Since moving to DC, I have noted that my voraciousness for written words has once again increased to a feverish pitch. I put off watching movies, etc. in order to read. The time spent on the metro commute helps too. Here's my attempt to reconstruct my year through the books that I've read starting on the plane ride out. Some of these are out of ( Read more... )

Since moving to DC, I have noted that my voraciousness for written words has once again increased to a feverish pitch. I put off watching movies, etc. in order to read. The time spent on the metro commute helps too. Here's my attempt to reconstruct my year through the books that I've read starting on the plane ride out. Some of these are out of ( Read more... )

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Yes, this is real.

REAL funny. I get the point of the protest, but wow, really?? They should've looked up that word. It's quite hard to take any of this seriously, but the blog posters certainly are. Ah, humor.

When the real media's being this juvenile (however, hilariously funny) I often wonder--what would Jon Stewart do?

Today I went and saw Eve Ensler speak (for those who don't know, she wrote the Vagina Monologues and her organizations are behind a great deal of the recent advancements in the fight to stop violence towards women--and by extension men). She was advocating for the women of the Congo( if you haven't informed yourself of what's been going on there ( Read more... )

So the funny thing about LJ is sometimes I would spontaneously compose poetry in a post and then promptly forget about it. Here's another one that I dug up while looking through old posts. It's not great by any means, but I found it rather interesting ( Read more... )

"This is really, really awful. My only hope is that this kind of shit gets OFF television. The Human Rights Campaign sent out a plea to protest against this. Click the first link to read the article, click the second to watch the hour long video that is scheduled to air ( Read more... )

Apparently, Mr. Early appreciates my rabble-rousing! This was in response to my invective of last week ( Read more... )

::The quote was taken from an article about the Caribbean Film Festival and what they were hoping to achieve in terms of fostering healthy cultural identities in the region. They were also trying to combat the influx of violent tv programming coming in from North America by focusing on children during the film festival and providing more age- ( Read more... )

If I had all the money in the world, I would by all of these.

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Stolen from my friend's post. These are gorgeous!