brunettes not fighter jets

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The more girls a boy has, the better. He has a bright look, having reaped fruits, blooming. He stalks around, sure-shouldered, and you have the feeling he’s got more in him, a fatter heart, more stories to tell. For a girl, with each boy it’s as though a petal gets plucked each time.

Then you start to get tired. You begin to feel diluted, like watered-down stew.

In Which While I’m Alive I’ll Make Tiny Changes To Earth
Me, last fall.
I’m feeling very pissed off today as I have started a shit storm on facebook about the Melissa Bruen attack and Grand Theft Auto IV.  I wish you were all my friends so you could stand up for me as my opinion seems to be in the minority and I am currently getting slammed =(

Me, last fall.

I’m feeling very pissed off today as I have started a shit storm on facebook about the Melissa Bruen attack and Grand Theft Auto IV.  I wish you were all my friends so you could stand up for me as my opinion seems to be in the minority and I am currently getting slammed =(

“Irena Sendler, a Polish woman who saved thousands of Jewish children during World War Two by smuggling them out of the Warsaw Ghetto, sits in a chair at her home in central Warsaw in this March 14, 2007 file photo. She died on Monday after a long illness, local media said.”
The existence of people like this in the face of such tragedy and evil renews my faith in humanity.
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“Irena Sendler, a Polish woman who saved thousands of Jewish children during World War Two by smuggling them out of the Warsaw Ghetto, sits in a chair at her home in central Warsaw in this March 14, 2007 file photo. She died on Monday after a long illness, local media said.”

The existence of people like this in the face of such tragedy and evil renews my faith in humanity.

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It really, really bothers me that the entertainment media is treating Jamie Lynn Spears’ pregnancy like any other celebrity having a child.  Just because her mother has pimped her to the media, doesn’t mean it’s okay to ask her about how she’ll get her pre-baby body back.
I’m not saying she should be shunned and forgotten about, but let’s not make this into something it isn’t. 

It really, really bothers me that the entertainment media is treating Jamie Lynn Spears’ pregnancy like any other celebrity having a child.  Just because her mother has pimped her to the media, doesn’t mean it’s okay to ask her about how she’ll get her pre-baby body back.

I’m not saying she should be shunned and forgotten about, but let’s not make this into something it isn’t. 

Celebrity Sighting

I saw the guy that plays Van (daughter’s bf) on Reba yesterday.  I was with my SO and at first thought it was a wedding, but then he walked out of the church and I noticed all the production equipment…Apparently his name is Steve Howey and he’s in the new movie Bride Wars that’s been filming in Boston.  Hmm.

Contentment

Recently I’ve been trying to figure out exactly how I feel.  Happy seems a little too juvenile, probably because every other time I’ve proclaimed my joy it’s all come crumbling down soon after.  I’m definitely not on a flatline of emotions either though, lately there have been times where my head has felt like it might spin off from all the good vibes that surrond me.

So, as I sit in my brilliantly lit living room, drinking some yummy coffee and watching Julia Child make blueberry scones, I know I am content.  Life is not perfect by any means, however I’ve reached a point of stability that is quite refreshing and very welcome.

Today’s agenda includes stopping off at the library to pick up then to the lovely Paradise Nails for a $22 pedicure (can’t break out my fave sandals with my scary hobbit feet).  I’m also considering beginning to peak around for a black dress for my new hostessing gig.  All in all it should be a quiet day that I’ll have to myself, and even if the promised rain does arrive.  I have a feeling that I’ll be just fine. 

The Duggars...and my objections.

I just posted a video of the Duggar family on Today.  In this segment Meredith Viera panders to the enormous family, making it seem totally normal that they’re gearing up for their 18th child.

When asked about birth control Mr. Duggar said they let God handle that, and Mrs. Duggar added that each child is a blessing.  That’s all lollipops and rainbows, but what happens when this ideal goes wrong?

I looked into this family a little further and found that they are adherants to the Quiverfull Movement.  On of the main tenants of this sect of conservative Protestantism is to maintain that God “opens and closes the womb” at will.  Quiverfull couples are to have sexual intercourse regularly and use no form of birth control what so ever.  And yes this includes withdrawl and watching one’s ovulation cycle.

So while the Duggar’s reap the publicity benefits of their unique family structure, what happens to the victims of being a Quiverfull?

Did you know Andrea Yates adhered to this same way of thinking?  While she wasn’t officially part of the movement she and her husband used no birth control and felt the same way as the Duggars did about their children being blessings.  Sadly the Yates children met an untimely fate at the hands of their overburdened and now institutionilized mother when she drowned all five of them in the bathtub.  If you really want to get mad, think about how her husband didn’t take the psychiatrists seriously after she attempted suicide twice in ‘99, & was diagnosed with psychosis and post partum depression.  After Yates’ discharge they conceived a fifth child against all medical recommendations.

Feminist “Cheryl Lindsey Seelhoff, a former ardent Quiverfull adherent, birth-mother of eleven children, and former editor of Gentle Spirit Magazine”  has this to say:

“[the Quiverfull movement is one] in which women and children are routinely and systematically subordinated and subjugated by the men in their lives - fathers, husbands, older sons, sons, pastors, elders, leaders - as a matter of biblical principle.”

Watching Viera pander to such behavior really got me going today, and now I’m even gladder that I don’t watch much TV anymore. 

Patricia Field for Diet Coke.
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Patricia Field for Diet Coke.

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Recently I picked up this hitchhiker in Baltimore and this kid started huffing glue! I said, ‘In the daytime?’ He said, ‘You want some?’ I’m like 61! What am I gonna do? Start huffing glue in Baltimore, in the middle of the day? Actually, I almost did. I thought, well, that’ll be interesting. I gave him a ride the whole way. Feature piece on John Waters from NY Mag