Inspired by M's challenge to acknowledge the shameless pop you unironically love, and by watching and discussing Bowie videos, I ended up putting together a video mix tape of shameless pop with massively surreal videos.

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Trigger warnings: Contains sexual violence, rape culture, orientalism and straight-out racism, fetishization of the "exotic," ( Read more... )

OK Cupid, the source of all knowledge, tells me that these three questions are the most likely to predict successful relationships. So, INTERNETS, REVEAL ALL TO ME:

View poll: Important Questions

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Everyone's already done their lists, but here's my albums that came out in 2010 that if you haven't listened to, you should. It's kind of deeply indie-tastic. If two years ago was the list of new folk, and last year was the list of pop punk, this is definitely the year of indie rock.

41st and Home: Left In Places. This is the album that I really ( Read more... )

Dear October ( Read more... )

Is this the coolest thing ever?Well, probably not ( Read more... )

Pissed off about Kenney's use of ministerial authority to remove information about queer rights from Canada's citizenship guide?

Send him a letter using CUPE's handy action centre.

Also, please feel free to pass the link on.

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Signal boosting for the United Farm Workers, who have an online form where you can e-mail the chair of the Texas Board of Education.

The TX State Board of Education is currently preparing to adopt new social studies curriculum standards. These standards have major national implications as Texas is such a major purchaser of textbooks and their ( Read more... )

I actually have some fairly crunchy thoughts about proposition 8 in the context of anarcho-socialist philosophy and various models of direct democracy that I'll write about, if I actually find time. (In the next two weeks, though, that looks decidedly unlikely, and the short version is "California, I still think your referendum system is deeply ( Read more... )

My spleen, it continues to need to vent:

The Foreign Affairs committee had called for Mr. Abdelrazik to appear before it next month as a witness and hoped to enforce that demand by getting a Speaker's warrant if the government continued to block his return to Canada ( Read more... )