work begins now, with the end of this post is also the real ground breaking. check in soon.

i don’t intend to offend anyone by refusing their help and i find it, to use Divine’s own words, repellent when someone would get fussy over my doing so. i’m sure you’re aware that what you did tonight fell into just that category, but that isn’t the only violation i feel you dished out.

in the interest of not only making my self clear and understood but also to allow you no excuses to make those mistakes again, i have a nice, if very short, list of trespasses you committed in less than five minutes.

the foremost of these items is the statement you made regarding putting myself in “degrading situations.” i might have little self esteem but the choices i make i own. i have never degraded my self. i’ve sold my body for money, i’ve shoplifted food, i’ve passed bad checks, i’ve eaten food other people have tossed out, i have done or will do– should the environs submit– anything in the name of survival. we are at heart animals. we’ve domesticated ourselves and raised our offspring in the sanitized sprawl known as suburbs but put any yuppie on the street with no money and he will do what ever he can to stay alive. as humans we vie for happiness or to at least define it. independence is my bliss and i’ll follow it to the end. it will never be your place to decide for me what is degrading, those opinions are out of your bounds. clear?

and what is this about you consistently being in such a superior position that you can help me out? what, is this pretty in pink? i’m not a dame in distress. i’m sure it is becoming clearer that my stability isn’t in question. i forgive that you find money and materials to be of such high value but i’d rather cut everything from my lower torso down off than share them. don’t push your almost fascist form of capitalism onto me, there are better things in life.

and how fucking dare you belittle the validity of my decisions by saying something to the effect of i’ll do anything, say anything, or make up anything to be right. if i am right often it is because i care enough about that aspect of my reputation. choosing to live in my car might not be the right answer for you but it isn’t your question to ask. i’ll save money and make a point. we must be the change we seek out. if by making whatever statement i want to make and if only 5 people know the idea behind them, i have done better than quite a few of the people i know.

in summation i can only hope you feel like a genuine ass hole.

stoddard king, the drama in distress
five broadway plays may be closed by the district attorney.–new york theatrical item.

the country’s boasted freedom is a bubble,
was it for this our fathers beat the drum
and bore the musket with no end of trouble?
great pan is dead! true art is on the bum.

when managers spend money without stinting,
masters of stagecraft take a world of pains,
press agents keep the presses busy printing,
and playwrights add the benison of brains;

and when, at last, they fuse these various factors
in a triumphant symphony of smut,
shall cruel law deprive the needy actors
of their fine jobs, and bar the stage doors shut?

not while we intellectuals have our voices
and can denounce the censorship of shows.
we shall, by clearly stating what our choice is,
make the skunk cabbage sweeter than the rose.

you say the public yearns for more tabasco?
then let them have it, give the folks their dirt.
fear not the las, bill brady and belasco–
we will stay with you to our final shirt!

the tracklist of people they admire:

1. "Roses and Teeth for Ludwig Wittgenstein"
2. "Steam and Sequins for Larry Levan"
3. "Tract for Valerie Solanas"
4. "Public Sex for Boyd McDonald"
5. "Semen Song for James Bidgood"
6. "Snails and Lasers for Patricia Highsmith"
7. "Germs Burn for Darby Crash"
8. "Solo Buttons for Joe Meek"
9. "Rag for William S. Burroughs"
10. "Banquet for King Ludwig II of Bavaria"
11. "Kendo for Yukio Mishima" (Japan-only track)

as you can see, she’s young at heart.

also, got a new flask, photo to follow if you cross over.

MIDDLETOWN — Despite a well-financed campaign supported by some of Middletown’s most prominent citizens, a proposed 0.75-percent income tax increase could not overcome voters’ lack of confidence in the City Council and the uncertainty of the 253-day lockout at AK Steel Corp.

What next? Middletown ponders future

more after the jump

Middletown Journal continues

Had voters approved the proposal, it would have generated $9 million annually and raised the city’s income tax to 2.25 percent — one of the highest rates in the Miami Valley. It would have cost a resident making $40,017 about $900 a year.[...]Becker said he plans to proceed with the budget cuts that were announced this fall, which include closing two fire stations, reducing police staff and keeping the city’s two municipal pools closed.

As a blogreader said: “theres’ no reason armco couldn’t settle their differences long time ago instead of being hell bent on union busting and in the end city busting.” cite.
At a previous council meeting: