| I know it's not my birthday yet, but... |
[08 Nov 2008|05:45pm] |
Right. My birthday is a crappy day in history.
You know those little books that you get that say "On this day in history..." and they tell you what famous people share your birthday, historical events, inventions patented... all that kind of stuff? Well, apart from the Queen Mother's birthday - which is slightly cool, but she's rather dead, these days - the only stuff of note that happened on my birthday were WWI starting (woo!) and Ann Frank being captured (hoorah!).
Until I read something in the paper today that changed all that.
Guess who I share my birthday with?
(I will post a real entry about my life soon.)
|
|
| You know you're the child of a quilter when... |
[18 Sep 2008|01:14am] |
... in return for helping out with a charity that gives quilts to premature babies and kids in women's shelters, your mother lets you have a mini rotary cutter and make-shift cutting board that someone has donated.
A mini rotary cutter! I feel like a wizard's apprentice. One day, I'll earn my stripes and get a proper, big, grown-up lady one... *sigh*
|
|
| What is the world coming to? |
[18 Jun 2008|01:42pm] |
I had a message from someone today which included the sentence:
"wow using capital letters for proper nouns - that's what i call making an effort!"
My left eye starts twitching and the rage builds. No, it's not an effort. It's the proper use of language.
Hello, my name is Lynn Truss...
|
|
| The Perils of Answering the Phone at your Parents' House |
[23 May 2008|08:41pm] |
Lily: Hello?
Caller: Hello is that [Lily's mother]?
L: No, it's Lily.
C: Oh, hello, Lily, it's Bunty*. Is your mother there?
L: No, sorry, she'll be back just after lunch. Can I take a message?
C: Oh, right... you see, I was just ringing to ask her about The Cosmic Wonder... but it can wait until this afternoon. Thankyou - bye! [click.]
My mother knows about this wonderful thing called The Cosmic Wonder? The meaning of life? The true nature of god and the universe? She's running a helpline to spread the joy of enlightenment, now?
No. The Cosmic Wonder is a quilt with silvery bits on. It hasn't stopped me calling her Swami Mum all afternoon, though.
*I don't understand that name. What kind of name is 'Bunty'? And what is it short for? Buntabelle? Bunticia? The mind boggles.
|
|
| New Icon... |
[23 Apr 2008|07:54pm] |
... because I need the distraction.
Slight reminiscent of the icon of someone else on my friends list, I have just realised, this pic was suggested by ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) debsworld and seems apt enough.
But why does it look kinda... fuzzy? You can tell I'm not that great at this game.
|
|
| Petition |
[08 Mar 2008|02:02pm] |
I've just tried to email this round but my address book is wildly out of date (so some of you may get an email three times, others not at all). Please have a look. Originally sent by Ana Lopes (of the International Union of Sex Workers).
note: you must be a British citizen or resident
We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to reject
proposals to drive prostitution further underground by
prosecuting clients of prostitutes; to endorse the policy
suggested by the Royal College of Nursing, the National
Association of Probation Officers and others by decriminalising
prostitution; and to observe Council of Europe Resolution 1579
of October 2007.
Criminalising clients means: Street prostitutes revert to
darker less safe areas * don't carry condoms (as used in
evidence) * they have little time to appraise clients and weigh
up risk * dispersal breaks up informal networks, needed for
protection, and inhibits health services' ability * trafficking
victims are less likely to be helped * prices have fallen so
they have to work longer with more clients, and accept clients
+ acts they would have rejected .
We call upon Government to decriminalise + to comply with
Council of Europe Resolution 1579 (Oct 2007), specifically:
"…avoid double standards + policies which force prostitutes
underground or under the influence of pimps..; instead...seek
to empower them..by..refraining from criminalising…prostitutes
+ developing programmes to assist (them) leave the profession
should they wish to..;…ensuring prostitutes have access to safe
sexual practices...respect the right of prostitutes who freely
choose (prostitution) to have a say in.. policies..;..ending
the abuse of power by the police + other public authorities
towards prostitutes.."
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/sexworkers/
FORWARD WIDELY
|
|
| More sexy geek stuff |
[29 Feb 2008|02:03pm] |
My friends know me so well. Here is the latest offering from my favourite cool geek friend. He decribed it as "the best site on the internet... for you".
It's not explicit, but not really safe for work if boobs offend. Clearly a joke, but you know someone is jerking off to it... it's very cleverly done. I love it.
I give you...
http://eroticfalconry.com/
|
|
| Dumont gets cross. Again. |
[20 Dec 2007|07:16pm] |
Grrrrr!
Just when things were very, very slowly inching towards something sensible (allowing two sex workers to operate from private premises, rather than just one, etc), first we get the Scottish kerb crawling law and now this from Harriet Harman:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7153358.stm
I know it's a very thorny issue and I'm not sure I have 100% made up my black-and-white mind, but surely if her sole aim is to protect women, criminalising prostitution is about the worst thing she could do? I try not to be cynical, but sometimes things like this make me wonder if it's not about women's safety at all. Moral purity, anyone?
*fume*
I know I'm the world's most rubbish person at writing letters, but really, this time... Grrr.
|
|
| The event I was supposed to speak at... |
[30 Oct 2007|08:02pm] |
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/theatre/2007/10/stripping_away_the_myths_of_bu.html
And I have to say I'm glad it actually took the whole thing rather more seriously than some of the burlesque debates which seem to be cyclical and wooly. I love doing burlesque because of Julie Atlas Muz, Ursula Martinez and Bearlesque. I HATE burlesque because of the newer "cashcow" element - of having watched (OVER and OVER) the same old performance of the same old corsets singing the same old version of "Fever" or "Hey Big Spender" and showing me the same old tassels. At the risk of being curmudgeonly, in my day, burlesque was as much saying something (even implicitly) as it was being entertaining (as all good entertainment does, I tend to think). If you remove one from the other, though... it just gets boring and doesn't achieve anything.
I'm being pompous and santimonious, I know. It's just a sad day when the burlesque dancer hates burlesque.
|
|
| Leo: |
[12 Sep 2007|11:32am] |
Can you feel the moon tugging at the fluids in your body? Usually, you can't. Are you aware of how large-scale cultural influences affect your day-to-day rhythms? Again, that's typically beyond your capacity to sense in any immediate way. But this week, you just might be able to do both of those things. You're more attuned than usual to the subtle currents that are unfolding within you. You're also more alert to the impact that big cosmic energies and long-term historical trends are making on your unconscious mind. I advise you to take maximum advantage of this extra sensitivity. You could discover important clues about how to position yourself to thrive in the face of upcoming social transformations. (P.S. Listen reverently to the secrets your body tells you.)
Hmmm...
|
|
| Leo: |
[05 Sep 2007|11:56am] |
'"Success is dangerous," said Picasso. "One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility." Sorry to start your horoscope with a warning, Leo, especially given how much beautiful success you've generated recently. But the astrological omens suggest you may soon be tempted to turn your spontaneous outpourings into pat formulas. And that would be a shame. There's still a lot more fresh hot mojo brewing within you, and it'll reach its highest expression if it keeps surprising you. Trust what's fresh, uncategorizable, and at the frontiers of your understanding.'
I need to get a move on with my "fresh hot mojo", I think. Make sure I keep stoking the fire... Hmmm.
|
|
| Belated Art Pics |
[31 Aug 2007|12:51am] |
I never got round to posting these - I exhibited at the Festival of Quilts at the NEC this year (oh yes, I'm just that cool) and as these are my first and second quilts respectively, to get an average set of marks from the judges (they liked the cot quilt more than the bed quilt, the latter of which worked better in my installation than on its own) was quite an achievement. So yes - none of my more intricate, small-scale, cross-stitch stuff, but.. here you are.
|
|
| Even though I just had a birthday... |
[10 Aug 2007|12:59am] |
... I was IDed for cigarettes today.
Apparently, I look 15! I know I shouldn't have, but I smiled and handed over my driving liscence with the words "I turned 24 last week..." and quickly added "It's fine - I get this A LOT...".
So even though I live a slightly madcap, not-healthy-enough lifestyle, I still look nearly 10 years younger.
That said, life is shifting up a gear or three for the next 3-4 weeks so... I wonder if I'll look so fresh after that...
|
|
| It's my party and... |
[05 Aug 2007|01:20am] |
I just want to say a big thankyou to all those who wished me a happy birthday, on and off LJ.
Was a typical tokenistic day, but not unpleasant. My dad got me a magical invisible pony and he says it's in the garden... but I can't find it to play with it. I hope it doesn't escape... as I'm not sure I'd know. And what happens if I tread on it on my way to the compost bin? Carnage. Invisible pony-blood on my hands.
Here's to another year, to the upcoming filming and fringe festival, to the wishes I made as I blew out my candles and to that lovely, invisible, magic pony.
xxx
|
|
| Lily D in National Dress Shock! |
[11 May 2007|01:02pm] |
I shall, all being well, be wearing a cap and gown this summer, which is obviously a grand occassion and, while it's a bit silly and pompous, I quite like dressing up in silly outfits (I'm a burlesque dancer, come on...) so I'm looking forward to it.
Reading the guidelines and so on for the day, I find out that graduands must wear, under their robes, smart dress ("shirt and tie or female equivalent") OR they can wear their national dress. National dress! That's double the dressing up fun! Can you imagine?! So I went to look up what I could, potentially, wear.
ENGLAND HAS NO NATIONAL DRESS.
The cheek! I'm not a particularly patriotic person (the English do have a rather shameful past or invasion, slavery, empire-building and general mean-ness) and I get a bit uncomfortable when the football is on and people have those little St George flags on their cars as it makes me think about the BNP and neo-nazis and stuff. But Scotland gets a national dress (even if pervs like princealbert make themselves rubber ones and stuff) as do the Welsh and Irish. I think we should have one, one that recognises the nice things england has done. It's a bit difficult as I prefer to be all inclusive and think of myself as British but I still think the English are missing out on a shitload of dressing up and that's just not fair.
All we have is the beefeater costume for the blokes and Brittannia for girls. And they don't really count. I WANT A NATIONAL DRESS. Something that honours the history but celebrates modern britain (as we'd be making it now). I think I'm going to go on a mission to get a national dress. It's a bit of a scary thought as I think a load of scary royalists and aryans might get on the bandwagon but... I want to wear a new outfit!
So. People. Suggest things. What should England's National Dress be? Different for women and men, variations on a theme? Should we go historic and kind of... rural pagany? I read something whilst trying to find out what our dress is that the problem was our class system as peasant stock would wear very different things to the middle classes... Maybe it should be made from fabric that's native to England? Or... coloured with natural English dyes? Or flattering to the English body-shape? I think there should be a head-dress or hat involved too.
Help me do this! I'm going to write some serious letters when my exams are done, I'm telling you right now...
|
|
| navigation |
| [ |
viewing |
| |
most recent entries |
] |
| [ |
go |
| |
earlier |
] |
|
|
|
|
