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* 50 LGBTQA people are dead in a mass shooting in Orlando.

* "There will be, and have already been, attempts today to turn two vulnerable populations against each other – Muslims and LGBTQIA people. Deny this. Reach out to each other instead.:" http://vaspider.tumblr.com/post/145841269281/insaenimagination-vaspider-there-will-be

* Back in... I'm pretty sure it was the summer of '90, I had a terrible Summer job at an electronics store. (The list of ways it was terrible is it's own saga I'm not going to get into here), Across from my station were a bank of big screen TVs that were attached to a lazerdisc player. (A laser disc was like a DvD only the size of a vinyl record). There was a whole long wall of TVs between me and there and these regular TVs all played one station off cable, to be determined by the manager. They were alwys on with the sound playing throughout the store. The Big creen TVs always had their sound off unless they were being demonstrated for a customer, but there would always be a disc playing. The store owned two discs. Some days they would play Clue. Other days they would play Haunted Honeymoon (which starred Gene Wilder and Gilda Radner, who was dead by then to my great sorrow, her having been my favorite on Saturday Night Live as a child). This was also under the manager's control and we were forbidden to touch the controls.

So imagine me eight hours a day four or five days a week watching these two films over and over from my work station. I have never watched either film with sound, but there was a time hen I knew every gesture. One weekend I watched Haunted Honeymoon for 24 hours in the course of three days.

Watching the departed Gilda Radner dance with her now widowed husband for what very possibly could have been the hundredth time that Summer I conceived a notion. I began to imagine her spirit trapped in the disc, doomed to endlessly go through these motions in silence day after day. I imagined I was watching a ghost dancing. I imagined the thing being as tedious for her as it was for me to be forced to watch her day in day out so I might pay my rent, but that it was also the only life the ghost had left, endlessly miming these same actions over and over. A Huis Clos (No Exit in English, but the original Half Closed better suits the play) half life that was a the sort of hell one is afraid to leave for fear of something worse. I pictured her saying "Fuck this!" and walking off frame, never to return. I pictured coming in one morning to see Gene Wilder dancing by himself, his dead wife fled in the night.

Eventually the Summer ended and I started junior year only to quit two weeks in out of boredom. I was tired of knowing what everyone was going to say about a book before they opened their mouths, tired of the tiny cliquish social system of St. John's, tired of Annapolis, and so I fled West, out of Frame.

* On why the Horn Hill passage of Game of Thrones makes no sense: http://www.fandomfollowing.com/stop-pretending-got-is-worthy-of-analysis/

* I wish someone would make a Vikings style high end generational TV show based on Grettir's saga.

* "Sunday Sweets: CAKE-CEPTION!:" http://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2016/6/12/sunday-sweets-cake-ception.html

* Is it just me, or was Jude Law's ping pong ball eye Hamlet a little like watching Marty Feldman resurrected? http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/145844448887/is-it-just-me-or-was-jude-laws-ping-pong-ball

* No wonder Oscar was my Favorite. Why Oscar the Grouch is important: http://seananmcguire.tumblr.com/post/145306497265/siphersaysstuff-muppetmindset

* "How to help Flint, Michigan:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/how-help-flint-michigan

* Help pay for cat food, litter, meds, medical copays: Paypal Lethran@gmail.com

* Donate to help refugees: http://donate.unhcr.org/international/general

* A list of LGBTQA Charities: http://awkward0w1.tumblr.com/post/126399233673

* Want Game of Thrones without the creepy? We desperately need new players. We are very inclusive. "Game of Bones MUSH:" gobmush.wikidot.com

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