Diary (August 2, 2020)
Online diary of Karl Jones for Sunday August 2, 2020.
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Diary
Gnomon snippets
- Carbuncle red
- The Handmaid's Vampire
- Milspec Organics
- Eutrophia
- Kudzu! Lambada! Fleshtone!
- Mud Pie! Cantata! Dingo!
- Five and the Irregulars
- At the Card Catalogs of Madness
- I Have No Host and I Must Sting
- Every Thor Has His Runes
- Who would win in a fight? — Hounds of Tindalos or Diamond vampires?
- Night Melt
- Endosomatic Journey
- Car Voodoo Doll
- Bimper
- Infantessimal
- The Heliopausal Nun
- Celebrating Eternity Since Not
- Xenodermian era
- Zeno Durum
- Scorpion-Frog Trolley Problem
- Styptic (supervillain)
- Probing a Hole - "I'm probing a whole where the past gets out ..."
- Bilbo Brigand
- "Candy-coated barb wired / Pain-points and a prize ...
- Wreteched Hex S
- Pauseful Times
- Gnomon Recipes
- Soy-Lent of the Lambs
- Consternation and Delight
- Nonfiction Council - "Nonfiction: when you need the facts to be true."
- My Inner Arthropod
- Triple Recaffeination
- So Long as There Is Grace - "Grace Slick, Grace Jones — so long as there is grace."
- Puckish Stardom
- Treasure hunt — Paul Is Dead.
- Helioleptic orbit
- Hell's Tangles
- Mark Steinbrain
- All that glitters is not old
- Milk of Canterbury
- While on a routine symbolic survey of the alpha-beta-delta quadrant, when encountered alien parasites mimicking human alphabets.
- Alphabrutical order
- Pepple Kerner
- Revelotion - the Lotion of Revels
- Umbsidion black
- Lashitude
- The Lichen-Idler - "work shy"
- "By all the stars in Serendip ..."
- Wry Tangles
- Billow Your Floss
- Sole propinquitor
- Madame Butterfat
- Memes? Nay, madam, I know not memes.
- The Fire-Basket - "Does for first-order mythologies what theoretical cosmologist Ed Gorey did for spooky action at distance."
- Firebrand Firebrand - "Firebrand Firebrand fly away home / Your house is in Pisces, Your children are calm"
Children's books for elders
Eldercare book.
Bastard
Mark Jacobs - Well spoken — your arrow flies swift and mostly true to the target, its flight only slightly marred by ad hominem fallacy.
Ah, but what special ad hominem is the misogynist slur "bastard", which originates in the sin of a woman being unmarried at the time she gives birth to a child.
The idiom is what it is, carrying scant modern connotation of its despicable origin.
Save for a few cases such as mine, where my mother found it necessary to have a contractual husband for a period of time, a month perhaps, beginning just before my birth and running for the contracted period of time, establishing a legal father on my birth certificate, that mother and I and our family and all Humanity not suffer the shame of my biological sire abandoning his pregnant teenage lover.
That was how they did it, as recently as 1960.
So, you will understand that my ambitions in life include disparaging and eliminating the word "bastard".
Perhaps if I bare my shame in this way, people will stop using the word, or at least feel dirty about themselves for using it.
But as I say, it is a common idiom, and no special shame attaches beyond my usual "ad hominem fallacy" complaint, and my personal pain.