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We've made some additions and improvements to Notes!

The Notes feature has been added to two action-taking pages:

• You can now add a Note directly on the Add a friend page - handy if you'd like to mark down where you met them or another name you know them by!
• On the Ban and unban users page (under Account -> Privacy) you can now add a Note, including to a group of users all banned at the same time (so that next year you won't need to ask yourself "hey, why did I ban these guys?")

Other changes:

• When you're viewing your existing Notes they're grayed out; click in a field to activate it to change the text (this page can be found from the header by using Profile -> Manage Notes)
• Changes to editing:
  • When you're going to create a new Note but one already exists, you'll get a warning that you're editing an existing Note
  • You can now delete a note from the "Edit note" pop-up in the hover menu
  • You can now delete notes for multiple selected users on the Manage notes page
  • When you change Notes on "Ban|unban users" page, they can be edited and saved with "Save Changes" button

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• 18:28 @NicaNoelle congrats xo #
• 18:29 life is really kicking my butt today. i need a mental health vacation. unable to deal w/ family crisis when i'm not taking care of myself #
• 01:20 twitpic.com/p7cf6 - Champagne on our sidewalk. A last goodbye to a couch of many memories, #

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• 14:16 Thanks, sushi place for the MSG dosed miso soup. The heart palpitations will give me that edge I need for this important meeting. #
• 19:20 "I love Pecker!", I exclaimed in an important work meeting. Who's cool? #
• 22:56 This Edelzwicker is the shizz. You're jealous. #

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• 15:11 thin lines photo gallery finished, on way to view edit of thin lines, and Ciao Bella POV is underway #
• 21:26 @ryankeely any chance of getting you in sf on december 20th for a film? #
• 21:55 hot new update on www.madisonbound.com - video of anal masturbation in a dirty taqueria & hot photos of threesome sex by new comer constance #
• 22:50 @jeffreymcmanus its a formatting issue that is being worked on. try full screen and firefox. #
• 22:54 i'll be doing a live show 4 www.kinklive.com on November 20 2 - 4pm. Mark it on yr calendar. Im takin sugestions of what u would like 2 c #
• 00:36 planning a delicious sexual adventure in Napa valley this weekend w/ some very hot ladies including Bella Rossi & @candyqueenster .. #
• 00:36 while my clone shoots some really hot Italian chicas in a vineyard in Florence. #
• 01:51 @IamFunball are you interested in shooting w/ bella rossi this weekend? #
• 01:53 i had way too much caffeine today. tomorrow i'm back on the yerba mate. need to take care of myself. #
• 01:54 going to find my sleepy time tea for tonight #
• 02:01 @lakulin i'm having my sleepy time tea. its called "easy now" and it puts me right to sleep #
• 02:01 @thomasroche they are so cute. #

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• 11:54 Waltzing Matilda saves the day. #

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So this is a film that for YEARS I've been hearing people rave about. In fact, usually with fangirlish glee.

Sorry, it may have buried in it a fairy tale, but a fairy tale of the unexpurgated Grimm type. It's really more about the mop-up by the Spanish Fascists after WWII and a really ugly situation caused by a really ugly-souled man, and an excuse for some of the most gruesome bullet wound and injury effects I've seen since Saving Private Ryan, only more intimate.

This is not the "Adult Fairy Tale" all the reviewers keep echoing each other about. The real story is about the brutality in Franco's Spain.



Spoiler space



And the ending, well, let's just say that unless you're self-deluded, the cinematography and the editing removes any doubt as to the realness of the story.

It's just gross, wet and muddy, torturous without a moment of relief, and relentlessly unhappy.

People give it amazing reviews primarily based on everyone else's brilliant reviews. You can tell by the repetition of the "Adult Fairy Tale" line. One is expected to praise this film. But it's pretty clear that the little girl is using the ideas of a fairy tale to escape from the overbearing horror of her life, and in the end, it fails her.

There ARE some amazing performances, Maribel Verdu is really the star.

I only gave it 2/5, Technically amazing, but really horrible story.

Spanish with English subtitles.

Clearwire is going to send me a new modem for free. They're switching over to WiMax, so it's mandatory. The nice thing is they will DOUBLE my bandwidth for the same price, and I will still own the new modem. 3 MBPS down, and 256K up.

just a bunch of damn tweet reposts.
sorry about that

need to post something real when i get back to california
off to the airport in about 10 minutes!

does anyone know where i can order some deer antlers? preferabbly in canada?. bully sticks are too expensive and my dog can eat a 2 foot one really quickly!.
they do get things like beef ribs etc for chewing but i would really prefer something they wouldn't demolish quickly and could just chew on.

so this isn't just a question post, here are my 2 dudes :D.

( pictures )

P.S. I just thought of this. Would some of you want items like adult manga and other such interesting adult, kink, Hello Kitty or food stuff from Japan? If so I could hunt it down and buy it for you. What's a PayPal account for, after all? Cost + shipping and handling.
Drop me a note / PM / e mail, etc.

It's nearly 12:30am.  I'm just going to ramble - because it'll help me wind down and, hopefully, get to sleep soon.
It's taken much longer than needed for a supposedly simple trip. I'm not teaching so it should be easy, right?
Yeah right.

One suitcase consists of outfits for the Japan Fetish Ball. I couldn't decide between the Green Bunny or the Octopus Princess. So I brought both. With both sets of huge boots that go with each outfit.

Then the other suitcase contains the needs and comforts of every day, a few simple outfits to look sharp in Tokyo while networking with weirdly fabulous people and slumming around in the erotic underbelly of new Edo. A few books and boxes of chocolate for gifts, the portable light box, the winter fur throw from New Zealand to sleep on. I economized on the shoes. Other than the mega boots for the outfit I just have 3 pairs.

Somehow it all ended up adding up to 2 large checked bags and 2 carry-ons.

K was totally sweet and kept me company or stayed out of my hair as needed. That didn't mean that I stayed out of her hair much. LOL
The kids, especially my stripey ones, were all over me. They know I'm leaving. King David is not pleased, no one bit.

I got a lot of e mails done. Lots of booking coming in for teaching in the first quarter of next year. The pre-Valentines tour looks totally insane. I tried to patch my trips together and it's going to be a doozie. But they're all my favorite places (with fabulous foods) so I don't mind one bit!
(mmm seafood in Halifax!)

I didn't get around to finishing the e mails to the registered students of Passionate Bonds: D/s Protocols. (I'm teaching that with Laura Antoniou in Toronto later this month!) I'll need to do that on the flight. I'm really psyched that we finally get to do this in a way the two of us always wanted to.

I'm nervously excited about returning to Japan. I've been back a hand-full of times since then, but somehow I'm particularly on edge for this one. 
Or maybe I say that every single time. Yeah, I think I do.
I feel like Urashima Taro after returning from the under sea Kingdom.
I left my birth country long ago as there was no place for me.
While I was away it may have turned into a place where there is a place for me - but can I find it?

Sato gaeri - it's a funny thing.

I'm also gathering more material for my Pink Japan: Contemporary Sex Culture presentation... (None of the venues have booked me for this great presentation in the near future, but it'll happen), and I'm also on a writing assignment for Carnal Nation.

All of which means I've just found a way to justify, socially and fiscally, slumming around in the sexuality culture, both commercial and otherwise.
Which in Japan is decidedly not cheap. San Franciscans have no idea how cheap & easy (and I mean that in all the ways possible) their sexual self expression can be.

The dollar just dumped to the yen so life and exchange rate sucks - but fortunately cheap eats in Japan rocks so that won't be an issue.
It just means I can't get all the toys and nifty adult manga that I want to get.

Also: Gotta try to track my mom down and spend time with her.

The fireworks at the SF Ball Park (the new one) was gorgeous tonight. I wonder what that was for?
I love our home. I couldn't enjoy all this traveling if I didn't have such a great home and family to come back to.

on line rambling over... I'll mutter my way down the stairs to bed...