A gigantic welcome to all the new members

[Zerbie]

Hi everyone!

(Really sorry to post a mass note like this, but I"m totally swamped and have finally figured out that if I keep waiting to respond to everyone individually, I'm going to wind up ignoring all of you:( . . .)

So instead, here is a great big WELCOME! to everyone who has recently joined. I'm glad to see you all here, and look forward to spending more time readin' and responding to your posts in the future! :D :D :D

[Lydia]

Lol, I should have thought of this. :)

[tdogg]

(Great idea Zerbie!!)

Yes, from someone who is fairly swamped too - A HUGE WARM WELCOME TO ALL OF YOU NEWBIES AT SOULFORCE FORUMS!!

Hope you are all here to stay and looking forward to getting to know y'all better!! Welcome!!!

T-dogg :D :rainbow: :love: :applause: :flower:

[Zerbie]

Bumping this, 'cuz there are several new people here again this week who I have not "spoken to" and I'm not gonna reply individually at the moment because I'm so tired my head is going to fall on the keyboard if I don't log off soon. . .

So, again, WELCOME to all the "newbies!"

We're glad you're here!!!!

:D

[Jennifer5]

I add my WELCOME!!!!, so sorry that I haven't had more time... hope to get to talk to all of you soon!:)

[m~dgray]

Hi to everyone:p

I've never tried this Soulforce forum before. It seems quite a bit more friendly than the SNL list I wrote to sometimes and always used to read.

I've given to you my eBay home page (at the near bottom of this msg.) so that you can read About Me, and also read the many (mainly) movie reviews and two handfuls of guides I've written on eBay. It's how I use my literary and cultural critiquing skills to occupy myself as a person with disabilities who is now nearly a shut in with wheelchair mobility, and a personal attendant to do the things for me that I cannot do any longer. (I can still film and type; however, now from a wheelchair that is at a fixed backwards tilt ).

I've also included my [B]Yahoo 360 home page which is relatively under construction; I'm not as personal in the YAHOO 360 page as the eBay one; but still it has some beginner political blogging, a RSS feed to H. Clinton's home page, other news feeds, a few of my original pix, other pix that are not mine, reviews, educational background :eek: and some other small odds and ends--like "Myrtle Monroe," my most recent prize winning artistically edited on pc, video-to-still-shot photo. I am in the process of publishing all of my Soulforce research papers waiting for editors' feedback.:cool:

The fun thing that I'm up to as a hobby that has only a tangential connection with Soulforce is that I'm enjoying "Law and Order: Special Victims Unit," largely because of actor Mariska Hargitay, who I consider talented and gorgeous. I've decided to do a research project partly about her and her family: mother Jayne Mansfield and father, Mickey Hargitay (Mr. Universe) who just died. Mariska was only 3yo when she and her two siblings were in the back seat of the car crash that killed their mother, Jayne Mansfield. If looking closely, it's easy to see Mariska Hargitay's resemblance to her mother. Quite interesting what type of 2006 Golden Globe winning actor Hargitay is turning out to be--with her femininity quite understated in relation to her mother's "blonde bombshell" flaunted femininity. Interesting also what the SVU actor has done with herself gender-wise with two hyper-gendered parents (feminine and masculine to each of their extremes).

Here's how I am relating it to my ongoing, neverending Soulforce ethnographic work: doing a study of women who were variously publicly traumatized as little girls. From my filming days of soulforcees as a video ethnographer, my eyes and lens automatically gravitated to the sidewalk sign-holding children of Christian fundamentalist gender and sexual supremacists. Some 7 years gone by now, many of them, especially the girls, are becoming of age so that I can speak with them as women who were put on public display by their gender and sexual supremacist elders.

Every frame of video of them I've shot bothers me; much more today than when I originally filmed them. Just as the mental imagery does of a 3yo little girl, the youngest, in the back seat of the car when her famous mother was killed in a crash. (While I filmed I didn't feel--I was on the job being objective--rationally minded. That's the dilemma with being a participant-observer ethnographer; by working/filming, I'm always at a specific scientific distance. Years later, now as I review the video footage I shot, in private at home, it's quite emotional for me to watch--more and more as time goes by, and each time I view. I am more in the moment reviewing the film than I was at the moments of filming). My angle of looking at it is through a lens of feminist consciences and research methods combining gender, age, circumstance, and public trauma. Again, I am studying women . . . this time, ones who are post-traumatized and were originally publicly traumatized as little girls.

Hope to have some interesting chats with you here.

Kindly,
m~d

PS--Jennifer5, thank you very much for the e-birthday card in August.

YAHOO 360 --
http://360.yahoo.com/profile-MLUlBZgiYqgEDkevq0.SurZ4ZWQ-?cq=1

eBay homepage --
http://members.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewUserPage&userid=m_d.md.m_d

[Zerbie]

I'm off to write papers for class - so bumping this another time to welcome all the various new, new members.

Hello! Hello! Hello! And welcome all!

Please keep posting!

:) :love:

[Britt.]

Welcome everyone. Like Zerbie, I don't always have time to read everything. This thread is a good idea. Hi everyone :)

[Zerbie]

Greetings once again to everyone who recently joined. :)

Like Maruti Das has said - we ARE here reading your posts and welcoming you in our hearts (and speaking for myself, things got waaaaay busy this fall and I had to force myself not to spend as much time posting on here.)

So once again, a hearty WELCOME to all of you who have recently posted introductions! I'm glad you're here, and look forward to having the time to converse some more.

Please keep on talkin'!

Zerbie

[BruceChris]

A beautiful woman, a well rounded human being, with just a touch of Ann Bancroft (And, no, I don't mean Mrs. Robinson!)

P&L, BC

[marutidas]

Namaste, My name is Maruti Das, and
Welcome to Soulforce.

You will find many kindred spirits here.
There are so many new arrivels, I cant say hello to you all.

With closed palms I bow to the divinity within you.

[BruceChris]

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[m~dgray]

Speaking of leaders, or rather the prospect of there being true ones, President Bush has 417 days left in the White House. Love to all, m~d