Sunset

Shlino lake sunset from Timelapser on Vimeo.

(L.A.Now)

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…A Sloth tries to live

The Sloth Life, It Can Changes

Indeed. from a rather sweet life.
To a rather sad life.

The Sloth Life, It Can Changes
by SlothVision

Damn humans

(sloths are cute..they're probably not appropriate as pets, though you wouldn't have to take them for walks, one supposes)

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His First Mistake Was Caring At All About Anteaters

Today Now! host Jim Haggerty consoles a severely depressed zoologist on the latest Critter Corner installment.

Expert On Anteaters Wasted Entire Life Studying Anteaters

In order to prevent you having to repeat the mistake of his life here is obviously everything you need to know about anteaters from that site of sites wikipedia

Anteaters are the four mammal species of the suborder Vermilingua commonly known for eating ants and termites . The name is also colloquially applied to the aardvark, the numbat, the echidna, and the pangolin. Together with the sloths, they comprise the order Pilosa.

Species include the Giant Anteater Myrmecophaga tridactyla, about 1.8 m (6 ft.) long including the tail; the tamandua or collared Anteater Tamandua tetradactyla, about 90 cm (3 ft.) long; and the Silky Anteater Cyclopes didactylus, about 35 cm (14 in.) long.

The largest extant representative of the group is the Giant Anteater, or ant-bear (Myrmecophaga tridactyla), an animal measuring 4 feet (1.2 m) in length, excluding the tail, and 2 feet (60 cm) in height at the shoulder. It has a long, thin head and a large, bushy tail. Its prevailing color is gray, with a broad black band, bordered with white, starting on the chest, and passing obliquely over the shoulder, diminishing gradually in breadth as it approaches the loins, where it ends in a point. Giant Anteaters are sometimes mistaken for bears because of their claws and bushy fur. The Giant Anteater is also a very solitary animal. In Spanish, an anteater is referred to as an oso hormiguero, literally, "anthill bear."

It is extensively distributed in South and Central America, frequenting low swampy savannas, along the banks of rivers, and the depths of the humid forests, but is nowhere abundant.

Its food consists mainly of termites, which it obtains by opening nests with its powerful sharp anterior (front) claws. As the insects swarm to the damaged part of their dwelling, it draws them into its mouth by means of its long, flexible, rapidly moving tongue covered with sticky saliva. Their tongue can be flicked up to 150-160 or more a minute. A full-grown giant Anteater eats upwards of 30,000 ants and termites a day.

The Giant Anteater and regular anteaters have no teeth. Their food is aided by the pebbles and debris that they consume when they are eating their protein-packed meal. Once the bugs are trapped by the sticky tongue, the bugs are crushed by the tongue, against the anteater's hard palate.

The giant Anteater lives above ground, not burrowing underground like armadillos or aardvarks. The anteater finds a place to sleep, curls up, and covers itself with their bushy tail. Since the anteater is a very solitary animal, it can be easily woken. When attacked it can defend itself with its sabre-like anterior claws.

The female produces one offspring per birth. During much of its first year of life, a young Anteater will ride on its mother's back. It is generally acknowledged that giant Anteaters have a poor sense of sight but a keen sense of smell. In fact, their sense of smell is regarded to be some 40 times stronger than that of humans. The name of the species, tridactyla, comes from "tri" and "dactylos", which is Greek for "three fingers". However, giant Anteaters actually have five toes on each paw (the fifth is vestigial). The name probably came about because only three of the front toes have prominent claws and can be easily seen. Giant Anteaters rarely make sounds. When they do it is mostly when they are young; the sound is a high-pitched, shrilly grunt noise. A baby that has fallen off his mother's back will grunt to its mother either to remind her that it has fallen off or to simply instruct her where it is or to get her attention.

The two Anteaters of the genus Tamandua, the Southern Tamandua (Tamandua tetradactyla) and the Northern Tamandua (Tamandua mexicana), are much smaller than the Giant Anteater, and differ essentially from it in their habits, being mainly arboreal. They inhabit the dense primeval forests of South and Central America. The usual colour is yellowish-white, with a broad black lateral band, covering nearly the whole of the side of the body.

The silky Anteater (Cyclopes didactylus) is a native of the hottest parts of South and Central America, and about the size of a cat, of a general yellowish color, and exclusively arboreal in its habits.

Both the tamanduas and the silky Anteater possess partially prehensile tails.

Whew- that take way lass than 15 years. Now- to live!

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The More You Know

did you know that "under captive breeding plans, elephants should be at least 11 years old before conceiving."

Neither did I until I read this article about the controversy an Australian zoo has created by allowing it's 9 year old elephant to become preggers, which is apparently "the equivalent of allowing your 12-year-old daughter to become pregnant"

Wow, Britney Spears' mom is now running actual zoos- who woulda thunk it?

Anyway here is the BBC article

A row has erupted in Australia after Sydney's zoo announced a nine-year-old Asian elephant was pregnant.

Animal rights groups say the elephant, Thong Dee, is too young to fall pregnant, and that the zoo is "irresponsible" in letting it happen.

This was "the equivalent of allowing your 12-year-old daughter to become pregnant", said Erica Martin of the International Fund for Animal Welfare.

But keepers at Taronga Zoo say they took expert advice and acted on this.

"We took our advice from the experts in elephant reproduction," says Lucy Melo, senior keeper at the zoo.

"And based on their findings, when they came here and did elephant reproductive assessments... they suggested that all of the elephants were reproductively viable, and that they actually recommended Thong Dee for immediate breeding."

But Ifaw says under captive breeding plans, elephants should be at least 11 years old before conceiving.

If all goes well, the birth will be the first by a captive elephant in Australia, which the zoo described as a "historic event" on Thursday.

Thong Dee, who is five months into her 22-month pregnancy, is reported to be the first elephant to become pregnant while in captivity in Australia.

She was part of a group of Asian elephants imported from Thailand two years ago.

Someone should really lower that proper elephant breeding age for elephants in captivity on the elephant Wiki page so Thong Dee doesn't feel like a whore. Wikiality makes it so

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Not Quite An Even Trade

As we discover new species we’re also discovering ones we may be losing

From the BBC

A new species of mammal has been discovered in the mountains of Tanzania, scientists report.


The bizarre-looking creature, dubbed Rhynochocyon udzungwensis, is a type of giant elephant shrew, or sengi.

The cat-sized animal, which is reported in the Journal of Zoology, looks like a cross between a miniature antelope and a small anteater.

It has a grey face, a long, flexible snout, a bulky, amber body, a jet-black rump and it stands on spindly legs.

"This is one of the most exciting discoveries of my career," said Galen Rathbun, from the California Academy of Sciences, who helped to confirm the animal was new to science along with an international team of colleagues.
Despite its name, the creature, along with the 15 other known species of elephant shrew, is not actually related to shrews.

Dr Rathbun told the BBC News website: "Elephant shrews are only found in Africa. They were originally described as shrews because they superficially resembled shrews in Europe and in America."

In fact, the creature is more closely related to a group of African mammals, which includes elephants, sea cows, aardvarks and hyraxes, having shared a common ancestor with them about 100 million years ago.

"This is why they are also known as sengis," explained Dr Rathbun.

The new species was first caught on film in 2005 in Ndundulu Forest in Tanzania's Udzungwa Mountains by a camera trap set by Francesco Rovero, from the Trento Museum of Natural Sciences in Italy.

Dr Rathbun said: "I got these images, and said to myself: 'Boy, these look strange'. But you can't describe something new based just on photographs, so in March 2006, we went back in and collected some specimens."

Flashy creatures

He told the BBC that it quickly became apparent that the creatures were new to science.

He said: "Elephant shrews are almost all distinguished by distinctive colour patterns, and this is especially true of the forest-dwelling giant sengis.
"They are all quite flashy - one species has a bright golden rump, another checkers along the rump - so when you have a colour pattern that just isn't similar to what is out there, you know it is fairly obvious that you have got something new.

"And this one, with its grey face and black rump, was pretty different."

As well as its distinctive colouring, the new species is also larger than other species of giant elephant shrew, weighing 700g (25oz) and measuring about 30cm (12in) in length.

It uses its long, flexible nose and tongue to flick up insects, such as termites, and it is most active in daylight.

Dr Rathbun added: "They are behaviourally fairly simple - they are not like a dog or cat you can interact with - but they are so bizarre-looking and a lot of their behavioural ecology is so unique and interesting, you kind of get wrapped up with them."

The scientists say there is still much to learn about the Rhynochocyon udzungwensis, but they hope further research will help to answer questions about how many of the animals exist, their range and how closely the animals live together.

Tanzania's Udzungwa Mountains are biodiverse-rich. In addition to this new species, a number of other new animals have been found there, including the Udzungwa partridge, the Phillips' Congo shrew, and a new genus of monkey known as Kipunji as well as several reptiles and amphibians.

Dr Rathbun said it was vital the area and its inhabitants in this biodiversity "hotspot" were protected.

Good thing too that we’re discovering new species and animals because all our old ones may soon be extinct (y’know that whole “global warming” thing)

From the LA Times

The Bush administration is nearing a decision that would officially acknowledge the environmental damage of global warming, and name its first potential victim: the polar bear.

The Interior Department may act as soon as this week on its year-old proposal to make the polar bear the first species to be listed as threatened with extinction because of melting ice due to a warming planet.

Both sides agree that conservationists finally have the poster species they have sought to use the Endangered Species Act as a lever to force federal limits on the greenhouse gases linked to global warming, and possibly to battle smokestack industry projects far from the Arctic.

"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others," said Kassie Siegel, an attorney with the nonprofit Center for Biological Diversity. "And then there is the polar bear."

Even Frank Luntz, the political consultant who advised President Bush six years ago to focus on discrediting the science of global warming and refer to it as "climate change," has recognized the bear's potency.

Federal government scientists have presented increasingly compelling evidence that the top predator at the top of the world is doomed if the polar regions get warmer and sea ice continues to melt as forecast.

Two-thirds of the population could be gone by mid-century if current trends continue, experts say. Bears are beholden to sea ice, where they perch so they can pounce on unsuspecting seals, their primary food.

Images pop up regularly of scrawny, exhausted bears dragging themselves onto ice floes looking like bones covered in sodden white rugs. So do reports of struggling bears swimming wearily in open water. It's a shocking contrast to the pop-culture image: smiling animated bears guzzling Coca-Cola in commercials, fat lounging bears drawing crowds at zoos or fluffy Polyester stand-ins adorning children's bedrooms.


Sea ice has been receding for three decades, leaving ever-expanding gaps that have forced bears into long, sometimes fatal swims. An aerial survey in 2004 found dead bears floating in the open sea off Alaska's north coast.

Scientists believe the global population of 20,000 to 25,000 polar bears is relatively robust, although they don't know much about bears in Russia and other remote Arctic places.


A well-studied population, located in Canada's western Hudson Bay, has dropped by 22% since 1987. The ice there breaks up an average of three weeks earlier than it did 30 years ago, giving polar bears there less time to hunt and build up fat reserves that sustain them until hunting resumes in the fall. As bears have become thinner, female bears' reproductive rates and the survival rates of cubs have fallen.

Then last summer, an unusually big melt surprised most climate modelers, who had not forecast such a dramatic decline so soon. In September, the U.S. Geological Survey released a set of comprehensive studies that analyzed existing climate models and came up with a dire forecast: The habitat of two-thirds of the bears would disappear by 2050, as much of its range melted away for ever longer periods each summer.

Bears are expert hunters on sea ice, but so unsuccessful on land that they spend their summers fasting, losing more than 2 pounds a day, until the ice re-forms in the fall.

"If the fast gets to be much longer, they won't make it," said Steven C. Amstrup, a leading polar bear expert in Alaska and principal author of the Geological Survey reports. He and other scientists believe that the Arctic, which is warming much faster than anywhere else in the world, is changing too rapidly for the bears to adapt and find another source of food.

And if that were horrible and sad and heartbreaking enough

[Siegel] petitioned the Fish and Wildlife Service, arguing that half of the world's penguin populations are marching toward extinction. Among the reasons: declining krill populations and the change of snow to rain.

The downy fuzz on penguin chicks, designed to insulate them from snow, becomes sodden in puddles of rain. Chicks are freezing to death.

The Fish and Wildlife Service made an initial finding last summer that the petition "presents substantial scientific or commercial information indicating that listing 10 species of penguins may be warranted.

This is so not okay and it’s no longer an “abstract issue”
Take action: write your Congressional Representative here.

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Lies My Teacher Taught Me

or "The World Turned Upside Down...Again"
This has been such a screwed up day: left is right, down is up, and now this:

From the BBC

Chameleons first used colour change to make them more noticeable rather than, as is popularly believed, to blend in, a study suggests.
The reptiles change colour for a variety of purposes - communication, camouflage and temperature control.

However, the reason why they first evolved this ability to flash bright colours was previously unclear.
Scientists report in the journal Plos Biology that it was to allow them to signal to other chameleons.

Co-author Dr Devi Stuart-Fox, from The University of Melbourne, Australia, told BBC News: "[Our research] suggests that chameleons evolved colour change for signalling, to fend off rivals or attract a mate, and not so they could match a greater variety of backgrounds."

What chameleons see

Dr Stuart-Fox's team looked at the colour changing ability of 21 southern African dwarf chameleon species (Bradypodion spp), to compare species colour changing ability and consider evolutionary relationships.

As chameleons have a different visual system to humans, they have a fourth type of cone which is ultra-violet (UV) sensitive, the researchers had to first measure what the chameleons were actually seeing.

The Melbourne-based researcher explained: "We measured colour with a spectrometer, which measures both the UV and visual colour range, and combined this with information on the chameleon visual system to model chameleon colour perception."

Colour contest

By setting individual chameleons up in a duel with a series of opponents, the colour range between the submissive and dominant colours could be measured.

"If a male is challenged by another male they both begin by showing their brightest colours - until one figures out the other is going to win and changes to a submissive, dark, 'don't beat me up colour'," said Dr Stuart-Fox.

The team also looked at how chameleons change colour in response to a predator, by presenting them with a model bird or snake.

It was shown that the most dramatic colour changes were used to socially signal to other chameleons.

"We found that chameleon species that changed colour the most had displays that were most conspicuous to other chameleons. But they didn't have a greater range of background colours in their habitats," said Dr Stuart-Fox.

Chameleons don’t change color to blend in?! Next you’ll be telling me that elephants do forget.

Lisa: Uh huh. In fact, in Rand McNally, they wear hats on their feet
and hamburgers eat people.

Bart vs. Australia

But America still doesn't care about poor people so, at least everything hasn't changed

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Dramatic Lemur

The audience is listening,this lemur is looking.
(Meanwhile Dramatic Chipmunk keeps keepin' on)

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I Do NOT Fart 16 Times A Day

unless it happens when I'm sleeping, and if so I'd like to think someone would have mentioned it.
But you too can learn such interesting (like newborns when they cry they're not actually crying) and amazing facts about the human body in this video ; we're pretty sweet



That video kinda makes em feel bad for misusing of my body through years of alcohol, off and on smoking and occasional recreational drug use. Kinda.

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Umm...Eww

Giant rat, 5 times the size of normal rats, found in Indonesia



Someone needs to build a better mouse trap. Or a cannon.

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Twin Baby Pandas at Play

aka "the most enticing setup ever" or simply the "Cutest. Thing. Ever."
My money's on the white and black one (not the black and white one)

I could watch that all day. I really want one. They're so frickin' cute . I mean can't we, with all of our technological advancements, clone pandas as like pets. I think that would be best for everyone because if I can't have a panda I don't want to be a part of your genomic revolution.
I'd settle for a panserbjørn though or better yet a panserbambusbjørn*; the cutest and deadliest thing at least since the Olsen Twins circa 1990 infected with plague**

*panserpanda(?)
**y'know, if they were

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Linkapalooza-Because I Can Think of Nothing Else

Ok I have another headache (due to most likely having slept horribly,again, last night) and nothing in the news really speaks to me. So since I'm playing Scrabulous on Facebook right now and in an attempt to tidy up, and more widely disseminated what I feel is interesting I'm going to do a linkapalooza of some of my "posted items" that y'all may find interesting as well:

• From U Gambira which "is the pseudonym of a leader of the All-Burma Monks Alliance, which spearheaded nationwide protests in September. Wanted by Burma's military junta, he is living in hiding as he continues the monks' campaign." An article entitled "What Burma's Junta Must Fear (Washington Post)
• From Time Magazine, an article asking "Has John Edwards' Moment Arrived?" to which I responded "yes!*"
• An article from the Washington Post that most of my do gooder friends (as well as I did ) found depressing: "Fulfillment Elusive for Young Altruists in the Crowded Field of Public Interest" ::sigh::
• An article about Aubrey de Grey, dubbed "The Invincible Man" by the Washington Post, who believes that humans can live for hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years ( as if the planet wasn't crowded enough,right?) It is an insanely cool article even if his beard frightens me. A lot.
• "Biologists at the University of Utah have engineered "transgendered" worms" after that you know I was intrigued. From an article in the SLC Tribune.
• And finally, Feminists do it better.
  

ok i'm going to try to jump start my brain. has ECT came back into fashion again?




*hopefully, dear god.

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Apocalypse 2007: "The Fire This Time" Mix

this is probably in incredibly poor taste (though if it's any type of consolation my mom is paranoid she can smell the smoke from her house.)
As I'm sure you've heard Southern California is on fire. Growing up there, there always seemed to be a few major wildfires each year so I at first didn't think this was so different but the fact that fires are ranging from basically Mexico to almost Santa Barbara is really unique and intense and really scary. I still have faith in the whole world not being consumed by flames though.
But I decided to be the first insensitive bitch to make a Fire playlist for no other reason than because the idea was in my head and I couldn't shake it. So...

The Langley Schools Music Project-Wildfire (download) buy Innocence and Despair
Gorillaz-Fire Coming Out of a Monkey's Head (download) buy Demon Days
Metallica-Jump Into The Fire (download) buy Kill 'Em All
Tom Vek- "C-C (You Set The Fire In Me)" [download] buy We Have Sound
Charlotte Gainsbourg-Set Yourself On Fire (download) buy 5:55


Dead Milkmen-If You Love Someone Set Them on Fire (download) buy Metaphysical Graffitti
Johnny Cash- Ring of Fire (download) buy The Essential Johnny Cash
Bishop Allen- Ring of Fire (download)
Antony & The Johnsons- Blue Angel (download) buy Antony and the Johnsons
Bruce Springsteen- I'm on Fire (download) buy Born In The U.S.A.
Noisettes-Burn (download) buy Three Moods of the Noisette
Elton John- Burn Down The Mission (download) buy Tumbleweed Connection
Red Hot Chili Peppers- Fire (download) buy What Hits?!
Franz Ferdinand- This Fire (download) buy Franz Ferdinand
The Coral- Wildfire (download) buy The Coral
Rage Against The Machine-Sleep Now In The Fire (download) buy The Battle Of Los Angeles

Yeah I admit this was way way too soon but... if you feel guilty, save the songs for the rainy day that will hopefully come soon ::knock on wood::

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This Monkey's a Bit of an Asshole, No?

I really didn't know Homer was that agile (or thin!)

What was not caught on film, however, was when the mama tiger came back and snacked on the monkey...to teach her cubs how to survive,of course.

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A Kangaroo Will Cut You

if given half the chance.
Not only will they box each other



they'll also fight people


attack tourists unsuspectingly (and underhandedly- he was just trying to feed it. kangaroos have no moral)


steal our money (and they won't give it back!)



and try repeatedly to cause huge race track pile ups




They are obviously indestructable and I for one welcome our hopping Kangaroo overlords

Jeff Buckley- Kanga Roo [download]

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A Reason Why "My" Dog Creeps Me Out

Every so often my brother brings his boyfriend's dogs over to my house so they can run and play in a bigger yard while he goes some place and it never fails to happen that my dog


and he's been neutered (or spayed or whatever you do to boy dogs) for 3 years. I mean he has no doggie balls yet like today when they were in the house for fear of the gardener and I didn't hear or see them for like 10 minutes I find my boy dog fully mounted and on top of my brother's bf's dog and doing that pumping motion (sans penetration) with that weird red penis thing out.It's very disturbing. And it really freaks me out because it seems like he's basically raping her even though he's been castrated. Is that normal? Shouldn't that not happen?
It really just goes to show that no matter the species dicks make guys assholes. (case in point-"Warner Bros president of production Jeff Robinov has made a new decree that "We are no longer doing movies with women in the lead." Funny I thought Cavemen was an ABC TV Studio property. Ass)
(and this was a make up post- I was going to post the video for Gimme More but after a few hours it was taken down from YouTube until I guess the monday premiere. You can see snippets here, but this post was inspired by this.)

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Let's Call it TransTastic Thursday

and since it is Transtastic Thursday I decided to try this. ( A quick side bar: Once again looking at this video I can't honestly believe Chris Crocker is a top. If he is I would love to see who he's topping. Bless his leopard skinned heart)

Anyway I've been thinking a lot about having a post about Jimmy Santiago Baca and his Transvestite Poems but I didn't actually know when I would fit it in. But seeing how today is TMI Thursday and I have nothing really good for TMI tonight (seriously I know it's a "must read" but tonight's is going to really suck unless I get very inspired/drunk, so you can skip it) I decided to post it today. From an outsider perspective it actually has a lot of the emotions and desires and thoughts that I'm sure many (other) transgendered people feel. I don't know how I stumbled upon it anymore, but that isn't really important
I tried to find the text of these poems somewhere online but I couldn't so I tried to transcribe them as best as I could- the line breaks/ capitalization and punctuation are all mine. (but if you do know where I could find a more accurate text, or know of a place where I screwed up in transcription, please let me know- I won't be too upset, besides maybe at my incompetence and the fact I spent like an hour doing this for nothing) Either way I hope you enjoy them:

Transvestite Poem #1
I come out of the South
from the Darkness
Where Death Ferments
seeping from limbs
moistening what is Hard and Cold and
Alone at Night
I Say “I come from the South”
Out of the Darkness
like A Dream
a Storm beneath my Flesh
Two Faces
Two Bodies
A Hybrid Flower.
of Honey and Poison.
Half Moon Half Sun
Intoxicated on Fragrances
Stinking of Sweat
Smooth and Rough
Bearded and Hairless
with Penis and Vagina
Two Mouths Constantly Quarreling
Two Tongues
Twenty Fingers, Twenty Toes
In constant Conflict
There are Two of us
That were Blurred at birth
By some cruel
god.
always Alone.
Out of the Dark
like an extinct animal I appear.
My Body a cave I look
Out from.
With red eyes, sharp teeth.
I can easily kill. As surrender
I can Kiss or Bite
I can Smile or Snarl
Because I am made of Two!
I am opposite and similar
I am a Field of yellow flowers that I saw as a child
and I am a field of Cactus I now stumble through

Jimmy Santiago Baca- Transvestite Poem #1 (mp3)

Transvestite Poem #2
You do not understand
How much Pain
I am in.
You see, Memories of myself
As a Boy
Confused by being so Different
than other Boys
That Shame
Gutted Me
Created in Me a Dark Hole where
Each day I go to and Die in.
While other childrens’ lives were played in Parks
I crouched behind the headstone in the cemetery
And I used to weep my shame.
And while other boys watched TV or played ball
hung out on couches
I was drawn to dance on the Broken alley crates
Where lecherous Men and Women seduced me
And I survived my Two-Sexed.
Divined disease.
Deceiving Friends and drug Fiends,
Lying in bed with an Innocent lover
My sheets become Vile Plumage where I gorge on his Love
with vultured Hunger.
Aesthetic Pilgrim
whose shrine is the male Body.
Male Sighing. I love so much after he cums.
Male gripping Me
Male pounding Me
Male kisses- Rough, Horrible
Filled with Pain
Pain. Pleasure of Men’s Passion
as they Pillage Me
Open Me
Adore Me
Honor Me
Devour Me,
In their Hatred and their Love!
And then the dream is over.
It’s Gone!
And seeing my face stubbled, Ugly lookin’ again
In the mirror
Studying with Contempt My manly features
As if from a Grave that I just woke Up from.
Yearnin’ for the night to come,
when I’ll sing sweetly to Charm the Men’s
Lewd Attention and lure the Cobra from the Basket
to my Music.
Not the reflection in the Mirror this morning are they going to see.
Not Me plucking these eyes
nor the wrinkles on My face
but opening My compact, mascara
pulling out My eyeliners
My tweezers
The Mirror will begin to Open and talk to Me.
Like a Dark Curtain for an Actress suddenly to appear.
I transform into a Young, Sensuous Woman,
My lemony breasts of both dizzying Delight
Yes obsessed with
Flesh
With My Lust
With My Body
With the curved Wings
Of My Thighs
My Hips
My Legs
As floating across Their Hearts like Quetzal birds
in the Jungle,
filled with voodoo omens of sexual Fulfillment.
Thrones and Furs is what I Desire.
Down filled Beds and Comforters
Popular
Sought after
that even Flamenco guitarists wail their lust for Me.
Walking under the Peach trees through the flower Gardens
I forget the backseat cars as a sweaty whore
Turning tricks for American service mens’ twenty-dollar bills.
I open My legs to the Moon
Rings on each of My fingers
“Call Me you’re witch
as I kiss you as I strip My clothes off.
Make this night for Me,
Please!
For You
Please!
As if We were both Falling
Falling into a World Filled with happiness
for just That long
And not Us as we are
looking for Love
For a Man to Love Me
to Love You
to Love Me
Just This Night
For me
For You
As if we were both
Falling.

Jimmy Santiago Baca- Transvestite Poem # 2 (mp3)


Yeah I can relate. Ok just for you all I'll try to think of something worthy for TMI (and I'll also try to come up with a Stuck in My Head song- I suck today.) If not I may slack off and post something from the "early days" of this here blog. We'll see how everything works out.

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Yet Another Sign of the Apocalypse

Finally an enemy that Jack Bauer may be powerless against, though he will still fight it (reportedly in season 7)

Experts, say that Southern California could be in the 8th year of what could turn out to be a perfect drought, one that lasts a century or more.

2007 will go down on the books as Southern California's driest year in recorded history. Fires raged out of control. Millions of dollars were lost as California crops shrivel in the searing sun. And the Eastern Sierras, where L.A. gets most of its water, marked its second lowest snowpack on record.
(skipping ahead)

Government forecasters with NOAA have announced they believe another La Nina is on the way. That weather phenomenon is a periodic cooling of surface temperatures in the Pacific that's expected to bring drier-than-normal conditions this fall to an already drought-stricken Southern California

Awesome and apparently this year some parts of So Cal got less rainfall than Death Valley. According to these experts, climate change is among the culprits.(Though maybe that global warming will actually be good then, you know if ocean levels rise at least we'll have some water.) At least this news makes me feel a little better that all my plants are dying and my backyard is looking more and more like a desert every day.

But there is something that we can do about it, though it wouldn't benefit us, but think of future generations. As the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement (of which I was at first an unknowing member) says "Phasing out the human race by voluntarily ceasing to breed will allow Earth's biosphere to return to good health. Crowded conditions and resource shortages will improve as we become less dense." They make a very strong case. I've always thought it was the breeders who were destroying the world. But before you think them a fringe or nutjob group think of the bestselling "The World Without Us" which takes a more moderate approach than VHEMT, the author suggests that we cut the birth rate to one child per couple for a few generations. According to his theory, as summarized by Slate, "The population would dwindle by about 5 billion people over the next century, he says, ensuring the habitability of the Earth for the 1.6 billion who remained. At that point, they could all reap the rewards of a more spacious planet." (Ah just think how wonderful the world would be then. All that space. It'd be so much better than today.) It's either that are we going to eventually reach our carrying capacity and then the dying off will be a lot less pleasant. So let's do it, become masters of the fate of our world, do it for the child(ren)! One or two of them may be the future.

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Only in L.A.

At those times when I get nervous, paranoid or self conscious because I'm wearing a skirt,I really need to remember that this is L.A. and that people have seen far worse and stranger. Like a man.Walking down the street. In the Middle of the Day. Carrying a Leopard. While Completely Nude.
From Defamer:

He stopped for all traffic signals, took good care of the cat in the intersections etc. He was so nonchalant about it.

There were a lot of LA traffic cops trying to get a handle on the situation - figuring out what to do. Then at Melrose and La Brea the cops came in and arrested him. Not sure what happened with the cat but the guy did put up a little bit of a fight. All the cops, traffic cops, people were shaking their heads - like only in LA.

Only in L.A. indeed. Now I've seen everything.

And now you have too. It's good to see someone either that free and one with nature, or incredibly blitzed out of his mind. He just needs to work on his tan, in certain places. Tremendous all around.

Oh and speaking of nude (or half nude) men Vladimir Putin was photographed shirtless and apparently the photos are causing quite a stir in Mother Russia ("I would turn my back on God himself...") The Russians are loving his physique and going crazy for his body. Um I guess...after a few shots of vodka ...and promises of power then sure.

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Monday Morning Cuteness:Reunited

So I'm back from my sojourn in the Great White North of this state, it was gorgeous and a pretty good time (though a few things didn't work out as planned) and I really want to move up there now.( I would kill to work for the Tides Center; pray for mojo) And with this being my first post in a week or so here's your Monday Morning Cuteness, which I found through Best Week Ever. A little background may be in order here. This lion was orphaned as a cub and taken in and raised by human parents. They, being good environmentalist, realized that it was time for him to be set free in the wild, and so he was. The following video takes place a year after his release into the wild, and is the first time they had seen each other since.


Wow. Here's more of their story here. That is seriously like the best thing I've seen like ever.

As for today and maybe the next few as well, I haven't really kept up with news or any of my sources (a/k/a/ I haven't planned or researched or snagged anything),so I don't know how lean and free of awesomeness or what not this site will be but we'll work through it together.

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Will This Cause Any Problems with the Music Festival?

Scientists, in that bright and cheery way they do at times, have predicted that the Southland is in for a major major earthquake where there "will be several thousand dead and billions of dollars in damages." Seismologist and others at a conference predicted that the Coachella valley is long overdue for an earthquake: "major temblors have struck the Coachella Valley every 150 years, on average, but for reasons no one can explain, it's been quiet for 300 years." It will move the ground at almost twice as many feet per second as the Northridge Quake (which apparently had the highest ever recorded ground acceleration. Interesting.)

Will it's been a long time coming, both geologically and "personally;" the last Earthquake that I think I actually felt was the Northridge one which woke me up, brought my neighbor's wall tumbling down and broke a mirror in my house (leading to, I just realized this a few weeks ago, the next 7 years including the death of my maternal grandparents, my favorite uncle and his wife and my "dad" getting disabled in a bad car accident; yeah maybe there's something to that bad luck theory.) But it had been such a long while and I would always tell my mom, and almost lament the fact we haven't had an earthquake, like a major one in so long. Earthquakes have always been my favorite natural disaster just because I am too full of California pride, but also because they strike without the week long warning of a hurricane and when they strike its kind of cool to sway and shake; at times when they're weak enough and you're in bed it is a very soothing experience.

But what these scientists are predicting (and it's always a great sign when the word "dire" is used in a headline) is terrfiying like apocalyptic, 70's bad movie levels of destruction and chaos. The end of the world, naturally.

A likely scenario would have a magnitude-7.8 earthquake strike in the Salton Sea, extending north and west toward Palmdale. Jones predicted the shaking could last more than 100 seconds, kill thousands, destroy homes, collapse the I-10 and I-15 freeways, ignite petroleum pipelines and leave untold thousands homeless in potentially searing desert heat. The long-term effects, she said, could be akin to the economic collapse of New Orleans and the Gulf region following Hurricane Katrina.

"This will have long-term economic implications across the nation," she said.

It would be even worse should the quake hit during Santa Ana winds, possibly adding fires as another major element to the disaster, Jones said.

Jones said Los Angeles would not be spared. The tremendous forces released by the slipping faults would send shock waves through the earth that could easily collapse tall buildings in Los Angeles the way the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, which hit near Watsonville, collapsed the Bay Bridge between Oakland and San Francisco about 50 miles away.

"This is a whole new level of disaster," she said.

Awesome. So I'm taking it that standing in a doorway won't help? And does that make me an absolutely horrible person if this kind of makes me want to stay in L.A. just so I can be in the thick of it all. I mean I would hate to move to like the East Coast just when Arizona gets a new coastline (learn to swim) and California is finally set adrift. I could never forgive myself.

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