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ATTN. ATTN. I ATEN'T DEAD.
Furthermore, rumors of my attempted suicide have been greatly exaggerated ( Read more... ) -
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ASKDFJLAKSDJFA! The .RTFs I had of the stuff from Reggie's class are fucking all corrupted somehow. I think from being saved via AppleWorks, but can't tell. So I just lost ALL my edits for three of the pieces until I can get home and find that folder ( Read more... ) -
In response to the Avatar casting idiocy
I refer everybody to a short article, Diversity in Speculative Fiction, by Paula R. Stills, which sums up a lot of the problems very well.
It’s not just about shiny, phallic rocket ships populated by deep-in-the-closet Aryan brethren conquering the Final Frontier, people. It’s about different futures, alternate realities, dangerous fantasies. You’d ( Read more... ) -
Ponderous thoughts are ponderous.
Dear person who stole my three bottles of Maine Root out of the refridgerator ( Read more... ) -
Some suggestions I believe would be conducive to better discourse
Let's all stop using the word "hate" when talking about Prop 8/gay people/anti-gay people/whatever. Yes, it can be accurate, but in current discourse it's massively overused by both sides. Like "change" and "experience" in the recent Presidential campaign it's become an automatic buzzword used in lieu of a real argument. It's ceasing to mean ( Read more... ) -
Brainwires=crossed
Apparently when one writes with iTunes on shuffle, really weird stuff happens. Namely, In The Heights coming on while I was writing an astoundingly appropriate scene for Riverbank (Lauren says, You get everyone addicted to your coffee and off you go).
Now I have strange parallels running in my head. With Tom as Nina and Miss Kyoko as Abuela ( ( Read more... ) -
Bloglink roundup
Daily Kos: Taking on the System and the Prop 8 Protests. A very interesting article about how traditional organizing (a.k.a. the HRC) failed in California, and how net-based organizing is succeeding.
The Identity Blame Game - interesting for anyone who's been following the Internet-politiking kerfuffle about Obama's cabinet ( Read more... ) -
Why? TUBES!
"an Internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday. I got it yesterday" is a direct quote from Senator Ted Stevens. Or, as I now like to call him, Senator Seven Felony Convictions!
Ancient Greeks pre-empted Dead Parrot sketch
A FreakAngels blanket. How fucking awesome is that?
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You heard it here first, kids.
General Augusto Pinochet, who prevented the totalitarian take-over of Chile by the Allende/Castro gang and their armed thugs, transformed his country into an envied show-case for the whole of Latin America and returned Chile to democracy has been for decades a main target...of persecution.......ME KILL THINGS NOW ( Read more... ) -
YOU GUYS. YOU GUYS.
I'M WRITING AGAIN! I was listening to a radio program on witchcraft, and they mentioned a comcept that made me go, "That would work really well with a Lauren story." And voila! I feel overjoyed and squeeful, and need to seize rockychristine bodily and babble at her ASAP ( Read more... )
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