I wanted have something profound or thought-provoking or interesting to say on the occasion of International Blog Against Racism Week (ibarw). That never quite came together, so I'm retreating to familiar territory: When White People Fuck Up ( Read more... )

( new tattoo )

movies: I saw Moon this weekend and it was really charming and excellent.

television: I weirdly really loved the Virtuality orphaned pilot/movie thing, ( thus 110% ensuring that it will not get picked up )

So it's late June, and for most of the five years I have lived in Boston, this has meant three things ( Read more... )

Oh, livejournal.com, I am full of confusing feelings (and perhaps a little bit too much wine).

1. On the one hand, tonight I made delicious fish tacos with cilantro pesto. On the other hand, the occasion of the dinner was that I was saying goodbye forever to annakovsky & moireach. I am told that the suspiciously southern states to which they are both relocating are ( Read more... )

Some people were desperately waiting to see Wolverine. Some people were desperately waiting to see Star Trek. I have been desperately waiting to see ( Terminator Salvation )

This story is eventually about the recently concluded season of Supernatural: I'm pretty good about making it to the gym 4-5 times per week, but it has nothing to do with my routine or my physical endurance or anything like that, it's about whatever season of TV I happen to be currently mainlining on my iPod. When I was watching the third season of ( Read more... )

sparkymonster describes in epic detail how our apartment suffered an epic evening of epic fail.

She pretty much covered it, but in addition I would add:

[1] Part of my job is to call this utility company and harrass them about mis-applied payment clusterfucks very similar to this one. I would estimate that I have spent about five hours a week every week for ( Read more... )

Dear Livejournal: I'm sorry I haven't written you in a while, it's that time of year when I get distracted making very important fake bingo card graphics about baseball.

Books I wish other people I know were reading so we could discuss them:

1. I keep meaning to say, I finished The Raw Shark Texts and I'm now 99% sure that it was The House of ( Read more... )

Recommendations:

1. This post by silviakundera about personal sexual preference v. preferences when it comes to reading/writing romantic pairings, which says some smart and interesting stuff that I have always felt but never articulated because I worried that not wanting to read/write femslash made me a Bad Lesbian, so this post made me really happy in a "it's ( Read more... )