The Ladies of Liberty in Action
posted by Le Synge Bleu at 4:08 PM
Monday, July 25, 2005
About Me
- Name: Le Synge Bleu
- Location: New York, New York, United States
I have this recurring nightmare that I'm asked to define myself in some way in precisely 1200 characters or less. The words parade around me in a grotesque circle dance to Disney's "It's a small world after all", gradually inprisoning me in the box they've formed around me. I can't seem to escape this box-o-words, despite numerous desperate editing attempts, and the words are mocking me and shouting slanderous epithets galore about my semantic failures. I wake up, sobbing, and thankful to be in my bed and not at a computer frantically typing and deleting like a madwoman. Clearly, I'm a giant neurotic contradiction in and of myself (who gets way too little sleep to boot). Despite my massive insecurity, I can be pretty fun though...I mean, who doesn't love self depricating humor...it's funny right? Right? Ha ha? I try mightily to live life as one huge adventure, but the majority of the time it ends up being a bit of a farce. My new evaluative criteria when it comes to life experiences tends to be, "Will it make a good story one day? Then it was worth it." I also have an evil man hating attack cat that I adore and everyone else flees from.
Previous Posts
- No Suspicious Sweat Please!
- John Roberts is an Evil-Dooer, Not a Do-Gooder!
- Shameless Namedropping for Vixanne's Benefit
- Hot WP With Mr. Artsy Hotpants
- Close Encounters of the Obnoxious Kind
- A Change of Venue?
- The Grand Experiment in Normalcy
- I Have a Date or What the Hell Am I Doing?
- My Adventure in Fratland
- Liberte! Egalite! Fraternite!
PEOPLE WHO WRITE BETTER AND ARE SMARTER THAN I AM (or are my friends so I have to say that)
- ALR Design
- Dead Parents Society
- Dooce
- Evacuation Route
- Everything Is Wrong With Me
- French Word a Day
- Glesbo
- I Eat NY
- The Idle Receptionist
- Island in the Pacific
- Jambox
- Kick in the Pants
- Mim4Art
- Postsecret
- Sex and the Gritty
- Tia
- Little Things of Venom
- This Fish Needs a Bicycle
- We Shall Not Cease From Exploration
GUILTY AND/OR ADDICTIVE PLEASURES
BRILLIANT ARTISTS' ONLINE VIDEO STUDIOS
- Betty Dylan Blog
- Vaginavlog
- Hello? (My Little Vidipookikins' Online Studio)
- The Tap Diva Project
- Scratch Video
- This Is Vlog
- Corra Films
PEACE AND SOCIAL JUSTICE MOVEMENT
- Code Pink Women for Peace
- Ladies of Liberty
- Billionaires for Bush
- The Raging Grannies
- United for Peace and Justice
ALTERNATIVE MEDIA SOURCES
5 Comments:
ooooo - did you see john roberts declining to answer questions about being a leader of the (anti-)federalist society? and the white house saying he has no recollection of being a member - despite him publicly acknowledging his membership previously (i.e. pre-supreme court nomination). this gives me hope. if he's lying, the media might actually get carried away with it - which in this case would work out for the best!
i'm not forgetting about rove, unlike the media. no, my point is, the media of late buckles in the face of something really important, but it gets carried away with comparatively small things. roberts' selective memory about the federalist society is small potatoes next to rove's impropriety, which should mean that the media will be all over it. which for once would be fine with me.
i've got a taste for fries for breakfast. maybe covered in stinky cheese. and dipped in *french* dressing. so sue me.
mmmm....stinky cheese. i once had a very funny cheese faux pas in france. i was having christmas dinner with my mom's family (they're catholic), which is a huge 4 hour affair with more courses than grad school, and we were having abit of wine and talking between courses. we were talking about cheese, of course (cuz that's what you do), and i was saying how we could get french cheese in america but it didn't taste the same. my grandmother, who is the expert on everything, corrected me that we could not, in fact get french cheese in america (even though she's only been to america 3 times total). i said that we could, but it tasted different because it was the law in america thta all cheese had to have preservatives in it. or at least that's what i thought i said....
i knew there was a word in french that was "preservatives", and that's the english word, so that was what i said. there was dead silence, in which i realized that preservatives was not infact the correct word, but i couldn't quite remember what it meant. then my grandmother was the first to break the silence, laughing hysterically and everyone else followed suit. "preservatives" in french means condoms. so i announced at christmas dinner taht it was the law in america that all cheese had to have condoms in it. i still get shit for that to this day.
as for the media latching on to this, i wouldn't count on it. the liberal media is way too controlled by the right. even though the failure to respond is small potatoes, a supremem court nomination is not...there's no way they're not going to spin things as much as possible to push him through...unfortunately.
another upsetting fact is that with attention on roberts and the nomination its a win win situation for the administration. if we push energy towards dealing with the nomination, the war, the lies, and the downing street memo are forgotten. if we push towards those things, roberts goes through. either way they benefit.
not that the media's paying attention to the downing street memo at all anyway. i keep waiting. i was at a code pink action outside of nbc on sat (which is why its been so forefront in my examples and in my mind i guess) to push for media attention on this, and you'd be surprised how many people came up to us and had no idea what the hell the memo was. scary and oh so telling.
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