flotsam and jetsam.

[katster]

if this is what a real man is supposed to be, then I'm glad I'm not dating one.

***

Just got home. Did the cereal box interview with Luns, it took forever, I hope this isn't a bad omen. Granted, Luns was the first too, so...maybe that had something to do with it. I need to dig up where my tape recorder has disappeared too, because I'd be a lousy secretary.

I still need 5-7 more. If I can, if I can't then I'll go with three, but...this is hard in that there's next to no time to *do* the interviews. And with so much else on my plate...

I still fully intend to pull off at least three and possibly four, which I think will lead my team, but if you can volunteer and are somewhere in the East Bay or SF proper, let me know, and I'll bring my road show to you.

***

My right ankle's been hurting. Odd, because it was most definitely the left that twisted under me when I had the fall in the field tonight (there was mud both on the left front ankle of my jeans and the top of my foot, so you *know* the position the ankle was in *had* to have been painful).

Got some nice shots of the Campanile, though, and I'll put those up when I get a chance. It's Big Game Week, my most favourite week of the year. :)

***
time for katster to bug out. night, LJ world.

Comments

always one worthwhile statement

[reddmoon.livejournal.com]

Most of this is indeed garbage, but not only as a Teacher, but as someone who hates both Ritalin and the term ADD, this statement holds some water:

"Now, men are given Ritalin as little boys, so that their natural aggressiveness, curiosity and restlessness can be controlled, instead of nurtured and directed"

I am fortunately old enough to have been raised by caring parents who taught me appropriate releases for my energy instead of parents who, with the help of doctor's, look to drugs to do what they are not capable of.

And at first I thought it should say "children" instead of "men/boys", but then I realized that I have 5 kids in my two classes who are on ADD medication, all boys.

So throw the rest of it in the trash, but there's always one thing worth keeping.

John

[shadur.livejournal.com]

That and the point he made about how women nowadays get away with deeply cutting remarks all too easy without anyone batting an eye. No offense, Katya, and most explicitly not meant towards you, but it's a pet peeve of mine.

Re: always one worthwhile statement

[bioillogical.livejournal.com]

It's my opinion that EVERYBODY has "ADD". It's what we get from a pair of generations raised by television. Some doctors realise it's normal, and those children don't get force-fed personality-neutering drugs. Some doctors think it's a plague worse than marijuana addiction *snrk*, and those are the unlucky children who act as morose as a divorced accountant by the time they're ten.

[mindme.livejournal.com]

lol he doesn't look entirely straight. Real man? I don't think he measures up to the yard stick he sets for me. He'd be lucky if he scored with his wife, let alone his wife and her sister. Ain't gonna happen in his universe. He does have the slob part down, though.

[siliconshaman.livejournal.com]

If I recall you're redesigning creal boxes? So why not one with a tab arrangement that when opened folds out into an easy-to-pour spout ? Might require some skill in origarmi though, but I doubt it'd be "black-belt" level stuff

Oh, and you might want to take a look at this

dang...

[vacheestfachee.livejournal.com]

that's... a bunch of stuff. I agree with the points the others mentioned from this article (and I've seen them raised in better ways by people other than this guy -- my boyfriend and most of the men at my church read John Eldridge's Wild at Heart and really enjoyed it... if you don't mind the Christian focus :). I'm wondering if he says all this "I'm a real man, I'll piss and spit and shoot people and be a chauvinist if I want to" stuff just because his name is Kim. ;)

[ladycalliope.livejournal.com]

So how late do you want to be in the city doing these things? I have a date tonight, (possibly) a show tomorrow, and pinball league Thursday that gets me home at 11.

If I can't get a ticket to tomorrow's Rockapella show, then tomorrow's our day. I should know by 3. Otherwise, I work from home on Fridays, and I can do it anytime before about 5.

[zibblsnrt.livejournal.com]

But I'm not going to do that. To quote John Belushi (who was, incidentally, a real man and not a fucking woman): "Did we quit when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?"

I think I'll leave this one highlighted for people to meditate upon. It speaks wonders about the validity of whatever this dude's got to say. ;)

[jtwilson.livejournal.com]

No wonder we always get blamed for everything!

[fearghaill.livejournal.com]

Belushi was a comedian. I'm cautiously optimistic that even the tool writing the article knew that much.

[bioillogical.livejournal.com]

You bastard! *I* was just about to quote that. :P

[bioillogical.livejournal.com]

I think for the most part that everyone who agrees with this guy should go off somewhere and for "The Real America for Real Men" (I chuckle every time I notice the capitalisation on "Real Men"), and see how long it is before they bomb themselves back to the stone age. Or get sick of eating boiled potatoes. Or get cholera. (To the Picker of Rats: "Squeak! I have cholera!") Rids us of their egocentric "my-balls-are-bigger-than-yours-fag!" blather.