I'm drunk at my friend Jem's house with over a dozen of my best Mass Comm friends, and huddled in a room reading up on the swine flu outbreaks, and feeling this sense of foreboding. There are a few movies running through my head right now, and they all involve a sense of doom. I'm telling myself it's the alcohol talking, but this whole thing's come ( Read more... )

The coolest thing: Nel and I opened a cabinet in an empty room at home, and it was filled with antique and vintage trinkets! She is now the proud owner of a dozen plaid shirts our grandfather used to wear, a few fake leather belts to cinch them with, and many, many, many bra pads the size of my grandmother's- bra pads ( Read more... )

I hate getting political, but. A person I know responded to an email speaking against the Israeli invasion of Gaza, which provided a list of Israeli companies and products to boycott. I may not agree with boycotts (and I'm one to talk, having participated in the So Highly Successful LJ Blackout 2007 ooh la la), but the person's reply to the email- ( Read more... )