I just hit the eighty pounds lost mark, thanks to Weight Watchers Points Plus plan. I even went off my diet for my birthday and, to a lesser extent, our vacation, and I got right back on. This is a very good system.

The only problem now is clothing. The current stuff is getting ridiculous and I HATE shopping.

My opposite what?

I assumed (and yes, I know what that does) this left side graphic was fan art because of the obvious Brokeback Mountain reference. I am now told this is NOT fan art and is an actual production graphic release.



I mean, I'm just saying ... I love these guys. Okay, I'll stop now.

I'm reposting this for a friend who posted it elsewhere:

Please forward the auction information to fannish sites/lists open to
such listings.

http://www.grumblybear.com/ja/ja.htm


I am not likely to be able to attend Media West, because like so many of
us, funds are desperately tight, but ideas for art projects in my
favourite fandoms remain. Ebay is out for such fannish oriented items,
as is my Etsy store, so Bast kindly agreed to put this private fannish
auction together to help me out.

I will ship anywhere. Postage is not included. Please email me with
questions on any item.

I'll update bids as quickly as possible, but I do work outside the home,
so please be patient.

This is not like ebay. If you tell me you bid $100, that's what I'll
put up as the next bid, even if the person before you bid $10.

Thank you for looking.
Mestiza Woman
jersey.lion@gmail.com

Please forward the auction information to fannish sites/lists open to
such listings.

Originally posted by electricdruid at The fiasco continues

Keep in mind my deep black sense of humor. I loved the part with Hannity interviewing him.

I'm told people are worried about me roasting them over anti-US carping about the Megaupload thing. I highly doubt this but, in case anybody gives a rat's ass about my opinion about anti-US carping (and I doubt anyone does), let me explain my position:

1) I'd be just as angry if people lashed out at any other national for the arbitrary acts of their governments. All great ape humans, of every nationality, are in this together. Anything that has been accomplished, they've accomplished together, good or bad, either in collusion or by competition. Pat yourselves on the back just as you shake a finger in your faces. Personally, I think that's silly, but that's just me.

Anyone surrounded by white skin beings taking up more than 65% or more of your landmass is gripped by an amazing delusion if you think you're only governed by your own country (especially if you're poor, middle-class, African, Latino, gay, female, etc.) Our more gentle and compassionate nationals have circled the wagons and tried to protect us to some degree. The US, having long ago gutted our Constitution, is less protected than any other type of national. Those guys from Megaupload will get a slap on the hand. Look at what is happening to the poor schmuck who fed Wikileaks. Nuff said. Our government status quo (and no, that does NOT include Obama, which should be obvious by now) view Americans as their enemy, not as their fellow citizens.

2) There are no American corporations anymore unless they are called Newman's Own, Costco and about one hundred other entities, just as BP is not British Petroleum and Dutch Paint isn't run by the little Dutch boy out of the Netherlands, or Belgium for that matter. Nearly all major corporations are jointly owned by nationals from countless countries, including Russian, Canadian and Dutch ones.

Apparently people who place way too much importance on one person's opinion deem it necessary for me to say this, so here goes ...

When I say Americans don't criticize other cultures without being called out for it, that is all I fucking mean. It's not a value judgment or criticism, it's a goddamned observation. I don't expect anyone else to observe that custom anymore than I anticipate Boxing Day to suddenly become hugely popular among the American Amish.

You want to bash the US government? Go to it, my friends. Anytime there's an all-ism about ALL nationals of ANY type, I usually post something in their defense. That's the anthropologist in me. However, if everyone would prefer I not comment at all, I will be happy to reserve comment entirely. I'll do that -- anyone want to post anti-US government stuff, I'll just stay out of the fray entirely.

That said, I'm a fat, partially disabled 52 year old woman. I sit over here in my house in a dusty desert suburb of Los Angeles. Additionally, I'm whatever you bitching fen need me to be to get your egotistical rocks off. I'm lame, stupid, paranoid, crazy, amoral, and bitchy -- I can't write my way out of a paper sack. I've somehow cast an enchantment over my readers. I can't vid. None of what I put out is morally defensible or even readable. Happy?

Now, can you bitchers please go away and let me have my ball back? I write for anyone who wants to read what I have to say -- not for you. I occasionally vid (though not often, due to my Parkinsons syndrome) because I enjoy it. I bow to your vast superiority. I just want to live my life in peace and privacy. Let me disappear from your radar.

I knew this would happen the moment I got near Holmes/Watson fandom. If everyone in a fandom would just fucking have fun with their own fandoms and not worry about what anyone else is doing, fandom might be fun again.

Okay, I had so hoped to begin this year on a positive note. I intend to carry on with one.

I never believe famous or royal lines until I kick them around the block awhile, but my cousin and I have both checked out this line and it holds up, plus it's a fairly shallow line. (Forgive the Ancestry.com page, but they have the best display space for Gedcom files). Didn't these people cause all kinds of havoc throughout history? Man, I really hope there's no such thing as a genealogical karmic debt, although this might explain a whole bunch about my family.



The anchor ancestor is Walter Herbert, and his father was Phillip Herbert, first earl of light switches and duke of dumbwaiters or something-or-other

And definitely not by me, way too good to be mine.

Spoiler warning invoked.