Time to wake up

does anyone have good experiences using craft punches with photo paper? i bought one at michael's and it worked alright for punching out magazine type paper (though sometimes the edges were a little rough) but i put matte photo paper in and it got stuck. then i tried to take the screws out so i could get the paper out. only 1 screw would come out. i gave it to my dad to fix and he said that when he pressed down on it the screw came flying out.

do you know of any brands that make a good big circle craft punch? the one i have is the marvy uchida and it's pretty awful. i don't really want a die cutter because i only want to do big circles so i don't want to spend a lot to do it.

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I feel like this requires a little explanation.

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Edward Gorey wrote The Curious Sofa under the named Ogred Weary. It’s not actually pornographic; the joke is that it’s all implied and incredibly vague. Gorey said in a couple interviews that he was always being told that children loved the Curious Sofa, and that it blew his mind because he couldn’t imagine what children were getting out of it. I don’t know either, I just know I loved it as a kid. It, along with a bunch of his other works, were collected in a volume called Amphigorey which was an adored tome for wee me. I still have it; I stole it from my dad when I went to college.

It’s about a young flapper named Alice who is obsessed with grapes. After being picked up by a young man in a park, she goes on an erotic adventure. This is how the Curious Sofa ends:

I made another version with some Diffuse Glow. I don’t know if it’s better or not.

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Date: 2009-11-06, 6:08PM GMT
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Dear Women

I am a tall, interesting and physically strong man. I am modern and sexy and have a mattressfull of money that was given to me by an old dead woman that I knew.

Dealing with a stressful, substantial inheritance is something I’ve had to endure. Suffice to say, it’s been hard, but I’ve made it though. Thank god.

What did I spend the cash on? Well, I spent most of the money on a very large and valuable collection of glass eyes. What was left I spent on a smaller collection of Victorian lace gloves. People are always impressed when I tell them and normally spend some time with me discussing it in more detail, if they have time of course, modern living being so hectic and busy.

Womenfriends? Glad you asked, Yes, it’s been odd, I have had a chequered past with females on the whole. I think if any of them were still alive now, they would probably all agree most of the arguments were started by them, I like to think perhaps they regret being so difficult. I split up with my last girlfriend because she kept niggling and nagging about pretty much everything I did, she wouldn’t even let me do an intercourse on any of her friends.

So you’re interested? I thought so. My ideal meeting place for our first date would be somewhere neutral in which we can get to know one another without pressure. I suggest a meal at my apartment, might be an idea to bring an overnight bag as there’s a fair chance you’ll be keen to stop over. Put it this way and I have over twenty taxidermied owls that you can view from the comfort of my bed..

I spent a lot of time in the lavatory. I like the acoustics and it’s also where I do most of my life planning and crying.

 

SPECIAL SKILLS:-

Visionary
Fighting Animals
Polishing Shields
Dance Champion
Balloon Animalogy
Expert woman lover
Specialist Taxidermy
Laughing Directly at Danger
Reading quotes and smugly repeating them
Riding around on my Segway wearing gentleman’s hosiery
Digging and Exploring (Medium Sized Woods and Copses)

DAILY ACTIVITIES:-
The countryside
Going to new cities around the world
Running in the forest at night wearing a facial lantern
Standing perfectly still and silent. Then crying
Closing my eyes, laughing into a bucket and imagining I’m a cruel genie
Walking round London looking at people, imagining their names and what their lives are like, following them home and then expertly talking my way out of arrest from a copper.

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Women. LOOK NO FURTHER. I have the largest collection of glass eyes

 

I emailed him.  I said I’d trade the dead barn owl in my freezer for a sham green card marriage.  And I would.

Anna Silivonchik
"Winter dream " 2009. 60х50cm. Oil on canvas
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Between lunch and a meeting I gargled pure lemon juice in the staff bathroom, enjoying its sharp effectiveness.

I pierced a lemon with an electronic thermometer designed for people. After a few seconds it came back with LO. So I put the lemon in the microwave for a few seconds, tried again, and got HI. It was very difficult to locate any temperature between these extremes. An insight into the weirdly small range of humans?

Here is a thing I came up with today while slumping some glass. I made it from reclaimed electric fencing wire. I thought this would be neat to display those super special/old/breakable ornaments that you don't want the dogs/cats/kids to knock off the tree and break, or maybe for someone with a really small place with no room for a tree.


It still needs to be cleaned and painted before it goes up in my shop.

Here is a thing I came up with today while slumping some glass. I made it from reclaimed electric fencing wire. I thought this would be neat to display those super special/old/breakable ornaments that you don't want the dogs/cats/kids to knock off the tree and break, or maybe for someone with a really small place with no room for a tree.


It still needs to be cleaned and painted before it goes up in my shop.

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• 14:47 woot checked into our hotel in New Delhi found a sliver of free wifi not much but enough to twitter on! it is 2:15am here! #

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Including a completed narwhal for metalsmitten's enjoyment. ;-)

( These are all behind a cut because of size... )

Artist: Lynne Neuman
Size: 3.5 x 2.5 inches (ACEO)
Medium: Watercolor and Ink
Surface: Arches 140# Watercolor Paper
Price: Auction with starting price of 99 cents

today, i was researching allegory & Visual-Auditory-Kinesthetic communications, which i first learned about through Robert Anton Wilson & studying NLP, EFT, & Hypnosis Techniques.

then, i found a page concerning "perception-space, perception war, and perception operations (perceived-effects)-based operations"
- from The Cyberspace and Information Operations Study Center @ Air University: "The intellectual and leadership center of the Air Force. We produce the future."

and i suddenly remembered that i still haven't read The Coming Insurrection

a number of my friends went to visit relatives in Laredo, this weekend; and i decided to stay home to feed the cats & chickens.

although, speaking of hot spots of paramilitary combat... as i said previously this year regarding the Texas-Mexico border situation, i tend to prefer the serenity of the venus project to the extremes of armed revolution & martial law

can't we all just get along?

meanwhile... "would you like to play a game?"

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My flight to London is now pushed forward to the 31st of March.
Everything is coming together nicely for this next tour.

It looks like London, Edinburgh, Amsterdam, Vienna, Bologna, and finally back to London.
Hmm, it seems to be a lot in text, but it's works on the calendar I'm looking at.

I was in Glasgow shooting with Azrelle all day during my last visit to Scotland.
I liked Glagow - can't wait to revisit!

So then, me in a bunch of HW latex (tho the catsuit is actually from vex_clothing )



and another with not so much latex
thanks mrstocking for the nylon ;)

My daily happening and thoughts if you care:

• 16:47 Jana is telling me about "the estranged grandpa who wants to be my friend on facebook" grandpa #

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we were talking about the orang asli, who were fortunate enough to be able to maintain their lives in paradise, until recently.
their plight is a perfect example of "Yali's Question" outlined in guns, germs, & steel (wow, the pbs video is on youtube... & the book should be required reading before college!)

much of what the modern mind knows of war is from a patriarchal perspective (although the winds of change are blowing)... not that matriarchal societies haven't ever condoned violence or war... au contraire!
but i do think that there are often (sometimes, but not always) extremely different motivations for men & women to become violent.
for instance, when one of my friends was taking a criminal justice class, years ago; she told me that statistically, men kill women most often in the bedroom, and women kill men most often in the kitchen.
surprised?
not so much, eh?
still, i try not to overgeneralize about gender & sexuality... they are such complex & often paradoxical subjects, which makes them all the more fun to explore! ;~})>

but here's a compelling argument which directly relates to your topic:
Why Women Should Rule The World

recently, i have repeatedly pointed out another issue related to the enculturation of violence & war...
MAPS is studying whether MDMA-assisted psychotherapy has the potential to heal traumas caused by sexual assault, war, violent crime, and other causes.

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i originally posted this as a response to one of mordwen's entries about women in the military from a year ago (with apologies for the tardiness of my reply).

i am trying to fix some bugs that i have found in communication between my blogs & i thought that i would re-post it here in my journal to see if the system is working, now. it seems that twitterfeed all of the sudden decided that i needed to re-authenticate with my Username & Password: GRRRRR! at the same time that i had posted an lj entry with a weird timestamp, so it wouldn't forward to facebook: ARGH! ...Well, everything should be fixed, now: <sigh>
...or not?
ADDENDUM:
it seems that this sort of thing can sometimes be fixed by deleting & re-creating the feed