+ There should be a countdown on my phone ( Read more... )

1. I think Henry Jenkins has an interesting point here, and I'm really pleased with the examples of White Collar, House MD, and Castle that he chose to illustrate his point.

2. *sigh* Wanted to go see Guster and Jukebox The Ghost tonight, but I'm still grumpy about LiveNation & HOB, so no. Not giving them my money.

3. I sorta love that JScahill ( Read more... )

+ Jeremy Scahill and Josh Foust on Democracy Now this morning, in the wake of JScahill's piece on Yemen. IDK, as someone who'd sort of forgotten about Yemen's place in military/foreign policy strategy after the USS Cole until the Wikileaks revelation that Petraeus had verbalized a deal with Saleh, I found it educational ( Read more... )

a) I assume y'all know this, but I keep LJ separate from FB and Twitter, so I won't be crossposting, and I'd appreciate the same courtesy.

b) Also, as a reminder, I am
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a) ESPN & Tennis Channel SUCK. Rafa and Fed and Nole played tennis this afternoon/tonight, and what were they airing? WTA in Cincy and freakin' Agassi: Between the Lines.

b) I have been disappointed many times by how centrist Obama is on a variety of issues, but today he made me proud of the office of Presidentc) Arthur/Eames fic (and the pretty ( Read more... )

Listening to today's broadcast of Democracy Now made me want fic in which Jeremy Scahill has some reason to interview Nate Fick, CEO of CNAS. Brad has absolutely no reason to be apprehensive about this when he gets a Google alert about it, right? Because a) they were never with Blackwater, they're MARINES and b) Scahill's just a liberal media ( Read more... )

I heart Jeremy Scahill so much, you guys don't even know.

Thank you for writing what I've been thinking, each time I hear a new announcement of possible cabinet secretaries and transition team members and advisors.

So, I've babbled before about how much I love John Cusack, right?

I heart him even more now.

A few weeks ago he was interviewed on Democracy Now to promote his new movie, War, Inc., and today he did a live chat with WaPo in which he discussed the movie and other items politicalI just. YES. (Plus, I think his very last sentence is all too accurate ( Read more... )

I am flailing like a flaily thing AGAIN.

Jeremy Scahill is doing a book signing in Houston after all, as a fundraiser for KPFT/Pacifica Radio. TOTALLY GOING, OKAY? He, Robert Fisk, Amy Goodman, and Bill Moyers are my journalist crushes. (Yes, I'm dork like that. STFU, their honesty and integrity turns me on.)

Also.

TONIGHT. Indigo Girls. Stubbs ( Read more... )

+ I maybe have a wee bit of a fangirl crush on Jeremy Scahill. I'm bummed that he's not coming to Houston on his book tour, and that he'll be in Dallas on a weekday, when I can't get there. I've talked about Blackwater: The Rise of The World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army before, but it's out in paperback now, with ~100 extra pages of additional ( Read more... )