Courteous Mass Boston (like Critical Mass, except making sure to follow road law and not cork intersections) is second Friday of every month and thus is this Friday ( Read more... )

My birthday is a week from today, and to celebrate I'm having a party!

The party will be on Saturday, June 28 from 8:30pm to some time later and will be at Teacozy (and in its backyard) in Somerville near Porter Square. If you don't know where I live and can't get to that link, get in touch with me ( Read more... )

So, the one thing I forgot to bring was my cellphone charger. I don't know when I'm going to have a chance to go get it from my apartment, and my phone is almost out of charge. I'll be checking my email and zephyr fairly frequently though, so if you want to get in touch with me, you can reach me that way.

Yesterday in Davis Square, I saw a car with a bumper sticker which read (my other car is a LISP expression)

Sometimes I am really amused by my neighborhood.

I got a heads up from this from the blog Pam's House Blend (which incidentally is an excellent way of finding out about anti-queer activity around the country and what you can do about it). The entry I linked to above says:
The U.S. Senate votes TUESDAY on whether Judge Leslie Southwick, the Mississippi judge who signed an opinion that said being ( Read more... )

Completely insane (in a good way) gutters on a house in Dresden, Germany. I like the paint job on the house and window frames also.

I found a truly impressive piece of doublespeak, quoted in this article about Arlen Specter's earmarks for abstinence education.
''Sen. Specter recognizes the need for comprehensive sex education,'' Specter chief of staff Scott Hoeflich said in an e-mail. ''Thus, he supports funding for abstinence-only education programs in response to a ( Read more... )

So, I'm shopping for a comforter for riv and me, since it's getting cold and huddling under the twin comforter I brought with me from my parents' house is cozy but not really a permanent solution. One of the providers of soft billowy thermal insulation to put on top of you while you sleep is called The Company Store. Now, I guess the associations ( Read more... )

How do you pronounce 'coulis'? Clarification: I'm asking how you pronounce it, not how one pronounces it. I wish wish wish that it didn't sound stuffy and artificial to use 'one', because now I have to clarify what I mean when I say or write 'you'.

This is totally the cutest pillow ever: Star Pillow Pattern. Why don't I know how to sew yet? Must fix that.