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Same Sex Marriages in California
So, to cut a long story less long- the supreme court in California has overturned a ban on same-sex marriages, thus allowing same-sex couples to wed legally. In Novemeber there will be a ballot where the anti-SSM crowd will seek to nullify this ruling and constitutionally change the wording of the state constitution so as to preserve the ban on SSM ( Read more... ) -
felix
Felix- l'il felix, it's felix as a baby. Meeowww. This has been going through my head for the last few hours thanks to my roomie's kid's dvd playing upstairs whilst we were downstairs eating and watching tv. Wow. It's this cartoon that's like it was deliberately designed to annoy with plenty of high pitched character's repeating bad dialogue beside ( Read more... ) -
bumps in the road: hyper-kinetic paths less travelled part 16
inside imagination's bastard ( Read more... ) -
sunday evening hour zero
The religious kook-bags are at it again with ads on the side of this page asking if God really cares- more to the point, why do we still need the obvious crutch of an abdicated responsibility whore point (RWP) upon which we can pile our own inadequacies, wish fulfilments and precarious vicarious life surfing by people who should know better by now ( Read more... ) -
The Doctor's Daughter
Classic Who. Best way to sum up the latest episode in season four. It could easily have been a gimmicky rehash of an old who structure but instead, with wit, charm and some great story-telling it reminds us of how and why Russel's relaunched Doctor Who has won the hearts of Family viewers everywhere in the UK and even amongst our Colonial US ( Read more... ) -
How they chose and created the music for Juno.
All hail wikipedia and fuck those who go on and on ad nauseum about how 'anyone can change and edit stuff- it's not true' on it. Yes, people can edit aspects and some pages but it's not quite that easy- things are saved, can be redone or re-checked for facts and can finally be locked if some jackass keeps fucking with it. So shut up already, you ( Read more... ) -
Meet Boris Johnson, new Mayor of London
Americans have no idea. This guy is just cool as anything. Ridiculous, pompous, a conservative party member, foolish, hilarious, celebrity, and now Mayor of London.
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Magic in the in-between moments
There is an incredible burst of feeling and evocative memory recreation when one opens that paper bag from the MacDonalds drive-thru. Hot and fresh from the flash-heaters come warm tasty fries that, for a few brief minutes, manage to lift one beyond the tawdry reality of eating crap cheap fast food and instead bestow a peculiarly nostalgic ( Read more... ) -
Unique moments in cultural history No. 372
'Abbey Road' by the Beatles is such a strange and almost accidental creation that it always makes me stop and think. It's also fascinating to me because the whole is so much different than the pieces. It's one of those albums that always offers something different ( Read more... ) -
Battlestar Galactica
Season four. Well, season four and a half kinda sorta if you count the mini-series that rebooted this whole affair some five -six years ago. And what a ride it's been! From laughable seventies disco sci-fi with monkeys in dog suits and cute mop haired children through to hard as nails military drama with giant killer robots, sentient cylon ships, ( Read more... )