A Few Bits

I have ugly knees. Hell, they look like King Kong knees. Or Godzilla’s, if I haven’t moisturized. Is this because I’m old or because I’ve spent the last few years in bed? In bed recovering and shit. So, ugly knees are a result of too much hospital time and too damn much healing time. Right then, got it.

I don’t like my elbows or neck either.

And NO, dammit, there will be NO accompanying evidence (i.e., pics) to back up my accurate, depressing claim. You’re just gonna have to trust me on this—I know a less than beautious body part when I see one.

And did I mention that I’ve been cut loose from outpatient PT? Yes, yezzzzz…probably at least a dozen times already. Okay, okay. It’s just that this self-motivation shit is HARD work. Jen spots me on my early morning seawall walks. Ten keeps an eye on me when I do my ten support-free laps of the front porch and then my elliptical time. I AM getting strength building in on most days. Really! It’s just…this shit’s tedious as all motherfucking hell.

gratuitous Cake pic

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Why do those shitheelian, evangelical, preachers-on-the-grift never proclaim that hurricane devastation is, like Ian in Florida, a judgement on the afflicted for their hate, willful ignorance and despicable voting habits. Ya know, they’re very quick to make judgements about gay folk and AIDs.

Yes, yezzzz—I'm fully aware that not all Floridians are 45 and DeathSantis voting embarrassments to humanity. I get that Republi/Fascist engineered voter suppression is strong with this state.

My point is this—the asswipian con squad preachers never seem to have any hellfire to spew when the earth is seriously, justifiably pissed and does a little payback on populations with a large number of christian nationalist rubes.

Huh. Funny that.
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I’m now reading a deeply witty and fascinating book by Kate Lister, creator of the Whores of Yore website. The book? A Curious History of Sex.

I just finished a chapter on the origins of the word cunt. Did you know? Cunt didn’t begin it’s linguistic life as one of the nastiest of filthy insults. Of course that may just be here in the U.S. In Scotland, fer instance, cunt’s seen a bit differently.

It's one of those words that's so old, etymologists and linguists, they lose sight of it eventually. It's the oldest word for the vulva that we have in the English language. It might even be the oldest in the world. There are some theories. There are also similar cognitions in Germanic languages all across Europe. The Vikings would be talking about "kuntas," the Germans had “kuntō,” Dutch, “kont,” Germanic “kott,” and I think at one point we had "kott," which I think may be due for a revival.
~ a snippet from Kate Lister’s Ted talk at the University of Glasgow

Also, there’s the ancient Hindu goddess of fertility and wisdom, Kunti. By the by, she is Krishna’s auntie.

Don't you feel all culturally enriched now? Sure ya do!