I've been thinking about a dream I had a few days ago. Here is what the text below the cut contains: references to pornography, relatively-bloodless but still-disturbing mutilation of a corpse, grossness.

( Bonus scenes from the DVD. )

MOSS, on seeing a billboard for This Means War, said, "That movie would only be really good if, at the end of the movie, they realize that they weren't that into Reese Witherspoon, and that they really wanted each other ( Read more... )

Before I scurry back to my internet-free hole: this post at Racialicious has a fascinating discussion and collection of links related to the game "Hey Baby." Hey Baby was designed by a woman in response to street harassment. In it, you mow down an array of men who call out typical lines (from "Hey baby" to much more invasive and offensive lines ( Read more... )

If you haven't heard yet: Dr. George Tiller, a doctor known for helping women with late-term pre-natal complications, was shot and killed at his church.

zoje_george has spoken poignantly about her experience with Dr. Tiller here, and excerpts a letter from Charlotte Taft about the terrorist action of anti-abortion members here. At the bottom of that post ( Read more... )

I'm working my way through rydra_wong's comprehensive list of posts on the recent blow-up around race, racism, and (sci-fi/fantasy) fiction in my spare time. I'm not even nearly finished -- I've been keeping track of the discussion only haphazardly before this -- but in the meantime I thought I would work through some of my thoughts in my own space. This ( Read more... )

Some days require application of a fine moustache in order to be made better.


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I posted this on delicious earlier: O-Zone - Dragostea Din Tei. Originally linked by belle_noiseuse. My delicious rec text was as follows below.
A "live" version of the europop dance sensation. If you are having a bad day, I want you to try watching this and doing the dance moves along with them. Particularly recommended: the miming of the telephone (:40), ( Read more... )

"Should I shave?" my cousin asked.

I glanced up and evaluated. "No, I don't think so. It's scruffy, not mangy."

"The look of the fashionably bereaved," he said.

A moment later, he wondered aloud, "Bereft? Berooving?"

"Bearhooved," I said.

"Ah, the little known conjugation," he agreed.

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popoffacork stories went live, and so I have briefly paused ( Read more... )

Those of you who are voting in the American election tomorrow have no doubt seen more on that subject than you should be expected to bear. I am not going to tell you who to vote for, and I assume that you have already been inundated with encouragement to vote ( Read more... )

I'm going to be out of touch for a week, I think (starting tomorrow). No big, just think I ought to steer clear of the internet and phone for a while and get some work done. You won't even notice I'm gone ( Read more... )