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Gabe Moses is the author of 'How to Make Love to a Trans Person'

IndieGoGo: Help Art Amok! get to the 2013 National Poetry Slam [ends 6/26/13]

We are Gabe Moses, JAWS, Shyla Hardwick, Stephanie Amorey and Hillary Kobernick. We have written, performed and finally slammed (competed) ourselves to the honor of representing ATL, GA at the Boston Nationals as part of the Art Amok! Team.

Support the poets we love, y/y? Every little bit helps.

jjhunter

It bears repeating that I have been seriously impressed and delighted with the quality of the posts at

poetree lately; I've been trying to avoid spamming y'all with my delight every time something especially good goes up at the comm, but Jesus. I have few defenses against what people put their full heart into, especially in extraordinary language, and as terrifying as it can be to try to balance keeping myself open that way on a day-to-day basis without being so vulnerable that I am a wound waiting to happen, sometimes I encounter words that remind me why I do.

kaberett's post at

poetree today is full of such words. Exploration of a poem: How to Make Love to a Trans Person. [content notes: poem is explicit; meta contains extended discussion of surgery.]

When I say - teleport to read it, do not walk - I mean it.

ETA: and definitely read the comments!

qem_chibati

( Cut for manga page )

True story:
The capital of Australia is Canberra, because neither Melbourne (the largest city at the time) nor Sydney (the oldest city) could agree on which of the two should become the capital, so instead they scoped out an area that was approximately halfway inbetween the two to become the capital.

qem_chibati

Trying to update the DW more regularly;

Random:

So the other day, I found one of those old "look up the top commentor in your journal memes" and I vaguely wondered if there was a version for dreamwidth (as far as I know, no).

But the xml that the other memes used is also generated by dreamwidth. I just haven't the foggiest how you get the username from the user id = http://www.dreamwidth.org/export_comments.bml?get=comment_meta&startid=0

I don't even know where to start looking for figuring that out, and on the one hand - CURIOUS! :3 on the other - EFFORT! D:

Cooking - preserved to make fun of myself 10 years from now;
( Chokos! )

Manga:

I've just finished off Sibatora (a series about a youth devision detective who although he's an adult looks like he could still fit in middleschool) which I highly enjoyed, and it reminds me why I probably wouldn't do a regular reading meme; D: I'd actually have to face how much manga I read (15 volume series; 2 days; but it was sooooooooooooooooo good.) instead of just being oblivious. Incidentally, I'm trying to convince my husband to get rid of the fireplace so that we can put in a new bookshelf - I know what I consider to be a lot more useful, when it comes to purposes of holding up stuff. :3

Dear Qem;

You are too old to justify reading one more novel, one more chapter, one more novel, when it's way past your bed time.

No love;
Chibati

P.S I'm trying out the new update page again; and a feature I didn't realise from before - you can if you activate settings, rearrange all the different "items" like icons and so forth so I can make it a lot more intuiative for my own work flow. If it wasn't the fact that I sometimes want to cheat with RTF mode, I think I can see myself using the new update page permanently. (although, I still really, really wish that Dreamwidth would implement the queue posts feature for queuing your own posts in advance.

marahmarie

--fix post title font-size/adjust line-height

--fix blockquote font size/possibly switch fonts for Vista/Win7

--tone down Prev/Next links, glow is killing me

--don't now why meta prints so damn small - maybe font-adjust on smallcaps

--contextual hover laying over usericon, possible Support Request filing needed

--start serious campaign to make IE use illegal

marahmarie

Cuttag expander images. Poof! Gone. MIA. AWOL. Nada. Kaput. Runaway. Missing. Whereabouts unknown. Please call 1-800-FOUND-ME if spotted anywhere in the DW wild.

I'm not seeing them in Firefox 21 but have also checked Google Chrome 27, Opera 12, and IE8 on Win7 (which breaks every part of my blog except the cuttag, which shows up but in that browser and that browser alone).

Apparently IE (at least up to v.8) is using a .png fallback, whereas every other modern browser is simply choking on the new SVG image and printing out text instead. The word "Expand" literally prints out now, in place of the old (or any) cuttag image. Also happening on sidebar cuttags, fwiw. With a pretty 1px yellow border around it on this blog, per my now otherwise completely non-functional cuttag CSS - and actually, borders are part of my CSS image code, not my cuttag code, so they encase the cuttag text now only thanks to DW adding their own border).

(I'm using the word "now" loosely here; I barely get online much anymore and when I do there is so much crap to fix between whatever Google senselessly destroyed while I was gone and whatever DW always destroys while I am gone in the name of otherwise usually quite useful code pushes [stop changing my crap, Dreamwidth!] that my eyes are burning I'm so freaking tired - point being, I have no idea if this problem began tonight or like, three weeks ago).

I'd do screencaps but really. Seriously? My eyes are burning. And for real, they're gone. Here is the web page I get when I right-click on the word "Expand" that now appears all over my blog and select "View Image" in Firefox (and here is a good example page of where cuttags appear as text instead of images and the text links to SVG coded web pages instead of any image file fallback when you right-click on the word "Expand" and select "View Image").

Did I say my eyes are burning? Still, I'd "fix" the problem like I try to fix them all but there's nothing to fix (except post titles, they're cutting off over DW's mysterious adjustment of either font size or ~~line height~~). This is not my normal old-CSS-doesn't-work-with-new-code fail (which is not a fail since there's no way to know in advance how DW's new code might work with mine). This is server-side-fail, wrong-file-fail, something-is-way-the-hell-wrong-what-is-it-fail. This is please-fix-it-DW-kthxbai-fail, unfortunately. And yeah, Support Requests. It's happening to everybody, across every style, so should we all file one?

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my head
Current Music: NO REM

jjhunter

Note the - shall we say revealing - phrasing at play in the following NYT Breaking News Alert quote:

Taliban Signal Readiness for Peace Talks

[...]

It would be the first time that the antagonists in the Afghanistan war have undertaken peace negotiations to end a conflict that has encumbered the United States since 2001, when American forces entered the country to rout Al Qaeda.

jjhunter

poetree: the Secret Society of Stealthy Sonneteers

alee_grrl

So I'm slowly adapting to my new situation and settling in. Am absolutely wiped most nights and wasn't be as careful with my diet last week, which I paid for this past weekend. But managed to get some sleep and felt a bit better today.

Anyway, to the point of the post! A friend shared this with me on Facebook. Huffington Post posted the first in a six article series on asexuality today. The main page for the series can be found here.

I really need to work on getting my paper on this topic published.

ariestess

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Current Mood: contemplative

jjhunter

POETREE @ Dreamwidth: Emotional Intimacy: June 17th - 22nd

As written or spoken language in extraordinary form, poetry is a natural home for metaphor and emotional intensity. Feelings that may be difficult to express in everyday language find potent release in matching the form and feel of words and their meanings more tightly to their intended effect.

Thus, the closer we get to talking about what is not ordinarily said, or deeply personal, or complicated and achingly vulnerable - in short, the closer we get to emotional intimacy - the more we turn to song and poetry to bypass the usual boundaries of polite distance and speak heart-to-heart.

This week at POETREE, we hope you will join us in letting go a little of that protective distance, and engage openly and honestly with our various hosts' offerings on the theme of emotional intimacy.

jjhunter

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ETA:

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tezzkatt

What I Watched Week #24

New (to me) TV:

Freaks and Geeks 1.09-1.15
Nurse Jackie 5.10
Hemlock Grove 1.01-1.06

Re Watched TV:

The Vampire Diaries 1.03-1.09

ariestess

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Current Mood: creative
Crossposts: http://ariestess.livejournal.com/1962719.html

silvrguillotine

Ugggh migraine.

I've been sleeping a lot for days and days because of a headache and the dreaming, but the headache still hasn't gone away. The only migraine-like feature it had at first was a sensitivity to noise (while mine usually feature sensitivity to light) and getting worse when I move, but this morning featured some of that oh-so-delightful sandpaper-on-the-inside-of-my-skull feeling, mostly on one half, alongside a little light sensitivity, just from getting up to feed the cat. Haven't had any visual aura at all, which is highly unusual for me, and I don't recall either of my usual triggers being in play before the start (nor do my usual methods of easing it work). My Excedrin Migraine is out of date, too, so I can't take that...

Grrrr.

Current Mood: cranky

jjhunter

Speaking of

cadenzamuse's post, there's an awesome word association game running in the comments.

What chain of associations would you make to get from 'Julie D'Aubigny' to 'pomegranate'?

ariestess

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Current Mood: creative
Current Music: Chicago - Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?
Crossposts: http://ariestess.livejournal.com/1962473.html

jjhunter

cadenzamuse continues to hit it out of the park with her posts this week at

poetree re: slam poets & slam poetry.

"The Last Judgement" by Hillary Kobernick

I tell you about these serendipitous connections because a: I think that spoken-word poetry is an exercise in fostering serendipitous connections and b: I think that Hillary in particular is a curator of these connections. Her blog is a mix of quotes and essays and videos of slam poets and spontaneous thoughts, and I think her ability to make space for disparate things to mingle and grow together comes through in her poetry as well.

In "The Last Judgement," Hillary connects Michelangelo's image of God creating Adam on the Sistene Chapel Ceiling and his painting "The Last Judgement" with various people's beliefs about sin and love, informed by her political and religious beliefs.