Yes. Yes it is ( Read more... )

This will be my 10th year doing AIDS Walk LA. In 1999, I think I raised around $500. Since then, this has become my one major fundraising effort each year, assisted in large part by the fact that my employer matches every dollar I raise in pledges ( Read more... )

By which I mean: If you haven't participated in stellamira's LJ-use poll yet, please click here and do. If you don't know stellamira (as presumably you don't, if you haven't seen this request already), I'm glad to vouch for her as a responsible person.

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I was lucky enough to win brynwulf in Sweet Charity, and the result was posted today. An interlude in sundownverse, it's sweet and painful and hot and (this is the best part) asks more questions than it answers. Plus there's a little somethin'-somethin' on the end that just made me squee, but I'm not going to spoil it for you. Go, read, love!

Luck, Don't Fail Me ( Read more... )

Thank you, anonymous rose-gifter! Is there anything I can do for you?

apetslife said it first and best, but I figured it was worth getting up on my high horse about, too.

For all of us (yes, of course "us"; did anyone really think I wouldn't be going?) headed for Fort Worth in June: BEHAVE.Whether Jensen is a frail flower or not, whether you'll ever get to see him in person again or not, whether your mama raised you right ( Read more... )

Molly Ivins, 1944-2007. She will be sorely missed.

From what I think was her last column, a call to action:We are the people who run this country. We are the deciders. And every single day, every one of us needs to step outside and take some action to help stop this war. Raise hell. Make our troops know we're for them and trying to get them out ( Read more... )

First and foremost for wearemany, but for the rest of y'all as well (with credit to dailykos, through whom I get most of my political information): Edwards Declares War On Hope (and it's about time).

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If you're doing holiday shopping, please consider doing some of it here (and help keep some children from being sold):


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