A found poem made up of song lyrics for this week’s www.redroom.com blog competition. My blog from last week, “The Sneeze”, was noted on their website as an honourable mention. Yeah!
Tag Archive: Politics
Misogyny Lives
I am stunned beyond belief at all the support being offered Roman Polanski, convicted child raper and jail dodger, after his long overdue arrest in Zurich last week. What kind of world do we live in that just because a person is a celebrity and a holocaust survivor he is somehow seen as being exempt…
A Love Letter to Valerie Solanas
Written on a postcard of a post-castration knife: Society, male, hard-pressed to find one Cut above the rest Under their weight we float Mindful of their miniscule penises. Where a stamp could go but there is only an unidentifiable stain: Prague June 11, 2009 Reading “Outlaw Woman” and thinking of how you are one of…
A Love Letter to Australia Day
Written on a postcard of a photo of the white racist rioters all over Oz on this day: You haveno placein a world that’s decidedNOT to be racist. Where the stamp could go but there is only your hateful presence:PragueJanuary 26Feeling extremely put out by what I am seeing and hearing.
A Love Letter to Wounded Knee
Written on a sepia-toned postcard of blood-stained snow: The heart of mineburied with youburns with the acheof injustice. Where a stamp could go but there is only sadness:Pine Ridge POW CampDecember 29, 1890I am haunted by your history.
A Love Letter to Sarah Palin
Written on an Obama 2008 postcard: YOUarethe lipstickon an olddried uppig. Where a stamp could go:October 26, 2008Washington D.C.That’s why they needed to spend that $150,000 for the clothes on your fat, ignorant, gun-toting, hypocritical ass.Burn, you hateful bitch.Oh, and how is the teenage mother also known as your daughter?
The Learning Curve
Duckie’s learning curve is not that great. She kept her distance from the doorways after I threw things at her to scare her away, but today she is boldly strutting right back into our house. This got me thinking about learning curves in general and yesterday’s massacre at Virginia Tech. It seems that something horrible…
300 Ways To Tell The Difference Between Coercion and Consent
After having watched 300 twice now in mixed company, I continue to be disturbed, perturbed and supremely irritated by the fact that men still don’t seem to understand the difference between coercion and consent when it comes to sexual intercourse. 300 has a very distressing scene where The Spartan Queen offers herself to a Councilman…
300 Thumbs Up
Frank Miller, how do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love the ferocious warriors of your vivid dream portraits. I love their translations into film, the roaring soldiers of the past or future noir. I love your goddess women who float with violent beauty above the men with swords for hearts, loving…
I am Lester Burnham
The blow-out with Pregnant Boss, the subject of the last few blogs and my recent copy editing exile status, was caused by my pointing out to her the extreme double standard that the Turkish Daily News works under. Certain people, for a variety of reasons, do not get edited. Even if their article is an…
Why?
Why do the countries with nuclear arsenals think they can tell other countries that they aren’t allowed to have nuclear weapons? Why do insecure people have to be so arrogant and mean? Why do girls who get super girly dolled up with painted mask face and stiletto boots end up looking like drag queens? Why…
The State of Disunity
At first, I wasn’t sure if Bush’s State of the Union Address was an official presidential speech or the opening of an Aerosmith concert, what with the catcalls and all. Bizarre. What anybody has to cheer about with this president is beyond me and the more his cowboy drawl droned on the more I felt…
what a difference a day makes
oh, yes, the sort of more sane people won back the House! three cheers for Nancy Pelosi! hip hip HOORAY! hip hip HOORAY! hip hip HOORAY! congress belongs to the Democrats once again and let us pray that they use their power well. i would start with the impeachment trial of George W. Bush. if…
it's the little things
i think it must be a combination of the mercury retrograde and my budding friendship with starlight shannon, but i have been feeling very accomplished of late. the mercury retrograde for most everyone creates miscommunication and muddles, but since i was born when mercury was in retrograde motion, i always feel the best when his…
what’s it all about, alfie?
the stray cat saga continues with the witnessing of some supremely grotesque behaviour. there is a tomcat i have dubbed Mr. Toad because he is eternally horny (=horny toad=Mr. Toad), following the girls around and mewling to get their sexual attentions. today, when i came home i heard a very distressed kitty noise coming from…
curiouser and curiouser
you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone is the gift that keeps on giving. when i lived in france with my parents, backdropped with the jura mountains all fresh air, trees and snow, i enjoyed every moment of it because something told me it would be a long time before i got to…
yesterday the devil appeared here, and it still smells of sulfur
kudos to the venezuelan president for his recent speech at the UN, where he aptly referred to george dubya as the devil and noted that the smell of sulfur remained even 24 hours after the idiot president stood at the same UN podium. kudos because most of us with half a brain can smell the…
war of the worlds
our stray cats, have been warring. Tommy, the tabby cat who is so beat up and has made his new home curled on a chair on our balcony, was attacked by Saucy (formerly known as Mama Cat) over the Territory of the Balcony. it was the crack of dawn, quite literally, when i heard Tommy…
too many things, too many things
we had some firsts since i last wrote…our first hailstorm, our first visits from the Stray Cats on the balcony calling me for food, and our first bomb blasts in istanbul. the bomb blasts were on sunday night and apparently went off just before we got in our dolmos to get home…i was pretty freaked…
glibness is a defense
this happened to me last year. i was writing about the UN Commission on Human Rights (which turned out to be the last one, say true) and i realised that i was being extremely glib about very serious things. i forced myself to write an apology to all my readers as my tone and presentation…
my past life at the UN
with the ongoing ear infection issue, in spite of the fact that i am in a new city and all that, i have been staying pretty close to home and taking advantage of the internet connection at long last. for ages, i have wanted to switch to gmail but i have so much history in…
first friends in turkey and hollywood goes to iraq
my life as the elephant man continues and i have one more day to sleep upright before i go back for my follow-up appointment. this has kept me housebound and i have been trying to get caught up on emails, some of which have been pending since the wedding! i love having internet at home…
a breeding ground for sickos?
July 11, 2006 i just got another myspace bulletin from a friend about a very young girl who was killed by a sex offender she met on myspace. wow. i think this issue will get more and more complicated. but the key is: where the fuck are these girls’ parents?!?!?!?!?! we all remember what it…
random, not
*his evilness the pope was here in spain last week for a promotional visit about the importance of family, the irony of which was not lost on this humble observer. firstly, how does a celibate man preach to the importance of family and matrimony between a man and a woman specifically? secondly, the current pope…
a love letter to Bran Down
written on a postcard that is a recovered painting of jesus’ wedding to mary magdelene on the blank space: thank you for waking people up in such a clever way.hooray for you. where the stamp could go it says:may 7, 2006thoiry, franceanyone who is a thorn in the ass of the church is a friend…
a troubling turn towards conservatism
May 06, 2006 local british election results came through today with a disturbing turn towards conservatism once again. portugal recently elected an ultra-conservative president. switzerland has the most conservative government it has had in 20 years, along with france. spain currently has a socialist government, but with two simultaneous separatist movements in the basque region…
a love letter to Tarnoj Stew
written on a postcard of the american flag on the blank space: hearing the truth is so refreshing,especially in your patriotic irreverence.where the stamp would go it says:thoiry, francemay 5, 2006we have just been watching your daily show and you are, well, just fantastic.i would so vote for you for president
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