In my heart of hearts I know I ought to be more upset about Sideshow's Mary Jane Parker doll. Admittedly it is pretty jaw-droppingly sexist -- although, ladies, I'd recommend you close those mouths promptly, lest somebody stuff them full of patriarchy. To quote Pandagon: It’s not the sexbot pose-women have generally grown semi-immune to it. But ( Read more... )

ME: hey darling
THOM: hey
ME: how's it going?
THOM: busy
ME: can I help?
ME: I could bring sandwiches
ME: and brass knuckles
THOM: nah, you should relax and enjoy your time off of work
ME: I can't relax if you're suffering
ME: weird, I know
THOM: hunh
THOM: despite available evidence
ME: oh! oh! wounded!
THOM: oh snapME: . . . can't go on ( Read more... )

Hooray home.

(Although I did notice you guys warmed the place up for us while we were gone. You shouldn't have. No, really, you shouldn't have.)

( I think Communist funerals might be even weirder than the regular kind )

I keep having to remind myself that the freeway did not suffer. There must be some sort of cure for excess empathy. Aside from "Don't be a hippie," I mean.

Also, again, ancient Indian burial ground. Have none of California's transit planners ever seen The Shining ( Read more... )

"Stay the course? You've got to be kidding. This is America, not the damned Titanic."

-Lee Iacocca

So, in addition to little girls being thrown out of soccer matches in Quebec, and the ban in French schools, we now have Nancy Pelosi being accused of "donning the garb of america's enemies" by wearing a hijab on her trip to Syria. The really obnoxious thing about the West's collective obsession with head scarves (and the apparently manifest ( Read more... )

I have a headache today that has so far resisted all of my normal tactics (1. water; 2. cursing; 3. coffee; 4. ibuprofen; 5. more coffee; 6. more cursing). I know this isn't exactly earth-shattering news; but I'm just impressed with myself because I've had said headache ever since I woke up this morning from a dream in which a troll hit me on the ( Read more... )

Current favorite inexplicable sign:

"Free"
Leonard. . . stuck on the single, forlorn tree outside Del Norte BART. Either Leonard's friends don't really want him freed, or they'd like us to take this time to consider just what freedom means, anyway ( Read more... )

My grandfather went and died today. With his typically contrarian approach to things he did it while we were all fussing over my almost-certainly-dying grandmother. I have to wonder if he did it because he didn't want to be the one left over, or whether he just wanted to see if we were paying attention. I wouldn't put it past him ( Read more... )

I saw this next to the checkout line at Safeway the other day. Because it's just so hard to find the right name for that special, stupid baby.