It may not be entirely a good thing, but today's SMBC is a comic I identify with pretty strongly. Like many SMBCs, the real punchline is in the red button: http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?id=3296#comicRead more... )

That intercon thing is happening. It's apparently the con I always forget to arrange logistics for.

If you have any interest in helping me get to or from the con on Friday/Sunday or in helping me not have to pay for a room all by my lonesomes, please let me know and that'd be swell.

Without 2 rehearsals per week, an an average of nearly one staff meeting per week, my schedule has gone from jampacked to a delicious wasteland.

Wheee!

"I have never managed to sit through 90 minutes of theater before. I not only did it, I had a great time ( Read more... )

Legs already sore. A most inauspicious beginning.

I've gotten out of the habit of posting links here (which is terrible, natch) but when I did, a decent chunk of them were from The Atlantic. A decent chunk of those are, in turn, articles by Ta-Nehesi Coates, who is my favorite serious journalist. I have never been the slightest bit disappointed by anything he has written, and his latest ( Read more... )

I have at least a day's worth of cooking to do in the future. I can do it solo, but it's boring. Anyone want to hang out on Skype for a while?

Went to usernamenumber and preraphaelite's party, it was fun. I wanted slightly more social after it was over, so I wandered to Davis Square with my newly-borrowed book. Ran into rustycoon, volantwish, catling42, and two of their friends getting ice cream. Actually went to read my book, further ran into anu3bis, who said some excellently interesting things about watching the fireworks from a kayak, ( Read more... )

Texas legislature is in a new special session, as of yesterday. The bill you care about was referred to committee and the Senate stands in recess until next 9 July. There was some wankery about the clock being off and they were setting up to say "the clock is fast and so we passed the bill in time" but nobody bought that so it died ( Read more... )

There's a lot of politics this week, and my brain is very full of it. The VRA has been my favorite piece of legislation for a while now, and DOMA is near the hearts of a lot of people I know. And those are both interesting and nuanced rulings from the Supreme Court ( Read more... )