Patty and I had dinner with people last night. It was good and funny. It also tired us out. Tonight it's work, then laundry and packing and stuff for Chicago. All focus all the time. Also, yes, White Collar and Covert Affairs. More Buffy and Angel soon!
Oh hey, I made it to the final three in WIAD. Eeek. I feel like I'm on Project Runway
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According to NCLR, this means that all briefings must be in by Nov 1 and all oral arguments heard by Dec 6, and that while the 9th Circuit Court is not under any specific deadline for ruling after that, apparently having an expedited schedule like this means they're unlikely to sit on it too long.
Just for a feeling of the speediness, a case is generally heard 15-16 months after being passed to the Ninth Circuit. Lawyer types are predicting that there will be a decision 2-3 months after the hearing, putting the total time around 6 months.
You're welcome. They could, apparently, still rule that the Prop 8 proponents do not have standing to appeal, which would limit the ruling to CA. It's weird to be almost rooting for that not to be the decision in order to have the judgment expanded nationwide.
And it is still sucky and sad that it's getting dragged out longer, especially for people who'd hoped to be able to marry last week or this week. While it may prove better on a national scale that it plays out this way in the long run, that doesn't stop it sucking in the short run.
The Tiger Beatdown piece: OH GOD YES THIS. Especially the lazy quoting of Internet Feminism bit. Who's got two thumbs and a rap sheet of that? THIS GUY. I especially liked when she wrote, "The people who can look at a piece of art - or, hell, TV or pop music, those work too - and can only classify it as Oppressive or Subversive, or located at a greater or lesser degree of “problematic”-ness, according to current theories of what is or is not problematic. The lack of original thought, or of aesthetic judgment, is creepy: It suggests that we’re approaching this all like math, like a standardized test to which there are right or wrong answers, rather than as art, or (preferably) life, where what matters is not just your conclusion, but how you got there."Again, I am so guilty of that. On the other side, it's nice to suddenly have the tools and the language to explain why something feels icky. The lazy part is when it's all you use
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I definitely think it's a good idea to often interrogate your own arguments and why you're making them.
I'm still in the middle of a long, hard project to de-academicize my writing. For example, I stopped using the word "privilege" a few years ago. I don't talk about that choice a lot, and I would never argue that everyone should do the same. It's just a choice that's happened to work for me.
If I need to use the term, instead of following my first reaction to use the word "privilege", I actually take a few sentences to type out the exact specifics of what I mean. Often, those sentences are quite different from case to case, which leads me to believe that the word "privilege" tends to obscure some very important nuances when overused.
You have to go to a site like TMZ to get a better picture of the Tila Tequila thing, and it doesn't paint a pretty picture. There are numerous reports that she was warned about the hostile crowd, including by Insane Clown Posse (who say that they paid her ahead of time and told her that she didn't have to get on stage, but "Tila informed the group that she wouldn't back out of the performance because she's 'not a bitch like that'", then went on stage (with about four or five security guys running interference), responded to the crowd with "I ain't going nowhere" and "I don't give a fuck" and taking her top off (they have video of this) before leaving. They also have pictures of her injuries, and if she had to have stitches it would have been in the single figures; honestly, I've cut myself shaving
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What's your point in belittling Tila's injuries and bringing up her taking her top off?
[Note: everything I've read says she took her top off in response to the crowd chanting "take off your top", and that the violence *increased* when she did so.]
[Note 2: you've cut yourself while shaving worse than that gash in her forehead that's plastered all over TMZ? I've had some unpleasant shaving mistakes, but never anything requiring stitches. I did gash my forehead open much like that, requiring about 8 stitches; it was a completely different sort of injury.]
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According to NCLR, this means that all briefings must be in by Nov 1 and all oral arguments heard by Dec 6, and that while the 9th Circuit Court is not under any specific deadline for ruling after that, apparently having an expedited schedule like this means they're unlikely to sit on it too long.
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I know that is speedy by these standards, but it's still sucky and sad.
On the other hand, good that they are stepping in, or else this would affect CA and nowhere else.
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And it is still sucky and sad that it's getting dragged out longer, especially for people who'd hoped to be able to marry last week or this week. While it may prove better on a national scale that it plays out this way in the long run, that doesn't stop it sucking in the short run.
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(I hasten to say that I think there's nothing wrong with watching TV. It just doesn't seem to engage me beyond very rare moments)
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You haven't watched trainwreckian TV until you've seen "The Real Housewives of NJ".
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I especially liked when she wrote, "The people who can look at a piece of art - or, hell, TV or pop music, those work too - and can only classify it as Oppressive or Subversive, or located at a greater or lesser degree of “problematic”-ness, according to current theories of what is or is not problematic. The lack of original thought, or of aesthetic judgment, is creepy: It suggests that we’re approaching this all like math, like a standardized test to which there are right or wrong answers, rather than as art, or (preferably) life, where what matters is not just your conclusion, but how you got there."Again, I am so guilty of that. On the other side, it's nice to suddenly have the tools and the language to explain why something feels icky. The lazy part is when it's all you use ( ... )
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I'm still in the middle of a long, hard project to de-academicize my writing. For example, I stopped using the word "privilege" a few years ago. I don't talk about that choice a lot, and I would never argue that everyone should do the same. It's just a choice that's happened to work for me.
If I need to use the term, instead of following my first reaction to use the word "privilege", I actually take a few sentences to type out the exact specifics of what I mean. Often, those sentences are quite different from case to case, which leads me to believe that the word "privilege" tends to obscure some very important nuances when overused.
There are a lot of words like that...
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[Note: everything I've read says she took her top off in response to the crowd chanting "take off your top", and that the violence *increased* when she did so.]
[Note 2: you've cut yourself while shaving worse than that gash in her forehead that's plastered all over TMZ? I've had some unpleasant shaving mistakes, but never anything requiring stitches. I did gash my forehead open much like that, requiring about 8 stitches; it was a completely different sort of injury.]
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