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Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Tis Done

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Tuesday, December 11, 2007

High Meat Consumption Linked to Heightened Cancer Risk

I’ve always been interested in the link between cancer and meat consumption. This was actually the impetus behind my change to a vegetarian diet over 10 years ago. While my reasons for adopting life long vegetarianism have broaden to include both health and moral concerns, I am convinced by this study and many others like it that my decision to rid my diet of our furry friends was a wise one.

High Meat Consumption Linked to Heightened Cancer Risk (Yahoo News)

Eating a Lot of Meats Linked to Number of Cancers (NPR)

Posted by RiOtPoOf on 12/11 at 05:44 PM
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Wednesday, December 05, 2007

Hello Dixie

I’m taking the rest of the week off and heading into enemy territory. By that I mean I’m taking a weekend trip to Georgia. Not that I don’t live in a red state, but Georgia is a fire engine red state. Worse yet I’ll be staying in a dry county. I wonder if lynching is still legal there? I’ll keep ya posted.

Posted by RiOtPoOf on 12/05 at 08:40 PM
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Sunday, December 02, 2007

A Face Only a Mother Could Love

Random Cuteness

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Friday, November 30, 2007

Religion enriches society

Another shining example of how religious belief enrich our societies. But isn’t a punishment of 40 lashes too compassionate for a foreigner who let her students name a teddy bear after the Islamic prophet? Why not just stone her to death? That is a punishment fundamentalist Jews, Christians and Muslims alike can appreciate. In fact, seeing how it was actually the students who named the bear, why not line up the entire elementary school class and shoot them down like the infidels they’ve proved themselves to be? All in the name of God. How lovely…

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Thursday, November 29, 2007

Naomi Wolf on American Fascism

Turn off Dancing with the Stars and watch this 30 minute interview with Naomi Wolf. It is both scary and infuriating.

Posted by RiOtPoOf on 11/29 at 11:39 AM
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Monday, November 26, 2007

Concert Review

Last Tuesday--to my delight--my prediction was proven wrong as Pip greeted the audience to the drum throbbing beats of “Cruel.” This half of the concert was violent, dark and fabulous. Pip, according to the metanarrative from American Doll Posse, represents Athena, the Greek goddess of war, wisdom, and strategy. Tori completely assumed this role in her performance, playing each song with an added bit of aggressiveness that could potentially make some uncomfortable. I couldn’t help being amused by the noticeably uncomfortable geriatric ushers as Pip sang “Fat Slut” while prostrated on the ground in front of the piano. The tension surely increased among the Clearwater blue hairs when Pip started violently humping the floor as the music hummed to “Smokey Jo.” After a short stint with the band playing along to a remix of “Professional Widow,” Tori reappeared as herself. The contrast between the performance of the first six songs from Pip and the remainder of the concert from Tori was palpable. This show called to my attention the amazing power that a performer has to affect the energy and emotions of their audience. All-in-all, this was a great show. I am always biased towards the more intimate shows with Tori solo at the piano; however, the power of the band to transform these songs, both new and old, is indisputable. I thoroughly enjoyed every minute. My only regret is I didn’t buy tickets to more shows on this tour.

Posted by RiOtPoOf on 11/26 at 03:39 PM
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Thursday, November 22, 2007

Make Thanksgiving happy for everyone and everything...

Eat Tofurky!!!

...or some of the other delicious turkey alternatives. This is my favorite (Quorn).

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Tuesday, November 20, 2007

I must see the Beekeeper

Tonight I shall nuzzle myself deep within the womb of the Goddess. I will be high from her radiating beauty; seduced by her presence; and, hypnotized by her song. Tonight I will be at a Tori Amos concert!

My prediction: Opening for Tori tonight will be her alter ego, Santa.

Posted by RiOtPoOf on 11/20 at 03:55 PM
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Friday, November 16, 2007

Riotpoof, M.S.P.H

The defense was better than expected. I wasn’t even that nervous. Of course, I had a small piece of Xanax to calm the nerves. Luckily the promise of sex talk didn’t attract to many people. About 8 peeps showed including my 3 committee members. After the first two slides I was perfectly calm and quite engaging I might add. I even kept my cool during the hour of questioning following my presentation. This past Wednesday I turned in my final manuscript to the graduate college which seals the deal. I am done!

God, what the hell am I suppose to do now?

Posted by RiOtPoOf on 11/16 at 04:03 PM
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Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Tomorrow is the big day

I defend my thesis tomorrow. Yikes! Wish me luck.

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Saturday, October 06, 2007

LGBT, LGB, or maybe only LG

There has been much discussion concerning the place of transgender folks in the larger political efforts to gain full equality for gays and lesbians in this country. This is not a new battle. Tin Man has an interesting post on this subject and I encourage you to go read it along with the subsequent comments. I think we can learn a lot from history on this issue.

This was my comment:

This debate is eerily similar to one that occurred within the women’s suffrage movement. The movement eventually split in the mid 19th century over disagreement whether to combine the efforts of the reconstruction and women’s suffrage. As we all know, both African American men and, eventually, women gained the right to vote, but my personal belief is that the feminist movement (and as a result civil rights in general) has spend a good part of the last century trying to heal the rift that occurred because of this split. I think we would be wise to learn from history on this one. To the dominant heterosexist society, we are all queers whether lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender. I for one do not want to conform to this societies oppressive standards of gender in order to gain access to their equally restrictive institutions (i.e. Marriage). We need to stick to our main values.

It seems to be common within political movements fighting for the rights of minorities to divide at times when gains are just beginning. There is a body of literature within sociology that speaks to this process of “boundary negotiation.” If you have an interest in exploring this issue I recommend reading “Messages of Exclusion: Gender, Movements, and Symbolic Boundaries,” by Joshua Gamson.

From my point of view, there is not one collective GLBT political movement (or community for that matter!). We try so desperately to speak of the many splintered actives of disparate GLBT groups as a collective effort, but this is not the reality. There are deep divisions over class, race and gender. This recent squirmish over transsexuals is evidence to this. Those that seek to form a collective movement that excludes transgendered individuals are positioning themselves in line with the current prejudices of the heteronormative powers they pretend to despise (at least they despise the oppression they feel as a result of these powers). I want nothing to do with such a movement and I certainly do not believe they should pride themselves over any “progress” that is gained by excluding a vulnerable and marginalized population.

Posted by RiOtPoOf on 10/06 at 10:14 AM
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Wednesday, October 03, 2007

Back in the Saddle

Wow! I think this is the longest I’ve been able to keep from writing on this blog. When I try to take a break I am usually forced to post about something that is eating away at me. Lately I’ve been in a thesis-hole (kind of like a “K-hole” but without the delightful aftermath*) undisturbed by society at large. Yesterday I turned in the draft of my manuscript to my committee members and they get two weeks to review it. This means I have a two week vacation from having to look at it. Yay! And almost like magic, when my laser focus attention turns toward the recent doings of our fearless leader, he goes and vetoes a bill to give health care to poor kids. WTF! I wish for two seconds that this God who supposedly saved him would swoop down from the clouds and squeeze his stupid bobblehead clear off his neck. I’ll write more about my thoughts on this but first I must compose my thoughts and draft a letter to the editor of my local paper.

*In reality I have never used Ketamine and I completely discourse anyone else from doing so

Posted by RiOtPoOf on 10/03 at 10:25 AM
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Tuesday, August 28, 2007

My current situation regarding my thesis

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Wednesday, August 08, 2007

Tori Tickets

There are only a few things in this world that get me so excited my hands start shaking. Buying tickets to a Tori Amos concert is one of them. Over the years I’ve seen many concerts and fought long and hard for tickets in what always turns out to be a stress filled two minutes of online ticket purchasing. Today I was ready, organized and under induced calm thanks to Xanax. Well it paid off cause I got 6th row! See you soon, Tori!

Posted by RiOtPoOf on 08/08 at 10:27 AM
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