The fucking queen is in ireland!

So a million years ago there were these Irish people who fought for self determination. Anyway there was a super sad hunger strike and Maggie Thatcher with her iron fist or whatever let them all die. It was the subject of a great book, Ten Men Dead. I think you should go out and get this for your kindels tout suite (Sp?)!

Anyway so like the world has the history of a flea and even Irish people, who've been fighting a war of occupation for approximately 1200 years forgot I guess, and allowed her majesty to come ashore in an emerald green suite and practice her Irish. I write this to let you know that there is about to be a hunger strike at Pelican Bay State Prison, right here in California, on July 1, 2011! I ask all the Trendsters to get rid of the SHU, and support these incarcerated people as though they were your favorite freedom fighters!

Here is some more information:

n July 1, 2011, between 50 and 100 prisoners at Pelican Bay State Prison in the Security Housing Unit (SHU), Corridor D, are going on an indefinite hunger strike. The D corridor (also known as the "short" corridor) has the highest level of restricted incarceration in the state of California and among the most severe conditions in the united states. The rules of their confinement are extremely harsh in order to force them to "debrief" or offer up information about criminal or prison gang activity of other prisoners. Most inmates in the SHU are not members or associates of prison gangs, as the PBSP staff claims, and even those who are put their lives and the lives of their families and other prisoners at risk if they debrief.

Using conditions of severe mental and physical harm in order to force prisoners into confessing is torture! Many debriefers simply make up information about other prisoners just to escape the isolation units. This misinformation is then used to validate other prisoners as members or associates of prison gangs who in reality have nothing to do whatsoever with gang activity.

This widespread hunger strike has the potential to become the most significant event in California prison reform in the last decade. Public support is crucial. Outside support work will be coordinated by California Prison Focus and other groups.

Laura Branigan is as Beautiful as any Vampire

on roaches

if you are going to have roaches (and you probably are at some point) you should follow the following rules:

1) Try to have only one species of roach

2) Try to keep them on or near the floors, or at the very worst, the sink

3) Don't try to kill them. Contrary to what you learned in biology class they actually multiply when smeared.

Do Vampires Like Menstrual Blood?

You know, its funny. Because according to christian mythology and some other mythologies we here at trending vampires are less familiar with, menstrual blood is unpure, and icky, and women can't be priests, etc. So you would think that vampires would be against menstrual blood. Because you, you puritan you, are against menstrual blood. That would be you imposing your misogynistic cultural norms on vampires, now, wouldn't it?

Vampires have generally had centuries to shake themselves of their cultural baggage. While just a few years ago you may have encountered a woman - not in porn - who had her period, and perhaps you were bummed, or frightened, or horrified when she started writhing on the floor in pain, or throwing up, or fainting or what have you, well, anyway vampires have been dealing with girlfriends with their periods for quite some time. And well as we all know - well - Sasha (see comment below) knows anyway - we ladies (who aren't vampires) are blessed with the ability to forget, each and every month, just how bad our periods are. Vampires, however, don't forget how other peoples' periods are, because they are blessed with superior memories and powers of perception!! They are like our long suffering boyfriends who deal with the bloody mess and have no ability to forget. So anyway vampires like periods. They don't give a fuck where the blood comes from! They like sex and periods and they aren't bothered by your trivial petty human misgivings!

I would like to poke out the eyes of detractors with toothpicks

Lierre Keith is cooler than any of you.

Birdman

When you see a competitor you have to put both hands over your eyes in an eagle formation and thereby 'get' them. You can block such action by doing an OK sign over your right eye. If you 'get someone' they have to put the back of their head on the ground. Then that person is back in the game. You can leave the game, but you can never return. To play you need to get shook in by a current participant.

anarchists can't infiltrate hipsters

Hipsters want to be anarchists, but they lack the sophistication and intelligence. They aren't at the apex of social culture, they're a couple steps down, right near artists. Anarchists are at the top. They've always been at the top, even before there was anarchism. It's because we are funnier, more perceptive and understand social and political dynamics better.

They've always appropriated our fashion, our culture, our neighborhoods.* They are keenly aware that we exist, and they think we are awesome. You my sucker friend put on that white belt last year to try to become them, but they've noticed your friends sporting straggly beards and flannel. The hipster isn't at Union Pool in Wiliamsburg listening to you DJ what you think he likes. He's trying to buy drinks from Sam at the Tip Top in Bed Stuy.

You quit anarchism and relevancy late in 2009, but anarchism didn't quit being relevant.

What's a hipster now? Ray LaHood and his bike culture that we made popular? Does he dumpster now that we made that popular? You've thrown away what you are to try to get into him, but he's moved past you trying to get to where you would have been. Pseudo primitivist organic ad locally sourced meats at The Farm?

"Hipsterism is the submission of culture to commodification, right down to its rebellious tendencies and internal customs. Hipsters don't live in squats. They sell each other "artisanal" things."

-- mobunited

To be a hipster is to be a poser in a constant state of cultural crisis. To be an anarchist is to be in control of your life.

Are you really just appropriating their fashion?

* We in turn appropriate those things from black people, which I would address more fully if this wasn't a vampire blog and an already annoyingly long post about something not relevant to vampirism, except perhaps that vampires would be unattracted to me while I wrote something so boring.