Check out The Chant – Green Waters http://ping.fm/vjJPL via @lastfm

Check out Nortia – Solitude http://ping.fm/6iA9o via @lastfm Melodic metal from Sweden, circa 1990's.

Check out Lost In Thought – Blood Red Diamond http://ping.fm/zpP87 via @lastfm

Check out FortuneTeller – Event Horizon http://ping.fm/OultW via @lastfm

Check out Everflow – Freeze http://ping.fm/oG7eF via @lastfm

Check out Change Of Seasons – Crocodile Skin http://ping.fm/8h2NN via @lastfm

Check out Reinforcements – Rena (Premix) http://ping.fm/z4ejM via @lastfm

Dreadfully sorry--that last bit wasn't what I thought it was! Carry on!

Check out Bruce Marshall – Das Opfer des Pater Valentino http://ping.fm/luv3r via @lastfm Sit back, chill out, and enjoy. Almost 33 minutes!

Check out Aphotic Downfall – Misanthropia http://ping.fm/Y6xVj via @lastfm

Check out Dreaded Silence – Captivity http://ping.fm/DgfGU via @lastfm

Check out Vaporous – The Elite Specters http://ping.fm/wwoXj via @lastfm fantastically atmospheric.

Check out Definition Unknown – Departure http://ping.fm/EHfRp via @lastfm Some great speed riffs interspersed through a melancholy melody.

Check out Star Insight – 04 Death http://ping.fm/lSA7H via @lastfm An absolutely gorgeous, powerful tune.

Check out Melancholy of The Leaves – Hate is my faith, anger is my god http://ping.fm/hJHes via @lastfm That opening riff is damn powerful!

Check out Myssouri – The Other Peoples Money Stomp http://ping.fm/k1FxM via @lastfm Southern gothic doom!

Check out Nightfane – I Long For Your Love http://ping.fm/IwRZn via @lastfm

I'd go over to @roselemort's house & throw snowballs at her, but it's too damn cold for this old broad. You're lucky, Rose!

Check out Arbor Vitae – sunken ships http://ping.fm/0CzzA via @lastfm

And you too, @lilystrange! But I'm still glad you're back, Bitch.

And now @roselemort is laughing at me! You best watch it, Rose! I know where you live!

Now that I'm in better lighting than is in the back bedroom/bathroom area of my house I realize that I am wearing 1 purple sock and 1 blue.

Check out Reinforcements – Weird (Jammed Premix) http://ping.fm/D1jwf via @lastfm

Check out Neverworld – They live http://ping.fm/mAx1y via @lastfm A cool, old school sound. I detect Iron Maiden as an influence.

Check out Dreaded Silence – Inside the Buzzard Circle http://ping.fm/JXno8 via @lastfm

Dolly has some melodic and Prog metal for you tonight on Psychotic Brain Blend Eclectic Radio. Join us on Facebook. http://ping.fm/y9ewk

Also, who else hates when you grab a pair of off the rack pants in your size only to get them home & discover that they have no pockets?

Who else hates it when you're trying to copy a link on Facebook and the page suddenly scrolls down because there is new stuff in the feed?

Had to kick the thermostat up to 75 this morning. It's only 19 degrees out (Fahrenheit) and not likely to get much warmer! :-(

Twitter is being stupid...er than usual.

Check out Remmirath – Polis Rouge http://ping.fm/EyfFP via @lastfm here's an epic one for me to end my online stint for the time. Regards to our Veterans! ~Dolly~

Check out Dimensional Psychosis – Singularity http://ping.fm/n8QFq via @lastfm

Check out Valhom – Glory and Death http://ping.fm/RrbNr via @lastfm

Check out Worms of Sabnock – Black Empire http://ping.fm/VOTvn via @lastfm

Check out Black Tribe – Dawn (Alpha Drone Remix) http://ping.fm/zut79 via @lastfm

Check out Eclectika – Marble Altar http://ping.fm/rQX6G via @lastfm

Check out Artisian – Sodomy Of The Deity http://ping.fm/MZkgq via @lastfm Horror-esque melody with brutal vocals.

Check out Cuntworm – The Flesh Harvest http://ping.fm/Aa0pq via @lastfm

Check out LIVERCAGE – The One http://ping.fm/Ahtog via @lastfm

Check out WerVolF – Princess Mononoke http://ping.fm/uW7Bj via @lastfm

Check out Gurtholfinn – Dying Alone http://ping.fm/gfSIL via @lastfm Seriously digging this gorgeous, melancholy tune!

Check out Frostgrave – Grave http://ping.fm/D2MLn via @lastfm

Check out Sin Origin – intro: Unaccountable Masses [of Shades and Shadows] http://ping.fm/9XxgX via @lastfm

Check out DarkTRANCE – Delusional Dreaming http://ping.fm/YcpGE via @lastfm Beautiful and brutal at once.

Wow--did anyone else just completely lose their newsfeed or is Facebook picking on me?

Check out Valhom – Poison which Flows in my Veins http://ping.fm/fadyZ via @lastfm

Check out Dimensional Psychosis – New World Disorder http://ping.fm/CrbJM via @lastfm

Check out Hesperus Dimension – The Axis of Diagram http://ping.fm/aE4Ta via @lastfm Kind of a prog/black/industrial thing going on here.

Check out Cuntworm – Question Breathing http://ping.fm/zPu7g via @lastfm The music is cool but the band name could be--well, one whole fuck of a lot better!

Check out Empire Auriga – Time Expanding http://ping.fm/qzKnd via @lastfm They're coming for you, Fucker!

Check out Feldgrau – Strong Arm Faction http://ping.fm/oextm via @lastfm

Check out Worms of Sabnock – Shangos Vengeance http://ping.fm/sFaue via @lastfm This is a brutal hour to wake up, so I'm gonna get brutal with ya!

http://ping.fm/pLQSQ Shocking--they look so totally normal and well balanced and all!

Surely I can't be the only one with an urge to refer to the new Twilight movie as "Breaking Wind" everytime I hear about it!

I feel kinda barftacular but really better get going on my favorite thing (so not!) housework. Meh. :/

Dear community college: is this a library or a sauna? I realize it's winter but must it be the temperature of Death Valley inside? Luv Dolly

http://ping.fm/GXkrl Animal Anarchy: Now More Social!

RT @pamspaulding Why Bachmann called Mittens a socialist! Mitt Romney's Medicare plan: Resurrecting the public option? http://ow.ly/7mLW9

http://ping.fm/J11Vs Your Funny News Short Bus!

I'm going to play a little game and go to BED! The sandman cometh. Now get all your minds outta the gutter! I know what you're thinking!

http://ping.fm/EDEs1 Guess they wanted to add some adventure to their love life.

http://ping.fm/JD7yQ Because I like to share the work of independent writers & artists.

http://ping.fm/MCGEv more from the You Can't Make This Crap Up department.

Police: Russian man kept 29 dead bodies at home News http://ping.fm/mG1GV via @YahooNews From the You Can't Make This Shit Up department.

Check out Mirrorthrone – Dismay http://ping.fm/YHMj4 via @lastfm

RT @bbcworld Only member of Russian ice hockey team to survive last week's plane crash that killed 43 has died of injuries http://bbc.in/q5X6JR

RT @vorsta Hear me my chiefs, I am tired. My heart is sick & sad. From where the sun now stands I will fight no more forever. Chief Joseph

http://ping.fm/6RzWd Hey Call of Cthulhu dorks! I hope you relish this as much as I do!

Check out Demiurg – The Night Hunt http://ping.fm/P29bQ via @lastfm

Check out Mirrorthrone – No One By My Side http://ping.fm/Al9Jc via @lastfm

Check out Novembers Doom – Six Sides http://ping.fm/RdgY1 via @lastfm

Check out In Mourning – The Final Solution (Entering the Black Lodge) http://ping.fm/jvzBP via @lastfm A nice epic length melodic death metal track.

Check out Satariel – Slithering http://ping.fm/F1pqr via @lastfm Clean but brutal vocals and powerful instrumentals.

Check out Jonna Enckell – Violent Poetry http://ping.fm/RfK98 via @lastfm I also enjoy this sort of music

I really don't understand why all these dating coaches are following me on Twitter. Not interested in meeting women for dates, thanks.

To those who think that old bats shouldn't listen to death metal, all I have to say is "get off my damn lawn before I cut you to bits!"

Check out The Amenta – Slave http://ping.fm/oR9oQ via @lastfm Some think an old bat like me oughtn't be listening to death metal.

The problem with many modern recipes is their aversion to using butter, which often makes things taste better. Julia Child would be ashamed!

Hi new friends and associates. Sorry I didn't get to your requests sooner. I really don't social network that often.

I love how the proof that high fructose corn syrup is no problem is on a site owned by the manufacturers of corn syrup!

Check out Хаос-Модуль – Апатия http://t.co/gplQ126 via @lastfm

Check out Naum Shtarkman – Album per la Gioventù, Op. 39 - Dolce fantasticheria: Moderato http://t.co/t8E483O via @lastfm

Please help me save Waffles. He is scheduled to be put down at a MARIETTA shelter. Kill-date TBD. http://fragurl.com/WSN

@sebastianbach Lost my dad last year after long illness & much suffering. It's said you don't get over it just used to it. Much love to ya.

Check out Age Of Fading – God's Eyes Void http://t.co/lfEfstX via @lastfm

Just stumbled across a group called "People with adult children SOULDN'T be on Facebook." I would say people who can't SPELL shouldn't be!

Only trouble with this is he walks all over my lap and onto my keyboard!

Her friend that I adopted her with has been super affectionate since then and even tried to cuddle with the calico cat, who he doesn't like.

There's no floor in there right now and she got up underneath the house! Not good! So she's staying with my son till the house is fixed.

The girl kitty was too clever and inquisitive for her own good. She kept pulling the accordion door open and going into the back.

My kitty really misses his buddy but she can't come home until the contractor puts the floor back in the back of the house.

If you do the crime you face the wig! Watching Law & Order U.K.

Finally seem to have broken through my writer's block and am busting out on a cool story featuring a couple of creepy, possessed dolls!

http://ping.fm/UsUfT Wow! This has the potential to help a lot of people.

http://ping.fm/bYfVu Hardly a wonder that this joker's her EX boyfriend! What a low life!

http://ping.fm/gUAkX Nuclear Power: the Titanic of energy delivery

http://ping.fm/PABaN Embryos exposed to high levels of radiation will often have serious complications. (Graphic images)

Cannot seem to comment on Disgracebook today. The enter bar won't work, but only on Facebook. Jeez!

http://ping.fm/6ASz4 Ohh, wow! Scary stuff that sounds like sci-fi but isn't.

@rudysarzo Well! My phone is too high class to burp and fart! Actually it's too stupid to do either--I don't have a fart--er--smart phone.

RT @addthis [JOB OPENING] We're looking for a great Software Test Engineer with a focus on quality assurance! http://ow.ly/5cdgv

What is it with all the people I'm following talking about going back to bed? Must be the hot weather! Y'all are tempting me to nap too!

Had to get the back of the joint insulated so when cold weather hits ice crystals won't form and warp the wood. Nuff probs w/this place.

Well the insulation guy has good taste in tunes even though he's young. He's listening to Kickstart My Heart just now. @motleycruemusic

http://ping.fm/ttDyF found one!

@thesulk him and me both! Teen Wolf was a comedy. What next, a serious remake of Abbott and Costello Meet the Wolfman?

Looking for horror-themed writing contests & calls for horror anthologies. Know of any?

@nikkisixx do not tempt me with your soporific tweets! I am easily convinced to nap, anytime, anywhere! But u may go back 2 bed if you wish.

RT @pam_spaulding Gay Cop Told Marching in Gay Parade a "Discredit". http://goo.gl/oWMQ0

Oh, Fluffy Kitty, why can you not retract your claws when walking across my lap. OUCH! cats

Not all fat people gorge themselves, and not all of us go to McDonald's. stereotypes stigma HAES sizeprejudice

http://ping.fm/xM7CX Your chance to buy the Shunned House!

I am gone like a freight train, gone like yesterday. Tweet and Facebook you people later!

http://ping.fm/WdHxB 10 ways in which Mother Nature has bitch-slapped Planet Earth.

RT @jerricho89 Then they arrested the nudists, but couldn't pin anything on them.

Check out Scott Walker – Duchess http://t.co/pKbZyas via @lastfm

Check out Morrissey – That's How People Grow Up http://t.co/anz2UNs via @lastfm

Check out The Auteurs – New French Girlfriend http://t.co/XhJy2pO via @lastfm

Check out British Sea Power – A Trip Out http://t.co/NogvcDS via @lastfm

Check out Richard Hawley – The Ocean http://t.co/BiYYwbT via @lastfm

Being Raped is like Needing to Change a Flat

 Ladies, being raped is a lot like this, apparently

It is, according to certain brilliant Republican congressmen. Read about it here.

Dolly's wisdom says:

If we silly women would just realize that by having vaginas we are asking for rape, we'd stop standing in the way of what these brilliant men are trying to accomplish!
Being raped is like having to change a tire. Huh. I don't like changing tires, but having to do so never gave me panic attacks for a year afterwards or necessitated taking tranquilizers or seeing a counselor either. I hope this guy never gets raped because no-one deserves that, but I imagine he would change that stupid tune he was singing pretty quick if he ever even had an inkling of what it was like.

http://ping.fm/LsEUh Reactionary Dumb

Does anyone else find the "Team This" and "Team That" trend super annoying? I'm joining Team STFU.

http://ping.fm/ABgni A fun and delicious way to support a natural farm. Adopt an olive tree & get 3 liters of oil from it.

While searching for a program to watch on TV, I misread "Great Tank Battles" as "Great Twink Battles." Bit of a difference there!

I will not be watching this "toddlers & tiaras" crap on TLC. I find child beauty pageants to be vile. How about letting kids be kids!

http://ping.fm/EySFe Call out Psychology Today re: prejudiced articles

Just stopped following this clown who turned out to be a homophobic evangelist. How I fell into that one I'll never know!

All my "dating coach" followers can feel free to stop following me. Am not a man, will never use your services or follow back.

http://ping.fm/ALoHz Interplanetary weather report

I am very curious why most of my Twitter followers are "dating coaches who teach men how to meet women." I'm not a man or a dating coach!

http://ping.fm/uKSQJ info about a white dwarf star system

Dear stinky cat, is it necessary for you to jump into my lap right after using the litterbox?

http://ping.fm/uYpG1 For you dog lovers, a list of small dog breeds with pictures

http://ping.fm/xl3ji Just After Ampersand: The History of Z

http://ping.fm/PTiRY Are you smarter than a tornado?

http://ping.fm/IqdDW Tornadoes & superstorms

http://ping.fm/ZOrvn

http://ping.fm/eREE6 The top 20 states for tornados

http://ping.fm/7CftN scam calls

http://ping.fm/5hxvR Bird

http://ping.fm/t604L How to stop collection call harassment

if a real God were actually so vain as to constantly demand worship, then he would not be worth it. ~Stellan Skarsgård atheist quotes

My natural history/geology geek self is very excited over this show "How the States Got Their Shapes" on the History Channel.

http://ping.fm/1ONTF Photo of lightning & rainbow

Check out Grobschnitt – Solar Music II @lastfm http://t.co/5NSwF0x via @lastfm Gorgeous Prog rock!

Check out Shamall – Caligula 2009 @lastfm http://t.co/dU8j6ob via @lastfm It's a fine night for music with a Kraut flavor!

Check out Eloy – The Dance in Doubt and Fear @lastfm http://t.co/PfVHx63 via @lastfm A dance that I dance all too often

Huckabee is Off Base

Mike Huckabee has decried Natalie Portman for glamorizing having a child out of wedlock. But Ms. Portman is an adult, and it doesn't appear that she is glamorizing the fact that she is pregnant out of wedlock. The thing that is horrifying to me are shows glamorizing teen motherhood. It is not that I feel that teenage girls who become pregnant should be branded "sluts," but nor should becoming pregnant in one's teen years be seen as a goal to pursue. Not only that, but the girls chosen to be on these programs do not seem like the kind who are going to try and put their child first. They seem like self-absorbed Paris Hilton/Kim Kardashian wannabes. 

Natalie Portman is not a bad role model. I doubt that anyone even thinks about the fact that she and her boyfriend are having a baby out of wedlock--other than the likes of Mike Huckabee. The people who should be receiving a verbal lashing are the jerks who created the "Teen Mom" shows. They don't care what kind of a message they're sending to impressionable teenage girls who may well think they can get their 15 minutes of fame by getting pregnant and getting on such a show themselves.

Really hate rotating shifts. Fibro was horrible last nite. Felt like barb wire wrapped around arms, shoulders. Early AM shift worst for me.

RT @bbcdavideades Gadaffi insists he's not Pres. so can't stand down. BUT insisted I call him Brother Leader when I interv'd him in 2007.

Follow me @friendofdollies on Twitter if you want. I don't promise any scintillating thoughts, but you're welcome to 'em such as they are.

http://ping.fm/IUc4p Self Injury Awareness Day

Self Injury Awareness Day

http://drdeborahserani.blogspot.com/2011/03/march-1st-is-self-injury-awareness-day.html

My friend Faycin A Croud shared this information. I kept the picture because it looks something like a young me. I have been self-harming for as long as I can remember. I used to hit myself as a child. I started cutting in my teens.

People who SI are often trying to:

* Distract emotional pain

* End feelings of numbness

* Calm overwhelming feelings

* Maintaining control

* Self-punish

* Express thoughts that cannot be put into words

* Express feelings for which there are no words

What are the types of self-injury?

* Cutting

* Burning

* Picking at skin

* Interfering with wound healing

* Hair-pulling

* Hitting

* Scratching

* Pinching

* Biting

* Bone-breaking

* Head-banging

It enrages me when people say that those who self-harm are merely engaging in "attention seeking behavior." Indirectly, I suppose that's true. It was a cry for help in my case. But first and foremost it was an attempt to defuse overwhelming feelings and replace emotional pain with physical pain. Sometimes it was also self-punishment.

Self-harm is a complex issue. I am glad there is a day dedicated to educating people about it.

Check out this design your door tool from ETO http://bit.ly/2yX4Fe

articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/02/28/new-study-confirms-fructose-affects-your-brain-very-differently-than-glucose.aspx

http://ping.fm/klIgd My updated Google profile

http://ping.fm/9JQmr Social Networking Meanness

Social Networking Meanness

I don't "social network" much, partly due to being busy but also because of a really distressing mean streak that seems to pervade. Snarking about life, the Universe, and everything is one thing--life is frustrating and I often feel snarky and sarcastic about the way things are too. But being directly mean and attacking whole groups of people verbally is so unnecessary and it really brings me down when I see it. This is kind of a pervasive problem on Facebook in particular. While I understand that meanness is often a knee-jerk reaction to having been hurt, I really wish that people would realize that they are not doing anyone any favors by spewing venom onto the entire world. It may sound stupid but I find these negative energies very distressing, and this is why I don't social network very much. 

My writing sister Rose (she has a book coming out sometime this Spring!) feels the same way but out of necessity for promoting her book she tries to do it although she has said that she usually feels a lot worse after a bout of social networking than she did before she started. People are very quick to attack, to be snide, to generally display their rotten side. You know the world is tough enough without us being assholes to each other too.

I've been accused of being too sensitive my entire life. But I'd rather be too sensitive than to spread gloom and hate all the time. Life is hard enough. We should be supporting each other in our fight through it rather than bringing each other down further.

http://ping.fm/6vWCx Here are some kittens trying to run up a slide.

http://ping.fm/u1Ijh Cats in cages in warehouse so called "sanctuary."

http://ping.fm/EDOkw A little A.M. laugh

http://ping.fm/8jiNl Good night, People. I leave you with this happy story.

Aaaaand, I'll be fading out pretty quickly tonight. I have to work at 6 A.M.--blargh! The early shifts are the worst!

Also thanks to everyone who wished me a happy birthday. I worked--woo hoo!

Hey new FB friends--sorry it took so long to accept your request. I actually don't come on FB that much, so pardon the delay!

I don't feel very good right now. One of these days I'll learn that my stomach is 50 years old like the rest of me!

http://ping.fm/ILoc7 Creative Acres Brighton CO

http://ping.fm/HWHlr Rose LeMort has wonderful gifts for all contributors to her project!

Look, I'm no big fan of Justin Bieber, but wishing for the kid to die is kinda sick. Haven't you people better use for your energy?

Oh, abra-ca-duh! I think I've done it!

I like my profile on Twitter except for that damn yellow lettering and believe it or not, I don't know how to tweak that!

Google never answers questions in the forums. Their "customer service" is non-existent because they are something of a monopoly.

Google sucks. I've tried to log out of my personal blogger account (this is a pen name, duh) to manage my blogs but it's a no go.

I've an unusual little cat in my brood. He will always be small. He kind of toddles when he walks.

@mrtommyland wishing your mom the best.

http://ping.fm/bnfo6 How to avoid small talk

I really hate cooking for just myself. It's boring and seems pointless. Usually I just warm up prepared food or drink a yogurt smoothie.

My dark heart is shattered in shards of sorrow for the loss of love I never knew.

Recently in FB sidebar: The Lesbian Social Network, meet women & men from your town for free. Why would a lesbian be seeking men to meet??

http://ping.fm/AtkeJ Follow Rose as she publishes her first novel!

http://ping.fm/nnF2r For friends with autistic children or who teach autistic children.

RT @niosh "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." - Martin Luther King, Jr. MLKDay Follow @MLKday

RT @niosh Fewer lung cancer deaths among those screened with low-dose helical Computerized tomography http://go.usa.gov/rmV NIOSH Sci Blog

RT @abigvictory This color of fake tan on this lady's face is Oompa Loompa Bukkake. Ask for it by name! X=D

Worse, there is some bracelet in my sidebar that is "Sean Hannity Approved." Believe me, that is NOT a good selling point with me!

One trick to skinny stomach--ha! I hate those FB sidebar diet ads. At my age there is no "skinny stomach." There is only accepting yourself.