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Tue, 11 Dec 2007 08:14:18 GMT

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I'm Baaaaaack

Wed, 15 Aug 2007 17:08:37 GMT

For now anyway. Not sure if anyone even uses this site anymore, busy pimping their whore asses out at MySpace. (Note: I'm a whore ass too apparently because I joined the craze like the lemming I aspire to be)

Don't know that there is any real news to impart, nothing worth typing anyway. (typing be a painful and arduous task obviously, duh) Some health stuff, but that's patently uninteresting unless your me so I'll restrain myself there. I'm swelling up like a Macy's parade float and why is a mystery beyond my doctors ken. Sorry, had to let a little out, just relieving the pressure.

Trying to get my financial aid fixed so I can go back to school, still shooting at the studio when the urge strikes and there is a need, the urge strikes less and less tho. I'm liking the idea of freelance right now. I'm still; doing photo retouching and digital makeovers here at home tho, so if interested buzz me. I can change hair color( or remove dark roots), add make up ( or remove dark circles and blemishes), or correct bad lighting or some background issues. My rates are reasonable, swear! Gonna get a site up for it.

Caught up on Smallville from last season and was roundly dressed down by my child for being "a nerd, geek, and the biggest dork ever!" for knowing why Clark went all "Bizzaro" at the end. Gotta' love it when your kids hit an age where they respect and admire their CD collection more than their parents. I see pain and angst in our future there.

Duff is MIA, Duff? Un-MIA your ass please. My mind is beginning to atrophy and I need your assistance.

That's about all I'm of a mind to type just now. Wonder if anyone even reads this shit.

Internets!

Sat, 10 Mar 2007 08:32:57 GMT

I have internets again.... this site seems completely dead but... yeah..whatever right? I have internets!!!

I'm employee of the months. Yay and gayness to me! Picture framed on the thingy and everthin'! Means I sold the most shit out of all the shit sellers. Which, either means I'm a good photogfrapher with the ability to speak and count, or a mediocre photog who happens to be highly verbose and rather sharp and deceives the witless into parting with many the Benjamin. Little from column A, little from column B, me thinks...hopes.

HIRING

Sat, 25 Nov 2006 03:28:43 GMT

We're hiring @ the studio. Need someone who can get in there and apply asap. Must start immediately. Female preferred. Call me for details, or email me @ soupysara@gmail.com

It's a TUMAH!

Sat, 25 Nov 2006 03:12:14 GMT

I have a diet tumor or something. I eat like4 bites of any meal and I feel so full Im nauseaus and puffed up feeling....... Yay tumor!

Think before you type..or even after.

Sun, 22 Oct 2006 04:08:22 GMT

There is no excuse for poor spelling on the Internet. It's ok to have no sense of consonant-vowel relations, but for Christ's sake SPELL CHECK! Bad spelling on something that is for public consumption makes you look like a moron...even if your not. Above all it makes me grind my teeth, so shape up.

Here. I'll hold your hand this first time.
http://www.spellcheck.net/

*_{This post spell checked by me, cuz' I'm awfool smert.}

Wed, 18 Oct 2006 05:35:01 GMT

"They always talk who never think."

Mathew Prior

"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them."

George Bernard Shaw

Ruminations

Sun, 09 Jul 2006 01:33:48 GMT

I'd like to fold myself in half, and then in half again. I would do this over and over at a steadily increasing pace until what you saw didn't so much resemble a woman collapsing inward as a flower in reverse bloom. Once I was folded as small as I could be, and now more a chrysalis of human potential then anything resembling humanity itself , I would like to be tucked into a warm pocket of a severely boring but kind person. In the quiet closeness I would think quiet close thoughts, thoughts the cacochony I live now won't allow. Misery would be a distant thought, the kind that seems to be on the tip of your tongue but can't quite clothe itself in articulation. I would travel in the pocket, occasionally poking my sharp edges through the lining so the person did not forget my existance among the fuzz and gum wrappers, the flotsam and jetsam of life and living. Perhaps one day I would find my thinking complete, if such is possible, but I suspect I would be content to end my days in those quiet close thoughts in that quiet close space.

News You Can Use

Mon, 26 Jun 2006 00:33:05 GMT

- Tubal Ligation, while permanent and almost foolproof, allows 1 in every 200 women to still conceive in the first two years. In other words, I may be buggered.

If I am in fact buggered please direct all correspondance to the bottom of Lake Michigan. That is all.

Shmah!

Fri, 23 Jun 2006 05:54:52 GMT

I am happy and ghay. Hell if I know why, but i'm dancing in my seat, singing weirdo songs in funny voices squeezin ppls butts high on life happy and ghey.

So shmah to all who are sad and... not gay.

When mawmas happeh, everbuddy happeh! Do'n you know dat little girleh?

Toasted

Mon, 19 Jun 2006 19:55:53 GMT

The sun is a fiery ball of lobster red bringing pain and needs to be exstinguished. Thank you.

and I have a cold. in summer. how not fair is that?

Voltaire

Fri, 16 Jun 2006 22:25:04 GMT

"Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly."

Local readers

Tue, 13 Jun 2006 22:50:32 GMT

Our representative, Peter Visclosky, dealt a blow to Internet freedom on Thursday.1

As millions of us raised our voices to defend the free and open Internet, Internet operators like AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast spent millions lobbying the House of Representatives to kill Net Neutrality. A majority of the House members caved—voting for a telecommunications law that would give these companies more control over what you see and do online.

All eyes are now on the Senate, which considers this issue next. We face a more friendly environment there, but we've got to act fast—the telecom lobbyists are working on every vote.

Can you call Rep. Visclosky to express your outrage, and then call Senators Richard Lugar and Evan Bayh to demand support for Net Neutrality?

Here are the numbers:

Congressman Peter Visclosky
Phone: 202-225-2461

Senator Richard Lugar
Phone: 202-224-4814

Senator Evan Bayh
Phone: 202-224-5623

Tell your Senators to protect Net Neutrality by supporting the bipartisan Snowe-Dorgan Internet Freedom Preservation Act (S. 2917).

When you call your House member, they may tell you they supported Net Neutrality—do not be fooled. For an entire week before Thursday's vote, they received phone calls from MoveOn members on this issue. As you recall, our email alert said:

House members will be voting on a larger law governing our nation's communications policy—and the current version of this bill guts Net Neutrality. So we must ask every representative to vote against this proposal unless it is changed to protect Net Neutrality.

Some members of Congress were willing to play games with this issue—or treat it like some minor or unserious sidepoint. They voted for a Net Neutrality amendment (which was a good thing), but when that failed they were still willing to support the overall COPE telecommunications law that guts Internet freedom.

When the free and open Internet is at stake, that's a serious issue—it affects everything. Voting for any bill that guts Net Neutrality is absolutely inexcusable.

Thanks for keeping the pressure on Congress as we fight to save the Internet.

–Eli Pariser, Adam Green, Noah T. Winer, and the MoveOn.org Civic Action team
Tuesday, June 13th, 2006

P.S. Here are the relevant votes:

Markey Net Neutrality Amendment:
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2006/roll239.xml

Bad overall COPE telecommunications bill (without Markey Amendment) that passed the House and gutted Net Neutrality:
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2006/roll241.xml

P.P.S. After you call Rep. Visclosky and Senators Lugar and Bayh, are you still outraged?

The best way to fight back after calling Congress is to help expand the reach of our coalition. Ask 5 friends to join our fight for Internet freedom by signing our petition to Congress:

http://civic.moveon.org/save_the_internet/?id=8023-7041537-nB7EOyjrnopWnDc9oIWrPA&t=2

If you are active in local organizations, ask them to join our coalition at:

http://www.savetheinternet.com/=coalition

Tue, 13 Jun 2006 22:14:42 GMT

I've had a cookie, chocolate, AND caffeine today. My sugar is still reasonable and my heart is...still there. HA physical infirmity, I bite my thumb at thee!

! Dolls ! Wisconsin ! Summerfest !

Tue, 13 Jun 2006 15:47:27 GMT

I wanna go, someone else has to want to go too right?

Granted I didn't pick the best night, but it's the only night The Dresden Dolls are playing!

Noteworthy others that day: Pink, Seether, Guster, some popular country ppl.

http://www.summerfest.com/music/day_10.php

I want to go for 8th day. A 2 day ticket is only $23 through Ticketmaster.

Staying for 2 days will mean an overnight obviously, but we can work that out I'm sure. Who's up for a road trip?

Tue, 13 Jun 2006 15:04:03 GMT

Crump. I think I feel a sad coming on.

Quick, say something nice and cheerful.

I need a life

Mon, 12 Jun 2006 20:35:13 GMT

I had written this 4 paragraph post before I realized how drool inducing and boring it was. Gad I need a life.

I need to go back to school. I know the job will take scads of time, but I miss the mental challenge aspect of life. I feel like my brain muscles are atrophying.

I want to have more conversations where words I don't know are used. Not too many mind you, I don't want to go over board and start feeling dim. Just enough to get my standard of living a step or two up from survive.

Yes, self actualization Mr. Maslow.

Stole this, and didn't do it properly either. I'm bad.

Sat, 10 Jun 2006 04:02:45 GMT

There's at least 1 person on your LiveJournal that wants to date you or sleep with you. So, let's play Friends With Benefits! (cue ominous music)

The rules are simple:

*If you want to date the person who posts this -- for this purpose, meaning "be in a relationship with them" -- post a comment saying "I'm yours" (Or, if you're Just That Dominant, "You're Mine")

*If you just want to sleep with the person and stay friends (for varying values of "sleep with", i.e. periodic kinky playdates without actual sex being involved), post a comment that says "I'd hit it."

Are you scared? You ONLY live ONCE! The kicker is that you MUST repost this and see if it's true for you.

All responses will be screened. No one will ever know if you'd do me.

Except you. And me.

Wed, 07 Jun 2006 22:42:52 GMT

Two people I greatly love, and have loved forever, were robbed and tormented recently.

They were woken by a man in their bedroom with a shovel. He said he wanted their money, their car, and their ATM card. He said that they were going to die, and that cooperation would make their deaths faster. He was vulgar and he was taunting of them. These people are so sweet, and so kind. I'd be surprised if either of them have ever cursed in their lives.

These people are in their 80's.

When his back was turned, and his attention focused on her husband who was pleading that they don't have an ATM card, this sweet woman ran. She ran across broken glass barefoot to get out. She ran, bloody footed, down the road to 3 different houses before someone opened the door. She told them a man was robbing her home and may have already killed her husband, please call 911.

While she was gone the man hearded her husband into the bathroom to kill him. Her husband said "Do what you think you must, I'm not long for this world anyway."

The man said "You just saved your life, your not worth my time now." and ran.

He got $400. For $400 he has devastated these people, made them scared to re-enter their own home because he said he knew them. He asked them at one point if they thought e was black. The brave lady said, with the artless, sweet innocence she is known for, "I don't know, but I' not predjudiced."

If you pray, pray for them that the terror fades and their weak health survives this upset. And if you don't pray, plot and think dark thoughts for this son-of-a-bitch. No punishment is good enough, none.

Why do I do these damn things?

Wed, 07 Jun 2006 00:45:20 GMT

I don't usually do these stupid things

Wed, 31 May 2006 07:07:15 GMT

But this one feels like it really encapsulated moi, so I did it any damn way.

You Are a Dreaming Soul

Your vivid emotions and imagination takes you away from this world
So much so that you tend to live in your head most of the time
You have great dreams and ambitions that could be the envy of all...
But for you, following through with your dreams is a bit difficult

You are charming, endearing, and people tend to love you.
Forgiving and tolerant, you see the world through rose colored glasses.
Underneath it all, you have a ton of passion that you hide from others.
Always hopeful, you tend to expect positive outcomes in your life.

Souls you are most compatible with: Newborn Soul, Prophet Soul, and Traveler Soul

What Kind of Soul Are You?

2:30 am melodrama

Thu, 18 May 2006 08:03:20 GMT

Apparently I'm single.

Got some confessions, got some pain, got some fear, got some more pain. People who love me? Love me a lot please, I'm really needing it.

Boozieness is far too fun

Tue, 16 May 2006 22:49:14 GMT

Got so tanked Sunday. Little or no hang-over once I slept about 8 hours. No ramifications and such an overload of amusement could work in tandem to make Sara a alky real damn fast. Party alky though. The thought of being drunk when no one else is sucks. I like how honest it makes me. I was completely not worried about screwing shit up by saying what I was thinking.

As a rule I tend to say what I happen to be thinking at any given moment, but this was like Sara with no barriers. I love you and you knew it, and if you were a plump ex-ballerina with funky moles and a flare for child neglect, well-you knew that too.

And I remember everything. That's great, I can't emphasize how great that is enough. How much does it suck that ppl get drunk and party the asses off and forget? What a rip.

I am only sorry about one thing I did, or didn't do actually. I was not a good friend to someone. That someone did something that she is ashamed or embarassed about now and I should have stopped it if I could. I should at least of tried. I should have said "Close your eyes you assholes!" but I sat there like an asshole myself all googly eyed and amazed. So, to you good friend who deserved my protection and did not get it, I apologize. I will make you dinner or something, maybe cookies too. See, there's a reason I am... horizontally challenged, I compensate with food. (Hey, spouse and roomies of person, tell person I wrote this. I don't think friend gets on here anymore. Thank you.)

Hugs and Shots to all.

Network Neutrality

Sun, 14 May 2006 05:53:36 GMT

I've been following this subject somewhat passively but after reading just a deluge of information today I decided this was a subject that I needed to voice in about.

That said I was reading another bog today and decided he really said it at least as well and likely better than I would. So courtesy of WilWheaton.net here you go.

http://wilwheaton.typepad.com/wwdnbackup/2006/05/why_network_neu.html

For weeks, I've been trying to write about why Network Neutrality is so important, and why everyone who spends even three minutes a day online should be writing, calling, and faxing their representatives in Congress relentlessly until the so-called First Amendment of the Internet is guaranteed and becomes law. But whenever I start, I end up angry and depressed and frustrated, and the words just won't come.

Today, Adam Green has a brilliant post at HuffPo that puts into simple language exactly why Network Neutrality is so important:

As the New York Times editorialized today:

"Net neutrality" is a concept that is still unfamiliar to most Americans, but it keeps the Internet democratic. ... One of the Internet's great strengths is that a single blogger or a small political group can inexpensively create a Web page that is just as accessible to the world as Microsoft's home page. But this democratic Internet would be in danger if the companies that deliver Internet service changed the rules so that Web sites that pay them money would be easily accessible, while little-guy sites would be harder to access and slower to navigate. Providers could also block access to sites they do not like.

If Net Neutrality is gutted, Google, eBay, and YouTube either pay protection money to companies like AT&T or risk that their sites process slowly on your computer. Comcast could intentionally slow access to iTunes, steering Internet customers its own music service. And the little guy with the next big idea would be muscled out of the marketplace, relegated to the "slow lane" of the information superhighway.

This isn't just speculation -- it's already happened in places without Net Neutrality. Heck, AT&T's CEO blatantly announced, "The Internet can't be free."

That's why an Internet revolt has begun--a revolt that [Telecom spokesman Mike] McCurry belittles. Folks as diverse as Craig from Craigslist, MoveOn, Gun Owners of America, Google, eBay, and Amazon are all fighting back. 350,000 people signed a petition demanding Congress preserve Internet freedom, over 2,000 blogs have rallied the public, and even some celebrities are chiming in.

Craig Fields from Gun Owners of America hit the target right-on when he said

"Whenever you see people on the far left and far right joining together about something Congress is getting ready to do, it's been my experience that what Congress is getting ready to do is basically un-American."

(Emphasis mine)

There's much more to his post, including a smackdown of Mike McCurry, who has become and outright lying shill for powerful telecom interests like AT&T who want to force a fundamental change to the way the Internet operates. Please read it. I think it's the most important thing you'll read today, and should help everyone who's heard about this issue (but doesn't know exactly what it is -- which includes a lot of people, including myself until about last week) understand why it's so important.

On a personal note: without the Internet, I'd be just another failed actor struggling to make ends meet. Because I had the same ability to put together a website and reach an audience as anyone else, I was able to put my words on your screens, and eventually into a book that got into many of your hands. If AT&T or some other big telecom decided that regular guys like me had to pay some sort of protection money to have the same ability to reach you as Google or MSN does, I never would have been able to get WWdN off the ground, much less found Monolith Press, publish Dancing Barefoot, and start an entirely new career as a writer.

We've all taken for granted that we'll have equal access to the Internet, both as consumers and as creators of content. Right now, very powerful, very greedy, and very un-democratic businesses are trying very hard to take that away from us. They must be stopped.

Again, Adam Green:

The only way to protect Net Neutrality is for Congress to take action now, as it re-writes our nation's telecom laws. Senators Olympia Snowe (R-ME) and Byron Dorgan (D-ND) and Representative Ed Markey (D-MA) have introduced legislation to do this. Mike McCurry and his clients like AT&T are fighting it tooth and nail.

If you are outraged, don't just sit there . . . take these steps:

1. SIGN a Net Neutrality petition to Congress:

2. CALL Congress now:

3. BLOG about this issue, or put the "Save the Internet" logo on your Web site:

4. MYSPACE: Add "Save the Internet" as a friend:

5. WRITE A LETTER to Congress:

See what I mean? Saved me a hella lot of typing too.

Ok guys, there's the starter's pistol. Off with you! Take action and Learn more about how this affects you. This is one internet debate and one internet poll where we actually have a voice.

Internet,

Sat, 13 May 2006 01:48:34 GMT

she has returned. I can now be bored while tying up my phone line instead of being bored re-reading a book for the 4th time. Huzzah!