Calla's Sixty-Sixth Post

Remember when it was like 1996 and I was ten and everyone and their mother was on AOL chatting it up in chatrooms and IMing and forwarding crap e-mails, half of which asked you to fill out a survey about yourself? Well, pretty much with the expansion of facebook into a full fledged stalking device, the survey things are all over the place again. They're even sillier now though because we have such handy-dandy high-tech-ness; so we are able to "put your ipod on shuffle and answer these questions with the name of the songs that play." Well, I only have an ipod shuffle (from the first generation like 4 years ago), so one step is done FOR me. Anyway, it's pretty ridiculous and humerous that we all act like we are 10-14 yrs of age again. This is not to pretend like I am not guilty of it myself. In fact, I rather enjoy filling out the surveys. Everyone loves to be egotistical now and again. (some more than others.) I enjoy wasting my time talking about myself so much (that I created this blog! hahaha) that when I discovered the take a survey application thingy-ma-bob, I answered a whole lot of questions. These are the answers to them.

What is your favourite word?	Edit | X
What a stupid question. alright I'm done. Tabby said, "that's not a stupid question." I said, "it seems dumb."

What makes you cry?	Edit | X
animal abuse

What makes you laugh?	Edit | X
GHOST BANDS!!! HAHAHAHAHAHA. Seriously, you have no idea!

If you won the lottery, how would you spend your millions?	Edit | X
Donating to animal welfare groups. Buying an apartment or house with outdoor space so I could adopt chickens.

If you could travel back in time, what mistake(s) would you want to correct?	Edit | X
Gone vegan in eighth grade the first time I tried instead of putting it off for five more years. For how much veal am I personally responsible?

Do you believe that the cup is half empty or half full?	Edit | X
Either way, I'm gonna drink it

What do you do for fun?	Edit | X
Play with my cats. haha. No, it's true. I am a crazy cat lady.

Are you an outdoor or an indoor person	Edit | X
Both

If you had only six months to live, what would you do first?	Edit | X
Quit school. LOL

Where do you see yourself in five years?	Edit | X
Graduated, still living here, trying to convince Tabby it's time to adopt children, hopefully having an additional rescued pet, working for an animal rights group.

Do you own any pets, and if so what do you have?	Edit | X
YES YES YES. I have a fuffers baby kitty meow love who used to be my grandpa's, and I have a little tiny Mama Kitty facey who used to be my mom''s. (hand-me-downs)

Who do you admire most?	Edit | X
Gene Baur and Aaron Weiss. They have to share the "most." And my sis is up there too!

Do you have any tattoos, and if so what and where?	Edit | X
no

When do you plan on getting married?	Edit | X
Soon-ish but whenever.

Romance or Kinky?	Edit | X
Depends on the moment

How do you feel?	Edit | X
stupid for answering so many questions. Man, am I addicted to myself. Can we say, "narcisistic." (Can we spell "narcistic?" No.)

What size shoes do you wear?	Edit | X
7

Water or 100% Juice?	Edit | X
Water. Juice is too sugary

Would you rather be hot or cold?	Edit | X
HOT

Would you rather lose an arm or a leg?	Edit | X
How about neither? But I guess an arm since it'd be easier to get around. Can I choose the arm? Can it be the left arm?

Favorite Place to Eat?	Edit | X
hmmm. Baby Cakes. lol, does a bakery count? If not, Caravan of Dreams, but its oh so expensive.

Opera, Musical, Concert, Play, Performance, or Other?	Edit | X
MUSICAL. Oh i love it!

If you had to pick one car, which would it be?	Edit | X
EWWW. Public transportation or a bike!

Your favorite Disney Films?	Edit | X
Lion King or Pirates or Wall-E. (I just admitted to liking Disney. Someone's gonna use that against me later, I'm sure.)

Why did the chicken cross the road?	Edit | X
To escape the evil bastards trying to cut off her beak w/o anesthesia and shove her in an 18 inch cage with ten other abused lovies:(

What was your last thought?	Edit | X
"It's strange how I just said I hate the taste of milk and then said I would drink soy milk and cookies". . . But notice it is CHOCOLATE soy milk. Chocolate = yum.

Juice and crackers or milk and cookies?	Edit | X
YUM. LOL *I just love food.* Make it a chocolate soy milk and I'll eat both. . . one right after the other!!

Favorite fruit?	Edit | X
avocado. But I don't eat them much 'cause they're shipped all the way from Mexico. :(

Are you a cat or a dog person?	Edit | X
ANIMAL PERSON. But I have cats 'cause they were hand-me-downs. I want a doggyfriend so bad too though!

Would you rather be blind or deaf?	Edit | X
BLIND no doubt. (And then I would get a puppy friend to lead me around everywhere hehehe)

Define yourself in 3 words...	Edit | X
Stubborn, Christian, VEGAN

Do you eat cold cereal at night?	Edit | X
When I am craving soy milk. I hate the taste of all milks but sometimes crave it anyway. This was true of me during vegetarian days too. I would eat cereal if I craved mi

What is your favorite TV show?	Edit | X
Battlestar Galactica. Followed by: my so-called-life, Wonderfalls, and Mad Men

Kill the spider or let it out?	Edit | X
LET IT OUT. Why are people so senselessly cruel?

Do you shower every single day?	Edit | X
Yes.

Walking past a beggar, spare change or ignore?	Edit | X
Spare change for positive. I feel guilty if I don't have any.

Where do you want to travel next?	Edit | X
Watkins Glen, NY to visit the babies at Farm Sanctuary

What would you do if Michael Jackson asked you out	Edit | X
Say, "sorry I am in a serious and monogamous relationship."

What is your favorite food?	Edit | X
Cake. haha. MMM. I made delicious chocolate pudding cake the other day and Tabby and I ate it all in like 3 days. hmmm.

Do you read harry potter books?	Edit | X
Nope

If you could have one super human power what would you choose?	Edit | X
Mind manipulation. None of ya'll would think animals were food anymore!!

Have you had a beer in the last week?	Edit | X
I don't like it.

Vitamin Water or Gatorade?	Edit | X
How about pure H2O. Vitamin Water is like drinking a soda and taking a vitamin. Not so very good for you.

Flip flops or sandles?	Edit | X
Both.

What do you do on fridays?	Edit | X
Watch BATTLESTAR GALACTICA twice in a row and freak the frak out about how great it is!! Alas, the series finale is this Friday, and then I will be at a loss.

Do you like bananas?	Edit | X
Yes, but feel guilty buying them 'cause there's no way to get them local

They went in backwards order. Well, that was just a quick post. It's over now.

P.S. I just noticed that the person who wrote this is not from the U.S. because of the word "favourite"

Love, Calla and her kitties.

P.S. that first P.S. doesn't really count as a "post" script because I had not signed my name yet.


This is a puppy friend from Rye Playland. I told my friend Angel I wanted a bunny, and he couldn't find any, but said this dog kinda had bunny ears. Which is maybe a little bit tiny bit true.

Calla's Sixty-Second Post

Do you know what H2O is? No, I am not talking about water. I am talking about this Australian TV show I saw the other day (being yesterday) that is so funny, I laughed like a ghost band! OK, the show itself isn't funny. The concept is hilarious, and thus the theme song is funny like a ghost band. SO, these three teenagers turn into mermaids anytime they get wet! HAHAHAHAHAHA. I don't GET IT. I don't get it AT ALL!!!! They are already made of 70% water, and what? they don't sweat or cry or even BREATHE on themselves. NO SENSE. It is so funny. This is what wikipedia said, and we all know wikipedia has quite a way with words (trying to be all serious about non-serious subjects so that I just crack the frak up!) Ok, this is what it said, "The show's premise revolves around three teenage girls facing everyday teen problems with an added twist: they're mermaids with powers over water." HAHAHAHA. Can you believe that? Oh, too great for words! Really, too too great.

The bad news, the show is filmed at SEA WORLD! EWWWW. Now, here's the thing with sea world. . . I've been an animal lover my whole entire life. So, when I was little I loved to go to the zoo and to Sea World (the one that used to be in Cleveland, which was right near where I used to live.) This is because I did not realize how evil Sea World is. They train animals, we all know that entails beatings and starvation. The animals live in areas too small to engage in their natural, God-given behaviors (ie: use sonar in the case of dolphins). They live in CHLORINE, which is horrendous for their health. Well, also, I'm not sure the Australian Sea World is connected to the U.S. chain, but nonetheless, it is a marine park with abused animals. This is sad to me. It hurts my heart a bit (as all animal abuse does.) I'm kind of a bad person, in that, I feel pretty vindicated (I don't know if that's the right word. I don't think it makes sense. I guess I feel vindication on the animal's behalf. ? .) any time a trainer of a wild animal (ie: someone who abuses God's creation at a circus or a marine park) gets attacked, mauled, or even killed. I'm not kidding. I'm a bad person. I think, "well, you shouldn't've been fucking around with wild animals asshole!" Firstly, it was just a mean thing to do. Secondly, it was just a dumb thing to do. Even house cats can rip holes in your flesh if(when) they want to. Why do you think a lion, whom you are pissing off by shoving a metal rod done his throat, won't one day snap and do the same!? And, probably, you deserved it, because you shoved a metal rod done an innocent animal's throat.

K, so that was the animal rant of the day. Today, for the animals, I wrote Trader Joe's about offering more vegan options. Probably that won't actually do anything. But I also resent the e-mail to the humane certified people because the one I sent yesterday got sent back to me because I typed the e-mail address wrong. So, that mighta been good. Perhaps I will make these people think more about these issues. And if they already consider them strongly, I will be better informed when I am recommending the products which are certified humane to other people.

So, know what else I want to mention? Short Bus. Man, I am one harsh movie critic. What is with all these so-called sex positive messages that turn out to be NOT sex positive!? Just a question. So, Short Bus was a'ight. It was not nearly as good as Hedwig (and how could it be if it wasn't a musical, right?), but it didn't completely suck upon first viewing. Some of the characters were quirky in a non-annoying way, their lives interwove in a believable fashion, all of the actors were good at acting, the ending wasn't so corny, though it was predictable, that you wanted to puke or anything horrible like that. So, it wasn't bad. It was just another hum-drum movie that I probably wouldn't watch ever again, but it didn't bother me on any level. It was only upon further contemplation that the movie got to me.

So, John Cameron Mitchel (if that's at all how you spell any of his names) started off wanting to make a sex-positive movie with real sex. That was seriously the goal. Something about how all the real sex in movies coming out of Europe represents something bad, and sex is something good. His movie, however, wasn't about sex. It was about human connection. And sex was used as a metaphor. So, he is still not positing a positive message about sex, rather he is positing a positive message about human connection. Additionally, in this world, where sex is equivalent to connection, there is no place for the asexual individual. I think I have talked about asexuality before on this blog in regards to the Kinsey Institute adding a 7 to Kinsey's 0-6 scale. (This is dumb. There should be two scales one for homo-hetero and one for a-hyper, if you are a 0 on the a-hyper one, you don't need to fit on the homo-hetero scale. However, people who are like a 1 [mostly asexual] still deserve another number.) Anyway, I think my point is about marginalizing a whole group of people who are currently misunderstood. I am not myself asexual, but I cannot STAND how people don't acknowledge that asexuality exists! In the world of Short Bus, they cannot exist, for if they did, they would have no way of connecting to other people.

Next: what is with the story of the woman not being able to cum!? This has been done so many other times. And it has been done WELL. (see: coming soon. Haha. It's brilliant) So, there is nothing inherently wrong with the story. But John Cameron Mitchel, as a gay male, does not know how to pull this one off. Additionally, to make the entire movie hinge on this one fact, which I admit is an important one in the life of the character, to the point where the FINAL moment is of her cumming, and then only show it for a split second! Like show the gasp and the "about to scream" and then cut to New York City's lights coming back on (Yeah, apparently her orgasm was so great it fixed the blackout) is just cheap. It is still as though, though this is the most important part of the film, the climax if you will (pun attended, hahaha!), you still cannot show it in all it's glory even though we've seen multiple males ejaculate. ANNOYING. Also, to equate it with the power coming back on makes it something special, as opposed to something a woman has every right to experience everyday the same way a man does.

And maybe I am reading too much into the woman cumming thing. And I think perhaps I don't even understand completely what I didn't like about it, but there was something that didn't sit right. If you are a womanist, a feminist, a sex-positive individual, a woman's rights activist, whatever, and you have seen this movie, perhaps you can share your opinion with me.

The other thing I didn't like was how it was such a male dominated cast. This is to be expected of a white, liberal, gay, male I suppose. (If you need me to explain that statement, chances are you wouldn't understand what I mean even after the explanation.) But it still bothered me. I am one of those annoying people who is always keeping score. (i.e.: whose name was shown first in the credits when the male and female lead had the exact same amount of screen time and shared equally in the role of protagonist?) I can't help it. I feel like the majority of people in this country like to assume and pretend that sexism is over, that women have equal rights, and equal treatment. This is not the case. And it is DEFINITELY not the case that women have equal representation in government jobs or high-end corporate positions. Forgive me for wanting to see them represented equally in Indy-Flicks.

Also, what is with the whole idea that this movie is not supposed to turn you on because it is not porn!? Now, it didn't really turn me on, that's most likely because I am probably only a 1 or 2 on the whole asexual to hypersexual scale that I invented. But, I can't see how it is not supposed to turn other people on. There is mad sex right in your face. And why is John Cameron Mitchel all opposed to porn in the first place!? You can't objectify all of these people's bodies for "art" and then say it's a crime against humanity that people are objectifying their bodies for the sake of sex and sex alone. (I did a whole post on this once. Go find it if you care.) If this was designed to be sex-positive, he should be happy to be showing sex for the sake of sex. (That should be a new movement, right? Sex for Sex's sake like Art for Art's sake, only we must be on a closer guard against venereal disease in this new movement I am proposing.) Am I wrong? Should he be showing sex for art's sake instead? Is that sex positive, or just art positive?

So, other than that, it WAS your run-of-the-mill Indy-Flick. Some "deep" movie with grand symbolic gestures that actually seem kind up shallow and useless when one puts on his/her analytical reasoning hat. Except it has real sex; this is how it is different. So, if you can't stomach that for one reason or another, don't see it. Otherwise, probably still don't see it 'cause you could spend that hour and a half or whatever watching actually meaningful things like Battlestar Galactica, Mad Men, My So-Called Life, or Wonderfalls. (Yes, these are all TV shows, not movies. But it stands that they are all better than most movies.)

OK.

That's all for now. I still don't have new kitty pictures, so I think I'll put up this bat picture from Halloween. See, 'cause I told you all about this bat, but I don't think I ever pasted up an image. And if I already have, forgive me for the re-run.




Love, Calla and her kitties.

Calla's Fifty-Fifth Post

I have just stumbled upon some distressing news. . . The ghost bands may not be able to make me laugh much longer. (ha! I cracked a smile just writing that line! The ghost band is the funniest thing in the world! AHHHH! John Allison is a comic genius!) Alright, but for serious, the ghost bands are not actually in the comic, and I still have the shirt. . . so no, they will make me laugh for ever and ever and ever until the shirt gets worn out. . . And then I will laugh at pictures of myself wearing the shirt!! But, to the point. John Allison may soon discontinue Scary-go-Round and start something new. http://sgrblog.blogspot.com/2009/02/state-of-onion.html In theory, I get this. If one focuses on the same project for seven years, one is bound to get burnt out. But I will cry, cry, cry when Comrade Bat and Shelly Winters are no longer in my life! Just like I am so sad that Delirium is no longer in my life. I get way too attached to these fictional people (and animal-friends). It is highly dysfunctional of me. It is the same way I think all my stuffed animals are alive.

Oh, that song from the last post is super swell, huh? In bed the night after that bad movie Tabby was all, "that was like a David Bowie song or something." And THEN, without warning, he sang "I got an empathy virus." I laughed so so hard. So hard like the ghost bands, and the Abraham Lincoln story, and the Painter with the Sombrero (see Calla's Third Post for a complete description of how amazing all those things truly are!) And I said, "sing more! Sing more!!" while I was in hysterics. And at first he would not!! He would not sing more because he said he didn't know how; so I helped. I sang, "and I can't go out in the sun." And then he finally started singing more. And oh-so-quickly I found a receipt and a red marker and began transcribing the most awesomest song in the world ever. (Besides the one where Baby Kitty tap dances. . . I don't know if that is on here though.)

Ok, so there is so much more more more to say. I have to tell you more about that fictional person I know in real live life. But I don't remember his code name. So I have to look that up first.

What I have to say is that Dollhouse was on last Friday. Now, Dollhouse was alright. (Though Tahmoh Penekitt [however one spells his name!] was not in it nearly enough.) But it wasn't believable at all. Joss Whedon set up these villains of sorts, right? Like the people in charge of the agents (or whatever they were called) convince themselves they do their work to help people, but they don't actually do that. Or so I thought was the set up. THEN they went and didn't erase Echo's (who is Faith in Buffy, who has a name when she is not acting, but I don't know what it is.) memory so that she could go save that little girl. It was such predictable story-telling. Now, had Ron Moore been telling a story like this, he would've gotten the audience invested in the situation, made us all eager for the child to get saved, and then it wouldn't've happened, because it is not believable that it happened. Overall, it was a good show. The concept is interesting, Helo is in it (and he is a better actor than everyone else around him!), the pacing was right on, there weren't cheesy U2 or Coldplay songs in the background (that I can remember at least), I was immediately invested in the story and the characters (it helped that one is Helo.), though it seemed that was a stand alone episode the ending appears that it will still be tied to the overall series. So, as far as TV goes, it was ok. But then Galactica came on immediately. . . and the OPENEING SEQUENCE, THE RECAP, was better than Dollhouse. Once Galactica is in one's life, no TV show will ever be on par again. (except maybe Mad Men. That's pretty good.) Just as when the ghost bands enter your life, there is no other T-Shirt worth wearing.

Though, I did buy the Eggbert shirt in honor of Shelley. But here is the problem. Blue is a really ugly color. So I can't really bring myself to wear it that often. Also, I didn't buy it. Tabby bought it for me for Christmas because I asked him too. I wish it was green, black, brown, white, or even purple. Blue is ugly.

Want to know what I don't understand? Why people think the U.S. constitution is sacred. The old men who wrote it weren't gods or even oracles. They don't know any better than I or you do. (That should say you or I, I suppose. . . but I am narcisistic [hence the fact that I keep this blog], so I am leaving it the way it is.) So, it is weird that if something is "unconstitutional" it is deemed evil. This is all brought up, of course, by D.C. wanting voting rights. And I think they should have them even though the constitution says STATES have representatives in congress. TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION IS TYRANNY. (Probably our founding fathers overreacted a bit, no? Come on? Tyranny? Maybe mean would be a better word.) Though, I forget who said this, but someone said we should just stop taxing residents of D.C. HAHAHAHA! I love it. Colbert enlightened me to that guy who said that. Colbert is also a comic genius.

I am not sure if this picture of myself is up on a different post or not. If it is, I'm sorry for the re-run, but I wanted to put it up.



The kitties are playing with a toy!! No, Mama is playing, and the Baby Fuffersface does not understand how! :( It makes me so so so so sad to watch him try. He can't figure out he has to stick his paws in the slots and mostly just hits the side of the contraption. Though once in a while he gets his hand in the right spot and I think perhaps he will learn! But he doesn't. He is not the brightest crayon in the box. BUT HE SURE IS THE CUTEST!!!


Love,
Calla and the FURRY GUYS!!

Calla's Forty-Fourth Post

I crieded again! When they hit Helo in the head and threatened to rape Athena. . . I cried. I was ascared that Helo was going to die! Like Gandhi once pointed out, Indians wanting the English out of India for no other reason than that they were English is no reason for a revolution. That's just racism. (There were other reasons to want the English out of India. Not that they were white though.) So, anyway, that's what Gaeta is like. blah blah blah cylons blah blah. They have not given one logical reason why the alliance with the cylons is a bad idea. Look, Saul Tigh (what with his being the Ex O), Athena (what with her RESCUING ALL OF HUMANITY from New Caprica), Chief (ya know, fixing all their broken shit for four years), Anders (leading the resistance on Old Caprica) ALL SPENT THE LAST FOUR YEARS FIGHTING WITH HUMANS AGAINST OTHER CYLONS. This is not a cylon/human issue. . . Clearly, considering it is the humans that is killing the other humans right now, and not cylons killing them. Now, I understand the urge to be racist when to civilizations have been at war for ages. It's like the Israel and Palestine, right? Would we really expect them to all just get along if their governments suddenly decided to form an alliance with each other? I get that all the civilians, the people lower in command, those who do not realize cylons have been fighting with them as well as against them through the entire war. . . I get it. HOWEVER, it is not hard to understand that if one cylon (ie: Athena or Caprica) chooses to fight with humanity over cylonity (hahaha!) a group of "rebels" can't decide the same. People just need to use logic. But they don't. Even all these nutty fans were on Gaeta's side and thought it was stupid that all the most major characters where on the cylon side. . . Well, let's go through this systematically.

Admiral Adama: best friend = cylon. Has not been racist since before New Caprica when he began trusting Athena fully.

President Roslyn: Kind of has lost faith in everything anyway so why not take a chance on the cylons? Trusts Saul, Athena, and Chief. . . so it is not a stretch for her to trust others. Additionally, she is so devoted to order and the proper system of the government, that she WOULD NEVER go with the mutineers. Actually, all you have to do is consider that she is in love with Adama and the point is made. Why would she ever try to kill him?

Saul: He is a cylon.

Starbuck: Married to a cylon. Athena saved her ass back on Old Caprica. She has actually never shown real signs of racism. Prayed for the Leoben she tortured when he got flushed at the airlock - clearly never racist. Even started trusting her earth Leoben. (too bad he abandoned her at her most vulnerable moment, huh?) WOULD NEVER TURN HER BACK ON THE UNIFORM

Lee Adama: Obsessed with his daddy. Always been a little racist, but like those people who tell racist jokes. . . No, not even like those people. . . Like those people who will change seats on the subway if someone of another race sits next to them. He's been like that kind of racist. Not like a KKK member, which is what all these other psychos are acting like. So no, there is no way he would be on Gaeta's side.

Baltar: Has been in love with Caprica. Has potentially been in love with Tory. Has always understood that humans and cylons are essentially the same.

Caprica: She's a cylon.

Athena: She's a cylon

Chief: He's a cylon.

Helo: He is married to a cylon. He went through hoops to ensure there was not a genocide of the cylons LONG BEFORE there was any inkling that cylons and humans would ever live in harmony.

Anders: He's a cylon

Gaeta: He is on his own side. . . and I think I just went through the list of characters from most main downward. (In my opinion.) Now, all this is left to be on Gaeta's side is more minor characters than him. . . But guess what. IT WORKS CAUSE THERE'S A LOT OF THEM. . . and they actually seem to have some motivation (at least some of them) for being on Gaeta's side.

Selix is pissed cause she had a crush on Anders.

Connor is pissed that Baltar let his son die, and he associates Baltar's administration with the cylons taking over.

Racetrack was always racist against Athena. And we might have thought she was racist in the same way Lee is. . . But since her character is more minor, not as developed, the writers can get away with putting her on the other side without anyone questioning it.

Zarek: He's like power hungry and just wants to start a revolution cause he's pissed the Admiral never listens to him.

Aaron Kelley: Holding a grudge against Adama for not letting him murder Romo Lampkin and thus ruin Baltar's trial.

Think about this. . . If any of the major major characters had been on Gaeta's side it wouldn't've made sense. Think about how it woulda worked. . . and you won't be able to. . . because it wouldn't've.

So that's just my little vent about all these fans who, apparently, have been watching a different show than I have. They seem to have missed the whole "what divides humans from cylons? Is there really a difference at all?" motif that has been running through the show since the mini-series. They act like these minor characters who have not witnessed the loyalty of so many of the cylon race. It's kinda really quite strange.

Alright. So, back to me thinking Helo was gonna die. . . I couldn't really think that because in an interview he said that they had this stupid way for his character to go and he fought it or something like that. So, clearly he doesn't die of head trauma. BUT, he still might die next episode. (It was "to be continued.")

Who else might die? Well, the preview said Saul DOES die. . . so I'm thinking, why not Anders? And probably a billion other people on Gaeta's side. And probably Gaeta. AHHHHH!! It's gonna be intense and a half!

So, turns out I mighta been wrong about Caprica carrying Ellen and all. If Saul is dead too (which he is) maybe they might come back together. Wow, that'll be sad for Caprica. . . maybe she'll get back together with Baltar. Speaking of the Caprica Baltar relationship . . . Did you see the way Caprica looked at Hera in the brig!? She's gonna kidnap that baby and raise it with Baltar. Head Six said that was their child.

Oh, also, HOW BAD ASS IS STARBUCK? I'm in love with her. She's amazing. And how great was it when Roslyn told Baltar they were both frauds. . . 'cause they are. These crazy religious leaders that promise stuff and can't deliver and stop believing in themselves even. Those two have the most interesting relationship. It's brilliant. Ever since Roslyn didn't kill Baltar it's been so interesting to watch.

Galactica makes me sad. I'm going to watch it again in ten minutes though. I'm sure there'll be a part 2 to this note.



KITTY CAT BED TIME


Love,
Everyone furry and one person not furry who happens to be wearing her GHOST BAND SHIRT!! :D

Calla's Fourty-First Post

Probably that's supposed to say "forty-first" but I don't understand why, so it says "fourty-first."

OK, I have to go to school in about 20 minutes, but I need to get this off my chest before I go. I am about to go to a class entitled "Crime, Incarceration and the City." I had to read the first chapter or the introduction or something to a book by some person entitled "Crimes against logic." It was a few pages about how people do NOT have rights to their own opinions. This person goes through some complex argument about how rights require that other people have duties or they aren't really rights in the first place, and about how people do not want to know the real truth.

Well, here is where I take issue. This man or woman is an idiot. I don't think s/he knows what the word opinion means. All of the examples in the text happen to be MATTERS OF FACT not MATTERS OF OPINION. They're two entirely different things. So, people can argue about the reason Bush went into Iraq or whether or not God exists or if a car is coming or not. . . and those people are not arguing about opinions at all. They are arguing about facts. And someone is indeed wrong in every case.

A matter of opinion is something that can be true for one person and not another. For example, are ghosts bands funny? There is no wrong answer. The answer FOR ME, is yes. The answer for you can be yes, no, sometimes, only on Fridays. . . whatever. It is a matter of opinion.

The reason Bush went into Iraq has the same answer no matter who is asked. Now, I think this author is confused because some of these are facts which are not easily distinguishable as true or false, wrong or right. People can argue about God, both present arguments, and maybe you are an agnostic, and cannot tell who is right and who is wrong. This does not mean it is a matter of opinion whether or not God exists. This means someone is stupid. Someone is wrong

So, if someone pulls a "I have the right to my own opinion" bullshit during an argument that is a matter of fact, it does not make logical sense to go through a series of explanations about why s/he does NOT have a right to that opinion. No, it makes sense to say, "this is not a matter of opinion, this is a matter of fact. And the facts that you are presenting are wrong because of A,B,C, and D." Then here is where you present your argument about why YOUR FACTS (not your opinions) are correct. And maybe you will never come to a conclusion about who is right and who is wrong. But at least we won't be pretending we are offering opinions.

Green is pretty. Blue is ugly. - Those are my opinions.

Eating meat is immoral. - That is a fact. And if you want to argue against it and present a varying view, it will not be an opinion. You will simply be trying to make me understand meat the way you see it. But, bottom line, one of us is right, and one of us is wrong. (also, I'm right. I will argue with you and prove your facts false! Meat is murder.)

Sometimes fallacies are just that. . . not opinions, but fallacies. . .


Maybe this post should be titled differently. I don't really know.

Love,
Calla and her kitties.

I will add the picture later.

Calla's Fortieth Post

Wow, is that really how you spell 40th? It looks a little dumb. It should probably be more like fourtieth.

May I ask you a question? This is the question: How come everyone is so stupid!? Tabby's dad put on that show "are you smarter than a 5th grader?" and the answer, seems to be, yes. But then you think about how smart and educated are not exactly the same thing. It is not fair to say I am smarter than a fifth grader because I am 22. So, I might know more than them. But that doesn't make me smarter automatically. I bet when I was in 5th grade I was smarter than most people who knew a lot more than I did. OK, but that's beyond the point. The point is that most of the people on this show are just dumb. I'll admit I didn't know what organ produced insulin (the pancreas, by the way, in case you also didn't know.), but these people don't know really simple things like which vitamin is absorbic acid. Now, if you've ever read the ingredient list to anything you know that. So, it makes me wonder whether or not these people ever went grocery shopping in their lives. Like seriously, a lot of it seems to be knowledge people have to acquire in their daily lives if they plan on functioning in society. But, people don't know that "own" is the root word of disown, and that McKenzie is a proper noun. . . not a preposition. "In" is a preposition. It is just kind of confusing to me that these people exist.

Ok, second example of stupidity is CNN. I told you before they make me brain dead or something. But seriously, I was listening to it today while I cleaned, and they had "some of the smartest economists in the world" or whatever on the show being all like, "We have a trade deficit. We import too much oil from the middle east and too many goods from China." Uh. . . no shit Sherlock. I, who have taken exactly one economics class in my entire life, and this wasn't even a real economics class, it was about urban economies, could've told you we import too much! Oh wait. . . I DID tell you that. STOP BUYING ALL YOUR SHIT FROM CHINA AND LEARN TO RIDE A BIKE DOWN THE STREET.

Furthermore, these people on CNN (not the economists necessarily, just everyone at the news station probably) had never heard the terms NIMBY or "green collar jobs." And they had this other stupid chick on who was all, "We can't have big government telling our cities what to do. If they want more urban sprawl it is their prerogative." Right, and it is also my prerogative NOT TO DROWN when global warming causes the ocean to flood the island on which I live. So no, they aren't allowed to continue urban sprawl stupid bitch. I don't get it.

Also, people hate kitties and puppies. That is my conclusion. The humane society is trying to raise money to spay and neuter animals, and I tried to get all these people on facebook to help. But nope, they all want to get bit by a stray animal and die of rabies. Whatever, I guess that's their right. (http://photocontest.humanesociety.org/contest.html?page=viewIndex&contestId=1&clearSearch=1&paging=0 type in "Baby Kitty" and "Mama Kitty" on the search button.) Seriously, though, five dollars. They can't give five dollars to prevent the birth, and then death of, millions of unwanted lovey-faces.

Ok, so what else is happening in the world? CHRIS IS TEN TODAY! WOO-HOO PARTY. Except I can't party with him because I don't live near him. This is sad sad news. I have been babysitting children for a decade now that means! Someone hire me to watch your children. I need money.

Um, also what is happening is I don't understand the logic of lots of people. OK, so there is always like nude artwork or whatever. Alright, I have no problem with it. And a few people do, but as long as the piece doesn't look sexualized, most people will think of it as art. They won't throw some hissy fit about obscenity and objectification of the female body. (Let's face it, most of it is women.) Um, did I miss something here? Isn't the female body being objectified for the sake of art? Yes. Yes it is. Try to argue otherwise and you'll probably sound dumb. . . but you can try. So what? Now it's ok to objectify oneself for art but not for sex? 'Cause, face it, these same people who will like nude figures in art will be all up in arms if you show them some soft-core porn where the woman has a bra and panties on but is posed all sexual and her nipples are hard. I'm not kidding. Show these people real porn and they'll be all, "stop objectifying women!" "This is smut!" "Women's rights" "blah blah blah." Objectification is objectification. And if no one is coerced into this "objectification" I don't care if they are nude so men and women can look at them and go "hmmm. . . I love the way the light bends across the breasts here." Or so men and women can look at them and go "Wow, that's hot. I'm gonna masturbate now." Your body is being used for something apart from your mind to pleasure other people in either of the situations. And they are the exact same thing. I really want someone to argue with me. If you hate them both, ok, fine. If you like them both, ok, fine. If you are against porn but ok with nude art, you're stupid.

It's the same thing with manual labor even. If you need to make money, and you are strong, you are going to go be a mover or a construction worker or something. Your mind is not involved in this in any real way. You want money, you use your body. So, if someone who is hot, not necessarily strong, needs money, why can't s/he pose nude for someone? It's the same concept. It's just that everyone's afraid of sex. We live in such a sex-negative country. I don't understand why. There is nothing wrong with talking about sex. (In fact, there's something right in talking about it. Talking is the only way people can become informed. Information leads to well thought out decisions. Well thought out decisions are just better than decisions which are not thought out.) There is nothing wrong with nudity. Everyone has a body.

Probably it's Paul's fault. Why that man got to write half of the bible is beyond me. The man is asexual. And some people are asexual. That's fine. But don't expect everyone else to be. Just like if you don't like the taste of chocolate. . . well, many people, myself among them, are gonna disagree with you. Chocolate just tastes good. (hmmm. . . . dark dark chocolate. . . ) So, Paul, with his asexuality, somehow convinced us all that bodies are bad and disgusting. If bodies are nasty, how come Christ had one?

Then this leads us to the whole Christ never had sex. . . and if you're Catholic to some weird "neither did Mary" argument. First off, why wouldn't Mary have sex? If Jewish people were commanded to procreate, uh, I think Mary and Joseph would've had sex. And about Christ. So what if he didn't have sex. Maybe he was asexual. Maybe he was gay and couldn't because then he would be unclean according to Jewish custom. Maybe he knew he would die at age 33 and be unable to provide for a family. Maybe he was just too dang busy performing miracles and being God and what not. The fact that Christ didn't have sex is really no evidence that it's a bad thing.

I love tangents. OK, so what else is dumb about the world? Karl Barth. Well, I don't really know. Tabby knows. I guess there's all these people that don't understand the analogy of being. I will tell you what it is though. I maybe will paint it and scan it in here one day, and I will maybe not. But, picture this. There is a picture and it is pure purple in the center and pure red at the edges. The in-between is fading from purple to red. Get it? (If not, just re-read that until you do.) Now, here is the color code

red = grace/God
blue = nature/the world

So, that is the analogy of being as I understand it. I said so to Tabby and he said "yeah! You get it! That's a perfect description." But then we modified it a little like an hour later to say there are some spots that are redder than the purple around them.

Jesus is impossible to put in the picture because He would be fully blue and fully red. . . NOT PURPLE. Just fully blue and fully red simultaneously. This is why Christianity is like nuts.

I would just also like to say that I am bad at interpreting the world in a standard way. I don't have expectations that most people have. This causes me to not understand a lot of jokes and to often become confused by "human nature." So, I have two examples of what I mean. The first one is a commercial. And there are these cowboys talking all manly about what a tough winter it is and how so-and-so lost half his herd. Then they zoom out and they're both eating these pancakes with candies and syrups all over. And they say "hey hun" (to the waitress they say this. The waitress in the commercial.) They say, "hey hun, can I get some more. . . " And I forget what they say but it has something to do with giggles and happiness and what not. And Tabby laughed. And I said "I don't get it." And he informed me that I don't get things because I never have expectations. He explained the joke to me. These were "manly men" eating breakfast and we zoomed out and they were eating like "girly" foods. So, turns out the commercial was for Denny's. And I guess the point was that if you want "real" breakfast you have to abuse pigs and chickens. How on EARTH, would I be expected to have that expectation? I don't think anyone should abuse animals.

So, I started thinking about what he said about how I don't have expectations and I thought of a really humorous example. It was a PETA shirt and it said "woof, woof, woof" all over it. And in the bottom corner was a pig saying woof. I didn't get it. Christin was the one who had to explain that one to me. She said we were supposed to expect a dog. . . but INSTEAD there's this pig. . . So, it's being all like "we need to think of pigs the same way we think of dogs." I guess the problem is I ALREADY think of pigs that way. (CUTE GIANT LOVEFACES!!)

I think this lack of expectations helps me to appreciate scary-go-round. Most people don't get it. But I get it perfectly. It is always so funny. John Allison is bad at regular expectations too. He just must be. (BUT OH MAN IS HE AMAZING AT GHOST BANDS!!!!!)

I think that is all I have to say for now. I start school again tomorrow. That makes me want to puke. Yucka-yuck-yuck.

Love,
Calla and furry friends.