Etymology of Homicidal Prologues

Clean lines scrape past your face into the depth of your relationships
Clean outlines the borders of this morality
It’s nice to finally meet you
In morally neutral terms, “I have committed homicide”

It’s simple
It describes my [re]introduction to you
It’s the conclusion of you
It describes the void I’ll create of you

Murder is messy/obnoxious/exaggerated
Morality meets outrage for the first time
It’s nice to finally meet you
Justifiable in a [temporarily] insane criminal’s mind

Crisp linen sheets become disheveled
Meeting you for the first time reminds me of the first time
Awkward/opaque/homicidal
Romanticized rape fantasies

Meeting you for the first time feels good

Saul Speaks: T(E)=ART

T(E)=ART, energy factored by time equals art
Deep down on the ocean floor a diver came upon a door at the base of a mountainside that stretched into the blue. He knocked three times and waited. Slightly scared, he hesitated before pushing on the door and swimming through. The door shut right behind him as the brightest light did blind him. He closed his eyes then squinted, just enough, so he could see. To his surprise, before his eyes a city that was made of lies was glowing in the distance on a hill that couldn't be.

Could it be? Who'd believe it? Is that all a vision needs, just the sustenance of breath and the hopes of one who bleeds? Is it how we hold our visions, how we tilt them in the light, that allows their possibility to be more than could or might? And what if "might" were possibility not just strength and muscle heap? Or must we muscle possibility to be all that it can be? Make conditions. Fuck conditionals. Manifest your every dream. But then what becomes of ego…


Up above,



the downward beam.

I was just reminded of another ovary violated current affaire! It was only some time before they institutionalized sexism in the most appropriate way ever. Receiving your college degree as a Homemaker...er, domestic engineer? domestic manager? queen of domesticatiion!

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Get college credit for loading the dishwasher (but only if you're a girl)
Posted Aug 24th 2007 1:28PM by Susan Wagner
Filed under: College, Moms, Staying at home, Making a Difference

Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas, is offering a B.A. degree in humanities with a concentration in homemaking. The course, which will include two years each of classical Greek and classical Latin, as well as courses in fashion design and budgeting, will be open only to women.

It will offer a bachelor of arts in humanities degree with a 23-hour concentration in homemaking. The program is only open to women. So, does that mean that men have to give income to their wives for being engineers of the homestead?

In fact, Seminary President Paige Patterson is known in Southern Baptist circles for issuing a statement saying that women shouldn't be pastors and that they should "graciously submit" to their husbands. (How one "graciously submits" is another question. Would I smile and thank him for the great honor of doing his laundry?)

In actuality, If given an economic value of the unpaid labor on women in the household, women would be trillionnaires. Would that really be justified by this institutionalized sexist act? Have they considered legitimizing women with a paycheck for their work at home? Women employed outside the home do 70% of the housework. Fulltime housewives do 83% of the hosehold labor. So, let's logically add it up:

Job Performed
Food Buyer
3.00 (Hours/week)
17.60 (rate/hour)
52.80 (value/week) The value of work within the household per week
Nurse
1.00
24.63
24.63
Teachers/ Teacher's Aide/Tutor
2.00
8.97
17.94
Waitress
2.25
7.58
17.05
Seamstress
.75
10.68
8.01
Laundress
3.00
8.07
24.21
Driver*
3.50
9.71
33.99
Gardener*
2.25
12.03
26.69
Family Counselor*
2.00
17.11
34.22
Maintenance Worker*
1.00
13.40
13.40
Child Care Worker/Nanny
40.00 8.32
332.80
Janitor/Cleaning Woman
7.50
9.77
73.28
Maid/Housekeeper*
2.50
8.42
21.05
Cook
12.00 8.30
99.60
Errand Runner*
3.50
9.01
31.54
Budget Analyst
3.50
26.65
93.28
Interior Decorator
1.00
21.39
21.39
Child Psychologist
5.00
27.79
138.95
Household Buyer
2.00
10.99
21.98
Dishwasher*
6.20
7.45
46.19
Dietitian
1.20
20.68
24.82
Secretary
2.00
12.69
25.38
Public Relations Specialist 1.00
23.19
23.19
Animal Caretaker/ veteranary assistant
1.50
9.28
13.92

We can safely say that the range of income, depending on household size and age of children can range from 30,000-80,000/year. According to an MSN article by Dunleavy, "economists say that the stay-at-home parent who relinquishes a career may lose about $1 million over the years."

Tricky tricky tricky men. Let's have a rock throwing contest at this Patterson character. Pay up or we kill.

Anti-gay, anti-Philippines, anti-"west coast liberals"

While flipping through the channels, I stop on someone who caught my eye. A young, 30-something (36 to be exact) Asian American woman. She wore a brightly foral-colored collared shirt with big hoop earrings. She was presenting on C-Span. "Oo0hhh, and Asian American woman on c-span!" I thought. So, I continued watching.

To my amazement, this Pilipina/pinay/pilipina-american was presenting, nay key-note speaker for the Young Republican Foundation conference. The face of Fox news, columnist, right-winged ideals was starring back at me..but she looked like me. Or, at least someone I could have grown up with...an ate, or "aunty"...

She raged on about the horrible protests at UCSanta Cruz that pushed "the hard working military recruiters" off campus; "they have the right to be there!" she argues. She raged on about anti-immigration laws and the liberal's inability to defend threats within "our own homes".

Anti-gay marriage articles fly through the blogosphere; along with her feelings of "shame for [her] parent's native land" because the Philippines decided to pull out of the war. Along with the barrage of questions, one young woman asks about being a feminist (liberal feminist vs. conservative feminist) and who are conservative feminists to note. Malkin answers, "those like myself, laura doyle, etc..."

Conservative Feminist. Conservative. Feminist. Conservative Feminist?? Seems so contradictory. I don't appreciate conservatives on my ovaries, thank you very much. It hurts my menstral cycles and makes me angry.

On another note, Margaret Cho, dear Margaret Cho had interesting words for her as well:
"Her story reminds me of the documentary by Errol Morris, Mr. Death. Mr. Death is a nerdy electric chair specialist who boasted an expertise on all things related to execution. He was hired by a white supremacist organization to go to Germany and disprove the existence of concentration camps. Dr. Death had never had attention in his life. He was this dorky academic who had spent most of his life under the radar. Suddenly, he was thrust into the spotlight. Never mind it was the gaze of racist, hateful, ridiculous white supremacists, The accolades were no less seductive. It is a tragic tale of a man deprived of recognition to the point where he will attempt to revise history in order to receive some kind of acknowledgement. Dr. Death becomes the authority of Holocaust revisionism. He serves the white supremacist agenda by backing up their hokey theory and he gains redemption for his years as a who cares nobody. Who could blame Malkin for wanting to follow in those footsteps?

The terrible thing about invisibility is the lengths that we will go to in order to be seen. If spouting racist propaganda and being a tool for the conservatives are worth the right to exist in the monochromatic world of right wing political pandering then I applaud Malkin's effort. She inflames the need to uphold the ideals of equality and fairness, and she puts a new face on hate. I'd be happy to argue with someone who looks a bit like me for a change.

African Americans have Clarence Thomas and Condoleeza Rice. There's a new race traitor on the block, and her name's Michelle!"
(to read more: http://www.margaretcho.com/blog/indefenseofmichellemalkin.htm)

It's disturbing, intriguing, and scary to see someone who looks like you hate who you are.