used to. I'll jerk awake, I've thrown my arm out and ended up hitting my husband, I've thrown my body off to the side, which was a physical response to a dream where I was about to ride my bike into a spider web. I've also started waking up screaming fairly frequently. I'm not sreaming my head off, but I'll wake up with a single scream. Did anyone else experience this, or should I consider that it may be unrelated? When I was a kid I used ot see a doctor for really bad night terrors and nightmares, but I haven't had issues with them in over twenty years.

My husband deserves a medal for putting up with all of this graciously by the way. <3

Current Mood: contemplative

dk_leathers

09:01 am

lounging in a hotel room, telly, laptop... such a hard life! dailybooth.com/u/zve4

Heh.. Luisa stopped back at the hotel briefly between meetings for a snack.. I love my life! :-)

Guess who forgot my phone charger? Yup, my phone will die today at some point, sorry folks!

Sat on Baker Street having a Starbucks, waiting for Lu. Pleasant day so far! X

On our way home again, tired but happy :-)

twitpic.com/owrbc - Pic - guess where we've been?! :-)

Phew! Finally back from London to find Rachel & Aimee playing Resident Evil on the Wii LOL !

Off to watch Dexter and Flash Forward before bed... what a great day :-)

myridean

02:00 am - Pearls dripped from Myri's ....

• 17:30 Installing new version of America's Online Instant Messenger. Time to start warbling the national anthem as its password :P Oh say can we... #

leathereagle

11:02 pm - Fly by Notes

• 14:05 n bed. ~s~ xxx #
• 14:06 Oops twitter error...lol #

tagonist

11:46 pm - Self-Sufficient Excerpt #2

Stephen had yet to see another combine company on the road, but now and again, waiting for the scale at an elevator, he had had the opportunity to talk to a driver from another crew and share stories about people, places, and events that may or may not have been true. There was, thereby, strung across the country a sparking and static-ridden tin-can telephone of rumours and legends, connecting the road crews and distorting their best intentions. Around this slow, unreliable national campfire, Peter and Marie French were famous. The source of their notoriety was not that they were married, even in an industry where men over twenty-five were divorced, and women were never seen outside of truck stop bars and the photographs younger men kept in their wallets. Neither was it their unquestioned ownership of a working flatbed truck, a circumstance usually enjoyed only by crew chiefs. No, Peter and Marie were famous for a legend, a story Stephen had heard from Cage his second day on the job, which might, if true, explain why they had chosen custom harvesting over any of the other contracts their truck could have landed them.
The story concerned a man known ubiquitously in highway circles as Gypsy Joe. It was never explained whether Joe had any connection to actual Gyspsies, that is Roma, or whether he had chosen his epithet for himself for some other reason. There were many so many stories about Gypsy Joe that Stephen might have at first taken him for a folk hero of the first order, or perhaps a folk criminal since so many centered on his deceptive-yet-enticing schemes. In fact, Stephen wondered how the events the stories detailed continued to occur in the face of the stories themselves; he could neither imagine trusting Gypsy Joe after hearing the universally bad ends people who did so came to, nor could he imagine anyone working the grain for even a month without hearing the stories as he had.
The story about Peter and Marie French and Gypsy Joe had, it was generally related, taken place about ten or twelve years ago, right after they’d bought the truck with Marie’s Air Force money. Gypsy Joe had lined them up a job where they would haul live chickens from Bakersfield to Arkansas. Somewhere in New Mexico, went the plan, they would stop on a mountain road and some of the inner chicken crates would be stuffed full of pure Gila Mountain Hash bound for New Orleans. All Peter and Marie had to do was avoid scales- the hash weighed more than the chickens it replaced, after all, and there was enough of it to look suspicious against a manifest. Peter knew all the government roads in New Mexico and Texas, and figured he could dodge the old interstates with no trouble whatsoever.
Everything went fine until they reached the Pecos. Some nativist politician was up for reelection, and had thrown together a posse of road crews, farmers, and retirees still paranoid about the “illegals” who had supposedly derailed their otherwise perfect country. Using whatever movable iron they could muster, they had closed down every government road they could, even blocked some of the MacQuarie access ramps, and forced travellers to submit to a humiliating “inspection” on the scales at old I-20.
The political contingent had grossly underestimated the volume of traffic they would have to process, and by the time Peter and Marie reluctantly nosed onto the old interstate, there was a line of trucks reaching three quarters of a mile back from the weigh station. The semi-official nature of the action meant that certain forms had to be observed, and only actual law enforcement could conduct the surprise searches. At their end of the line, militiamen occasionally patrolled with rifles or handguns, but Peter and Marie were essentially alone with their truck and the other drivers.
This part of Texas was a lot of open country, as it turned out, and the way the story goes, Marie looked away off the highway and saw a low barn with a wide front door, and got an idea. Nobody knows what she said to Peter, or what he had to do with the plot, but an hour later, when their truck pulled up to the scale, only Peter was sitting in the cab. No sooner had he inched it onto the platform than a loud buzz ripped through the air and here came Marie in a cropduster.
Cage had a particular way of telling the next part of the story.
“Now if there’s anything you know about chickens, its that they don’t like anything flying over their heads. So there’s Peter on the scales with a truckload of chickens and some hash, and here comes this loud, low-flying airplane, and what happens but the chickens all start leaping around trying to jump and fly into the air, and when they jump it pushes down on the truck, and then when they fly its like their weight disappears, and the poor cops reading the scale can’t make head or tail of the numbers, So they figure they’ll wait a few minutes, let the chickens calm down and try again, but here comes Marie in the stolen cropduster and there go the chickens, flying and squawking and jumping up and down. Now remember, there’s a mile of trucks lined up behind Peter, and these guys only have a little bit of law to go on, so they threaten and yell but soon enough they have to let Peter go and never find the crates of hash in the middle of the truck. Pete and Marie make a bit of money on the run and put it into the truck, thinking they’ll get a few more jobs and pay everything off, but no dice. Turns out the police entered an unanswered complaint on their log record, and now no company will touch them except Crick, who doesn’t give a flying. Peter doesn’t mind, but Marie swore revenge on Gypsy Joe, keeps a baseball bat behind the shotgun seat in case they ever come across him again. So don’t mention him to her or anything if you see him. She’s still mad as hell about west Texas.”

happypete

11:12 pm - "RT" from Pam's Facebook status

Pam Ochs

bipolypagangeek

melssexysecret

11:14 pm

Hello,

I apologize if this is not allowed here.

I have published a couple of books and my current one is going to be potentially called "Coming Out" or "Knocking the Closet Door Down". It is going to be made up of various people's coming out stories. Whether gay, lesbian, trans, poly, kinky or even funny ones like Republican (kidding!)

So I need stories. If you are interested in being in the book please email me your story to shampoo150@gmail.com and out "coming out story"

also let me know here if you're interested so I can look for you email.

thanks!

petemosq

10:42 pm - The Knight of Darkness!

Hello Kiddies,

Just a little bloody tidbit! In celebration of his Knighthood I have now collected all of the Christopher Lee Dracula films. The last one was this out of print classic, which was a favorite masochistic viewing of my childhood. (I think I slept with a cross by my bed for about a month).

leatherdykeuk

03:02 am

• Vapourous moon / in a cerulean sky / squirrels tease the dogs #
• Laverstone Tales Jennifer Fremen's Silk Flower: Halloween would always remind Jennifer of the twin scents of cinnamo... bit.ly/1MRmKr #

nyghtowl

08:28 pm - Ugly Doll Art I have to share

This isn't mine. But it's fabulous, an Ugly tribute to the cover of U2's "The Joshua Tree".




Songs (this part is mine)

1. Where the Cookies Have No Name
   
   
2. I Still Haven't Found the Cookies I'm Looking For
   
   
3. With Or Without Milk
   
   
4. Cookie the Cookie Sky
   
   
5. Running to Get Cookies
   
   
6. Red Hill Cookie Tollhouse
   
   
7. In God's Bakery
   
   
8. Milk With Your Cookies
   
   
9. One Cookie Hill
   
   
10. Exit (to get more cookies)
    
    
11. Bakers of the Disappeared (Cookies)
    

Current Mood: cheerful

indigochildkate

03:17 pm - say yes to the dress

So I went wedding dress shopping (again) today, this time I went to Wedding Atelier on 5th Ave. I fell in love with two dresses (one especially) both by London designer Suzanne Neville. Unfortunately her dresses start at $3,500.

I do have pictures though and would like an opinion as to which silhouette you prefer. You don't have to love the specific dress, but look at the shape it gives. Which do you think flatters me best?

( pictures and poll behind the cut )

Current Mood: contemplative

city_of_heroes

thomasyan

04:02 pm - Recent bugs I encountered and a workaround for one of them

Late one night (as in, past bedtime), on Guardian redside, two of my toons could not enter their VG base. They were in Cap and/or Shark. The map loading window came up, and just sat there, with the Task Monitor saying CoX was chewing up all its CPU. The progress bar did not show up, or just stayed empty. Rebooting the computer did not help. The next night, I had no trouble. I didn't try other villains, or heroes, or other servers. (I didn't ask someone to join me on a team and try entering my base. "Hey, wanna risk crashing/hanging?" didn't sound like something I wanted to ask in general, especially when I already was trying to get to bed.) I have no idea what happened there. Has anyone else run into something like this?

Last night on a shard TF, one team member had to quit (not sure if that is relevant), and after we finished a mish and exited, the leader tried to get the next mish. But Augustine told him, -"I need to speak with your leader"-. One teammate was in another zone, but when he got in, things were no better. I asked on a channel if anyone had seen this before, and was told yes, and to try having the leader relog to pass the star. That worked. Yay! So I don't know what went wrong, but I'll definitely keep that workaround in mind.

fibromyalgia

kuronekohime

02:54 pm - Eating and IBS

I was reading in my Fibro book that I should try a low carb diet to help with the symptoms of IBS. It said I should cut out a lot of things coz they fuel the little bacterias that cause the gas and discomfort. Now, I can't tell you the whole list as it seems my book went on vacation. I'll list as many as I can remember. I am supposed to cut out: flour, bread, pasta, rice, legumes, corn, barley, potatoes, and many other things. Well, I grew up in Minnesota, so that is pretty much the bulk of my diet. I just don't know how to cook in a low carb way!

I read in the memories that low carb can be bad and that I should cut out processed grains and sugars. Does anyone have any advice for me?