First, I imagine that most of you have heard of the petition to free Roman Polanski.  That's right, because the real crime in this case is not that it took over thirty years for someone to actually arrest the man for running away from a (tragically short) prison sentence earned for raping a 13 year old girl, no. The real crime is that such a " ( Read more... )

So I missed what is generally referred to as Racefail '09, because I was busy trying not to have a nervous breakdown, I guess.  However, some things that folks on my flist will find interesting/helpful:

1001 and Counting -If you don't know what yuletide is, don't worry about it, this piece defies genre.  Every woman I know will get this, some part ( Read more... )

For the record: 
Did I watch election coverage?  Yes.
Did my friends and I take a couple hours off from watching CNN making up numbers to watch RENT?  Damn straight.  (Wait, that seems somehow inappropriate....)
Did I celebrate with chocolate?  Yes.  It was that or peppermint schnapps, and we all know what my priorities are.

Though this time it tolled for someone who I have far less personal connection with.  (Yes, I did just call my cat a "someone"- she showed far more signs of being sentient than most of my high school classmates, so she rates.)

Jerry Falwell is dead.

And I snigger at things like this, or this, and I wonder about the nature of Christianity.  It was ( Read more... )

I admit that due to certain personal circumstances which I won't go into, I haven't been paying attention to the Virginia Tech tragedy as much as many other people.  Also, my news sources are unusual: the International Herald-Tribune is where I get most of my news, in order to bypass the usual celebrity crap and "human interest" stories that are ( Read more... )

Though apparently that word does not mean what the universe used to think it means, because they actually happened.

1. There exists a politician with a conscience, and hey, while I'm at it I'll mention he's a Republican.  How cool is that?
2. So "buyer beware" is still fully in effect, ladies and gentlemen.  I was out of toothpaste, and while I was ( Read more... )

This is going to be one of those bullet-point posts again, because that's how I seem to be living my life these days.

Things make me happy:

• PB & orange marmalade sandwiches (discovered via supply & demand)
• the BBC TV show "Afterlife" (newly discovered while looking up Andrew Lincoln, who played Mark, the guy in love with his best friend's bride Kiera ( Read more... )

low on sleep, but good and very book-filled.  However, I do recognize that not everyone on this planet has been having that kind of a couple of days.  So please, I ask you, read this, and have a moment of quiet restoration to your former, less jaded, trust in humanity.

Thank you.

I win!  The VCR and DVD player and TV were all not thrilled about working together, but not only did I get them all cooperating, I also got the universal remote working!  Life is fabulous.  I also slept really well last nght, which is kinda unusual.

And ooh, I think I still have some cheesecake.  So, despite the fact that the country I live in is ( Read more... )

All right, so I've been watching the occasional episode of "Law and Order:CI" because the quirky detective guy is cool, and I've recently realized that the manifestation of my minor childhood obsession with law enforcement, my constant smudging of any possible fingerprints I might leave behind, has come back.  I think I need to go home soon.

Also, I ( Read more... )