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Thursday, November 21
The daily affirmation
We just got issue #40 of Prometheus magazine, the house organ of The Eulenspiegel Society (T.E.S.  ) Glancing through its pages I came across an article called "My First Visit to T.E.S." In it are recollections from a number of people about what it was like to first come to a meeting of kinksters. Two blurbs caught my approval-hungry eye:I went to a particularly excellent TES meeting on a Tuesday night in March of this year. Alex was presenting on the topic of "Submission with Dignity" - managing to be not only dignified, but insightful and amusing for the entirety. Without props and demonstrations, even! –Lisa VGood thing I don't wear hats, because none of them would fit now, with all that head swelling going on. But you know what, I deserve it! Because I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and, doggonit, people like me! '; } else { if(stristr($filename,"archive")) { $dir=$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']; $template='_01_archive.html'; $tail=strlen($template); $thisArchive=$filename; //$files=scandir($dir); $dh = opendir($dir); while (false !== ($filename = readdir($dh))) { $files[] = $filename; } sort($files); $earlyarch=""; $laterarch=""; $prevarch=""; $next=0; foreach($files as $file) { if (substr($file,-$tail)==$template) { if ($next==1) { $laterarch=$file; $earlyarch=$prevarch; $next=0; } if ($file==$thisArchive) { $next=1; } else { $prevarch=$file; $earlyarch=$prevarch; } } } $link=''; $divider=''; if(file_exists($earlyarch)) { $link='< Earlier Archive'; $divider=" | "; } if(file_exists($laterarch)) { $link=$link.$divider.'Later Archive >'; } $link=$link.' '; } } echo($link); ?> |