Oh god, if only I lived in this better world. (no overt political content, btw.)
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I was worried that 2016 was going to throw one last log on the fire, but my round trip to cape cod yesterday afternoon turned out to be just a chance to drive someone home from the ER and not having to rescue the dog because her owner had been admitted out of the ER ( Read more... )

I forgot to note that I'd actually picked a friends/community price for the truck - I'd like to get $600, but I am open to price adjustments in exchange for barter of some sort. (A quick glance around shows trucks like this with higher mileage and no cap selling for around $600.)

I'm looking to sell my pickup truck, seen in this userpic lurking in front of Devil's Tower. It's a 1996 Chevy S-10 LS with a cap on the back. The LS has a slightly longer cab (there are fold-down jumpseats on the side behind the split bench seats) and a slightly shorter bed (I want to say 6 feel long). It does not have A/C. Manual transmission ( Read more... )

George Takei's musical, Allegiance, a fictional story set among the real events of the Japanese internment camps during WWII, will be doing a movie-theatrical presentation of a recorded session on 13 Dec. details here.

clauclauclaudia and I saw it on Broadway last February, about a week before it closed, and enjoyed it.

Well, crap. So, I guess for now we hang on til the midterm elections. And I continue to hope that my marriage remains legally recognized at a federal level until then. (And, you know, after.)

Secret Deodorant has a commercial - starring a trans actress - about a trans woman in a women's room. video here. Well done, consumer marketing company!

Fascinating article in the Guardian talking to a guy who's written a book about drugs in Nazi Germany, because apparently there was a whole lot of oxycodone and methamphetamines going around there. (I am suddenly reminded of the Val Kilmer movie, "Salton Sea", where there's an expository montage about meth that includes noting how it was heavily ( Read more... )

I'm still reading LJ very regularly, but I keep spacing on posting. I want to do more posting, so this is a very trivial post that's mostly here to remind me to post ( Read more... )

City Slicker has been my go-to pizza choice for a while in Somerville for years. Except they seem to have changed their recipes in the past couple of weeks for both pizza and fries and while I'm mostly okay with the new fries, clauclauclaudia doesn't like them nearly as much, although the roasted garlic dipping sauce is still about the same, but we are both ( Read more... )