Living La Vida Alpo

This is your blogger. This is payroll. This is your blogger on payroll.

You know I'm either fucking busy or fucking tired when the only thing I can manage to make myself blog after two weeks is this lovely gem I found on somebody's water bottle this morning in the refrigerator at work.

And you know I'm kinda desperate for non-work, at-the-bar, got-a-light kinda company when my reaction upon seeing this, for some inexplicable reason, is to bark out loud and think, quite incoherently, "So there IS a God."

And also: when I fucking take every fucking chance to say the word "fucking," because apparently in an office environment, saying "fucking" every other sentence doesn't come off as too, um, fucking professional.

Well, hi-dee-ho.  You can take your professionalism and shove it up your *grumblemumblemurmur*

A Special Wish

Happy Father's Day to all,

but especially to the fathers looking for a job, the fathers going it alone, the fathers who haven't seen their kid(s) in awhile, and the fathers who don't quite know their own worth. 

You have a special place in Colin's and my heart.

And Happy Father's Day to the one that's raising my daughter with me.  You're amazing.  Never forget.

I hope you dance...

If you don't already subscribe to the Big Picture, get your lazy ass over there and do it now, you naughty elf.

Last week they posted two heartbreaking series of photos from Tehran (here and here). 

Now they're going the uplifting route, chronicling dancers all over the world.  Beautiful.  Serendipitous timing, too.  We need it.  And check out #19.  Bittersweet. 

This one's #3 in the series, from Belarus.  One of my faves, if only because they look so carefree.

Clerc Scar launches July 1

Got this e-mail from John Lee Clark and Adrean Clark a couple days ago.  They're launching an ASL lit e-mail mag, yay.  Can't have enough of that stuff, dude. 

For you fellow writers (or visual/video artists), here's a direct link to their submission guidelines.

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Dear readers:

Remember The Tactile Mind Weekly?  Well, the same people who brought you that wildly popular e-zine are now about to launch a new email publication for the signing community!

CLERC SCAR will publish essays, poetry, fiction, and artwork that will, as we sign it in ASL slang, "scar" your minds!  Instead of multiple pieces in one long email message, each item will appear in its own email message, allowing you to keep, delete, and forward exactly what you want to keep, delete, or forward.  Everything will be archived online as well.  We will start firing away on July 1.

We are also opening a small online bookstore specializing in the most important signing community books and videos.  All sales will support the email publication.

We will need your support.  Here are some ways you can support this venture:

Subscribe.  Just email subscribe@clercscar.com with the word "Yes!" if you want us to add you to our mailing list.

Encourage others to subscribe.  Forward this message to as many people as you can.  Once we start publishing on July 1, forward the pieces you like the best to your friends.

Write.  We consider any topic and any style, but it should be related to our community in some way.  Also, we accept letters to the editor in response to our pieces.  Send to editor@clercscar.com.

Refer others to us.  If you are on some listserves and someone writes a really good post that, with some editing, would make for a great article, forward it to us.  If you're in a conversation with friends, and someone makes a great point or tells a funny story, encourage that person to write it down and send it to us.  If you read somewhere a great piece and you think that a larger audience should read it too, we will be happy to consider reprinting it.  The same goes for visual art.

Shop at our bookstore.  In the beginning, we'll start with a few books but will add on more titles.  Please feel free to recommend books and videos to us.  We will publish book reviews, too.

We are very excited about this and hope you are, too!

John Lee Clark
Text Editor

Adrean Clark
Visual Art Editor

More B. Storm love

OMG, I'm embarrassed to say this was actually posted to YouTube last fall, and I only just now noticed it.  Gah. 

But need I say it again? I love, love, love this man.  Yes, even though he just totally cheated on me with Nyke Prince and the very dorky but still somehow charismatic Keith Wann.

and just in case you're behind the times... check this out too:  Marilyn Manson's This is the New Shit. He also did Gnarls Barkley's Crazy, but unfortunately has been beleaguered by copyright disputes.  Grr.