Chapel Perilous

Someone from Team sTaRe sent me this~
 
posted by Bsti @ 10:14 PM ¶ comments

Dear Neighbors~
It is now July 12.
Stop with the fuckin' fireworks.
Seriously. 
posted by Bsti @ 9:50 PM ¶ comments (2)

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posted by Bsti @ 7:51 PM ¶ comments (3)

I almost forgot~
While flipping through channels late last night, I happened upon Spider-Man on the MTV.
Brand new, "high-impact animation and cutting-edge cinematic effects." Violence and stuff. I think people even get killed in it; I was blurry-eyed so I'm not sure, but fortunately the first two episodes replay tonight at 8:30PST.
 
posted by Bsti @ 6:54 PM ¶ comments (1)

Man gets life for sucking boys' toes
"The former supervisor of a Newport Beach youth program was sentenced Friday to life in prison on 25 counts of lewd conduct and assault for sucking the toes of 20 boys."

Life.

One time, when I was living on the streets of Los Angeles, I met a well-dressed Mexican man who asked me if I was looking for a job.
I was 19 and very naive about strangers, so I said yes quite enthusiastically.
He said he needed someone to clean some warehouses, something I had done before.
He asked if I was homeless and hungry, and I said yes as I hadn't eaten since yesterday.
So he invited me to his apartment, which, conveniently, was only a few blocks away.
But on the way, we stopped and picked up a half-rack of beer.

So we get to his apartment and pop open a beer, and I ask if I can use his phone to call my girlfriend and give her the good news.
(Yes, I lived on the street and had a girlfriend. Why didn't I stay with her? Tried it, got caught under her bed by a very angry father.)
So he says sure and I call her.

Hey, Leah, I got some great news!
I just met this guy and he's gonna give me a job!
Yeah, he's nice. We're just drinkin' a beer and then we are gonna eat!
I'm gonna ask if I can use his shower.... I haven't bathed in four days, I gotta smell like death by now.
Yeah, he has these warehouses.....wait.
He's taking off my boots..

[I wouldn't do that if I were you....my feet are pretty dirty....you don't care?.....well, okay.....]

Uh, Leah?
He's, uh........clipping my toenails.
Yeah.
I don't know why! Guess he heard me about needing a shower........

[Uh, why are you doing that? I can do it myself.......well, okay, if you really want to....]

I know Leah, pretty weird, but whatever, long as I still get this job.
Anyway, so he says I can start tomorr.........
Okay, now he's sucking my toes.
I gotta go.

Keep in mind my feet were filthy.
At this point, I had drunk a beer and a half, and was already a little tipsy, having not eaten since yesterday.
Needless to say, I was livid, for the utter weirdness of it and the sudden revelation that there Was No Job.

I slam down the phone and What The Fuck Are You Doing?
There is no job, is there??
Well, no, he says, but I'll pay you if you let me suck your toes!
Damn right you'll pay me and you WON'T be coming anywhere near me!!
I must have been kinda scary lookin', because he was visibly terrified of what I might do next.

Well, I pushed him to the ground and demanded he pay me $20 RIGHT NOW.
He grabbed his wallet and shakily passed me the $20.
Okay, I'm gonna use your toilet and put my boots back on.
DON'T........MOVE.
As I walk the hallway to his bathroom, hey! There's another $20 stting on a table under an ashtray!
Yeah, I take it, put my boots back on, walk out to the front room and without a word I grab the remaining half-rack of beer and stomp out.

Two blocks down the street and I slam a beer all at once to deaden the images and disgust.
Then another.
Then another, all the while shouting profanities at the top of my lungs.
This is Skid Row LA, nobody cares.
Then another, and my over-thin, unfed body is steaming drunk. I puke and puke and puke, then remember what had happened and puke some more.

Then I went to Denny's and stuffed myself silly.

Next installment of Beastie's Life~
How I got me and all my street-friends six months free rent from a terrified pedophilic apartment manager without ever being touched. 
posted by Bsti @ 5:47 PM ¶ comments (6)

Most Unusual Conjoined Twins I have Ever Seen~
 
posted by Bsti @ 4:47 PM ¶ comments

via Geisha Asobi 
posted by Bsti @ 4:26 PM ¶ comments

You Have a foot Fetish!

You love the summer time at the beach when you can
see everyones bare feet! Playing footies even
gives you an orgasm.


Whats your secret porn fetish?
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Yeah, No Kidding.
(I hated the pic they had for this result, so I made my own with four of my favorite tootsies.)

 
posted by Bsti @ 3:40 PM ¶ comments

Any speculation as to what this might be?
 
posted by Bsti @ 2:58 PM ¶ comments (2)

"Strongly Cautioned. Some material in your journal may be inappropriate to younger or close-minded people. This signifies that your journal is probobly inappropriate for pre-teens. people should be especially careful about adding you because they could possibly be offended. Rough or persistent violent talk is absent; sexually-oriented nudity is generally absent; some talk of drug use may be present from time to time in your journal; You may find a fair amount of sex talk here."
What rating is your journal?
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posted by Bsti @ 2:25 PM ¶ comments

Well, I got enough comments and e-mails about the blogroll~
Problem 1
"You realize that your JavaScript blogroll doesn?t show up in anyone else?s blogsphere and that it is completely ignored by Googlebot and SlurpCat? With the way your site is configured, only sites listed on the main page count."

Problem 2
"My referer logs just show you as blogrollinr873487rewriufufasiuer-08353-85u or some such thing."

And general Problem 3 is that people just aren't seeing the link on the left that opens in a new window.
But the thing is, we need the referrer logs to point straight back to the Chapel, or else no one's ever going to know we are here!
So, okay, there they all are, in all their Glory, to the left.
I hope that's okay with my Site-Goddess............
 
posted by Bsti @ 1:36 PM ¶ comments (3)

Oh.
Well, then.
U.S. report on 9/11 to be 'explosive'
"A long-awaited final report on the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks will be released in the next two weeks, containing new information about U.S. government mistakes and Saudi financing of terrorists."

That's all Well And Good, indeed predicted, but then you read this bit~
"Roemer called the report a 'well-written narrative that will be summer reading for adults the way Harry Potter is for kids.''

Because we like to laze around in the summer on our hammocks with a margarita and casually peruse a page or two about what is arguably the most horrific human tragedy to ever hit the United States before we drift off into our afternoon nap.
Romance!
Intrigue!
Action!
Suspense!
Death of thousands of innocents due to an inept government who does business with shady dictators!

Sadly?
It still won't outsell Living History or Traitors or The No Spin Zone.
Or even Harry Potter. 
posted by Bsti @ 1:19 AM ¶ comments (1)

The latest issue of Gothic Beauty Magazine had some nifty stickers and a URL that led to
 
posted by Bsti @ 9:37 PM ¶ comments

Found this bit at Technorati~
"looki here a panicgrab fave link nominee... chapel-perilous ...the
(Link created 52 days 20 hours 51 minutes ago)"

Did we win? I don't know ! I can't read the site!
"chapel-perilous...the........"
the what!?!?
We ain't linked to the main site, and the archives seem to point elsewhere to ad-sites, so I have no idea what's going on.

Also, I wonder if I should suck it up and put A Small Victory back in the BlogRoll.
She'll never link to us, but it IS a pretty good blog........okay, yeah, I think I will.
(Ancient Chapelers will remember how bent out of shape I got when I discovered that, although I had been a visitor at that site through thick and thin, we didn't seem to exist at all in her Blogiverse. It's like when you visit family and everybody goes "who the hell are YOU?") 
posted by Bsti @ 9:15 PM ¶ comments (4)

Life Is Hard, Eating Is Easy
65% of Americans are overweight, 30% morbidly obese.
Many over-eat not because they are hungry or need fuel, but because they are sad, lonely, anxious, bored, or merely to escape day-to-day stress.
I have a hard time getting my mind around this concept.
Maybe it's because I lived "on the streets" for several years and food was very hard to come by.
I had to deal with all of those emotions without the benefit of a Fat-Burger and Super-Sized Fries.

But it does remind me of a time when I was given a booklet filled with Free Fries coupons from McD.

I cashed them all in at once.

There was another time when all I had to eat for a week was an onion and a bottle of ketchup, and nothing to cook the onion with.

So I wonder if the US is the only country that deals with emotional stress by cramming food in in their face.

I guess it's a matter of cutural perspective--we are a country with more food than we know what to do with.
A country that considers Eating Contests a "sport". 
posted by Bsti @ 6:03 PM ¶ comments (5)

As Heard On The O'Reilly Factor~
"This issue with the Bush SOTUA is turning into a 'kabuki dance'."

That's an interesting way of putting it.
Three o'clock this morning I'm watching The History Of Sex~The Eastern World.
They had a great piece on the Chinese practice of foot binding, but that's beside the point.

They stated that the Kabuki was a classic Japanese theatrical form using common or comic themes, with fantastical costumes, stylized gestures, music and dance, and with all-male casts.

Initially, it was a showcase for boy prostitutes.

Boy-love was a given in ancient Japan. The love of chigo (a boy aged 10 to 17) by Buddhist priests was a tradition, as, in the mode of ancient Greece, was the love of wakashu (a youth aged 13 to 20) by samurai warriors. Shudo, the love of young men, became a staple feature of Kabuki literature."

Did you freakin' know that?? I sure didn't!
Don't think I'll be able to look at a Samurai the same way again.....except Samurai Jack.
He has no time for trivial mortal pursuits such as sex.

But how does it relate to Bush's SOTUA SNAFU?? 
posted by Bsti @ 5:45 PM ¶ comments

Oldest known world boggles minds
12.7-billion-year-old planet raises questions about origins
"Astronomers have discovered the oldest known planet, a primeval world 12.7 billion years old that will force them to reconsider how and when planets form. The discovery raises the prospect that life may have begun far sooner than most scientists ever imagined."

While I'm here, anyone else lose all the cool functions on the Google Toolbar?
It's still blocking ads, but all the buttons are gone, including the handy-dandy BlogThis! feature.
It's still in beta so I guess they're just tweeking it.
Or Just Plain tweeking.
 
posted by Bsti @ 4:49 PM ¶ comments

I actually saw this on another blog, but don't remember which~ this particular pic "giggled me up"

From Good Girl Comic Covers 
posted by Bsti @ 4:44 PM ¶ comments

~ Wow - the ULTIMATE corset shop ~
Dark Garden




Makers of fetish, bridal, fantasy and leather corsets, ready to wear corsets, corset dresses, and even mens corsets! 
posted by olivia @ 3:38 PM ¶ comments

Final Score~ 217. 
posted by Bsti @ 1:42 PM ¶ comments

On Attempts At Sleep

There are specific excercises that get me to sleep. The ultimate goal is an OBE, but more than often I like to dip in to the Stream Of Consciousness.
It's real easy.
As you are going through the motions of releasing yourself from the constraints of the flesh, as the nothing sets in, look for a band of blue light down below you.
That's the Stream.

It's a brilliant, ever-changing stretch of river that catches every thought thunk.
Go down there, you get to listen to all manner of conversations.
It's funny because you'll hear billions of people talking at once, yet each voice is clear and distinct.

The Stream is all the world's thoughts, ever flooding forward, ever creating what we call Time.

If a thought fell to deaf ears, would the subC be around to hear it? 
posted by Bsti @ 2:24 AM ¶ comments (2)

I discovered why I don't care much for the cartoon Stripperella~
Pamela Anderson is the Protagonist.
If it were anyone else, or preferably no one famous, I think I'd be more into it.
Slap her name and likeness on it, and it's too......desperate, like this is the last avenue she has to expose herself.
She's already done everything else.
I just don't care for "Pammie", and don't think I ever will.
But if that's what you like,go look at it.

I imagine the cancellation episode as Vampirella knocking her about for 20 minutes before tying her up and devouring her slowly.
Oooops. I said that out loud.

Wait, I thought of something else, unrelated.
I'll bet someone has already said this, but don't you think SARA LEE should sue Spike Lee for sullying their good name?
If Spike can sue a cable station over a name (that isn't even his real name,or even close)
couldn't Sara Lee sue for any association to those horrible movies he made? 
posted by Bsti @ 1:47 AM ¶ comments

Hmm, didn't know this could be done~learn something new every day.
Feedster :: RSS Search Engine: An assortment of most images from a day in the blog world.

Wonder what RSS means. We probably can't do that on Blogger?
 
posted by Bsti @ 8:20 PM ¶ comments (4)

Rat Brain Cells Draw with Robot Arm
"Rat brain cells in a US lab are painting pictures with a robot arm in Australia in a project aimed at creating and understanding a hybrid entity that can learn and express itself through art.

The neural activity of a few thousand rat neurons in a special cell-sustaining petri dish controls the arm.

The arm grips three colored markers above a white canvas and draws on different portions of the canvas with different combinations of colors depending on the neurons' electrical activity.

Although the robot's drawings are similar to those of a three-year-old child's scribbles, the so-called 'semi-living artist' is significant because it's a step towards bridging the gap between biological and artificial systems."

I think I saw this episode of The Twilight Zone.

 
posted by Bsti @ 8:04 PM ¶ comments (2)

 
posted by Bsti @ 4:37 PM ¶ comments (3)

Strange events on distant Pluto
"Something unexpected is happening on distant Pluto - the outermost planet.
Although it is receding from the Sun, its atmosphere is getting thicker, puzzling astronomers who expect it to 'freeze-out' and contract in about 10 years."

 
posted by Bsti @ 3:54 PM ¶ comments (1)

A User's Guide to Time Travel
"All it takes is a grasp of theoretical physics, control of the space-time continuum, and maybe a ball of cosmic string."

See Also
Being Invisible
"Next-gen optical camouflage is busting out of defense labs and into the street. This is technology you have to see to believe."
^{via S*T*A*R*E*} 
posted by Bsti @ 3:33 PM ¶ comments

The Pentagon's Plan for Tracking Everything That Moves
Big Brother Gets a Brain
"The cameras are already in place. The computer code is being developed at a dozen or more major companies and universities. And the trial runs have already been planned.

Everything is set for a new Pentagon program to become perhaps the federal government's widest reaching, most invasive mechanism yet for keeping us all under watch. Not in the far-off, dystopian future. But here, and soon."

^{via bad attitudes} 
posted by Bsti @ 1:01 PM ¶ comments

Just Wrong~
Profiting From The Columbine Tragedy 
posted by Bsti @ 12:49 PM ¶ comments (5)

That Zebra cow pic Cait sent us has been driving me crazy because I know zebras & horses can breed, but I don't think cows can join that mix as they are bovine rather than equine:
Zebra Hybrids
Zebra hybrid is an all-encompassing term for a zebra crossed on any other equine. The term Zorse is to used to describe the cross of a zebras stallion to a horse mare. Other terms seen are Zebroid, Zony (zebra x Pony) or Zeony. Zebra -donkey crosses are termed Zebroid, Zebrass, Zonkey or Ze-donk. A more romantic (but not technically accurate) term that has recently surfaced is "Golden Zebra", used for any zebra hybrid. The once popular term "Zebra mule" is no longer used either.
 
posted by niqkita @ 12:46 PM ¶ comments (2)

TWIN KITTIES

I think this sleepy fellow must be the twin to the one whose pic Beastie posted yesterday. Amazingly enough, I hadn't seen the picture Beastie posted, but this one is one of my wallpapers. Can't have too many cute cat pics.

 
posted by Cait @ 11:22 AM ¶ comments

If you are into such things, check this guy out~
David H. Hackworth
"Col. Hackworth is a true Soldier's Soldier that hasn't sold out to the Pentagon Political War Machine. He served in the US Army as both enlisted and officer from World War II through to Vietnam. As a civilian, he now reports on military affairs and is not afraid to call 'em as he sees 'em, and oftentimes it's not pretty. He isn't afraid of pointing out the difference between a true soldier honoring their commitment oath and one just going through the motions to maintain the status quo.

Those that run the military and the industrial war complex hate him. The soldiers in the field love him. He wouldn't have it any different."

An excerpt from his site~

"As we crammed 50 soldiers in to two medium frame tents near a pond of dead fish which was also infested with mosquitos and there was absolutely no field sanitation support for miles, he {their colonel} was living in his own room inside an air conditioned building, had his own king size bed, his own bathroom, his own refrigerator, and his cappuccino machine."

This is the guy Oliver North wishes he was.
Which?
The colonel in the fancy tent or the honest soldier?
Welllll, we already know he once was a colonel in a fancy tent........ 
posted by Bsti @ 2:28 AM ¶ comments (1)

Cait is rapidly becoming one of the funniest blogs I read daily.

Other witty bloggers~
Brittney.
Rebecca.
-=e=-
and, of course, Maru.

I'm not very funny. It takes too much effort. 
posted by Bsti @ 2:01 AM ¶ comments (1)

Yummy's right, this is clever~
FOUND Magazine
""We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework, to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles - anything that gives a glimpse into someone elses life. Anything goes..."

I love the FOUND item of the week.
"we're chugging along in the letter-- friends, friends, want to be friends-- and then she drops the bomb. awesome surprise ending."

 
posted by Bsti @ 12:59 AM ¶ comments

Betcha Cait's already seen these~
 
posted by Bsti @ 10:09 PM ¶ comments (1)

"You can observe a lot by watching."

"Quotable Quotes"?
Sounds more to me like Yogi Berra just had a few screws rattling freely in that skull.

Of Yogi, GW Bush says "I know some of the press corps thinks he's my speech writer."

Don't flatter yourself, DubDub. 
posted by Bsti @ 8:56 PM ¶ comments

I added the moon and stars...she reminded me of Niqi gazing out at the night.
Wanted the stars to twinkle, but that was too difficult. 
posted by Bsti @ 6:52 PM ¶ comments

Disclaimer~Naughty
 
posted by Bsti @ 3:01 PM ¶ comments

What conservative Christians demand to know?

As an aside, betcha nobody saw my Hannity post yesterday.
It will appear and disappear here and there for Google purposes. 
posted by Bsti @ 2:52 PM ¶ comments (1)

CAT TALES

Whitley Strieber's Unknown Country: New Wave of Cat Mutilations

Many years ago, I worked at a cat shelter in Denver.
There was a this old lady who "volunteered" three-four times a week.
Basically, since it was a public building, she just came and fed the cats.
Never cleaning, mind you, for this shelter held 250 cats, and I got to clean up after them every day. Poor kitties only got a few minutes of human contact, a big scary shop-vac to swallow their mess, and the cage closed.......

Anyway, this lady thought every day was Ash Wednesday and had a fresh new smudge between her eyes every time we saw her.

I remember once when she got into a fist-fight with a pretty young muslim veterinarian student who came by once a week to treat the cats in Isolation. Girl would not let Old Lady into the IW because she kept interfering with treatments.

I worked at this shelter from the ground up, and after two years running we decided to have a Grand Opening.
Four Rooms of rows of cages piled three high, each with an adorable cat or two or three or four, and I took it upon myself to name every one of them.

I knew them all, how they reacted to their environment, to each other, to me, so it was rather easy. They practically named themselves.

Old Lady was told in clear terms to stay away on Grand Opening Day, as it was obvious she would scare potential adopters away.
You see, she loved the cats so much, she didn't want any of them to leave.

Sure enough, she shows up right when it's actually starting to draw a crowd, pulls out a tool belt full of needles, and proceeds to vaccinate these cats right in front of families agape in horror.

You know how cats react to needles.

Long story short, she needed to be forcibly removed from the premises by the Denver Police--in front of the horror-gaping families.

So I recommend to the Denver Police regarding these recent cat mutilations---look in your records for a mug-shot of a wild-eyed old lady with a smudge on her forehead.

Sorry, I never caught her name.


Another story about those days~
This shelter was strictly non-euthenasia.
We treated all cats the same--even the feral ones, and we had quite a few of those.
Strangely, the feral ones never bothered the tamer residents.

There was this one huge grey tabby named THOR.
I named him, of course.
He lived on the top floor of a three story setup, a position of power and prestige befitting his nature.
He was, however, at the end of what we called The Long Line, a stretch of warehouse lined with cages three-high on both sides, most of the critters too mean to be considered adoptable.

These were the hard cases, the one we dealt with....later, so to speak.
Because you gotta get the cute, fuzzy,amicable ones adopted and out you know.

But we never killed a cat because of it's disposition, or any other reason for that matter.

Every day THOR waited for me to finally reach his end of the compound. He watched me, shop-vac in hand, a scoop of food and water and as many kind words and good-kitty-kitty's as I could fit in as I tended to each tenant.

At least three times, he waited until I got to his section, jimmied the latch on his cage ( i actaully witnessed how he did it once) and batted furiously at me.

I still have scars.
This was not a cat that would tolerate a routine nail trim.
Once he had a fun time hiding from my co-worker while he imagined I was a tree.

Funny thing is we never had to persuade him to return to his pen. He did it very willingly, and I'll bet with great satisfaction.


I adopted two cats from that shelter, brother and sister, when they arrived as 6 month old kittens.
When our shelter first got them, they had the priviledge of living together in their own pen, complete with play-toys and plenty of room (considering) to be kitten-like.
But Old Lady didn't like that, and put the Sister in a PET CARRIER, relocated her atop two other cages in another room.
Her reason was that Sister had an upper-respiritory infection.

This cat was healthy, and I complained to the BOD to no avail. They didn't want to piss off Crazy Old Lady who donates money to the shelter.

(I should mention here that I did sneak Sister into Brother's pen so they could play, despite the risk of losing my job and 250 friends.)

Two weeks later, Sister was depressed as hell by the seperation and being stuffed into a suitcase, and actually got sick.
The irony here is that she was NEVER TREATED by Old Lady for the URI she got because of Old Lady.
She never reported it, and since I had to visit 250 cats a day and had no experience with such things.....
Once it was discovered, we gave her antibiotics and such and I decided that the two should not be seperated, so I adopted them both.

She quickly regained her health and the two were bouncing about my small studio apartment.
We'd turn off all the lights and they'd romp around with each other, and because of the static electricity in Denver, sparks would flash in the dark as their claws made contact with anything else.

But because she wasn't treated for the infection in time, she retained the most peculiar, low, gutteral meaow.
Sounded like a goblin.
Well, Brother died suddenly with FeLV, and Sister was alone again, but she did live a long life, even got to see Sheyn grow up to 8 years old. which means she lived to about 13, survived many cross-country moves, and only rarely ever complained. and when she did, it was with that low, unassuming goblin-growl.
I loved that cat.
Here is the only picture I have of her, and with an itty -bitty Sheyn in my lap. She's making sure I'm holding him right, such an attentive feline was she.
Used to curl up with us at nap-time.
I see alot of her in Phranq.

Soon, I decided to go into animal abuse investigation on my own, as we were getting many calls a day and Denver police and fire wanted nothing to do with them at that time.
Ironically, I discovered that the heads of the Board of Directors OF OUR BELOVED SHELTER were holding at least another 200 cats in a warehouse in the industrial district--the cats that don't make it to our ARAS.
I went to see for myself, and found such horrors there, I will not describe.
Such indescribable horrors.

I reported them and of course lost my job. And the shelter was closed.

Sometimes I just can't bear to think what became of all those cats, my friends,
after I got the shelter
I helped build
shut down.
 
posted by Bsti @ 2:38 AM ¶ comments (3)

Gothic Foot Care?
 
posted by Bsti @ 5:12 PM ¶ comments (1)

TNN Network Can Call Itself Spike TV
"Filmmaker Spike Lee and Viacom have settled a lawsuit Lee filed to keep the media giant from calling its TNN cable television network.

Lee, whose real name is Shelton Jackson Lee, said he objected to being associated with low-brow programming.

While the case was pending, Lee was in Los Angeles filming 'Sucker-Free City' for Showtime, a cable network owned by Viacom."

I don't really care what they call themselves--TFNFM would have been fine, IMO.
I just wanted to take this opportunity to say Shelton Jackson Lee is an IDIOT, and because he is an idiot, I have no desire to see anything he's ever made or will make in the future.
 
posted by Bsti @ 5:09 PM ¶ comments (3)

Tila~not bad, though we've seen better~

via Coolio's Babelog.
 
posted by Bsti @ 3:58 PM ¶ comments

Irony
IOL : Cooped-up locals angry about Bush visit
"US President George Bush made an eloquent speech but did not win many friends during his brief visit to Goree Island off Senegal on Tuesday.

N'diaye and other residents of Goree, site of a famous slave trading station, said they had been taken to a football ground on the other side of the quaint island at 6am and told to wait there until Bush had departed, around midday.

Bush came to Goree to tour the red-brick Slave House, where Africans were kept in shackles before being shipped across a perilous sea to a lifetime of servitude.

He then gave an eloquent speech about the horrors of slavery, standing at a podium under a sizzling sun near a red-stone museum, topped by cannon pointing out to the sea.

The cooped-up residents were not impressed.

'It's slavery all over again," fumed one father-of-four, who did not want to give his name. "It's humiliating. The island was deserted.'



'We never want to see him come here again.'"
 
posted by Bsti @ 3:27 PM ¶ comments (2)

Copycat?
ABCNEWS.com : Driver Hits Man, Body Stuck in Windshield
The poor kid (Dradeen) was in the wrong place at the wrong time."

Wrong place, wrong time? WTF? 
posted by Bsti @ 2:58 PM ¶ comments

I'm really likingBADATTITUDES JOURNAL~ Doolittle knows of which he speaks.

“While Africa may be important, it doesn’t fit into the national strategic interests as far as I can see.”
— George W. Bush during his campaign for the presidency.

And it turns out both Bush and I were incorrect in assuming it isn't in our National Interest~
"The oil fields of Nigeria and Angola and Libya and Algeria, the mineral riches of Congo — these are the goals."

Pat Robertson is already all over those riches in the Congo-I hear whispers that the Carlyle Group is also involved.

But again it comes down to this admission~
Had Saddam not been considered a threat, we would probably have heard this~
"While Iraq is important, it doesn’t fit into the national strategic interests as far as I can see."

Therefore, no liberation of Iraqis.
It's high time to face up to the fact that the liberation of Iraqis was a result but not the goal, therefore the name "Operation Iraqi Freedom" is this close to a bald-faced lie.
All presidents lie, not just Bush. Every single president in my lifetime has lied, and most likely every president before that, but as Americans it matters little to us--in fact, it's somewhat expected.
The Ends Justify The Means, and we can get back to watching American Idol and wondering when J-Lo and Ben Affleck will break up.

 
posted by Bsti @ 1:56 PM ¶ comments

Update on an earlier post~
White House "Backs Off" Claim on Iraqi Buy
"The Bush administration acknowledged for the first time yesterday that President Bush should not have alleged in his State of the Union address in January that Iraq had sought to buy uranium in Africa to reconstitute its nuclear weapons program.

The statement was prompted by publication of a British parliamentary commission report, which raised serious questions about the reliability of British intelligence that was cited by Bush as part of his effort to convince Congress and the American people that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction program were a threat to U.S. security."

Ari tried to spin out of it and ended up crashing.
But here's the question~
If the WH was "incorrect" about this, is it at all possible that it was "incorrect" about other things?
I say PROBABLY.
Still, I can't wait to see what my favorite conservative bloggers are blogging about this.


 
posted by Bsti @ 1:27 PM ¶ comments

 
posted by niqkita @ 12:11 PM ¶ comments (2)

Wired News: Alien Solar System Much Like Ours: "British astronomers say they found the first sun-like star with a giant gas planet in an orbit similar to Jupiter's, which leaves plenty of room for worlds like Earth and Mars. Scientists believe that the presence of a giant planet in a position like Jupiter's is key to the development of advanced life on a smaller planet closer to the host star. The big planet acts as a vacuum cleaner for the rest of the system, sweeping up interplanetary debris like asteroids, which could snuff out life on the inner planets in fiery collisions. Even if it turns out that this system is not able to harbor a terrestrial planet in a circular habitable zone orbit, it will still be significant in that it is close to being (our) solar system's clone." 
posted by niqkita @ 11:43 AM ¶ comments

ingenium
A wise 12 year old transient once cautioned me to never utter this word aloud, but since it's the blogiverse, it's not literally uttering.

RAAGIOSL.
There, I've done it, thrown caution to the seas.
Apophis
⁹³ 
posted by Bsti @ 2:16 AM ¶ comments

Who IS this guy??

I don't know but it smells like a forest floor in there.
Like moss freshly pulled from a fallen tree.

Any Chapelers remember when I used to describe blogs I found by smell?
That was fun exersize, but never caught on.

One random blogger I found used to describe blogs by taste, so I went with smell.
Basically, it went like this~
Visit a Random Blog and describe it's smell according to your impressions of it's design.
Example~
Locked Doors
Smells like cinnamon, air-dried sheets, a bit of green apple, ballpark hotdogs.

Just my first impression.  
posted by Bsti @ 1:54 AM ¶ comments (3)

You probably already read it over at Toohey World, but...
God Diagnosed With Bipolar Disorder
"In a diagnosis that helps explain the confusing and contradictory aspects of the cosmos that have baffled philosophers, theologians, and other students of the human condition for millennia, God, creator of the universe and longtime deity to billions of followers, was found Monday to suffer from bipolar disorder."

This is something I've always suspected, at least where the bible's description of God is concerned.
But there's an accompanying picture~

C'mon, not even close.
 
posted by Bsti @ 1:21 AM ¶ comments

My Impression Of Niqi At Work~
Tooka taktiktak tookatook tak tak tikatook.........tooktook.
Takatakatak tika.........tikatakatooktook.
(((sigh)))
tookatakaktiktak tookatookatookatak tikntatakatak
tooka..................tookatook...............taktak.....
tickaticka..........
TIKATAKATOOKTOOKATAKATICKTIKIETAK.........!
tooktooktooktooktooktook...........tacka............tikatak
takarakatiktaktiktooktook!
 
posted by Bsti @ 10:33 PM ¶ comments (4)

WishList Item #4365
Giant Shoe-Shaped House Up For Sale
 
posted by Bsti @ 9:58 PM ¶ comments

I think it's time to repost this painting Sebastian Parish (check out his work, fantastic occultish images) did of Niqi in those same loverly shoes and stripeys as posted down below...

 
posted by Bsti @ 8:36 PM ¶ comments

This guy only rarely posts something I agree with~
To Heck with Liberia!
"Of all places for the U.S. to intervene militarily, why oh why does it have to be Liberia?

I'll tell you why: political correctness. Liberia, you see, gives us a chance to 'liberate' a country populated by blacks, and, furthermore, one that was supposedly founded by 'freed slaves.' So, you see, America is the 'mother country,' in this case, and we have an obligation to bail out the Liberians, who are really, in a sense, long-lost Americans.

Except that none of these assertions are true.

Liberia was founded, not by freed slaves, but by the American Colonization Society (ACS), an uneasy coalition of slave-holding Southerners and moderate abolitionists who believed that blacks roaming free in the U.S. could only mean trouble. So they determined that the best course would be to ship them back to Africa: exactly the position taken today by white supremacists. "

 
posted by Bsti @ 5:19 PM ¶ comments (2)

I think I will miss Ari "Bizarre-y" Fleischer simply because it was always fun to watch him stumble over himself defending the lies.
via HNN who says
"Fleischer is quitting his job so he can spend the rest of his life in atonement for his sins at being a shill for this administration's immoral policies. I'm sure Fleischer felt like he needed to take a shower after this morning exchange about the Niger fabrication." 
posted by Bsti @ 5:02 PM ¶ comments

AWolf points out that I'd had to know the correct answers in order to get the result "Chaos Magickian".
Indeed, though I didn't know what the possible alternative results would be, and never bothered to check as I was satisified with my result.
But it made me curious, so I purposely answered the questions to get the following result~

You are probably Christian. You wouldn't faintly
understand Magickal practices if they hit you
directly in the face! *Go back to your
herd!Sheep!Sheep!Sheep!*


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I would point out that I know plenty of Chaoticians who are also Sheep.
Organized groups of Chaotikers is pretty much a contradiction, so I laugh at them.
 
posted by Bsti @ 4:43 PM ¶ comments

This week's Theme at GBC~
~ Fetish Footwear ~
Post pictures of your fancy shoes, stompy boots, stripey socks, or whatever else you wear on your feet!
My Entry~

 
posted by Bsti @ 4:19 PM ¶ comments (4)

Dear Fox "News"~
You are calling the conflict in the Congo "The Forgotten War".
If you truly wish to be as honest as you claim to be, please rename it
"The Unreported War."
It can't really be "forgotten" if nobody knows about it in the first place.
The only reason it's being reported now is because Bush off to do a photo-op there, otherwise, admit it, you wouldn't be reporting on it.

Meanwhile, General Tommy Franks said something quite revealing as he stepped down from Central Command~
"Today I Become An Honest Man." 
posted by Bsti @ 3:47 PM ¶ comments

Gulper Eel?
I 'ardly know 'er!
(get it??)
Catch of the day? Fangtooth, snotthead, Gulper eel, goblin shrimp -

Mmmm, I'd sure like to be goblin' shrimp right now......... 
posted by Bsti @ 2:39 PM ¶ comments

Found LifeStudent in the referrals.
Quite the amusing flash banner....... 
posted by Bsti @ 1:31 PM ¶ comments

Hulk doll's monster willy
SHOCKED six-year-old Leah Lowland checked out a mystery bulge on her Incredible Hulk doll — and uncovered a giant green WILLY.

Curious Leah noticed a lump after winning the monster, catchphrase “You wouldn’t like me when I’m angry,” at a seaside fair.

And when she peeled off the green comic-book character’s ripped purple shorts, she found the two-inch manhood beneath them.

Horrified Leah immediately ran to mum Kim and reported the find. And last night Kim called for a ban on the saucy toy. She said: “A hulk with a bulk like this just shouldn’t be allowed."

via NewsFilter. 
posted by Bsti @ 2:29 AM ¶ comments (3)

Shocker!
Coalition troops looted and vandalized the Iraqi airport that now must be rebuilt
"Much has been written about how Iraqis complicated the task of rebuilding their country by looting it after Saddam Hussein's regime fell. In the case of the international airport outside Baghdad, however, the theft and vandalism were conducted largely by victorious American troops, according to U.S. officials, Iraqi Airways staff members and other airport workers. The troops, they say, stole duty-free items, needlessly shot up the airport and trashed five serviceable Boeing airplanes.

U.S. estimates of the cost of the damage and theft begin at a few million dollars and go as high as $100 million."

That's okay though, because the oil is going to pay for it all. 
posted by Bsti @ 1:49 AM ¶ comments

Bleeding edge goth dolls 
posted by niqkita @ 1:31 AM ¶ comments (1)

via presurfer. 
posted by Bsti @ 1:07 AM ¶ comments

WTF?!? 
posted by Bsti @ 8:30 PM ¶ comments (3)

THE TEN WORST COMEDIANS EVER

I guess Dennis Miller would be #11. 
posted by Bsti @ 5:07 PM ¶ comments

I rarely ever visit Yellow Times, let alone link to any of it's articles, but this guy has a point~
An all-American pout
"The United States has long resisted the notion that anyone would ever have the right to hold Americans accountable. Washington has bristled at criticism over the detention of Afghans at Guantanamo and has been quite contemptuous of those who rebuke them for what is allegedly inhumane treatment of these prisoners.
Even more, they show nothing but disdain for critics who point out this detention exercise is treatment the U.S. would not accept if done to American citizens by some other nation.


The American administration --- and not only the current administration ---has long criticized other countries, particularly Europeans, over the issue of agricultural subsidies while blithely ignoring the massive subsidy system on which American agriculture is built. They genuinely believe that terrorist activities are abhorrent while at the same time hold a long track record of terrorism committed by the United States against other nations; American atrocities are in the best interest of the U.S. and certainly couldn’t be considered the same thing as terrorism.

But effective July 1, 2003, the U.S. made good on a threat to take its ball and go home. The American Service Members Protection Act of 2002 threatened to withdraw any military assistance from countries which thought it was fair that all nations should be playing by the same rules.

The United States has lobbied hard for all signatories to the ICC charter to exempt Americans from any possible prosecution. The United States itself is not a signatory to this charter and does not believe that any law, other than its own, should apply to it. In effect, the United States does not believe that anyone else has the right to judge the actions of the U.S. or its citizens, although the U.S. certainly expects everyone else to march to its drumbeat.
The U.S. further has no problem with the idea that other countries and their citizens can be prosecuted by the ICC, just not good ol’ Americans."



 
posted by Bsti @ 5:02 PM ¶ comments

You are a Chaos Magician! You posess the
"gnosis" which leads to power and
truth. You will succeed, for you do not conform
or accept conformity of any kind. I bow the
divinity to you! *claps*


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posted by Bsti @ 3:26 PM ¶ comments (2)

Found another Excellent Shiny Community in LJ~
creatures bound in stripes' Journal
For instance, take a gander at this great photo-set~

And this one~

And this one~

One of the members there made these Crazy Socks~

Oh, yeah, then there's This.
 
posted by Bsti @ 2:27 PM ¶ comments

Through Technorati I discovered that Fun Junkie not only visits the Chapel, but got Hacked for that July 6 Bullshnit hackday stoopidity.
I had nothing to do with it.
So now you may link to the Chapel, FJ, just like I asked you repeatedly to.

then there's Everything Burns which I think is an excellent name for a blog.

Then, Schizoid Man and Idiot which really needs more reading, probably should be blogrolled AWolf, and pan!cgrab which I could not read,
and of course those I love and cherish, (the usual suspects)
CaiterWauling
Attu
Post-Atomic
BillMonkMadMan (when are you EVER going to update??)
the kids at Coolio's
Candice at Aberrant News
S*T*A*R*E (you know I blog there too, right??)
The PreSurfer
Velvet Hammers (about freakin' time!)
Random Nuclear Strikes ( I am currently loving this blog,smart peeps there, for the most part)
Toohey World (Dude, you Need To write to me; fixed that glitch yet??)
and last but certainly not least,
YummyWakame, for it is She who designed this site, it is they who so entertain with loverly links, and such Good Friends!
See what happens when you tickle kitties with your feet????

Vinny was noticeably absent from the list, who I happen to know visits on occassion.


Through the Fetishize-Me URL I found
lilanthallis and socks ar fun (yay!)
and, strangely enough, this site!

C'mon, who doesn't need socks????
I should think the entire world could get their sock needs met in one place!!!

We Love Everyone who comes to the Chapel.
There are many in the blogroll that I'd like to see link to us, but the above are really the the only people that count.
Thank you for continuing to visit!



 
posted by Bsti @ 3:38 AM ¶ comments (5)

Who ARE these people??

Uh, Hi and welcome to the Chapel, you weird group of realtors you.
I've been looking around your Grow-A-Brain section, and it's quite impressive indeed!
I love meeting very strange strangers on the web.
I should mention that I have no idea how to operate a tie. I've only worn one once in my whole long life, and I'll likely never wear one again, as bad as that last time turned out.
Anyway, you know I'm just kidding. Glad to have you around, now go look at socks. You, or someone you know and love, wants those socks!
Seriously, the people are quite crazy, a restraining order is in the works, but until then see the tons of links they offer.

^{this is an attempt to make up for the shoddy write-up I gave them when they were first discovered, which they published, those crazy tie-wearing realtors. I merely called them a "weird little site" when they are so much more than that!
You kids are in my blogroll, I'll check ya every day.} 
posted by Bsti @ 2:57 AM ¶ comments (2)

Attacks By Iraqis Growing Bolder (washingtonpost.com)
"As many as 50 resistance fighters ambushed a U.S. military patrol early this morning, while another group wounded at least 17 soldiers in a mortar strike on an American base near here, bold attacks that demonstrated new organizational and weapons capabilities, soldiers and military officials said."

Posted for one reason, really~
Many Lefties are screaming that Bush's BRING'EM ON! statement has fueled these attacks.

Agreed, it was a stupid thing to say, but we are used to Bush saying stupid things off-script.
But seriously, I don't imagine these "resitance fighters" sitting around watching Fox News, and when Bush hustles about and smirks as he poops out a cowboy song they decide to take his threat literally.

"Oh Snap!
Okay Meester Boosh, you want we bring it on??"

The question I have~
Why did Bush say "Mission Accomplished" dring his photo-op on the aircraft carrier, when clearly the mission is NOT accomplished?
Is this not an indication that that he is lying, and that there might be far bigger lies behind this innocent one? 
posted by Bsti @ 2:29 AM ¶ comments (2)

Posted a few sock pix at check out the feet!'s Journal
I still love this one~
 
posted by Bsti @ 1:38 AM ¶ comments