What do all of the downtrodden women who were damaged by high school get to do to compensate?

Why do you have to be such a bitch anyway, huh?

Oddly enough, BRQG just gave me this:

Nutty: Boobies are birds with blue feet.

Billytea: Only the blue-footed variety. Aside from common or garden variety feet, there are also red-footed boobies. Tragically, this can lead to confusion within the booby community. Come mating time, you don't want to find you've shacked up with some strange booby. Thus, the courtship dance of the blue-footed booby (and if ever you get a chance to watch this, do) involves the male waddling up the female, turning side on, and hoisting up his foot as far as he can to allow her a thorough inspection - generally flapping madly to maintain his balance in the process. Then he turns around to present the other side, just in case the first one was just a fluke (ba dum). If he does all this without tripping, then he just might get some action.

You have to wonder if there was some incident in their past that led to fears of the red-footed boobies stealing in and ravishing their women. I like to think so, anyway.

... now that's a freakish boobie ritual that the con scene could use more of.

WHY do I keep checking DailyKos obsessively on primary days? It's not like sketchy early information changes anything. And it's REALLY not like there's anything I can DO at this point, since my state voted MONTHS ago.

I'm going to watch baseball tonight. Baseball. King Felix is pitching. Baseball baseball baseball. There is only baseball.

Ah, who am I kidding? I'll get in the car, NPR will be on because I left the car that way in the a.m. I'll get to the park & ride right as the polls close and be either celebrating or pounding the steering wheel in frustration just like with every other Eastern time zone primary this year!

Go Mariners!

Priest attached to party balloons vanishes in Brazil

SAO PAULO, Brazil -- A Roman Catholic priest who floated off under hundreds of helium party balloons was missing today off the southern coast of Brazil.

Rescuers in helicopters and small fishing boats were searching off the coast of Santa Catarina state, where pieces of balloons were found.

I *just* heard that mentioned on the radio.

touching my boobs may be theraputic, too bad you're a loser

- that is the shirt I'd wear.

ION, my brain is being my enemy right now.

As for the boobie kerfuffle I am so tremendously creeped out by a guy achieving the level of "healing" depicted in LJ just by touching a strange woman's breasts. What is wrong with you that gets fixed that way?

I find it incredibly creepy--not the touchy touchy part of it at all--I've done way too much groundwork to be bothered by that, but by the allusions to undoing highschool psychological damage.

See, my issues are (1) how PROUD he and his cadre are for coming up with the idea of the Magical Healing Con Grope; (2) yes/no BUTTONS??? seriously???; (3) ....wait, #3 is too long for a list.

(3) Okay, fine. People who know each other asking for/offering up a grope, whatever. I have no room to complain, as I am -- if you will all kindly remember -- one of the founders of Too Much Candy, which is also an opt-in situation. And Too Much Candy is all yay!fun (I hope) among friends (I hope). But to go so far as to make it all official and shit, with buttons and whatnot? That's just (a) lame and (b) unacceptably intrusive upon the people at the con who don't even want to know it's going on, much less that they can codify their assent/dissent via a color-coded button.

LAME.

And finally, (4) I have 2 words for you: Sexual. Assault.

Although mostly, what bugs me the most is subsection (b) of item (3) -- the fact that this tee-hee Magical Healing Groperie is being nonconsensually forced into the awareness of the con-goers. That's so fucking inappropriate, I don't even know where to start.

What do all of the downtrodden women who were damaged by high school get to do to compensate?

They get to have their boobs groped, thus proving to themselves that they are "good enough."

And I am so not making that up.

Really? It's not locked.

I got it when I tried again. Oy vey.