(stroke the pussies) No Teeth [14 Nov 2009|03:46am] jbradley Three of my poems are up on No Teeth. Click here to read them.

(stroke the pussies) [14 Nov 2009|12:22am] postmaudlin i must not be completely done here yet - - i just extended my paid account. now if i can just think of something to tell you. something warm but not too, you know, personal.

(1 purr | stroke the pussies) Thanksgiving pet boarding [13 Nov 2009|09:44pm] austincommunity [aspen] Anyone know of a dog boarding place that still has openings for Thanksgiving? The three I know are booked up. Any ideas?

(stroke the pussies) NaNo - Day 13 [13 Nov 2009|10:17pm] scottwoods Ugh. I'm losing here! Need verbal plasma stat! Didn't type a word yet today! (10:18 pm)

(stroke the pussies) [13 Nov 2009|05:46pm] losthippie #434) THE BELL JAR, Sylvia Plath- I have always avoided this book because, well, it's Sylvia Plath. I mean, I knew it wasn't going to be uplifting. And it wasn't. But for me, it was a surprisingly good book. Plath can write, and the detailed yet gradual story of the narrator's breakdown and subsequent time in a variety of hospitals is strong stuff. The opening chapters, when the narrator is active and in society and trying to be a normal person, were for me the highlight of the book, showing an author with wit and attitude and quite a gift. The rest of the book sadly chronicles what happens to that gift. MUST I HAVE READ THIS BOOK BEFORE I DIED: Yes 434 down, 667 to go

(4 purrs | stroke the pussies) Reviews: Places to Sell CDs [13 Nov 2009|03:46pm] austincommunity [grace_batmonkey] [ mood | pleased ] [ music | none, ironically ] Today we had to do the "sell some CDs" shuffle. The three places visited were Cheapo, 1/2 Price @ Manchaca & S. Lamar, and Waterloo Records (S. Lamar @ 6th, of course). We had about 100 CDs from varying genres and in assorted conditions. Cheapo looked through and offered $65 for nearly all - .65 p/CD - & the lady was kind of rude. 1/2 Price checked 'em out, rejected a few, and offered $47. The usual nice service, just really low (per usual). Waterloo was the rock star, which was kind of unexpected. They took the longest, but that's because they're always very busy AND they researched all the CDs they thought they could use. For 24 CDs they gave us $73 - yowza! This question is asked a lot but I couldn't find it in tags - if someone knows better tags for me to add, just let me know & I'll be glad to fix 'em up.

(7 purrs | stroke the pussies) At least they could've least built a monorail. [13 Nov 2009|01:13pm] fengi "We had to destroy the neighborhood in order to benefit it." In 2005, the Supreme Court decision Kelo v. New London upheld use of eminent domain to take private property from one owner and give it to another private interest for alleged public benefit. The local and state government spent more than 80 million to acquire and raze the land for a private developer trying to capitalize on a new research facility by Pfizer. Now the tax breaks have run out and Pfizer has announced it's leaving and taking all the jobs to another sucker town. Kelo's neighborhood is a mass of vacant lots. The New York Times collected some interesting views on the topic. Here's some excerpts. Dana Berliner, senior attorney at the Institute for Justice and one of those who represented the homeowners in the Kelo case: No one should be surprised by the aftermath of the Kelo case — neither the fact that absolutely nothing has been built on the land nor the fact that Pfizer is now pulling out of New London altogether...evidence at trial showed that nothing would be built on that land. The developer (who has now left the project) did a study showing there was no market for the biotech office buildings the city claimed would replace the homes. But the courts didn’t want to look at that evidence. If they had, Susette Kelo would still be in her home and the rest of us would be safe from eminent domain abuse. ( ... ) Paul Bass, editor of the online New Haven Independent: Forty-seven miles south on I-95, in another Democratic city, that same lesson has been on display since the 1960s at another stretch of vacant land. That land just west of downtown New Haven used to be the site of a vibrant, multiethnic working-class neighborhood along Legion Avenue and Oak Street. Liberal Democrats seized it all — and much more in New Haven — through eminent domain, with the idea of bringing in investors to build a better neighborhood. The neighborhood never got built. Four decades later, the 26-acre stretch of land remains largely abandoned or used for surface parking, a testament to the failure of economic development-driven eminent domain. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was living in New Haven when that lesson became apparent. He wrote the most insightful opinion, a dissenting opinion, in the case of Kelo v. New London. He noted that eminent domain-fueled urban renewal became a synonym for “negro removal.” He saw that in New Haven. In New London, that observation could be broadened to include the removal of working-class families of different backgrounds, the kind of urban liberal constituency critical to the New Deal coalition that enabled Democrats convincingly to claim the populist mantle in this country’s political debate for four decades... ( One more. )

(5 purrs | stroke the pussies) Happy Anniversary! Pow, right in the kisser! [13 Nov 2009|12:21pm] fengi Passed on November 5, the repeal of Glass-Steagall went into effect ten years ago today: ''Today Congress voted to update the rules that have governed financial services since the Great Depression and replace them with a system for the 21st century,'' Treasury Secretary Lawrence H. Summers said. ''This historic legislation will better enable American companies to compete in the new economy.'' The decision to repeal the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 provoked dire warnings from a handful of dissenters that the deregulation of Wall Street would someday wreak havoc on the nation's financial system.( ... ) ''The world changes, and we have to change with it,'' said Senator Phil Gramm of Texas, who wrote the law that will bear his name along with the two other main Republican sponsors, Representative Jim Leach of Iowa and Representative Thomas J. Bliley Jr. of Virginia. ''We have a new century coming, and we have an opportunity to dominate that century the same way we dominated this century. Glass-Steagall, in the midst of the Great Depression, came at a time when the thinking was that the government was the answer. In this era of economic prosperity, we have decided that freedom is the answer.'' ( ... ) ''I think we will look back in 10 years' time and say we should not have done this but we did because we forgot the lessons of the past, and that that which is true in the 1930's is true in 2010,'' said Senator Byron L. Dorgan, Democrat of North Dakota. ''I wasn't around during the 1930's or the debate over Glass-Steagall. But I was here in the early 1980's when it was decided to allow the expansion of savings and loans. We have now decided in the name of modernization to forget the lessons of the past, of safety and of soundness.'' Senator Paul Wellstone, Democrat of Minnesota, said that Congress had ''seemed determined to unlearn the lessons from our past mistakes.'' ''Scores of banks failed in the Great Depression as a result of unsound banking practices, and their failure only deepened the crisis,'' Mr. Wellstone said. ''Glass-Steagall was intended to protect our financial system by insulating commercial banking from other forms of risk. It was one of several stabilizers designed to keep a similar tragedy from recurring. Now Congress is about to repeal that economic stabilizer without putting any comparable safeguard in its place.'' ( ... ) Representative Maxine Waters, Democrat of California, said during the House debate that the legislation was ''mean-spirited in the way it had tried to undermine the Community Reinvestment Act.'' And Representative Barney Frank, Democrat of Massachusetts, said it was ironic that while the legislation was deregulating financial services, it had begun a new system of onerous regulation on community advocates. ( ... ) ...One Republican Senator, Richard C. Shelby of Alabama, voted against the legislation. He was joined by seven Democrats: Barbara Boxer of California, Richard H. Bryan of Nevada, Russell D. Feingold of Wisconsin, Tom Harkin of Iowa, Barbara A. Mikulski of Maryland, Mr. Dorgan and Mr. Wellstone. In the House, 155 Democrats and 207 Republicans voted for the measure, while 51 Democrats, 5 Republicans and 1 independent opposed it. Fifteen members did not vote. Tucked away in the legislation is a provision that some experts today warned could cost insurance policyholders as much as $50 billion. The provision would allow mutual insurance companies to move to other states to avoid payments they would otherwise owe policyholders as they reorganize their corporate structure. ( ... ) It attracted little opposition because it was attached to a provision that forbids insurers from discriminating against domestic-violence victims. Extra special punchline guess what one alleged benefit of the bill still isn't fully in effect ten years later? Also: Man, the Clinton years were awesome were they not?

(stroke the pussies) Montage [13 Nov 2009|10:00am] jeremyrichards 13:08 For those who didn't get or care to get my one hit wonder follow-up gag. Was I the only one working as a "rock ... ♫ blip.fm/~g93rg # 16:05 I actually dreamed I was in Durang's play "The Actor's Nightmare," and I didn't know the lines. It didn't make a difference. #fb # 17:21 RT @FakeAPStylebook: Avoid using "gadzooks," lest your monocle pop out and land in your jar of mustache wax. # 20:22 RT @unexpectedimpro Ladies & Gentleman.... PRESENTING: The NEW Unexpected Productions Cast Page: tinyurl.com/ygdfa2r # Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter

(stroke the pussies) Page Meets Stage (Cols.) Sun., Nov. 15, 8 pm [13 Nov 2009|11:32am] louiserobertson Making plans for the weekend? Include this: Either one of these guys should be a draw! Logic, veteran of the National Poetry Slam stage, haiku champion, will trade poems with Steve Abbott, master craftsman and veteran of the battlefields of print publication. Then, time to ask them questions, see what really goes on behind the poetry. We'll have soda and water. BYOB is allowed. Page Meets Stage (Columbus) Logic and Steve Abbott Sunday, Nov. 15, 8 pm, $5 @ The Wild Goose Creative 2491 Summit St. (near the Summit/Hudson intersection) Columbus, OH 43202 More information: loui526@yahoo.com

(10 purrs | stroke the pussies) Offbeat Baby Stuff [13 Nov 2009|09:50am] austincommunity [texasoddity] [ mood | hopeful ] Are there any stores in Austin that sell baby supplies/clothes that are not your garden variety babies-r-us type stuff? Online I'd be looking at ThinkGeek or cafepress but I am an idiot and didn't realize the shower is this weekend. Any suggestions are much appreciated.

(4 purrs | stroke the pussies) Tom Coburn messes with noblesse oblige, but is still a good feudalist. [13 Nov 2009|09:50am] fengi Tom Coburn has voted for supplemental war bills (and lies he says he voted for one) and is a general supporter of the wars. He's a tax cut hawk in favor of making the Bush cuts permanent, calls the estate tax "the death tax", wants to end of capital gains tax. It's okay to give away money as long as it's a revenue loss and mostly for the wealthy. He's a real piece of work: Voted against Lilly Ledbetter. Voted against minimum wage. Voted for tougher bankruptcy laws. Voted for a constitutional amendment against flag desecration. Voted against a torture ban. Voted against DC Voting Rights. Voted against veteran's health care before. Voted for the "Secure Fence Act of 2006" (the border wall which is a massive program was not offest in the budget). In short Coburn is a right wing asshole Republican, but apparently enjoys screwing the poor so much he goes beyond other right wing nuts to block veteran health care in the name of fiscal responsibility. That's the appearance. It's obviously his stance involves a larger strategy. It's about spreading the "everyone sacrifice for the most deserving" fallacy - holding our "noble" troops hostage in order to gut social programs in general (which commoners haven't earned anyway). Fuck that. This is about workers getting proper benefits for a tough job in which supervisor can kill them. It's about just compensation within a larger labor context, while he's trying to justify screwing everyone else to give what he defines as "special" treatment to the military. America shouldn't be Sparta, even if it's sliding that way. Underneath his bullshit about budgets, Tom Coburn supports a feudal system of barons, knights and peasants. The latter two groups are equally despised, but the useful ones get a few perks in exchange for their lives.

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(stroke the pussies) [12 Nov 2009|08:05pm] austincommunity [soulpollution] BRIEF INTERVIEWS with John Krasinski Live at the Drafthouse.... does anyone have an extra ticket?

(stroke the pussies) [12 Nov 2009|07:46pm] javabill see more Epic Fails

(stroke the pussies) I make inappropriateness so sexy [12 Nov 2009|07:13pm] jbradley My poems "Our Sex Is An Orange Alert" and "Fidelity" are up in Zygote In My Coffee. Click on the poem titles to read them and then go read the rest of the issue.

(9 purrs | stroke the pussies) More! [12 Nov 2009|04:09pm] mskittieface More to come, I know. This is from only one of our 3+ photographers. Marvel at the hotness of our friends and family. :) ( Read more... )

(stroke the pussies) Pain Tribe, I.C.U. , Chant , Hipnautica, Tap Water Mind Control ~ Benifit @ Elysium Nov 19th! [12 Nov 2009|05:09pm] austin_freaks [nalya13] [ mood | busy ] Pain Tribe, I.C.U. , Chant , Hipnautica, Tap Water Mind Control ~ Benifit @ Elysium Nov 19th! Atone (benefit for Colby Watkins) next Thursday the 19th. I will also be assisting with the sale of tickets & drawing for the raffle so come see me, purchase some raffle tickets and win some awesome prizes for an important cause. Details of what prizes have been donated so far are listed below. Hope everyone can make it out for this event! Xo~Kc http://www.myspace.com/colbywatkinsbenefitaustin http://www.myspace.com/atonepaintribe http://www.myspace.com/chant http://www.myspace.com/hipnauticamusic http://www.myspace.com/tapwatermindcontrol ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Raffle:Tattoos, Piercings, CDs + more for the benefit @ Elysium Next Thursday November 19th we will be conducting a raffle during the performances by: CHANT, HIPNAUTICA, TAP WATER MIND CONTROL, PAIN TRIBE and I.C.U. Prizes will include - *Chant* CDs *Hipnautica* CDs *Hipnautica* T-shirts *Elysium* Passes (1) *CHANT / PIGFACE drum head and drum stick: - played on by Bradley Bills / Martin Atkins (..PIL/..Ministry/..Pigface) - both signed by Bradley and Martin - drum stick broken by Bradley during their performance - Included Picture of performance (1) *Pigface new album "6" (signed by Martin Atkins / Bradley Bills) (1) *Pigface: "China Dub" Soundsystem CD (signed by Martin Atkins) (1) *Pigface: "China POP" 2007 CD (signed by Martin Atkins) (1) *CHANT: "That Which Divides" CD (signed by Martin Atkins / Bradley Bills) (1) *Lucid Dementia* Sticker/Signed CD/T-shirt *Sleep Now Yes* Hoodie(s) *Sleep Now Yes* T-shirt(s) *The Holocaust Humanity* CD *The Holocaust Humanity* T-shirt *The Future Process* CDs, Poster, buttons and stickers *subNatural* CD(s) *Nemion* CD(s) (2) Style and cuts by Rawny valued @ $65 each (2) Style and cuts by Jen valued @ $65 each (1) $150 tattoo gift certificate from DJ @ Golden Apple (1) Non-genital piercing + jewelry gift certificate from Dave @ Sailors Grave (2) Gift certificates for piercing + jewelry from Pineapple @ Shaman (1) $100 tatoo gift certificate from Justin Vickers @ Shaman (1) $100 tatoo gift certificate from Jimmy @ Shaman (4) $10 gift certificates from Aarons Rock & Roll This is not the full list of items for the evening. More will be posted as we near the event. Some items will be given away in packages and some individually. Everyone will have a chance to win with the purchace of raffle tickets. All proceeds from the event will go to the Colby Watkins Memorial Fund. We would like to thank everyone who has contributed generously with their time and donations to help in this benefit. Please feel free to forward to everyone.

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