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Free Sneak Preview of New Season of Dexter

by Amelia G : September 16th, 2008

Like a lot of people, I went through a brief phase where I read various serial killer books. I never got the whole thing of glorifying serial killers, however, as most of the real life variety appear to be enormous losers. The serial killer concept is of someone who is empowered, but actual serial killers tend to be anything but empowered. Nonetheless, I did read a number of the novels with fictionalized murderers and liked some okay. I’m uncomfortable with bad things happening to good people, so this somewhat limits my ability to enjoy the genre. I read A. J. Holt’s Watch Me, found it absolutely delicious and unexpected, and pretty much stopped picking up that variety of thriller.

I’ve got a soft spot for whatever the term will eventually be for long-form cable television shows which emphasize quality, character, and complex story lines. So I gave Showtime’s Dexter a chance. If you have not caught this terribly fun show yet, I’ll give the overview without spoilers. In the first season, we meet Dexter Morgan, whose day job is blood spatter forensics for the Miami PD and whose nighttime avocation is meeting out justice. In the second season, we see what happens when there is a romantic triangle featuring a nice girl who knows nothing of Dexter’s hobby and a crazy bad girl who would not mind dating a killer.

The dialog is snappy and the story lines are very tidy and satisfying. Among other things, the show explores themes of alienation. The scenes are darkly hilarious where Dexter, while thinking very abnormal thoughts, fits in fine at his normal job with normal fuckin’ people. Michael C. Hall, best known for his portrayal of David Fisher on Six Feet Under . . .

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• 15:29 Wow, up and almost at ’em. Only 3 1/2 hours after my alarm. This kinda sucks. #
• 15:31 @clubmix1996 bark bark?That is surreal. #
• 15:32 @ashleysteel Disaster day in LA-la-land, ugh #
• 15:36 @fraying I recommend getting a night guard for your teeth from dentist, unless you don’t dream like that often. $500-800 & they rule pain #
• 15:37 @violetblue Best wishes #
• 15:39 @JasonCalacanis Thank you for the mortgage point! I though high risk for high profit was the game w/o whining when payoff is not there #
• 15:41 @valerielane I don’t see why not, so long as it was not constant #
• 15:46 @Weebeasty Espresso grind #
• 15:52 @Very_Wiley Err, thanks. Me want cookie. #
• 15:58 @lamaupin Welcome oh texatable one #
• 23:45 @mollycrabapple self-actualized individual can empower herself through any activity. Only spitting up someone else’s empowerment is fake #
• 05:36 Oh great, I’m awake again. Sleeping two to four hours at a stretch is my fave. This week is so busy too. #

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Is everyone I know unhappy and/or freaked out this month?

I feel like I can’t write about anything which frightens me. I’m probably just feeling a little scared because I read too much news the last couple of insomniac days.

Hopefully a Tofutti cutie in lime pie will cure all.

I hate those body issues quizzes where they ask if you eat for comfort. I mean, DUH!

• 04:41 Watching 2nd half of Carlito’s Way. Eating bagel and salmon, no cream cheese. Eating brussel sprouts w/goat cheese. #
• 04:42 Wishing I could sleep through the night correctly now. I got up at a reasonable hour & stayed up until bedtime and that is supposed to work. #
• 04:46 Wrote about Ultimate Surrender Championship tinyurl.com/56v7yf #
• 04:47 Posted gallery of hot wrestler chicks tinyurl.com/5e3cbk #
• 04:47 Wrote Marquis and Kink Partner to Distro White Room tinyurl.com/5nkya6 #
• 04:48 Wrote Punk Bubble Bath tinyurl.com/5ama6c about Mr Unstable & Federal contracting #
• 04:52 Had trouble writing all week because I was stuck on 2 big projects but now it is flowing again. Wish I could sleep though. I’d be brilliant. #
• 04:53 Kind of bummed myself out writing the funny Punk Bubble Bath tinyurl.com/5ama6c What I wrote is too true even if my work is cool now. #
• 05:06 Does someone who really understands capitalization want to school my dumb punk ass in bizniz? Dinner is on me. #
• 05:07 MySpace capitalization tweets making my exhausted brain ache more. Back to (probably doomed) smack dealers on TiVo. #
• 05:55 I wish I could find my eye drops, but I’m too bleary-eyed to located a small clear bottle. #
• 07:34 @ForrestBlack @funkatron I’m awfully verbal today for being pre-verbal as I spiral . . . #
• 07:35 @ForrestBlack You should offere to photograph that for them. Fix the rift in the fabric of space, time, and sports #
• 07:37 I need nail glue #

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Punk Bubble Bath

by Amelia G : September 15th, 2008

A while back, I asked the Blue Blood boards Have you ever been fired from a job? It probably comes as no surprise to anyone that most of our members are extremely talented and conscientious and hardworking, yet have personality, err, quirks which make it hard to always fit in at a job.

I know my personal experience of working in other people’s offices was that everyone always adored me for the first two weeks. I did a lot of contract design work where I would get called in when everyone was crashing on deadline, and horribly behind, and I think I got love for saving the day with my efficient work processes. Unfortunately, after about six weeks in any of these offices, I would start contemplating the fact that I wouldn’t have to go to work if I drove off the road on the way. I also had the tendency to have trouble with some of the social portions of work.

Running my own media empire, I have become more reserved over time, but I did not used to really have any comprehension of corporate culture. I mean, I could wear a suit and twist the colored parts of my hair under and pin them down, but I was still me. I would cheerfully explain to my coworkers that I thought health insurance was the big lie the overculture used to force us to live small lives. I would explain how I lived in a punk rock group house with a dozen other people, so my occasional corporate paychecks went really far, and I could afford to spend a lot of my time having adventures. I would bring in copies of first my antisocial punk rock humor zine BLT aka Black Leather Times and . . .

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Marquis and Kink Partner to Distro White Room

by Amelia G : September 14th, 2008

Speaking of the folks over at Kink, they have also recently partnered with Marquis to distribute Peter Czernich’s White Room series via their Kink on Demand service.

Blue Blood readers are probably familiar with Marquis’s flagship glossy fetish print magazine through Forrest Black’s and my contributions and Big in America column for the past eight years. Marquis launched after the late lamented <<O>> Magazine folded in 1994 and later added everything from events to latex sales to books to videos to a naughtier sister magazine called Heavy Rubber in 1997. I think Peter Czernich may have been doing his extremely fetishistic White Room series, on video and in images, since even before he started doing Marquis.

At any rate, this is serious rubber fetish play and it is now possible to view it where you can purchase just one scene at a time via Kink on Demand. Says Kink’s John . . .

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Ultimate Surrender Championship

by Amelia G : September 14th, 2008

Season 6 of Ultimate Surrender just started, hot on the heels of this month’s Summer Vengeance Championship bout between ex-Marine Dia Zerva and sexy tattooed Syd Blakovich aka The Hungarian Nightmare. I guess I should back up a bit and explain what exactly Ultimate Surrender is.

Ultimate Surrender bills itself as a “competitive sexual female wrestling site”. Now there have been cat-fighting sites on the internet, pretty much since computers started vaguely being able to communicate with one another, but Ultimate Surrender takes it to another level. There have been sites where hot women wrestled, either naked or clothed. There have been Geocities compilations of stills from movies where chicks kick ass. But nobody really went all the way to do erotic combat right until the folks at Kink did it.

The thing I really like about all the Kink sites is that they really understand the fetishes they cater to and attempt to actually fulfill them. For example, their first site Hogtied did not just feature bondage and BDSM, but went the distance to show forced orgasms. And, let’s face it, it is not just the intricacies of the rope work which are hot, no matter how pretty shibari can get.

Kink started in 1997 with Hogtied and has since branched out with quite a number of sites, Ultimate Surrender launching in 2004. The basic concept of Ultimate Surrender features either two women or two teams of women getting in the ring, roughly wrestling one another either for real or an awfully convincing facsimile thereof, and the winners sexually dominating the losers. The format is three rounds of competitive wrestling followed by a fourth round where the winner gets to have her way . . .

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I gues if it is 04:59 am on LJ for moi, I will need to wait three hours and one minute, as opposed to one minute, to see if I properly configured by LoudTwitter the Dingo inspired me to try.

Quelle heur et il? (Check out my teenage French. Or not.)

Snarfed from r-ness

What will half a mill buy where you live? On my street, it appears that will pay for about a third of a house. If I wanted to expand my search to still be in my neighborhood but a bit farther away and include condos, for that dough, I could get a one bedroom and one bath condo in a building with no amenities besides a garage with room for only one car.

If the housing market is sooooooooooo terrible that it is a problem for the larger society requiring government intervention, why exactly are places empty rather than more reasonably priced?

What can $500,000 buy where you live?

Best room-mate
#2 best dinner companion
#2 best dancer
#3 most desired for marriage
#4 best singer
#5 smartest
#6 bravest
#6 cutest
#6 most cuddly
#6 person with the best body

My friends who voted me best singer must be the ones who enjoy silence.

My friend Sabrina‘s birthday was yesterday. Our party actually drank ALL the champagne in the restaurant. Like literally there was none left and the restaurant let some folks go to the store and bring in more. I had enough to end up singing karaoke for like the second time ever.

I feel like death in a blender today though. I feel like I used to have better recovery time or maybe we all really did drink that much.

Do you find that, over time, especially if you do not drink particularly often, your tolerance goes down and your recovery time takes longer?

PS How the heck is recumbent a mood option on this thing and hungover is not?

Ba ha ha ha. OMFG. Someone on MM (A LARPing site for people who like the idea of being photographers or models etc. without all the pesky work of actually doing it) just called *me* inaccurate and unrealistic and said he didn’t know what world I lived in. Uhm, how about the world where people actually get published on popular websites and in popular magazines and get their work featured on major television networks? Fortunately, the beautiful Isobel Wren schooled him or I’d think I was hallucinating.

Clint Rexx is to date the only person I have ever booked off of there. I should really wean myself off of looking at that site or participating in anything on it. Hope just springs eternal.

Dead Kennedys Too Drunk to Fuck

by Amelia G : September 5th, 2008

Last week, the Dead Kennedys announced an indefinite hiatus from touring, due to health issues suffered by bassist Klaus Flouride and drummer D.H. Peligro. Although I was fangirl-thrilled to meet East Bay Ray at a coffee shop a couple years back, I personally find it depressing when bands tour without key original members. A Jello Biafra-less DK would just bum me out.

Sometimes a group of people come together to make a great creative team, but only small portions of the group are really driving forces. The DK thing is not really one of those disputes. Drummers sometimes spontaneously combust and that never makes it seems like a band should hang it up. I think the thing which bothers me the most about Jello Biafra not exactly being in the Dead Kennedys any more is that you know there was a hot moment in time when they must have felt like a galvanized special unit in the war against conformity and oppression. There must have been a time when the Dead Kennedys felt like they could take on the world . . . together.

For anyone who is unaware of the legal squabble, the Dead Kennedys had a falling-out partly over whether or not their songs should be licensed to sell various things. Most notably Levi’s wanted to use “Holiday in Cambodia” in a Dockers commercial and Jello Biafra rejected their advances without consulting the rest of the band. Lawsuitarity ensued. Levi’s did not get the song, but Alternative Tentacles is no longer allowed to sell full length DK products. I am torn on how I feel about that. I have lived in not one, but two, punk rock group houses named after the “Holiday in Cambodia” song. Not like thirteen punks living in a townhouse . . .

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