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Feb. 1st, 2011 01:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gwydion* I see Robot Chicken has joined Family Guy in the anti-trans camp. They didn't even bother making a different "joke." After all, why do anything interesting or different when pissing on trans folk is there as a back up.
* Apparently SNL went after trans women over the weekend too: http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2011/01/31/SNL_Slammed_for_Transphobic_Skit/
* Cake: http://tubaqueen.deviantart.com/art/Edible-Book-Fair-2010-159178438
* Rewatching season 4 Angel, I thought, hey, that Beast sounds like Beowulf! I looked it up, and it is Vladamir Kulich! Beowulf is the beast!
* I don't leave the BPAL fold for anything anymore, but these tempt: http://www.conjureoils.com/tobydaye.htm
* Fayandstrange spots a really offensive doctor: http://feyandstrange.livejournal.com/1067760.html?mode=reply&style=mine
* I'm watching Reservoir Dogs. I haven't seen it in it's entirety since the mid 90's. This is one of those films so tied up in the sense memory of the place and time I saw it, that it's hard to untangle as an artistic entity from all the other things layered onto it by circumstance. It amazes me how well it holds up, despite the passage of time. The sequence with White and Orange in the car and the warehouse is still as shocking and fresh as it was when in was new. Elsewhere some of the dialog is a touch stilted, but it still works as a piece of art.
* I'm aware of the continuing race controversy surrounding the Ohio Governor. I haven't gotten into it until now, as one could put multiple constructions on his behavior up until now. It bore watching, there were red flags, but i didn't feel comfortable wading in until now. When he's responding to an African american politician asking him if he needs help finding qualified people of colour for his cabinet, as he only had appointed white people, his response was to say he coulddn't have any as he was against quotas (implying there are no qualified POC and POc could only achieve high office through quotas.) He then said "we don't need your people." Charming. Later, he claimed he meant democrats, but given trhe context and her willingness to help him find qualified republicans... Yeah. Add that to previous questionable remarks and decisions he's mad in the less than a month he's been in office, it's pretty clear the man has a problem with brown people. Um, eeew.
* Meanwhile, the death threats continue to pour in along with creepy racist calls and faxes against the California Representative who asked Rush Limbaugh to apologist for the extremely racist impression of the Chinese. Limbaugh's not apologizing. Of course. If anyone thought he would, I've got a bridge in San Fransisco to sell them. Instead, he's going after the representative by name. There is talk of a Limbaugh boycott, but I'm not holding my breath for that working either. I can only hope State Sen. Leland Yee stays safe.
* Apparently SNL went after trans women over the weekend too: http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2011/01/31/SNL_Slammed_for_Transphobic_Skit/
* Cake: http://tubaqueen.deviantart.com/art/Edible-Book-Fair-2010-159178438
* Rewatching season 4 Angel, I thought, hey, that Beast sounds like Beowulf! I looked it up, and it is Vladamir Kulich! Beowulf is the beast!
* I don't leave the BPAL fold for anything anymore, but these tempt: http://www.conjureoils.com/tobydaye.htm
* Fayandstrange spots a really offensive doctor: http://feyandstrange.livejournal.com/1067760.html?mode=reply&style=mine
* I'm watching Reservoir Dogs. I haven't seen it in it's entirety since the mid 90's. This is one of those films so tied up in the sense memory of the place and time I saw it, that it's hard to untangle as an artistic entity from all the other things layered onto it by circumstance. It amazes me how well it holds up, despite the passage of time. The sequence with White and Orange in the car and the warehouse is still as shocking and fresh as it was when in was new. Elsewhere some of the dialog is a touch stilted, but it still works as a piece of art.
* I'm aware of the continuing race controversy surrounding the Ohio Governor. I haven't gotten into it until now, as one could put multiple constructions on his behavior up until now. It bore watching, there were red flags, but i didn't feel comfortable wading in until now. When he's responding to an African american politician asking him if he needs help finding qualified people of colour for his cabinet, as he only had appointed white people, his response was to say he coulddn't have any as he was against quotas (implying there are no qualified POC and POc could only achieve high office through quotas.) He then said "we don't need your people." Charming. Later, he claimed he meant democrats, but given trhe context and her willingness to help him find qualified republicans... Yeah. Add that to previous questionable remarks and decisions he's mad in the less than a month he's been in office, it's pretty clear the man has a problem with brown people. Um, eeew.
* Meanwhile, the death threats continue to pour in along with creepy racist calls and faxes against the California Representative who asked Rush Limbaugh to apologist for the extremely racist impression of the Chinese. Limbaugh's not apologizing. Of course. If anyone thought he would, I've got a bridge in San Fransisco to sell them. Instead, he's going after the representative by name. There is talk of a Limbaugh boycott, but I'm not holding my breath for that working either. I can only hope State Sen. Leland Yee stays safe.