KatyDidKnot

The Velvet Underground

Fri, 17 May 2013 12:14:00 -0500

The Velvet Underground

Genesis

Fri, 17 May 2013 12:13:48 -0500

Genesis

LESBIANS IN MY SOUP Fanmail of the Week

Fri, 17 May 2013 09:30:00 -0500

I get mail. Not all of it is entirely positive. I call this one, “But I Do Hate You.”

Email #1 (received on the morning of May 17)

“YOU ARE AN ASSHOLE.

FUCK YOU, ASSHOLE!!!!!!

GO TO HELL ASSHOLE!

AND LEAVE THE REST OF US ALONE!

YOU FUCKING BASTARD!!!

YOU KNOW HOW MUCH I HATE GOD? I HATE YOU MORE!”

Email #2 (received in the evening of May 17)

“I typed this late last night before I fell asleep.

I sent it by accident early this morning as I held my phone in my hand under my pillow.

I am sorry.

But I do hate you.”

"People aren’t either wicked or noble. They’re like chef’s salads, with good things and bad things..."

Thu, 16 May 2013 23:06:48 -0500

“People aren’t either wicked or noble. They’re like chef’s salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict.”

- Lemony Snicket

Arrington de Dionyso is recording the most singular, primal, and...

Tue, 14 May 2013 23:10:48 -0500

Arrington de Dionyso is recording the most singular, primal, and all-around fantastic music around these days.

This blog has been nudity-free for too long.

Fri, 10 May 2013 19:38:06 -0500

This blog has been nudity-free for too long.

The end of my story about how I got my kids back. Over at my...

Thu, 09 May 2013 23:32:00 -0500

The end of my story about how I got my kids back. Over at my blog at LESBIANS IN MY SOUP.

It involves the House of Pies on Westheimer and a pine cone.

Check it out…

I am part of some blog challenge deal over at Yeah Write. Head...

Thu, 09 May 2013 13:05:00 -0500

I am part of some blog challenge deal over at Yeah Write.

Head over there by clicking HERE, read the blogs (there are some good ones!) and vote.

"“You, hear me! Give this fire to that old man. Pull the black worm off the bark and give it to..."

Thu, 09 May 2013 07:58:00 -0500

“

“You, hear me! Give this fire to that old man. Pull the black worm off the bark and give it to the mother. And no spitting in the ashes!”

It’s an odd little speech. But if you went back 15,000 years and spoke these words to hunter-gatherers in Asia in any one of hundreds of modern languages, there is a chance they would understand at least some of what you were saying.

That’s because all of the nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs in the four sentences are words that have descended largely unchanged from a language that died out as the glaciers retreated at the end of the last Ice Age. Those few words mean the same thing, and sound almost the same, as they did then.

The traditional view is that words can’t survive for more than 8,000 to 9,000 years. Evolution, linguistic “weathering” and the adoption of replacements from other languages eventually drive ancient words to extinction, just like the dinosaurs of the Jurassic era.

A new study, however, suggests that’s not always true.

A team of researchers has come up with a list of two dozen “ultraconserved words” that have survived 150 centuries. It includes some predictable entries: “mother,” “not,” “what,” “to hear” and “man.” It also contains surprises: “to flow,” “ashes” and “worm.”

The existence of the long-lived words suggests there was a “proto-Eurasiatic” language that was the common ancestor to about 700 contemporary languages that are the native tongues of more than half the world’s people.

”

- The Washington Post, “Linguists Identify 15,000-Year-Old ‘Ultraconserved’ Words.”

Amazing.

Tuesday night. Self-pic. With cat (left).

Tue, 07 May 2013 23:32:47 -0500

Tuesday night. Self-pic. With cat (left).

Sculptures by Gerardo Feldstein (from Argentina!)

Tue, 07 May 2013 08:29:38 -0500

Sculptures by Gerardo Feldstein (from Argentina!)

Stereotypical Native American clothing is politically incorrect,...

Mon, 06 May 2013 23:01:37 -0500

Stereotypical Native American clothing is politically incorrect, and therefore I’m not supposed to find it sexy as hell.

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Mon, 06 May 2013 15:14:49 -0500

Kurt Vonnegut

Ernest Hemingway

Charles Bukowski

Hunter S. Thompson

J. D. Salinger

John Steinbeck

Aldous Huxley

Albert Camus

Jack Kerouac

William S. Burroughs

Part 2 of my latest blog over at LESBIANS IN MY SOUP, which is...

Sun, 05 May 2013 20:50:43 -0500

Part 2 of my latest blog over at LESBIANS IN MY SOUP, which is all about how I got my kids back.

Plus, you get to see this picture of my “lady friend,” Doctor Belloq, drunk.

Check it out…

A very cute video from Aesop Rock and Kimya Dawson’s...

Sun, 05 May 2013 19:29:50 -0500

A very cute video from Aesop Rock and Kimya Dawson’s UNCLUDED project.

Last week, I went out on a date and managed to get my kids...

Sun, 05 May 2013 14:26:45 -0500

Last week, I went out on a date and managed to get my kids back.

Part one of how it happened is HERE!

The saddest picture ever taken could have been avoided if only...

Fri, 03 May 2013 08:52:00 -0500

The saddest picture ever taken could have been avoided if only koalas had guns.

My Best Internet Comment of the Week.

Thu, 02 May 2013 12:36:00 -0500

In response to an article about “retired lesbian tennis star Martina Navratilova” today, the following interaction took place:

Commenter 1: “‘retired lesbian tennis star.’ Does that means she’s retired from tennis or from being a lesbian?”

Me: “It means she’s retired from lesbian tennis, obviously. Lesbian tennis is sort of like regular tennis, except they don’t play with balls.”

Thank you, thank you. I’ll be here all week.

I woke up this morning (after an evening spent over a glass of wine or two) and wondered,...

Thu, 02 May 2013 10:25:51 -0500

I woke up this morning (after an evening spent over a glass of wine or two) and wondered, “What made me post those particular pictures on Tumblr last night?”

One of the world’s great mysteries, I guess…

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Wed, 01 May 2013 23:44:17 -0500