Strombo is green

Written by Katie Kish in Blogs, Environment, Weblogs

Georgee-poo is listing some ethical christmas gifts! They are amazing too. Right after I finished my incredibly unethical christmas list I came across George’s and I’m mildly ashamed of myself. heh.

First installment goes for the climate change state of mind.. Buy your
friends a tree in a celebrity forest or other killer ways to be carbon
neutral..

Here is The Carbon Neutral shoppers page.
This is where you can find the Celebrity Forests Link

A tree would be cool. I wouldn’t mind getting a tree. Last year my brother got me a wicked gift… He got me recycled toilet paper, kleenex and hankees. It was really awesome. …Of course my sister was sitting in the corner say "yeah but how much was that? I can get a bigger box for 1/2 the price" *sigh*

George’s blog is actually pretty f’n sweet. He links to Tom Green’s blog and posts this amazing quote:

"A professional dominatrix testified that an officer in the Greenburgh,
New York, police department had extracted sexual favors from her. “He
wanted to go to a motel in the Bronx where I would defecate on him,”
she said, “but I told him I was uncomfortable going to the Bronx."

Heh.

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Written by Katie Kish in Weblogs

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e) Some of my posts *are radio material*! AKA REPRODUCED. This is not illegal. Permission is given to reproduce from all parties involved.
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g) I’m not interested in partnering with anyone or any company.
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The next peice of hate-mail, accusations, illegitimate complaint, jerk ass comment etc. I get I will a) lock the entire site up for a while b) require typekey for people to comment.

*Update* : "you leftist hippy hypocrite bashed censoring not more then 12 hours ago and now you be censoring your own site. typical whore bullshit"

1. I don’t censor. My spam filter does.
2. This is the sort of stuff I don’t want to see anymore. *sigh*

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To start it off, how about we just throw out a random thing my roommate just said to me:

ash- says:
hey this is how our conversations will go when you live in new york with alon
ash- says:
him, trying to become successful
ash- says:
you, throwing things at him

Sounds like I have a pretty good future to look forward to. MUSIC!::.

  1. Bitter
         Sweet Symphony – Verve Pipe
  2. Down
         Together – The Refreshments
  3. Fuck
         You Right Back – Frankee
  4. Lovers
         in a Dangerous Time – Barenaked Ladies
  5. Darkside
         – Vitalic
  6. Hey –
         The Pixies
  7. Sixteen
         – Le Tigre
  8. 1920
         20 – I don’t remember
  9. Fake
         Frowns – Death Cab For Cutie
  10. Wicked
         and Weird – Buck 65

…I really don’t remember who sings 1920 20, and I can’t even look because apparently that’s not even the name of the song, since its not coming up in google. I’ll come back to that in a week when I am at home and I have the CD in my hand. Its a really good song though. If it weren’t for Gordo I wouldn’t know a thing about what’s going on in the world right now. Seriously. Its like this bed has become a desolate Island… I don’t leave it.
It’s good to know that when Alon is ignoring me he is making some really decent posts. I was going to pick only one to link to, but I can’t decide. So… you know, go read them. They’re good. We should put him on a time limit all the time. It makes him less verbose.

Ah, Suzanne brings back horrible memories of terrible terrible times in life. …I’m not one of those girls who marks on her calendar when she got her last period, and when she is supposed to get her next one. I don’t care. When I start getting cramps, its coming. But I have had those "shocker" weeks. Eek.

Interesting enough, Lauren posts about how she ‘must seeBorat… where as I said to Alon yesterday when he asked me "Do you want to go see Borat with Jon and ….[insert other people's names. Im bad with names.] tomorrow?" to which I answered "I’ve heard thats the stupidest movie ever?" Amanda posts more about it too.

Okay, lightening speed because I’m starting to lose my attention span. Good UTI post, ever better pandagon post. Feministing is going downhill IMO, but read this anyway, I think Alon and I are going. Feministe is fab as always, especially this and Ezra does good work.

AND done.

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Okay, now for a bit of a blog round-up of awesomeness.

I’m not gonna lie, I’m not a HUGE fan of 3QD, but Azra puts up this post that I thought was pretty interesting. I think the thing I don’t like the most about 3QD is the huge lack of personal opinion. But whateves.

You are a tree is right up there on my ‘new favorite blogs’ list. The Nerd Test looked fun, then I regreted taking it.

I am nerdier than 99% of all people. Are you nerdier? Click here to find out!

Oh dear.

At good math bad math there is a post that I’ve been waiting for forever. I was talking to someone about the logic of numbers and the reasoning behind their positions and stuff, and now I finally have someone a lot more coherent than me helping.

I’d like to go out for drinks with Shelly. She’s humorous. Especially in this post about African Orphans being the new cool accessory.

The previous paragraph was meant to be sarcastic—however the media,
and several adoption activists, genuinely seem to feel that the
motivation behind celebrity adoptions is positive PR. This is
ridiculous. Although I am no starry-eyed celeb fanatic, I can admire
their desire to share an immense fortune with those less fortunate, and
to adopt a child who would face a miserable, and likely short, life
without intervention.

hardy har is a very serious way. Its so scary that its true though. …Everyone wants one.

I really like this peice at Subversive Inc. So much that I’ll post it here.

fragmentations of a feminist

   

sometimes you’ll find her
waving posterboard into
whips of wind,
sharpy letters smooth
precision cut, inked with
pink glitter and moon stars
signs signifying, mouths chanting
my body, my choice
take back the night
out of the kitchens and into the streets

or
until the violence stops

sometimes,
she kneads bread in a blistering kitchen,
yeast and steam rising
like hot sidewalks breathe after cool rains.
she wears that old denim mini skirt
that makes love to her hips like saran wrap
and stiletto heels
the black ones–
because when the flour makes paste
near the edge of her ankle
her lips curve like
she’s keeping secrets.

sometimes,
she studies the women like she studied men
in those naïve days–those
fools drunk on power
and pretense
chasing phalluses with spatulas
melted around the edges,
and bobby pins made shiny
with aerosol cans.

sometimes,
wrists red,
thighs spread or sewn
with purple tape to match
the next morning’s bruises.

   

         

               

How are earthquakes related? I could tell you - but then you’d just know even less. So go here to read an intelligent description of it.

UTI has a new front pager. I dont know if I like him yet. one post isn’t enough to decide. But, I will welcome him anyway. :D

Elron started a new online mag that he’s asked me to contribute to. I said sure. So… uh yeah. Go here to see it yo! Its got a bit more a serious attitude than my blog :D but most do.

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  1. Pink Floyd - Welcome to the Machine
  2. Death By Stereo - Beyond the blinders
  3. K’Naan - Soobax
  4. Common market - Every Last One
  5. Moby - Slipping Away
  6. Architecture in Helsinki - To and Fro
  7. Of Montreal - Spoonful of Sugar
  8. The Unicorns - Child star
  9. Harry Connick Jr. - The Most Beautiful Girl
  10. RJD2 - True Confessions

I really like this game of just typing out the first 10 songs that come to mind. Its fun.
As for random bloggy blog posts…
Stentor has a lovely post on science and religion. Something I’ve been neglecting to even think about lately because of the overwhelming amount of readings I’ve had to do for my politics and religion class.
Ezra is cute, but more importantly interesting and well articulated.
Feministing indeed has the creepy image of the day. Holy jamoly!
Starre posts about lube and its kewl. Do you like how I spelt cool there? Like ‘kewl’ like all the kewl kids are doing these days. all the kute kewl kids… bwa. kkk.
I found about the lastest INSANITY of the blogosphere today from Lindsay. I am indeed super sick of all the stupidity of feminists these days on the net. For serious kids. Suck it the fuck up and act like fucking adults that are looking for justice not fights. Sadly, it has pushed Zuzu to taking a blog break.
Via Bitch - Disney is going on a diet.
Jim at UTI posts about one of my aboslute pet peeves - religious fanatics saying that violence is OUR fault because religion gives kids morals. First of all, you’ve seen my posts on masculinities, male violence at schools is mostly a back lash at hegemonic masculine ideals being forced on boys who can’t live up to it. Second of all - it seems as though the majority of the conflicts that we’re seeing around the world are all religious based, Iraq, Sri Lanka, Europe, Israel… etc.
I like pandagon’s random 10.
The Happy Feminist shows how lovely people have been being to the beaver. Sad.
This blog is interesting. It highlights the hate crimes against women. Its blogs like this I like to see where we call out misogynists, and stand up and make a voice for women who cant do it on their own… as opposed to stupid ass feminists that need to throw darts at one another.
That is all for now. It is Ms Kish’s nappy time. Because I’m a big baby like that.

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