OK so like in three words because I need to sleeeeep, TODAY WAS AWESOME ( Read more... )

A great LJ post with photos (and a video!) of the strike: it'll give you an idea of what it's like in L.A. (and NYC, to a lesser extent) right now. I find it particularly interesting because the strike culture in North America is very different from our strike culture. I've talked about it briefly on my Canada blog when talking about the Vancouver ( Read more... )

I've been obsessed with Beirut's Nantes (I blame arcadiane who posted the song on her LJ recently), much in the same way that Snow Patrol's Set Fire to the Third Bar and Da Silva's Tout va pour le mieux obsess me. It's this sort of underlying, haunting sadness that doesn't dwell on itself ( Read more... )

whedonesque.com has been distributing flyers and pizzas on the picket lines, which I think is awesome and I really wish I was down there right now to take part in that, share that "giddy first burst of solidarity and fear".

More importantly, Joss posted on whedonesque.com about the strike. Not that it comes as a surprise, but I truly love and ( Read more... )

Two things I wish I could talk about more than I'm going to, but my brain is not cooperating right now and I'm not going to be articulate, so there's no point. But I do want to mention both issues ( Read more... )

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OH.
MY.
GOD.

MASS, I love you. Julie and Hillary Goodridge, all seven of you plaintiffs and Marie Bonauto, who went and fought this in the court for us, THANK YOU. Today is a wonderful day in history ( Read more... )

Am just annoyed right now at gay people in France piquetting some random place because some religious figure said that it was ironic the same people that fight against GMOs on grounds of it being unnatural would fight for homosexuality's acceptance ( Read more... )