Favorite search terms

I'm clearly supposed to be asleep now, but before I go I'm going to fall in with the search terms meme *sigh* I'm looking at Google's Webmaster's Tools (which is actually pretty handy) and I'm totally baffled at the search terms that apparently bring up my blog.

Note: I will mention, to give you and myself hope, that most of these are from 2 or 3 months ago, on the bright side. Unfortunately, for some unfathomable reason most of these search terms WILL bring up my blog *really sad face* BUT on the other bright side, I'm usually pretty low on the list and these terms don't necessarily represent the TRAFFIC I get from these terms. They're just damn creepy.

So here's a Top 10 that had be absolutely boggled:

10. black boy addictions

I can only guess that this one popped up because I've mentioned the book Black Boy by Richard Wright, and my blog title. None of that excuses...anything.

9. she castrated him

Pretty sure I've actually used that phrase. Still strange. Must investigate further.

8. what is mastur debating

I want to know too, didn't find the answer.

7. wristporn

The great thing is, I've actually used that term, just NOT in the way the persons searching that would expect.

6. "why are women angry"

Dunno that one either.

5. naked black football players showering

I. Have. Never. Used. Any. Of. Those. Words. In. One. Post.

4. infant fuck blog

I KID YOU NOT.

3. lisp and missing teeth drug addict

See number 5 and add an extra hell no.

2. bdsm nipples nailed

Well. I like BDSM. I like nipples. Now where the nails come in, I'm not so sure about.

And number one...my favorite search term that apparently pulls up my blog, EVER, at this moment:

drum roll please.

*drum roll*

*rim shot solo*

1. "www all" kinds of "incest com"

Mmkay.

What?

Rob Zombie & Lionel Ritchie

and a guest appearance by...I'm not sure who. Cats & dogs living together.

I...vaguely remember this in the same way I think Armageddon has come already.



Rob so obviously wants to break it down drop down low sweep the flo' with it but he just can't find the right time. Also, I thought it was a duet if both people were singing the song not "one guy sings the song other guy comes in on every other vowel".

I don't care it still made my tomorrow.

Blame it on the ah-ah-ah-ah-alcohol

So, my E key is being a dick (I have to press down on it sooo haard) , and since that's the most important key in the whole typing biz, and it's kind of ruining my nails, I won't have a bunch to say today. So...while I'm watching cartoons and taking a nap you guys can play Spot the Cameo in this Jamie Foxx video.

Run, don't walk, to the Tell It WOC Speak blog carnvial

Shit, I knew there was something I forgot to shamelessly advertise today.

If, at some point, you've ever thought for a moment that you love me, or at the very least don't hate me a lot, I implore you to drop by and stay a while at Tell It WOC Speak. Created by Renee of Womanist Musings it's a blog carnival featuring writing by women of color and allies.

To better explain, the opening paragraph why not:

Welcome everyone to what I hope will be the first of many blog carnivals dedicated to the voices of women of colour and our allies. In every sphere of life women of colour are marginalized and exploited. Often, when we attempt to engage to change our circumstances we are silenced.

This carnival is our attempt to give voice to our shared issues. We have a strong history of activism and organizing and it is in this vein that we have chosen this space to highlight the various ways we have attempted to carve out a niche in the online world. We shall not be silenced, and our dreams shall be realized. We are women of quality and worth.

I'm so ridiculously happy that this came about and all the topics covered & authors covering them are looking excellent. So let us run, not walk and go get ourselves some of that elusive awareness.

CVS says no condoms for you

While I was trying to un-depress myself I came across this article on the Curvature blog.

CVS Limits Condom Access for Some

Another CVS practice that disproportionally affects communities of color is the chain’s lockup of condoms. Condoms are one of the best defenses against unwanted pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases such as HIV/AIDS, but CVS makes it difficult for people of color to obtain them. At hundreds of stores across the country in areas where people of color predominate, CVS displays condoms in locked cabinets that require customers to summon CVS staff to unlock them and then monitors customers while making their selections. CVS is less likely to lock up condoms in areas with fewer residents of color, and the chain’s two main competitors do not lock up condoms.

Now, a little background for me, you guys know I come from Nashville. Nashville on a whole, I think, doesn't really have that many CVS stores. We have Walgreen's stores galore though. For the longest time I had no idea what the hell a CVS was until we passed one in a, let's say more upper-middle class area when I was little, and to this day I've only been in a CVS a handful of times. Walgreen's is my shit by the way.

So not particularly caring about CVS, in my time around the blogosphere I've been learning that, apparently, CVS has a problem with us colored folk, or at the least poor communities. I grew up in a poor, working class community, or better yet "The Hood", so apparently this explains why I'd never seen a CVS store until I was like...damn near 15. That and the Walgreen's stores kind of make it obsolete.

Again I say, not giving a fuck bout some CVS, I had no idea it was like that. But while reading Cara's analysis on this policy of locking up condoms, it got me thinking--it set off a couple of memories of home, and y'all know I'm suddenly homesick, so bear with me, I will have a point.

Like I said, we have a Walgreen's mafia. The closest Walgreen's to my house locked up their condoms--but they also locked up cough syrup & cold medicine and allergy medicine due to the meth epidemic. I remember once commenting to my mom about how shameful it was that we had to lock up condoms because someone would steal them. This particular Walgreen's literally got robbed every weekend so it was a surprise that they just didn't lock everything in the joint behind glass. But what was also odd was--or at least now after I read this information--was that this was a black community, but it was a fairly middle class area. The gas station never got robbed and I thought that was weird, but that's actually neither here nor there.

So, that Walgreen's locked up condoms & birth control. I said I could understand the cold medicine shit, sad as it was, but the condoms? Again though, keep in mind that Walgreen's got robbed an awful lot (it still does, poor guys).

A few of the Walgreen's in our area locked up condoms & birth control for what I always assumed to be security purposes, even in the more ritzy areas. The areas you would expect the Walgreen's employees to rob, not the other way around. I found it really sad that we had to lock up the Trojans from what we assumed to be randy teens that were too embarrassed/cheap/young to buy some damn Durex.

But the CVS. The nearest CVS to us was in a very upscale neighborhood, and while they did lock up the allergy medicine, the cold medicine and, hold on, condoms were on full view for folks to buy. I remember this because I was mostly bemused and sick. And now that I'm in college, you go in the convenience store in the Culp and the condoms are next to the fucking cough drops. It is university and at least they're promoting safe sex which is great. But as I've bemoaned constantly, I'm also in the whitest of the whitey white areas of the state, good ol' Appalachia.

So what am I getting at with this series of loosely connected stories? I already said I hadn't been in many CVS stores, so I can't comment on their policies really. Is there really some vast conspiracy against poor and/or black communities having to do with condoms? I think it's kind of interesting, and on that Curvature post in the comments there was a semi-discussion on whether this was classist or racist, with the consensus seeming to be that it's both. I agree with this even with my limited experience and I think it's a really interesting topic to go into.

Personally, my feelings on this supposed epidemic of condom theft is, at least in my neighborhood it isn't working. We still had really young girls getting pregnant and catching STDs at a scary rate. I say young folks because for some reason condom thefts are usually blamed on the young, probably with good reason. There seemed to be an awful lot of "condom breakage" too, suggesting to me that if indeed kids are out robbing stores of condoms, they still don't know how to use them (or didn't bother to use them, which ever). It all just goes back to crappy abstinence only sex-ed, really. Make your own damn problems, look at the consequences. Again I say, people wonder why shit happens.

"Dealing" with ignorance

Ignorance (ig·no·rance (ĭg'nər-əns))

n. The condition of being uneducated, unaware, or uninformed.

-American Heritage Dictionary, via Dictionary.com :'D

I think, more or less, we can all agree on that definition of ignorance. If you have something different in mind, please let me know, it might help me with what I'm about to say...

Well, you may or may not remember this angry post, really a commentary on a post Danzy did with my own thoughts.

I did a little copypasta to my Facebook because that's what I do sometimes. I just think it's nice to help my friends be more aware of how I feel and what's going on outside their little boxes. [Edit: Hopefully that link works and, just in case you think I'm playing with folks, you can follow the continuing adventures and the descent into utter entropy.] A lot of times my race-related posts go without much incident and I assume my friends either hate me for the duration of the post, or just don't read them. That's alright either way, actually.

Then I get this response to the above post. Dan, I think it's time for a tag-team.

"well as jesus once said "the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few".....or was that startrek? anyway it doesn't matter who said it. I'm trying to say deal with ignorance. It is better for the world to have everyone be slightly ignorant than for everyone to be all knowing. Deal with the ignorant, because you are too.(don't take this the wrong way, i probably know more about being tall than you do, but at the same time you know more about being short than i do) If you find it too hard to do so, just watch a comedy from the BBC, no one can be angry while watching a BBC comedy(i think it be illegal for their comedies to not be hilarious)"

A) It was neither Jesus nor Star Trek that said it first
B) Uhh, what?

Well, after reading that response, I looked over the original post. Then I looked at the sample I copied. I think I'd only omitted a few non-critical words so...is there some communication breakdown going on here? I even linked to the damn original, it's there in soft baby blue in contrast with the black text of the rest of the post (though there's still a chance he might have missed it, even if I REFERENCED the damn thing).

He's not asking me to deal with ignorance as in "Geeeet 'im!" as I usually do. He's asking me to put up with bullshit, which is certainly NOT what I do. And why? Because I'm ignorant too. Well I don't know where I claimed to have all the answers, ever. Of course I'm ignorant about some things. We all are. But that's not a goddamn excuse!

This is 2009. It was a different age at some point, where we didn't have blogs or even the internet for mass info. We had newspapers, magazines, books, printed media. Maybe back then you had a bit of an excuse to be ignorant, and if for whatever reason you chose to stay that way, even more so. But regardless information still traveled and spread. But let me tell you. This is not the year to sit there and remain ignorant. You can't and by damn I'm not going to sit there in my own little bubble and act like it's ALL OKAY just for the good of the masses. THE MASSES BE DAMNED.

And with all this running through my mind, I deemed that this fool is either joking. He has a chance to prove he is, or he can just get the fuck off my Facebook. I'll show him how we "deal" with ignorance up in this piece, and it's not by sitting on our hands and smiling vacantly at the ceiling.

And now I have flown off the handle, and am tired again. Take my calls.

Edyt: After a few posts of arguing back and forth (not so much arguing as me being dumbfounded), we finally get some truth:

I disagree with the notion that ignorance is better for the world than knowledge. Ignorance is DANGEROUS. Plain and simple. I would just like you to pick up a history book and see how many people have DIED due to ignorance. And don't think society is too advanced not to kill over it. Tell me is it better for the world to know that a disese is caused by germs or to think that Jews caused it so lets just wipe them out? And with that I shall leave you with one of my favorite quotes:

"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." -Martin Luther King Jr.

I think this discussion is done.

Gay is the new black, haven't you heard?

Okay, I've been reading Renee of Womanist Musings and her great post here about the new cover of The Advocate. The cover declares that gay, it's the new black. I'm assuming by this they don't mean the color, as in "Hey, everyone's wearing it this winter!" but the people, as in Blacks.

The more I think about it the more this irritates the fuck out of me. As I don't say very often I identify as a queer female--or at the very least definitely unstraight--but I'm also black. Among a lot of things.

I just want to know what the fuck "the new black" is supposed to mean. How is gay suddenly the new black? After Prop 8 folks went from blaming the blacks (they constituted 70% of the Yes on Prop 8 vote but they don't even make up that much of the state of California...uhh?) to suddenly trying to appropriate "the struggle" as their own. Like, am I missing several steps here?

The cover declares the gay rights struggle as the last great civil rights struggle. Um, negative. As I see it the gay rights struggle is probably one of the more notable struggles of our times--well, I suppose I should say "currently" actually. But it ain't gonna be the last and I'm going to question "greatest". Because no one else is currently struggling for equal rights or anything. It may not be as profound as say, the 40s & 50s for women and blacks (and everyone else I suppose) right NOW, but that doesn't mean we've all just stopped and said "Equality at last!" and gone back home. The LGBT community isn't out there fighting the big fight.

That's just pretentious, and, I'm gonna say it, silly. I don't want to put down the movement--ever--but there's been some serious missteps going on since the Prop 8 decision. In a way I guess it's like watching someone get sucker-punched and stagger around a bit. You're a little dizzy and disoriented because you probably didn't see that coming. I can definitely understand that but this cover and its implications (and my interpretation) is just driving me up a wall right now.

I think I'm being a little or a lot harsh on this but this is getting on my damn nerves. I've seen some interpretations in defense of comparing the gay rights struggle to the black civil rights struggle, some neutral ones, and some against. I'm not really asking what to believe since I know where I fall. All I want to know, really, is how the hell "gay is the new black" and why no one thought that sentiment might be a little, I dunno, offensive. I am so serious, someone please explain this to me because I've been watching Discovery Military for the past couple of days and obviously not paying attention. If you don't mind that is.

Sigh.

Another round of the Blame Game

Bleh, I bet you've all heard this story by now about the young man in Florida that decided to kill himself on the internet. Naturally there were people that egged him on in a failing example of reverse psychology I suppose, and...basically the crux of this story is there were perhaps hundreds of people that watched this man kill himself before their eyes and either LOL'd or didn't bother to do anything before it's too late.

Forgive me but I don't take suicide lightly. Not. At. All. Never have. You can claim to want to kill yourself bout 10 times and I will take each time seriously. You should Call me a sucker but as a survivor of a couple suicide attempts, that shit is neither funny nor to be taken lightly. There's a REASON you're crying out for attention that way, I'm convinced.

Oh, but wait, we're not done yet. Now that the victim is dead we have to play the blame game. We have to pass it around--first off, it's the young man's fault for essentially crying wolf so many times and the time he finally did it, well, how were we supposed to know? It's his own fault.

Then, you know, its the viewers' fault for egging him on or not trying hard enough to stop him. Then it's the family. Then it's society & pop culture's fault. Then it's all of these & everyone's fault. Then at the end there's a big ol' question mark.

I. Fucking. HATE this Blame Game shit. This young man is dead and you can blame whoever you want for it--maybe it is his fault, maybe it is the fault of the viewers, maybe this rests on all our shoulders. It could be all these things, but for goodness's sake passing around & assigning blame to various structures way, waaay after the fact is just so annoying to me. Identify the problem, that's it--but most of the time after we're done assigning blame for the issue it becomes clear that there's nothing to do to get rid of the problem.

If you blame the man, well, then what? What happens in other cases like these where these people need help and no one offers, do we blame them every time? If you blame his family, how do you punish them? If it's society and desensitization and all that, what do you do? What to do. I hate this Game.

I wanted this post to focus solely on victim blaming but it's more than just victim-blaming, it's everything-blaming and I really can't stand it. Especially over this man's case and any suicide, private or public. He's gone and when there was potential to help it just wasn't effective, and now it's _____'s fault for this young man's death. I grieve and I'm also angry at the way this is being taken and the damn blaming game.

Sigh. I just have all kinds of non-faith in humanity these days. Oh I could talk about this story and others like it for days, but what's the point....

Black. Image.

I wrote this Livejournal post as a reaction to a comment I got on a different post regarding "typical black society", whatever that is. After blinking bemusedly at the comment for a few minutes I just wrote a semi-antagonistic post. Why semi-antagonistic? Because for some reason my LJ friends list is mostly white and 100% comatose & unresponsive when I talk about things of substance to me. I just fuck with them because I can these days. And now you see why I blog *side eye*

Since I've got about a little less than an hour 'til my next class, I figure I'd address something fairly important to me, that being the so-called "black image".

What do you envision when you think black? Do you see a man or a woman? If it's a man do you see a shaved head, broad nose, thick lips, preferably blue-black skin, bulging, wide, jaundice-yellow eyes, white beater, saggy pants & exposed undergarments? Am I getting close?

If you picture a woman, do you see large breasts, thick hips, ass, jangly bracelets, skin tight clothes, boots with da fur, silky lace front weave (or maybe even it's natural, I dunno), thicker, shinier, juicier lips than the male and some sort of salacious glance? Am I getting closer still?

Are these people named something acceptable like Jessica or James, or is it something totally made up and incomprehensible like Chaundicia or Jaewon? Do you hear "Lollipop" blaring for no reason? Am I close yet? Do you see it?

Do you know what the "black image" is? Do you hear the girl talking loudly in incoherent Ebonics, is the guy muttering in a low voice about his Glock? Do you think these people can spell, read, or speak properly? Are they high school drop outs? Does the girl have 4 kids by 3 men, has the guy impregnated 12 women over the last year? Is the woman receiving child support, is the man giving child support? Yes? No? Are you seeing it now?

I'll bet what you don't think of is a clean cut young man or a respectable young woman, high school graduated, maybe college educated, decent job and decent lives. No, that is not the black image that we're familiar with. That is not the black image that the community puts out. Unfortunately among the recent generations what I described above is either reserved for white people alone or other races.

We like to perpetuate ourselves. For some reason blacks are routinely seen as stupid and unsophisticated, not worthy of society so I suppose we figure why not, let's be the way they think we are. And when we confirm the fears of the pearl clutchers & purse grabbers then we perpetuate it. I wonder if anyone fears the loss of the black image and the black identity like I do.

Activism! part 2

So yesterday I introduced you to part of a Facebook note I'd written entitled "It's not about YOU". I figured it would slip under since it was more of a rant than anything encouraging, but it drummed up some interesting responses anyway. And by interesting I mean "No longer friends with".

Juuust kidding.

Anyway, the beginning of the conversation starts like this:

Its most definetly the next great issue our country will face, and sadly marriage laws (as Im sure you know) are delegated to the states, so there's nothing any President can do about it. Damn. This is when we like centralized authority...But also I should like to note that I think New England is just trying to clear its' name from that whole Salem Affair.

That's from my friend PW who's pretty intelligent. For some reason I scoffed at that though, and said:

Even if the president could do anything he's already said he's against gay marriage.

"Next great issue" my ass. Gay marriage didn't just suddenly pop up...and as long as America decides to turn both eyes blind to the rights of others it's not going to go away.

Here's where the fun really begins, with that scoff oddly enough. My brother-in-arms Daniel jumps in and kinda derails and fucks up the duration of the dialogue, not intentionally:

well, the "against gay marriage thing" is not the same as "against giving gay couples equal rights"

You can hear the collective "Rrrriiiight."

Oh isn't it? Please explain to the class Daniel..., I say.

It kind of is the same thing. Marriage gives you legal rights. We are looking (we being me and the gays HAHAH) for legal documentation, not the right to walk down an isle, my other compadre BF says.

Daniel defends himself valiantly and...well, at least he was valiant.

no, i meant that Obama stated that he was against gay "marriage", but that is mainly because there isn't any such thing, as marriage is essentially strictly a religious thing, he does support civil unions, which would give gay couples the same rights as hetero

Okay--wait, what?

So the core of Daniel's argument--mind you he's still responding to my scoff more or less--is that civil unions are the same thing, legally, as marriages, except, as I point out a few times to him over AIM, THEY'RE NOT. Ideally, they would be but if civil unions were totally equal to marriage in every way except religious ceremony, then I don't think there would be such an uproar over "gay marriages" would you?

While Daniel and I are duking it out, Mr Matt chimes in with this enlightened view:

I've recently revised my possition on the whole gay marriage thing(like in the last few days), and i have to say I'm against the idea of govt forced acceptance of it. Before you blow my door down allow me to present why. Marriage IS, under every circumstance, a religous institution, and Thomas Jefferson said that church and state should be seperated. So if a church wants to marry gays, WOOHOO!!!! but if another church down the street doesn't wan to marry gays, then geuss what?.....yup thats right WOOHOO!!!! They have made a decision that was their's to make. I dont think it ignorant for a church to not let gays marry. but i do think it ignorant for the govt to force the churches to let gays marry.

Another collective "...Rrrrriiiiiiggghhhtt...." from the gallery.

He doesn't want the government to force gay marriages on the Church, which is good because the government can't do that anyway. WHAT THE FUCK?

Daniel collects himself and charges back in with one more point:

I think the issue here, the issue being both the greater issue and the issue of nobody understanding what the hell I'm saying, is the word "marriage"
The point is, we want homosexual couples to have the same rights as heterosexual couples, right? right, so FU to people upset at me for no reason. However this is to be achieved is immaterial at this point. We must do all we can.

Danz, sometimes unfortunately, is like me: he can't let shit go and likes to make really obtuse arguments, in that what he's saying makes sense it just has shit to do with anything. Yes, he really is still refuting my scoff and this conversation has gone on for HOURS at this point. DAMN!

Frankly, I think PW comes in and probably makes the best point about the struggle for gay marriage rights:

...Its not something I can identfiy with because lets just face it strait people will never truly understand. We can sympathize but we don't get it. Its gonna be hard. Don't think it will be easy. It will be so very hard. But we'll see.

So! I think that's probably one of the few...ambiguously successful dialogues I've ever had *blink* I've had them in the past and they're usually fine but I have no earthly idea where this one went to. It's kinda my fault for derailing it so hard with my cynical scoffing, I think I should have stayed out of this one. But I was really bored ;_;

This isn't the way to equality, damnit

Hu-sigh. I've really come to hate the almighty "race" question. As in, how do we solve equality. Or maybe even "what is racist and what isn't?"

I'm getting tired of people telling me that we have to "ignore our differences" to be equal. Why should I ignore what I am just to get on your little level? That's inane and I refuse. As a wise man said more or less, the key is NOT to ignore our differences. I'm obviously different from, say, someone from Spain. Different language, different culture, different everything. Am I supposed to just put that aside and try to get along with this person? Is he supposed to do the same? To me that would just be...crazy talk.

No, we shouldn't ignore our differences. We should embrace! Different isn't necessarily a bad word. We have to learn from each other, this is a good thing. I think by embracing our differences and trying to work with them in becoming equal is the better idea then just to ignore ourselves.

Why the fuck does this even need repeating.

All aboooooard! The Midnight Meat Train

I have to admit, I haven't really gotten to see many Halloween movies for it being Halloween and what not. Well, you know AMC does the horror movies and they did it this year in collab with FearNet, which is an abomination to some and less so to others.

FearNet.com, however, just got awesome for their free showing of Clive Barker's Midnight Meat Train, a movie adaptation of the short story by the same name, from the Books of Blood anthology. I know that sounds like a bad porno but I assure you it's quite terrifying. Fantastic! You may not have kept up with the story but Barker got shafted big time by Lionsgate films and they decided before the movie even premiered that it wouldn't do well, so they only released it to a few theatres, a few being...eh, I guess less than a thousand in this case. It wasn't a worldwide premier let's say and there were plenty of people anticipating it! What a shame.

So, fast forward a bit and hear it is. The story is about Leon Kaufman, a young man disillusioned with his current city of residence, New York. There's been a string of subway murders recently and Leon gets caught up in the massacre when he finds himself taking a strange trip *dun dun dun*

The movie, from what I can remember of the short story (which is sad because it's right there in front of me now) is pretty different. In the movie Leon is a photographer who likes to take pictures of dying people. If you've ever seen the film Ab-normal Beauty, a nice piece of Asian cinema, and lo-and-behold this director hails from Japan.

Anyway, I'm not done watching it quite even though I could pretty much tell you the ending anyway. It's insane, but I won't! It's so gory but I'm a little disappointed by the gore because it's mostly CGI. The bright-red computerized blood really clashes against the dark movie. There's some really good color going on with the yellows and reds and blues by the way. Real artistic :D the effects are great too (eye ball pop action!)

Now all I need is for my laptop sound to be not shite...

Blogging about art; art journals and the like

So, traipsing around the almighty Blogosphere, I've discovered that there are a pretty many art blogs. Cartoonists, fine artists, sculptors, and people who just generally like to draw & paint and all that good mess, lots of people are keeping online art journals. Hell, goodness knows I do.

For me, there's two types of art blogs/journals: the ones that are dedicated solely to art posting, and the ones that aren't. And of the ones that are, I've noticed a lot of them are...well, silent. As in, they post their artwork and either don't talk about it at all or just give basic information like sizes and materials and prices.

You know, that's all well and good. Personally, though, when I post my art it's not so you can just look at it and go "Ooh!" it's so you can understand. Or better yet, so I can understand most of the time :P

The art course I took this year and last, I was forced to talk about my art...a lot. Justify everything and explain my processes, all that. That's not uncommon, except last year when I first took the course, that was the first time I'd been asked, "So, what's _____?" or "What's the significance of ____?" Also last year was the first time I'd ever been told my explanations aren't good enough! I had to be confident with my lines, assertive with my color choices. It was a great experience...

So, I do have to admit, "silent" art blogs do annoy me a little, but only because I'm so used to just...chatting and explaining my work all day long, whether it's a landscape painting or a tall-ass statue. Forced habit by now, I guess, coupled with the fact that I like to gab :P

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Firefox & ScribeFire

Wow, this is nice. I added the ScribeFire feature to my already pimped-out Firefox, and now I can blog from pretty much anywhere! Not that I didn't already...

Anyway, this is a pretty nice feature. I can post to here, my LJ, and my Myspace (which, I can't feel happening but oh well) just by hitting F8, that ill-used key, and voila! I'm glad I did it, I was a little prudent at first but it's not so bad.

I've been trying not to go "add on" crazy with Firefox because I don't want to slow it down or add on too much useless junk. I like a simple efficient internet with the basics, not too many bells & whistles. It's all so silly, it's just the damn internet.

I am still trying to find a theme that I like...right now I've just got pretty blue icons, and I don't want anything elaborate, but I would kill to have something....PURPLE! I wish I knew enough about scripts to make my own but I don't...