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• 10:11 @pramsey75 Is this the same Pam that used to work for the Beckley Newspaper? If so, then hey it's me Tessa! #

Grue Barfs expelled from LoudTwitter

Fuck it, just join my feed:
http://syndicated.livejournal.com/dumbkats_folly/

Change of plans:

In one week this Blog gets deleted.


It's just better this way.


So yeah, y'all got one week to bookmark me at this spot:

http://dumbkat.blogspot.com

Okay folks this is it:


THE LAST LJ POST OF THE ONION.



what!? really?!? WHY?!?!



I've had this blog for a long time. I've posted things and pondered things...I've changed and grown and basically...out-grew this blog.

I'm in a new state and state-of-mind. Things have changed: I've changed.


I've gone legit, folks. I've moved here:

http://dumbkat.blogspot.com/

It's my all printing, all singing, all art and subculture blog. No personal drama or teenage BS: this is the real deal.

Now, I'll still roll around LJ to keep an eye on y'all here but from now on I post at the Folly. No longer am I an EmptyOnion.


I know you can subscribe to BlogSpot feed and there's also some way I can have my feeds posted automatically to this blog a'la Twitter, so if anyone knows how to do that, point me in the right direction. But aside from that: It's been a fucked-up ride. I met a lot of awesome bastards here and just..do it to it.




Later Potaters...

Create Your Own Sea Kitten at peta.org!

Yes I am a douche.



I smell graduate printmaking bonanza...

I have been so goddamn busy lately, it isn't even funny...

But hey, I drank with a professor last night and for once, I woke up without a hang-over.



Nobody told me grad school would entail THIS amount of drinking.



Not that I'm bitching...


Screw Philadelphia, DeKalb is where it's at bitches....

Why am I still up? Drawing? And watching my DVD of "The Young Ones"?


Books I have read since moving here:

"Parasite Eve" -Hideaki Sena
"Lullaby" -Chuck Palahniuk
"Paradise" Koji Suzuki (Almost finished it today)
"Return to Labyrinth" -manga sequel to "The Labyrinth"
Vol. 1 and 2 of Yuyu Hakusho series


Books I have acquired since moving here:

BWAHAHAHAHA! Artist yard-sales always have the best books! I have ASS-LOADS!

So I'm settling into DeKalb life. Hanging with a former grad, Jane, most of my days. Also hung with Tom an one of the other incoming grads, Jessica.

Jane's really fucking awesome. It's a shame she'll be moving to Iowa at the end of the month, but she'll still be around and Iowa is the right distance for a weekend bike trip so...


Everyone is fascinated by the fact that I'm from WV. I have to answer their questions and defend the state's image. It's cool though. They've all been helping be prepare for grad life as an art major. Printmaking grad life. They keep saying I'm going to have a great time and that I'll fit in perfectly.

The facilities are awesome. Not many people silkscreen so I won't have to tangle for space like I did at the CAC. They're also crazy about keeping the shop clean, which is nice. Have to be on the ball with that...the CAC wasn't too big on shopkeeping...which pissed a lot of us off...


And I'm drawing again! What!? I began taking my meds regularly a few days ago and I can keel the upswing. Plus, I've been chugging coffee all day (making a pot as we speak...).

Tomorrow: hanging and drawing with Jane while hanging at her yard sale. Fun times...


Gawd I wish my neighbors would get into a giant fight just so I can have some entertainment...

You know what? I just realized that I have no pre-conceived notions of what I want to print, or any work for that matter...except the 'Happy Kat Kandy Popper' machine..which I need to actually buy one of these:



I found one in Georgia, but I'm pretty sure Chi town has one....somewhere....


Oh, and grad student BBQs are fun. I think I'm going to like it here...

Not having cable causes me to have strange and wonderful dreams. Seriously, I've never had dreams as awesome as these.


Maybe I should just ditch Cable all together.

Okay so I'm setting up here at the apartment and lemme tell you: it's BITCHIN'! Puto is back in Fairmont till the 15th so It's just the Grue swingin' solo in DeKalb. I'm riding a weak net signal right now and the cable guy won't be able to come till the 22nd so it's nothing but stolen internet and Marx Bros. DVDs till then.


Once I get solid Net then I'll post pics of the compound. I'm quite impressed myself...


I miss my cats, though, and it's weird not having my family so close. At least when I lived at FU's College Dump I was still in town...

But this is cool. It's rainin' like mother here, though, so I'm gonna guess the big firework show is canceled tonight. Sigh...Looks like it's just gonna be me, some beer, and Season One of Ren and Stimpy tonight...


Happy 4th!

i'm moving tuesday and all the sudden oh god i am so not ready for all of this seriously i cannot do this at all who the hell will love my cats?

Billy Mayes. Former WVU Mountaineer. Greatest. Pitchman. Ever.




NEVER FORGET 6/28

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/6/28/747754/-TV-Spokesman-Billy-Mays-Dead


BILLY MAYES?!?!?!?! BILLY MAYES?!??!!?

Okay, so it's time for my 2 cents on the King of Pop's passing:


MJ was a musical genius. Seriously. While watching the video for 'Bad' my mom reminded me that he choreographed the entire thing himself which took a total of 2 months. 'Thriller'? Oh hell yes on that too. Shit, 'Scream' is one of my faves.

I always felt bad for him because let's be honest: Joe Jackson fucked all those kids up...Which I am safe to assume is the reason why MJ turned out (in the end) how he did. Molestation charges aside, he was still pretty much off his nut. Musical talent out the ass, but still...

I honestly always felt he probably homosexual and could never, ever come to terms with this fact. I may be wrong on this and if I am then I am, but still I always felt he could never come to terms with his sexuality. Of course, he was always trying to make up for a lost childhood so...

I dunno...had MJ been given a normal upbringing and STILL got discovered...maybe he'd be...okay. But, it is what it is and he's dead. Personally to me, he died years ago...


Oh, and the flick 'Moonwalker' stars a young Sean Lennon:



Fuck it, I'm downloading this movie. I loved it back in the day.

Final Fantasy VII is now available for PSP download.


Guess what I've been playing....


(Oh Cid Highwind, you sexy fuck...)

First Ed McMahon....then Farrah...


Now the King of Pop himself:

http://wbztv.com/national/michael.jackson.hospitalized.2.1059770.html


I guess shit really does happen in threes...

This is Neda. I've sure you've all heard of her. I few days ago I watched the clip of her death. I didn't post it sooner because...it still bother me.



Everytime I watch this clip I get very emotional. I think it's at the very end when all her family starts to wail. Did you notice how, at the beginning, it's like she's looking directly into the camera...at us?

Could you die for something like that? Would you have the guts to stand up like she did?

All this trouble in Iran has made me rewatch 'Perseoplis' a number of times.


I can only hope some good comes out of this...that Neda's death wasn't for nothing, but as usual I highly doubt things will change.



Desiderata
by Max Ehrmann

Go placidly amid the noise and the haste,
and remember what peace there may be in silence.
As far as possible, without surrender,
be on good terms with all persons.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly, and listen to others,
even to the dull and ignorant;
they too have their story.

Avoid loud and aggressive persons;
they are vexatious to the spirit.
If you compare yourself with others,
you may become vain or bitter,
for always there will be
greater and lesser persons than yourself.

Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.
Keep interested in your own career
however humble;
it is a real possession in the
changing fortunes of time.

Exercise caution in your business affairs,
for the world is full of trickery.
But let this not blind you
to what virtue there is;
many persons strive for high ideals,
and everywhere life is full of heroism.

Be yourself.
Especially do not feign affection.
Neither be cynical about love,
for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment,
it is as perennial as the grass.

Take kindly the counsel of the years,
gracefully surrendering the things of youth.
Nurture strength of spirit
to shield you in sudden misfortune.
But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings.
Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.

Beyond a wholesome discipline,
be gentle with yourself.
You are a child of the universe
no less than the trees and the stars;
you have a right to be here.

And whether or not it is clear to you,
no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.
Therefore, be at peace with God,
whatever you conceive Him to be.
And whatever your labors and aspirations,
in the noisy confusion of life,
keep peace in your soul.
With all its sham,
drudgery, and broken dreams,
it is still a beautiful world.
Be cheerful.
Strive to be happy.

blow me

So yeah, God hasn't said anything else as of late and to be honest that's fine with me.


I really cannot believe I'm leaving in a lil over a week. I'm still in denial. I know this.



I bought a metal Pac Man lunchbox circa 1980. With the thermos. Good condition. 20 bucks.


Also spent some time in Point Pleasant. You know: Mothman's hood.



Um....Chinese food?



Oh, Happy Patriarchs' Day Dad. Hope you like the St. Francis statue for the yard. It's not St. Christopher, it's St. Frank.



My sister had a metal 'Welcome Back Kotter' lunchbox back in the 70s. Lucky hoochie.


you know, when you vomit up loads of rice...it's like a million maggots pouring out of your mouth.


Have fun being married. *snort giggle*