BIG: I'm enjoying the Christian Science Monitor's take on this: only the rich will see Sunday's eclipse (as compared to last year's, seen by millions and millions). The people's eclipse it is not! Myself, I'd love to see all the astronomers descending (who, it turns out, could really be said to be among "the rich").

ELEPHANTS: Speaking of ( Read more... )

1) Alan Davies is still my boyfriend ( Read more... )

1 - The river levee this morning: someone was actually in waders actually fishing (for three-eyed cartoon fish no doubt). Also, the color of the acacias on an overcast/foggy morning: I'll say it again, freakishly beautiful intensity of lemon ice. I have a Saxifrage Russell moment every time I see them, I want to say COME, BE WITH ME HERE, SEE? THAT ( Read more... )

Prop. 8 campaign can't hide donors' names


"If there ever needs to be sunshine on a particular issue, it's a ballot measure," U.S. District Judge Morrison England said after a one-hour hearing in his Sacramento courtroom.
What I relish is that Protect Marriage themselves filed the lawsuit (to strike down the $100 disclosure regulations, modify to ( Read more... )

wolodymyr has been saying some very smart things about popular cultural objects concerning bad mothering/parenting, which has prompted me to wonder what the hell Henry Selick would do with the novels of Sheri Tepper (or anyone - who would even attempt to adapt Grass??). This is tangential to what prompted it, but. Just to say. There are various ways to put ( Read more... )

The Politics of Eternal Progression: On Certain Narrative Structures in Mormonism and Battlestar Galactica (both original and reimagined)( TL;DR )

Via exmormon: Do Something About Proposition 8!

Are you upset that Proposition 8 in California passed, maintaining the institutionalized 2nd class citizen status of thousands of citizens? And of the LDS church using their vast economic advantages to violate separation of church and state to meddle politically in instances like this?

Then please take the time ( Read more... )

Dude: I hate the fucking Mormons. You drink alcohol, you go to Hell; premarital sex: Hell; everything you do: Hell, Hell, Hell.

--4th & Bowery

god, someone has to buy me this CHOOSE THE LEFT ring:


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everything is happening so fast and serious that it is good that i mark for myself (and for some others of you) what i need to write about ( Read more... )