Joanna's Diary

Pink Punters, and a suprise guest

2010-02-02T16:01:00.001Z

That little fella gets everywhere

Apologies

2010-01-16T13:31:00.002Z

Apologies, but real life is really starting to catch up with me. Hence nothing here for a long time. And nothing of note for even longer.

Next week is the Angels party. I think once I've done that I will be going into retirement.

As a wise movie policeman once said; "I'm too old for this shit"....

:)

Angels 10th Birthday Party 22nd Jan 2010

2009-09-15T08:29:00.002+01:00

In celebration of the Angels reaching the grand old age of 10 years old in January 2010 I would like to announce that we are having a little party to celebrate.

The party will take place at the Pink Punters club, Fenny Stratford (near Milton Keynes) on Friday 22nd January 2010 (Link to map).

The nearest hotel is the much-loved Campanile across the road. Book early to guarantee a room, and there’s an early bird discount if you book a room more than 30 days before the event.

More details will be revealed nearer the time. Please spread the word. Use the banner below if you want to help advertise the event.

Offical Angels Blog post here.

Summer Nights

2009-07-29T10:49:00.001+01:00

Yes it's the same old pose on the stairs, followed by photoshopping away the foundation issues and nose.

Same old ;)

I like the pic though....

Low Energy Blogging - from the archives

2009-07-26T09:57:00.004+01:00

It's the summer season, and time for the blogging equivalent of those really cheap clip shows that show lots of old material for very little input. Here's some of the classics from the past that really liked that have got lost with the mists of time. It's a kind of low-energy blogging.

Here are some of my favourites.

A Nutter Speaks - in which I get my red pen out to a crank letter.

Tranny Spotting - Parts 1 and Parts 2. Know your fellow trannies. Can you spot yourself in here?

The Tranny Checklist - it's a slippery slope....

Tranny Soduku - in which I combine several memes

Tranny Relief - please give generously

Chav Tags - for the blinging young offender

Strictly Morris Dancing - for that hole in the Saturday night schedules

Trust me I am a Tranny - in which I rant about flickr fuckwits

I coin two tranny definitions: The Trannynova and the Trannyrang

Joannas Laws of Tranny Forums - in which I start a discussion that may or may not end up as a tranny rock songs debate...

Enjoy!

Twitter

2009-07-16T17:31:00.003+01:00

I've finally got a personal account on Twitter to go with my Angels one and TG Captions one.

You can find me here: http://twitter.com/joangeluk

A few pics from Sparkle

2009-07-14T16:08:00.003+01:00

Here's a few of my fave pics from other peoples Sparkle pics (well, mainly Valeries)

Everyone took the piss out of this. I thought it was great. Self portraits for those with short arms.

And again. Thanks to Sophie for this one. And no, you can't see the resulting portrait. I didn't look so good.

Police are looking for a girl who raids shoe shops, only stealing the display shoe.

On the way to the park before the Chinese meal.

Sparkle report will follow... when I get round to it.

Theres an app for that

2009-07-14T14:38:00.002+01:00

Lost your friends on a drunken crawl around the Village?
There's an app for that...

Maybe we should radio-tag trannies for events like Sparkle?

The Angels Meal @Sparkle 09

2009-07-12T22:24:00.001+01:00

The Angels Meal @Sparkle 09
Originally uploaded by Jo Angel

A Lazy-susan's eye view.

Was a great meal and good to catch up with some people I've only ever talked to via the Angels forum.

Shame the weather was so crap outside though, I was meeting a friend after the meal and by the time we were finished she was drenched!

Do you think that's wise?

2009-07-10T15:39:00.001+01:00

With this many trannies walking down Canal Street in wigs and hairspray.... a fire juggler is just asking for trouble.

Could explode at any time.

Those Crazy Finns

2009-07-10T08:44:00.001+01:00

I think I may have encapsulated a nation in a single photograph :)

Well, here I am at The Place for the start of Sparkle. Quiet night last night - went out, ate, got drunk. Simples.

Val is still trying to get me to eat a rollmop... send help...

Sparkly

2009-07-07T19:06:00.004+01:00

Yes, after a two year hiatus I am finally getting my arse back to Sparkle.

I'll be sharing a room at The Place with Valerie. I've warned her I'm getting old these days so nothing too outrageous please! Will be going to the Angels meal on the Saturday night but apart from that I haven't really planned out the Sparkle weekend.

Really looking forward to it - it's been 2 years since I've been out with Val - far too long.

Need to get everything packed tomorrow - then I'm heading up on Thursday.... have narrowed down what I am going to wear but you can guarantee I'll end up taking 3 tonnes of clothes with me just in case.

If you're going to Sparkle - say Hi.

Thank You Ebay

2009-06-24T19:14:00.001+01:00

Thank god for Ebay. New wig, £20. Bargain!

More wigs here - Direct from Hong Kong, fantastic :)

TG Captions has a new home

2009-06-04T08:42:00.005+01:00

A quick note for fans of my TG Captions website: Please note that I have had to movethis week.

I've been having problems with Heart Internet who tell me that, despite promising unlimited hosting with unlimited bandwidth, this site is using up too much of the system resources. Unless I do something about the server load then they will take the site down. So basically it's hit it's unlimited limit.

I have tried to put into place some Wordpress caching plugins that are supposed to ease server load - but I don't think they are working. The site gets about 15,000 hits a day, so it's much busier than any of the other sites I run.

I can't afford to pay for a dedicated server - the banner ads on the side of the site only bring in a few quid a week, nowhere near what a dedicated server costs. And as the site is only a bit of fun, unless it's self-supporting I don't want to spend lots on it.

So for now I am moving the captions across to a WordPress-hosted site that hopefully will be able to cope with the load. I'm currently in the process of copying all images from my old site to there, and will eventually remove the images from the tgcaptions.co.uk site and just leave a redirect in place.

You can find the new site here: http://tgcaptions.wordpress.com/ please update your bookmarks and any links you may have to it.

All new updates will go there for now. If you follow the caption site via RSS then please update your feed settings.

20 Years Ago Today

2009-05-26T10:34:00.001+01:00

Today is the 20th anniversary of a moment that will live long in the memory of any Arsenal fan.

This was the night we went to Anfield needing to win by 2 goals, which we did with almost the last kick of the game.

This also produced one of my favourite scenes from any footballing movie - the final minutes of Fever Pitch which sums up wonderfully the emotions of a football fan :)

(And Ruth Gemmill looks fantastic in that red and white spotted frock too!)

Angles

2009-05-20T10:43:00.001+01:00

Yes I know I've taken lots of photos in this pose recently, but I've bought a monopod thing and I don't like the ones I take when I am facing straight into the lens.

Had another dressing sesh the other day, trying out a few outfits I've been buying to see if they'll be OK for Sparkle. Been favouring the more longline tops with jeans/leggins which don't emphasise my fat belly.. Quite pleased with the overal look.

And yes, still here, blogging in other places right now. Trying to revive the Angels blog as a good news feed, and started twittering to raise its profile. Also got back into making captions again - lots on my TG Captions website, and have a backlog of about 30 to publish over the next month.

Oh for F**ks Sake

2009-05-10T15:45:00.004+01:00

Look, for fucks sake. The MMR thing is one of the biggest media hoaxes out there. The research by Wakefield was seriously flawed in the first place and leapt upon by a horde of journalists and celebrity columnists without a science qualification between them. No actual studies have been published that show a link between MMR and Autism, and the evidence against a link is overwhelming. Every media outlet that discusses this always ends up trying to "balance the debate" by allowing anti-vaccine nutjobs to have their say and continue to spread this absolute rubbish.

Of course, now the media point the finger purely at Wakefield, and walk away whistling... claiming it was never anything to do with them guv, oh no honest. And the biggest bastard in all this is the Daily Mail...

So of course, one of the things we really need to do is to get our children to start thinking about how science is manipulated by the media and by parties with a cash investment in peddling alternative therapies etc. It's good common sense to doubt what these shitrags are telling us.

So this story in the Daily Mail yesterday made my blood boil when I read it (which to be honest every story in the Daily Mail does) - for the sheer arrogant cheek of it.

So - to try and show children that the whole MMR thing was complete bollocks and that people like Wakefield and the Daily Mail were bastards of the highest order - is somehow Brainwashing them? Oh for fucks sake.

I'm gobsmacked. Really i am.

To have people from JABS talking about insidious ways of shaping peoples opinions? Words fail me.

And for AQA to now withdraw the past paper because of it. Shameful. Stand up to these bastards. (And I've now seen the paper and it was only for 3 marks anyway!)

I'm hoping Ben at Bad Science will be writing about this soon, keep an eye on his blog.

And the Anti-vaccine movement is moving ahead at a scary rate in the US with that fuckwit Jenny McCarthy being signed up by Oprah. These diseases are going to come back, and people are going to die, and the blame for that falls squarely on these celebrity rent-a-quotes and the arts students that work in the media who don't have a clue about what they are doing.

Bah.....

Want to read more. Try some of these links
Why Does the Vaccine/Autism Controversy Live On?
Oprah drinks the antivax Kool Aid
Why is Oprah Winfrey promoting vaccine skeptic Jenny McCarthy?
Daily Mail Exposes Secret Government Brainwashing Plot!
Mail & MMR: who's doing the brainwashing?

The stupid.. they not only burn, they kill...

After Twitter

2009-04-06T14:45:00.004+01:00

After Twitter.. here's Flutter

Well... not really.. but it made me chuckle

Eddie Lizzard?

2009-03-03T18:15:00.003Z

From Discovery Channel:

Male Lizards Disguise as Females to Avoid Attack

Young, male lizards desperate to mate, access women and avoid attack from older
males by pretending to be one of the girls, a new study said.
According to the study published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, young male Augrabies flat lizards (Platysaurus broadleyi) hide their colors so as to
imitate plain, brown females.
"In this system the adult males are extremely colorful and extremely territorial and the females are a plain brown," said co-author Scott Keogh, of the School of Biological Sciences at the Australian National University. "Young males purposefully only develop colors on their belly, so they reach sexual maturity by still looking like a female."
Imitating a female allows the juvenile lizards to mate with females, without being detected and driven away by the larger, territorial, adult males, who will chase and bite their young rivals

More

See.. for some trannies, it's all about the girls :)

Banksy

2009-02-27T15:46:00.001Z

well, ish.

A fun free site to jazz up your photos if you don't have photoshop.

http://www.befunky.com

In need of a hero?

2009-02-19T16:39:00.003Z

In need of a superhero? Here's Angels Modgirl. With her Axe of Smiting +3 gasp as she moderates threads in a single bound and herds kittens without breaking sweat.

Want to make your own? Then check out the Hero Factory. Great fun.

So Anyway...

2009-02-16T22:21:00.003Z

You may have noticed a distinct absence of blogging from me. I've noticed it too ;)

It's partly because I've run out of things to say on here. It's also due to me building up my boy online presence - it gets hard to split things between the two personae. Splitting between two flickr accounts, several blogs, forums, two facebook accounts and a twitter stream.

And while some have managed it very well, merging the two parts of me just isn't going to happen.

What has been interesting is how a few Twitter friends I have made through education are also into Second Life, and are Twittering (Tweeting) with Siobhan and Mrs Siobhan. It's just bizarre to see several threads merge like that.

I've become more and more distanced from the scene. I'm crap at ringing people to say Hello.. and obviously I'm crap at receiving calls too. I do need to get out more, but am in that awkward period where real life birthdays, events and holidays (plus work) gets in the way with the best laid plans and all that.

Add to that a general feeling of "meh" from those trannies I've followed and used to read regularly. There's a whole new wave of young british trannies, and they're leaving us behind with whole new fabulousness.

Have had a few chances to dress in the last few months though, which is good. And I've rekindled a desire to do that - although I've found myself falling back on the same few outfits... Photos on flickr in a narrow range of poses that work. Although I have found that this quickpod thing was a fantastic purchase for self portraits.

I've stopped playing Everquest 2... Got bored with just raiding... but have now got into Warhammer Online instead. I used to play the tabletop game and then the roleplay game as a teenager, and have been waiting for the online version for a long long time. Enjoying it so far, but I've been very much a casual player... only logging in at weekends etc. Trying to get the right balance between gaming and RL.

Angels is still ticking along - I spend a lot of time keeping the peace between the girls who only post when drunk and those who just want to argue about everything. Recently had an instance of sockpuppeting, which made a change. I'm assuming they were sober.

So yeah... that's about it for now. I am still here.

Better late than never

2009-02-16T16:47:00.001Z

Haven't dressed for a month or so. Haven't had a lot of chances.

I promise I will write something more substantial for this blog soon. Until then, here's a brand new photo.

Cut and Paste 2

2009-01-24T12:30:00.002Z

While on the subject of Cut and Paste trannies

This one, is yet another work of art.

Seasons Greetings

2008-12-18T09:44:00.001Z

Wishing you all a very merry Xmas and a Happy New Year