Too Tired Tuesday (or: The Penalty for Manic Monday)

I don't have the energy to be charming or witty or fun, today. Due to my overexertions yesterday, it's a nakedblogging in bed day for Thorne. (Fibromyalgia sux) A couple quickies and then I need to get my "About Me" done for my website, Phoenix Rising Tattoo Arts and Inkblog, An Artist's Journey (It's been waaaay too long since I've updated over there).

Super Important is that everyone pick up the phone today to let Pelosi know that we want Bush/Cheney IMPEACHED now!!! The phone number is 202-225-0100. Read more and get link at Divajood's place.

Not near the urgency above, but important to lil ol me here in my personal microverse is my frustrated (and whining) plea for HELP in getting my rss feed set up/fixed!!!
Thornesworld is old blogger template hosted at my website. I could never get the atom feed to work, so I went to feedburner and added one (I think... I'm not sure it ever made it) The problem is, every time I submit my feed anywhere, or when I have feedburner check it, I get an error message. The message says either that I have multiple feeds, or that no feed can be found. Typing my feed addy from my settings doesn't seem to work, either. I used feedburner for my inkblog and it worked fine, but that is new blogger beta and hosted at blogspot.
Now I have a couple of folks wanting to read by feed who can't find my feed.
I'm not being a totally useless net dork; I've tried repeatedly to fix this myself, have asked at the blogger forums (no help), have asked at feedburner and a couple other places, all to no avail.
I'm at my wits end with this, and frustrated because I know how much I prefer to be able to receive feeds from my regularly read blogs, and how much greater a hassle it is to have to bookmark and go visit without knowing if new content has been posted. Anyone who can or is willing to help me, please keep in mind that I'm super new at and dumb about much of this. (Please be gentle, I'm also an oversensitive crybaby today due to off the chart pain levels.)

*note: BG just sent me this feed url. (Thanks for trying hon.) I tried to post it at my Yahoo 360 feeds and got the following message: Error: We were unable to fetch the feeds you requested. Please check the URLs and try again. (this is making me crazy)

Note on Manic Monday post: Sorry for being unclear. I was worn out by the time I got to it and tried for a brief bit of poetry to sum the day up. The pic is not me, but of one of my clients/my work. The pic is of a section of an ongoing project which will become a "Cottage/Spring Garden" themed full sleeve tattoo. When we get done with this one, we'll be starting on her other sleeve which will be Autumn in theme.


Here is another preview peek of my ink that has not yet been uploaded to the website. This is "Spirit Horse"

Because I'm a glutton for punishment and on devastatingly slow dialup I found this lil tidbit over at Feministing on a new drug which seems to be a chemical female solution to obesity and low libido both, while hopefully allowing you poor straight chicks to keep up with your men on Viagra or Cialis. Good luck, gals!

Free Association Sunday (and "Open Thread"?)

What a beautiful day it's been here in our awesome High Desert! Sunshine and our beloved dry heat (Only about 85 or so). Did a lil grocery shopping at our little local IGA market and came home and made egg salad sammies. Yummmmm! My GirlyBoi is making dinner now, and it smells la-la-liscious! (It's a kind of "Goulash" dish made with ground beef and zuccini with italian tomatoes and seasoning. We eat it hot with a generous dollop of sour cream.)

We've had a great time rewatching (re-viewing?) the Debate and the MSNBC post debate analysis, and really picking apart each answer (or non answer), as well as the media interviewers and their various biases.

I'm still in love with Mike Gravel. I find him refreshingly honest, charming, pointed and funny. He makes an even bigger impression during the post debate show where he attempts to answer where he's been for the last 35 years. His reply was "Under a Rock for the last 10". Forgive my paraphrase, but basically he said that when he left congress he was discouraged by his feeling of total failure to make a difference after being sucked into the political posturing and corruption. It took him some time to realize that he was part of alot of good things, and that it's important to put the power back in the hands of the american people. He actually called out Chris (somebody-or-other MSNBC guy) and said that Chris should be better making the decisions than out so-called representatives!!! Ha!!! I loved him!

Okay, I'm gonna do the Holllaaaah thing now for: The Existentialist Cowboy for his eloquent Op/Ed entitled How Bush lost the war, encouraged terrorists, and weakened the American military. He's already on my blogroll, if you haven't checked him out, do. If you have, go back and read this article!!!! Killer!!

Also I want to say a big, giant thank you to Dez for adding me to her blogroll! Wow. I'm blown away by the super excellent people who have been linking and rolling me. I want to thank her also for her very explicit (and very necessary for me) instructions on how to add The Fallen
.gif she has up at her blog.

My new favorite Priest is a Mad one over at Of course, I could be wrong... (Don't you just love that title?? I mean... really- have you ever heard a preacher say that before??) Welcome, MadPriest, as my token Clergy! (Be careful of this godsfull heathen lesbian... I might just bite yer butt!)

Oh!! PJ!! (That's capital "P", capital "J") This gal wandered over from OCICBW (above) and not only does she LOVE NIN, I found this:

Abortions are nasty. But forcing a woman to carry a pregnancy to term—if she can't afford to, if it threatens her health, if the pregnancy occurred through rape or incest, or if she just flat-out doesn't want to go through with it—is a violation of human rights. No individual, no church, no state, has the right to use a woman's body as a vessel without regard for the woman who already inhabits it.

at her blog, pointless
Pointless?
I don't think so.

And thanks to BlueGal, I have discovered this bright spirit of Improvisations: Arab Woman Progressive Voice
News and Commentary on Arab Women, Palestine, Cultural Politics, and Everything in Between. This woman describes herself and her blog thusly:

These are improvisations: neither a manifesto nor a treatise because life is too complicated for either. Yet, I'm improvising as an Arab--Palestinian-- woman with a progressive point of view always under construction. Since I often find myself caught between anti-Arab racism and arab reactionary politics, both of which threaten to gag me, I'm raising my voice against both, hoping in the process to contribute an improvised note to a progressive Arab blogosphere.

The first sitting of my blackwork sleeve. (Sorry for the crazy pic. I took it myself and didn't edit it upright. Just turn your laptop sideways... or your head)In homage to my Syrian ancestry. The central image is the word "Peace" in stylized Arabic. The theme for this sleeve is multi cultural graphic symbology which represents my ideals of wholeness and untiy and love and magick. (Stay tuned. I'll post more pics as I have the work done. Also, let me give credit where credit is due. The ink is my daughter's (and apprentice's) first attempt at tattooing living flesh. Kudos, Fawn!!!)

I'm sure I haven't mentioned this, previously, but I am of Syrian ancestry. I think I haven't mentioned it only because it's only mildly relevant to/part of - my self image. I'm pretty much an american "mutt"; Syrian, French, Welsh and Irish. (Dad Syrian and Welsh-Mom French and Irish). I consider my ethnicity only within the context of surveys, applications and bigotry. I'm not "white" or even "Caucasian", but I don't really fall into any of the other ethnic classifications, either. If I do have to check a box, it's "other". When we all decided that "Blacks" were no longer "blacks", but "African Americans", (Or in the case of my son in law, "Egyptian American" ?? Go fucking figure!!) I played with the thought that I'm still a mix. Somewhere between a "Middle East and European American"! It's fucking insane. I'm a global citizen! I'm a woman!!! A human-fucking-bean!!
Anyway, I'm likin' this Arab woman.


I checked in on Ro's blog for a few lil blurbs (so nice... no long winded soliloquies, just short, sweet comments and questions) and found this lil Ode to Ro. I love it.

Gary writes:

truth teller
wild woman
mama girl
unafraid
standin up
4 those that cant
speakin up
4 those who r silenced
hopin we all
learn a little better
to see the world
thru rosie-colored
glasses

Another thought provoking question from "Wanda"

Ro
Ro
Ro
Ro
Do u know another name for first responders? Witnesses.

Yup. This has been a pretty damned "free" association. Time for some mindless TV, or maybe a movie. G'nite all! Everybody please comment! Talk, write, cite, opine, link, joke, flame, bait... whatever. It's a Free for ALL!!

My Desert: A Peek for Balls and Walnuts

This is the view out of my front door, across my yard and toward the San Bernardino Mountains (Facing South-ish).(Early last year before we got some of the "funky" landscaping done. I'll take new pics when stuff gets blooming.


This view faces S/W-ish to one of the slightly greener areas of my vista. My front side yard where we are wont to gather and sit and enjoy. (When we're not under the shade of the front or side porch.


My kitchen garden, just to the East of the house. Just about 1000 sq.ft. of growing space. Across the driveway further east, is our vine garden; 3000 sf, enclosed (but no pics yet.) That's it for this morning, I have a tattoo client coming at 11am. I'll post more beautiful desert, soon.