Jonathan Coulton is the fucking man! And someone put together a fantastic video for his song Skullcrusher Mountain.
And in related news, JoCo is opening for They Might Be Giants! Of course, not while they’re down here where *I* am. Nooooo, that would just be too awesome. Instead, they’re playing together in places like Atlanta, GA. Poopie-heads.
Anyway, this one goes out to all the girls I’ve loved before…
This post started it’s young life as a response to a post by Greg Laden. Actually, it was a response to a comment on that post wherein the commenter basically laid into the Skepchicks for sexualizing themselves to attract “horndog dudes” to boost their readership and of being “dishonest” for encouraging women to know they can be smart and sexy. I don’t want to paste the whole thing in here so go read the comment, then come back and read my response. Of course, I am an openly male man-type person complete with penis, so I probably don’t even have the cred to comment, but, whatever.
@skeptifem Teh skepchicks r hawt!!1! Oops, sorry, that was me being a horndog dude. Yup, I’m one of the penis-equipped heteronormative (sometimes) skepdudes who enjoy being part of the Skepchick community. In the same way you accuse the Skepchicks of conforming to some societal pressure to appear and act a certain way, you have neatly boxed me into your narrow definition of what the Skepchick male readership looks like. Allow me to inform you of my reasoning behind championing the Skepchick cause.
What I see are a group of rational-minded women who have embraced themselves, ALL of themselves, sex included, and are putting themselves out there for the purpose of promoting rational thought and skepticism. They cover a wide range of topics including debunking woo specifically targeted at women. They encourage readers to do research to find out about topics the reader might not have first-hand knowledge of and they provide resources for acquiring that knowledge. They frequently will admit that they are NOT experts on a subject and they never encourage intellectual snobbery. What they encourage is combating ignorance and an intolerance for willful ignorance. “Intelligence” is not what’s required for admittance, but rather a willingness to be educated.
And perhaps my definition of feminism isn’t correct, but to me it means being all of who you are, vagina and uterus included, and not mindlessly accepting some pre-packaged gender role. The women who write for Skepchick are genuinely themselves. If part of themselves is being sexy, or enjoying sex or taking pleasure in looking at naked bodies, then they shouldn’t have to hide that to please you and your pigeonholing of feminist activities. You ask “Who is casting a skeptical eye on contemporary female desirability?” and “…where are the skepchicks who could not possibly care less about being sexy for strangers?” The answer to those questions is the very group of amazing women that you’re denigrating. I may be wrong, but they seem to me to be women who believe that they don’t have to “be sexy” for anyone; that they “are” sexy and that part of that sex appeal is their skeptical and rational natures. And also that being sexy doesn’t disqualify them from embracing and celebrating their femaleness.
So, there you have it. All opinions expressed are my own and I make no official statement on behalf of anyone but me. This is my take on the Skepchicks. Who totally are hawt. And smart. And rational. And damned fine people.
Just as a reminder, in case the significance of this isn’t immediately apparent: I live in Florida. That’s right, biatches, I is getting my own LEGOLand!!!!!111!!11!eleventyone!!1
I am royally pissed off right now. I mean seriously pissed. Back in 2008 I came out as an atheist. I fully expected some friends or family to have a hissy-fit, but the idea that there would be workplace ramifications never entered my mind. In my place of employment, that kind of crap is kept outside. All that matters is what kind of code I write and how I manage my team. Apparently that’s not the case for everyone.
My very good friend, who I shall call “Fucked by Jesus” or FBJ for short, was recently outed at work as being an atheist. Her place of employment is rather saturated with love of the lord, but it’s a huge organization with lots of public scrutiny, so while I expected to hear about some discomfort from the petty whisperings of narrow-minded theistic co-workers, I didn’t expect to hear about a full-blown attack being perpetrated against FBJ by the organization itself. Her internet access has been cut off, TweetDeck and iTunes uninstalled from her PC, her shit rifled through and they moved her to a new cubicle. No idea if that was to bring her closer to Jesus or what.
In the interest of fairness, if there is a policy against having applications like TweetDeck or iTunes installed, then they are legally within their rights to remove them. But I’ll bet you the price of a new bible that there are other, god-loving employees there with those applications installed who haven’t been touched.
This whole thing is fucking bullshit. I suspect that it is even illegal. She is being subjected to an extremely hostile work environment due solely to her religions preferences (or lack thereof). I think the ACLU needs to get involved. This kind of shit shouldn’t be happening in the 21st century. I thought the Inquisitions became passe after the Dark Ages. WTF?
Hang tough, girl! You’ve got the entire atheist community behind you on this one. No one fucks with the CyberLizard’s friends. I’ve got a whole pack of chupacabras just waiting to be unleashed on their asses. Just say the word.
If you thought Palin teaming up with the WorldNutDaily was full of teh stoopid, check this out: Sarah “Gonna shoot some wolves, dontcha know” Palin has signed on with Faux News. Didn’t even need to go to the crazy to hear about it. Via The Washington Post:
A Fox News executive says the network will shortly announce that the former vice-presidential nominee is signing on as a contributor.
Palin, who resigned as governor of Alaska last summer, will appear as a commentator on various Fox shows. She will also host an occasional program that will examine inspirational tales involving ordinary Americans.
Palin will join Mike Huckabee as a Fox contributor who was also involved in the 2008 campaign.
So, who still thinks that Focks News is “Fair & Balanced”? Oh, yeah, the same fucktards that voted for dipshit Palin in the first place. God, save me from your followers. Please.
Here I am, putzing around in teh intertubes, looking for something to motivate me to blog. I should have known where to go first. They’ve never let me down before and it looks like they’re going to be just as much a source of lulz in 2010 as in previous years. Yes, I’m talking about the WorldNutDaily (or the WorldNetDaily as they like to call themselves. They’re the only ones who do). So what kind of republitard/religiotard insanity are they up to now? Let’s take a peek into the mind of madness, shall we?
You see that there? Where it says “WorldNetDaily Exclusive”? That’s a code phrase that means “We’re the only ones batshit crazy enough to publish this astounding crap”. Just an FYI.
Anyway, here’s the headline:
Palin-Farah ticket at 1st national tea-party convention
Americans unite to take country back from ‘grips of tyrannical government’
Sarah "Dontcha know" Palin
Joseph "Where's the birth certificate?!" Farah
Holy. Fucking. Shit. Can it be? Two of the craziest looney-toons on the scene in the same place? My mind reels at the thought of the staggering amount of stupid that will be excreted by the two of them. *sigh* So what will Beauty and Caribou Barbie be doing?
WND founder Joseph Farah will join former vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin as speaker at the first national tea-party convention – and he plans to get Americans energized and excited about reclaiming the nation this year from the clutches of “tyrannical central government.”
At first I was really excited. Can you imagine the fun we would have in 2012 if those two yahoos ran for president? Alas, it was merely a forum for idiots to speak to morons. Or is that the other way around? Anyway, other attendees to this historic event include Rep Michele Bachmann, R- Minn. and Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn. Yes, you read that right Michele “Seditionist” Bachmann will be adding her brand of crazy to the mix.
If only Joe the Plumber were going to be there, the whole tea-bagger movement might just be so inspired it would spontaneously combust. One can have dreams, anyway.
Oh, yeah, you read that correctly. I’m jumping back into the blogosphere with both feet, kicking and screaming. I’ve slacked enough, gotten my head screwed back on relatively straight and now I’m ready to kick some ass!
So, what amazing posts are going to come from the mind of the CyberLizard in 2010? What incredibly insightful, astounding, thought-provoking things are y’all going to hear about this year? Beats the fuck out of me. What, you think I plan this shit? This is all off the top of my head, baby; extemporaneous (wow, I just spelled “extemporaneous” correctly the first time! Go me!)! But I will tell you this: there are several broad areas that I intend to explore this year. They are, as follows, in no particular order:
Atheism and freedom from religion activism
Politics
Sex, culture, QGLBT, BDSM, polyamory and other unconventional topics
My incredibly adorable kids (this is MY blog, after all)
My incredibly adorably sexy wife (again, MY blog)
Really funny/stupid/awesome shit that I find on teh intertubes that tickle my amusement bone
Anything else. And I do mean *anything*. You have been warned.
Ahem, on a more serious note, I’m going to endeavour to make at least 2 real posts a week, plus however many bullshit links to videos or other cop-out, lazy-ass blogger tricks as I feel like. So sign back up to the RSS feed, ’cause I’m gonna be comin’ at you again, live and in stereo!
Wow, two blog posts in two days! Aren’t you the lucky ones
I was basically pressured into informally participating in this NaBloPoMo copycat of NaNoWriMo but for losers who can’t hack a whole novel. What’s next, NaTweeMo? 30 140-character tweets in 30 days?
Since I’m currently babysitting a recalcitrant document conversion process, I can’t come up anything interesting. So you get this perfunctory post instead.
Yes, it has been a couple of weeks since my last post. But it was full of boobie goodness, so I can be forgiven, right? Right.
In case you didn’t know, November is National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo, not NAMBLA. I don’t know why I keep screwing that up). Don’t worry, I’m not participating this year, you don’t have to slog through post after post of angst about writers block or updates on my word count or how I’m going to hang myself for ever getting into it in the first place. No, I did all that back in 2005. When I won. A 50,000 word novel in 30 days. That’s what I did. By hand. In pencil. Did I mention that I won?
But this post isn’t really about me (did I mention that I wrote long hand? With a pencil? I did? Oh, ok). It’s about all you other poor suckers who have gotten sucked into obsessions about if it’s ethical to write very, very, very, very, very, very long descriptions in an effort to pad your word count or if you should use your main character’s full name every single time you mention him/her/it. Yes, this post is in honor of those silly friends of mine who were seduced by the literary slut of NaNoWriMo. For she is, indeed, a slut. She seduces thousands of people every year into living with her, where she bleeds them dry of all their creative juices and their will to live.
But this is just the first day. I’ll save the motivational talk for later on in the month. And if this is your first time, be warned: NaNo (as she likes to be called by her pets) can be a cruel mistress, but damn is she good!
Ahem. Now that I’ve gotten your attention (and I know I made y’all look), let me explain. Very few people can claim to not like boobies. Men and women both generally appreciate a nice rack. At least the men and women I hang out with do. YMMV.
Anyway, where was I? Oh yes, boobies. Boobies are a precious commodity that deserve to be preserved and kept at their peak operational condition. Unfortunately, that bitch breast cancer doesn’t want us to enjoy boobies. She takes twisted pleasure in destroying lives one boob at a time. I’m anthropomorphizing, but you get the idea. Everyone likes boobies; no one likes breast cancer.
So let’s do something about it. There are already a great number of organizations out there fighting the good fight to save those precious boobies. Doctors and scientists and fundraisers are all working hard so that every teenage boy or girl gets a chance to cop that first feel while awkwardly making out with that cutie that they finally got up the courage to ask out on a date.
Let’s help those organizations out. Let’s raise awareness of breast cancer. Let’s raise money to fight breast cancer. And the best way I can think to do that is to follow the example of the lovely @boobiewed, @shimmer418 and @honey_is_evil and show our boobies! Everyone should participate in Boobie Wednesday(#boobiewed) by changing their avatar or profile pic to a nice set of boobies. It doesn’t have to be graphic; a tasteful shot of cleavage will do. And don’t leave the men out; we want to see moobs too! Men can get breast cancer too.
The point is to draw attention to the cause. And also to raise money. So visit sites of organizations working hard to save boobies, like NBCF andKomen for the Cure. Unfortunately I just missed the 2009 Boobiethon, but it’s never too early to start getting ready for next year! And please stop by the official Boobie Wednesday store where all profits will be donated to the National Breast Cancer Foundation.
Take action. Show your boobies. Because a nice rack is a terrible thing to waste.
