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[sabotabby]

I had a job as a body piercer. A client wanted me to pierce her top and bottom lips together with a row of industrial-strength staples, essentially sealing her mouth shut. I might add that she wanted me to do this at a dinner party hosted by my parents. The other catch was that she didn't trust me to do it on her until I'd done it on someone else. The only person that I could think of who was crazy enough to do something like that was me.

So, while my parents made dinner in the next room, I sat with the piercing gun and put rings through my lips. I was interrupted only once, halfway through the procedure, but I was still able to drawl out of the corner of my mouth.

The first ring was excruciatingly painful and brought tears to my eyes. Every ring after that got slightly easier, until the last one, which I barely felt at all.

In waking news:

Toronto people, please come to the Wobbly film night. It will be fun. And if it isn't, there will be booze there.

EDIT: Are any of you good at making animated icons from videos? If so, anyone who makes me an icon of either the panda going down the slide and crashing into the other panda, or the panda sticking its nose directly into the camera gets to be my new hero.

Comments

[jhfurnish.livejournal.com]

This wasn't you that did this, right? Agh.

Next you'll have tatoos all over 100% of your body and you'll be hanging from fishhooks through your back, ass and legs.

Those people are beyond fucked up.

[sabotabby]

Mrrmph mmmmumf mmmmr?

Kidding. Blue font = dream.

[earthlingmike.livejournal.com]

OMG. Thank God.

[smhwpf.livejournal.com]

Clueless. I am clueless. Not until you said "In waking news..." did I realise.

Is this something to do with how the capitalist-imperialist media silences alternative viewpoints? Hmm... doesn't quite fit with you doing it to yourself...

But anyway - Eeeeewwww!

[sabotabby]

I figured that it had to do with silencing in some way. I suspect it was a bit more personal than political, though, given the presence of my family.

[frandroid.livejournal.com]

Some of my friends put out dreamposts all the time, so I clued in rapidly... I don't think I would have otherwise 8)

[sabotabby]

But there are "zzzz"s! And a different font! And a tag that says "dreams."

[frandroid.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the zzzzz is just a clue, but you got me with the dreams tag there.

[human-loser.livejournal.com]

Man I don't even have to have creepy dreams anymore, I just have to read yours to get my weekly willies quota.

Do you have any NICE dreams, ever? cause if they're all like that, I'm gonna start looking under your floorboards for body parts.

[sabotabby]

I don't remember the last time I had a dream that wasn't creepy as fuck. At least this one didn't have any animal torture in it.

[human-loser.livejournal.com]

or exposed bones! Always a hit in a nightmare!

[jhfurnish.livejournal.com]

I've never been to Canada. Will you have Labatt's Blue at this event?

Well, it's too short notice for me to make it up to that. However I think I'm going to try to visit Canada this summer. I've never been out of the States.

[sabotabby]

I've never been to Canada. Will you have Labatt's Blue at this event?

God, I hope not.

You should come visit. Do you like smog?

[jhfurnish.livejournal.com]

I thought Canada was reasonably unpolluted. Is the smog something wafting from the States? I know our acid rain hits you pretty hard up there.

[sabotabby]

We generate plenty of our own smog in Hogtown. It comes from a lack of sensible urban planning.

[frandroid.livejournal.com]

At least half of our air pollution is homegrown. We had had good success in convincing neighbouring states to reduce their pollution in the 80s, as we were getting all this acid rain, but now there's some bill in progress to release those restrictions, so we'll be getting some more USian pollution some time soon.

Ontario is the third most lax jurisdiction in terms of air pollution in North America after Texas and some other state, though.

[frandroid.livejournal.com]

As for the pandas (TEH CUTE!!_ ), the biggest difficulty is that this is flash video... If it was an actual standard format, the conversion wouldn't be too hard.

[sabotabby]

I'm thinking a series of screen shots would work, but that will take a long time. I might do it in my copious free time at some point.

[pretzelsalt.livejournal.com]

PANDAS!

The second slide trip was my favorite - headfirstlandings are not advisable.

[sabotabby]

At least there was some snow to break his fall!

[zingerella.livejournal.com]

Dude, there's some serious Jungian sh*t going on in your psyche.

[sabotabby]

If it was Jungian, shouldn't my dreams look more like other people's?

[jaymoh.livejournal.com]

I've actually seen the mouth sewn up thing. It's very odd. I tend to like the creepy dreams. I have a lot of those too. I have a dream journal next to my bed- I hadn't thought about putting them on LJ though. Hmm.

As for the pandas. I can't handle the cute! I just watched that clip 30 times. I have no icon making skillz. Or appropriate software for that matter.

[sabotabby]

I saw something like that as a performance art piece in the paper; it also happens to a character in the novel I'm writing, sort of.

I don't normally like to post about my dreams; I tend not to remember them, for one thing. Every so often I get one that's fun and I'm compelled to share it.

I thought the pandas offset the creepiness nicely.

[earthlingmike.livejournal.com]

At some point over the next several days I'll try making one of those icons for you if you want.

[sabotabby]

Squee! Thanks!

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

I saw this and thought you should be alerted.

[sabotabby]

Oh yes, I've seen that. My favourite is the Anne Frank one. D'you think anyone would play if I commissioned an anti-Semitic cartoon contest on gaybortion?

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

Probably not.

[khalinche.livejournal.com]

*ded of cute* from pandas.

I continue to be impressed by your ability to use a different icon in every reply.

[sabotabby]

I try. I don't always manage it.

[apperception.livejournal.com]

I'm happy to have found the "teh crack" series of posts.

Warning: I'm drunk, thereby making this a dunks response.

Did you figure out the meaning of your dream? Though I don't know what your dream means, here are some clues:

The dinner party is being given by your mother and father. A dinner party is a sort of formal event, which suggests social protocol. This is therefore probably a dream about how people are supposed to relate. Since it's your parents, it might be about how two people in a marriage/romantic relationship/whatever are supposed to relate.

My intuition tells me to link this up with silence, because of the sealing of the mouth. So I would say that, perhaps, not speaking is part of your protocol, but it's painful at first. But now maybe you've made a habit of it. No one notices, though, certainly not your parents, who are in the other room.

Does this make any sense? I feel like Dion Warwick here.