last cigarette: About three minutes ago.
last car ride: This morning.
last kiss: At lunch.
last good cry: Months ago.
last library book checked out: Bringing Out the Dead. YEARS ago.
last movie seen: Outbreak on TiVO.
last book read: Do comics count? Sandman: Endless Nights.
last cuss word uttered: Fuck. Of course.
last beverage drank: Sugarfree Red Bull.
last food consumed: Pumpkin cheesecake.
last crush: Ian McKellen. Yes, I know he’s gay.
last phone call: Some idiot theatre patron, within the last five minutes.
last tv show watched: Coupling. The British version.
last time showered: Last night.
last shoes worn: My slutty black Candies pumps.
last cd played: Covered in Black: the rivethead AC/DC covers.
last item bought: A venti iced black eye (easy ice) at Starbucks.
last downloaded: Some game demo. I fer’git.
last annoyance: The last idiot theatre patron I spoke with on the phone.
last disappointment: Forgetting to bid on one of redwitche‘s auctions on eBay. =(
last soda drank: Vernor’s ginger ale.
last thing written: ‘VOID’ in red Sharpie on a set of Steely Dan tickets.
last key used: My office door.
last word spoken: “…nun?” – in reference to the Flying Nun being on TVLand right now.
last sleep: Sleep?
last im: I use icq.
last sexual fantasy: None of your goddamn business.
last weird encounter: Two emergency broadcast system tests within 3 hours.
last ice cream eaten: Chocolate Tofutti.
last time amused: Incessantly.
last time wanting to die: I’m not the suicidal type.
last time in love: Always.
last time hugged: Within the last half hour.
last time scolded: Yesterday. I bunged up someone’s tickets and Ted reprimanded me.
last time resentful: Always.
last chair sat in: I’m in one right now: my neck-breakingly awful deskchair at work.
last lipstick used: MAC ‘O’ with Too Faced ‘Drag Queen’ Lip Liar.
last underwear worn: N/a.
last bra worn: Victoria’s Secret something or other.
last shirt worn: Currently wearing one: my glitter New York Dolls tee.
last time dancing: Fuck. Maybe two Halloween’s ago? Been busy. =P
last poster looked at: The T-Rex poster in my office.
last show attended: White Stripes.
last webpage visited: My shop’s site statistics. Wotta voyeur.
Emergency broadcast system tests scare me. That’s saying a lot, because I’m really not afraid of much of anything. A bear entered our campsite a few years back, no problem. Someone broke into my house, I had it under control. Date rape? Broke his rib. I’m not a girl that’s spooked easily.
However…
I was born during Watergate, which plants my childhood firmly in the middle of the Cold War. I am a true Gen X kid, and consequentially my earliest memories are punctuated with visions of “Dr. Strangelove”, “When the Wind Blows”, “Miracle Mile”, and, of course, “the Day After”. I remember standing outside in the schoolyard at recess with a gaggle of my friends – I had to have been all of 8 years old – watching the sky with them and talking about what we’d really see when the bomb hit.
We all truly believed nuclear war was imminent. It sounds silly now, but it wasn’t the least bit amusing then. I don’t think anyone born after 1980 can understand how frightening and hopeless that time period was in many ways. Your childhood should be full of Barbies and t-ball, not daydreams about fallout and radiation.
For me, that sense of apprehension and gloom is encapsulated by one single thing: the sound of an emergency broadcast system test. I was sure that it would be the last thing I’d ever hear.
To this day, the sound sends a shock up my spine.
Too damn tired (again), so I’m just going to (cross)post verbatim from the auction info:
THEME: You’re So Vain
An ecclectic magickal and mundane progressive auction.
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This auction is opening with the following:
A Beauty & Self-Confidence spellkit including:
1/8 oz Radiant Beauty oil
1/8 oz Solar Pride oil
Beauty powder
Beauty gris gris bag
Beauty and Glory incense
Candle dressing
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To be added, as the auction progresses, a selection of perfumes from our Love Potions collection including:
5ml bottle of Maiden perfume oil
A gentle vision of purity, goodness and virtue: white tea, carnation and Damask Rose.
5ml bottle of Golden Priapus perfume oil
Insatiable lust, unending vigor! A truly carnal, energetic men’s blend: vanilla and amber with juniper, rosewood and white pine.
5ml bottle of Wanton perfume oil
Feminine sexuality in it’s rawest form. Palmarosa, red sandalwood, attar of rose, patchouli.
5ml bottle of Lolita perfume oil
Bright, sweet and youthful, but swelling with a poisonous sexuality. Glittering heliotrope, honeysuckle, orange blossom and lemon verbena.
As well as:
Lilith and Eve perfume oils.
Orange blossom and rose Beauty Infusion.
Carnal Lust sachet powder.
Golden amber dusting powder.
A selection of Venusian and Solar herbs: rose petals, mint, jasmine flower, frankincense and saffron.
Consecrated and dressed seashells, sacred to Venus.
A Romance and Passion spell bottle.
Samples of preview scents from our Shakespearean Collection, available retail in October: Tamora, Desdemona and Puck.
7 Day Glass candles, with a variety of lusty sigils and imagery.
… and a veritable cornucopia of perfume blends, potions and magickal mirror-kissing delights.
Members of George W. Bush’s administration leaked the identity of an undercover CIA agent to the press. That agent was the wife of one of the administration’s political foes. Knowingly leaking the identity of an undercover agent puts the lives of the agent and her sources in danger and is a violation of federal law, punishable by up to ten years in prison. Right now, only John Ashcroft’s Justice Department is looking into this. Given Ashcroft’s record, such an investigation is not credible and Americans deserve better.
While the White House claims it will comply with an Ashcroft-led investigation into the identity leak, that is clearly not enough. Sign the petition to demand that Ashcroft designate an independent investigator and that Bush and his administration comply fully and openly with that investigation.
A major public outcry is the only way to end the ongoing cover-up and keep the guilty from going free. Don’t let them get away with it.
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Background on the Leak:
According to Robert Novak, “two administration officials” revealed the identity and work of the undercover CIA operative, which was subsequently published in Novak’s column.
Novak’s column focused on the exposed agent’s husband, Ambassador Joseph Wilson, and his revelation that the Bush administration asked him to investigate the bogus story that Iraq attempted to purchase “yellowcake” uranium from Niger and then ignored his findings.
According to the September 28th Washington Post, a Bush administration official said that two White House officials leaked the information to selected journalists to discredit Wilson. Only Novak was willing to print the information.
(Interestingly, President Bush’s top political advisor, Karl Rove, was allegedly fired in ’92 by George H.W. Bush’s reelection campaign for vindictive leaking to the same Robert Novak. – Esquire Magazine, 1/2003)
The exposure of the agent is so reprehensible that President Richard Nixon’s Watergate-era aide, John Dean, was moved to write: “If I thought I had seen dirty political tricks as nasty and vile as they could get at the Nixon White House, I was wrong…Nixon never set up a hit on one of his enemies’ wives.”
DEMAND AN INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATION
PFAW © 2003
Yesterday upon the stair
I met a man who wasn’t there.
He wasn’t there again today.
Oh how I wish he’d go away.
As you can see, I have a fondness for Hughes Mearns.
Time to go home.
Your meme, should you choose to accept it, is to rank the following bands in order, from COULDN’T LIVE WITHOUT to COULDN’T CARE LESS. To add value to this process, you must also add one band to the list, and remove one band from the list, before passing the meme on (including these instructions).
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
The Damned
David Bowie
Johnny Cash
Nirvana
The White Stripes
Sex Pistols
Fleetwood Mac
The Doors
Duran Duran
Nine Inch Nails
Type O Negative
||::| soOoOoo damn cute |:||
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Whoopee for me. I only work 9 hours in the office today. I might actually be able to recoup a little tonight.
I’m starting a progressive auction tonight on GothAuctions, but I can’t decide whether I should do a Hermetic blends and spellcraft auction or a Vanity set.
Or both.
If you have any opinions or feedback, fire away.
Personally, I think all unfaithful mates deserve to get caught.
||:: betrayal by phone ::||
