I mourn the lost potential activities; the adventures we'll never have together ( Read more... )

On November 3rd, 2004, I despaired. 77% of Georgians had voted against marriage equality.

Today, not quite 11 years later, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that states cannot ban same-sex marriageI wept tears of joy when I heard. I called Terrance; I tried to call Scott. I need to e-mail Baxter and other friends ( Read more... )

I was testing the "Detect Music" feature of Semagic (not quite working, by the way), and happened to use Gotye's "Somebody That I Used to Know" as the song I was trying to detect. I hadn't heard it in a while, and I'd forgotten how powerful it is (my apologies to Mr. De Backer for mistaking this for a new Sting song at the time):

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"Making Mirrors ( Read more... )

I just finished a scarf for my mom's best friend, who is a Clemson fan (nobody's perfect ;) ). It's the first time I've ever worked with two colors, and I'm reasonably pleased with how it turned out:


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I finished the second season of Ripper Street last night. This BBC America show takes place in Whitechapel six months after the Jack the Ripper killings (hence the name). Its citizens are on edge and jumping at shadows, fearing every death is related to the predator in their midst. In this environment, Detective Inspector Edmund Reid and the police ( Read more... )

"Just one?
I'm a few;
no family, too.
Who am I?"

mumpish encouraged me to watch this; I've just completed all the episodes of this show to date: I don't want to spoil anyone who hasn't seen it, so I'll put the rest of this behind a cut. If you're reading this post via RSS, those viewers don't recognize LiveJournal's cut tag, so be warned that from here ( Read more... )

( Spoilers for Only Lovers Left Alive )

The Americans is my current favorite television program: if you liked the 2011 remake of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, you'd probably enjoy this show; I think fans of Alias might like it, too. For those who are unfamiliar with it, it takes place in the early 1980s, during the Cold War, and focuses on a cat-and-mouse game between Russian and US ( Read more... )

I have finished the 14 Dresden books and the short stories as they exist at the time of this writing (specifically, I've completed Cold Days[gently and kindly ( Read more... )

This was published back in May, but I just wanted to make a post here for my own records, because I think it's powerful.