• 08:32 IT is a sweet day!/Why did I eat apple pie?/Blood sugars have tanked... #
• 12:26 Damn. Tower of guilt was shorter until I went to Longfellow Books & bought 3 more. Dammit. #
• 12:27 @chrisblake I love it when they whir, click & hum. #
• 12:32 @nicolechaison yikes! There's a cream for that I think. #
• 12:33 @nicolechaison tuckus? They don't even know us!!! #
• 13:52 SHIT. May have to replace tires. Bummer. #
• 13:52 @llcoolj Because you'r LL COOL J thass what!!! #
• 14:23 Dog caught smoking and looks guilty. tweetphoto.com/5510613 #
• 17:02 Just completed a 1.59 mi run with @runkeeper, check it out bit.ly/4JZB4m #RunKeeper #
• 17:32 Just completed a 2.02 mi run with @runkeeper, check it out bit.ly/4Lm1Im #RunKeeper #
• 19:05 God help me. I'm stalking the folks who got Dexter disc 1 season one @ the video store. I'm that guy. #
• 19:38 God I fucking love running. Yes, this fucking much. #
• 19:46 I advance cranky. #
• 21:30 HA! Wife left for night with girls! It's me, MS23K Laserblast and some Toblerone... I'm lonely.... #
• 21:38 Why the fuck am I watching Joy Behar after Bill Murray left? Hoarders ain't cutting it. #

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Cluebat: People with severe depression can still go to parties and look like they are having a good time.

As somebody who was meeting with a mental health professional nearly every week for a year's time, I think I can safely say, "Depressed people look just like everyone else." In fact, we may be doing our damnedest to be having a good time because that's five minutes where you don't have to think about whatever hell your body is jerking you through.

• 09:19 It is a sweet day!/Begin grazing leftovers/Watching Godzilla!!! #
• 09:20 iPhone 3gs has stoped uploading photos. What the iFuck? #
• 09:48 It's only 9:48AM and the child is whining about not being fed. Jeez. Doesn't she know Krampus is listening at the door?! #
• 10:14 "I'm weird. Don't question me." - Sophia Terhune, aged 10. #
• 11:31 Jesus Christ, but it's hard to create an alien race. Especially when you're not totally sure what they look like. #
• 11:32 But I love my job so it's all good. Or all suffering if you ask the Buddha. #
• 11:45 @markokloos YEah, it's less that & more that I have no idea how they move, see, hear, etc. for my own mind. #
• 11:53 FYI, you're not fooling anybody. #
• 12:02 My new band name? I Love You But I've Chosen Cornbread. #
• 12:04 In researching artists for inspiration, I find Andre Breton was kind of a fucking dick. Esp. to Kay Sage. #
• 13:03 Four pages longhand = time for a shower. #
• 13:44 @shawnp0wers It's definitely resurrecting long dead brain cells and muscles, I will tell you that. #
• 16:35 Saw THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL remake just now. Why? Because my wife is hot. There. I said it. Movie was aiiight. #
• 21:28 "the brothers bloom" is a damn good movie. Not just because of Rachel weiss. #
• 21:30 Ice age: the dinosaurs is pretty good. 2nd time I saw it so it's okay I slept through it. #

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• 08:17 It is a sweet Day!/Happy Thanksgiving, Tweeters!!! Bring on the damn pie! #
• 08:21 The women are already in the bathroom getting themselves ready for the day. I am thinking about eggs. And pie. #
• 13:07 watching the dog show with the dog pic.gd/b4fb5b #
• 13:13 @markokloos the olympics! They just had dachshunds on. #
• 13:18 twitpic.com/r17ym - Beginning the eating w/ a bit of mediterranean stuff. #TiltShiftGen #
• 16:54 Setting up my dad's iPod what I bought him for Father's Day. Think he'll like Venom or Nuclear Assault more? #

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• 08:41 @jay_lake Thinking of you today, Jay Lake. #
• 08:57 It is a sweet day!!!/Is it time for pie now yet?/ALWAYS TIME FOR PIE!!! #
• 09:03 Go, Adam Lambert. not a fan but respect yr honesty! RTnytimes Adam Lambert: 'I'm Not a Babysitter. I'm a Performer.' bit.ly/6myXLR #
• 09:13 HAve the kid on the lookout for Krampus. If he's coming for anyone this year, he's coming for me. And Glenn Beck. #
• 09:14 HEre's a picture of Krampus: www.bgsu.edu/departments/greal/NewAYA/salzburg_info/subpages/images/krampus.jpg #
• 09:14 Krampus info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krampus #
• 09:39 Is that dried out salami in the fridge or another one of Galileo's lost fingers? Only one way to tell. #
• 09:40 @hentosz I discovered him in National Geographic yesterday and have decided we need a Krampus day in Maine. #
• 16:24 @catvalente Ha! Alice is 5'4" & I 6'6". I try to account for size diff but often I find her looking up at high shelves then me. #
• 16:34 Uh, I just changed my name on twitter to @changterhune if anyone gives a rats ass. #
• 16:38 @paolobacigalupi Happy Fucking Thanksgiving to you to, you environmentalist hippie midget! :) :) :) #
• 16:40 @the_real_mkb Long time, yes. #
• 17:24 Dear iTunes, Oingo Boingo was no more "gothic & experimental" than say, the Beatles. Really, dude. C'mon! #
• 17:47 @jay_lake Good on ya, Lake!!! #
• 18:18 Amazing how only a few video's watched on youtube and all of sudden hours go by. #
• 18:22 I miss my Gibson Grabber bass. :( #
• 18:24 Silly chang. Had to go back to bigbadchang on account of I got the old biz cards with that on it. Now I gotta get rid of the tattoo. #
• 18:58 twitpic.com/qxqgs - Oh crap I've started another book. In longhand, no less. Curse you, @markokloos!!! #TiltShiftGen #
• 18:59 twitpic.com/qxqmk - The blank page is sooo terrifying. #TiltShiftGen #
• 19:34 @markokloos Nah, gotta head down 2 Boston to get some. Really liking it so far! hand cramps a bit & my writing is poor but all good! #
• 19:35 @markokloos Or for me to pee on depending on how you look at it! #
• 19:57 twitpic.com/qxzqa - Not a bad start to a new book.. #TiltShiftGen #
• 22:07 @markokloos I used to work right around there!!! #
• 22:14 @matociquala For some reason all of a sudden I want roast chicken. #

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Yesterday my low-grade cough/sore throat started acting up in conjunction with a small fever. I'd been taking cough syrup to get to sleep for about three nights at that point, and was still sleepy and tired and a bit achy. So I stayed home from work and John had me make a doctor's appointment.

Anyway, today the doc prescribed me a bunch meds as I have a small case of bronchitis. I have been given an inhaler, antibiotics, and codeine in a cough syrup.

Hopefully the antibiotics kick in right away. And hopefully this doesn't kill Thanksgiving for me. I don't think so, since I spent most of yesterday resting or in the tub. But still....

In case people can't tell why I am pissed by the Method ad that is making the rounds, it's not because I didn't get their metaphor.

I posted a link earlier but to sum up, the ad portrays a woman who uses a chemical cleaner only to discover the next morning that the soap bubble scum remains behind. The soap bubbles sexually harrass the woman in her own shower, making comments about her body, and getting visibly excited when she drops the loofah.

Problems with the ad:

- The comparison of soap scum to sexual harrassment. (Disclosure: I have been sexually harrassed to an extreme degree in at least two situations--one from ninth grade and one as an adult at a prior job. And of course, the minor low-grade sexual harrassment I get on a fairly regular basis for being a woman in public.) When I complained to Method, they tried telling me that I just didn't get the ad (yes, I do), that they were standing for a good cause, and trying to capture that in a "fun and captivating way".

- The complete lack of the woman's agency scripted into the ad. She passively gets into the shower DESPITE the presence of the pervy little assholes. She passively submits to the harrassment.

- The fact that the person cleaning is a woman and the bubbles are coded to be male.

Method says they don't think the ad condones sexual harrassment, but a sampling of YouTube comments before they were turned off showed a bunch of guys giggling about the loofah line or the bubble telling the woman to just get in the tub. I've checked out responses to the ad in places where it was linked as something "funny" and seen people commenting on the actress's body, wishing that she'd show a little more skin, or discussing how cute she is, particularly when she looks uncomfortable. Yes, this is a memorable ad, but frankly it's not really doing the job it is supposed to be doing, which is getting people to treat environmental issues seriously and get companies to label their products. Instead, lots of guys are hung up on the voyeurist aspects of this ad and identifying with the horrible little bubbles, while many women like me are squicked because of our experiences. (Also, we're just plain tired of supposed progressive allies throwing us under the bus.)

For many women, this ad will be triggering. It makes me grind my teeth and remember that neither of the people who harrassed me had to confront the consequences of how they made me feel.

I'd like to point out that I support Method's end goal of getting responsible labelling. (Al Franken put forth the bill they are trying to drum up support for.) And up until Method dismissed the concerns of many women who tried to point out the issues in their ad, I LIKED Method. I have two of their soaps in my bathrooms.

But I don't appreciate being treated like a brainless ditz who doesn't get their noble goal.

And I don't appreciate their making sexual harrassment a punchline in an effing joke.

They could have made their point without having the woman get into the shower to be leered at. Or they could have used a different metaphor, like unwanted guests.

Further discussion:
http://shakespearessister.blogspot.com/2009/11/i-get-letters_25.html
http://shakespearessister.blogspot.com/2009/11/i-write-letters_24.html
http://www.feministing.com/archives/019035.html
http://jezebel.com/5409946/ladies-its-your-fault-that-the-perverted-bubbles-in-your-shower-exist

• 05:51 @alienistcog Never! Which is why this is so weird. Worked fine after that. #
• 17:42 @amandapalmer Sorry to hear about your bad day, CO2 and lost wallet. Glad you're man is there. Hope his nipples are up to the task. #
• 17:42 @alexirvine I am totally digging "The Narrows" right now so keep on writing!!! #
• 17:44 @alienistcog Do upgrade. Especially with the MAX/MSP implementation. Live is amazing. #
• 17:52 @alexirvine Also, salt mines under Detroit? Nain Rouge? And I thought Maine was weird! #
• 18:31 My daughter: 99th percentile on reading, 85th in math. Gorgeous & smart like her mom. pic.gd/5731d2 #
• 18:37 Dear asshole driving on E. Prom: slow the fuck down so I can almost kill YOU next time. #
• 18:38 Dear old lady walking dog, if i'm so hard to see under a streetlamp then how come u can c & lecture me on darkend sidewalk. Go fuck self. #
• 18:39 P.S. Old lady my dog says your dog is a candyass. #
• 18:41 P.p.s. My cat kicked you candyassed dogs ass. Fie on thee. #
• 19:06 Oh, dear. I appear to has an angry now. Fuck. #

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• 09:14 GAh! No coffee yet and it's 9AM!?!?! Good good the world IS coming to an end!!! #
• 09:21 @donttrythis twitpic.com/iczwg - OMG the desk underneath all that stuff is gorgeous!!! #
• 09:29 AH! TEH COFFEEE!!!! IT BURNS US ON OUR TONGUE!!!! Oh, monday, why do you always have to sneak up on me?! #
• 09:40 @warrenellis You know what they say: Mugwump schisms can't be beat!!! #
• 11:13 Cathode Ray tube covering the entirety of Joy Division's "Closer" album, you say? He'll yes, I say!!! #
• 11:38 @kopka shit yeah!!! #
• 16:13 Current studio intern is sleeping off the night b4. Needs no hair of the dog, tho. pic.gd/c1949e #
• 18:15 Yikes. Last time I attempted
  A cover of "isolation" I was 16 or so. This is either awesome or horrific. #
• 18:27 Oh Live 8! Why did you just crash?! You're so dependable like an ugly Saturday night!!! Aieeeeee!!! #
• 19:31 twitpic.com/qp0a5 - Quite possibly one of
  The most irreverent covers of Isolation ever. #TiltShiftGen #

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• 10:04 twitpic.com/qiack - Sunday mornin handsome Cat boy!!! #TiltShiftGen #
• 11:04 it is a sweet day!/walking with teacher and wife/then getting butt kicked #

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• 06:01 @alienistcog Thanks. She's sawing wood now thanks to some antibiotics and oxycontin. I want oxycontin!!! #
• 06:10 Well, Chang, if you fire somebody you have to be prepared to work their shifts. #
• 06:10 Even the early, early AM ones. #
• 09:56 Do I go take a nap or go take a shower? Too spacey to decide. #
• 10:27 Oh joy. Power just went out after high winds. Anything I want to do requires electricity. Except for binge drinking. #
• 10:28 @dasmart the problem with shaZam is it only seems to work with you & your shit taste in music. :) #
• 10:57 When's the power coming back on?! pic.gd/704148 #
• 10:58 @scalzi Cats love that stuff!!! It's better than couch aged fontina! #
• 13:02 POwer back on. Damn it. Now I have to work. #
• 14:08 NOthing. #

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Tonight's menu: New York strip steak with blue cheese sauce and au gratin potatoes (cooked by John) and harvest salad: arugula and baby spinach with dried cherries, pecans, goat cheese, sliced pear, and basalmic maple dressing (assembled by me).

• 12:36 RT @nytimes: Jeanne-Claude, Artist, Is Dead bit.ly/3Lc40x #
• 17:27 What a day. Not in a good way either. #
• 21:48 Hey we're at the ER again! Not me this time. Kid's got a rather bad earache. Wooooo!!! #
• 22:50 Kids got a special bulbous ear
  Infection. Antibiotics & pain meds on the way!!! #

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• 07:28 it is a sweet day/gonna crack some skulls today/but first some coffee #
• 13:29 So just because youbemaildd me once & I emailed you back doesn't mean you can email me crap about your special project. #
• 16:55 twitpic.com/q110j - Oh sleeping dog of Portland, Maine! #TiltShiftGen #
• 17:48 @markokloos if its biel & alba the heck yeah!!! #
• 17:50 Dog is annoyed we have no food for him. Hey, you still have a house! #
• 17:50 Really looking forward to tonight's Guinness. Or two. Or three. #
• 17:51 Please for the love of God, would someone tell me a joke right now? I need it bad. #

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• 07:25 it is a sweet day/another day to make magic/with coffee of course! #
• 21:58 Fucking people. #

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So that Sarah Palin Newsweek cover. Yes. It's inappropriate if your article frames her through the lens of her political ambitions. Yes, it's sexist. (And yes, I'm aware that the prior shoot had been approved by her....for a completely different context. True, she was riding the propaganda pony, and not actually running or working up a sweat for Runner's World, but the context needs to be considered.) This would be as appropriate as running that pic of Barack in his swimming trunks on an article dissecting his stance on health care or world politics.

Anyway, since there are plenty of legitimate reasons to dislike Palin's policies, it seems a shame to frame an article discussing her incompetence by framing it through the lens of how pretty she is or isn't.

Of course, it makes me laugh bitterly to hear folks complaining about Palin's treatment and framing it as a leftist media thing when CNN has an actual panelist wondering why Pelosi and Clinton and Napolitano don't show a little more leg and saying that Palin embraces femininity while implying the others don't.

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/gamming-up-works-by-digby-joan-walsh.html

Anyway, Newsweek cover = sexist.

• 08:25 It is a sweet day!/Rush rush rush rush rush rush rush!/Time waits for no man. #
• 09:31 Wow. It's a Monday alright. :( #
• 14:33 pretty face. pic.gd/2251c7 #
• 14:35 Whig happen! pic.gd/74b6cc #
• 14:57 Waiting for the kid to be released from juvie - I mean - school. pic.gd/81d0b3 #
• 14:59 Just saw a guy driving a big diesel p/up and texting. I pray he's not yet spawned & gets wrapped around a tree for his actions #dumbass #
• 15:49 @anthonyha Everything wrong with his writing stems from his wacky hair. Just like mine. #
• 15:50 @anthonyha what's sadder is I started readin it online even when I got the paper yesterday. #printfail #
• 16:53 Just completed a 3.38 mi run with @runkeeper, check it out bit.ly/1odcFL #RunKeeper #
• 17:36 Folks, it's not fucking rocket science. It's plugging in a god damn phone. #
• 17:37 @anthonyha I tend to get scrambled eggs & bacon grease on the laptop & I worry the NSA can see me on the can if I bring the laptop in. #
• 20:22 I'm not gonna lie: a Brooke Burke/Joanna Krupa combo had me thinking, too. #
• 20:28 Agh! Growing new skin. #
• 21:02 How do I explain to my 10 year old who Hugh Hefner is? #
• 21:46 1/2 way through editing the book. Oughta be done by the end of November. Can I do all the edits in December? hmm #fucknanowrimo #
• 21:46 @markokloos Okay, let me tell Quinn that the next tine I see him. #
• 21:51 @markokloos You sick bastid. #

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• 08:40 It is a sweet day/dog attacked another dog/good morning Max. #
• 12:29 spacebagging like a mother$&@!er!!! pic.gd/f9119b #
• 12:45 Phew! Vacuumed entire haus, did dishes, spacebagged clothes & brought towels up from basement. Time to write! #
• 12:56 "Get up and go away," he said to the computer. And he did. #
• 14:16 If I spacebag a spacebag will
  I end up in an alternate universe? #
• 14:28 My main character sounds like a bad combo of me & Buzz Lightyear. Ugh! #sffail #
• 18:47 Ooh the MKS-30 appears to have not completely shit the bed!!! Analog warm goodness here I come!!! #
• 21:52 Resistance is a form of change. #
• 21:53 So hungry. IF I don't eat that last chocolate pudding, I'ma going rouge on the place!!! #

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