We watched Thunderheart tonight, it's a fictionalized retelling of the situation on Pine Ridge Reservation in the early 1970s, when the FBI was trying to shut down the American Indian Movement (in the film, AIM is called ARM, the Aboriginal Rights Movement - stuff like that is changed, but if you're familiar with the story you know what they're ( Read more... )

I saw a post on Tumblr today that said, i don't have a nervous system. i am a nervous system, and I was like, same, buddyPeter joked about leaving my car buried in snow, so then I couldn't leave, but I was already outside shoveling, oh well. Anyway it's not good for a car to sit under snow, especially like eight inches of it, for long periods ( Read more... )

Nathaniel asked a question on Facebook earlier today, one of his deliberately-vague numbers worded in order to provoke a response. He does this from time to time, less because he cares about getting a certain kind of answer and more just to get people talking ( Read more... )

Headlines from major news sources around the world. If I'd really been on my game, I would have posted this yesterday, but I am posting it today. This is kind of a big deal:


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I said to myself, Self! You haven't updated your blog today! What shall you post? And I said, I don't know, Self, maybe an interesting article?

Hat tip to tempestsarekind for this interesting article:

Death is All Around Us: the Plague Pits of London

It is horrifying and fascinating at the same time, as history so often is. Consider:

At first, those who died ( Read more... )

Because I found a lot of things and also didn't do much with my day besides bike downtown and back!

- This video about being gender queer made me nod, and laugh, and nod again.

- This story about a horse being able to say goodbye to her human friend made me a little weepy, but in a good way.

- This video of an enthusiastic dog teaching a human ( Read more... )

The following magazine showed up on our dining room table yesterday. We've all been doing double-takes:


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Super Bowl's tomorrow. Me, I'm rooting for the Seahawks, entirely because my friend in Seattle is a huge Seahawks fan and I have no FB friends who are Broncos fans. It's a matter of status-update-exposure. I don't actually plan to watch the game, except maybe via YouTube clips later, but part of that is because I'm in Toronto and don't have easy ( Read more... )

(You know it's gonna be at least an interesting question when someone feels the need to preface it by saying that!)

I discovered an awesomely informative blog recently ("awesome" in the sense that I am frequently in awe of this blogger's dedication, and research, and, as you'll soon see, patience), and of course I now want everyone to know about ( Read more... )

I had an interesting day! But it's late and I've used the past hour and a half to decompress online (which looks like scrolling through FB and checking email), and I've no energy to write about it. Maybe tomorrow! I sketched out a post in my head sometime this afternoon; there's hope ( Read more... )