The other night I went and saw Sir! No Sir! on its last day at the Loft. It's a documentary about the GI anti-war movement during the Vietnam War. If you ever get a chance to see it, do not hesitate. There are some difficult scenes (some graphic photos and some graphic descriptions of war crimes committed in Vietnam), but it's worth watching. It ( Read more... )

The other day I saw this bumper sticker, which is a prime example of the orientalism that informs and feeds U.S. foreign policy ( Read more... )

Stacy's here!!! *squeeeeee* She arrived in Phoenix Saturday morning and drove down to Tucson, through rain until just outside of Tucson. Reports of rain in the northeast part of town came from friends who had to cancel going with us to the film festival(Review of Friday night's movies: thumbs up! The first was a nearly feature-length documentary ( Read more... )

I was tagged by gendernerdyTop 10 things that make you happy right now, and tag 5 people to do the same ( Read more... )

Look, photos! That's the pre-movie slash crew! ;D

As a friend of mine greeted me this evening: "Happy Thanks Indians"

Had dinner at marag's with her and her family (husband, daughter, parents, and in-laws), and some friends, including heatherly, who I met for the first time IRL. (Hopefully, we'll have a chance to get together again while I'm here in Maryland ( Read more... )

I've been really depressed about the whole hurricane thing for the past week. The more I hear about the media catching on to the outrage of it all - the racism and classism, the drain that the occupation of Iraq has put on resources for disaster relief, the federal- and state-level bungling - the better I feel. hammercock has some good media-related ( Read more... )

Heading to Flagstaff, AZ, this afternoon. Highs in the 70s, afternoon ( Read more... )