Cheers to brewsternorth - Roger Ebert writes a lovely, thoughtful piece about the issue of racism, and wonders how someone can become so separated from their own humanity that they hate someone else for no reason.

Yes, that Roger Ebert. Damn good article; go give it a read.

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...courtesty of Neil Gaiman:

Real life is so strangely written, sometimes.
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Quoth Stew, from his musical Passing Strange:

"You know what's weird? You wake up one morning and realize that your entire adult life is based on a decision made by a teenager."

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...in the first Christmas special wasn't in the episode. It goes to June Whitfield, in the Confidential:

( Cheeky lady! )

A few days ago I was half-watching Nova: Volcano Above the Clouds on my local PBS station.

( wherein I find a brand new big damn hero )

Is she married already? Don't know; we could make it work somehow.

From the author of the parkbench blog, here's the article she wrote today that precipitated my need for proposal. Shyness and social awkwardness doesn't necessarily always go with being a geek!girl, but good lordy Godiva, the two traits do seem to be all over each other like yin on ( Read more... )

isn't it brilliant when someone really articulate says exactly what you were thinking?the main point of the article is exactly what i've been saying for the past three years: davies is a very good writer, but not a great one; because he never seems to learn from his mistakes. which, by the way, the author is very fair about pointing out in balance ( Read more... )

When your power is in a big gun, you don't have any small intentions.

- Wendell Berry, "Making it Home"

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that i wish every male human on the planet (but especially wherever i happen to be living) would read:

schrodinger's rapist: or, a guy's guide to approaching strange women without being maced

though, sadly, i must take issue with the 'one in six women will be assaulted in her lifetime' data; most sources i've read put the number at about one in ( Read more... )

overheard on the bus last week, as a man and a young couple were talking about their toddler-age children ( Read more... )