The Hierophant (Trump V. in the tarot) is about expressing deep spiritual truths and teaching them to others. The card also carries the subtext of expressing the sexual desires of the Hierophant himself (Taurus is ruled by Venus after all.)
And then we have Charles Bukowski, whose genius by now I hope needs no espousing, who fits right in there, the man of our time.
kisses & bites,
Izabael
So here is the "big-deal" picture of the day. A so-called upskirt photo of Sarah Palin. Well a) it's not a real "up-skirt" picture, but everyone is calling it that. It's more like a "blurry, through-the-legs" shot, but whatever.
Is it sexist? Well it probably is, but I don't give a darn tootin' because Sarah Palin brings this upon herself. She is clearly one of those "professional" women who uses their sexuality as a power-tool when dealing with men. I have no problems with that either, but it's a two-edged sword, and if you go around with your not-so-modest skirts and your sexy high heels, do you really think you aren't going to be sexualized? Sarah knows what she is doing when she dresses--professional--but sexy. It's calculated.
A shot like this very astute and perceptive of what's really going on with her actually. Polls are showing her support from women has dropped considerably and now most of her support comes from men. If you don't think her popularity is partly due to her sex-appeal, then please step away from the crack-pipe.
Boys, men, and women alike are drawn in by her sexuality. We aren't used to seeing sexy women in power and that's why we are fascinated. But when a Reuters photographer snaps these shots, we cry "fowl" and "sexism"? Get serious.
Palin's ride to the near-top is heavily due to sexism. She's been using her sex appeal to her advantage in the male-dominated world of politics for years.
If she really cared she would wear pants--but then her poll numbers would drop even more.
xoxo,
Izabael DaJinn
xoxo,
Izabael
Well, you know guys, I was actually not going to talk much about politics this season. Too many people yap about it already and most people already are convinced of their candidate; so what's the point?
But you know....sometimes the surreal world of post-modern politics makes me laugh and cry all at the same time.
First the cry:
You know. Male hunters are one thing. I get that the alpha-male impulse in your brains precludes you from seeing how inhumane, unsporting, and totally unnecessary modern hunting is. But a woman? She should fucking know better.
John McCain shot himself in the foot by adding a woman to the ticket.
Why? Because McCain was holding steady with Obama in the polls due to racism (something you won't see mentioned in most mainstream news sites, but I'm a demon and can speak 'fo realz). He should have ran with the ball on getting all those racists to vote for him. Now he just triggered the one thing in this world that runs deeper than racism: sexism.
Now McCain has evened out Obama's blackness with Palin's femaleness. Sad to say, but McCain would have done better with some old white guy who looks like he would appear on American money.
Also, McCain is on crack if he thinks he will pick up most Hillary supporters. This bitch is anti-choice even in cases of rape and incest!! How about we hire Bill O'Reilly to rape Sarah Palin, and then we'll see how happy she is to squeeze out his love-child.
Oh, and can I mention her 17 year old preggers daughter?
This is clearly another attempt to pander to the redneck Republican base--but this also is a miscalculation. This would have been more effective had her daughter been only twelve and the father been her uncle. Then again the father's name is "Levi" so good call there!
Now for the laugh:
Does she not look like the hottest high school principal in the world? Seriously.
If Sarah Palin's career falters after this failed campaign with John McButtNugget, she can always hit me up for a pin-up job. Wouldn't you guys like to see her on my site? Maybe we can suck each other's toes! (I have those stripper shoes, btw. You go girl!)
Peace out,
Izabael
From a a news article here:
Like his French forebear, Alexis de Tocqueville, Rapaille has an intriguing analysis of democracy in America. It is his perception that we Americans, despite our claims to seriousness, are really a nation of adolescents.
...a fact that explains the success of Hillary's husband, Rapaille said.
"Bill Clinton is a comedian," he said. "He is the entertainer-in-chief, with a girl in the Oval Office and a cigar."
The Republicans made a big mistake in impeaching Clinton, said Rapaille.
And the impeachment process just made Bill Clinton more amusing.
As for his successor, George W. Bush was loved by the American people when he was seen as an amiable bumbler, said Rapaille. But "the big mistake from Bush was that after 9/11 he thought he had a mission."
Now "Bush is rigid and boring and is surrounded by people who are boring and rigid," said Rapaille. And that explains his unpopularity."
Could this French guy be right??
Nahh, that's silly....
Then again........
xoxo,
iza
Hi girls and guys!
I decided to spare everyone a blog entitled "The Trouble with Hypocrisy and Sex in America," and just post these pictures of me peeping on Natasha.
I really did want to write that blog about sex in America though, I have to confess. I had a lot of it ready to go!
I was going to illustrate some points with examples from the slew of non-news items in the last month regarding such notables as Audrina Patridge's "art" photos, Spitzer's whore gone wild pics/vid, the "prude" girl from Sex in the City and her (very) amateur sex pics, and even Lilo doing a spread with Marilyn Monroe's photographer, etc.
Are these things really such a big deal? Is sex or nudity still shocking in the world of "Two Girls and One Cup"? Sad to say it is to some people. I could cry over what self-righteous finger pointers still get away with and accomplish in the "modern" world, but instead, I decided to take the tack of the Marquis DeSade and just look at all this sexual repression as a good thing.
Rules, ethics, and morals just make our naughtiness feel that much naughtier.
Without rules to break, and social mores to flaunt, sex would lose a lot of its luster. So while I won't say this often, I will say it today: Let's hear it for the Puritans!
Also it is oh, so hilarious when high ranking officials fall face first into their own disgrace over the very "vices" they were so vocal against. Let's hear it for reporters, the almighty god of the scandal. (The moral here is to be in a biz where any scandal is a good scandal--which is not politics.)
Good thing I'll never be running for public office! Not that my bare butt or exposed nipples would stand in my way. No, I suffer instead from being congruent! Politics is no place for a woman who tells the truth!
xoxo,
Izabael
P.S. As per usual, more of these photos can be found in my photo page.
POSTED: 9:57 am EDT March 11, 2008
Original article in regular font. My comments are in bold.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- State lawmakers are considering a ban on what is being called the new marijuana. Salvia divinorum is a hallucinogenic herb that's inexpensive and easy to obtain.
Ok, marijuana is nothing like Salvia. At all. Period. There is nothing "new marijuana" about Salvia whatsoever.
Florida state Representative Mary Brandenburg has introduced a bill to make possession of salvia a felony punishable by up to five years in prison and state Senator Evelyn Lynn, whose committee plans to study the salvia bill Tuesday, says the drug should be criminalized.
Native to Mexico and still grown there, salvia divinorum is generally smoked but can also be chewed or made into a tea and drunk.
Salvia is a natural herb that is showing up on local school campuses. It's smoked through a bong and the effects kick in right away. In 2006, University of Central Florida student Joel Birsch said he tried it because it's legal.
The video of his 10-minute high is disturbing to watch. He wrestled a friend to the ground. Then, Birch threw himself down a staircase. He dislocated his shoulder. He watched the video and admitted he even hallucinated.
"I thought I was a Ninja Turtle," he said. "I though I was (rap artist) 50-Cent."
This is a problem right there. You aren't going to have a spiritual trip if you don't know what you are getting into, and you don't start out with the right mental state and setting. Salvia is NOT a party drug. Few people use it for such and those are the ones giving it a bad name.
Salvia is a hallucinogen that gives users an out-of-body sense of traveling through time and space or merging with inanimate objects. Unlike hallucinogens like LSD or PCP, however, salvia's effects last for a shorter time, generally up to an hour.
Ok, then why call it the "new marijuanna?" These people are morons. Who elects them?
Commander Gil McDaniel with the narcotics unit at the Orange County Sheriff's Office said this herb should not be legal.
And I say people like Gil McDaniel should mind his own goddamned business. Kiss my ass, Gil.
"If you think you're a Ninja Turtle and you throw yourself down the steps, that should be your first clue something's wrong," said Commander McDaniel.
If you base your entire research of a Shamanistic and time-honored drug with a long, long history of spiritual and healing use, on one college dork's trip, then you are a bigger moron than I thought. There is plenty of research documenting Salvia and its healing properties (not as much as their could be of course. We all know how governments like to squash drug research that isn't done by a pharmaceutical company.)
Ten countries including Australia, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Israel, Italy, Norway, Poland, South Korea and Sweden have criminalized Salvia.
What can I say? The ignorance in this world abounds.
In the U.S., Salvia is illegal in Louisiana, Missouri, Tennessee, Delaware, and Oklahoma. Legislation is being considered in New York, Illinois, Alaska and California. But in Florida, there is no law.
"I'm not worried about it 'cause I didn't do anything illegal or anything," said Birch. But McDaniel counters by saying, "What's amazing is the stupidity of people who say, 'It's legal so it's okay.'"
That's interesting! Because what is amazing to me is that people in this so-called free country still go out their way to dictate what other people should or should not put into their bodies.
Salvia Divinorum is not a party or recreational drug. If it is abused as such, it's no worse than an arsonist torching a house with a common lighter. Let's ban lighters!
Most people who use Salvia use it responsibly and for visionary and spiritual reasons. To yank it away from them is just one more layer of drug-paranoia in our already drug-fascist society.
The sheriff's office would like to see legislation passed in Florida to make Salvia illegal.
And Birch said, after watching the video of his high, "I probably wouldn't do that again."
Good. Fools like you should stay away from it.
No known deaths have been attributed to salvia's use, but it was listed as a factor in one Delaware teen's suicide two years ago.
This is dubious to me. There is nothing in any of the studies I've read on Salvia or in the experience of myself or the dozens of other people I know who've done it that would suggest it contributes to suicide whatsoever. In fact there is some research that suggest that Salvia HELPS WITH DEPRESSION. Prozac and other SSRI's cause far more suicides, but I don't see anyone taking it off the market.
In Florida, you have to be 18 years old to legally buy the herb.
I'd like to pick on Florida, but here in California we already have legislation trying to criminalize Salvia.
If you want some real facts on Salvia check out the Erowid Salvia FAQ. If you want to see a modern Shamanistic use of Salvia check out "So You Want To Be a Goetic Shaman?" which utilizes Salvia as part of the technique.
Think and research for yourself! Don't believe the FUD!
xoxox
Izabael
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Aldous Huxley
English critic & novelist
(07/26/1894 - 11/22/1963)
Here are my favorite Huxley quotes along with my own completely superfluous commentary:
While facts don't cease to exist because they are ignored, I would like to point out that at least you can remove the anguish and mental agony they cause by forgetting about them.
This is typical of a lot of advanced philosophies. Everything around us is a perfect mirror of our soul. Every action we take has repercussions that reverberate throughout the entire universe.
I suppose this is why most women are intellectuals.
This goes with almost anything. If we focus too hard on the goal, we ruin it. Focusing and deriving satisfaction from the process yields better results.
Demons suffer from this too, so this is something I work on myself. Why is it sometimes so hard to remember all the amazing things in our life and not focus on the one bad thing that went wrong that day?
They are also the only ones without any problems.
Indeed! The enlightened have the heart and eyes of a seven year old.
How sad, but true is this? Billons spent on bombs, bombs, bombs.
This is one is also the perfect quote to tie the similar, yet contrasting, themes of two of Stanley Kubrick's films together, 2001: A Space Odyssey and The Shining.
In 2001, Kubrick shows how we use our technology to advance to the next stage of human evolution, but in The Shining, Kubrick recants, and shows that modern man is actually devolving.
Yeah, that's one reasonable hypothesis--would also account for my being here.
I wanted to change myself, but found the only thing I could be sure of changing was my hair color.
America's forefathers didn't believe we were all equal either. Why else have the electoral college?
This one probably hides some really deep and secret meaning, but for me it's just a fine piece of humorous wit.
For more about A. Huxley check out his Wikipedia article.
93, 93/93,
Izabael
Never in my life have I been so thoroughly inspired to eat candy and take hallucinogens.
Why?
I've been playing Super Mario Galaxy on the Wii. I have discovered that Super Mario Galaxy is a highly informative game especially for children.
I, myself, have learned many new & interesting things!! To name a few:
1) Eating green mushrooms prolongs my life.
2) Cute, little mushroom people are my friends.
3) I can "fly" from galaxy to galaxy (in my red, white, and blue uniform).
4) Your mushroom friends travel the universe in a giant red mushroom called the STARSHROOM. Yes, the "Starshroom." Can you say Jefferson Starshroom? Er...Jefferson Starship...er Jefferson Airplane.
5) When you feed the star-people, who look like star-shaped Ecstasy tablets, they will eventually get fatter and fatter until they explode and give birth to more galaxies.
6) You need to collect as many "stars" as possible.
7) The "Sweet, Sweet Galaxy" is just that. I gained 5 pounds playing through it.
8) If you lose too many lives, Princess Peach will send you more mushrooms through the mail.
All I can say to parents: If your kids get fat and end up taking hallucinogenic drugs, you shouldn't punish them. After all you taught them at a very young age what is fun to do. And don't blame Super Mario, you can go back to Lewis Carroll (and later Disney) to complain about this one.
"One pill makes you larger
And one pill makes you small
And the ones that mother gives you
Don't do anything at all
Go ask Alice
When she's ten feet tall"
Ahh. I haven't done many of these quickie blogs like I wanted. But basically I just string together a few random thoughts going through my head. (If they have anything in common then it's pure synchronicity.)
When did Chelsea Clinton turn into a babe? I mean seriously. I remember her with the frizz. She needs to dump that goofy boyfriend and get with the ladies.
Here's a map of the legality of pot I found:
And finally the Mars Volta have a new album!! Excited to get into it! So far so good (so what??)
That's all for now!
Kisses & Bites,
Izabael
I stumbled this and found these two especially cute and cozily evil.
This first one reminds me of "Bratz"...you know...those hoochie ghetto Barbies where even the "Baby" versions wear g-strings.
Are children just nascent forms of the impending cruelty and decadence to come?
How about this kid? So cute right?
But this is the kid that will one day be making that oh so lovely gagging and rough sex porn that is so mainstream and legal in America right now.
And what's up with gagging rough sex porn anyway? I'm no prude by any means, but some things in this country are odd. You can't poop on someone in American cinema, but you CAN make someone gag and puke on your penis repeatedly after just meeting them and paying them $250. Obviously I'm not going to link to it, but I want to make clear I'm not discussing some obscure porn site in Russia. I'm talking about popular sites run by white guys here in America and billed by one of the biggest names in adult billing and backed by all major credit card companies. The sad thing was many of these girls I saw were fresh immigrants and very poor. They barely speak English. It really didn't look like they knew what kind of rough sex they were in for with these guys. More than one girl started to cry. This wasn't acting, and these weren't trained subs (I have no problem with serious SM which is about love and safety more than cruelty). These were girls who just got bullied into something they weren't prepared for in the least. It was rape in a lot of ways no matter what forms they signed beforehand.
The pictures above are art. No one would argue that. But "reality" porn? I don't think anyone would seriously call it art, so that's not much of a debate. But what I've never understood is how exactly is pornography not prostitution? It's legal to get paid for sex but only if it's recorded and sold to others? I must be naive, but I don't see the difference. Why are you punishing one class of female workers while rewarding another that is even more demeaning in that it leaves a permanent record for the world to see.
But the girls want it right? They are born whores? They do it for the money, so who cares?
She the top photo? She's a virgin, one assumes. I myself wonder how long until she exchanges herself as some sort of sexual favor or sacrifice, maybe so save one of her fuzzy playfriends, or for the love of the friendly-looking Jesus there. Or maybe she will do it for cash. She'll certainly get offers with those lolita doe-eyes and that provocative pose she has going on.
These pictures look innocent enough but if you stare too long they open up the nastiest cans of worms.
*Izabael
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"The Manson Family" is several years old, having been released in 2003, but the subject matter itself is timeless. Like it or not, the mythos of Charles Manson just grows more epic as the years go by. Nearly thirty-eight years since the Tate-LaBianca murders took place and Manson’s name reverberates with nearly as much menace as “Hitler.”
That is clear. As a young woman myself I would not want to be stabbed weeks before I was to give birth, but unlike his victims, the legend of Manson does not die. Even now, almost 40 years later, who can hear the song “Helter Skelter” without sensing the insane and sinister subtext implanted there by Manson and his followers. It’s not the Beatles fault at all, having named their song after a British amusement park ride, but it’s there nonetheless.
As Americans, we are ALL left with the stench of Manson on our identity. We don’t have to be happy about it, but we can see if it makes a good movie or not and more importantly: Can we learn anything from it?
That is part of the grim irony of this movie, and why it is ultimately a thought-provoking film and not merely exploitation.
“You better wise up. The time is gonnna come when all men will judge themselves before god. It will be the worst hell, the worst hell on earth. It’ll make Nazi Germany look like a picnic. you gotta be ready for that. Right now. Right here. Right now. Just like that.
And That’s where we’re at all the time.”
-– Leslie Van Houten
These lines occur during an opening scene of the movie, and they are critical into understanding the mental state of Manson and his “family.” Manson instilled an “end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it” belief into all his followers. This tactic is seen in most world religions (and in modern media, i.e. avian bird flu epidemics and global warming), but Manson really ratchets it up for the happy-go-lucky band of hippies he kicked around with and who eventually became known as his "family."
Manson predicted impending “race wars” between blacks and whites which would destroy the earth. This sense of impending doom—or of an inevitable climax—was palpable to followers of Manson by the time they were all living on the Spahn Ranch, which is where much of the movie takes place.
It took the director purportedly 14 years to make this film and the scenes on the Spahn Ranch are some of the best. These early scenes capture the love, the caring, the innocence of Manson and his followers before the paranoia and violence crept in and took over.
“Charlie was like an answer to an unspoken prayer.”--Linda Kasabian.
It’s hard to imagine how violence would not sooner or later have descended into the naïve abandon of reckless lovemaking that covered not only the Spahn ranch, but the entire hippie movement. The seed of violence was born not just within the oft violent and unhappy childhood of Charles Manson, but was already around them in the black-white tensions at home and in the Vietnam War abroad. As in Haight-Asbury, where the peace and love of pot and LSD gave way to the paranoid violence of methamphetamines, communes were doomed from the start because human nature dictates that someone will come in and pervert good intentions for their own self-aggrandizement—similar to Hitler’s rise to power.
Tate and her unborn child are the perfect symbol for that end.
A key to understanding this movie was given to me when I caught a snippet of R. Kern’s underground masterpiece, “You Killed Me First,” (1985) which I remember as originally being the finale of a collection of his short films entitled Hardcore Vol. I. These short movies by
There is a place in human nature that longs for a connection between sex and violence, and the final scenes of “The Manson Family” turns the Tate/LaBianca murders into a very bloody, extremely graphic and 
squishy-sounding climax. The Helter Skelter phantasmagoric comes off as quite sexual even though, as in the real murders, there was no sex directly involved. Susan Atkins later called her part in the murders "the most exciting sexual experience" of her life.
As touching as some of the early scenes in the movie are, in the end we know that the real Charles Manson cared only about his own hide. He did nothing to try to save the any of the three girls from jail—quite the opposite--and to this day he still denies his own culpability in the Tate/LaBianca murders.
*iza
First of all, Viva La France! I'm not seeing a lot of coverage here in America France France France France Italy France
Why you ask? Since the French have dropped considerably in power and
influence following World War II. That raping the Nazis gave her while
she was occupied I think left longer lasting vestiges of shame and
humiliation than the French might want to admit.
Now they lie around lazily and bask in former glories. "
But France is a name brand par excellence as far as countries go. The
very word conjures up romance, cafes, disillusioned poets and writers,
lovers kissing on street corners.
The point I'm getting at is that
That said, let's lets look at their two candidates:
Sarkozy
or
Segolene Royal
Wait,
a second. I must have linked the wrong picture. There is no way a
potential President of France can look like this; can it?
The
French need to focus their strengths. To be successful you must always
capitalize on what you are best at. The Japanese do it, and I don't
think I need to quote their financial successes to anyone. The French
are #1 at tourism, so capitalize on that. Learn to pull in tourism to
ALL the regions, not just Paris. Offer exciting and varied travel
experiences to everyone of the world. The possibilities for marketing
France are endless in this modern day.
Look at her campaign poster! 
Now
I admit I know nothing of French economics (and I'm not political
anyway since as a demon, I'm not even allowed to vote). But let's face
it, since you are going to be marketing your tourism world wide. Do it
with a beautiful face that looks like a French leader should. Royal
looks like the old French Liberty. It's inspring to look at her.
Well, at least more than this guy! 
*iza
Careful What You Wish For..."
