Demented Rants

After a joking conversation about how Global Warming was affecting a friend’s dry spell with sex, one of my former coworkers messaged me with this shit. I proceeded to remove him from my friends list before the Gen Con comment, and blocked him soon after that because I don’t deal with douches like this:

JUDGEMENTAL DICK:

you need to de friend me with this pervert shit ma’am. I do not like porn due to the fact that the dude who love it are all sorts of fucking weird. Add me as your normal real life friend, but your “porn star” staus makes me a bit ill.

JUDGEMENTAL DICK:

dudes*

Athena Hollow

Sorry, sex is a big part of my life, even if I didn’t do porn, I would still sit around with my friends talking about it XD

JUDGEMENTAL DICK:

yeah.

JUDGEMENTAL DICK:

try masturbation, it helps

Athena Hollow

It does, but there’s nothing wrong with talking about it either. In fact, not talking about it is what’s wrong with sexuality in this country as a whole. Shushing it or ignoring it, that’s a terrible thing in general, both physically and psychologically. I enjoy the fact that I can talk in jest about sex, and seriously about it, with all of my friends, and even my family, because it’s made me a much more stable person as a whole.

Athena Hollow

But, if it makes you feel better not seeing my status updates, so be it. Unfriended.

JUDGEMENTAL DICK:

jebus h christo, that isnt it. WOmen like you run around with their gooters hanging out at gencon at three year old eye level.

JUDGEMENTAL DICK:

it is not good for kids, and fat old dudes also do not need to see that. However, you are right, I don’t get laid and lie all the time. Fuck man, you are so weird.

Athena Hollow

Any who. Have fun. I’ll go back to my “weird” 300+ friends list of people that actually give a fuck about me and don’t judge what I choose to do for a living because it is “unseemly”.

JUDGEMENTAL DICK:

….yeah, that is exactly it.

One friend’s status update devolved into racist (and downright fucking retarded) diatribe from the most unlikely of angles

Yep. Made my goddamn brain hurt just as bad.

HB 1205 is an Indiana bill that will pull all funding from Planned Parenthood “because they perform abortions”. The representatives behind the bill are very blatant in pointing out that if PP stopped performing this service, they would stop the bill. Unfortunately, they are all ridiculously ignorant, and so I made my stand on it and sent every last one of them this nasty letter:

I am unbelievably sickened by the unprovoked attacks on Planned Parenthood. You all claim that you will keep funding them if they ‘stop abortions’ but apparently you seem to forget a couple things:

1) Abortion is constitutionally legal. Deal with it. It’s MY right to have one if I so choose. Not only that, I am guaranteed a right to safely pursue that right. By defunding Planned Parenthood, you are going to be forcing women to go back to the days of “back alley abortion” wherein an epidemic of unnecessary deaths happened. And don’t give me that crap of “it’s a baby at conception” otherwise every woman that had a miscarriage would be charged with manslaughter at the least.

2) You are personally attacking Planned Parenthood. Did you really think we wouldn’t read the bill itself? You are pushing ONLY to pull funding from Planned Parenthood, but hospitals are still perfectly allowed to perform abortions and they receive more funding than Planned Parenthood yearly, and can’t claim that NONE of that money actually goes towards abortions.

I can’t believe you all have nothing better to do than pander your personal beliefs as truths and law, when the actual laws states the opposite. You also are aware that this bill has no chance of coming to fruition, and thereby you are wasting what little tax dollars we actually have a state. It WILL be fought in court for years if necessary, not only wasting the time of the courts, but proving that it was a terrible idea to elect you as you have wasted the money we pay you to represent us. Unfortunately, you only represent your one sided, completely incompetent ideals of what is right or wrong.

I am completely disgusted at the Indiana representatives that this is even a possibility on the plate of government. We have MUCH more important things to worry about, such as job creation and retention, than to bother with petty rivalries that you for some reason have against the very company that has helped with sexual awareness and preventative healthcare for tens of thousands of men and women.

You should be ashamed.

Want to take a stand against the New Republican Women’s Oppression movement that seems to be sweeping the nation? Express your feelings here:

https://secure.ppaction.org/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=11973&AddInterest=1232&JServSessionIdr004=60fhwir6c3.app214a

I just saw a tweet from my friend Ryan Mercer with a link to an article titled “5 Reasons Liberals Aren’t As Happy as Conservatives”. I read through it and whereas I have no ‘facts’ to back up whether or not they are right or wrong, I do believe their ‘reasoning’ is fallible at best.

http://townhall.com/columnists/JohnHawkins/2011/02/01/5_reasons_liberals_arent_as_happy_as_conservatives

1) ) Conservatives believe in personal responsibility
John Hawkins argues that Liberals are too quick to blame other people for their misfortunes and downfalls in life. Unfortunately, he is right, but it’s not an unjustified blame.

A majority of today’s issues in the economy and society at this point in time can be traced back to decisions and plans set forth by conservatives such as the majority of the Bush administration. Major tax breaks for the upper elite bracket of citizens, grossly exorbitant amounts of money being spent on military actions with no definitive ending ever even being thought of, etc. Add that to the fact that conservatives in our current governmental regime doing everything they can to ‘Stop Democrats’ as opposed to doing work to help the people that put them into office in the first place, and it’s pretty easy to see that it isn’t necessarily the fault of anyone but those in power for a LOT of concerns today.

2) Conservatives are more religious than liberals

What irks me about this entire point is that the author spends a majority of his focus on Christianity, completely ignoring the entirety of Non-Christian based religions, lack of religion and agnosticism. Sure, I know lots of happy Christians, but I know more, happier Pagans, Neo-Pagans, Buddhists, Hindus, Athiests and Deists. Liberals don’t believe ‘religion is archaic’ because they ‘can’t have fun’, they believe that you should be taught to be a good person without the fear of hell having to be put into your head. Your sole motivation to be kind to your fellow man should never be “If I’m not, I’ll go to a bad place”.

The simple fact of the matter is that religions OTHER than Christianity have a very high ‘happy’ ratio if for no reason than they do good to do good, not to avoid the bad.

3) Conservatives are more likely than liberals to get married

Marriage does not constitute happiness. Period. It should immediately set you into suspicion mode when asked to discount the facts of high divorce rate and ‘unhappy marriages’. The author is blatantly trying to skew his ideals to meet his needs and assumptions about marriage and the idea that it will somehow make you a happier person. Sure! People who are married may be happier than those who are single. Simply put though, just because you are married doesn’t mean you are happy and just because you aren’t married, doesn’t mean you are unhappy. I have been with my fiance for 8 years (in a couple weeks), and I couldn’t be happier. I know marriages that don’t last that long. Of course, being with someone results in a higher probability of happiness, but marriage does NOT have to be the end result nor should it be the only reason. If you can’t make yourself happy, you can’t expect someone else to do it. That will just end in a divorce, depression or both. Also, there’s no numbers to show the number of divorces between conservatives compared to liberals, as well as the amount of relationships and time those relationships last without marriage being involved.

Also, this goes hand in hand with the religion aspect, as per the ‘traditional values’ and the ignorance towards gay marriage, in his own words even. Unfortunately, it also shows what disregard conservatives generally have towards the separation of Church and State, and that somehow Christian religions have more importance than all other religions and religious institutions.

4) Liberalism just doesn’t work very well in the real world

If he had any idea what liberalism was, I would have read more into this, but you can tell by sentence number one that his whole tripe is set to discount liberals and everything they HAVE done to better the world, and somehow pass off the crap that conservatives have done as being contrived by liberals.

5) Liberalism has turned into an extraordinarily harsh, divisive, angry ideology

Tea Party, anyone? Anti-Gay Rhetoric? Hardcore XTian “values” that place the wants of the richest over the needs of the people? Yea, we’re the angry ones…

My point is this – everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but to present flat out lies and distorted ideals as fact is not only a dangerous game, when you are representing yourself as a speaker of your own party of beliefs in the journalism world – gives your entire group a terrible image. When the only way you can ‘sway’ people to your beliefs is to put down those of others, you are no better than the average bully in high school. Next time, come up with a positive way to portray your party instead, it seems less childish that way.

Here’s what we in the midwest are looking at after round one of the icy hell that will eventually entomb us tonight when round 2 hits.

To give you an idea of the magnitude of this storm – Here’s a couple pictures of the radar over the past 12 or so hours:

From late last night

Round 2 - This shit is gonna last 6+ hours OF ICE FALLING FROM THE SKY

The news is saying that it is plausible that we will lose power and could be out from a matter of hours to up to a week. THIS BLOWS. So wish me luck. LOTS of it. Because I don’t seem to have much when it comes to major inclement weather situations.

For 2011, here’s the things I want to get done for sure!

1) Actually FINISH paying off my house – we’re so close it’s not even funny – but the economy has more than trampled us and we had to refinance what little bit we still owed last year. I would LOVE to get this payment out of the way each month.

2) Lose 15 lbs – Don’t even start. I know I’m not fat, I just have let myself go the past couple of years and I’m finally sick of it. I’m out of shape, not over weight. There’s a huge difference and anyone who’s also been where I am today, totally understands that. Luckily, I got a Kinect for xmas as well as Dance Central (and I’m not doing too shabby, though not well enough to do it in front of anyone but my closest friends lol), so this should be a very attainable goal.

3) Build at least 10 sites this year – Either for myself, models or clients.

4) Keep up with content on my site – After 7 years in the industry, being a full time mom, and just never having any time to myself, sometimes it’s hard to shoot content. Either I’m exhausted or my brain just isn’t coming up with anything remotely creative. I want to fix that. I want to make sure that I actually keep up with shooting content on my site, and shooting content for other sites. I haven’t been doing much of either lately, and I hate myself for it. Some of that has to do with #2 in the list as well though.

5) Do at least 3 custom cosplay outfits – I normally only do one a year, and it’s reserved for Gen Con. This year, I want to make sure I make at least 3 costumes and put them to good use. I know that I am doing a zombie something at Days of the Dead in July, and was PLANNING on doing my zombie Snow White, but I might do something different now. So that’s 2 for sure (I’m doing Paine from FFX-2 for Gen Con, and I believe I’m also making UndressJess a costume from X-2 to join me at Gen Con).

I think those are rather attainable, and much more plausible than my super outlandish ones from 2 years ago. Here’s to seeing if I can actually do them though.

[Me]
rapes your fb chat
<3<3
[Rob]
ouch! i’m calling svu
[Me]
OOOO i’ll take an olivia or two
might break the first one >_>
[Rob]
i’ll take stabler
[Me]
hehehe
he was pretty hot in Oz
if not slightly rapish
[Rob]
he’s always hot, so is liv though, you’re right
[Me]
so, we’ll get one of each and share!
hahaha
[Rob]
or just a 4 way!
[Me]
WOO
only if i get to film it and make money off it tho. that’d be too hard to pass up.
[Rob]
hahaha… 50/50 w/ me! $$$
[Me]
And you’ll totally have to do the soundtrack
cuz that’d just be awesome
lol
I want to make a porn where the soundtrack is nommed
[Rob]
after i recover from the loss of ummmm man fluid
[Me]
hahahaha
well, I’ll let you go :) Was just molestering you while I had the chance ;)
[Rob]
mmm! thanks! how much do i owe you?
[Me]
um…. tree fity
[Rob]
tree fity!!!? damn woman
[Me]
Always wantin tree fity!
:) <3<3 night hun. Hoping to come see you soon!
[Rob]
that’d be nice to see you

So, I received a message from one of the people I know who is an affiliate for GeekGirlsOnline. It was titled “Just a heads up” — so I assumed I’d linked something wrong on the last update. Boy was I wrong. Apparently Nintendo has some company as their lackey that goes around attempting to enforce their trademark. This is all fine and dandy if they are enforcing it properly. Unfortunately, they are attempting to use their own idea of what is ‘decent’ and try to get anyone using ‘Nintendo DSi” along with nude pictures, no matter how NOT hardcore they are, to remove Nintendo DSi from their text that is visible, invisible and meta.

Sorry guys, in this case, it doesn’t work that way.

A nonowner may also use a trademark nominatively—to refer to the actual trademarked product or its source. In addition to protecting product criticism and analysis, United States law actually encourages nominative usage by competitors in the form of comparative advertising.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use_%28U.S._trademark_law%29

The Lanham Act permits a non-owner of a registered trademark to make “fair use” or “nominative use” of a trademark under certain circumstances without obtaining permission from the mark’s owner. The fair use and nominative use defenses are to help ensure that trademark owners do not prohibit the use of their marks when they are used for the purpose of description or identification. Fair use or nominative use may be recognized in those instances where a reader of a given work is clearly able to understand that the use of the trademark does not suggest sponsorship or association with the trademark owner’s product or services and therefore is not being used in a manner to confuse the reader.

http://www.publaw.com/fairusetrade.html

Unlike most statutory fair use cases, nominative fair use involves the descriptive use of the plaintiff’s mark to describe or identify the plaintiff’s goods or services. While decided as a statutory and/or common law fair use case, WCVB-TV v. Boston Athletic Ass’n., 926 F.2d 42 (1st Cir. 1991), is more logically a nominative fair use case, although decided before the Ninth articulated the defense and coined the term. This case involved the use of the registered trademark BOSTON MARATHON by a television station in connection with its coverage of the running event. WCVB-TV had displayed the words “Boston Marathon” on the screen before, during, and after their coverage of the actual marathon. The First Circuit found that the fair use defense was properly asserted, reasoning that the trademark was used primarily in a descriptive manner. Because of the “timing, meaning, context, intent, and surrounding circumstances,” there was no likelihood of confusion. The court concluded that without allowing others to use the term “Boston Marathon,” it would be virtually impossible to describe the Boston Marathon.

http://www.cll.com/articles/trademark-parody-statutory-and-nominative-fair-use-under-the-lanham-act#NOMINATIVE%20USE%20AS%20FAIR%20USE

The facts are these:  I posed naked with my Nintendo DSi. I stated as a description FOR the promotional gallery for my affiliates, that it was a Nintendo DSi. My affiliates used this terminology because it is in fact a Nintendo DSi in the photos with me. The company going after people states the following:

Re: BLOG NAME REMOVED

IDENTIFIED PROBLEM: Web site uses a Nintendo trademark (Nintendo) in
the code of the page.

Dear Moniker Privacy Services,

We are an Internet monitoring agency representing Nintendo of America
Inc. (“Nintendo”). We are writing to ask you to stop using the Nintendo
properties in the hidden text/visible text/meta tags and/or title and/or
links of the above-referenced sexually explicit Web site. Nintendo’s
customers include many children and their parents. Unauthorized use of
Nintendo trademark(s)/work(s) is harmful to those customers and will
tarnish Nintendo’s reputation.

We look forward to your immediate confirmation that you have taken the
necessary steps to resolve this matter. To that end, you may email us at
StopInfringement@cyveillance.com.

Please note that these are automatic email boxes so typically no
response is sent as long as the problem is corrected.

Sincerely,
Cyveillance

Um. No. I don’t give a shit if Jesus himself surfs the web looking for a Nintendo DSi — the simple fact of the matter is that not ONLY are my affiliates in the right but I am in the right for instructing them to use the phrase in the first place. It’s describing the object in the photo. Deal with it Nintendo. You’d be pitching a goddamn fit if I put it down as some other console, so take the publicity and move on about your lives. I promise, you’ll be less like tools if you do.

Btw, a couple of the photos mentioned are right through this link: http://www.geekgirlsonline.net/hosted/athenahollow4/ (OBVIOUSLY NOT SAFE FOR WORK!)

Also, another example of how Nintendo is being rediculous, is pointed out by our friends over at KinkyGamer. I was talking to the owner about the whole situation and here’s what he had to say:

It appears to be related to the below picture of Athena from Geek Girls Online enjoying her DS while nude. The funny thing is, they did not seem to have a problem with a barely dressed girl playing the Wii Fit on youtube which got millions of views immediately following the release of the Wii Fit.

[Read the Full Post] (Also Not Safe For Work)

Yea……. off that cross Nintendo.

It’s that time of year again. The time when consumerism eats us alive. I can’t say I hate it because I’m a business owner, not a particularly rich one, but owner none the less.

We all say we <3 Christmas because we can see family and friends we don’t normally get to see throughout the year, but lets face it, it all comes down to the cool or nifty shit we all get that wonderful present tree-killing day!

That being said, I’ve made a wishlist specifically for Christmas this year because I often get requests from fans asking what things I *really* want off of my sectioned out wishlists. It’s sometimes hard to pick just one thing, so I have gone through and chosen the things I consider my must haves for the season as well as some  standard necessities.

Don’t think that just because you might get me something, that you are going to walk away empty handed. Listed below are what you will definitely receive if you decide that I’m worthy of your gifting

ALL purchase will receive a custom fan sign OR printed & signed 4×6 AND  the extras are listed below ^_^

Every item $10 or less – 5 photo set with the item you purchased*

$10.01-$15 – 15 photo set* and 2 months to GeekGirlsOnline (GGO) or 1 month to MissAthenaHollow (MAH)

$15.01-$20 – 15 photo set* and 3 months to GGO or 2 months to MAH

$20.01-$35  – 20 photo set* or 5 minute cam show and 4 months to GGO or 3 months to MAH

$35.01-$50  – 25 photo set* or 10 minute cam show and 6 months to GGO or  5 months to MAH

$50.01+ – 25 photo set and 10 minute cam show as well as 6 months to GGO or 5 months to MAH

You can of course choose to purchase a few different things and have the option to combine the prices together or keep them separate, but only if you purchase those items at the same time, e.g. if you choose to buy a $6 item today, then a $30 item a week from now, you’ll get a 5 photo set with the first item and a 20 photo set w/ the 2nd OR a 5 minute cam show. (This is to make it easier on my mind to keep track and make time for everyone equally )

Of course, you have to email me when you purchase something so I know it’s from you and will make it a lot easier to get you your Thank You gift

http://amzn.com/w/2HG3ZMSKFU3BR is the link to my Christmas Wishlist ^_^

Don’t worry, there’s some really inexpensive items on there as well, so you don’t have to worry about breaking the bank!

(If you would like something comparable such as a 10 minute video as opposed to the 10 minute cam show, this is totally doable, just let me know.)

*Of course, if the item you purchased can’t really be featured in a photo set, I can substitute with a photo set of your choice.

Context: Disjoint is a Canadian friend of mine that has to spend a lot of time in the States for work. He has an outsider POV because his political views aren’t skewed by having to live here. After reading my recent post containing a conversation with a friend about why I think Sarah Palin is an inbred moron, this is what he said:

Disjoint: Omfg you are categorized people as stupid because of their politics and that is the problem with the country
Disjoint: Lmfao
Disjoint: That shit is hilarious
Disjoint: That is crazy
Disjoint: The republicans want to randomly tea bag people
Disjoint: And go all klan
Athena Hollow: hahah yea and he supports palin.
Athena Hollow: cuz she’s tolerant….
Athena Hollow: >_>
Disjoint: The democrats want to legally obligated people to touch my penis
Disjoint: And calling people stupid is the problem!!
Athena Hollow: LOL
Disjoint: Tolerant my ass she sneak into Canada for health care
Athena Hollow: yep
Disjoint: She’s like a bad Ethiopia refugee
Athena Hollow: and voted AGAINST socialized healthcare
Disjoint: Save me Canada i need health care
Disjoint: Totally Ethiopia refugee
Disjoint: She is the biggest disaster in politics
Disjoint: At least Christine odonnel had wild satanic orgies
Athena Hollow: hahahahah
Disjoint: Palin is like fran the nanny but more annoying and less crafty
Athena Hollow: you have me in tears right now. this is going on my blog
Athena Hollow: hahaha
Disjoint: Heheh its true though. Bridge to nowhere should have been built we could have at least purged some when they drive off the end into the ocean
Disjoint: The only thing she has got going for her is she is an obedient house wife
Disjoint: Her popularity is with average white men who can’t get a good woman
Disjoint: Women don’t vote for her
Athena Hollow: stupid women do
Disjoint: That is saying a lot
Disjoint: That would be like if black polled didn’t vote for Obama
Athena Hollow: he said “Let’s try the queen maab thing: stop talking about, stop thinking about her and maybe she’ll go away”
Disjoint: Hahahahah
Disjoint: She’s like herpes she just keeps coming back
Disjoint: Palin is here to stay she got her own reality show.
Disjoint: Her next show will be temptation igloo.
Disjoint: Can you get these couples to cheat by putting them in a igloo with hillbilly women and Sarah Palin
Athena Hollow: hahaha
Disjoint: Tune in next time when Joe makes love to seal blubber instead of staying in the igloo for the night
Disjoint: If this were any other country Obama would have assassinated her a long time ago