A few people on my f-list have already linked to Elizabeth Moon's diatribe on why immigrants should shut up and change to be just like everyone else. I didn't comment on it, because I literally couldn't find the words.

Shweta Narayan says it more eloquently than I ever could.I have the luck of spending most of my childhood in a country where ( Read more... )

I'm quite tempted to fire off an angry e-mail or two to Glamour and Elle. They've been gushing for a year about how mid-to-high-waist skinny jeans are all the rage, with straight-leg being the other acceptable option, about how they flatter curves and should have angled pockets and thin stretch denim for best effect ( Read more... )

What does one write about in Livejournal when there's nothing to write about that would be interesting to other people?

In the past few days I've managed to crack a tooth, break two nails, learn the basics of financial modelling, start arranging the four days I'll spend in Berlin in June (watching dancing vampires, of course) and chat a bit with fyrieI ( Read more... )

A week without an entry, but not for any emo reason. Just busy at work.

Managed to miss imadra_blue and moodpoisoning's birthdays though - sorry girls, and my best wishes :)

( Postal rant )

Dear brain,

I know I usually get up at 6.30AM to go to work. It's very kind of you to wake me up at that hour if I haven't set an alam, and the fact you did so with a nightmare about being late to work is simply ingenious.

If not for the fact it's freaking SATURDAY.

No love,

Beth

First now all, a very happy birthday to isis_whitI know there's a fair amount of activists on my f-list, people who take part in political demonstrations, rallies, marches and so on. Care to share a few tips on surviving one when you know there probably will be trouble from a neo-Nazi counter-demonstration ( Read more... )

Whenever I see someone attributing the lyrics of "Hallelujah" to Jeff Buckley or Rufus Wainwright, I shudder. People. Leonard Cohen. He needs more love, really.

And this rant would be more impressive if I had an mp3 of Hallelujah instead of just a crappy tape cassette copy of someone else's mix tape, but I don't. So have The Future instead. ( Read more... )

Some people think gay people should stay out of politics

Let's just say that all my muses hold the author in equal contempt, including historical!Dracula (not to be confused with historical!Roxula), who's as homophobic as they come, but still agrees that the bisexual sultan Mehmed II was a kickass war leader.

Meme ganked from shezan:

Name a CD you own ( Read more... )