Creep-tastic friendster...

I knew that friendster was going to implement the "see who has looked at your profile" option when friendster started tracking the "your profile has been viewed x-number of times since the beginning of the month" - sure enough, today when I logged into friendster, I saw the option to see who has been looking at my profile. Apparently people who I haven't talked to in 7+ years, random very cute strangers, and ex-girlfriends of friends.... weird. Of course, I immediately turned on the "anonymous browsing" option... because that's the way I like my stalking.... anonymously.

Time Out

Time Out must have been a pretty cutting edge publication - featuring frenchies on it's cover as far back as 1997....

Strep Throat = No Fun

*rant alert*

I don't ever remember having strep throat - I didn't even really know what it was until I looked it up after the doctor diagnosed me... basically, it's the pre-cursor to the f*cking scarlet fever... plot-point of the famous children's story The Velveteen Rabbit... taking advatange of some openings in my schedule as a result of people avoiding me due to my contagious disease... I do my quarterly laundry run (yes, I'm a clotheshorse and my wardrobe is large enough to avoid having to do laundry more frequently)... where someone steals my laundry detergent. Which I wouldn't have even minded if they had been like... oh, I forgot to bring detergent, and I gotta use some of this detergent... but who takes 10+ laundry loads worth of detergent from a clear bottle to use on one load of laundry? I was seriously tempted to pour in 10+ laundry loads worth of bleach into the solitary machine that was in operation after I got back to the laundromat to claim the last of my clothes and detergent. Don't people at least know how to steal with style?

Vogue, Fatties, and Stupidity

This morning I wrote an email to the peeps over at Jossip in response to one of their Monday columns. In the fluff piece they wrote: Now Conde Nast has become the whipping boy for the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance, whose agenda sounds even more garish than the queer community. They want Wintour to recognize fatties are people too, even if they have the body weight of several.

My email:

Subject: Anna Wintour & Jossip on Fatties
Dear Jossip:

I read your column on Monday regarding Anna Wintour and I wanted to applaud it's brave honesty. It's unusual for "jossip" columnists to recognize the connection between fat people and gay people. Usually it's only activists who want to claim that these are related forms of oppression. But Jossip had the good sense to see that both gay people and fat people are connected in the sense that they don't deserve to live or be happy the way they are. As Jossip would seem to imply, the real problem with New York would be it's diversity. Lot's all follow the lead of Jossip's column and put down the people who really don't deserve to be people anyways. I'm not sure why. They just don't.

Many Thanks!

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yeah, anyhow...Ha ha - fat people are so unglamorous. The platform of recognizing the humanity in everyone is "garish." One is being such an ethical and respectful human being by making snap judgments about who people are based on qualities that that they really can't change, NOT. Sure, most people who identity as gay can probably get it up and bump uglies with someone of the opposite gender (just as some queers will probably deign to f*uck republicans) - but this logic of sexual preference "choice" and it's concomitant moral garbage is exactly what gets applied to fat people who are seen as failures for not being thin. Some fat people can go on diets and lose weight little for a while. But, hello - over ninety percent of diets fail! I wonder what the "straight" conversion camps are. What they don't cite in the original article is Sandy's response to those who claim concern regarding fat people needing to lose weight for their own good, she says ""How do dislike and concern become mixed up to be the same thing? That's just garbage." At least the people at Jossip in their ever present bitchiness don't even bother with concern - they just present a disdainful dislike.

I'd rant some more about the chub & bear population in the gay community and the pigheadedness of the body fascists who imagine they are the heart and soul of the gay community... but i'm late for class.

the strange world of Harry Potter

According to Cinematical Katie Leung, who plays Cho Chang in the upcoming Harry Potter movie has been getting hate mail. This of course isn't exacly news - as Harry Potter Automatic News Aggregator already reported about this phenomenon in April - Snitch Seeker has some portions of the article as well as a discussion thread.

strangely beautiful clip

Check out what looks like 3D animation, but as actually a movie comprised of photos taken by Mecury-bound Messenger during a gravitiy assist swingby of Earth. It comprises of 358 frames taken over 24 hours. The movie follows Earth through one complete rotation. The spacecraft was 40,761 miles (65,598 kilometers) above South America when the camera started rolling on Aug. 2. It was 270,847 miles (435,885 kilometers) away from Earth (farther than the Moon's orbit) when it snapped the last image on Aug. 3. (via LangaList)

snip, pump, stitch

According to Dr. Lefkovits, An important consideration for buttock fat grafting is the availability of extra fat in different parts of the body. While fat is usually in abundance, there are patients in whom there is no extra fat available. In these patients buttock augmentation with fat is obviously not feasible. Ahhh, plastic surgery for men...of course if you want to get fixed up on the other side down there they'll call in the "expert," Dr. E. Douglas Whitehead....who has a extensive gallery of cut up and swelled privates... yuck.... the look so sad and unhappy...