Ramblings of a Desiccated Mind

I'm going back to polish off a novel I started writing in '96. The book is finished, but, in its current state, it's confused shit. So what I'm doing over the course of the next few days is going end to end on it. Reading it as straight through as I can, making short edits on the fly. It's my hope that when I get to the end of this it'll be in more respecatble shape so I can look my creative self in the eye again.

Because I love all of you so very, very much, I'm going to drop the most visceral chunks of each section out here for you to criticize and humiliate me.

Enjoy:
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Then -- her limbs lashed out, a harpy's howl of agony as her extremities reached toward forever -- she turned for Jeremy, she shrieked. Wide, white eyes blazed . . . pupils pinpricks, corneas electric with blood. She pulled her hair out of her head with her hands. Her eyebrows smoldered. The fever of her skin set her tears to steam. Thick, blue veins throbbed along her neck and facial lines. Her tongue -- as long as her hand, split to its root -- gored itself on the jagged knives of her distorted, yammering mouth.

ORLANDO, Florida (AP) -- Experts in Islamic law are being called to testify in the lawsuit of a Muslim woman fighting a state order to take off her veil for her driver's license photo.

Sultanna Freeman, 35, says Florida's insistence on photographing her face violates her religious rights.

"I don't unveil ... because it would be disobeying my Lord," Freeman testified Tuesday at the start of her non-jury trial.

Well how about this, you selfish fucking bitch: you don't take the veil off, then you don't get to drive.

How fucking stupid do you have to be to fuck up the math on this one?

It's a photo ID, and if you're veiled then your identity is hidden.

Take the veil off if you want to drive, bitch, if not, then carry your fucking groceries on your head while you walk home.

Man, do I hate the pious.

If her faith asked that she had her clitoris carved out, I'm sure she'd be right on that shit: "I don't need my clit because it would be arousing my Lord."

Assholes, you're all assholes.

Yeah, I mean me too (raises middle finger)

This is just more ammunition in the argument that Florida needs to be blown off the goddamn map.

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Having worked through my initial ire, I finish reading the article and there are two more points of sheer stupidity that need addressing: 1) this selfish, ignorant asshole claims that "humility" is the reason for her veil, and that the DMV never required her to have her veil off for her driver's photo before 9.11. Well, idiot, as much as nothing has changed, some things have changed, and the DMV should have been making you take off your veil before those fucking ragheads knocked down my buildings. 2) She's not even a born-Muslim, she's a convert, so I say her piety is compensation for whatever guilt made her want to wear a fucking canvas sack over her whole body.

This is not court worthy, and I am pissed off to no end that this selfish, pious woman is whining about her religious rights over a matter of security.

And, most of all, Fuck Florida for allowing her to take those photos with her veil on in the past, that was just stupid, and should have never been allowed pre or post 9.11.

from CNN re: a pardon of Lenny Bruce by New York State: "By posthumously pardoning Lenny Bruce, the state of New York declares to the world that it is a safe harbor for creative minds," said Corn-Revere. "It would serve as a public monument to liberty."

I say this is a far better monument then that giant fucking hole in the earth downtown.