Generally speaking, I do not consider myself to be masochistic. Yet, even so, I am occasionally possessed to read the commentary section of the Orange County Register, an extremely right-leaning newspaper. This has always been an activity that foments white-knuckled frustration in core of my being, and it has only gotten worse since the election of ( Read more... )

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There is presently a bestselling book available called "Not Quite What I Was Planning," the premise of which is trying to sum up your entire life in exactly six words. There is a post today on Jezebel.com about it: http://jezebel.com/5101463/your-life-story-in-six- ( Read more... )

So apparently some brilliant person out there decided to make a LOLSontag!


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I don't know about you people, but I know what I'm thankful for this year (aside, of course, from the usual "friends, family, health" blahzeeblah). I'm thankful for the relatively new MSNBC news anchor Rachel Maddow.


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This morning, my southern-born pie-making-rockstar grandma came over and showed me how to make pies, old-school from-scratch style. She supervised, but I did everything myself, and I gotta say, they came out rockin.


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Look what I made!


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Now you know what to get me for Christmas, assuming you somehow miss the boat and don't get me a present until January.

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Wow, yesterday was a really "holy shit" kind of day. I went with Nicky and Audrey to the nationwide protest of proposition 8 in Los Angeles in the morning. I really wanted to go, and was glad that they agreed to come with me, so I picked up some scones for us on the way to Nicky's. We met at Nicky's in Silverlake, then took a bus (first time to do ( Read more... )

Looks like prop 8 has passed. What a HUGE disappointment. Still, it passed by a narrower margin than prop 22 did eight years ago, and the demographic breakdown shows that, while the older age brackets supported 8, the 18-30 bracket overwhelmingly voted against it. I'm hopeful that this reflects a general shift towards acceptance in society, and ( Read more... )