Zoo Animals

Dream
A very confused dream, like a refrigerator randomly stuffed with all kinds of food, some wrapped, some half unwrapped, some...

Jeanne Jugan

I think her story demonstrates very nicely the danger inherent in any established religious authority, particularly those based on accidents of biology such as sex.

Camel Fights

Ass Friday

Two weeks ago, Crazy Tracy declared that from now on she would observe "Ass Friday".... It seems today that she's already grown tired of pursuing Sorrento around the house with her digital camera or that Sorrento had steadfastly stood with her back against the wall whenever Tracy came in the same room as her. I can't say that I blame her.....

Fuzziness and Ripples

My particular brand of relativism is, therefore, founded on a comfort with uncertainty.

Paths of Light

So Many Philomels, so rudely forc'd

Becca, Red Water Lily and I fight to be ourselves in a world that thinks it knows our minds and can make better prescriptions for our happiness than the ones we know to soothe.

....and the horse you rode in on

Clint Eastwood taught many people that it was perfectly fine to be schizoid and hypocritical, to speak of love and act in a bellicose fashion; to promote yourself as honorable and cheat your way to the top.

Rebuilding
I slapped together a new look for Ganesha's Library. I figure I can do about two of these transfers a...

The Courage to be a Big Weakling

I've learned that it takes courage to say "no" to a woman who wants you to push her car up a hill; courage that is not too dis-similar, if somewhat milder, than that of a teenaged girl rejecting the advances of an amorous boyfriend.

The Waiting Room

Do they housebreak them? Do these things have engines? Do they neuter them first so they don't spray?

Sleek Gophers

Sinclair Lewis probably wouldn't find America different from what he saw in the 1920s except that the locus of banality has shifted. Carol Kennitcott would be just as miserable in today's California suburbs as she was in Gopher Prairie.

An American Panda

"This is an American panda. You've never seen an American panda before."

Questions for the Learned Ones
OK, now I have a few questions for those conversant with Moveable Type: How do I set up and link...

Now entering....
....the age of Moveable Type. You can now comment on the entries. I am working my way through the whole...

Freaking Camera
It is going to be a couple of days before I am able to post photos (except for a few)...

More Gratitude

Thanks to everyone who has linked to me, those who will link to me, etc.

Rodents and Cats

When I mewed at it, it stared at me. Kindred? we asked one another in the secret language of the searching eyes.

Dream
Lynn goes out into the back yard of some house we are living in to bring in all our cats...

"Don't criticize the service -- if you do, you're UNAMERICAN!"

The Mediterranean has been around for a long time. It has a split personality -- a coffee shop in the front and one of those darkly lit places in the back that I suppose are to remind you of the intimacy of the dungeons where the Spanish Inquisition conducted its researches.

Intellectual Property Deserves a Fence
The copyright pirates were whining again on #politics. So I proposed something: let's treat all property like you want to...

Dream
I am a witness to a peculiar kind of play, with many scenes that happen in different places, all at...

A Defense of Cultural Relativism

I don't think Franz Boas and the other founders of cultural relativism meant to let evil persist uncriticized and unchallenged.

A Suggested Amendment

I think perhaps it is high time that we add a new amendment to the constitution.

Prologue to the Zoo

"There better be something GOOD, causing this," I raved.

Sustained Personal Involution
Sometimes I think that I'm the most interesting character I know. At least I try. Maybe it is because I...

Bloggies
I'm in the running against a least a dozen other sites. Sites that have more pictures to catch the eye,...

A Clue for Certain Friends

It's not just our boys. It's their boys, too. And their girls, their old grannies, the pale women secreted in their harems, and their sun-wizened men who sip syrupy coffee and play backgammon.

Moral Decline

It's about ridiculing saints. It is about pressing people who could be saints to ignore their consciences and their rational minds, to give in to hate.

Possessed

Joel the Angel of Wrath came out swinging the terrible swift sword of invective.

Exclamations
I've been in dirty Batman mode lately: Great sacred coprolite of Damascus! Holy Shit! Most Divine High Priestess of Aphrodite!...

I think we're there....
If you can read this, you are now at my new web host. We had a few problems getting here...

You know, for once I saw this coming....
what's your order?...

If Tuesday Disappears
Don't worry. It just means that you've stumbled into my new server at Glowhost. I had a heck of a...

AC Repairman
I've got the AC repairman over here at last, plugging off portions of my cooling system and pressurizing them to...

Nothing quite this dramatic

The actual rainfall or fog drip barely wet the sidewalks. No puddles stand in the aftermath of our August storm.

You can rest assured....

[19:56] <mimi> great. he believes in enforcing channel policy. he wrote it
[19:56] <EmperorNorton> Great. He will probably agree that you are being especially draconian and making me jump through unnecessary hoops.

Funny. I feel more like garlic
what's your inner flower? [c] s u g a r d e w...

Thanks
Thanks to those who have linked to my blog so far: Dykewrite (including Grey Bird and Techfluid), Reconstructed Mind, VA...

Neat Divisions

Can we live comfortably in a world of the mind where we can't tell the apples from the oranges?

Viva La Nonviolent Revolution!

...if you want to help a terrorist, the best thing you can do in his book is install more draconian measures.

Stand back! I'm all ready for my NEW CAREER!
I've picked up a secret component vital to my upcoming success in the north Hollywood film industry. From now...

Relocation
Relocation of notfrisco2.com has begun. If this goes well, Alsirat and notfrisco.com will follow. Those who have blogrolled me and...

Out of the Mailbox
Once a month or so, I think I should do what I did a few weeks ago and give people...

Beisboll Been Belly Belly Bad to Norton

Oh dear. I'm talking like a progressive again....how dare I attack the sacred cow of the so-called free market!

Possible Lapse of Blogging
Both my loyal readers may find me out of the internet this weekend. We're in the process of moving notfrisco2.com...

No Freon

First they left messages. Then, when she called them back, their receptionist told Lynn to "just wait" for them to get around to getting back to us again: she couldn't find the papers.

Comments
I'm getting fed up with enetation as my comments engine. Does anyone know a better comments vehicle, either off-site or...

Correction
My friend snaily^ runs peersupport.org. I erroneously listed it as peersupport.com. The text has been changed appropriately, but I...

Meeting Crazy Tracy's Challenge
The holy madwoman with the foul mouth has declared it to be Time -- Time to take back the phrase...

Me and St. Martin de Porres

Even though I no longer call myself a Catholic, when I see images of him, I point to them and say "That's St. Martin de Porres. I've named myself after him."

This Pisses Me Off

When did I say I wasn't ever going to take one of these fucking quizzes again?

Lynn's Closet Catholicism

If the Pope ever underwent a true Christian conversion and ordained women priests, you can rest assured that my Quaker wife would be up front and center at the baptismal fount, signing up.

Dream
I am a clone named Daniel Kinkaid, a reincarnation of myself who has been brought to life so that...

An Actual Conversation, with Extension

I'm not about to start hanging out in lesbian bars, passing. But there are other strange little coincidences in my life that make this self-definition interesting.

New Look
It's coming. I've got to do something about all this damned orange, but it's coming. And, yes, I will...

Geriatric

"Daddy? You know when I am as old as you are, I'll be dead."

Spread the Word
I've set up a javascript that will let you participate in Trackback discussions even if you don't have Moveable...

Calves' Brains

The texture was something like stringy mushed banana, the flavor unmemorable.

Dream
I go for a walk around a marsh along the edge of a low, white city to ponder a...

A Lethargy

The present heat wave burns everything good from my brain.

Watching for the Red Storm

You can't see this heat. It show up uneventfully and squats.

My Multiple Personalities: An Official List
This blog isn't all of me. I've been on the net since 1988, handing out my email account to people...

Faux News

Casting for this entertainment included a whore who wore a sleeveless blouse and a diamond choker; a good girl who covered her arms; and a wimpy middle aged geezer chosen for the fact that he wasn't especially handsome and so could be easily replaced in the fantasy of the average male.

Mercantile Madness
At last! The Emperor Norton T-Shirt, Mug and Tote Bag!...

Camel Toes

Now Karen and Kelly Caldwell both have me paranoid: each either implied or said straight out that she looks at crotches.

Susceptible

My friends assured me that astrology always spoke the truth -- as did numerology, palmistry, bibliomancy, UFO paranoia, the visions of self-proclaimed psychics, and whatever guru or gura happened to be popular at the moment.

Lizza
....wrote a kind and generous apology. For my part, I wish to apologize for anything extreme that I might...

Agent Provacateur?

In this day when the Attorney General raises the most corrupt of snitches to an honored place at the table of citizens -- over those who work for peace and justice -- one can't be too careful.

Quiz

No, I'm not addicted.

Crazy Tracy vs. the Vatican

I can't for the life of me see why the Vatican doesn't think that women are fit to preach the Gospel.

Events I am glad to have witnessed
I promised I'd do this. My marriage to Lynn The party at which I met Lynn The 1991 March against...

Desperate!
The things I find to do in the post midnight hours.... I am 69% Tortured ArtistArt is significant in my...

Hiroshima Day

Well, with the way most of us have been conditioned to think about "the necessity" of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I guess I shouldn't be surprised.

Events I am Glad I Missed
It's time for a little gratitude to balance out the woe I've been filling this blog with. Here is...

Family
Following the example of chari, I've added a blogtree to this site. Here is my pedigree: Pedigree of PAX...

Another unpopular position

My beef with both the Israelies and the Palestinians is that they are waging unjust war against each other. Who started it? I say that question is bullshit....

The Humbling of Arrogance

People who aren't monks tend to see them as extremely unselfish and humble. A monk doesn't share their opinion of him. He suspects that he is both selfish and arrogant.

America the Gangster Land

...yesterday's signing of the "Hague Invasion Act" marks a low point in American history.

The Last Forking Quiz!
Which Star-Crossed Marvel Lover Are You? OD! OD! Go take a walk Joel!...

A Point of Etiquette

What do you say to someone who apologizes for the way a friend acted?

My favorite quiz
I call myself an agnostic, but the Belief-O-Matic quiz says that I fit in better as a Theravada Buddhist, a...

They're doing better
What Psych-Ward do you belong to?...

They don't have a clue
What day are you?...

A Comment Made Elsewhere

It's a good thing that a free people can listen in on the Congress when it is considering whether to commit itself to becoming the world's chief bully and make a hopeless shambles of an already bad economy. I just wonder if the big decision is going to be a smart one.

Views

I'm dying for this park.

Tully's Again

....what am I to do if they start bringing me their poetry for me to read and critique?

Bearded Crazy Man

I think Mom is dead set on making me into a dyke.