I guess now is as good a time as any to mention, for all you eljay peeps, that I have moved over to Dreamwidth for now. This move will probably be a moot point within the next few years, however, as ACTA picks up steam and SHUT UP & BLOW ME come back to Congress shrieking and throwing tantrums until they get ratified >8|

Just yesterday I was ( Read more... )

I am not sure if y'alls are aware of this - I mean maybe some of the writers of these bills had some Greek ancestry somewhere and, against all conservative American ideology, actually kept ties to "foreign" cultures and languages (I will not even begin to touch the dirty-foreigner bullshit, as I would be writing all damn day). But just in case it's ( Read more... )

In the five hours I worked today at the Galley, there was a grand total of six customers 8| My favorite newbie, Freddie, has stopped working for the owners. Not sure why, but I think it may be his studies. But a sweet new-new newbie, whom I shall call Fluttershy, was in today with me and Nana O. and Gaga, so it was a pleasant afternoon of catch-up ( Read more... )

So like most people with eyes and ears in the city, I've been watching from afar the Occupy London movement. I don't know if this applies to most people, but over the weeks I've slowly gone from jaded skepticism to hopeful sympathy. Some days, when Kodiak is giving me shit for having a chronic cough and I start to totally dissociate from my ( Read more... )

First off, thanks to all the friends & fam who have checked in to make sure me and the boycreature are A-OK. It was a bit unsettling getting off a long dinner-shift at work to see a handful of panicked texts from my housemate warning me not to try and get home because there were looters down the road from our house. But the area around Covent ( Read more... )

So the justice secretary is in hot water because he has failed to keep up with the funky youthspeak of kids these days. Like "date rape" - WHO KNEW that didn't mean sex with consenting minors! I have no sympathy for him there. And I am very NOT on board with the plan to cut prison time for early confessions. He rightly deserves censure for that ( Read more... )

So, hey Congress, lemme get this straight: We're practicing responsible budgeting by cutting ALL the funding for Planned Parenthood, among other things, effectively flinging all the shit from Wall Street and the healthcare screaming match at the poor and vulnerable.

So let's just add another few bitchslaps to women and their families and another ( Read more... )

So it's official internets: I broke up with House. The epic bromance was epic, and after coming on way too strong and then flailing around for the rest of this season, the Cuddy dynamic was just starting to feel right, and both of these things made it a really hard decision. Greg and I are still on good terms, in fact.

But I'm better off without ( Read more... )

Seriously, governing bodies  of  supposedly-developed nations? Really?

All that's missing from the picture of democratic government today is the National Geographic logo-bug in the bottom right corner and poo-flinging >__<+ As of right now I'm forming my own sovereign nation of We'reNotMonkeysAnymoreTopia. The only law is "don't act like a dicktard ( Read more... )