Stop Swimming

2007 está por terminar. Leo, escucho, veo por doquier pensamientos y frases para despedir el año. Poemas tristes y memorias de acontecimientos importantes, en la vida de millones o de sólo uno. Yo quiero hacer lo mismo, no me quiero quedar atrás. ¿Mimetismo?
No recordaré lo que me ha pasado, lo que ha trascendido en doce meses. Únicamente relataré mi "propósito" para el año siguiente. Porque nada funciona. Porque las puertas traseras no son mi escapatoria, solo vienen y se van. Porque no encuentro la salida. Porque siempre recurro al mismo sitio. Porque caigo de nuevo. Porque soy cobarde. Porque cada día me doy por vencida. Porque ya estoy cansada. Y sin embargo tengo miedo de concluir.


This s*** leaks out onto the pavement
It could be a joke, it could be a statement
The more that I fake it and pretend I don't care
The more you can read in to what isn't there

Maybe it's time to stop swimming
Maybe it's time to find out where I'm at
What I should do and where I should be
But no-one will give me a map

I'll leave now this can't continue
But I forget which door I came through
And I know that the lift can be painfully slow
So I think I'll leave by the window

Way Out Of Here

by Porcupine Tree

Out at the train tracks
I dream of escape
But a song comes onto my ipod
And I realise it's getting late

I can't take the staring
and the sympathy
And I don't like the questions:
"How do you feel?"
"How's it going in school?"
"Do you wanna talk about it?"

Way out
Way out of here
Fade out
Fade out, vanish

I was trying to forget you
And I know that I will
In a thousand years
Or maybe a week
I'll burn all your pictures
Cut out your face

And the shutters a down
And the curtains are closed
And I've covered my tracks
Disposed of the car
And I'll try to forget even your name
And the way that you look
when you're sleeping
And dreaming of this...

Way out
Way out of here
Fade out
Fade out, vanish

You think you're smart I think you're art

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Bratz girls are not sexy and you’re sick for thinking so

Noticias Impactantes de la Asociación Americana de Psicología:
Las muñecas Bratz inducen a las niñas al sexo.

El problema de la sexualización en niñas pequeñas es obviamente más grande que las muñecas. El estudio psicológico cita ejemplos específicos, incluyendo:

"...muñecas (por ejemplo: las muñecas Bratz vestidas de manera incitadora, utlizando prendas tales como mini-blusas, medias de red, y bufandas de plumas), vestimentas (correas para niñas de 7-10 años de edad, algunas con slogans impresos que dicen "wink wink"), y programas de television ( por ejemplo un show de moda en el cual mudelos adultas en ropa interior fueron presentadas como niñas pequeñas)."

Lo más terrible de esta situación es la reacción de los creadores de las Bratz, mencionada en el Washington Post:

Isaac Larian, cuya compañía hace las muñecas de enormes ojos y extra engrosados labios llamadas "Bratz", dice, "Los niños son demasiado inteligentes y saben reconocer lo bueno de lo malo."

Lo cuál es el porqué del enorme desacuerdo de los padres y profesores. Piensan que no es coherente que una niña de 5 años pueda hacer su camino por sí misma. Y ya antes se había mencionado acerca de esas racionalizaciones de "auto-servicio", por los asquerosos de la compañía Bratz.

"Más de una vez hemos escuchado que nuestros consumidores llaman a las Bratz "sensuales". Algunos adultos tienen un retorcido sentido de lo que ellos ven en el producto." dice Larian.

Y está en lo cierto, porque siempre hemos identificado al exceso de maquillaje, enormes pendientes, y labios inyectados de silicón y colágeno, con las prostitutas. Y ellas no son "chicas lindas", son "chicas ofrecidas".

"Es la responsabilidad de los padres educar a sus hijos."
"Si no te gusta algo, entonces no lo compres."

Ok Mister Larian, no hay problema con eso.

Lo mejor que se ha obtenido con respecto a la entrada de hoy, es el descubrimiento del blog Packaging Girlhood, que habla acerca de rescatar a las niñas de los esquemas de los vendedores.

Agregando la traducción de una parte de las Noticias de la Asociación Americana de Psicología:

La prolificación de imágenes sexualizadas de niñas pequeñas y jovenes en anuncios y comerciales, está dañando la aunto-imagen de las niñas y su sano desarrollo. Este reporte explora las consecuencias emocionales y cognitivas, consecuencias para la salud física y mental, y el impacto que tiene en el desarrollo de una "sana" aunto-imagen sexual.

Lo que los padres pueden hacer

Los padres pueden enseñar a las chicas a valorarse a sí mismas por lo que son, y no por como se ven. Los padres pueden enseñar a los niños a valorar a las chicas como amigas, como hermanas, como novias, y no como objetos sexuales. Aquí hay algunas conversaciones por padres, así mismo por adultos y profesores.

Hacer famosos a artistas imaginarios

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Quién es Luther Blissett. Nacimiento de un héroe popular.

"Luther Blissett" es un seudónimo múltiple - una "fama abierta"- adoptado en informalmente y compartido por centenares de artistas y agitadores europeos a partir del verano de 1994.Por razones desconocidas, el mote ha sido tomado en préstamo a un futbolista inglés de la década del 80 de orígenes afrocaribeños. En Italia, entre 1994 y 1999, el denominado Luther Blissett Project (una red organizada dentro de la comunidad abierta que compartía la identidad "Luther Blissett") se convierte en un fenómeno muy conocido y consigue difundir una leyenda, la fama de un héroe popular. Este Robin Hood de la era de la información libra una guerra de guerrillas dentro/contra una industria cultural en proceso de profunda transformación (estamos a comienzos de la Web), organiza heterodoxas campañas de solidaridad en favor de víctimas de la censura y represión y -sobre todo- juega elaboradas travesuras a los medios masivos como una forma de arte, siempre reivindicando la responsabilidad sobre los mismos y describiendo los fallos del sistema que aprovechan para hacer publicar o transmitir el bulo. Blissett también se activa en otros países, especialmente España, Alemania y Reino Unido. Diciembre de 1999 señala el fin del Plan Quinquenal. Los "veteranos" practican un suicidio simbólico llamado "el Seppuku " (como el suicidio ritual de los samurai). Pero el final del LBP no comporta la extinción del nombre, que continuará apareciendo en el debate cultural y se convertirá en una firma muy utilizada en la Web hasta bien entrada la primera década del siglo XXI.
El retrato "oficial" de Luther Blissett ha sido creado por Andrea Alberti y Edi Bianco en 1994, mezclando viejas fotos de los años 30 y 40 (tres tíos-abuelos y una tía-abuela de Wu Ming 1).

http://www.wumingfoundation.com/

How Ken Became The Digimon Emperor.

The story started off with Ryo visiting Ken Ichijouji in his room. They witnessed Diaboromon's defeat by Omnimon on the Internet, and Veemon (at a later point in time to be Davis's Veemon) appeared from the computer with a D-3 for Ryo. There was an extra Diaboromon loose in the Digital World, and Ryo was called in to defeat it. Ken followed along, only to be left behind in Primary Village with Taichi and Agumon to wait for Ryo's return. The Diaboromon, hiding out where Devimon used as his base, was easily defeated with just Veemon's strength. Millenniumon showed up soon after to reveal that he was waiting for Ryo and that the Diaboromon was simply a lure used to draw Ryo back into the Digital World. He blew up the mountain, and in doing so, ripped the Digital World into two. From then on, the story's point of view switched between Ryo and Ken. Ken woke up in a forest clearing to meet his digimon partner, Wormmon. Ken searched for Ryo at first, but Wormmon took him to Gennai, who told him that Ryo was on the other half of the world. During this, Gennai said that they must set up a mirror site, and that Ken is a Chosen Child. But he doesn't want to be a Chosen Child, Ken says. Only after Wormmon guilt-tripped him did Ken accept. Ken was then told to clear out the beach side of the continent, where he picked up the pieces of Digi-Eggs, cleared several dungeons taking the form of a ziggurat, an Egyptian pyramid, a Mayan pyramid, and a Black Ship. Once he returned from his mission, Gennai and Piximon set up a Reload Machine that would allow Ryo and Ken to contact each other and share items. The scene switched to Ryo, who must follow on Ken's path and jump ahead to another dungeon to clear. Thus the name, Tag Tamers.

After many battles, DNA Digivolutions, and archaeological digs for more Digi-Egg pieces, Ryo eventually arrived at Millenniumon's floating continent. Millenniumon, speaking in archaic Japanese, chuckled and said that he could not be defeated by just one power. The key to his power cannot be unraveled, and the door will never be opened. He then disappeared, and a single locked door turned up outside of Primary Village. Back at base, Piximon said that Millenniumon still had several traps on Ken's side of the world, so the scene switched to Ken.

Along the route to Millenniumon's dungeon, an Elecmon told Ken that the locked door led to Millenniumon's heart, then wonders if Millenniumon has a heart at all. In a sharp contrast to his more polite interaction with Ryo, Millenniumon was outright rude to Ken and insulted him before disappearing.

The key to the locked door was the completed Digi-Egg of Desire, which only reacted to Ryo. Once it opened, Ryo, Ken, and their digimon were absorbed in darkness and taken to Millenniumon's world: a barren wasteland with a gigantic metallic sphere hovering over it. The sphere was Millenniumon's castle. Millenniumon welcomed Ryo warmly to the world created from his mind. To Ken, his voice dropped coldly as he said that everything that happened there happened also within him. Ken's power is limited there. Then he turned again to Ryo, chuckled, and invited them to challenge him, even though they trembled in despair.

The battle that ensued destroyed Millenniumon's body, even as he laughed in his defeat. With Millenniumon's defeat, the Digital World, Taichi and Agumon returned to their normal states. Then Millenniumon returned only to disperse his Dark Spores. Ken shoved Ryo out of the way of one, only to get it in Ryo's stead. Millenniumon's spirit chuckled. He can never die, he said, and as Ryo's power is eternal, so is his. He then disappeared.

In the scene afterwards, Wormmon said that Ken became sick and increasingly cold to him. The epilogue was meant to show Ken's eventual fall into the Kaiser persona a year later, and in it Ken said that he was different from Millenniumon. He was the Digimon Emperor.

I'll let you know my dream, Shaggs!

This is the main reason I enjoy 'living'.
Shaggs is so cute, and I totally adore him.
I believe 'they' were destined to meet and seeing them develop feelings for each other during the course of the life. It's more than satisfying.

Small Lady's dream had always been to become a lady... Her wish was granted prematurely due to RF's influence. She was a grown woman, but she then belonged to the side of roscas (mafas). With RF's power infused in her, she transformed into a full-figured lady. She became a 'Ready' Lady for him.

She smiles. She is happy with this, until Shaggs appears and tells her that he needs her as she is. Without her dream, Shaggs cannot stay in her 'Golden Mirror'.

"Return to your true dream! If you don't, I won't be able to find you anymore!"

And so she reverts back to her little self. Shaggs thanks her and says that he wants her as she is and he wants to tell her everything, but not now. She says it's all right, because she believes in him.

Small Lady asks if Shaggs remembers the first time they met. She says that since she met him in that place, she feels like time has stopped and she's forever in a dream. The clouds open up and Shaggs and Small Lady float down. She asks if he believes in destiny. She hugs him and then Shaggs kisses her. Then the dream is over.


"Shaggs, will I see you again?"

"Of course, Small Lady. I'll be waiting for you... with my heart."

"Definitely! We'll meet each other another day!"

" ;-) "


There's a promise of a good start for Small Lady.
Shaggs looks younger in the dream, maybe a few years older than Small Lady.
There's so much feeling.
He seems to like kissing her.
He sure seemed very comfortable being held by Small Lady.
Oh.... the look of surprise on the inners' faces when he kisses her...
It is strongly implied that Shaggs will eventually become her 'Prince'...

THE ANDROID

i am faster than you
i am stronger than you
certainly, i will last much longer than you

you may think i am the future
but you are wrong;
YOU are

if i had a wish
i'd wish to be human
to know how it feels...

to feel...
to hope...
to despair...
to wander...
to love...

i can achieve immortality
by not wearing out

you can achieve immortality
simply by doing
One
Great
Thing

---> NAAAAHHHH!! Stupid robots wanting to be human!
mechas versus orgas!! woah!
hahahaha just kidding! (: it's a great shit i must admit!

Love compatibility of a Virgin with a Lion

If there's one thing a Lion can't handle, it's criticism, which may be hard for a judgmental Virgin to hold back. Lions need endless amounts of praise and attention, and will reward their partner with devotion, love and generosity. You tend to be more reserved, which could have a negative impact on your Lion lover's self-confidence. Remember not to use your razor-sharp wit to tease your partner. If you learn to handle your Lion with honor, even when they're acting like a bratty little cub, you'll find yourself in a relationship with long-term potential.