August 2011
12 posts
7 tags
1 tag
Purposeful Scars
I am not emotionally attached to my uterus, not even when I had one. Daily, I am physically reminded of its absence and will have a permanent reminder of the occasion of its removal the likes Boris Karloff would be jealous of.
Being that I only have a couple of noticeable scars prior to this helluva thing I have now (you’d think an alien came outta there and they shrugged their shoulders,...
1 tag
Painful Truths
Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it. ~”Albus Dumbledore” J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
You got that right, Albus.
I am a terrible patient, or at least I’m terrible at being not well. I really try not to be whiny and needy but it’s a fuckingbunchofshit when you have parts of your innards removed and can’t...
1 tag
“You don’t have to get a job that makes others feel comfortable about what they...”
– Dear Sugar, The Rumpus (via brklyn)
I want this on my wall.
(via laughterkey)
Post-Op/Ed
A Short History of Medicine
2000 B.C. - “Here, eat this root.”
1000 B.C. - “That root is heathen, say this prayer.”
1850 A.D. - “That prayer is superstition, drink this potion.”
1940 A.D. - “That potion is snake oil, swallow this pill.”
1985 A.D. - “That pill is ineffective, take this antibiotic.”...
2 tags
Ron Paul to Rick Santorum:
seaofgreen:
“The senator is wrong on his history. We’ve been at war in Iran for a lot longer than ‘79. We started it in 1953 when we sent in the coup to install the Shah and the reaction, the blow back, came in ‘79 and it’s been going on and on because we just plain don’t mind our own business.”
I was laid up and haven’t been paying attention to much… but if he really said this...
Celebrity Portraits by Jake Chessum - Photo... →
Finding the right prop for Murray, who was promoting The Life Aquatic at the time, was a funny (and expensive) challenge, Chessum recalls: “Bill does not have a publicist or anything. He gives you a cell phone number and everything goes down through his wife or him — whoever picks it up. So we had this [dilemma]: What are we going to do with him? He hadn’t called back; we...
Link Parade. (now with more candy*)
Manhattan-Sized Iceberg Drifts Along Canadian Coast
ok. First: Don’t Panic. We all know that as this sucker flows south it will melt. Second: Holy shit that’s a big hunk of ice!
Image from here
Here is a vid of the thing taken June 24th.
Here is a before and after from NASA satellite from when that sucker calved off a year ago!
Most interesting to me is that it is called...
”..if women had a language adequate to express their perceptions, it might reflect a quite different reality than that perceived by men.” ~Suzette Haden Elgin
doroledim: (sublimation with food accompanied by guilt about that sublimation) This word has no English equivalent whatsoever. Say you have an average woman. She has no control over her life. She has little or nothing in the...
