BFF's youngest daughter: "I want to know how to whistle ( Read more... )

Me, regarding a character on a show behaving oddly: "What's wrong with him?!"
Partner: "I have to assume he has some sort of plot point attacking him."

<3 <3 <3

These are nothing resembling complete; they're just things that struck me, so I wrote them down.

From the Feminist Intersectionality panel:- Ian Hagemann: "Ally" is not an identity you get to keep all the time. You not even have a say in whether you get it ( Read more... )

I am LOVING Eureka. A police procedural set in a town full of supernerds! Plenty of women and people of color who are portrayed as smart, capable, and complicated! It's smart and well-plotted, the time travel plot lines did not piss me off, and it has banter! Win.

Environmental racism: a long, shameful 'Merkin tradition!

Steven Tyler was an ( Read more... )

Man, fuck this thing where I turn up with some sort of deeply unpleasant infection right as I'm getting ready for Wiscon ( Read more... )

I don't know what the fuck that mess was on Sunday night, but it damn sure wasn't anything like the Song of Ice and Fire I know.

( grump and spoilers behind the cut )

Awesome things about my last day and a half:

- I am in New Orleans with my honeybunch to continue celebrating our anniversary and because holy crap we needed a break

- We got a nice deal at the Ritz-Carlton New Orleans, a super-schmancy and very conveniently located hotel which, it turns out, offers outstandingly warm, friendly, and competent ( Read more... )

So my Facebook feed is full of appalling jubilation right now. So many people I know are expressing joy that Osama bin Laden is dead. CNN is showing crowds of people gathering in front of the White House and at the site of the Two Towers, cheering, waving the US flag, chanting, "USA, USA." I was particularly nauseated to read that some of those ( Read more... )

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I had a very feminist day.

My morning was tiring but fun. I'm on the organizing committee for this year's Feminist Action Project at UT, and this morning we did a demo near the cluster of statues just south of the main tower, where there are a bunch of dead white dudes, mostly Confederate leaders, memorialized in bronze. This is a longstanding ( Read more... )