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Happy Holidays!
2011-12-24 15:25:00 SOS is taking a year-end holiday break -- Happy Holidays to all, see you in the new year! Continue reading →
Reiter's Block Year in Review, Part 1: Best Poetry
2011-12-16 00:05:00 Loyal readers, I apologize for the three-week blog hiatus. I was writing 30 poems and poem-like scribblings for the month of November to raise money for The Center for New Americans, a literacy program for immigrants in Western Massachusetts. You can still sponsor me through the end of 2011 here. (I'm still writing poems, just in case.) This year-end roundup will be posted in several parts since there are so many good reads that I want to highlight. Today, I'll be recommending a few poetry books that caught my attention. Lara Glenum and Arielle Greenberg, eds., Gurlesque: The new grrly, grotesque, burlesque poetics (Saturnalia Books, 2010). Unicorns! Masturbation! Dead cows! As Glenum writes in her introduction to this anthology, "The Gurlesque describes an emerging field of female artists...who, taking a page from the burlesque, perform their femininity in a campy or overtly mocking way. Their work assaults the norms of acceptable female behavior by irreverently deploying gend...
By: Reiter's Block
Site News: A Summer Haircut For D299
2011-06-28 19:50:00 Starting sometime tomorrow night there are going to be a few hiccups, just to let you know. I'll do my best to make things smooth and keep up the updates, but ChicagoNow is moving to a different software system, and well you know how those things usually go. It's not supposed to be any bother to readers, but it usually is. Good news is that it should be a faster, easier blog to comment on in the long run. Short run, I hope you'll bear with me. Questions or concerns, let me know in comments or at district299 at gmail com. Thanks!...
Site News: New Blog Setup On Its Way
2011-05-24 04:50:00 This is just a heads-up that there's a new version of this site heading our way -- I'm not exactly sure when -- and that there's likely to be a settling in period where things are not as ideal as I'd like them to be. Apologies in advance. But you've been through that before and I'm sure you'll power through it. (Remember the first version of the site, way back when, when it was just me on my own? Then there was the short-lived Catalyst version.) Here's what I know so far: (1) Nothing's going to change in terms of my control over the site and my comment policies or anything else substantively. (2) The main changes are going to...
New Poll: Vote for your favorite eyeshadow color
2010-11-28 13:28:00 I?ve launched a new poll on Bionic Beauty: ?What is your favorite eyeshadow color?? The new poll is available in the right sidebar of Bionic Beauty (under the appropriately labeled ?Vote Now!? section). Go on? and vote! And please feel free to elaborate on your vote in the comments section below. Below are the results of ...
By: Bionic Beauty
Site News: Get Updated Via Email Or Text
2010-11-02 17:15:00 There are lots of ways to get D299 updates other than visiting the site or making it your homepage (which not even my mother does). You can order up a free daily email that will give you all the new posts in a 24 hour period here. Just fill in your address and copy down the squiggly letters into the blank box.Or you can get updates on your cell phone (even if it's not a smartphone) First, go to Twitter.com, a free site that sends text messages out to people who want them. Sign up, then say you want to "follow" the District299 twitter feed. Then tell Twitter that you want alerts sent to your phone. To do this, go to Settings, write...
Please Update Your Feed
2010-04-22 00:19:00 Thanks for following my blog, Fundamentally Reformed. If you aren’t aware, I’ve moved over to my own website: FundamentallyReformed.com. I’ve noticed that many of my readers still subscribe via my old site’s feed which will soon be taken down. If you are seeing this, please update your feed reader by subscribing to this feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/fun-dyreformed ...
Site News: You Really Like "Open" (Anonymous) Commenting
2010-02-23 17:08:00 The return of open / anonymous commenting seems to be a big success -- thanks to everyone who's weighed in over the past few days. Here's the link to click if you want to comment without registering: And here's the comment form that should pop up after you've clicked the link above: Thanks as always....
Blood: The River of Life
2009-11-05 17:35:00 Article by Gareth Edwards (BSc. DipION. mBANT) Gareth explains why the state of our blood is so important and what you can do to improve it. So ?. You?ve logged on to this website called Energise for Life. You might have ordered some products, but maybe your daily energy level isn?t where you would like ...
Interview With Alkaline Diet Expert: Gareth Edwards
2009-09-25 16:36:00 Every now and then something rather exciting and awesome happens at Energise HQ, and this is one of those things. I am extremely excited and proud to announce that we have managed to convince Gareth Edwards, perhaps the UK’s most qualified live blood microscopist to join the Energise ranks! Gareth is a raw food, ...
Should be all better now?
2009-09-14 05:57:00 Just so everybody’s up to date with what’s going on, I rebuilt the site’s database over the weekend, and it looks like nothing important was lost. Meanwhile, I’ve slimmed the site down a bit (got rid of some bells & whistles), in the hopes that this will help avoid a recurrence of these problems. So the ...
Pardon my dust?
2009-09-10 13:12:00 Database is messed up, I'll need to pop the hood and mess around over the next few days...
Hometown Favorite Lorelei Erisis Crowned Miss Trans Northampton
2009-09-08 21:36:00 Local activist, journalist and Pride emcee Lorelei Erisis won the Miss Trans Northampton 2009 pageant at the Center for the Arts this past weekend. The eight contestants represented, to my eyes, an interesting variety of ways for someone born biologically male to perform femininity. Those with a more petite build, like second runner-up Lily Rin, convincingly resembled young glamorous women, with high voices to match. Meanwhile, Lorelei and first runner-up Leslie-Anne Rios were tall and striking figures with deeper, rougher voices and a commanding stage presence. Their self-presentation occupied some third space between the conventions of male and female appearance. Leslie-Anne, for instance, looked sassy in an evening gown and sang a heartfelt song of her own composition about finding peace within--female?--but flexed her biceps with a wink at the end--male? Lorelei's talent-show entry was a performance piece about her transition, starting out in a man's suit and ending up in a br...
By: Reiter's Block
"Swallow" Poetry Chapbook by Jendi Reiter Now Available from Amsterdam Pres
2009-09-02 23:14:00 My poetry chapbook Swallow won the 2008 Flip Kelly Poetry Prize from Amsterdam Press and is now available for purchase online. Thanks are due to my awesome editor, Cindy Kelly; poet Ellen LaFleche, who helped me organize the collection and suggested the title; and my prison pen pal "Conway" who drew the amazing cover art. "Jendi Reiter's poems are arrows that plunge dead center into the hearts of feminism, religion, death, the interior of mental health and psychotherapy. Her humor and satire here are as sharply honed as are her indignation. All are delivered in highly imaginative and metaphoric imagery. This is an intelligent and powerful read that will leave issues bleeding in the minds of readers for a while before they heal." ?Ellaraine Lockie, award-winning poet, nonfiction author, educator "There's plenty of poetry I wouldn't give a fig for, but I'd give strawberries for the poems in Jendi Reiter's SWALLOW. When I started in Poetry in 1962, I felt poems were only p...
By: Reiter's Block
Stay Tuned for Miss Trans Northampton Pageant, Sept. 5
2009-08-31 21:00:00 The first-ever Miss Trans Northampton Pageant is scheduled for next Saturday, Sept. 5, at the Northampton Center for the Arts. This is one of only a few such events nationwide. Eight Massachusetts transwomen will compete in the categories of glamour, poise, evening gown and talent. "Transgender" is a broad term that includes transsexuals, transvestites, and those who choose not to identify as either male or female.The Springfield Republican newspaper ran a story on the event yesterday. Pageant organizer Christa L. Hilfers' gender odyssey is interesting in itself: Hilfers, 33, moved to Massachusetts three years ago from South Dakota. Born a biological male, Hilfers was raised by her mother as a girl. She went into foster care at age 9, but was allowed to continue living as a female. "I didn't try to live as a boy until I was 18," she said. Hilfers had a child with a woman, but the relationship failed, and she has not seen her daughter, now 15, for years. "After that I realized I...
By: Reiter's Block
Upcoming GLBT Conferences: Send Me Your Reports
2009-08-28 17:03:00 Three conferences of interest to GLBT Christians and straight allies are coming up this autumn. My heteronormative family responsibilities are likely to keep me from attending any of them. So I'm counting on you, dear readers, to send me your reports from the field. Write up your impressions and I'll consider them for publication on this blog, or send me a link to your own blog post about any of these events. Why Homosexuality? Religion, Globalization, and the Anglican Schism Yale Divinity School, New Haven, CTOctober 17, 2009This interdisciplinary conference is sponsored by the LGBT Studies Department at Yale. "Rather than restaging the arguments for and against the ordination of openly gay clergy, this day-long conference analyzes the threatened schism in the Anglican Communion in order to examine wide-ranging and interrelated issues of religion, secularism, globalization, nationalism, and modernity. How and why, we ask, has homosexuality come to serve as a flash point for so m...
By: Reiter's Block
How to Slow Sugar Cravings?In ONE SECOND FLAT!
2009-07-29 14:24:00 Everyone gets cravings and they can sometimes feel like the most powerful urges on Earth. When your body wants something it wants something. And when your body knows you’re not supposed to have it, it feels like the craving is ten times stronger. I know what this is like. The craving for ...
Swine Flu: The Reality
2009-07-21 13:57:00 The whole Swine Flu thing is picking up pace again in the news, with the Daily Doom Mail, in particular, running with a series of quite alarmist, but paper-selling ’stories’. I have two issues with Swine Flu: It is flu. Flu is everywhere. Globally there are over 1 billion cases of flu diagnosed each ...
Come on Over to the New Fundamentally Reformed
2009-07-09 13:00:00 I started in October of 2005 at fundyreformed.blogspot.com. I deleted that account this week. In July of 2006 I migrated over to wordpress.com (fundyreformed.wordpress.com).- Now we’re finally home at fundamentallyreformed.com! The new design is pretty much set, but I have some minor tweaking and updating to do all over the place. But it looks ...
Come on Over to the New Fundamentally Reformed
2009-07-09 12:59:00 I started in October of 2005 at fundyreformed.blogspot.com. I deleted that account this week. In July of 2006 I migrated over to wordpress.com (fundyreformed.wordpress.com).- Now we’re finally home at fundamentallyreformed.com! The new design is pretty much set, but I have some minor tweaking and updating to do all over the place. But it looks ...
Energise Facebook Group
2009-07-06 23:39:00 Hey all Just a quick one to let you know that I’ve created a full-on, proper Facebook page/group/hub! I’ve had a profile up on there for a while now, but it is pretty clear that having a page is the best way for me to keep in touch with everyone, let you know what is happening at ...
Bob?s Back, But Is He Blogging?
2009-06-22 15:18:00 Small note here to say, I’m back from a trip. I’m busy too with reading the books on my review list, and I received a few more when I was gone. You’ll remember reviewing books on my blog is a way for me to ensure I’m investing time wisely. Lately I’ve also been posting regularly ...
Bob's Back, But Is He Blogging?
2009-06-22 15:18:00 Small note here to say, I’m back from a trip. I’m busy too with reading the books on my review list, and I received a few more when I was gone. You’ll remember reviewing books on my blog is a way for me to ensure I’m investing time wisely. Lately I’ve also been posting regularly ...
Mircroblogging: Twitter As the New Frontier of Blogging
2009-05-21 18:41:00 Twitter is steadily becoming more and more popular, especially with bloggers. If you haven’t explored Twitter yet, you’re missing out on the microblogging revolution. Blogging is great, but particularly with biblioblogging, posts can tend to be lengthy and updating one’s blog can be time-consuming. Microblogging, however, provides a much simpler alternative to blogging. Sites like Twitter, ...
Site News: Weekend Coverage
2009-05-20 20:23:00 Normally on the weekends, you’ve come to expect certain things here at TryGol.com. Lately I have provided “Expanded Coverage” of Fulham games & “Twittercast” coverage of Chicago Fire & USA Rugby matches. This weekend will be a bit different though. There is a chance I may have to actually work this Saturday…a rarity for me. So, there will be no Fulham expanded coverage per say. I’ll have some sort of post up Friday but the on going coverage that I normally provide will not happen this week. Sucky I know, but its better you know now rather than me canceling the shit at the last moment. However… I will provide live Twittercast coverage of Fulham vs Everton, provided that I don’t have to work Sunday, which at this point looks to be the case. The match won’t air live in the United States (8pm delay on Setanta Sports) but you can follow our Twittercast live. If you are unable to find an illegal stream or you have iss...
By: Try Gol
Announcing: Transformed by Grace
2009-04-28 15:00:00 Some reforming fundamentalist friends of mine and I have got together and founded a new online social media site called Transformed by Grace. We are a community of former legalists and reforming fundamentalists, continually allowing God’s grace to bring us closer to Christ. Using a free social media site provided by Ning.com, we have built a ...
Regular Programming
2009-03-03 19:05:00 Will resume shortly. I’ve been sick the last few days, and it may be a day or two before new posting resumes. Blessings to all, Bob Hayton
Dr Young in the UK - Very Limited Tickets!
2009-02-13 02:31:00 JUST ANNOUNCED! energiseforlife.com are proud to present: A Weekend with Dr Young: Learn How to Apply the pH Miracle to Your Life We’ve been working on this for a while, but we can now confirm that we are bringing Dr Robert Young, the pioneer of the alkaline diet, to the UK for a one-off weekend ...
Happy New Year
2009-01-02 15:41:00 Just a quick note to let everyone know we’re back. We shared precious time with two of our immediate family units who are heading off to the mission field this month. So it was a bittersweet time as saying good-bye is always hard. Then we had to take two kids to the doctors (seems to be ...
New-Look Energise Blog!
2008-11-13 03:15:00 Hi everyone Just a quick post to officially announce our new look blog! Over the next few weeks and months we’re going to be making a whole heap of changes, modifications and, ultimately, enhancements. The benefits to you, the reader are: Cleaner, easier to read & nicer to look at Relevant information, products and offers will ...
Alkaline Diet Forum Relaunched
2008-10-16 01:58:00 It’s back! The world’s most authoritative alkaline diet message board is bigger, better, faster and more slick looking than ever before! After a LOT of issues with spam, we’ve changed provider, redesigned, upped security and are ready to rock and roll once again. What the forum gives you (i.e. why you should care!): The opportunity ...
Whats up with Student Fitness?!?
2008-10-04 05:28:00 By: Joe Many of you out there have watched as Student Fitness has suffered a bit of article drought during the summer. I’m a student just like you guys and when I was out working my summer internship I was crazy busy and sadly, Student Fitness took a back seat. Well… It’s the Fall Semester and I’m ...
Comments fixed?
2008-09-21 13:20:00 Hi everyone I’ve literally just managed to get the comments fixed, delete (by hand) the 18000+ spam comments and approve the good comments from the last three months. And boy, there were some really great comments left. I sincerely apologise to everyone who took the time to leave me a message. Some of them are ...
Cigar Review: Arganese Maduro Robusto
2008-09-09 12:00:00 Cigar review of the Arganese Maduro Robusto. Cigar forum and blog.
By: Cigar Beat Blog
Update: Site News
2008-09-03 22:54:00 We are back in business here and will start to update the site as things go. Thank you for your patience while we moved to a new host.
By: Random Thoughts
Site News
2008-09-02 12:00:00 With my hosting contract set to expire and my unhappiness with them, I have decided to switch hosts. Due to this, we will not be updating the site for a few days. With things starting to pick up on the coverage of the Boston Red Sox, UConn Huskies and New England Patriots and the site ...
By: Random Thoughts
Category Addition
2008-08-28 21:06:00 What makes for a great rock record? Not great rock and roll, mind you, but a great album: The White Album, Daydream Nation, Automatic for the People, Tim. Both categories are obviously subjective, and everyone would have their own list, but nonetheless, there exists the phenomenon of the great album, and it is something worth ...
A New Beginning
2008-08-02 01:12:00 When I created this web site a year ago, I had intended it to be a place where I could express myself by sharing my thoughts and ideas with the online world. I quickly realized however how difficult it was to maintain a blogging web site and to write new content consistently. I’ve read several ...
Hi There
2008-06-20 08:08:00 Hi! This is Callum here - co-owner of Energise. You will have heard exclusively from Ross on the Blog so far, who does an excellent job keeping everyone up to date. I’ve decided to start writing a few posts on here too, with interesting news, any distinctions I’ve made in the world of ...
TFTS Gets A Fresh New Look [TFTS V3 At Your Service]
2008-06-11 00:45:00 Its been a while in the making and its taken a non-stop 48 hour stint ? hence no posts during this period - to tweak it to match our initial ?vision?, but at last the new look is now live and (touching wood) we appear to have most the creases ...
New England Transgender Pride March: Photos and Reflections
2008-06-08 17:13:00 The first-ever New England Transgender Pride March took place this weekend in Northampton, and I was there with my "Episcopal Church Welcomes You" rainbow tank top and a digital camera to capture the pageantry. I was hoping to blend into the MassEquality contingent, but they were scattered around other groups this time, so I just milled around looking like I knew what I was doing, and took lots of pictures. Next thing I knew, someone had handed me a bunch of purple and white balloons, and I was marching behind the lead banner, shouting "Trans Pride Now". Without either of my moms this time, I felt anxious that I didn't have the right to be there. Straight allies are important, but on the other hand, was I co-opting someone else's oppressed subculture? (I had a Native American Studies professor in college who was apoplectic about this.) The fact is, when you're genuinely weird, and view all human social categories as potential idols to be decons...
By: Reiter's Block
5,445 Kilometers
2008-06-08 10:11:00 My route through Western Australia. Click for a bigger image. That’s 3,383 miles to those of you in the U.S. of A. Since I left Darwin, I’ve been to three World Heritage Sites, seen all manner of Australian road-kill, been next to wild crocodiles, whale sharks, humpback whales, venomous sea snakes. and have gained a very deep ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "5,445 Kilometers", url: "http://everything-everywhere.c-om/2008/06/08/5445-kilometers"- });
Win Probability Updates
2008-06-07 09:37:00 FanGraphs now has Win Probability statistics for 1974 onward, with the exception of 1999. They are also now park adjusted with the exception of this current year. I’m working on that. Roger Clemens leads all pitchers in WPA with 75 wins. Greg Maddux is second with 55 wins. Barry Bonds leads all batters in ...
By: The RotoFeed
Civilization!
2008-06-07 03:40:00 I’ve arrived in Geralton, which is about four hours north of Perth. Prior to arriving here, the landscape changed. Trees appeared where there were only bushes before. Farms, power lines, fences and other things you see in rural areas appeared out of the nothingness. Today I’ll stop in the Pinnacle Desert before arriving in Perth. ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Civilization!", url: "http://everything-everywhere.c-om/2008/06/06/civilization" });
Trans Pride Tomorrow and Other News
2008-06-06 17:33:00 The first-ever New England Transgender Pride March and Rally will be held tomorrow at 11 AM in our very own Northampton, Mass. From the TransPrideMarch website: The event is organized by members of the trans and gender variant community, and their allies, with the intent of taking a visible and positive stand for transgender rights. The March and Rally is dedicated to diverse representation among organizers and participants. We seek to educate and build awareness of the movement against gender-based discrimination.Come join MassEquality in gathering petition signatures urging our state legislators to support HB 1722, an amendment to the Massachusetts anti-discrimination laws that would add protections for gender identity and expression.In other news:*Kittredge Cherry's groundbreaking book Art That Dares: Gay Jesus, Woman Christ and More was one of five Lambda Literary Awards nominees in the LGBT Arts and Culture category. See a video of her reading from the book and telling some of...
By: Reiter's Block
New Website
2008-06-05 09:25:00 I’ve decided to refute the unfortunate website Why Won’t God Heal Amputees point by point. The format will be similar to God is NOT Imaginary. I’ve already got two chapters done! Check out the new website at http://godandamputees.wordpress-.com. Eventually, I hope to give God is NOT Imaginary and God and Amputees their own domain names. That ...
Leaderboard Update
2008-06-05 07:39:00 I’ve made some changes to the leaderboards. You can no longer display all the rows, but there is a handy export button which will let you export all the rows into either excel or a csv file. If this is a real issue for you, let me know, but I have my reasons ...
By: The RotoFeed
Daily Travel Photo - Queensland, Australia
2008-06-04 20:51:00 Looking down on people on 4 Mile Beach, Whitsunday Island Originally posted on Everything Everywhere Travel ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Daily Travel Photo - Queensland, Australia", url: "http://everything-everywhere.c-om/2008/06/04/daily-travel-phot-o-queensland-australia-4" });
My Story "Dinosaurs Divorce" Published on The Writing Site
2008-06-04 18:02:00 My story "Dinosaurs Divorce", an excerpt from one of my novels-in-progress, won an honorable mention in the 2007 Arthur Edelstein Prize for Short Fiction from The Writing Site, an online resource for fiction writers, and is now posted on their website. (For reasons that are not evident in this early chapter, this post is not actually a departure from our "Pride Month" theme...) Here's the opener: We were gypsies, we were grifters, we were untenured faculty. After I was born, my mother left her beloved Manhattan and we embarked on the wandering life of an adjunct poetry professor, which as you might expect is about as lucrative as it was in Chaucer's day, adjusted for inflation. "And where are you from, Prudence?" Mrs. Litwin or Barone or Vasquez would chirp as I stood up before yet another elementary-school class, and I'd proudly recite, "New York and Cleveland and Durham and Lackawanna and..." I must have sounded like a train conductor.I probably didn't appreciate how little mo...
By: Reiter's Block
Gary Swims With The Fishes (Big Fishes)
2008-06-04 13:40:00 Whale Shark. Images by wjwinoz I saw some pretty cool things the last two days: sea snakes, sand sharks, humpback whales, and the grand whale shark. On Tuesday I did a dive on the navy pier. The pier is supposed to be one of the “Top 10 dives in the world”, a title which probably 100 ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Gary Swims With The Fishes (Big Fishes)", url: "http://everything-everywhere.c-om/2008/06/04/gary-swims-with-t-he-fishes-big-fishes" }); |
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