Naw man, it's all about the tubes, dude. It made the sound warm!!

At Genie's with Jilli, we will order a bacon Bloody Mary and then bacon benedict. The time she ordered something else, we got a side of bacon to split. I regret nothing

REGRET NOTHING. Also, I want a bacon Bloody Mary RIGHT NOW.

Well, that was an exciting evening. The GCS site had been hacked. Thank G-D Pete is able to stay calm and focused when dealing with that, because my brain shorted out. But it looks like we got everything fixed, knock wood.

Now I am going to go take a bath, paint my nails, and wait for my brain to stop going "iiiiieeeeee site broken!"

I forgot how long it takes this computer to import CD's. I ordered 100 years of Jazz Guitar. 4 CD's of music. Should be fun to listen to.

Frak, I think I left my lunch bucket in my office. Grumble grumble.

Pop tart

I'm thinking of taking my old zoom lens for my Pentax K1000, that I haven't used in YEARS, and doing this to it: [link]

Hello. Sort of a night shift here (won't be much around the computer as it's the weekend here, but I'll be checking Bitches from time to time.)

Kind of like asking us to eat pie to please you

WHERE IS YOUR PIE. GIVE ME ALL YOUR PIES. (Sorry, woke up, and still hungry. Then again, I could always eat something. [omnis, don't go there. It's too early]).

New Hampshire and Virginia

Yeah. As someone who follows feminist issues around the globe, jaw kindda hit the floor at that point. Here we had unbelievable luck in the past few weeks with feminist legislation (criminalization of buying sexual services - while the suggested law is far from being perfect, it's a start), and more importantly - a law (or, well, something) that will give grant to every woman who have been in a shelter due to domestic violence for over 30 days. Now, I'm saying "something" and not what exactly passed because starting to translate Israeli political system to American terms is a bit too much now as they're very different, but it's one or two votes away from becoming a law.

ION, I was raging yesterday in Twitter about visibility and hierarchy of feminist projects who use social media and/or the internet. Everyone was talking about project unbreakable tumblr, which is really great and wonderful and important, no doubt. And then I see another amazingly important project such as Women under siege project [link] and I know they're not going to have the same impact (and yes, I believe they deserve bigger impact than the tumblr project). I can't help but thinking that it's not just because the tumblr/pictures platform is a powerful one - but because these women aren't white and digitally literate. Again, it's not that the tumblr in itself isn't good - and I think I know by now how much work that takes - but the visibility that's concerning me.

And that takes me to different side, which I see over and over and over again; how Western feminists keep helping mostly the women they know in scenarios they are familiar with without thinking of the implications to other women. I'm fat from bring perfect on that myself, of course: Hollaback Israel still doesn't support Russian, Arabic and Amharic submissions even though we translated the strings (and the site totally crashed when we installed the translation plug in. Fun!), or the activists' group, which has other issues that I won't go in to because I'm writing this post for over 20 minutes now. But it bugs me, because I'm not just critical towards my own culture, but also to the way others - including me - are using resources in order to solve issues. I'm not looking for perfection, but I'm definitely looking for awareness.

I'm tired of our politicians behaving like the Taliban. Dunno what it is they got against women's health and reproductive rights.

Back from the beach, and several days of being forced to mediate btwn 15 yr old half sister and her righteously upset mother. among the many other issues with the 19 yo boyfriend (back in court tomorrow for yet another violation of the no-contact order btwn them...) he as apparently gotten the wee sister into bondage. But when i asked her about a safe word she had no idea what i was talking about. so clearly HE is into BDSM but without any safety precautions, and is not teaching her and she's refusing to seek out information. Any rec's on a basic into to BDSM that would be appropriate for a very very naive 15 year old who has gotten in way past her maturity level?

Had another writer's group meeting tonight. Listen to a friend's very humorous new play, and workshopped a new monologue of my own.

Erin, wish I could help. Alas, not a world I've delved in.

Sean, that's great!

Looks to be about 2.5 hours since Maria posted being tired. I hope she is getting some sleep, and it's actually restful.

I think I got about another hour left in me before I'll pass out completely.

(((((Maria)))))