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* An Expanding Definition of Family:


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* There is always need for more bone marrow donors, but there is always a particular shortage of POC donors. African Americans are the most needed as they are more genetically diverse as a population. People die needlessly for lack of donors all the time. If you are between 18 and 44 and want to get on the registry, you can go here: http://marrow.org/Join/Join_the_Registry.aspx

* Flames in Space: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/In-Space-Flames-Behave-in-Ways-Nobody-Thought-Possible-179731321.html

* Zombie Microbes: http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/artful-amoeba/2012/11/20/mycoplasma-ghosts-can-rise-from-the-dead/

* "Shifting sexes and sequential hermaphrodites: How sex is determined:" http://arstechnica.com/science/2012/11/gender-benders-and-sequential-hermaphrodites-how-sex-is-determined/

* "Steampunk art is now terrorism, according to the TSA:" http://tsanewsblog.com/7452/news/steampunk-art-is-now-terrorism-according-to-the-tsa/

* "A Year in Jail for Not Believing in God? How Kentucky is Persecuting Atheists:" http://www.alternet.org/belief/year-jail-not-believing-god-how-kentucky-persecuting-atheists

* "It’s The Racism, Stupid:" http://www.stonekettle.com/2012/11/its-racism-stupid.html

* I just ate the last peice of Halloween candy.

* It turns out I wasn't just tired and in pain, but actually sick. It might be bad enough to call around to my lung guy Monday. Ugh.

* I just rewatched American Pop. I have no way to measure if it's good or not. Why? Because I spent a Summer obsessed with it when I was 11 or 12. There are images from it that I carried with me the whole rest of my life like the soldier with the piano. It spent a Summer of ubiquity on Prism and then I never saw it again until ILL brought it to me last night. The seams are more visible thirty years after it's manufacture. I am sure it would have been better if they'd stuck entirely to animation, for example. Still, I have no ability to assess it as art. I can catch the various things it was referencing. I can contemplate why a certain song was chosen to represent American music and the film's action and not another. I can't separate it at all from my initial response, from the intensity of my response to the first generation, my endless contemplation of the second, the way certain images and truths of the third resonated with the weird way I interacted with the culture at that age, and my complete lack of interest in the forth segment. The real surprise is how much I got out of it at that age, and how much I understood about the particular sort of tragedies the first three segments represent. My adult self has a richer historical understanding and knows more about the details of addiction and drug culture, but I picked up the broad outlines just fine with my interest in history and despite my parents being a few times a year social drinkers and not part of the drug culture at all. I was old enough at that point to get it, to get nearly all of it. I'm still not all that interested in the final act. I get why you need some sort of positive ending, but I fundamentally have trouble believing it the way my middle school self couldn't believe in or relate to it either. Despite being a story about my time and my contemporary culture it might as well have been a fairytale for Martians. The image of the child watching over a junkie's sleep made fundamentally more sense to me than the life of that child grown up.

* "Bill O'Reilly's "Leave It to Beaver" nightmare:" http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/11/22/1163582/-Bill-O-Reilly-s-Leave-It-to-Beaver-nightmare?detail=hide

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