Vacation, day one. Already I have done knitting and cuddling with kitties. There's been other stuff too but c'mon. Priorities.

Some links for you all! Including one I think is a must-see for everyone who is... what's the word I'm looking for? Oh yeah, alive. You can view Killing Us Softly 3, Advertising's Image of Women online thanks to ( Read more... )

It is cool enough outside that yet again I have the AC off and my windows open. Clearly the weather is trying to trick me somehow.

In the meanwhile, links. Not many so no cut:

I know at least one person on my flist would want to know that Actor Joe Kudle of "Puke and Snot" passed away recently.

ladybug218 brings us links on dealing with panic attacks ( Read more... )

Ah, weekends with family. Ah, spending Monday morning digging through storage rooms and subsequently hurting my back. Ah... no that about covered it. Now we move on to catching up on links: ( Typing doesn't hurt my back, thankfully )

Okay, my IBARW poll has been up for over 24 hours, so now's as good a time as any to take a look at what we've found.

Note: Obviously this is an unscientific poll which does not reflect society or fandom or the internet as a whole. Likewise, nor do any of my comments indicate die-hard conclusions. The following is offered as no more than food ( Read more... )

So far the responses to the "What's your mental image?" poll I put up yesterday have been fascinating. There have been some results I wouldn't have expected, and there have been comments about points of view that I wouldn't have thought of.

If you haven't yet, please take the time to put in your responses. I'm curious to see if any of the ( Read more... )

When we know one another using this series of tubes it leaves a great deal of room for mental interpretation of who we think we're talking to ( Read more... )

I think back on that moment with my friend in elementary school with the same gut-clenching, oh crap feeling as I do of a memory of something that happened during one of my first trips to New Orleans.
( Not that I don't love and adore the city, but... )

It's International Blog Against Racism Week and so many others have written amazing posts so far (a roundup can be found here) that they've inspired me to try to throw my hat into the ring.

( So I attempt to start at the very beginning. I hear it's a good place to start. )