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Monday, June 28th, 2010


pictured above: Me, with short hair


Thirteen years after the debut of my first website at Yahoo Geocities in 1997, the mere six page Transvestite Freedom Fighter has morphed into a veritable beast in a labyrinthine maze of links. Up till this year, I kept all the pages accumulated over the years intact, but I realized that I was not unique in that way thousands of Twitters fancy themselves to be. So I streamlined to the things my loyal audiences continue to appreciate: pictures, images, and thoughts regarding transgender identity. I have also devoted space to futanari (she-male) drawings I find intriguing.

I believe transgender people are oft represented either negatively in the media as serial killers and freaks, or online as individuals obsessed with documenting their transition. I wanted to provide a modest but positive and free website that depicts the humor, innate curiosity, and alas -need I say it? – intellectual inquiry of one transgender person. I don’t even like to use the term “transgender” because to me, it’s purely a legal term for advocating rights and policies in public spaces. I have switched to calling myself a mere “eccentric,” because that term, at least, provides the option of going to new territories when doubt is innate in a developing identity. Besides, friends have long called me “the outlying factor.” I am easily an outcast even in the so-called transgender community, where personal agenda is aggressively – sometimes even militantly – rammed down one’s throat (ie. “If you don’t take hormones and get the operation, you are not legit“) To be fair, it’s risky business to label oneself “transgender” when one considers the mind-numbing amount of weekend warrior headless trannies on flickr.

I’m just glad I am so far over in the left field, I am standing on the lacrosse grounds.

I have been eccentric for over thirty years. I don’t plan to transition fully, because both the male and female anatomy are remarkable, gorgeous works of art. I am struck by wonder when I think about the beauty of the human body. I am not a hormone-taker, as I feel that sex drive is one of the critical lifeforce in sustaining the great human imagination.

Human beings are constantly in danger in their coexistence with viruses. But we shouldn’t flatter ourselves as superior beings. Instead, we should take the path of virus mutation as an ideal, and develop accordingly. I want to continuously, energetically, and joyfully change, morph, improve, learn, and absorb knowledge, wisdom, and humane lessons with each passing day.

This, for me, is the most important transition: to be a human being first, an eccentric second, and a transgendered person if all else fails.

So relax, make yourself at home, and enjoy!

P.A. June 28, 2010

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10 Things I Still Can’t Figure Out (update: February 2, 2010)

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

Cultural Imperialism at its most effective: Asian Eyelid Surgery. Parents give it to their kids as birthday presents as early as 15. Proponents say it’s merely “corrective.” I bring your attention to the dyed hair, blue contact lenses, and lightened skin in the AFTER picture.

1. ) Asian Eyelid Surgery. To this day, I still badger people to explain exactly what Asian eyelid surgery is. What is it supposed to accomplish? I call this the liquor-in-a-brown-bag syndrome. Just because you put an elongated bottle in a brown bag, do you really think all cops are instantly fooled? That he’ll miss the smell of booze on you, that you are stuttering and stumbling on the streets, and that you have no pants on?

2. ) Why do so many trans girls have multiple girl names in their female names? Is it the male mentality of more being better? More female names= more feminine. So it’s like a Chevy Big Block 572 V8 with a Holly Six pack carburetor of girly. You’d be a dude if you were merely Rachel Bilson. No. That’s like the Yugo of chick. You have to be Rachel Ann Tiffany Flowers or Sarah Elizabeth Isabella Silk. She is all XX on the chromo-dar.

Funny thing, I don’t hear of Female-to-Male trans bois calling themselves Jonathan Harry Jake the Snake Pummel or Joshua Matthew Christopher Allman. If whipping out your femme name and gauging its length with a ruler against other tgirls’ namesize is any measure of femininity, I really need to overcompensate for my brawny ways: I better start making plans to change my name to Brittany Grace Lisette Angela Santa-Maria Amatullah Sameera Al-Maalik Goldstein III.

3. ) Why do Asians love food with bones in it? Whenever I try it, I end up leaving the restaurant hungrier than when I came in. More calories burnt than consumed. Are they trying to drown out the surrounding noise? As a child I never understood the toothpicks that were freely available after dinner. Now I know it’s to remove chunks of tendons that were stuck in between teeth when food was vacuumed through the mouth at 8-10 hp.

4. ) Why women think dumb men in tv commercials is hilarious, but the reverse would constitute sexist misogynistic, oppression resulting from the systematic patriarchal post-feminist machinations of male chauvinism.

5. ) How white collar people can still take each other seriously and get work done when the word “synergy” continues to be used in boardroom meetings.

6. ) How blue or green eyes always evoke the cliched “the eyes are the window to one’s soul” but the Godfather of Soul is James Brown and the two biggest soulful artists are Ray Charles and Stevie Wonder.

7. ) Why so many sports fans have no problems expressing their homophobia while they hang out with a bunch of men getting drunk, hugging each other, and cheering a bunch of other men in tight pants patting each other’s butts.

8. ) Why the folks who find transgender women so hilarious and deserving of public taunting are the same people who fail to see anything peculiar about Wendy Williams.

9. ) Why we could exist in silence while in transit for hundreds of years, but now we can’t even cross a busy intersection without fondling our combo bluetooth I-Phone IPad GPS Kindle Book Auto-Atomic Diaper changer.

10. ) Why many animal-rights and human-rights activists see no problems with employing violence or portraying violence towards other human beings.


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10 New Year’s Resolution for this website. (update: Jan 7, 2010)

Thursday, January 7th, 2010

above: my deskside telecommunications center: rotary phone

I have the simplest New Year resolution for 2010: the classic that never goes out of style: lose weight.

For readers of d332.com, I make a more expansive list of ten promises.

1. Less sourpuss, more positive attitude

It’s very difficult for my deadpan humor to translate online. My favorite anecdote goes like this: At a restaurant everyone who is sitting around me is laughing out loud. The waitress comes and asks why I have a face like a horse. Don’t I have any sense of humor. To this, the answer arrives: “she’s the one telling the jokes!”

Having understood the lost of translation to text, I resolve to be cheerier since most of you guys have yet to meet me in person.

2. More about homemaking

I have another sight that I write about homemaking, so that has, in some way, deflected the Stepford element from this site’s content. But do you really want to know how to clean the mold out of bathtub caulk? (combine used fabric softener sheets with fresh lemon juice). Won’t you rather look at some of my favorite futanari pictures from my collection?

3. More about transgender community
I know I stopped calling myself transgender midway through 09. I started calling myself plain ol’ eccentric. It was a fancy abbreviation for “I’m just not THAT certain about the epistemological base of any labels.” Can we be THAT sure of anything that we’ll willfully adopt a label and try our darnest to fit into that circle…..even when we are a square? But not identifying as transgender doesn’t mean I don’t care about what other transgender folks are going through. In my unique – often annoying way – I point out what I detect as shortcomings, and hopefully I, and a few of you, may learn from someone else’s mistakes.

4. More frequent updates
I’m not chained to a computer. I still use a rotary phone at my desk. A vigilant Luddite, I try to find every excuse to wander away from a computer. But I will try to update more frequently this year.

5. Shorter entries
If silence is golden, then the gift of brevity is at least gold flakes. I have resolve to put my long, memory-aid entries in private mode, so I can simply log in and go read them when I need to remember what I was thinking some weeks ago.

6. Better accessibility and support
Hey look! I have a YAHOO INSTANT MESSENGER status button on the right sidebar below my pic. So now if you have to ask me something about what you just read, and that yellow bouncy ball is lit up, you can scoot over and say Hi!

7. More noticeable humor

8. More outdoor, public pictures with people in the foreground and background
So you’ll be sure I didn’t wake up at 6 AM to go out and snap these pictures. Besides, I’m usually just about to go sleep around sunrise.

9. More transgender advice.
I know my article about how to buy a dress, written in the nascent years of d332.com is quoted often. Hopefully, I would like to write more things like that that can assist other trans girls in going about the whole business of dressing with a sheep’s glance towards quality.

10. More pictures
I can’t really promise this one. As time is quickly advancing upon me, I find less reason to pursue the narcissistic art of self-portraits. Besides, wouldn’t you rather read about cleaning mold off a bathtub?


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The Luddite’s E-Bulletin Board (update: Dec 20, 2009)

Sunday, December 20th, 2009


my garden this morning

We’ve had up to 2 feet of snow a few towns over. I was out clearing the walkway in front of my house this morning when I noticed an unfamiliar silence. The only sound that filled the air were grudging scrapes of shovels pushed by adult hands. WHERE ARE THE CHILDREN?!

Maybe it’s just my neighborhood or the social strata I am involuntarily bound to, but I remembered when I was a kid, ALL us kids loved to go out and frolick in the snow. Especially on a Sunday morning. Of course, the ones who are venture capitalists today went from home to home, marketing their shoveling skill for a few dollars to pick up a printed copy* of the Sunday Wall Street Journal.

I looked around at all the other adults, and I have to say, I’m shocked. Even if they don’t want to make a snowman, don’t the kids of today at least pitch in to help clear the driveway?

My guess is they’re probably indoors, text-messaging and Facebooking each other about like…. how totally bad the snow is. Even if they weren’t….this is the time to vogue your UGG BOOTS. Well, where are you?

I blame it on the parents, who are probably afraid to sprain their children’s delicate Blackberry-punching fingers.

If I were a parent, I would sneak into my kids’ bedroom in the dead of night, snatch their I-phones, stick each in a ziplock bag and bury it under an inverted bowl in an undisclosed area beneath a growing snow drift.

After a good night’s rest from Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, they’ll wake up bright and bushy-tail, ready to tweet the hell out of someone’s bandwidth with information nobody needs.

They’ll be met with two shovels, and a pat on the bum. “Go outside and find your hidden treasure!” When they’re frantically digging like gophers on PCP withdrawal, I will then distribution list Ted Kaczynski’s 35,000-word manifesto to both their 3G accounts.

*Printed copy denotes a physical form of information transmission, whereby words are printed with ink, on low-grade, disposable paper (also known as “newspaper”), an archaic form of broadcasting events, “printed copy” is where one would go to when telecommunication satellites stop working. See also maps.

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Mac trapped inside the body of a Windows? Introducing the Pre-Op TransOS W-t-M (update: Dec 16, 2009)

Wednesday, December 16th, 2009

Windows trapped inside the body of a Mac
click on the picture above to see my Post-Op Desktop

Approximately after two years of considering the purchase of a Mac, I have decided that I’m way out of my league in hip when it comes to spokesperson Justin Long, and their legion of Starbucks laptop screenplayrights, considering my style of obsolescence. So, I decided to give my PC a O-SRS (Operating System Reassignment Surgery). It is now in the GUI stages of a Windows-to-Mac transition. Little did I know, my XP windows PC started to exhibit some peculiar traits that I was only too familiar with.

1.It thinks it’s officially a Mac, just because I hacked off its “right click.” You can still see the second button, but it thinks it’s been a 1-button mouse all along

2. It thinks it understands all the problems Mac’s are going through, just because it has a Mac Wallpaper.

3. It choses the latest Snow Leopard OSX 10.6.2 desktop themes to dress itself up, even though it’s running on a Windows 2000 code.

4.It celebrates Mac’s Command+click as the ultimate way to select, without realizing that the Windows right click has always been more responsive, faster to the touch, and more ready to be engaged.

5. When the XP account goes to sleep, it goes out around town looking for Mac users, even though it swears it’s an XP…when among other XP users.

6. Among Macs, it complains about how XP is unreliable, frequently experiencing BSOD (blue screen of death), and is vulnerable to viruses.

7. Just because it now looks like a Mac, it thinks it can surf all over the world without getting malware, because come on! It doesn’t go to those sites!

8. It adopts all the smug annoying qualities of its head spokesperson, looking down on Windows pc’s with Itunes installed as mere wannabes that lack the commitment to go all the way.

9.It quotes Steve Jobs’s commencement address in its entirety at Mac forums, referring to it as the Apple Monologues, frequently dispatched in an overly dramatic font.

10. Since it has a Mac logon screen, it thinks unless computers have a Mac logon screen, they are not officially Macs and shouldn’t be allowed in Mac user groups.


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