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Editor’s Pick
FEBRUARY 11, 2009 8:11AM

He's Just Not That Into You, or My Heart is a Lump of Coal

i went to see he's just not that into you last night.  i can't even fathom why the movie was made.  here are the people  in that movie:

1. a woman who is about as desperate as the two most desperate women i know.  i know two women who, were they to travel … Read full post »

 

Freaky in Paris 

 

I know what a blow this will be to some of you.  Freaky graces our pages as many things.  An Octomom, a Cake-Eater, a Lawyer, and Indian Chief.  She certainly plays the innocent ingenue.

But, the above is an undoctored picture of Freaky Troll.  She live… Read full post »

NOVEMBER 6, 2009 4:36PM

screw the fear.

 it's too much. 

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the swine flu fear. 

the terrorist fear. 

the shooting fear. 

the open carry psychos fear. 

the smiting fear. 

the retribution fear. 

the homelessness fear. 

the hunger fear. 

the blizzard fear. 

the child as homeless… Read full post »

AUGUST 26, 2009 9:29PM

jane smithie photos

 

i finally got some pics on the computer.  for facebook, of course.  putting my old avatar up, for comparison, which i just realized, is fairly strong!

 

st bernard 

 

here are a couple.  it goes without saying i am not posting the worst pics i could find of myself. i… Read full post »

 

My son just showed me this trailer for 2081, a movie based on a short story from Kurt Vonnegut's Welcome to the Monkey House.  You will remember the story - the one where ballerinas wear weights so they can't leap too high, and smart people wear headphones with government… Read full post »

 

jane in the city 

me in a bryan harrison design.  i kept the yellow shoes, so as not to be too busy.  i have a necklace on too, that you can't even see.

 

 

jane at the beach 

me at the beach, after extensive surgery to remove all manner of saddle bags and such.  look… Read full post »

MAY 22, 2009 2:24PM

For Dakini Dancer

 

 

earth mother for dakini 

 

dakini

i see your last comment was encouragement

for one of your fellow travellers

me

and i feel shaken that

the gifts you gave with those few words

(for i was not the only one encouraged by you, on your last afternoon)

were possibly the last you gave… Read full post »

remember in the concert in the park where he says, "what aa night."

 

today, literally, could not have gone better.

 

could NOT.  unless someone gave us 5000 dollars.

 

short of that, nope.  couldn't have been better.

 

this moment, there is a thunderstorm over our head,… Read full post »

MARCH 28, 2009 10:42PM

Skank vs Skank - Bad Precedent?

 

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I think most will agree that this video makes the answer abundantly clear:  We are ALL Skanky enough for Reality TV.  Thereby laying to rest for once and for all the myth of the low skank-esteem of the Common Skank.

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I… Read full post »
FEBRUARY 14, 2009 7:21PM

Ten things about the ex

1.  many people consider him the most talented guitar player they know.  but he never ever plays a song all the way through.  he used to play and i would sing and we would laugh about becoming a coffee house act that only sings partial songs.  before he knew me he… Read full post »

DECEMBER 4, 2008 4:28PM

I Just Spoke With Barney Frank

Yes, that Barney Frank.  Barney Frank, Chair of the House Financial Services Committee.  Barney Frank whose wardrobe tarnishes the phrase gay man.   The conversation went like this:

JS:  Hi Mr. Frank.  My name is Jane, and I live in New York.  I am calling you… Read full post »

Editor’s Pick
DECEMBER 11, 2008 7:14AM

Homeschooling? Thinking out loud.

my boy has asperger's, which is a form of autism.  if you met him,  you would just think he is a little spacy and rude, if anything.  you would also notice that he is super smart.  everyone does, within a minute of meeting him.  everyone.

school is doing great working wi… Read full post »

FEBRUARY 26, 2009 3:20PM

Cat Tattoo

Badass
 

look how bad he is.  he has a tattoo.  this is my neice's hideous hairless.  however,  he has a hot hottie on his haunch. Read full post »

APRIL 30, 2009 4:07PM

Two Truths, One Lie

this is hard, because as someone with boundary issues, y'all know an awful lot about me.

 

 

1.  Aidan Quinn flat out flirted with me when I was a shopgirl in an eclectic antiques store.

2.  Paul Schaffer flat out told me to go away when I was following him down the… Read full post »

JULY 10, 2009 8:53PM

For FingerLakesWanderer

 

chicory 1 

 

 

chicory roadside 

 

 

roadside chicory 

 

 

chicory blossom 

 

 

chicory botanical 

 

 

alysum and chicory 

 

what a brave brave thing you have done.

 

 

 

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Editor’s Pick
JULY 26, 2009 8:25PM

What Nancy COULD Do

Nancy Patricia was my profoundly retarded older sister, born 15 months before me, in October of 1964.  There are so many of us, I cannot keep track of everyone's birthdays, so it might be September.  My mother had German Measles while pregnant, during their last outbreak ever, earlier… Read full post »

OCTOBER 19, 2009 8:51PM

omg i was so frigging cute!!!

 

sorry to interrupt my great xmas post, but someone posted pics of me on facebook from before i wore out, and here they are!

 

holly at 30
i ask you, was a girl ever cuter?  no!
thats me at age 30.

 

me at 33 
look how skinny i was!  thats me… Read full post »
MARCH 23, 2009 2:21PM

Open Call - Inslut Haiku

i have to name names

let me introduce myself:

that bitch jane smithie

APRIL 13, 2009 11:25AM

I like my boyfriend again

yeah.  weird.  its been a long long time.

a few weeks ago, while brain-storming with a friend on how NOT to kill the boyfriend like i am Norman Bates, she gave me a plan.  first - a three sentence background:  bf sneers or huffs or sighs or stiff… Read full post »

APRIL 16, 2009 10:46AM

My Father Has Died - Dirty Haiku

 

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My Father has Died

Fuckheads did not even call.

I will get their house.

 

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March 27th.

He was in the hospital

before that.  No call.

 

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Dirty Fucks left me out

Of… Read full post »

MARCH 15, 2009 9:47PM

Clyde Has Died

i posted this about clyde on the 19th of february.  he was not even sick.  i mean, nothing to speak of.  i sent him half a dozen valentines cards - i called it spamming with snail mail.  and i talked to him a couple weeks ago, and things were fine.  so… Read full post »

 

pinstriped denim  

 

DCVDickens wrote a great post about men's wardrobes, found here:

http://open.salon.com/blog/dcvdickens/2009/04/30/a_short_class_in_cultural_anthropology_a_play_in_one_act

I'd like to share with you some wardrobe oddities of Keith's.  We met in June of 2004. … Read full post »

JUNE 2, 2009 9:10AM

Happy Birthday Coyote!

 

happy birthday coyote  

 

i tried to find birthday clouds, and this cake came up. now that is a cake i would like to have for my own self, forget the one year old it was originally for.  oh my god there's even bumble bees.

 

and now, a poem:

 

there… Read full post »

JUNE 6, 2009 1:40PM

pole dancers are FIT!

 

or girls to bend you over the hood of a car, perhaps.

long blond hair and being skinny don't impress me.
but i am very impressed with the strength it must take to do this.
check out the one belly dancing upside down.
pretty sure i am turned on.… Read full post »

 

 mr

i dont think of anyone on here as being sexy.  some of the girls are prettier than others, sure.  but sessy?

 

i mean, mark ruffalo isnt here, so i am sexy-man-free.  unless i am thinking of the self that comes through in writing.

 

in which case, i… Read full post »