Month: August 2011

Random Updates, and MAP follow-up

25 Aug 2011

How sick did I get?

I started having some passing nausea and very mild hot flashes between the 12 and 24hr mark. At around 36 hours I started to get some pretty nasty nausea, which felt like I was starving to death and needed to vomit simultaneously. It made my work day on Monday a little difficult, though small meals, and …

The Morning After Pill

21 Aug 2011

Yesterday marked my fourth time in a decade that I have taken the Morning After Pill in some form or another. This is my story peppered with bits of history, information on the pill, how to get it, and why it is so important.

My Story

Sometime in 1999, when I was …

Gathering of the Juggalos 2011!

14 Aug 2011

I must admit, I am obsessed with mocking the Insane Clown Posse. It is an amazing past time with hours of infomercials, hilarious music videos, their video blog, and now a live feed from the Gathering itself. I’m going to declare writing an annual post about the Gathering a tradition of this blog.

This year’s infomercial!…

Photoshop Tutorial: Love Your Masks

14 Aug 2011

It is one of those vague memories, where I remember the content of the conversation though not the where, or who. I think it was 3 years ago, it might have been in the coffeeshop of my old collective, likely well into the evening sitting at a table with my old macbook. Perhaps a close friend, or a complete stranger …

Consensus and the Economy

09 Aug 2011

I’ve been following the debt ceiling crisis, the Republican’s no taxes agreement, and Obama’s posturing in press conferences. I’m not surprised that our credit rating was downgraded, and I think any thoughts that we can avoid another recession going at the rate we are going is completely ridiculous.

Democrats blame the Republicans for not being wiling to shift of taxes, the …

Where the Poetry Went

06 Aug 2011

For the past several years I have struggled. Since my early teens I had carried the identity of a poet, and three years ago I had written my best work. I was looking to publish, and at readings several times a week. I had gotten several features, and was in the infancy of generating interest.

It started to come in fits …