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thedailywhat: This Is All Kinds Of Wrong of the Day: Some 65...

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 22:09:01 -0600

This Is All Kinds Of Wrong of the Day: Some 65 punk rock fans had their hair shaved and their piercings removed by police in Indonesia’s conservative Aceh province after a raid on a punk-rock concert.

“The presence of the punk community is disturbing, and disrupts the life of the Banda Aceh public,” said deputy mayor Illiza Sa’aduddin Djamal, who took credit for personally supervising several anti-punk raids over the past few months.

The latest raid, however, was the largest one yet.

“This is a new social disease affecting Banda Aceh,” the deputy mayor went on to say. Among other things, she opposes their mixed-sex gatherings, which she says “is against Islamic Shariah.”

Those detained were transferred to a “reeducation” State Police camp located outside the capital. One of the detainees claimed the busted concert was put on to raise money for orphans. “He’s part of the punk community,” Illiza responded, “and whoever was caught has to go through our reeducation so they wake up.”

“What did we do to deserve arresting? We didn’t steal and we didn’t bother anyone,” said 20-year-old Acehnese punk Fuazan. “The punk community in Banda Aceh is not involved with criminality. So what’s the crime that justifies us being brought to this camp? This country hasn’t yet made it illegal to express yourself, right?”

Police plan to keep the detainees at the camp for at least 10 days. Deputy Mayor Illiza vowed more crackdowns “until they’re all caught.”

[ap / jakartapost / photo: telegraph.]

Couch to 5k Day One: Well, damn. Now I’m tired.

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 13:03:10 -0600

Couch to 5k Day One: Well, damn. Now I’m tired.

And how dismal and senseless life can be without this liberation! There exists no more repulsive and...

Fri, 09 Dec 2011 09:19:01 -0600

And how dismal and senseless life can be without this liberation! There exists no more repulsive and desolate creature in the world than the man who has evaded his genius and who now looks furtively to left and right, behind him and all about him. In the end such a man becomes impossible to get hold of, since he is wholly exterior, without kernel, a tattered, painted bag of clothes, a decked-out ghost that cannot inspire even fear and certainly not pity. -Nietzsche, âUntimely Meditationsâ (via http://www.amyleblanc.com/2011/11/a-long-qotd-this-awakened-life)

And how dismal and senseless life can be without this liberation! There exists no more repulsive and...

Fri, 09 Dec 2011 09:19:01 -0600

Pre-Announcement of a Shorts Collection

Fri, 09 Dec 2011 03:06:03 -0600

Pre-Announcement of a Shorts Collection:

Not these kind of shorts.

Short stories. Not shorts as in the garment.

So, by the start of next week I’ll have a bright and shiny ebook on the Amazon store. At least I…

artisticgoldfish: gaksdesigns: Julia Wertz I don’t think that...

Wed, 07 Dec 2011 20:40:00 -0600

artisticgoldfish:

gaksdesigns:

Julia Wertz

I don’t think that a P could be as GOY as this one is. So fucking accurate it hurts.

Yep…

Don’t wanna!

Wed, 07 Dec 2011 13:21:08 -0600

Don’t wanna!

Wed, 07 Dec 2011 13:21:08 -0600

Don’t wanna!

Yeppers.

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 19:03:29 -0600

Yeppers.

thedailywhat: Grammar School of the Day: A school in Lee’s...

Mon, 05 Dec 2011 12:37:04 -0600

thedailywhat:

Grammar School of the Day: A school in Lee’s Summit, Missouri, is stirring up some mixed feelings toward a new policy that allows students only five grammatical errors per writing assignment.

“Students and parents were somewhat shocked to hear these changes,” wrote a Summit Christian Academy student reporter. ”The immediate reaction from the student body was that the changes were too harsh.”

Per the new policy, students who have more than five errors will be forced to rewrite their paper, and their top possible score will be capped at 75%.

“We have some who are thrilled and others who are highly concerned because it’s tied to scholarship dollars,” the academy’s prinicipal, Kim Gill, told Romenesko.

“One concession we’ve made is if it’s the same error that’s repeated in the paper, the teacher has the disgression [sic] to say, for example, I’m going to take these five run-on sentences and count them as one error.”

Disgression? See me after class.

[romenesko.]

I think it’s kind of silly to have a rule about it, but the sentiment is worth-while. It’s about taking time and valuing not only your subject, but the reader of your work. And by “work”, I mean essays and such, not brief blog posts and Twitter comments.

The argument about “well, as long as what I mean is clear” rings hollow. If it were true, then grammar rules themselves wouldn’t be necessary because we can read minds.

Yeah, it’s tough on dyslexic people, I’ll grant that. Still, that fact about them doesn’t make their writing more clear when someone else is trying to read it.

I guess I’m old.

#FridayFlash: The Wrong Hand of God

Sat, 03 Dec 2011 11:02:28 -0600

#FridayFlash: The Wrong Hand of God:

The First King and Queen began the tradition as a method of ending a war that had made each of them widows. They would marry each-other, unifying the peoples under one standard. They would each…

When We Fall #poem

Fri, 02 Dec 2011 10:47:56 -0600

When We Fall #poem:

When we fall,
let us be fast
and sure.
Let the dials on our altimeters
whirl like dervishes.
Let us find transcendence
in falling and leave
fear in the vacuum left
by our…

Thinking of deleting this tumblr. We’ll have to see.

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 15:46:23 -0600

Thinking of deleting this tumblr. We’ll have to see.

i hate mirrors

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 21:25:11 -0600

i hate mirrors

Test

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 18:39:50 -0600

Test

danaexclamationpoint: Peppermint Butler is my favorite...

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 07:13:53 -0600

danaexclamationpoint:

Peppermint Butler is my favorite character

nevver: The Geography of Stuck Quite interesting. I so want to...

Mon, 28 Nov 2011 21:16:45 -0600

nevver:

The Geography of Stuck

Quite interesting. I so want to move.

Audience Member: Is Salman Rushdie's knighthood an insult to Muslims worldwide?

Mon, 28 Nov 2011 20:16:17 -0600

Audience Member: Is Salman Rushdie's knighthood an insult to Muslims worldwide?
Baroness Shirley Williams: I think it was a mistake... This is a man who's deeply offended Muslims in a very powerful way, who has been protected by the British police against threats of suicide [attacks] for years and years at great expense to the taxpayer, and frankly I think it was not wise and not very clever to give him a knighthood.
Christopher Hitchens: I think that's a contemptible statement and I think everyone who applauded it should be thoroughly ashamed of themselves. Do you really think it's a waste of time and money defending free expression from suicide murderers? If you do, can you think of a better cause the money should go on? People who claim to be offended can by all means do so--it takes a lot to make me cry--but people who say, "I'm so offended I'm going to start suicide bombing in my country" have to be told, "No. We won't have talk of murder for the writing of novels."

transdyke: [image is a picture of a really awesome daria...

Sat, 26 Nov 2011 21:16:50 -0600

transdyke:

[image is a picture of a really awesome daria cosplay, and they’re eating at a generic fast food restaurant and stuff]

Daria was always awesome.

Black Friday

Sat, 26 Nov 2011 20:11:14 -0600

aswadfahd:

Only in America would people violently trample each other for discounts exactly one day after being thankful for what they already have.

The concept of “thankful” seems to be a signalling exercise for most people. They’re not thankful, but they like people to think they are.