STAY WALL, EPISODE 4: A NEW TITLE

My new favorite t-shirt:



Purchased recently at a cheap irregulars clothing shop in Central off Stanley Street for HK$10.00 (US$1.28).

I have no idea, no. But obviously it was worth buying.

These aren’t the t-shirts yr looking for,

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VOODOO DOLLY

True story:

One night I was walking from the Disco Bay ferry pier to my flat, which involves walking through a waterfront park area on the south side of the bay.

Then I saw this.



Which was, of course, not supposed to be there.

The rational side of my brain said, “Some kid put their doll up in the tree.”

The side of my brain that’s seen too many Karen Black films said, “Suburban voodoo ritual!”

Because there’s something about seeing a doll pinned to a tree in the middle of the night, isn’t there?

The next day, it was still there. And, you’ll notice, looked a lot less creepy.



And the moral of the story?

HEY YOU KIDS, PUT YR DAMN TOYS AWAY LIKE YR S’POSEDTA!

Welcome to the dollhouse,

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GAY PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES, PART 4: YOU CAN WEAR THE UNIFORM AND I CAN PLAY ALONG

It’s Gay Pride Week. And following yesterday’s query from Jayne County, it seems only fitting to follow up with Joe Jackson wondering who the “real” men are, and whether they can really be defined by sexual identity alone.

FUN FACT: Pansy Division does a great version of this. And yes, you’ll be hearing from them later.

Straight as a line,

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SPACE: IT’S FOR EVERYONE (AGAIN)

Yr Presidential Jedi headline of the day:



Which is a relief to you all, I’m sure.

Well, maybe not to everyone.

Anyway, what they mean is that Team Obama has issued the traditional National Space Strategy for the United States of America [PDF], which – like almost every NSS dating back to Jimmy Carter – basically says that space is a place for international cooperation, not territorial dick-waving and real-estate grabs.

Unlike the Bush Posse’s 2006 National Space Strategy, which basically said: “We’ll do whatever we want in space and we get to say who can come up here with us, and anyone who fucks with us is going to get a photon torpedo up his ass, Jimbo.”

I’m paraphrasing, of course. But you get the idea.

That’s not to say Obama is doing away with militarization of space altogether:

”The United States will employ a variety of measures to help assure the use of space for all responsible parties, and, consistent with the inherent right of self-defense, deter others from interference and attack, defend our space systems and contribute to the defense of allied spacesystems, and,” it reads, “if deterrence fails, defeat efforts to attack them.”

Still, it’s an improvement over declaring outer space the new Puerto Rico. And at least he’s given NASA something to do besides run a satellite repair service.

Plenty of space for everyone,

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