I am failing in the quest

Looks like I should just invest in a good notebook for my trip.

Yes, I mean the paper kind, with spiral binding. I insist on college-ruled, and I am also very picky about my pens. Once upon a time, you know, everything was written this way. If pen and paper is good enough for Melville and Shakespeare, it oughta be good enough for me and my nasty little fanfics. (Besides, my handwriting is off-putting enough perhaps to keep Mr. Hot-Knuckles from glancing over too much on the train.)

Very funny share-computer-with-the-parents story: I used to set up my email at my parents' house very differently from the way I do it now (now I just use a webmail program, no mucking about with anybody's account settings). Once upon a time, everybody's mail got all mixed up together while I was there. Now, I used to be pretty good about herding my own into my own folder, and my parents have never been privacy-invading types, but I must have left one or two behind in the main inbox.....and at the time I was on a polyamory list...and it turns out that one person on the list had the SAME NAME as someone on a list my Dad is on about law enforcement/park ranger issues....so he opened a mail headed "Etiquette of Group Sex" because he thought it was from a friend of his.


Whoo boy.


What could top that? Gee, maybe my mom reading something from "The Ring and the Crown" (first-person!!) and thinking it's my diary???

In other news, Moveon.Org started airing their "Let The Inspections Work" ads today. ***APPLAUSE.***

Oh, and I believe Pete Townshend is telling the truth.

I am failing in the quest

Looks like I should just invest in a good notebook for my trip.

Yes, I mean the paper kind, with spiral binding. I insist on college-ruled, and I am also very picky about my pens. Once upon a time, you know, everything was written this way. If pen and paper is good enough for Melville and Shakespeare, it oughta be good enough for me and my nasty little fanfics. (Besides, my handwriting is off-putting enough perhaps to keep Mr. Hot-Knuckles from glancing over too much on the train.)

Very funny share-computer-with-the-parents story: I used to set up my email at my parents' house very differently from the way I do it now (now I just use a webmail program, no mucking about with anybody's account settings). Once upon a time, everybody's mail got all mixed up together while I was there. Now, I used to be pretty good about herding my own into my own folder, and my parents have never been privacy-invading types, but I must have left one or two behind in the main inbox.....and at the time I was on a polyamory list...and it turns out that one person on the list had the SAME NAME as someone on a list my Dad is on about law enforcement/park ranger issues....so he opened a mail headed "Etiquette of Group Sex" because he thought it was from a friend of his.


Whoo boy.


What could top that? Gee, maybe my mom reading something from "The Ring and the Crown" (first-person!!) and thinking it's my diary???

In other news, Moveon.Org started airing their "Let The Inspections Work" ads today. ***APPLAUSE.***

Oh, and I believe Pete Townshend is telling the truth.

Jeez-O-Pete

Another good article on the Pete Townshend business.

I said it as a sort of quick aside last entry that I believe his story, and I mean it. I do think that any kind of insinuation that one has thought of "minors" and "sex" in the same sentence is nowadays rather similar to being called a "communist" in the US 50 years ago - and once accused, no matter the source of accusation, one's name is never fully clear. (Of course, I do believe that molesting children is morally wrong and being a communist isn't, let's get that out of the way right now.) Do I believe that Townshend is a sexual abuse survivor looking to get some understanding by any means necessary? Yes. Do I think one has to be a special kind of stupid to volunteer one's credit-card info on a kiddie porn site? Yes. Do I think just looking ought to be a crime? No. Do I think Townshend is capable of producing art as a result of his "research" into the dark night of the human soul that mitigates the "wrongness" of the act of looking? Absolutely.

Jeez-O-Pete

Another good article on the Pete Townshend business.

I said it as a sort of quick aside last entry that I believe his story, and I mean it. I do think that any kind of insinuation that one has thought of "minors" and "sex" in the same sentence is nowadays rather similar to being called a "communist" in the US 50 years ago - and once accused, no matter the source of accusation, one's name is never fully clear. (Of course, I do believe that molesting children is morally wrong and being a communist isn't, let's get that out of the way right now.) Do I believe that Townshend is a sexual abuse survivor looking to get some understanding by any means necessary? Yes. Do I think one has to be a special kind of stupid to volunteer one's credit-card info on a kiddie porn site? Yes. Do I think just looking ought to be a crime? No. Do I think Townshend is capable of producing art as a result of his "research" into the dark night of the human soul that mitigates the "wrongness" of the act of looking? Absolutely.