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gwydion* American Author and blogger, Avijit Roy, was murdered in Bangladesh while promoting his book about the dangers of extremism.
* "Flashbang grenades used routinely in police raids:" http://www.msnbc.com/melissa-harris-perry/watch/flashbang-grenades-used-routinely-in-police-raids-405907011740
* "GOP speaks on poverty, wealth inequality:" http://www.msnbc.com/melissa-harris-perry/watch/gop-speaks-on-poverty--wealth-inequality-405908035833
* "Sen. Boxer Calls The GOP Senators Out:" http://www.transgriot.blogspot.com/2015/02/sen-boxer-calls-gop-senators-out.html
* "Christie pollution deal with Exxon surprises:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/christie-pollution-deal-with-exxon-surprises-405781059659
* No way will this pass. "This bill would halt Congress’s pay if Homeland Security shuts down:" http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/federal-eye/wp/2015/02/27/this-bill-would-halt-congresss-pay-if-homeland-security-shuts-down/
* "Nevada Lawmaker Says Cancer Is A Fungus, Recommends Simply Washing It Out:" http://thinkprogress.org/health/2015/02/24/3626567/nevada-assemblywoman-cancer-fungus/
* George Takei discusses Leonard Nimoy. http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/leonard-nimoy-lived-long-and-prospered-405751875714
* "Leonard Nimoy Passes Away:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2015/02/leonard-nimoy-passes-away.html
* "Where do negative stereotypes about feminists come from?:" http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/112395625627/socimages-where-do-negative-stereotypes-about
* "Teachable Moments:" http://sparkindarkness.livejournal.com/522991.html
* "Arrest Made In Deshawnda Sanchez Murder:" http://www.transgriot.blogspot.com/2015/02/arrest-made-in-deshawnda-sanchez-murder.html
* "Kentucky Senate Votes 27-9 To Oppress Trans People:" http://www.transgriot.blogspot.com/2015/02/kentucky-senate-votes-27-9-to-oppress.html
* "Raging Bill:"
* "The Audacity of Grope:"
* "Blazing Tattles:"
* "The 99% of the 1%:"
* "No, Starbucks’ Chai Tea Latte is not real chai:" http://qz.com/346582/no-starbucks-chai-tea-latte-is-not-real-chai/
* I know it's unreasonable to complain about two months of sick. After all, I'm nowhere near as bad off as I was with that half year MRSA infection last year, but this pair of pathogens has been exhausting and debilitating. The fever and Hector won't let me get proper sleep and I'm exhausted all the time. I drag myself out of bed to do necessary things and crash hard and suddenly with barely enough warning to brush teeth, take meds, etc.. The nausea is so strong even the cocktail of anti-nausea meds I'm on don't solve it. My brain is endlessly fogged, which I hate. Periodically it's like someone stuck an ice pick through my head, and I can't smell well, which makes it hard to eat or deal with people. There doesn't seem to be any end in sight. Gah! Last sleep was all fever bright escapes from the east coa, taxes, and strange fish in between the sweats and the howling. Everything I eat or drink tastes of ashes and mucus. I need a week off, but there is no week off from this sort of thing.
* Glee 6.9 "Child Star:"
1. It's nice to see them addressing Spencer's shittiness. I also like that Spencer isn't a queer character we've seen on the show before or much of anywhere. We've seen closeted bullies, but not out ones. For Karofsky, admitting his truth made him a better man. For Spencer, it did no such thing. I really appreciate that he is shitty exactly the way season one het bullies were. I like that his terrible flirting is exactly the kind of awkward one sees in 8th and 9th grade het boys trying to impress the girls in exactly the wrong way. For all his surface confidence he is exactly as socially clueless nearly ever guy on the planet trying to pursue his first serious crush, and exhibiting it in ways we haven't seen other gay characters do on this show.
2. God I hated that rope as a kid. We only ever touched it at Presidential Fitness test time. I would cling until the Coach got bored and moved on to the next one. look, I was a distance runner and a dancer. All the leg and core strength tests I was great on. I could do enough chin ups and push ups, but I hated touching that damned rope. I hated the way it poked my skin. I could not see the point of it. What did it prove? Only one of us could make it to the top anyway before we got to high school. Yet every year we would gather round and watch each other fail.
3. Wow, the Myron thing was awkward. Middle School talent show awkward. (There is a reason I had trouble sitting through those things despite us having a run of amazingly talented 8th grade guitarists. The inevitable kid thinking she could sing "The Greatest Love of All" and being wrong did not help, but the hardest part for me to watch as an adult was the 6th-8th graders performing the sexuality they saw on music videos. It made me want brain bleach.) The actor playing Myron is clearly amazingly talented, and the reactions from the audience were delightful. This was hard to watch because it was true, if that makes sense.
4. I'm wildly relieved that Mason and Madison were not actually committing twincest. Mason was so good in his solo. It was so right for his arc, as a performance, and as a statement about connecting to audience as a performer. I'm not finding the right words, unfortunately.
5. Spencer trying to be the right kind of Dick.
6. I don't care who believed in me, I could not have climbed that rope. Two hands up was my physical limit, and I just don't believe that this would work for most people. It makes me hostile the way those motivational posters that claim you can do anything if you just have will power or want it enough or believe in yourself whatever make me hostile. It pretends that bodies are all the same. They are not. Yes, will power and practice help, but no amount of will power is going to make me able to run a marathon and I would very likely end up in the hospital very quickly if I tried. I do not believe that Rodrick could go from no hands up on a thick rope to all the way up on a thin one with no intervening steps except faith. Fuck that.
7. Eeew. Shue wears Axe body spray! Actually that sounds about right. Eeeew! Eeew!
8. Shue is playing Sue's game. I don't know how to feel about that.
9. I like Spencer and Alistair together.
10. Myron is Sue's Sue!
11. I am uncomfortable with the stereotypes in this episode and am worried about where that is going.
12. So Bar Mitzvah: a right of passage. Mason getting his freedom. The show moving on. I missed Klaine a lot, but narratively, this is right. The new members needed development and arc; the show needs a sense of continuity and movement even as it is saying goodbye.
* Watching that investigative piece about using genetically engineered measles, smallpox, and HIV to cure cancer is exciting from a possible cure for cancer perspective, but at the same time, isn’t that basically how Kellis-Amberley got started?
* "The Walking Dead, Season 5, Episode 11: The Distance:" http://www.fangsforthefantasy.com/2015/02/the-walking-dead-season-5-episode-11.html
* Our Financial Situation continues Scary: http://www.gofundme.com/cuovws or Lethran@gmail.com
* "Flashbang grenades used routinely in police raids:" http://www.msnbc.com/melissa-harris-perry/watch/flashbang-grenades-used-routinely-in-police-raids-405907011740
* "GOP speaks on poverty, wealth inequality:" http://www.msnbc.com/melissa-harris-perry/watch/gop-speaks-on-poverty--wealth-inequality-405908035833
* "Sen. Boxer Calls The GOP Senators Out:" http://www.transgriot.blogspot.com/2015/02/sen-boxer-calls-gop-senators-out.html
* "Christie pollution deal with Exxon surprises:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/christie-pollution-deal-with-exxon-surprises-405781059659
* No way will this pass. "This bill would halt Congress’s pay if Homeland Security shuts down:" http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/federal-eye/wp/2015/02/27/this-bill-would-halt-congresss-pay-if-homeland-security-shuts-down/
* "Nevada Lawmaker Says Cancer Is A Fungus, Recommends Simply Washing It Out:" http://thinkprogress.org/health/2015/02/24/3626567/nevada-assemblywoman-cancer-fungus/
* George Takei discusses Leonard Nimoy. http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/leonard-nimoy-lived-long-and-prospered-405751875714
* "Leonard Nimoy Passes Away:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2015/02/leonard-nimoy-passes-away.html
* "Where do negative stereotypes about feminists come from?:" http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/112395625627/socimages-where-do-negative-stereotypes-about
* "Teachable Moments:" http://sparkindarkness.livejournal.com/522991.html
* "Arrest Made In Deshawnda Sanchez Murder:" http://www.transgriot.blogspot.com/2015/02/arrest-made-in-deshawnda-sanchez-murder.html
* "Kentucky Senate Votes 27-9 To Oppress Trans People:" http://www.transgriot.blogspot.com/2015/02/kentucky-senate-votes-27-9-to-oppress.html
* "Raging Bill:"
* "The Audacity of Grope:"
* "Blazing Tattles:"
* "The 99% of the 1%:"
* "No, Starbucks’ Chai Tea Latte is not real chai:" http://qz.com/346582/no-starbucks-chai-tea-latte-is-not-real-chai/
* I know it's unreasonable to complain about two months of sick. After all, I'm nowhere near as bad off as I was with that half year MRSA infection last year, but this pair of pathogens has been exhausting and debilitating. The fever and Hector won't let me get proper sleep and I'm exhausted all the time. I drag myself out of bed to do necessary things and crash hard and suddenly with barely enough warning to brush teeth, take meds, etc.. The nausea is so strong even the cocktail of anti-nausea meds I'm on don't solve it. My brain is endlessly fogged, which I hate. Periodically it's like someone stuck an ice pick through my head, and I can't smell well, which makes it hard to eat or deal with people. There doesn't seem to be any end in sight. Gah! Last sleep was all fever bright escapes from the east coa, taxes, and strange fish in between the sweats and the howling. Everything I eat or drink tastes of ashes and mucus. I need a week off, but there is no week off from this sort of thing.
* Glee 6.9 "Child Star:"
1. It's nice to see them addressing Spencer's shittiness. I also like that Spencer isn't a queer character we've seen on the show before or much of anywhere. We've seen closeted bullies, but not out ones. For Karofsky, admitting his truth made him a better man. For Spencer, it did no such thing. I really appreciate that he is shitty exactly the way season one het bullies were. I like that his terrible flirting is exactly the kind of awkward one sees in 8th and 9th grade het boys trying to impress the girls in exactly the wrong way. For all his surface confidence he is exactly as socially clueless nearly ever guy on the planet trying to pursue his first serious crush, and exhibiting it in ways we haven't seen other gay characters do on this show.
2. God I hated that rope as a kid. We only ever touched it at Presidential Fitness test time. I would cling until the Coach got bored and moved on to the next one. look, I was a distance runner and a dancer. All the leg and core strength tests I was great on. I could do enough chin ups and push ups, but I hated touching that damned rope. I hated the way it poked my skin. I could not see the point of it. What did it prove? Only one of us could make it to the top anyway before we got to high school. Yet every year we would gather round and watch each other fail.
3. Wow, the Myron thing was awkward. Middle School talent show awkward. (There is a reason I had trouble sitting through those things despite us having a run of amazingly talented 8th grade guitarists. The inevitable kid thinking she could sing "The Greatest Love of All" and being wrong did not help, but the hardest part for me to watch as an adult was the 6th-8th graders performing the sexuality they saw on music videos. It made me want brain bleach.) The actor playing Myron is clearly amazingly talented, and the reactions from the audience were delightful. This was hard to watch because it was true, if that makes sense.
4. I'm wildly relieved that Mason and Madison were not actually committing twincest. Mason was so good in his solo. It was so right for his arc, as a performance, and as a statement about connecting to audience as a performer. I'm not finding the right words, unfortunately.
5. Spencer trying to be the right kind of Dick.
6. I don't care who believed in me, I could not have climbed that rope. Two hands up was my physical limit, and I just don't believe that this would work for most people. It makes me hostile the way those motivational posters that claim you can do anything if you just have will power or want it enough or believe in yourself whatever make me hostile. It pretends that bodies are all the same. They are not. Yes, will power and practice help, but no amount of will power is going to make me able to run a marathon and I would very likely end up in the hospital very quickly if I tried. I do not believe that Rodrick could go from no hands up on a thick rope to all the way up on a thin one with no intervening steps except faith. Fuck that.
7. Eeew. Shue wears Axe body spray! Actually that sounds about right. Eeeew! Eeew!
8. Shue is playing Sue's game. I don't know how to feel about that.
9. I like Spencer and Alistair together.
10. Myron is Sue's Sue!
11. I am uncomfortable with the stereotypes in this episode and am worried about where that is going.
12. So Bar Mitzvah: a right of passage. Mason getting his freedom. The show moving on. I missed Klaine a lot, but narratively, this is right. The new members needed development and arc; the show needs a sense of continuity and movement even as it is saying goodbye.
* Watching that investigative piece about using genetically engineered measles, smallpox, and HIV to cure cancer is exciting from a possible cure for cancer perspective, but at the same time, isn’t that basically how Kellis-Amberley got started?
* "The Walking Dead, Season 5, Episode 11: The Distance:" http://www.fangsforthefantasy.com/2015/02/the-walking-dead-season-5-episode-11.html
* Our Financial Situation continues Scary: http://www.gofundme.com/cuovws or Lethran@gmail.com