| Sally Kern. AGAIN. |
[02 Jul 2009|02:32pm] |
It seems that Oklahoma State Representative Sally Kern was not satisfied with her work the last time she embarrassed my state with her remarks concerning homosexuality. She has since drafted her "Oklahoma Citizens' Proclamation for Morality" a big fucking joke that you can read right here at her website. Conveniently, you can also contact her right from her website, too!
Representative Kern,
I am writing you as a native and resident of Oklahoma. I have loved this state and what it stands for in the eyes of the people for all my life. It is from this conviction that I write to tell you that you do not understand what Oklahoma is.
Your "Oklahoma Citizens' Proclamation for Morality" is only the latest stunt of yours that has left a tarnish on our name and made our state the laughingstock of the nation. A bumbling series of misquotes, false quotes and lies, your proclamation ignores and blasts what John Adams held to so strongly in his life -the First Amendment- while simultaneously trying to conjure him up to support you in your clearly anti-Constitutional ravings. I assume you have a staff of interns doing your research for you, finding these "quotes" and information. As a librarian who knows how to perform research and properly take a quote in context I suggest you fire these people.
You claim to represent the morality of Oklahoma citizens with your proclamation, when at best you are representing the ignorance that some citizens wallow in for their entire lives. You do not spread morality. You do not spread religion. You only spread ignorance and hate.
I have held out hope that you would learn from your past mistakes and would do your work as a State Representative without your determined efforts to breed hate and ill-will through our state. Clearly this hope was foolish. At this juncture, I can only in good conscience ask for your resignation as a State Representative effective immediately.
I recognize that you will never apologize for your opinions, and you will never change your opinions. I ask only that you realize your opinions are not representative of Oklahoma. Do not sully the name of my state any further. I will not stand for it.
-Michael Morris
I can't believe she quoted Benjamin Franklin. He's a personal hero of mine, but he was also a Deist and a moral degenerate.
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[01 Jul 2009|01:29am] |
Hey all, sorry I haven't had much of an internet presence lately. I am lazy because the internet connection is so sloooooow here at my mom's house. No, really, you have no idea. We're talking like 8 kb/s at times. What's the point of a 56k modem if the connectivity never hits 28? Bah. My mom lives out in the country, where the best means of internet is still dial-up (yeah, these places exist) over rural telephone lines, so things drag. A lot.
I have job applications going here in Oklahoma, and had an interview on Monday. Four more jobs I'm waiting to hear from. Still no prospects at all in California. Unless one of the more enjoyable, well-paying jobs in Oklahoma is interested in me, I think I'll just get some crap job in CA, stay an ALA member, attend conferences if I can, and hopefully volunteer at a library to keep my resumé alive until something comes around. I know the CA economy is dismal right now, and librarians specifically are suffering job loss/hiring freezes, but I don't know what to do. If I stay in Oklahoma for a job that I don't want, I'm going to be miserable, no matter how much money I've got on hand. Plus, I have a couple of contacts in the Bay area for rare books, so maybe I'll find something with some networking.
I'm feeling run-down about the whole situation, and hopefully getting back to Bloomington on Friday will liven my spirits, at least a little bit.
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| Uncorrected Proofs #5 : I'm writing your name down on every page |
[13 Jun 2009|02:08am] |
( NSFW? comic )
It's been a long while since there's been an UP comic, so finally here's another. It's a place holder, if anything, honestly, because I'm planning on getting stuff out on a more frequent schedule. You'll notice I moved to fonts (more legible than my handwriting) and digital colors. I think I'm going to stick with the monochromatic stuff, but play around with monochromatic color schemes, like Josh Lesnick does for Girly's Pink-o-vision.
This song has been stuck in my head for days, which is not really as unpleasant as it sounds.
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| What are you doing Saturday night? |
[28 May 2009|11:34am] |
If you don't already have plans on Saturday, the Bleeding Heartland Roller Girls are having their season opener bout. It's a double header, so you get two games for the price of one. Details here.
You can come and see me be a referee! Tell your friends, tell your family, tell your family's friends and your friends' families! If you haven't been to a bout yet, for shame! This is the one to come to.
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| On a series of topics- |
[22 May 2009|04:17pm] |
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So, first of all, I graduated with my MLS specializing in rare books. Excitement all around for that one. :D However, in the same day, I attended a burlesque dancing workshop taught by the fabulous Lola Van Ella. She is funny, easy-going and patient, all things you want in a teacher. I hadn't been on heels in the better part of a year and a half, so my feet hurt quite a bit, but other than that, the class was amazing! I don't foresee myself entering into any boylesque troupes anytime soon, but it was fun to have an introduction to the dance and the culture of it.
( on a related note- )
In the same weekend as graduations, I had a small modeling event, too. A couple of weeks before, someone from the Arbutus (IU's yearbook) contacted me for an interview for an article about student jobs. Specifically, they were interested in my work as a nude model on campus. I gave the questions a day of thought, then came back, answered them, and didn't think much else about it until finals week, when they contacted me, asking to get a photo of me for the article. After a few hiccups, we managed to schedule a time for me to come in for the picture. I had been wondering about the format of the picture, because initially they had wanted to photograph me while I was modeling for a class, or even a mock class, but I haven't had time to do any modeling gigs, so I just came into the Arbutus office instead. A couple of days before, the photographer had asked me over the phone about my comfort level of being photographed in the nude, and I assured him that I'd done it before and it wasn't something that bothered me (if only he knew).
I arrived at the office late Sunday night (we had to do the shoot after sundown so enough light could be eliminated to make a figure in a black background with only the light sources they wanted), met the photographer and was introduced to the editor of the Arbutus (who seemed really young, but apparently had just finished her master's degree). She asked if she could come along and watched, and the photographer accepted, so long as I was comfortable. You know I was. So, upstairs in a rather nice office, they had blocked all the windows, moved the furniture and set up some lights. This was the sort of swanky hardwood and limestone office you only see at IU. Behind me were insets in the wall with glass doors, displaying various memorabilia of Ernie Pyle, for whom the journalism school is named. This included an Ernie Pyle G.I. Joe doll, which eyed me warily as I undressed. The editor, photographer and I chatted nonchalantly while I undressed, which was the first time that I stripped down on-site for a modeling gig.
It was actually pretty fun, because the photographer had never actually worked with nudes, but had looked at a few galleries and bounced some ideas for poses off of me. We talked a lot, mostly about modeling, and it was a pretty familiar conversation for me, but they were fun, and genuinely interested. The 2009 Arbutus will feature a vertical picture of me standing, and a full two-page spread of me reclined (both tasteful, i.e., no peen or butts D: ). Probably the best part is during the reclined pose, the photographer kept having to ask me to move my leg down (to block my penis from the shot), and the last time he had to ask he just sad "We have our recurring problem" and kind of waggled a finger vaguely. It was all I could do not to laugh.
All around those events I was staying out in a lovely cabin in Brown County that wasn't so much a cabin as a Farmhouse That Is Way Nicer Than Our Duplex and Has a Living Room That Resembles a Log Cabin. Much better graduation than my USAO one, actually.
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[20 May 2009|03:20am] |
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Hi friends, remind me that I still need to tell you about my experience with the burlesque class and the Arbutus.
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| Writer's Block: Same Name |
[18 May 2009|11:58am] |
There are a lot of people named Michael Morris out there. There were three besides me in my home town, at least two of whom were in trouble with the law on a regular basis. One of them got shot at one point, which caused a great deal of concern among my friends when they heard the news that Michael Morris had been shot while trying to repossess somebody's car.
There was another one at my first undergraduate university, which resulted in a very interesting conversation. A girl called my dorm room to talk to Michael Morris (I had to clarify, because I was living with Michael Rodgers at the time), had almost a ten minute conversation with me about our classes, the start of the semester, etc., etc., and then we got off the phone. Mike asked me who it was and I said "I have no idea." Nobody I knew sounded like this girl, and nobody mentioned calling me. It wasn't until much, much later that somebody realized that all the dorm room phone numbers were in a directory, and I wasn't the only Michael Morris on campus. So, somewhere out there, a girl was convinced she'd had at at-length conversation with this guy that never actually happened. Way to go.
I haven't found anyone named Michael Morris in Bloomington, but I have met a guy named Adam Boyd, which is also the name of a childhood friend of mine.
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| Project! |
[11 May 2009|09:18pm] |
This is easily the biggest sewing project I've tried in my days. It's not really that complicated, just some buttons and hemmed seams. I transformed my referee's shirt into a vest for my derby persona.
( cut for multiple pictures )
Beaming with pride! I can't wait to try it out at the next practice.
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| Uncorrected Proofs #4 |
[22 Apr 2009|09:14pm] |
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X-Posted from the comic's blogspot
A derby comic, finally. This was an actual conversation on the track at practice with another referee. After this incident, I changed from the ball chain I had been using for my whistle to a lanyard I picked up at ALA Midwinter, so my whistle hangs lower and doesn't peg my nipple at every hairpin turn.
This is probably the last comic to be done in this format. I wanted to do a full series of comics in one journal, and at the time I really appreciated that they were on cheap, lined paper, which suits the name of the comic quite well, but I really want to work with better materials, and also just have a larger space to play with layout. This format is very constrictive to what I can do on a page. More to come once I have time (which is to say, after they give me my MLS degree on the 9th).
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| I have been challenged. |
[20 Apr 2009|11:21pm] |
This probably looks familiar to all of you, because I've done it once before, but here it goes again, this time from ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) we_are_pliable We have a brand new edition of fuck, kill, marry. This time, the questionably talented frontwomen of otherwise all-dude 90's bands edition.
The contestants are: Leigh Nash (of Sixpence None the Richer), Saffron Sprackling (of Republica) and Shirley Manson (do I really need to say "of Garbage"?) ( cut for images )
Once again, let me know if you'd like 3.
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| Tweets |
[16 Apr 2009|07:27pm] |
I complained of not having a name yet for my Lilly exhibit on typography, so decided to come up with a few possibilities.
- Words Afire
- A Typeface for Radio
- Goudy Call
- Typeface: The Phantom Menace
- Titular Colonicity
- DB Updike's First Strike
- The Great White Type
- Nicholas Jenson's Muppet Babies
- I Can Has Ligatures?
- Little Dutch Boy with His Thumb Updike
But the winner is:
TRAVOLTA. CAGE. in John Woo's Typeface/Off
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| A brief intermission |
[11 Apr 2009|12:08pm] |
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Natalie frogged a sweater that had a hood on it. She let me keep the hood. This makes me happy.
( Hood therapy )
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| Damn you, brain! |
[07 Apr 2009|08:27pm] |
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Holy crap. Go read this article to understand the full science behind this totally trippy video, and try not to yell too loudly at how crazy it all is.
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[05 Apr 2009|01:09pm] |
I got my list from psychopeg :
1. Comment to this and I will give you 3 people.
2. Label which you would marry, shag, and throw off a cliff.
3. Provide pictures and the names of 3 people.
4. Post this meme with your answers.
She gave me Melvil Dewey (still alive), Maggie Gyllenhaal's character from Secretary and Noah Wylie, since he played the eponymous librarian of the TNT trilogy of The Librarian movies.
( Images with answers )
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[22 Mar 2009|11:29pm] |
Poll #1370181 Derby Bio Pic
Open to: Friends, detailed results viewable to: FriendsWhich picture should I use for my Derby Bio?
( Pictures! )
Here's my bio, by the way:
REFerence Desk was not always the rulebook-wielding man of action on the track. When he left library school, the young, naive Hellvil Dewey had an MLS in his back pocket and all the answers in his head. He could tell you the population of Hamelin, the call number for Slayer and the speed of light. He went out into a world populated by cowardly and superstitious lots, and he knew he'd have to set them straight.
With the secret identity of a jet-setting playboy librarian, he dons the black-and-white alter-ego REFerence Desk to battle ignorance and rule-breaking on the rink! He'll answer your questions and tell you how to format them for APA citation, and this naughty librarian might even waive your overdue fines, but if you cross-reference this Boolean operator, he'll pull you from circulation!
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| quarter of a century |
[02 Mar 2009|09:40am] |
I had a pretty great birthday. After the dirge that was the scourge of February, the first of March went pretty well.
High points of my day:
- Participating in derby tryouts
- Trying on and stuffing a bra, then asking Natalie how my boobs look, all the while talking to my dad on the phone
- Making Rick Bayless's simple green almond sauce in half the time of my first attempt
- Boatloads of Facebook and text messages
- Delicious food made by friends
- emailing with long-lost buddy pumpkin_pantry
- Cutting my hair in preparation for Chapel Perilous tomorrow night
- Laying down next to Natalie
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| to steal: emphasis on Twit |
[22 Feb 2009|04:37pm] |
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Folks with a Twitter can feel free to add me either by searching for my email, name or screen name: reference_desk. I got an account to follow my favorite web comic artists.
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| Uncorrected Proofs #3 |
[18 Feb 2009|11:01pm] |
Okay, so maybe some color commentary this time around. The idea is that as I come into more coping mechanisms and solutions, the color comes back into me, and I'm more myself. Like I said, it's a little heavy-handed. Also, to explain the gum thing, candy cigarettes are a coping mechanism of mine. They make me incredibly happy. Unfortunately, the only ones I could find were Roller Derby bubble gum cigarettes we got at Roller Ball. They don't really make me happy when they taste like crap.
For some play-by-play, I really messed up on the shape of my face in the last panel. I prefer it in the first page. So there you have it.
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