Colbert smacked the shit out of Bush last night. To his face. Saw it live. It was beautiful.

Finally feeling like I might have the energy to, you know, walk around for more than 10mins at a time.

Whoo.

Sybil's Garage #3 received good marks at Emerald City:

Sybil’s Garage #3 (March 2006) (sensesfive.com) is a small-press ‘zine of speculative fiction and poetry. Most of its stories wear their genre elements lightly - if at all - and the trend is towards the brief and intriguing mood piece, rather than the intricately plotted epic. My favorite was ( Read more... )

This week is stupidly busy. Next week looks stupidly busy.

You may have read about the threat to Net Neutrality on Sam or Josh's journals. Abingdonians may be in a special position to defend it.

Your member of Congress, Rep. Rick Boucher, sits on the key committee voting on Net Neutrality this week. This gives you a unique chance to counter ( Read more... )

Sleepy Liese: "You smell like a hot bucket of chum!"

From the Associated Press:

The half-day summit got under way with pomp and pageantry on the South Lawn as demonstrators massed outside to protest Beijing's human-rights policies ( Read more... )

From the Tao Te Ching, interpreted by Ursula K. Le Guin:

The way you can go
isn't the real way.
The name you can say
isn't the real name.

Heaven and earth
begin in the unnamed:
name's the mother
of the ten thousand things.

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Discussion question:
Why do stories about star-crossed figures (Oedipus, Romeo & Juliet) resonate so powerfully?

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"Subtextually" sexual poem of the day? You decide!

To the Spawning StarsNary Aicas ( Read more... )

From this dude's blog:

I¹ve been reading Night & Horses & The Desert: An Anthology of Classical ( Read more... )

What happens when a Catholic writer meets Jack Chick?

Saw V for Vendetta. Liked it, ultimately, but it has a curious tendency toward extremes: when it follows the source material, it follows exactly. When it departs, it departs entirely. When it's good, it's quite fine. (V and Evey are excellent, Valerie flashbacks and Camp Doctor revenge scene are quite powerful, beautiful imagery.) When it's awful, ( Read more... )