Getting some awesome birthday presents, such as a trumpet player practicing Norwegian Wood under the Soquel Street bridge near San Lorenzo Park this afternoon. A first edition of VDLA's L'amour supreme, the gift of which boggles my mind. My sister singing into my answering machine this morning. And then there's this:


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all_unnecessary would totally watch Joss Whedon's May 68 in Space (or whatever he'd call it).

Charles mort ou vif was one of the first films about soixante-huit I ever encountered, and it's still my favorite (with Les amants réguliers a distant second). How to get [un-non]plussed, it'd be called if it were a self-help book. The head of a Swiss watch factory throws it all over:
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Please to be recommending to your under- or uninsured friends the website NeedyMeds.org. I spent the morning there, and I think I've got my shit covered once my insurance runs out later this month. It really is a godsend.

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After prepping and polishing and regularizing all weekend, I printed out all four chapters and the partial introduction at Office Max just now (178 pages), which I'll deliver to my other committee member's mailbox tomorrow, and I just have to say, I like looking at it. (This is the first time I've seen it all at once in physical form.) It's a nice ( 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.
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This song's content has nothing to do with this morning, but it's crazy joyful and thus has everything to do with this morning (not so much that Obama's arriving,  but that the Bush years are over). Go listen to it, before the inauguration starts.


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The end of the Bush years approaches! I've spent the entirety of graduate school under his administration.