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Ed Miliband reviews 50 Shades of Grey!

I need to go hide my Labour membership card so nobody tries to cut it up now. Enjoy!

I can't believe I'm even bothering to address this but here it goes. Last night, I live-tweeted Countdown with Keith Olbermann, something I have done on and off for roughly 2 1/2 years. Countdown is the show that inspired my passion for politics. Olbermann's commentary was what lead me to discover Rachel Maddow. It made me want to know more about ( Read more... )

Of course you do! Snail-mail is amazing because you can't put stickers on an e-card!

Comments will be screened so please leave your name and address in the comments below and wait patiently by your door for a lovely card with my semi-presentable handwriting and some non-Xmas themed stickers.

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 Like many people, I have been watching the coverage of the riots in London over the past few days. There's been a gamut of emotions going through my mind since this all started - anger, fear, confusion - but the overriding feeling I've had, especially in the past few hours, is that of disappointment ( Read more... )

 * duckgirlie  visited me with one of her friends and we went for drinks at the Pear Tree and chatted about lots of silly, interesting and random things. Then duckgirlie and I went off to the Brass Monkey (coolest pub in Edinburgh) where we chatted about fandom, Dan Savage, pundit musicals, the misogyny in Sex & the City and many other cool things. I got to hear her ( Read more... )

( Yes I am just copy-pasting this from my Tumblr but no-one read it over there so I'm sticking it here in a desperate cry for attention! )

I was there a grand total of an hour, I didn't do or say much and I fell one my arse once.

It was glorious.

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I was going to do a random info dump earlier but I got too excited by the Prop 8 news and had to celebrate that instead. Of course, Twitter was where all the action was:


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  Per Reuters: FEDERAL DISTRICT COURT JUDGE RULES CALIFORNIA GAY MARRIAGE BAN UNCONSTITUTIONAL - COURT DOCUMENTS

SUCK IT NOM! LOVE WINS!

Party post!


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