MASKED MEDIA

aloha me again,
the chocolate Andy Rooney typing in his bathrobe.
drugstore stiffed me on antidepressants again, will get all ethnic tomorrow when i have more energy.
up and down since 3 ayem, had a beautiful dream where i shook hands with Obama after bitching with others about the challenges he faced.(i listen to WAY TOO MUCH news,radio & TV)

Remember the movie THE DEER HUNTER and the firestorm it caused about Viet vets,what happened? it was on again last note,no biggie.lil changes in the mainstream. was telling Soul Mate aout what i might write about today and she found my explanation ICKY.will try to do better here.

there is a cult movie called CRASH,no not that one,this one stars James Spader,Holly Hunter and Kuri Wuhrer (sp?) and its about a subculture which makes a fetish out of car crashes and disfigurement.it is extremely well done and sexy despite being morbid and eccentric (sounds kinda like me huh?) now this CRASH caused nary a ripple but i think it redefines the meme of DISABILITY wherein we have to re-evaluate what is Sexy and/or Acceptable,our human normalcy beyond the Hollywood Heroic Crip image.we are not all Steven Hawking....
when i was SF State they had a Human Sexuality class (not mine damnit) where they showed videos of CRIP LOVEMAKING then had an actual nude demo of a male quad and his GF where he hammered his good fist aginst her clit until she orgasmed.neat huh?
WE ARE PEOPLE,SAME NEEDS & DESIRES JUST DIFFERENT CAPACITIES.

i have had to deal with many diminishing adjustments over the decades(diabetes,carpal tunnels,osteoarithrits,neuropathy,macular degeneration,Lyme deep muscle spasms and CNS poisoning,bad feet and knees,etc etc etc).at risk for going blind (still) a friend offered to describe PC porn images to me,whatta guy! not sure the blind programs add that feature yet?

the Berkeley PD put out a book on Crip Etiquette years ago and despite knowing beter i find myself making the same mistakes. when i was in a wheelchair for several years everyone talked to my caregiver like i wasn't even there (your basic Potted Plant Peter) .once when we went to the Gay Pride Parade and she was being ignored trying to push me thru i yelled out YOU'RE RIGHT.FROM DOWN HERE EVERYONE DOES LOOK LIKE ASSH*LES! still true.

grit your teeth for this part,collegespeak ahead.
we live in a Greco Roman heritage of Physical Perfection-see Da Vinci & Michelangelo,movie stars Brad & Angie et al ,despite this the Impressionists with all their flaws somehow managed to express their truths as a culturally relevant meme despite the static display of what passed for critical thinking in those days.WHAT YOU SEE OR EVEN THINK YOU SEE IS NOT ALWAYS WHAT YOU GET.(see Van Gogh sidebar)

same topic,another approach (for details Google Cargo Cult),the premise is that any technologically advanced culture will overwhelm then crush the more 'primitive cultures' it encounters (except Ancient Rome perhaps??? and maybe us?) which is why many fear the impact if UFOs are indeed real (don't worry they aren't. the truth is much worse). the Ancestors (so called Native Americans) were a shamanic based culture which accepted and not 'tolerated' diversity in all respects,including gayness.we were Not defective or broken,we were kindred.let me stop here before i get into a rant about massacres,smallpox blankets,gatling guns and broken treaties which continue even today.

PAUSE TAKE DEEP BREATHS...
when i was asked why i took LSD , like eons of esoteric occult veil lifting shaman types before me,i explained ITS LIKE FRENCH KISSING THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE,IMAGINE THAT.ya hadda be there...unlike many but not all acidheads, i used LSD to embrace The Divine thru Absolute Surrender and Meditation.the Universe IS a Van Gogh painting that breathes.OM OM OM...UM?

hmmm,seem to have derailed from my train of thot here.
VIDEODROME with James Woods and BLADE RUNNER offer alternate visions or lens to view reality as does great science fiction.(for you Rampster)
HP LOVECRAFT,ISAAC ASIMOV,PHILP K,DICK.ROBERT SILVERBERG, THEODORE STUREGEON,EE "Doc" SMITH even Charles Fort are the lenses which i used as a child and young adult,along with comix.i could go on,but i won't, with all the comix characters who are blind,deformed, cyborgs, amputees, mutants...you get the idea.
GIGO.

is this blog gone semi incoherent or is it just me?
we have to re-frame and re-imagine disability for the mass culture. IRONSIDE,LONGSTREET,TATE ,THE HULK were all TV series with disabled main characters.did any of them have a sex life or recreations, i don't remember. do you?
in other news,
my bad hip is killing me so i'll stop now.

DISABILTY SNARK YEA!
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2 -28 -09 Cat in a Dogs World does a Nice Job on ABLEISM & House MD 'misanthropic jerkitude'.well done,ver well done!!!

namaste
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