Words to the Cosmos

Hello, my name is Griffin

Originally uploaded by chinagrrrl

This is my old-man cat, Griffin. He’s the best friend a grrrl could ever want. In this short clip, he’s annoyed at Mia, who is trying to video him while he’s getting his bisquit on!

Lucifer Practices his Irish Step Dancing

// February 28th, 2009 // No Comments » // life the universe and everything

Lucifer Practices his Irish Step Dancing

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The cutest cat in the world, Lucifer, practices his Irish Step Dancing technique in preparation for St. Patrick’s day.

Mia reveals she’s a vampire

// February 28th, 2009 // No Comments » // family, funny-bone, personal

Mia reveals she’s a vampire

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A video, taken by my 10 year old daughter, while alone in her room. She does *lots* of these where she videos (using a camera she didn’t know recorded sound!) and talks, as if she’s recording an expose for television.

In this one…she claims a red ink-stain, where the Chaos cats knocked a whole bottle of red ink onto the side of the sofa, is BLOOD…from her LAST VICTIM!!!

I love it!

Jaden, Mia & Kendra – 02/09/09

// February 28th, 2009 // No Comments » // life the universe and everything

Jaden, Mia & Kendra – 02/09/09

Originally uploaded by chinagrrrl

Ah yes…my demon children! May the gods have mercy on our Lilim little hearts…

MiaRecords_P&Ckissing

// February 28th, 2009 // No Comments » // family, life the universe and everything

MiaRecords_P&Ckissing

Originally uploaded by chinagrrrl

My daughter, Mia, is learning how to use a digital camera. I’ve given her my old Cannon to play with and she’s always folling us around and snapping hundreds of pictures and taking dozen of videos. Here she is in Mama’s bedroom where P. and China are innocently discussing various accupressure points (…really!!!)

What we didn’t realize is that the digital Elph has *SOUND*!!! Wow! Technology.

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// February 28th, 2009 // No Comments » // life the universe and everything

This is a Test…this is only a test

// February 27th, 2009 // No Comments » // personal

Just seeing what I can do with a trixy little program app. Thanks for stopping by.

Don’t believe anyone who alters time and claims it “unscripted”

// February 27th, 2009 // No Comments » // life the universe and everything, news

Years ago I went to Woodridge High School with Kevin Coughlin, so I got a taste of his personality and ethics at that petry-dish level, but I have a better, clearer and more unique insight! I was his neighbor when I was about eight years old. (We’re the same age.)

I’ll keep it simple; I don’t like him. I vote for whoever is running against him because I know that no matter what they stand for! Now that’s not a very good way of picking a candidate, but it’s really quite simple. Kevin Coughlin has always been a plastic, skin-deep, self-serving egoist who seems to find the “power” that legislative positions hold massaging to his sense of self (ego).

I respect someone who can carefully craft their life and livelihood in order to achieve their goals. I get that part and I take no offence to it. But his view are so much aligned with the paid-off, graft of the good ole’ boys and he claims to want “sweeping changes” in government, but really he just wants a bigger office and a better tailored suit.

So now he’s running for governor of Ohio in 2010. He releases an “impromptu” video of why in which he alters time!!!

It’s true.

Don’t vote for the slippery little guy. It’s really a bad idea.

I'm China Darrington and I approve of this message.

“Torture” Phalluses

// February 26th, 2009 // No Comments » // 9th circle, funny-bone, life the universe and everything, news

(made you click, didn't I? Well I took that title straight from National Geographic, so take it up with their editorial department...not mine!)

“As we have long suspected…the longest and spiniest male genitalia is the one who gets the “job done” most often…”

And thus I give you photos of the large, spiny beetle phalluses:

C. maculatus - "Has the longest and spiniest male genitalia, which resemble "medieval torture instruments,"

But they also get the job done: Sperm from male seed beetles with the longest and spiniest sexual organs beat out their shorter competition in a recent study, to be reported in the March 10, 2009, issue of the journal Current Biology.

The seed beetle species C. subinnotatus has a strange, jawlike structure on its genitalia (above, a close-up).

: The genitalia of the C. analis beetle is covered in spines from base to tip.

As male seed beetles’ genitalia have evolved to be spinier, the bugs’ reproductive success has improved, experts say in a study to be released in March 2009.

At the same time, females’ genitalia have evolved in a sort of “arms race,” the study says.

Females have thick padding on their reproductive tract that’s reinforced with strong, elastic connective tissue. After each mating—about five to ten in a lifetime—the wounds heal and leave scar tissue.

Wounding females during mating is likely just an “unfortunate side effect” of the males’ reproductive strategy, the study authors said.

: C. subinnotatus).

The function of the structure is still unknown, researchers said, but it looks like it’s made to “grab hold of” something, perhaps the inner genitalia of females.

And my favorite part of the article is where they describe howthey obtained the photographs of the erect, spiney phalluses:

To obtain close-up views of seed beetles’ spiny male genitalia (above, hooks, spines, and barbs in C. rhodesianus), scientists first put the insect under carbon dioxide anesthesia.

The scientists then pumped up the sexual organ with a tiny artificial inflator powered by a water-jet vacuum pump.

Once fully inflated, the genitalia were stabilized in 212-degree-Fahrenheit (100-degree-Celsius) water and photographed.

They “inflated” the genitalia??? A water-jet vacuum pump? That I’d love to have seen video of!!! Beetle penis-pump porn!!!

Macropinna microstoma – “Barreleye Fish” (with cool transparent head!)

// February 26th, 2009 // No Comments » // life the universe and everything

Macropinna microstoma is a transparent head-ed, barreleyed fish. What looks like his eyes is actually his nose! Wild!

For Patrick…

// February 24th, 2009 // No Comments » // funny-bone

see funny english mistakes

Kaeda says he’s sorry…

// February 24th, 2009 // No Comments » // family, funny-bone, life the universe and everything, personal

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It’s another day of the Dog & Pony show

// February 20th, 2009 // No Comments » // life the universe and everything

dog & pony show

Originally uploaded by chinagrrrl

ah, work…

RePost: What kind of kitty is right for your plant?

// February 20th, 2009 // No Comments » // funny-bone

Cute Overload offers several suggestions to aid the enduring question: “What kind of kitty is right for my plant?” Find out now!

Cute Overload: What kind of kitty is right for your plants?

Krys Dauchy – Nourie at the Ice Box

// February 20th, 2009 // No Comments » // life the universe and everything

Krys Dauchy – Nourie at the Ice Box

Originally uploaded by chinagrrrl

Oh yeah baby! Acid washed, zip-up sides and my “Commander Salamander” converse high-tops. Check out those sunglasses too! Can you tell it’s 1987?

Photo by Spike Jonze for Freestylin’ mag for GT BMX

Chinagrrrl Bedroom (circa 1985)

// February 20th, 2009 // 1 Comment » // House-of-Chaos, family, personal

MyRoom

Originally uploaded by chinagrrrl

This was my bedroom growing up. Notice my love of Marilyn Monroe and I think there is a poster of RL on my wall, as well as a few Lew drawings and a Van’s shoe. (The other shoe I lost in a river on a canoeing field-trip).

Oh, see those little plaques on the wall to my left? Those are the individual prizes for the”King of Flatland” competition.

I always got a kick of being a grrrl “king”.

Lew’s Editorial for the 1st issue of “GO: A Rider’s Manual”

// February 20th, 2009 // No Comments » // life the universe and everything

Lew’s Editorial for the 1st issue of "GO: A Rider’s Manual"

Originally uploaded by chinagrrrl

This is the very first page, from the very first issue of “GO” magazine. GO, a combination of “Freestylin’” and “BMX Action” had the master cluster of editorial staff; Mark Lewman, Andy Jenkins and Spike Jonze.

This is Lew’s introduction to the new baby…

GO: The Rider’s Manul (Premier Issue – 1990)

// February 20th, 2009 // No Comments » // life the universe and everything

GO: The Rider’s Manul (Premier Issue – 1990)

Originally uploaded by chinagrrrl

I found a pretty well preserved copy of the premier issue of “GO: The Rider’s Manual” the integration of the two BMX/Freestyle magazines known as “BMX Action” and “Freestylin’”

Yes, that is my address sticker on the front, but no…I don’t live there anymore.

Krys Dauchy and the Art Car at Venice Beach, CA – 1997

// February 20th, 2009 // No Comments » // life the universe and everything

Krys Dauchy and the Art Car at Venice Beach, CA – 1997

Originally uploaded by chinagrrrl

This photo was taken by Jon Ker (I think) at Venice Beach at a photo shoot for GT BMX and a trip won by a guy named Zach P.

No, the car isn’t mine. It was just in the parking lot when we did the shoot and made an interesting background.

Around 1997

Quaker P: The Fun Starts Here

// February 19th, 2009 // No Comments » // life the universe and everything

Quaker P: The Fun Starts Here

Originally uploaded by chinagrrrl

I like the “PURE” scroll in Quaker P’s hand. Very nice.

P. Baked a Pie at Quaker Square

// February 19th, 2009 // No Comments » // life the universe and everything

P Baked a Pie at Quaker Square

Originally uploaded by chinagrrrl

And he looks SO happy about it. (I promised him something saucy if he’s get behind the board so I could take a shmarmy picture!)

TR_Promo_1997

// February 19th, 2009 // No Comments » // life the universe and everything

TR_Promo_1997

Originally uploaded by chinagrrrl

I got my head, but my head is unraveling
Cant keep control, cant keep track of where its traveling
I got my heart but my heart is no good
And youre the only one thats understood
I come along but I dont know where youre taking me
I shouldnt go but youre reaching back and shaking me
Turn off the sun, pull the stars from the sky
The more I give to you, the more I die

*sigh*