I need CHOCOLATE!

I didn’t have any chocolate today and I am DYING over here. God, I can’t live without it. I just signed up at this site to keep track of what I’m eating and so I can spot my downfalls and try to eat better. It’s a

Movies I've seen lately....

, originally uploaded by aqui-ali. Hmmm, I just got back from seeing an IMAX movie, Deep Sea 3D. It was really, really good. You actually felt like you were in the water with the divers and the colors were magnificent. And the jellyfish! My, god, the jellyfish…. How can I incorporate

This is fucking hilarious!

Ha! Given my involvement with trying to get the drug laws changed in Washington state, I found this website dark, funny, and caustically sarcastic. I just sent some to Laura….

Design for dogs.

From the NY Times (full article). The Goods: Ready for the Red Baron By BRENDAN I. KOERNER Published: March 26, 2006 If human pilots can wear bulky headsets while flying, why can’t dogs? Mutt Muffs are especially contoured for a dog’s skull. The main differences between Mutt Muffs

I'm so psyched!

So, via my many illegal outings with the dogs to the ballfields at Big Howe, I’ve made friends with Rocky Salskov, a fashion photographer here in Seattle. A few months ago, I told him about my increasing interest in film and photography, sending him my résumé and the pdf

This is what I call industrial design!

Rapex, the female condom that prevents rape; invented by Sonnette Ehlers, a retired medical worker in South Africa, where raping women is a national past time. Ehlers was inspired by a rape victim who told her, “I wish I had teeth down there.” I read about it last night in

The Semiotics of Shoes.

From an article in this Sunday’s NY Times (I know, I know; I need to expand my source list): They are not just any sandals, but boxy buckled Birkenstocks, the footwear that has become synonymous with a certain type of noodge. Or in the senator’s case, worse. In

The Case for Atheism.

From the NY Times (full article): Defenders of the Faith By SLAVOJ ZIZEK Published: March 12, 2006 Fundamentalists do what they perceive as good deeds in order to fulfill God’s will and to earn salvation; atheists do them simply because it is the right thing to do. Is this

The Rockefeller Laws.

When It Comes to Drug Laws, the Jokes End By CLYDE HABERMAN Published: March 14, 2006 Most of the 100 or so people on hand, it seemed safe to say, would change the existing statutes in a heartbeat. They murmured approval when Robert Gangi, the executive director of the Correctional

A woman with cojones. Refreshing.

From the New York Times online, an article about a news broadcast via Al Jazeera of an American-Syrian psychologist voicing her opinions of violence invoked in the name of Islam: Dr. Sultan said the world was not witnessing a clash of religions or cultures, but a battle between modernity and