The Home Office has just announced its revised plans to keep the DNA profiles of innocent people on the National DNA Database, despite an EU ruling that this constitutes a breach of human rights. The new policy, under which DNA samples can be taken from any individual stopped by police for an arrestable offence, permits retention of these samples for six years regardless of whether the individual was convicted or released without charge.

This directly contravenes the decision made by the European Court of Human Rights in the S and Marper case last December, in which all 17 judges unanimously ruled that the UK policy of indefinitely retaining DNA samples from people who had not committed a crime was illegal under EU law.

The Association of Chief Police Officers claimed that this ruling would seriously limit their use of DNA technology. They therefore advised chief constables to ignore the EU decision, and since the Strasbourg ruling, while the Home Office drafts new legislation in response to the EU's decision, police have added DNA profiles of over 90 000 people who have never been convicted of an offense to the database. Various proposals have been submitted, condemned by human rights organisations, rewritten, resubmitted - and no response to the EU ruling is yet to pass through Parliament. The current set of plans, if passed, are likely to be in contempt of the EU court, and will no doubt provoke another long-winded round of litigation. The Home Office is clearly making every attempt to avoid the strongly-worded recommendations of the ECHR, and while the UK legislators drag their feet, every day more innocent people are added to a criminal database.

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This also happened today:

• 09:08 Walking alongside the river, grey coat open, showing my red/orange top. A robin, startled, starts to berate me; too close to his hawthorn!
• 09:14 A small boat called disco volante; flutter of long-tailed tits; mumble of geese fluffed up for winter; muddy colours on moving water; gulls.
• 14:12 Oops- abrupt silver tide of pensioners just as we're discussing which is most blatant: whale tails, arse antlers or the bumster pantflash?
• 21:12 Combating crepitus of the knee with ibuprofen, elevation and stripy knee-warmers. May also apply kitten or microwavable triceratops later.

As promised, page two of the notes. I was increasingly distracted by the yarn-spinning by this stage, so it's a bit thinner. The gay bingo happens regularly at the ICA, and is (it seems) raucous enough to float up to the ?third ?fourth floor, and occasionally a call intruded a little. We had to leave via the back door to avoid it, later.

The interesting things here (to me) are Eddie talking about how he makes mistakes when talking that he can avoid when the narrative is confined within the frames of a comic; and that small, supposedly unimportant things can still make for legendary tales and astonishing stories.

In other news I've discovered what kitten for "stop eating the kangaroo paw flowers" is. You should point at the kitten and say "joob joob joob joob joob" in an outraged tone. No idea if it works for other cut flowers.

Eddie Campbell at the ICA 2 He was talking about fraud and creative accountancy.

Здание вокзала было построено в 1952 г. Проектировщик извесный архитектор Душкин Алексей Николаевич (соавтор архитектор Аквилев). Запоминающаяся архитектура, растиражирована на всевозможной сувенирной продукции. Это не первое здание вокзала, в 1934 г. оно уже строилось заново.

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Россия теряет памятники истории и архитектуры, они заменяются бутафорией-новоделом или полностью уничтожаются. Есть Свод особо ценных объектов культурного наследия России, но он не включает многие достойные памятники архитектуры. Свод основан не на Законе, а на Указе и хитрых дополнениях.
 "Нужен Закон об особо ценных памятниках России, в котором будет прописано, что если особо ценный памятник в течении полугода после претензии спецкомиссии, ежегодно проверяющей объект, не защищается от разрушения и не реставрируется, то он конфискуется государством и реставрируется за государственный счёт. Таким образом особо ценные памятники либо будут содержаться собственниками в надлежащем состоянии, либо перейдут в собственность государства ...
Предлагается следующий список особо ценных памятников культурного наследия России:
1. Храм Покрова на рву (храм Василия Блаженного) в Москве.
2. Клуб Русакова в Москве.
3. Дом Мельникова в Москве.
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Tomorrow i'm heading down to Falmouth in preparation for my interview on Friday. I am pretty excited about it all now i've got myself a bit organised- it'll be nice to go to Cornwall for a few days.

Things I want to do while i'm there:

buy a local newspaper- look at house/flat prices (renting)
buy a pint of beer
get onto the MA
take some photos
eat a full English breakfast at the b+b

But...before I go to Falmouth I have to do a presentation of my artist book that i've been making. My book is 9/10ths finished, but my supporting work isn't. I have lots to stick into other things and I left my pritt stick at uni. maybe i'll resort to flour and water paste?

also before I go to Falmouth I really want to buy some bright pink tights, but I think i've run out of time for that.

As jinty mentioned, we went to the ICA to watch Eddie Campbell (Alec, Bacchus, From Hell) in conversation with Arnold Brown, two very different individuals combined to shed light on both; a brainchild trick of (Comica organiser) Paul Gravett, Eddie Campbell's The Man at the Crossroads, still striking out towards that crossover comics audience that will (eventually) be pretty much everyone, if he has his way.

A delightful surprise in the audience was Jean-Paul Jennequin, an old contact from the queerzine years, now handsomely bearded and a pillar of the establishment, running the queer comics drop-in at Angoulême. You must drop in if you come next year, he says. Hehn.

In the signing queue, a woman doing her dissertation on autobiographical comics buttonholes us and we talk in odd spikes of thoughts for a bit; representations of friends, honesty, the shock of finding stories that you thought were about you in other people's works. Corinne Pearlman (I saw her on the way in) tells me she mentioned me in a lecture about female cartoonists; or was it just a picture? I don't know. Apparently the filming went wrong on that talk so it won't go on the website. It's Dyke TV all over again, something about me fails to commit to film.

Eddie remembers me (the woman called Jeremy!) from Bristol and I slip him a tiny minicomic. I'd entirely forgotten Bristol; it was quite buried in the memory of seeing him talk at the last ever UKCAC.

Here's the first page of my notes from the talk. The really significant statements are as follows:

[on the advantage an autobigraphical cartoonist has when it comes to coping with strange and difficult experiences] "When I'm in a panic, I can usually stop and figure out what might be useful in here to somebody else."

[on his early days as an artist] "If you'd told me I wasn't a real artist I would have been crestfallen." -- to which Paul and others of his circle replied: "We never told you that."

Page two tomorrow, click to see it bigger.

Eddie Campbell at Comica Lecture notes with false colours Paul Gravett fashion sketch. Alas, I did not get a second look at his amazing shoes...

Being computerless at work is like 'no books day' in school. It's hard to get much done' even phone calls.

Ages back when we started going out, neither s0 or I were comfortable being identified as two halves of something, and we were only ever both amused by couples who proclaimed they were meant to be together, and that their relationships were fate, and so on and so forth. Nowadays, like everything else, the process of snickering at that kind of thing has moved online and become more efficient. The basic precept still holds true. Nobody is ever a missing half of somebody else, and there is no fate, especially not in love, at least not the kind that I experience and that I believe s0 does too.

Love is the terror and absolute helplessness of knowing that somebody else can destroy you with a well-chosen word, or a poorly chosen one, or even just by walking away from you. If you're really lucky, it's also the humbling, crushing realization that you might be able to do the same to them. It's audacious, but there really isn't a choice. Handing over responsibility for large chunks of your emotional well-being to a completely independent entity is wildly risky. There are so many ways to go wrong. But once you do, and once you keep looking after what they've given you, your perception is broadened and widened beyond what just two people can see. I am a better me for s0, and I can only hope that I help her too (sometimes, when I'm not wallowing in self-pity and allowing the dross of the world to get in my way).

We've been together 15 years now, not through the actions of fate or because we're interlocking jigsaw pieces on the craft table of romance, but through the continuously evolving ramifications of the simple fact that we've each given the other something and we hope they look after it. There's no way to force them to, and all we can do is hope they do, and that's really really scary. But that's love between people, not between halves, and there's nothing else worth feeling.

See, if my creepy streak had the tinest fraction more "creepy" in it I would so be photoshopping Jamie's head under Danyl's hands there. D: MAKE IT STOP.

Current Mood: dirty

ALL I HAVE TO SAY is that if anybody starts having thoughts about these two that involve cuddling in the nude and possibly pillowfights and hair-playing, it is THEIR OWN FAULT.



NO SMOKE WITHOUT FIRE.

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I am a 30-year-old woman, married for five years to a man eight years my senior. Lately I have become more aware that I am turned on by the idea of bondage, specifically men locked up in chastity devices. I am ashamed of myself, because it seems, well, pretty perverse and disturbed.
My husband is a pretty dominant alpha-male type. I am a relatively dominant personality, but I’m a bit submissive around him in order to keep the peace, as he will not tolerate any disagreement in certain situations. So I am wondering: Is this new fetish springing from ...

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• 22:50 Just landed in portland. My friend james is a peach and offered to pick me up! #
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Oh, hi! I'm back!

It's been three years since I made an issue of Four Star Daydream. I had the wonderful chance to be in Richmond during the Richmond Zine Fest so I reserved a table and got to work on FSD #10.

& here it is!


Four Star Daydream #10
16 pages // 1/4 size

This zine contains ten one-hundred word stories about my adventures on the road and at home. The intro is one-hundred words, too!
Very simple layout and text heavy.

$1 & a lovely note to:

Fawne DeRosia
P.O. Box 805
Thomaston, GA 30286

I have past issues on Etsy. You're welcome to order those zines via snail mail also!

Trades are welcome!

P.S. How awesome was the Richmond Zine Fest? I enjoyed having a table and being surrounded by other zine-makers (even when my table decided to collapse!).

This also happened today:

• 09:23 When you own a kitten, not only is there no point crying over spilt milk, it becomes a cause for celebration.
• 09:40 Love getting the number 16 to work. I checked on googlemaps; the route's no longer, and I get trees and rivers instead of shops and spires.
• 13:12 In the post office queue. The floor is wipe-clean now, and the bureau de change has morphed into a terrifying biometrics booth.
• 13:18 It's a bit quieter and less scary than it used to be, under the shiny black eyes of the cctv, but no faster. I shall be late back to work.
• 13:29 Had to edit from 'a lot less scary' to 'a bit less scary' as still some tattooed nutjob was muttering and trying to tear up the barriers.

At this time of year I go into dormouse mode, and start lining my nest with things. Shiny things, gleamy things, dreamy things, pretty things, tasty things. Like most British mammals, I don't entirely hibernate, but I like to spend a lot of time in my cosy nest, and I like my cosy nest to be well-lined, like a winter coat.

I think that being surrounded by beautiful, interesting things, things that remind you of good times, mementos and souvenirs, gizmos and gadgets and bit and bobs is deeply soothing --especially when the weather gets grim and going out seems like less and less of an agreeable prospect. You feel set up, taken care of. There's no shortage of entertainment and interest.

This isn't to say that I bring everything home, or that everything I bring home I keep. There's a world of difference between despairing clutter and that excresecence of mindfulness, that fills the homes of people who love stuff.

It's time for late harvest now, time to look at all of those random things that have followed me home in spring and summer, and see what will stay, and what will be passed along. To ask of them the usual questions:

Is it beautiful?
Is it useful?
Does it make me happy?
Is it entirely itself?
Can it be used to make something else?
Will I actually get round to doing that?

And then some to keep, and some to pass on. Some to hold onto and some to let go. Until everything is in its place (more or less) and the whole happy round can start again.

I've been thinking about online democracy a lot since my post the other day. Some of it's pretty exciting.

Mostly I'm just overwhelmed at how big the conversation is. I'm seeing new stuff everywhere I look. I think these next few months, the closing months of the failed New Labour project when no-one really wants Cameron to be Prime Minister, are going to be key for the conversation about democratic reform. I don't think there's time for anything to happen now but the energy is now, before the change happens, when everyone's excited by the possibilities. After the Tories get in I expect the fire will go out of the talk for a bit, but then we have the next four years to actually make something happen.

Anyway, so I've talked about Open Up, and linked a couple of the huge number of blog posts in the wake of the success of the Trafigura/Jan Moir temporary collectives. Seriously, these articles are everywhere. Here's another one. This isn't new, of course: people have been talking about reforming democracy online since Usenet, and I still think of MySociety as the pioneers in using online technologies to improve the quality of our democracy.

But recently ... I dunno, maybe I've just been getting more involved, but it feels like in the last twelve months it's really been gaining momentum. Our Kingdom has an ongoing conversation about democratic reform, and Guy Aitchison, the dude who runs it, is also heavily involved with the Power 2010 campaign.

Then there's 38 Degrees, and Louder, The Downing Street Project ... and that's just in the UK: worldwide it seems that new social innovation campaigns like The Girl Effect and the World Appreciative Enquiry Conference are springing up all over the place. Then there's thinktanks like IPPR which seem to overlap a surprising amount with the grassroots movements. It's inspiring and hopeful - so many people agreeing things need to change, and pouring so much ideas and energy and time into working towards that! - but also chaotic and dizzying. There's just so much of it! To what extent are all these different groups even aware of each other? Are they duplicating each other's work, are they all trying to reinvent the wheel? If none of this has any effect on the current system, is it so much shouting to the void? Are the messages reaching the people who need to hear them, or is it just a big echo chamber? With so many diverse groups, all with their own agenda, won't they just drown each other out? Do we need to get together and find points of commonality? Is that even possible?

Probably not, but today I've been thinking not about campaigns but about the tools they use. Yesterday I was utterly thrilled to read The Future of Politics is Mutual, which is by an awesome person I hadn't heard of before, called Hannah Nicklin. It's on the differences between the traditional press and online media, narrative vs information and the information economy, and the concept of wikipolitics.

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You should read the thread, because there's some really good stuff in there. I've been spamming the thread with comments and thinking lots. Like,

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I don't think we've come close to hitting on the answer on it yet. I don't think a wikipolitics project as described would be likely to have wings: it would probably just turn into a community of hypergeeks bickering over details. I think Wave has the potential to be useful in the longterm but it's not ready yet, and neither is society.

There are a couple of "unconferences" on this stuff happening this week: Open 09 and £1.40. I can't get to either, but I'll be interested in hearing if the discussions went anywhere useful.

I don't know how to harness the energy of this conversation into action. I don't know how to get the disparate online groups to work together. But I think there's something in this, I really do.

I think the only way to fix our current broken democracy is to decentralise it to some extent. I think the internet not only offers strong models for governance in the form of open source ethics and the open source community, but also a unique opportunity for discourse, collaboration and development.

Anyway. This is me brainstorming. Feel free to join in.

Tags: democratic reform, politics

i won a scarf on yokoo's blog - excitement of the day.

otherwise, writing, writing, turmoil.

• 09:20 I have 6 copies of Brainscan 25 left out of the first 75. I just listed one on Etsy bit.ly/18aFkq #
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• 15:42 Aul just sent me a pic of how he is cleaning the basement to make room for my tool bench! I love him and will see him soon. #

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I still haven’t heard back from Amazon after sending them this awesome letter last week. So boo on them.

However, while waiting, I decided to do a little sleuthing. I searched for the name of the press that put out the book in the first place. After a couple of missteps (”Did you put out an edition of Lady Chatterley’s Lover last year?” “This is a doctor’s office.” “So that’s a no?”) I tracked down the publisher and sent him a message. He, in turn, read my blog post and got back to me as soon as possible to let me know that any omissions from the book were accidental and that he was going to print a new, corrected edition and would send me a copy when that was done. I’m quite happy with the result.

I’m not mentioning the publisher’s name because I honestly believe that it was a mistake and I’m not interested in making a further big deal out of what happened. Which means that whoever is ignoring my letter at Amazon dodged a bullet today. A mildly snarky bullet.

Police State UK have just run a special series of articles on public order policing, surrounding the inaugural public meeting of the new MPA Civil Liberties Panel last Thursday.

Holding the Met to account - by me on Wed 4 Nov 2009 at 23:40
The key issue in the wake of the G20 is accountability. Of the 276 complaints made to the IPCC, very few cases have been investigated or upheld. The IPCC has instructed the MPS to discount any complaints where the officer in question cannot be identified. This is enormously problematic: in what appeared to be a deliberate and calculated effort, hundreds of officers removed their identifying numerals during the policing of G20. This alone constitutes grounds for complaint - Paul Stephenson has called it "completely unacceptable" for police on duty not to wear their numerals - but it also allows the IPCC to dismiss any allegations of excessive force made against officers who removed their ID. Any police inclined to use disproportionate force in a public order situation is thereby given a "get out of jail free" card. Read more »

A mandate for change? - by me on Thu 5 Nov 2009 at 18:17
"Today is all about listening to you - we're not here to speak for the Met, nor to defend them," said Victoria Borwick, chair of the MPA's newly convened Civil Liberties Panel, opening this morning's public meeting. The scope of the meeting - an evidence gathering session on public order policing, and more specifically the G20 demonstrations in April - had been unclear to some. Many people had brought questions demanding immediate answers, but instead their concerns have been 'noted', with no clear idea if answers will be forthcoming. Read more »

Whatever happened to peaceful protest? - by Anna Bragga on Fri 6 Nov 2009 at 14:04
After yesterday's inaugural public meeting of the panel, I am left with an all pervading sense of gloom that no matter how well presented our arguments, no matter how much documented evidence we produce (from citizen journalists to accredited professionals), and no matter how many lawyers and experts we bring in, little will change. Read more »

Deterring Peaceful Protest - by denny on Sun 8 Nov 2009 at 20:33
There's been some good news lately as far as the policing of protest is concerned... the well-established public-order policing policy of 'hit them until they stop, then hit them a bit more' seems to be going out of favour. This is certainly a good thing. Nobody likes being hit over the head, and any reduction in such violence is to be celebrated. However, one of the important concerns such violence raised was that people would be (and have been) put off attending protests due to the possibility of police violence - and while this one issue is now being addressed, there are still plenty of other factors being used to deter protestors from showing up to any given protest. Read more »

Damned if they do, damned if they don't - by me on Mon 9 Nov 2009 at 19:16
Anonymity is increasingly difficult to maintain in the UK. We are tracked and recorded everywhere we go, and the police have access to national databases. The basic precautions necessary to try and slip through the net of police information-gathering require a level of personal inconvenience which many would find off-putting. And yet the alternative is being entered into the FIT/NECTU/etc system of harassment; I can see how facing a choice between the two would put people off attending demos at all. Read more »

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Please do create a free account on the site so you can post comments and submit articles. We welcome all contributions from anyone interested in civil liberties in the UK.

Tags: police state, politics

http://cleanskies.blogspot.com/2009/11/cleaning-off-spam.html

Every morning begins with me checking my spam bins. Tedious but true. People who get in touch with my website aren't email experts, and those messages which aren't one-line, misspelt and sent from an unlikely-sounding hotmail address are probably going to be in multi-coloured html and sent to a slightly random address. I exaggerate, but so do my spam filters, and if I don't check the filters, things get lost.

As a person who's written poems and comics about spam, as someone who finds delight in the random collision of words, and has had (over the years) a series of favourite spambots from Nanaimo to Hello/Hi, I'm probably one of the better selections for such a job. But still, the endless run of viagra, violence, fraud, diet, porn and phish grinds me down. It's like taking a dip in humanity's effluent, every morning.

But while I'm fishing the spam sewer for legitimate communication, I take snapshots of the weirder freaks in the stream. Most of them get filed in online communities with names like "spampoetry", but the ones with a side-helping of doodle (like this one) end up in my blogs.

I woke up at 4am last night with my ears ringing and throbbing glandular pain. Presumably I picked up something else at Comiket (it was a very tight room, and we were rather packed in). This morning the malaise doesn't seem particularly worse, so whatever it is, I guess I fought it off at the price of no more than a little disturbed sleep.

Comiket was quite fun; the ICA's a pleasant location (I had beer and a gingerbread man for my afternoon snack!) and it was lovely catching up with various people. The Wetherspoons (UK comics events always seem to repair to Wetherspoons in the evening, we really ought to set up some sort of sponsorship deal) was full of servicemen and women in uniform, who must have come from the morning remembrance events I suppose. At one point someone fell downstairs.

We tried to put the world and our part-time jobs to rights, but I had to leave before any resolution was reached. A bunch more people were turning up just as I went so I expect ait all got sorted out! My best discovery of the day was that if you've forgotten to set up a float for your table, the change machines outside the toilets at Victoria Station will provide.

In other news, MOCCA is shifting to April, reputedly to avoid airconditioning charges, so we need another comics event in June to launch our Whores of Mensa Fabulous Cocktail Party. Any suggestions?

I LOVE THIS MAN SO GODDAMN MUCH



It would be totally awful to have a baby and name it Cary now my surname is Grant, but I genuinely intend to do it one day. >:) My husband is just going to have to change his name to mine. Hawksley Grant HAHA.

Going into town with my mother to get stuff from the library and maybe buy new jeans since everything I own is now two sizes too big. :/ STAB.

Сейчас мы работаем над рабочей документацией 2-ой очереди ЖК «Паркове місто», и конечно шлифуем планировки квартир, которые разрабатывались еще на стадии проект.

Стадия проект, «Паркове Місто» , была нами сделана в далеком, докризисном 2007, когда «глаза покупателей светились оптимизмом, а банки уговаривали взять по больше кредитов…»
Сегодня, из кризиса, покупатель выходит с изменившимися возможностями и запросами.
Как должен отреагировать на эти новые реалии архитектор?

Предлагаем на обсуждение варианты нескольких типов планировок квартир 2-ой очереди жилого комплекса «Паркове Місто» в г. Киеве.



Секция 1.1

Квартира 1А, однокомнатная.
Из стандартной однокомнатной квартиры (кухня + жилая комната) переделали в однокомнатную типа «студио»:
большая кухня совмещенная с гостиной + маленькая спальня.
Какой тип поддерживаете Вы?



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my brother is working on this movie; he is a td at dreamworks.
he worked on this trailer, too; he said it was more of a pain
than the rest of the movie, but i don't really know what that means.
something about shot data.

This also happened today:

• 01:52 Home with a head full of unexpected encounters. A fox gallops across the road. Mist up from thhe river. Nightbus, i missed.
• 11:25 Have/decided it's cold enough for duvet coat. Am on my way to comiket. Have bag full of minicomic making kit as I have suffered maker fail.
• 13:12 In the press of poppies, rain, medals he carries autumn leaves, holds his son's hand. I smile; unconsciously he waves them, like a child.
• 21:30 Three girls in stylish coats take turns to photograph each other in a dramatic alcove. Unseen a brief discordant composition for carhorns.
• 22:38 Charting comiket success by money remaining in wallet at end of day. About 5 down, after burger. Alas only achieved by rudely not buying.

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i found all of the 90's revival episodes
of dark shadows online.
i'm fairly excited. i watched a little of it last night.
my presentation paper is nearly done, i have some gaps to fill in & then i need
to take screen captures of the path and smooth everything over.
i have been keeping track of all the quotes i gather from readings
here. i don't know
how to get rid of that little broken image
but i'll mess with that later. the cats are yawning.

OH GOD will someone get rid of that creepy, creepy rabbit from the Cadbury's Caramel advert? The idea of a sexy rabbit with exaggerated female lips - oh, it's NOT RIGHT!

Not sexy! Bad and wrong and gross!

This week's schedule has been- work, watch movies, etc. Really that's about it. I did two days of work related writing, and then spent a day at the alpaca conference at Farm Fair. I attended some really in depth presentations about birthing alpacas and ended up looking at pictures of alpaca placenta and afterbirth. I'm not joking.

My publishers were in town to release a new book of poetry and so I got a chance to chat with them and meet author Hiromi Goto , whose work I have long admired.

In my exhausted stupor, I watched the Rolling Stone documentary "Shine a light."

This weekend I attended two films at the Global Visions international film festival. This documentary film festival is the longest running documentary film fest in Canada! I saw "Hair India" which about the hair trade in India. Pilgrims travel to temples to have their heads shaved, then the temples sell the hair to international agencies. Working class women go through the hair before it is shipped to international centres, like Rome, to be processed into hair extensions. In the film, an Indian woman in Mumbai had her hair treated and got extensions done. It's a really weird look at culture, hair and social class. Prior to this film, we watched a short film called "Namrata". This film was based on the life of the woman who was the inspiration for Deepa Mehta's "Heaven and Earth." I was very struck by this film.

Today I saw "Transit Dubai", which is about the transitory nature and social classes in Dubai. I've had many friends visit the city and one of my friends is working there now. I thought this film really showed some of the class structure and problems with the city.

I also got a chance to go for brunch with some friends. We just got a Cora's in Edmonton. Cora's is a chain started in Quebec. It has since slowly been spreading across Canada. They serve breakfast food with lots of fresh fruit. We had to wait quite a while to get in, but it was worth it.

Tags: agriculture, edmonton, food, friends, jobs, movies, music

Концептуальный проект, участвовавший в Архитектурном Международном Конкурсе.
www.archproject-style.com/
Qingpu Shanghai 2009
Архитекторы: Соколов Денис, Мартыненко Артем, Лимаренко Ольга.

This is how I feel every minute of every day.

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Ziggy thinks the kitchen is her own personal workout zone. She likes being higher up than everyone else, so she jumps on one of the chairs, then the table, then the worktop, and she runs all the way round the three sides so she can jump on the microwave and then onto the tall fridge/freezer. BUT THIS TIME when she ran in front of the gas hobs the two front ones were on and she burned off all her whiskers on the left side of her face. D: They look like old man pubes now. I might cry.

Oh well, at least she didn't burn her face off or anything...

• 03:35 At the Richmond Zine Fest last night finally started making a list of what to put in a zine about beer. #

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This also happened today:

• 21:31 There's piccolo music playing over the tannoy at charing cross tube station. Also, eddie campbell signed my book and I didn't babble!
• 23:18 Ruffled shirts, chainmail, fishnets, mouse masks, leathers and pink moustaches. Ant people are diverse! I am at an adam ant convention.

INITIATION, the first issue of PRAYERS FOR CHILDREN (a new online journal/gallery curated by Keith Aguiar, Jody Jock, Greg Kaplowitz and Gina Abelkop) is now up for your viewing pleasure! With work by Zee Boudreaux, Roxanne Carter, Juliet Cook, Brian Dini, Mark Oliver Farley, David King, Finley Kipp, Scooter Laforge, Ashley Lande, Matt Lifson, Zachari Logan, Leslie Lowe, Daniel McKernan, Rhani Remedes, Heather Renee Russ, Brenden Shucart, Mica Sigourney, Max Steele, Chad Stose, and Jack X Taylor.

Also on the website is the submission call for the next issue. Get to it!

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& also, available for preorder, Caketrain issue 07

J.A. Tyler’s teeth still unmarked white, Carol Novack’s pretty pink mouth and porky pink tongue, Sarah Norek’s hair slipping from her skull, a welt carved into Roxanne Carter’s thigh, Alec Niedenthal’s ghostly neck and chin, Matthew Curry’s inside-out torso: the seventh presents a bony, bodily form, a disembodied head above its siblings, and we are powerless to thwart its fleshly will. There are other things, survivors: Darby Larson brings ducks and story-doings, Margaret Frozena and St. Teresa of Ávila begin a duel that gives way to a duet, Matthew Derby wields this rake-like thing—but these bodies, strewn all over the issue, often dismembered, dislocated but ever-ambulant—hover still, cloud a land denuded, peopled.

Here is a pic of the cover to FEAR # 1 - 

My NEW Horror zine will be out on Nov.15, 2009!!! You can Pre-Order it on Ebay at -


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i need to get going. write, write.
i have a presentation on wednesday, which will become an
abstract to apply for a conference braxton & i will write a paper for.
i have been dithering, doing nothing, tho
i made cinnayum's struesel coffee cake
& it turned out delicious! successful baking. i'm not good
at it, usually. i'm good at making soup, and tacos. tea.

there is a fox living in the gutter outside our house.
something we see it slipping in & out.

we have to get skype cause braxton has his first job interview
via it. and a webcam of some sort.

i had to buy some books cause the library and no library around here
had angela carter's the bloody chamber. so i also got:

Eunoia
Christian Bök

The Artificial Silk Girl
Irmgard Keun

Madeleine Is Sleeping
Sarah Shun-lien Bynum

"Нижновэнерго" провело приёмку второго этапа реставрации Шуховской башни, построенной в 1927-1929 годах на Оке по проекту великого инженера и архитектора, академика Владимира Григорьевича Шухова.
Последняя из шести Шуховских башен, стоявших на берегу Оки – единственная в мире гиперболоидная многосекционная опора линии электропередачи, выполненная в виде несущей сетчатой оболочки. Это одна из двух сохранившихся в России высотных многосекционных гиперболоидных конструкций инженера В.Г.Шухова, вторая — знаменитая Шуховская башня – Шаболовская в Москве. Шуховская башня на Оке построена через семь лет после башни на Шаболовке и, по признанию западных специалистов, является более совершенной и достойной внесения в список Всемирного наследия ЮНЕСКО.   (Read more ...)

This also happened today:

• 09:14 It's not just me, is it? 'Bake their day' is a rather sinister slogan, even if you're a bakers.

Peep’s sixteenth issue includes the usual slew of rather interesting information and vintage analog clip art.

You can now purchase Peep on etsy.com. Older issues have also been re-listed, so pop over and take a look!

Please send any inquiries to peepthezine@gmail.com. 

See also: 

Peep's official website

Peep's myspace

I got my application form in the mail- all sent off nicely with a special stamp on and some postcards for luck. now i've got a week to wait until the interview- this time next week it will all be over. It's so strange because i've been offered the place already so have told everyone i'm going, but there's this part of me that expects things to change now it's being made official- I keep thinking that maybe they were tricking me and I'm not going to get in at all. Oh well if that happens i'll just have to stay in weston for ever...

I think i'm getting a blister on one of my fingers from typing too much

here's some news for you:



that's where i'll be tomorrow- you should join me.

here's some other news:

I won an honourable mention in a poetry contest

Tags: writing

Plutarch is a cock.

First two essays done, yay!


eta: HAHA GOD I wrote "Plutarch is a cock" and put it in a word file to email to my mum because she wanted to see my essays. Massive panic just now, I had this horrible feeling that's the file I actually submitted. XD D: But it wasn't.