I don’t give a damn ’bout my reputation
You’re living in the past it’s a new generation
A girl can do what she wants to do and that’s
What I’m gonna do
An’ I don’t give a damn ‘ bout my bad reputation

Tim Burton retrospective @ MoMA will be up in NYC when I am there in February. And I get to stay at this place.

Two days ago my female cat Eva came in after an evening out in 15 degree weather. She quickly ate. She also said a few words which is unusual because Pasquale is the loud cat. Eva not so much. I can get her to talk if I tickle her, but normally she’s pretty quiet.

Turns out she was beat up pretty badly. It looked like one cat held her down while two cats kicked her butt. Even the vet was alarmed. These are just two places out of five where she was torn up. They needed to shave her everywhere she was hurt so she is sporting the most unflattering haircut.

I made her a little hospital in the spare bedroom. After two days of antibiotics and pain relievers she is showing signs of normal behavior. And she is NEVER going outside again!

No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
– Henry Ward Beecher

Every bit of sorrow starts with a decision. Why I, against my better instincts, decided it was wise to watch a slideshow of my ex’s trip to Mexico with his new girlfriend I couldn’t tell you. I had long ago given up all efforts to act stoic around him. So why not just decline the offer? Because I believed I had moved on. With absolutely no desire to return to him and not even the slightest memory of what sex was like (the rare shining aspect of our relationship) I really had no idea I would feel so mutilated afterwards. But there I was in a spontaneous rubble of tears over a six year on/off romance that contained all the joys of a Tennessee Williams play. Our love was practically annihilating. But here were these pictures revealing a level of emotional intimacy that he had in the past refused me.

I’m usually pretty good at moving on emotionally while sticking around in physical presence. I returned to the friendship because I really enjoy his unique form of bohemian intellect. A difficult find in conservative Indiana. I know that no wound heals without leaving some kind of scar, but it’s very sad to think that full recovery will require severing all contact. I guess it is not so illogical to discover that my lack of interest doesn’t make it any less disturbing to find out now he was capable of a love that possessed generosity, compromise and emotional depth … just not with me. And that one day he would be willing to admit he should of offered up more of himself to me … but only after he was securely involved in a relationship with another woman.

I’m recommending the post Warping Feminism. Click here

“As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.” –Nelson Mandela

Oh, and this one too. (click here)

Veterans Day began as Armistice Day in America to commemorate the end of World War I (War to End All Wars). Since wars never ceased with the end of WWI, the name was later changed to Veterans Day.

Noam Chomsky has described the US invasion of Afghanistan as “one of the most immoral acts in modern history”. It’s interesting to know that Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan, the British and Russian empire have are all tried before the US invasion for military victory over Afghanistan and failed. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff favor more troops Do you think Obama should continue in Afghanistan, add troops or pull our people out?