Anyone have a line on a good babysitter who could work Wed, Thurs and/or Friday of this week? An acquaintance of mine, mamitamala will be in town for an immigration conference and is seeking entertainment options for her toddler.

Everyone else can move along:

Children are:
A. Precious little miracles who must be nurtured at all times.
B. Adorable little people in training who must be encouraged to be themselves at all times.
C. Individuals who must be taught how to fit into society until they are old enough to make their own choices.
D. Howling little barbarians who need to be ( Read more... )

Answering largely because it is easy. And because I have to give props for the Billy Bragg reference.

Pain is no stronger
than the resisting force pain calls up in me.

The struggle is equal.

-Mina Loy, Partuition

I just did some ranting up in here regarding an aspect of Amazon's total douchyness that's not getting a lot of play. (Thanks to   ( Read more... )

Fiction World Rocked as Woman Claims no Attraction to Neil Gaiman
(made infinately funnier by the fact that I saw this on Neil's twitstream)

I LOLed.

For that matter, there's just some good stuff all the way round at tor.com today...

And I am a racist ( Read more... )

SO, evidently several high traffic/high user journals and communities have been hacked by some lovely assholes.

feminist_rage  was one of the targets and has now been suspended for security reasons while LJ-abuse investigates the account breach. So, if you're a member of 'rage - that's the deal.

There's some good advice here if you or a community you have any ( Read more... )

I know I've been quiet lately. But one of the things I've been doing is being more active in communities. My usual suspects are feminist_rage (where I'm also a mod), feminist , and increasingly, cf_debate .

A new one those communities is racism_101 , basically, a place for (white) folks fighting their way through their privilege to help each other learn how to "fail better next time." It ( Read more... )

I'm sure it will come as no surprise to some of you that I am facinated by the developing Shepard Fairey copyright case.  Part of what makes it so facinating is that, unlike a lot of copyright cases where a close look at existing law and precident makes it pretty clear who is likely to win, this one is a crap shoot to my mind.  Cases like this one ( Read more... )

I knew I was forgetting something Friday - now I know what at least part of that was about. Happy holidays!

Stave V: The End of It
( To-day? Why, Christmas Day. )