The past couple of days the GLBT community has been up in arms over CBS's refusal to play an ad from the UCC (United Church of Christ), which if you haven't already seen, you can watch here. I checked it out, and despite the fact that I do respect the UCC for coming forward and supporting GLBT people, I can't support the ad itself ( Read more... )

Hohoho... Guess who's the new FA Fic Niffler? Ah, yes, I'm one of about five super nerds selected to rec fics for FA. I'm not sure whether this is, to quote Catch-22, since I'm actually reading it, "a black eye or a feather in my cap". On the one hand, it gives me great pleasure to know that I was selected, and on the other I've got that distinct ( Read more... )

It's official: I am certifiably insane. I've signed up for no less than 17 credits next quarter. That's a total of five classes, ladies and gents. FiveI'm taking: Geology, Cultural Anthropology, English 101 (bleh!), Kung Fu (with my nifty Judo instructor) and the much awaited GLBT Studies. Besides being insanely busy, it actually seems like a ( Read more... )

I recently discovered that my web host deleted my website because I hadn't signed in in over 60 days (that's school for you), and rather than upload it again, I decided to go look for a new layout. I did like Les Fleurs du Mal, especially since it was named after one of my favorite books of poetry, however the white text on a black background thing ( Read more... )

Bus drivers are sort of their own species, with the only thing that they all have in common, besides an awful job, is the fact they all have absolutely nothing in common. There's the crabby 50-something woman who drives the 4, who always manages to pick the worst person on the entire bus to get into an argument with. On Friday she tried to get one ( Read more... )

According to MSNBC, it's still too early to tell who our next president will be, but given that, last I checked, Bush had 269 of the 270 votes needed, and Kerry's only got 207, I'd say we're going to get another four years worth of the little Texan Troll. And, to top it all off, at least six states have changed their constitutions to ban gay ( Read more... )

I just came across a post in copperbadge's LJ about how Shelley actually wrote Ozymandias (and I must agree with Copperbadge, that's one of my favorites of his as well) in competition with Horace Smith, who wrote a very similar poem. Smith's isn't nearly as good as Shelley, and this is probably just me but the ending reminds me of Poe, for whatever reason. ( Read more... )

In case you're wondering where the hell that title came from: I stole it from an article in a scholarly journal, if you can believe that. It's really amazing what kind of things are considered academic.

In other news: We finished our Halloween costume shopping today. I'm supposed to be Eddie from Absolutely Fabulous, but I actually look more like ( Read more... )

Concerning the title: I actually heard some moronic guy say that in the library this morning. It took about all of the will power I posessed not to leap out of my chair and throttle him, especially since that particular sexist comment had just proceeded a litany of homophobic jokes and slurs. It's days like this that just make you want to grab a ( Read more... )

I just submitted another fic yesterday. It's a Cho/Ginny one-shot called Sea of Waking Dreams, and yes, I know how corny the title is, but it was all I could think of. It's my first time writing that pairing, but I actually enjoyed it a lot. Cho and Ginny have a nice chemistry together that you wouldn't necessarily expect to be there. I was ( Read more... )