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"Dr. Menlo is one smart guy, with a sharp eye for images sacred, profane, and in between. Sometimes the doctor riffs on them, sometimes he leaves you to connect the dots." -- Killing the Buddha
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by kirsten anderson Kirsten invented and runs the best art galleries in Seattle: the Roq la Rue and BLVD Gallery. abuddhas memes by tony tross Tony chases Eris and his own personal Buddha-kin from the icy outer reaches of the Yukon.
"Ye fucking gods!! Are you nuts!? Those Jesuit bastards will eat you alive!" --Hunter S. Thompson, to me, circa '93
Welcome to my rantblog! I'm a pornographer, sex worker, atheist, and former "sex-positive feminist" who grew tired of trying to shoehorn my life into a feminist analysis. I have liberated myself from women's liberation, and it feels glorious. I'm now sharing my observations as a politically-minded smut peddler, ethical slut, and staunch skeptic. I despise people who project their insecurities onto others, or force sex workers into only two roles: helpless victims and evil patriarchy-colluders. I love spicy food, vegan lip balm, and the word "pollywog". [more]
This nice young lady lives up the street from me. I am hoping to meet her eventually; I always enjoy meeting new vegans. I hear she looks cool in glasses.
Speaking of art, I have been recently thinking of some new projects and I resurrected an old idea I was thinking of putting forth in a new way: International Art Machine. So I bought internationalartmachine.com and intlartmachine.com. I was thinking of something like the old Defunker (which seems to have merged with BustedTees) wherein people could upload their designs - and not just for t-shirts but prints, coffee mugs, etc. And some profits to go to charity. So a user-generated art project, commerce site, good causes giver . . . if only there were a blogger.com for 'web 2.0'? Anyone? Anyone?
Wow, I can't believe I haven't seen this before now. As always, words fail at news like this. I was a huge fan of John Cieciel's work, and I never knew he had anything to do with News of the Weird. Long before there were a gazillion blogs highlighting weird news or Keith Olbermann doing his own Oddball spin, there was Chuck Sheperd's News of the Weird from 1988. Now almost every news program or news website capitalizes on some aspect of weird news. [Coincidentally, when I ran a college paper in Washington D.C. in the early nineties I wanted to run the News of the Weird, but they had an exclusive agreement with the DC City Paper which disallowed it.]
I was always proud to be on John's link list. Spitting Image was always one of the best little literate corners of the internet; John's work was fun and funny and influential and he will be missed.
I think I can speak for all readers in thanking you succulent citizens of earth for all your great posts. Email me if you know of anyone else who would like to participate. [You, dear reader?] [drmenlo -at- gmail -dot- com]
Man, has this been a tough 7 years for progressives! Burnt out lefties lay left and right across this country, me among them. At least I still have my health. And Pagan. And a really great network of like-minded folk on the internets. If anyone has any ideas about how to improve American Samizdat, please don't hesitate to drop me a line. Thanks!
A lot of these are new to me, and I look forward to going back and checking them out. I'll be adding all these permalinks to the template; I found them through technorati and this referral page - if I missed a current link, please email me! Here are some additional link lists that I found that I'm on:
Again, if I missed anyone, let me know! I'm sure I missed somebody. Also, I have to do a separate list for people who link right to drmenlo.com. Thanks, again!
: news and analysis on the American invasion of Iraq from Russian journalists and military experts. See also: aeronautics.ru for more on the Russian perspective.
