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May. 8th, 2012 03:06 amI just lost a huge, complicated post and am simply not well enough to try to fix it
May. 8th, 2012
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May. 8th, 2012 05:40 pmI'm really not well, like suddenly, dramatically not well. On top of that, the car broke after the doctor. The good news is they took pity on me and jumped me to the front of the line to fix, and I actually had the money in my account to cover it. The bad news is that was my antihistamine/vitamin money for the month
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May. 8th, 2012 05:40 pmI'm really not well, like suddenly, dramatically not well. On top of that, the car broke after the doctor. The good news is they took pity on me and jumped me to the front of the line to fix, and I actually had the money in my account to cover it. The bad news is that was my antihistamine/vitamin money for the month
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May. 8th, 2012 08:03 pm* Hollande won the French election, but Angela Merkle gave a speech saying they aren't going to allow EU countries to renegotiate their austerity agreements, even though austerity is tanking their economies.
* Greece elected a bunch of far left and far right candidates, including 21 actual Nazis (Golden Dawn Party). I have no words.
* North Carolina voted to constitutionally deprive children of unmarried parents of health insurance and strip away domestic violence protections from women who weren't married to their abusers on the grounds that sacrificing the health and safety of children and women (regardless of orientation) is a small price to pay to symbolically say just how much North Carolinians hate gay people.
* Joe Biden and a cabinet member both came out in favour of full marriage equality over the weekend.
* Another terrorist threat was thwarted. (A different one than last month's). This time it was al-Qaeda Arabian Peninsula based out of Yemen planning to blow up a plane.
I would like to point out yet again how much better it is to take a law enforcement/intelligence gathering type approach to counter terrorism, rather than the invade random countries approach the republicans continue to advocate. It is vastly cheaper in money and blood. It also happens to be way more efficient and less likely to dramatically increase the number of terrorists than invading any country we think might have a terrorist camp in it or that can be framed for terrorism in order to further Halliburton's business plan.
* It turns out stand your ground does not protect women shooting in self defense when subjected to domestic Violence even though it does legalize murder if a man does the shooting.
Pt. 1: http://video.msnbc.msn.com/melissa-harris-perry/46419672#47312774
Pt. 2: http://video.msnbc.msn.com/melissa-harris-perry/46419672#47312774
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* 36 year Mainstream moderate Republican Sen. Dick Luger just lost his primary to a tea Party challenger bankrolled by the usual suspects. Sen. Luger was in favor of us continuing our program to lock down loose nuclear weapons, and was willing to negotiate and compromise on things like budgets. Mr. Mourdock wants to completely abolish Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and anything else that helps the average citizen. Charming
* Mitt "Let Detroit go Bankrupt" Romney is now taking credit for the auto bailout he strenuously opposed.
* In Time Traveling Obama news, Mitt Romney is claiming that somehow the President is responsible for GM deciding to consolidate Buick and Oldsmobile back during the Bush/Kerry race, before President Obama was even a Senator.
It's like Mr. Romney is compelled to lie at least once every time he opens his mouth.
* Senate Republicans are filibustering the lower interest rate extension on student loans. *facepalm*
*This is likely a pathogen Squirrel had last week, probably from the Nursing Home, rather than a new phase of the thing I just got over. It's just horrible. Hector did not help by howling through my sleep cycle because a week ago, he randomly became terrified of my threshold as well as all his favorite mests. What he wants is that while I am sleeping, I get up every five to fifteen minutes, chase him down, carrying him kicking and clawing across the threshold to the feeding station, pet him at length, rinse and repeat, for as long as I want to sleep. This just isn't viable.
* I had this huge thing of Season 5 of the Wire, I haven't the heart to try to rewrite. A couple highlights are: 1. Intellectually and artistically Season 5 was excellent. emotionally, I was having a really hard time with it. Like a really hard time. weirdly, the closing montage, even wit some of the horrible, hopeless, depressing thing in it, somehow made me feel better. It was... reassuring narratively. I'm fascinated by the dissonance of my response. It's like the right of horrible things happened to resolve the narrative tension. It doesn't erase the horrible that went on and would have kept on going on if we could see unwritten seasons, nor does it give much hope for resolving real life Baltimore's problems, but any other ending wouldn't have worked. The good things and the bad things all mixed together fit the five year arc's tone, and underneath it all was the series' creators deep and abiding love for the city even as it's dying. It... I have no words. I couldn't see how they could make consonance out of season five but the nailed it.
2. It was interesting that the things one of the writers saw happen at the Baltimore sun that led to the Scott character and plotline is clearly what happened to the Bellingham Herald long before I moved up here, as they make a habit of tossing out actual things said in interviews in favor of made up quotes not said by interviewees. It's why I went from someone who loved my daily paper and planned to keep reading them as long as I and the papers continued to exist to someone relying on TV and the Internet for news. I like my fictions clearly labeled.
* I read Haters. It was really unpleasant to read, particularly in the early chapters before the plot really got going. I get the artistic reason for this. The famous english "quiet desperation" was needed for the philosophical and social point they were making, but the main characters were so fundamentally unpleasant it was a pretty grim slog. I did get more readable eventually, and I have some ideas about what's really going on and what triggered it, but I'd have to read the sequel to find out if I'm right, and I'm not sure I care enough to do that.
* I've started Zone One. It's not Mir grant clever and ground breaking, but as a study of post-apocalyptic psychology and society it's fascinating.
* It turns out I ordered Glee 2:2A instead of 2:2. This means I'm missing the episodes after Christmas through Valentines. As I only realized this after I started watching, I'm proceeding anyway. I'm not having fun. I found "Comeback," "Blame It on the Alcohol," and "Sexy" all excruciating. It does not help that Klaine could use a clue by four just about now, and that's most of why I'm here. I get all the character development reasons one has to watch these episodes, but I'd rather be having cavities filled than watch, say Mr. Shu drunk dialing.
BTW, Kurt saw Blaine without his hair slicked down at Rachel's party, which settles an argument I've seen on Tumblr.
* Greece elected a bunch of far left and far right candidates, including 21 actual Nazis (Golden Dawn Party). I have no words.
* North Carolina voted to constitutionally deprive children of unmarried parents of health insurance and strip away domestic violence protections from women who weren't married to their abusers on the grounds that sacrificing the health and safety of children and women (regardless of orientation) is a small price to pay to symbolically say just how much North Carolinians hate gay people.
* Joe Biden and a cabinet member both came out in favour of full marriage equality over the weekend.
* Another terrorist threat was thwarted. (A different one than last month's). This time it was al-Qaeda Arabian Peninsula based out of Yemen planning to blow up a plane.
I would like to point out yet again how much better it is to take a law enforcement/intelligence gathering type approach to counter terrorism, rather than the invade random countries approach the republicans continue to advocate. It is vastly cheaper in money and blood. It also happens to be way more efficient and less likely to dramatically increase the number of terrorists than invading any country we think might have a terrorist camp in it or that can be framed for terrorism in order to further Halliburton's business plan.
* It turns out stand your ground does not protect women shooting in self defense when subjected to domestic Violence even though it does legalize murder if a man does the shooting.
Pt. 1: http://video.msnbc.msn.com/melissa-harris-perry/46419672#47312774
Pt. 2: http://video.msnbc.msn.com/melissa-harris-perry/46419672#47312774
( Embed: )
* 36 year Mainstream moderate Republican Sen. Dick Luger just lost his primary to a tea Party challenger bankrolled by the usual suspects. Sen. Luger was in favor of us continuing our program to lock down loose nuclear weapons, and was willing to negotiate and compromise on things like budgets. Mr. Mourdock wants to completely abolish Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and anything else that helps the average citizen. Charming
* Mitt "Let Detroit go Bankrupt" Romney is now taking credit for the auto bailout he strenuously opposed.
* In Time Traveling Obama news, Mitt Romney is claiming that somehow the President is responsible for GM deciding to consolidate Buick and Oldsmobile back during the Bush/Kerry race, before President Obama was even a Senator.
It's like Mr. Romney is compelled to lie at least once every time he opens his mouth.
* Senate Republicans are filibustering the lower interest rate extension on student loans. *facepalm*
*This is likely a pathogen Squirrel had last week, probably from the Nursing Home, rather than a new phase of the thing I just got over. It's just horrible. Hector did not help by howling through my sleep cycle because a week ago, he randomly became terrified of my threshold as well as all his favorite mests. What he wants is that while I am sleeping, I get up every five to fifteen minutes, chase him down, carrying him kicking and clawing across the threshold to the feeding station, pet him at length, rinse and repeat, for as long as I want to sleep. This just isn't viable.
* I had this huge thing of Season 5 of the Wire, I haven't the heart to try to rewrite. A couple highlights are: 1. Intellectually and artistically Season 5 was excellent. emotionally, I was having a really hard time with it. Like a really hard time. weirdly, the closing montage, even wit some of the horrible, hopeless, depressing thing in it, somehow made me feel better. It was... reassuring narratively. I'm fascinated by the dissonance of my response. It's like the right of horrible things happened to resolve the narrative tension. It doesn't erase the horrible that went on and would have kept on going on if we could see unwritten seasons, nor does it give much hope for resolving real life Baltimore's problems, but any other ending wouldn't have worked. The good things and the bad things all mixed together fit the five year arc's tone, and underneath it all was the series' creators deep and abiding love for the city even as it's dying. It... I have no words. I couldn't see how they could make consonance out of season five but the nailed it.
2. It was interesting that the things one of the writers saw happen at the Baltimore sun that led to the Scott character and plotline is clearly what happened to the Bellingham Herald long before I moved up here, as they make a habit of tossing out actual things said in interviews in favor of made up quotes not said by interviewees. It's why I went from someone who loved my daily paper and planned to keep reading them as long as I and the papers continued to exist to someone relying on TV and the Internet for news. I like my fictions clearly labeled.
* I read Haters. It was really unpleasant to read, particularly in the early chapters before the plot really got going. I get the artistic reason for this. The famous english "quiet desperation" was needed for the philosophical and social point they were making, but the main characters were so fundamentally unpleasant it was a pretty grim slog. I did get more readable eventually, and I have some ideas about what's really going on and what triggered it, but I'd have to read the sequel to find out if I'm right, and I'm not sure I care enough to do that.
* I've started Zone One. It's not Mir grant clever and ground breaking, but as a study of post-apocalyptic psychology and society it's fascinating.
* It turns out I ordered Glee 2:2A instead of 2:2. This means I'm missing the episodes after Christmas through Valentines. As I only realized this after I started watching, I'm proceeding anyway. I'm not having fun. I found "Comeback," "Blame It on the Alcohol," and "Sexy" all excruciating. It does not help that Klaine could use a clue by four just about now, and that's most of why I'm here. I get all the character development reasons one has to watch these episodes, but I'd rather be having cavities filled than watch, say Mr. Shu drunk dialing.
BTW, Kurt saw Blaine without his hair slicked down at Rachel's party, which settles an argument I've seen on Tumblr.
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May. 8th, 2012 08:22 pm* Hollande won the French election, but Angela Merkle gave a speech saying they aren't going to allow EU countries to renegotiate their austerity agreements, even though austerity is tanking their economies.
* Greece elected a bunch of far left and far right candidates, including 21 actual Nazis (Golden Dawn Party). I have no words.
* North Carolina voted to constitutionally deprive children of unmarried parents of health insurance and strip away domestic violence protections from women who weren't married to their abusers on the grounds that sacrificing the health and safety of children and women (regardless of orientation) is a small price to pay to symbolically say just how much North Carolinians hate gay people.
* Joe Biden and a cabinet member both came out in favour of full marriage equality over the weekend.
* Another terrorist threat was thwarted. (A different one than last month's). This time it was al-Qaeda Arabian Peninsula based out of Yemen planning to blow up a plane.
I would like to point out yet again how much better it is to take a law enforcement/intelligence gathering type approach to counter terrorism, rather than the invade random countries approach the republicans continue to advocate. It is vastly cheaper in money and blood. It also happens to be way more efficient and less likely to dramatically increase the number of terrorists than invading any country we think might have a terrorist camp in it or that can be framed for terrorism in order to further Halliburton's business plan.
* It turns out stand your ground does not protect women shooting in self defense when subjected to domestic Violence even though it does legalize murder if a man does the shooting.
Pt. 1: http://video.msnbc.msn.com/melissa-harris-perry/46419672#47312774
Pt. 2: http://video.msnbc.msn.com/melissa-harris-perry/46419672#47312774
( Embed: )
* 36 year Mainstream moderate Republican Sen. Dick Luger just lost his primary to a tea Party challenger bankrolled by the usual suspects. Sen. Luger was in favor of us continuing our program to lock down loose nuclear weapons, and was willing to negotiate and compromise on things like budgets. Mr. Mourdock wants to completely abolish Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and anything else that helps the average citizen. Charming
* Mitt "Let Detroit go Bankrupt" Romney is now taking credit for the auto bailout he strenuously opposed.
* In Time Traveling Obama news, Mitt Romney is claiming that somehow the President is responsible for GM deciding to consolidate Buick and Oldsmobile back during the Bush/Kerry race, before President Obama was even a Senator.
It's like Mr. Romney is compelled to lie at least once every time he opens his mouth.
* Senate Republicans are filibustering the lower interest rate extension on student loans. *facepalm*
*This is likely a pathogen Squirrel had last week, probably from the Nursing Home, rather than a new phase of the thing I just got over. It's just horrible. Hector did not help by howling through my sleep cycle because a week ago, he randomly became terrified of my threshold as well as all his favorite mests. What he wants is that while I am sleeping, I get up every five to fifteen minutes, chase him down, carrying him kicking and clawing across the threshold to the feeding station, pet him at length, rinse and repeat, for as long as I want to sleep. This just isn't viable.
* I had this huge thing of Season 5 of the Wire, I haven't the heart to try to rewrite. A couple highlights are: 1. Intellectually and artistically Season 5 was excellent. emotionally, I was having a really hard time with it. Like a really hard time. weirdly, the closing montage, even wit some of the horrible, hopeless, depressing thing in it, somehow made me feel better. It was... reassuring narratively. I'm fascinated by the dissonance of my response. It's like the right of horrible things happened to resolve the narrative tension. It doesn't erase the horrible that went on and would have kept on going on if we could see unwritten seasons, nor does it give much hope for resolving real life Baltimore's problems, but any other ending wouldn't have worked. The good things and the bad things all mixed together fit the five year arc's tone, and underneath it all was the series' creators deep and abiding love for the city even as it's dying. It... I have no words. I couldn't see how they could make consonance out of season five but the nailed it.
2. It was interesting that the things one of the writers saw happen at the Baltimore sun that led to the Scott character and plotline is clearly what happened to the Bellingham Herald long before I moved up here, as they make a habit of tossing out actual things said in interviews in favor of made up quotes not said by interviewees. It's why I went from someone who loved my daily paper and planned to keep reading them as long as I and the papers continued to exist to someone relying on TV and the Internet for news. I like my fictions clearly labeled.
* I read Haters. It was really unpleasant to read, particularly in the early chapters before the plot really got going. I get the artistic reason for this. The famous english "quiet desperation" was needed for the philosophical and social point they were making, but the main characters were so fundamentally unpleasant it was a pretty grim slog. I did get more readable eventually, and I have some ideas about what's really going on and what triggered it, but I'd have to read the sequel to find out if I'm right, and I'm not sure I care enough to do that.
* I've started Zone One. It's not Mir grant clever and ground breaking, but as a study of post-apocalyptic psychology and society it's fascinating.
* It turns out I ordered Glee 2:2A instead of 2:2. This means I'm missing the episodes after Christmas through Valentines. As I only realized this after I started watching, I'm proceeding anyway. I'm not having fun. I found "Comeback," "Blame It on the Alcohol," and "Sexy" all excruciating. It does not help that Klaine could use a clue by four just about now, and that's most of why I'm here. I get all the character development reasons one has to watch these episodes, but I'd rather be having cavities filled than watch, say Mr. Shu drunk dialing.
BTW, Kurt saw Blaine without his hair slicked down at Rachel's party, which settles an argument I've seen on Tumblr.
* Greece elected a bunch of far left and far right candidates, including 21 actual Nazis (Golden Dawn Party). I have no words.
* North Carolina voted to constitutionally deprive children of unmarried parents of health insurance and strip away domestic violence protections from women who weren't married to their abusers on the grounds that sacrificing the health and safety of children and women (regardless of orientation) is a small price to pay to symbolically say just how much North Carolinians hate gay people.
* Joe Biden and a cabinet member both came out in favour of full marriage equality over the weekend.
* Another terrorist threat was thwarted. (A different one than last month's). This time it was al-Qaeda Arabian Peninsula based out of Yemen planning to blow up a plane.
I would like to point out yet again how much better it is to take a law enforcement/intelligence gathering type approach to counter terrorism, rather than the invade random countries approach the republicans continue to advocate. It is vastly cheaper in money and blood. It also happens to be way more efficient and less likely to dramatically increase the number of terrorists than invading any country we think might have a terrorist camp in it or that can be framed for terrorism in order to further Halliburton's business plan.
* It turns out stand your ground does not protect women shooting in self defense when subjected to domestic Violence even though it does legalize murder if a man does the shooting.
Pt. 1: http://video.msnbc.msn.com/melissa-harris-perry/46419672#47312774
Pt. 2: http://video.msnbc.msn.com/melissa-harris-perry/46419672#47312774
( Embed: )
* 36 year Mainstream moderate Republican Sen. Dick Luger just lost his primary to a tea Party challenger bankrolled by the usual suspects. Sen. Luger was in favor of us continuing our program to lock down loose nuclear weapons, and was willing to negotiate and compromise on things like budgets. Mr. Mourdock wants to completely abolish Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and anything else that helps the average citizen. Charming
* Mitt "Let Detroit go Bankrupt" Romney is now taking credit for the auto bailout he strenuously opposed.
* In Time Traveling Obama news, Mitt Romney is claiming that somehow the President is responsible for GM deciding to consolidate Buick and Oldsmobile back during the Bush/Kerry race, before President Obama was even a Senator.
It's like Mr. Romney is compelled to lie at least once every time he opens his mouth.
* Senate Republicans are filibustering the lower interest rate extension on student loans. *facepalm*
*This is likely a pathogen Squirrel had last week, probably from the Nursing Home, rather than a new phase of the thing I just got over. It's just horrible. Hector did not help by howling through my sleep cycle because a week ago, he randomly became terrified of my threshold as well as all his favorite mests. What he wants is that while I am sleeping, I get up every five to fifteen minutes, chase him down, carrying him kicking and clawing across the threshold to the feeding station, pet him at length, rinse and repeat, for as long as I want to sleep. This just isn't viable.
* I had this huge thing of Season 5 of the Wire, I haven't the heart to try to rewrite. A couple highlights are: 1. Intellectually and artistically Season 5 was excellent. emotionally, I was having a really hard time with it. Like a really hard time. weirdly, the closing montage, even wit some of the horrible, hopeless, depressing thing in it, somehow made me feel better. It was... reassuring narratively. I'm fascinated by the dissonance of my response. It's like the right of horrible things happened to resolve the narrative tension. It doesn't erase the horrible that went on and would have kept on going on if we could see unwritten seasons, nor does it give much hope for resolving real life Baltimore's problems, but any other ending wouldn't have worked. The good things and the bad things all mixed together fit the five year arc's tone, and underneath it all was the series' creators deep and abiding love for the city even as it's dying. It... I have no words. I couldn't see how they could make consonance out of season five but the nailed it.
2. It was interesting that the things one of the writers saw happen at the Baltimore sun that led to the Scott character and plotline is clearly what happened to the Bellingham Herald long before I moved up here, as they make a habit of tossing out actual things said in interviews in favor of made up quotes not said by interviewees. It's why I went from someone who loved my daily paper and planned to keep reading them as long as I and the papers continued to exist to someone relying on TV and the Internet for news. I like my fictions clearly labeled.
* I read Haters. It was really unpleasant to read, particularly in the early chapters before the plot really got going. I get the artistic reason for this. The famous english "quiet desperation" was needed for the philosophical and social point they were making, but the main characters were so fundamentally unpleasant it was a pretty grim slog. I did get more readable eventually, and I have some ideas about what's really going on and what triggered it, but I'd have to read the sequel to find out if I'm right, and I'm not sure I care enough to do that.
* I've started Zone One. It's not Mir grant clever and ground breaking, but as a study of post-apocalyptic psychology and society it's fascinating.
* It turns out I ordered Glee 2:2A instead of 2:2. This means I'm missing the episodes after Christmas through Valentines. As I only realized this after I started watching, I'm proceeding anyway. I'm not having fun. I found "Comeback," "Blame It on the Alcohol," and "Sexy" all excruciating. It does not help that Klaine could use a clue by four just about now, and that's most of why I'm here. I get all the character development reasons one has to watch these episodes, but I'd rather be having cavities filled than watch, say Mr. Shu drunk dialing.
BTW, Kurt saw Blaine without his hair slicked down at Rachel's party, which settles an argument I've seen on Tumblr.
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May. 8th, 2012 08:53 pmNoted curmudgeon and beloved childern's writer, Maurice sendak has died of complications from a recent stroke. Like most of us, I was raised of Where the Wild Things Are. I just... Damn.
RIP: Maurice Sendak
May. 8th, 2012 08:54 pmNoted curmudgeon and beloved childern's writer, Maurice Sendak has died of complications from a recent stroke. Like most of us, I was raised of Where the Wild Things Are. I just... Damn.