Before I forget, hoping raistlyne  had a good birthday!

Now onward to a big weekend in downtown Indy. the_dark_snack  and I will be at the Independent Music and Art Festival, and will spend some time at the Talbott Street Art Fair nearby. All the fun we have at that each year, we never get to the Pride festival -- but that's part of the downtown madness as well.

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Had a good Memorial Day weekend, managing to mostly ignore a certain race, instead going out to lunch that Saturday with veronica_rich  and dahlianna , during which it was decided that the_dark_snack  and I would spend the day as our aliases, Doug and Carlotta (whom we had suspected had been taken in the May 21 Rapture, but since it didn't happen after all...).

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The Indiana University Opera is to premiere a new opera based on the life of Vincent Van Gogh. Sadly, I don't think it includes this song:

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Now I wanna get in the TARDIS and ask Vincent what he thinks of it.

Among the responses I got to this post Wednesday was links, courtesy of cernowain , to modifications to that classic "patriotic" painting.

Here is the same painting, but run your mouse over it and note the captions have been modified to reflect reality. Yes, I think those quotes are real.

And of course, the Cthulhu version!Commenters here and on FB have ( Read more... )

"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross."
- Sinclair Lewis

I've recently discovered the opposite of Godwin's Law (in which you always lose the internet argument), which is that when someone -- with apparent sincerity -- invokes the name of Jesus Christ, he automatically wins the argument. If someone ( Read more... )